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Tuesday's Gossip
Gwyneth Paltrow's husband, Chris Martin, almost didn't get into Saturday's East Hampton screening of her movie "The Good Night." One security guard, who apparently isn't a Coldplay fan, manhandled the scruffy rocker when he tried to sneak by the waiting mob on the red carpet.
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Hugh Hefner's mom didn't care for his smutty girlie magazine, but that didn't stop her from giving him $1,000 in seed money in 1953. In a never-before-published thank-you letter to his folks, Hef writes, "[Your generosity came] with the knowledge that much of the magazine will not be material that you fully, personally approve of." The Playboy founder tells us the investment paid off for his parents. "My father lost his job as the CPA for an aluminum corporation, so he came to work for me as an accountant and then as a treasurer of the company," Hef recounted. The letter appears in Biondi Publishing's "Playboy Cover to Cover: The '50s," which chronicles the mag's early years. It features every page of the lad mag and is filled with personal artifacts Hef's kept under his robe until now.
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Maybe it was their shared animus for Rosie O'Donnell, but Star Jones and Donald Trump couldn't get enough of each other Saturday at the Mercedes-Benz Bridgehampton Polo Challenge. Of course, Donald is a teaser. Introduced to Jones' three fetching god-daughters, Trump sized up their figures and said, "Wow, Star. What the hell do we need you for?" Trump moved on from the Hpnotiq-sponsored event to dinner at Nick and Toni's, where he let one investment banker know he approved of his "upgrade" in girlfriends. "Good choice on this one," the thrice-wed Trump told the recently divorced banker.
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It looks like married Oscar winner Cuba Gooding Jr. is on a tramp-age through New York.
We have heard three reports of the father of three approaching women in the last two months. But the "Jerry Maguire" and "Daddy Day Camp" actor outdid himself with a very public display at the nightclub Tenjune on Friday night.
"He made out with about five different girls at his table," claims a witness.
"First he made out with two girls. Then a fight broke out because some idiot thought he could hang out at his table, [but Gooding] was undeterred," says the source.
"After that he made out with at least three other girls. He does not discriminate, either — Asians, blonds, brunettes. The girls were getting p—d at each other also because they were like, ‘He just made out with me!'"
Gooding hit the Meatpacking District hot spot (among other nightclubs) four nights in a row last week, says another snitch. We received a similar report in June of the actor trying to pick up a young lady in the parking lot of Katsyua in the L.A. suburb of Brentwood.
"He kept asking her to get in the car and go with him," said a witness. "The hilarious part about this is that you can see he's got a designer baby seat in the back of his car while he's hitting on my friend."
A rep for Gooding was unreachable yesterday.
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Male strippers at a baby shower? Why not, it's Malibu!
Jessica Biel threw a shower Saturday for Michelle Purple, her friend and partner in their production company, Iron Ocean Films.
"It was a Mexican-themed soiree with tacos and quesadillas, all served by shirtless cabana boys," says an insider at the LG Beach House.
Not only were there underdressed waiters, according to the snitch, but to accompany the cake, "male strippers entertained the crowd."
It's no wonder that Justin Timberlake 's girlfriend, wearing a green and brown bikini under a white sundress, was described as "the perfect hostess."
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FADING faster from New York Fashion Week than the tents at Bryant Park are the A-list celebrities who used to fill their front-row seats.
With shows of spring fashions starting Sept. 5, organizers are scrambling to line up big names. The Fashionista.com Web site asks: "Have celebs abandoned Fashion Week?" and dishes that "p.r. BlackBerries" are buzzing "that, so far, there are way less celeb confirmations than in the past."
Fashion insiders are quick to blame the MTV Video Music Awards in Las Vegas and the Emmy Awards in Los Angeles, which happen the same week.
Leslie Stevens, co-founder of publicity firm LaForce + Stevens, says it's too early to declare defeat: "We are producing seven shows, and we haven't started to go in full force yet."
Stars were scarce at the shows last February, leaving paparazzi to settle for the likes of Tinsley Mortimer, Lauren Bush and Vanessa Minnillo. Such front-row regulars as Sarah Jessica Parker and Scarlett Johansson steered clear.
