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Cindy Adams

  • Nothing fazes Wawa

    You will not believe this. I can hardly believe this. Monday, Barbara -- do not ask Barbara who? -- called. We do not speak of Barbara Eden or Barbara Feldon. Barbara -- the Barbara -- was phoning from the ICU...  

    May 19, 2010 12:00 AM
  • Kerik's pre-jail spiel

    I called Bernie Kerik's house on Monday, the private line, the one that his family answers. It was the day he went to the can. His children have been brought up wonderfully. The little one, Angelina, answered the phone...  

    May 18, 2010 12:00 AM
  • Barbara Walters fine

    My friend Barbara Walters is so internationally famous that peo ple in downtown Ghana want to know how she's doing. But like her staff begs not to be harassed, I also ask to be left alone. I am a close friend but I am...  

    May 17, 2010 12:00 AM
  • Courtney loveless on a plane

    SOMEBODY, anybody, please help save Courtney Love. The woman is not together. At Heathrow, heading for here, a total meltdown. Sprawled on the floor, packing and repacking her luggage -- bras and panties under...  

    May 14, 2010 12:00 AM
  • Busy Banderas

    You maybe heard that Antonio Banderas is marching to Broadway to do "Zorba." Well, he may be doing "Zorba," but he isn't marching. He's sort of walking. "I pushed it off a year," he told me. "I will start rehearsals...  

    May 13, 2010 12:00 AM
  • NBC late at night: Gimme a J!

    The game of late-night musical hosts has already begun for NBC. Leno's back as king of the hill -- doing the same stuff he's always done because it works for him -- stuffing his hands in his pockets, flashing the...  

    May 12, 2010 12:00 AM
  • Brave Barbara

    Yesterday Barbara Walters announced to the world -- via "The View" -- that tomorrow she will have heart surgery. To replace a defective valve. Did I know? Yes. She told me last year. Barbara and I have been...  

    May 11, 2010 12:00 AM
  • Bad reason for party

    Former NYC top cop, former 9/11 hero Bernie Kerik turns himself in May 17. He wasn't looking for a party but a pack of his friends wanted to say goodbye and to say a few words. Columnist Dick Morris, first on his...  

    May 10, 2010 12:00 AM
  • Cherish your Mother, always

    Was born in April. Ten years ago April, a part of me died. I lost my mother. It was tough. Losing my mother was tough. I’m a Mother lover. And not in this life nor any Shirley MacLaine might have us pass through, will...  

    May 09, 2010 1:27 AM
  • Horsing around

    So, guess who's horse farm shopping. Think. Think of a useless middle- age female who's decided to have purpose. Think that instead of this person's boring high life and social life and meaningless life of hair...  

    May 07, 2010 12:00 AM
  • Volcano ash for sale

    The first lady of Iceland and I know one another. She gave a luncheon for me at her official residence in Reyk javik last July, and I gave a luncheon for her at my apartment last September. Yesterday Dorrit...  

    May 06, 2010 12:00 AM
  • Extreme book here

    A aron Klein, WorldNetDaily journalist who hosts his own WABC talk-radio show, is out this week with a tough controversial book. Its way-out sensational-sounding title? "The Manchurian President: Barack Obama's...  

    May 05, 2010 12:00 AM
  • Ultra-designer lives on in film

    Halston. The name in fashion in the '70s. Made Jackie Kennedy's famous pink pillbox hat, the one she wore to the inauguration. Dressed everyone from Candice Bergen to Elizabeth Taylor to Liza Minnelli, whose East Side...  

    May 04, 2010 12:00 AM
  • NYC felt WWII's end

    This year marks the 65th anniver sary of the end of WWII. VE Day. Victory in Europe. That was May 8. Although President Truman would not officially declare VE Day until he could do so with Rus sia and England, New...  

    May 03, 2010 12:00 AM
  • Hurry up and grate on me!

    Children, today mother asks the question: what has happened to civil ity? I asked that of one man who was tweeting, twittering and texting dur ing the soup course at a sit-down din ner. His answer? What's happened to...  

