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Postings Celebs Hate To Face
4 September 2009 8:35 PM, PDT
If you thought Page Six was harsh in the way we treat celebrities, check out "Why We Hate You," the venomous pages on Facebook and Twitter devoted to attacking boldfaced names. Among some particularly wicked recent postings:
* Heather Mills: "Being that Paul McCartney is the most famous living celebrity . . . wouldn't you think [he] could at least score a broad with two legs?"
* Brody Jenner: "No apparent skills other than [a] winning smile, good hair, and scoring chicks. Career high point: recently beat up . . . Joe Francis."
* Madonna: "This broad has …
Flavor Fave!
4 September 2009 7:30 AM, PDT
White trash meets white collar in "Extract," Mike Judge's workplace comedy -- which contains more reality than the last five documentaries I've seen.
Halfway between "Office Space" and "King of the Hill," the movie sets a new standard for chemical food extract comedies.
It's set at a factory that makes concentrated flavors engineered by Joel, the laid-back owner (Jason Bateman). He oozes frustration when he speaks of the "sweat pants deadline" imposed by his bored wife (Kristen Wiig, …
- By KYLE SMITH
Splash Over Ocean Drive
4 September 2009 12:46 AM, PDT
Jerry Powers -- the co-founder of Ocean Drive magazine who was bought out in 2007 by Niche Media -- is ready to get back in the game. Powers filed a suit Wednesday in Miami federal court to overturn a noncompete contract he signed. He claims it should expire in November, two years from the date of the sale. Niche lawyers say the clock didn't start running until Powers left Ocean Drive's payroll last February. Confusing the issue, Powers is also suing to publish a not-for-profit magazine he's been working on with underprivileged kids at the Overtown Youth Center, founded by Miami Heat legend Alonzo Mourning. …
The Donald A Pageant Picker
4 September 2009 12:39 AM, PDT
Donald Trump is such a hands-on boss that he personally helps pick six of the 15 finalists in the Miss Universe pageant each year -- because the preliminary judges often overlook the most beautiful contestants.
Trump has owned the beauty contest since 1997, but his involvement as a judge came to light this week when the pageant's choreographer of the last four years, Michael Schwandt, was interviewed by the Web site Guanabee.com.
"At all the shows, [Trump] pops up the day before the telecast and we line up all the girls in alphabetical order, …
Clueless Across & Down
4 September 2009 12:27 AM, PDT
You've got a problem when a cheap title pun turns out to be the closest thing to funny in your movie. Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy review.
The grotesquely unfunny comedy "All About Steve" stars Sandra Bullock as a chatty crossword-puzzle writer. She's also a raving nut job, and the movie's attempts to have fun as her behavior crosses the lines from quirky to pathetic, from pathetic to alarming and from alarming to life-threatening are not simply brain-stranglingly witless. No, this is a deeply unpleasant, bottomless well of cringe induction. …
- By KYLE SMITH
Immigrant Tale With Mideast Spices
4 September 2009 12:05 AM, PDT
A Palestinian single mom goes to White Castle in Cherien Dabis' "Amreeka," a charming comedy about cultural clashes in Illinois on the eve of the Us invasion of Iraq.
Nisreen Faour is charismatic as the chubby protagonist, who is so weary of crossing through roadblocks that she takes her 16-year-old son (Melkar Muallem) to America.
Arriving at the airport, her cookie tins are confiscated by customs agents -- along with her life savings.
Living with her married sister, our heroine, a bank manager back home, …
- By LOU LUMENICK
Simmons Won't Kiss Butt
3 September 2009 11:56 PM, PDT
Musician, TV star, bestselling author and "Extract" co-star Gene Simmons has mastered just about everything except humility. He waxed philosophical to The Post about Beavis, Butt-head and the meaning of life.
How did you get involved with "Extract"?
"They called up and said, 'You play an a - - hole La lawyer.' I said, 'I'm in.' They said, 'Do you want to see a script?' I said, 'No.' "
What do you think of lawyers?
