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Monday's Gossip
Danny DeVito may have overdone it on the Parmesan popovers and clam balls at the opening of his restaurant in South Beach last week. "He was throwing up in the bathroom by the end," one witness tells us. "I did see him drinking, but it was also hot in there and the food was being passed. He was a mess by 10 p.m."
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Renee Zellweger sure is good at keeping people guessing about her love life.
The latest rumor doing the rounds in Hollywood is that she could be quietly seeing an agent at CAA, the management company that reps her.
One spy who had heard the same rumor kept her under surveillance at the recent Women in Film Awards, where she was honored.
Zellweger set tongues wagging by sitting at the CAA table, rather than at the sponsor's table, which is customary for the honoree.
But unfortunately for the gossip columns, she gave no indication whether any of her tablemates might be special.
"I didn't expect this to be such an emotional experience," Zellweger joked onstage when she accepted her award from Harvey Weinstein. "Now my fake eyelashes are going to fall off."
Despite the rumors, the official word from her rep is that Zellweger is not dating an agent.
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Apparently something about Mandy Moore's singing wakes the dead.
During a listening party at Stereo for her new album, "Wild Hope," she told us: "The place we recorded was definitely haunted.
"The ghost was nice. It turned my TV on for me - no particular programs. It was nice. I felt like I wasn't by myself; they were my friends. I had company."
Let's hope for her sake that ghosts also buy CDs!
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Jessica Simpson thought she'd try channeling Dolly Parton another time at the Stride gum party in L.A. at Teddy's on Thursday night, but again messed up the words to "Nine to Five." Little sis Ashlee, who hosted, thankfully did not try to lip-sync.
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JUST as David beat Goliath, upstart OK! has given People a knuckle sandwich in the ongoing weekly-celebrity-magazine wars.
Sources said People "laid the groundwork" for landing exclusive photos of Eva Longoria and Tony Parker's July 7 wedding - but Page Six has learned that OK! won the frenzied bidding. Sources close to the negotiations said OK! paid more than $2 million.
It was a surprising - and costly - end to the battle for the privilege to snap the nuptials, which the "Desperate Housewives" hottie and her San Antonio Spur fiancé plan to hold in a romantic castle in Paris.
"People editors broke the story of their wedding and were working hard with Eva's reps [to secure the picture rights]," said a source close to the talks. "They were upset about losing the photos."
Other sources suggested that previous coverage in People of the couple's rumored breakup, including a photo of Parker with another woman in New York, may have influenced the result.
But a well-placed source said that had nothing to do with it, that "it was [entirely] a matter of money, straight up to the final negotiation." Another insider said, "Everyone wanted the photos . . . but everyone knows OK! will pay [a lot]."
People, which reportedly paid $4.1 million for the first photos of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's baby, Shiloh, tried to sweeten the deal for Longoria by offering to run the snaps in sister publication InStyle.
"But there's the InStyle curse," said one wag. "Half the marriages end before the photos can even be published."
A rep for OK! declined to comment on what it paid, saying, "We don't release numbers."
OK! editor-in-chief Sara Ivens told us, "These were obviously highly coveted photos, and we were thrilled to negotiate the exclusive rights. Covering great moments with the celebrities that we love is what the magazine's all about."
Neither People's nor Longoria's reps would comment.
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YOUNG love can be fickle. Elvis Presley's granddaughter, Riley Keough, was supposed to join her boyfriend, Ryan Cabrera, at the Electronic Arts party for the Harry Potter Game launch in Playa Vista, Calif., last week. But she didn't show because "they aren't getting along," an insider said. "They have hit a rough patch and are on the outs right now." But it can't be that bad - Cabrera brought Keough's brother, Ben, in her place.
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REVELERS at the downtown hot spot Socialista got to watch a brief public quarrel between music mogul Damon Dash and his wife/business partner, designer Rachel Roy, Wednesday night. "They got into a screaming match," said a witness. Dash, who co-owns the club, was spotted at Cipriani Downtown before hitting the after-party for Lorraine Schwartz around midnight. "He was in an altered state," said our spy. "Rachel was curled up on a couch with another guy, and when he saw her he flipped and stormed out." Roy stayed put, but Dash headed back to Cipriani. A rep for Dash says, "There's no trouble."
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STYLIST to the stars Jessica Paster makes clients like Kate Hudson and Jessica Simpson look flawless, but she's got some cleaning up to do at home. Paster, who charges up to $5,000 a day to clothe the young and nubile, held a "cattle-casting call" for a new assistant last week, according to spies. But some of the prospective employees were horrified when they showed up to Paster's Hollywood Hills home and found a nightmare inside. "We had to wait in line and were called in to see her one by one," one interviewee said. "It was a mess. There were disorganized racks of dresses and piles of clothing she had pulled from designers all over the floor. Her little dog peed everywhere - including on the clothes - throughout the day, and we had to follow it around and clean up after it. It smelled." For their efforts, the interviewees were served the only thing in the house: Lean Cuisine and Red Bull. Paster couldn't be reached, and a rep didn't return e-mails.
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CHRISTIAN Bale must have gagged more than once during filming of "Rescue Dawn," opening next month. Bale stars as Dieter Dengler, the only American ever to break out of a POW camp in the Laotian jungle. In one scene, the actor scarfs down a bowl of live maggots served to him by his captors. Director Werner Herzog insisted Bale actually eat real bugs, because in this era of rampant computer effects, Herzog told The Post's Reed Tucker, he wanted "audiences to start believing their eyes again."
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SELF-deprecating party girl musician Lily Allen, who gets chased all around her hometown of London, recently sought refuge in less aggressive Manhattan. New York magazine's Jada Yuan reports Allen is holed up in an apartment overlooking the Hudson River, with her record company footing the $10,000 a month bill, so she can "work in peace" on her second album. All's not exactly going as planned, though. Allen told the magazine, "We've done nothing! All we've done is make YouTube videos for other peoples' songs." And while few approach her on the streets here, Allen doesn't know all the New York names either. She said she was a bit sloshed when she performed at Tinsley Mortimer's party in the Hamptons recently. "I was so drunk I kept calling Tinsley 'Ashley Winksdale,' " said Allen. She also confessed to forgetting Jennifer Connelly's name when she saw her with Paul Bettany at the Waverly Inn.
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MANDY Moore has been working so hard on her new album, "Wild Hope," she lost track of the words to her hit single, "Candy." During a performance at Stereo on Thursday night, Moore told her audience, "I forgot the words," and started reading the lyrics from her BlackBerry. Page Six recently reported that words to some of her new album's songs took aim at her ex, Zach Braff. When we asked about the guys young Hollywood women should avoid, she said, "I'd never name names . . . but I'd say stay away from anyone who is too insecure or self-involved."
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