    May 02, 2010 12:00 AM
  • 'Fences' too high to leap over

    THURSDAY the last Broadway show of the season opened. Everyone's talk ing nominations. "Fences" will win revival. Tonys will also go to its stars Denzel Washington, Viola Davis and director Kenny Leon. As for the...  

    April 30, 2010 12:00 AM
  • Elephant rags to film riches

    Michael Caine's in town. Michael Caine has a story to tell. Part is about his new F-laden, blood-soaked ultra-violent movie "Harry Brown," in which he plays an ex-Marine who wipes out the bad guys. Much was told to me...  

    April 28, 2010 12:00 AM
  • Sexual harassment: deal with it

    New York 1's ex-reporter Adele Sammarco. Lost her sexual harassment case. Is left with a hefty lawyer's bill (an unhefty lawyer's bill doesn't exist) and won't be fielding TV offers unless to fix a neighbor's set. All...  

    April 27, 2010 12:00 AM
  • Douglas family fun

    Maybe a little pleasure this week in the life of Michael Douglas. Yes terday afternoon beginning 3:30, his two children with Catherine Zeta-Jones had a party and in vited 30 kids over. It was at the LQ. Daughter Carys...  

    April 26, 2010 12:00 AM
  • Roiled by my Royal neighbors

    We're only two on the top floor of my apartment building. My neighbor is major High Class. Not the type you'd ever call by his first name, like if it were Bob or Max. We're talking strictly Your Excellency. He and his...  

    April 25, 2010 12:00 AM
  • Life of Steinbrenner

    Coming at us from HarperCollins -- although they might not even have bound copies yet -- is an unauthorized biography of our adored, beloved, king of the hill G. Steinbrenner. Title: "George Steinbrenner: The Last Lion...  

    April 23, 2010 12:00 AM
  • You heard it here 1st

    New York. First in everything. New York invented the club sandwich. Some unheralded local yutz to whom some type of shrine should be erected invented toilet paper in 1857. In 1840, Alexander Cartwright, whoever he...  

    April 22, 2010 12:00 AM
  • Guilty of writing on the go

    Since today's gen-eration learned spell ing through Vanna White, since their reading is confined to how many grams of sodium in a can of peas, since politicians today have a body mass index higher than their IQ, I...  

    April 21, 2010 12:00 AM
  • Same love, new frills

    Broadway's newest fall-down, blockbuster hit is that antique smash of 1983 "La Cage aux Folles," which appears to be reincarnated more often than Barbra Streisand. Being so cutting-edge smart that my opinions are...  

    April 20, 2010 12:00 AM
  • King's woes not new

    The cracks in the Larry King mar riage were well-known to a tiny group a long time ago. Page Six re ported Saturday that people started whispering about trouble in this union some time ago. I'm here to tell you it was...  

    April 19, 2010 12:00 AM
  • Fine line in chutzpah capital

    IF you can make it here, you can make it anywhere. The whole world knows that. New York's mantra is prob ably even taught in kinder gartens in downtown Tbilisi. Question is -- why? Competition? Chutzpah? Is it...  

    April 18, 2010 12:00 AM
  • Pacino knows Jack

    ANY time you can see Pacino it's a plus. And getting him in a real-life blockbuster story is a double plus. In his latest film he plays Jack Ke vorkian, of whom you may have heard. "You Don't Know Jack," billed as...  

    April 16, 2010 12:00 AM
  • No sham with the 'Shore' kids

    The "Jersey Shore" kids. There are stories that they're truncating their shooting time in Miami because the Florida types don't really dig them. No. They were never meant to spend more than a short time down south....  

    April 15, 2010 12:00 AM
  • Higher authority calls

    His Eminence Archbishop Timothy Dolan has been summoned to Rome. And not like you can tell the Holy Father: "It's Opening Day of the Yankees. How about we maybe do this next week instead?" Question is, why the quickie...  

    April 14, 2010 12:00 AM
  • Canine update here

    New York is going to the dogs. Com ing up is the ASPCA's annual gala, the Bergh Ball, at the Plaza. And Katherine Heigl will be its top dog. We all not only love and adore Katherine Heigl. She's beautiful, she's...  

    April 13, 2010 12:00 AM