"I'm pro- our lawyers, but I hate your lawyers. I don't like ambulance chasers very much. …
- By KYLE SMITH
No Affection For Affleck
3 September 2009 11:39 PM, PDT
You'd have to go way back to find a Ben Affleck project in which the actor's mug wasn't slapped all over the marketing materials. Probably all the way to the ABC Afterschool Special he did in the 1980s called, embarrassingly, "Wanted: The Perfect Guy." But check out the poster for "Extract," the new Mike Judge comedy, and Affleck's picture is nowhere to be found.
There's Jason Bateman and Mila Kunis and some other guy who plays a male gigolo, …
- By REED TUCKER
Big Bets On Subprime Numbers
3 September 2009 11:32 PM, PDT
The emotional and financial pain inflicted by the subpri me-mortgage crisis has been well-documented.
But here's another devastating effect, courtesy of "American Casino," by veteran husband-and-wife documentar-
ians Leslie and Andrew Cockburn: the infestation of potentially lethal mosquitoes in the stagnant water of backyard pools abandoned by owners forced into foreclosure.
In many cases, people seeking what the film calls "selfish retaliation" not only turned off their pool pumps, but some even filled their pools with trash -- including automobiles.
The well-thought-out film includes interviews with victims, such as Baltimore
social-studies teacher Denzel Mitchell, whom we meet as …
- By V.A. MUSETTO
Force Or Farce?
3 September 2009 9:10 AM, PDT
Did George Lucas destroy your childhood? Does watching the "Star Wars" prequels make you want to jam a Bantha tusk into your eye? Do you consider Lucas the most hated man in Hollywood? Get in line.
Actually, get out your video camera.
An upcoming documentary called "The People vs. George Lucas" is all about the love-hate relationship fans have with the "Star Wars" creator, and regular fans are being invited to contribute.
"There's a sense that George has turned to the Dark Side," says Alexandre Philippe, the documentary's director. …
- By REED TUCKER
Art Sale Has Whiff Of Gekko
3 September 2009 8:32 AM, PDT
Sotheby's is keeping secret the identity of the person whose art collection is going on the block Sept. 23 in Paris. The auction house's Parisian publicist, Sophie Dufresne, says, "We can't give any further details . . . the client asked us not to reveal their name." But Monocle magazine ran a small item on the sale, "Photographs, Furniture & Works of Art from a Parisian Flat, Avenue Montaigne," with a few key clues. The seller is 1) a woman; 2) raised in South America; 3) married twice. Now, the Transracial.net blog has identified the mystery woman as Brazilian-born Maria Regina Leal Costa Mayall Edelman, …
Artistes Called Cafe From Hell
3 September 2009 6:32 AM, PDT
Jenifer Lang "makes Leona Helmsley look like Mother Teresa," the former general manager of Cafe Des Artistes claims.
Lonnie Barnett said working for Jenifer -- who owned the famed Upper West Side restaurant with husband George Lang for 34 years -- was "possibly the most hellish restaurant experience ever. She treated staff like they were beneath her. She openly loathed the same staff members who repeatedly brought the guests in," Barnett told Page Six.
He said, "She refused to pay purveyors and made guests suffer the consequences. When she didn't pay the coffee bill, …
Madge Gets Royal Treatment In Israel
2 September 2009 11:47 PM, PDT
Madonna traveled light to Israel. Just took 11 suites plus 25 rooms plus her own Royal Suite plus her own Italian chef plus her own exercise equipment, which came in on a private plane, plus her five children. The fifth being that nice underemployed Brazilian young boy Jesus she schleps around. Unclear exactly what line of work he's out of, but it's definitely clear what kind of work he's into.
