November 28, 2000 CONTINUED
Looking For Swanky Digs
Remember Hilary Swank? She won the Academy Award earlier this year and, perhaps even more notably, forgot to thank her weepy, effeminate husband Chad Lowe. Well, we will see Hil on screen again before the year is out, in the thriller "The Gift" (featuring a much-buzzed-about performance by the beautiful Cate Blanchett). And those of us lucky enough to call Manhattan home will be able to see the full-lipped star far more frequently as she and Chad are moving to the city. No apartment yet for the duo, but they're looking. In the meantime, Hil, if you need to sleep on my couch or anything, just let me know.
SEEN!
--Diners at Spazzia last week may not have known in which direction to star gaze first! In one corner, draining the wine jugs, was Heather Graham and Woody Harrelson. (Gee, Heather, I wonder where Heath Ledger went?) In the other corner, Ben Stiller dined with his pretty wife, Christine Taylor.
--At the Sony Theater on 19th and Broadway, you didn't have to wait for the movie to start to see a movie star! Julia Roberts, lightly disguised in horn-rimmed glasses, saw "Charlie's Angels" (secretly laughing to herself, no doubt), and she didn't muscle her way into the picture just because that very theater had profited from several of her films; she bought a ticket like the rest of us nobodies! She stays with her sister in nearby Gramercy Park, so she didn't need to travel far afterwards.
--The Guggenheim Museum isn't exactly your run-of-the-mill movie house, but it was a perfect place to screen the Ed Harris vehicle "Pollack," based on the life of the abstract painter Jackson Pollack, not film director Sydney Pollack. Among the crowd to congratulate Eddie on his smashing starring role were the ravishing Angie Harmon, David Bowie with wife Iman, Robert DeNiro, costar Marcia Gay Harden, and previously mentioned urban newbies Hillary and Chad.
--A Mike Ditka sighting? Somebody pinch me!! The legendary football coach -- I had to look that up, incidentally -- was entertaining a group of women at The Plaza (looking as if no high profile couple had just gotten married there last week) well into the early morn on Sunday. And what bone did he throw to yearning fashionistas? He was wearing a shirt with his own name plastered on the front of it! That's right. Ditka! Ditka! Ditka!
Celebrity Quotes Of The Week
"My hair is now black and white. No more purple. Because Christina Aguilera was copying my style."
-- Cyndi Lauper to Cindy Adams
As Britney Spears is pretty much copying Madonna's career, the Cyndi/Christina thing should come as no surprise at all! But if I were Chrissie, I'd cringe at the comparison. Cyndi's not exactly scooping up the platinum albums, although she was an amazing opening act at last year's Cher concert.
"I can't seem to make the move from New York to Hollywood. Hollywood is just a different animal. I mean, I just lost a part to Colleen from "Survivor"! "
-- Jennifer Esposito, in this month's Vanity Fair
Honey, that movie you lost to Colleen? I hate to inform you...but it was a Rob Schneider movie. Did you really want the role that badly? Let Colleen go down in flames, and you can come in and sweep up the ashes!
Black And Blue
While the rest of the world was busy snatching up the Backstreet Boys latest album, some diehard teen fans were showing interest in rival boy band *NSYNC. At the opening of a new Planet Hollywood here in Manhattan (about 30 feet from where David Blaine is frozen, and 60 feet from where I concurrently having my fifth cosmopolitan), Syncers Justin Timberlake and Lance Bass rushed past their fans with nary an acknowledgment as their horrible bodyguards pushed back the waiting throng of young fans. Spies say that the guards were actually grabbing the innocent youth and swinging them out of the way, pushing the young children in each other and onto the street. Oh, but I'm sure the emotional scars are even greater!
Until Hilary Swank becomes my neighbor,
Gregoire
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