The biggest stars next month - the last time Bryant Park will be used for the runway shows - might be the ones who are paid by designers to appear in their ad campaigns. Djimon Hounsou and Hilary Swank, the bodies of Calvin Klein underwear, are co-hosting a party for the company on Sept. 4.
Alison Brod PR founder Alison Brod, who is producing shows next month for Jill Stuart, Alice + Olivia, Rosa Cha and Pamella Roland, told Page Six, "Celebs are creating individual relationships with individual designers. It's not like years ago, when someone would come into town and go to a handful of shows."
Another theory for the shortfall of bona fide stars is that designers are fed up with dealing with demanding Hollywood types, who then distract attention away from the collections to themselves. "It's similar to what happened with the supermodels of the '80s," said an industry insider. "They became more famous than the designers. The designers put a stop to it. The whole idea is to sell clothes."
We may have a chance of catching "The Devil Wears Prada" star Anne Hathaway at one runway show next month, however. Spies spotted the Hollywood princess sipping cocktails with Valentino at the Hotel Quisisana in Capri last night.
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"THE Hills" star Lauren Conrad has another man. The cute blonde was spotted holding hands and making out with dancer/actor Sean Zastoupil over the weekend at Les Deux in Hollywood. Our spy snitched, "They met a couple of years ago at a fashion show in San Diego for Dieter Schmitz's charity event RH4T and just recently reconnected." A rep for Conrad didn't return e-mails.
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DINERS at the Koo Koo Roo in L.A. were jolted when they saw Faye Dunaway sashay in wearing gym clothes and plastic food-handling gloves. "She ordered chicken and broccoli to go, and then she sat at a table with her food container," reports cyber gossip Janet Charlton. "She pulled a tiny scale out of her purse and . . . proceeded to pull the chicken meat off the bones and weigh it. She piled the bones and skin on a napkin. She carefully weighed the chicken meat and broccoli, and the broccoli was a little short, so she went to the counter and asked for more."
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IS Jeremy Piven taking his role of Ari Gold on HBO's "Entourage" a little too seriously? Spies at Nobu Malibu spotted Piven having "a very loud argument" with his own mother Friday night. "It was so venomous, the entire restaurant could hear them. I don't know what they were arguing about, but it was loud," said the onlooker, who noted that perturbed patrons included CAA agent Rick Nicita, who was sitting at a nearby table with Rob Reiner and a group of friends. A rep for Piven did not return calls.
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Troubled actress Lindsay Lohan is taking rehab in stride with a hike in the mountains of Utah with fellow recovering patients, Splash News reported.
The troubled starlet, who was arrested last month and charged with DUI, walked dogs in Big Springs Park in Sundance for about an hour before being driven back to the center.
Lohan checked into the exclusive Circle Lodge Rehab Center following her arrest last month. It was her second DUI in three months, and will face jail if convicted, the agency reported.
Wearing a baseball cap inscribed with the word "faith," cropped black trousers and a black zip-up top, the blonde actress was smiling as she emerged from the vehicle and walked up the mountain path with brown dog on a leash.
Cirque Lodge was recently named by Town and Country Magazine as one of the top substance abuse treatment facilities in the world, caring for both drug and alcohol addicts, according to Splash News.
The center offers shared and private rooms featuring down duvets and pillows, and reading and relaxation areas.
They also have fireplaces or wood-burning stoves, and large bathrooms with slate tile and jetted tubs.
Lohan appears to have thrown herself into the intensive program, taking part in group activities with instructors and fellow patients.
"Lindsay looked like she was having a really fun excursion," one onlooker told Splash News.
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At this rate, there won't be a single state where rapperista-serial lawbreaker Foxy Brown doesn't have a court date. The Bergen County Record reports that Foxy got arrested in Mahwah, NJ, after being pulled over by cops last week for talking on a cell phone while driving and failing to stop at a stop sign. But when they asked her for her name and birth date, she gave them "a variation" of her real name -- Inga Marchand -- and a birth year that was a year off.
Oddly, when cops asked her again, she told them the truth, whereupon they discovered that Foxy's license was suspended, and so they arrested her, where they gave her seven -- seven -- tickets, and released her. She'll have to go back to court on Sept. 4.
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