Adjacent to her suite, the Dan Tel Aviv set up a private kitchen on the fifth floor where all her meals were served, including a traditional Shabat dinner presided over by the Kabbalah's Rabbi Berg. …
- By CINDY ADAMS
Unasked Questions
2 September 2009 6:50 AM, PDT
Jeremy Piven said last night on David Letterman's show he quit "Speed-the-Plow" on the orders of a doctor who said he'd get a heart attack if he continued on Broadway because he had mercury poisoning from eating too much sushi. Piven said, "I took his advice, and then this kind of turned into, I ate a bad piece of yellowtail and bolted, you know?" Mercury poisoning, he complained, "sounds like a rich man's disease . . . like something you might get from the leather seats in your Lamborghini." But Letterman's interrogation disappointed the National Fisheries Institute, …
Brothel Bust's Concrete Side
2 September 2009 6:28 AM, PDT
One of the whorehouses busted in Southampton last weekend was operating in a cottage on North Magee Street partly owned by Lyle Pike -- the concrete contractor who had restaurateur Ed "Jean Luc" Kleefield arrested in April for passing $300,000 in bad checks. Kleefield called Pike "a modern-day loan shark" at the time. Yesterday, Pike, who's still trying to collect, called Kleefield "a bottom-feeding piece of garbage." Police raided two houses in Southampton on Saturday night and arrested two alleged prostitutes and three men. All five suspects are illegal immigrants. The house at 218 North Magee is owned by 125 Yanks Corp. …
Bond On B'way: Protect Me!
2 September 2009 6:14 AM, PDT
He showed off his muscles as he emerged from the water wearing a pair of tight-fitting trunks as James Bond in "Casino Royale." But despite his macho image, Daniel Craig seems both shaken and stirred by New York as he prepares for his Broadway debut in "A Steady Rain."
Craig, 41, has demanded personal security be available to shadow him at all times while his equally famous co-star, Hugh Jackman, hasn't asked for any protection at all, sources told Page Six.
The Hollywood actors play Chicago cops whose friendship is put to the test in the much-anticipated drama, …
Dwell On Squatters
2 September 2009 3:03 AM, PDT
Any question that Bel gian actress Deborah Francois is a star in the making is dispelled in "Unmade Beds," the London-set romantic romp directed by Alexis Dos Santos, who was born in Argentina.
New Yorkers first saw Francois as a troubled teen mom in the Dardenne brothers' "L'Enfant," then as a mysterious woman in the French thriller "The Page Turner."
Now, in "Unmade Beds," 22-year-old Francois impresses as Vera, a French woman who moves into a London squat in hopes of forgetting a former boyfriend.
Another resident of the squat, …
- By V.A. MUSETTO
Jacko Fought Drugs, Pain & Discoloration
1 September 2009 10:00 PM, PDT
Michael Jackson, through the knowledge of specialists familiar with his medical condition:
Propofol, the drug administered by his personal physician and allegedly to have done him in, cannot be given in any non-hospital environment without an anesthesiologist on hand. Only with a doctor certified in advanced cardiac life support can this be injected. The patient's chin needs immediate elevation or the attending physician must be capable of inserting an airway.
Jackson's drug use initially developed in 1988 via a scalp condition called discoid lupus or skin lupus. Its sensitivity to sunlight is why he wore wigs. For this auto-immune problem, …
- By CINDY ADAMS
Jail Move Spooks Spector
1 September 2009 6:37 AM, PDT
Music legend Phil Spector is being moved out of the California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility & State Prison in Corcoran after complaining he feared for his safety. He's been told he'll be moved to Pleasant Valley State Prison in Coalinga this week. But Spector, who was convicted of killing Lana Clarkson, is terrified he'll die there because of an outbreak of Valley Fever, which has killed 16 inmates in the last four years. His frantic wife, Rachelle Short, told Page Six: "They are sending Phil there to die. …
This Guy Went Green Before It Was Trendy
31 August 2009 11:36 PM, PDT
Ed Begley Jr.'s new book is "Guide to Sustainable Living: Learning to Con serve Resources and Manage an Eco- Conscious Life." So did people think he was a nut when he began green ing 40 years ago?
"Some still do. Look, I was a Boy Scout. I had a nice childhood, and I wanted this beautiful planet to continue the same way for my kids and grandkids. My dad, who lived through the Depression, saved tinfoil, turned off lights, saved water. To honor him, I started composting. I got my first electric car in 1970 for …
- By CINDY ADAMS
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