Columnists: Cindy Adams

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• Pitt stops NYC Midtown traffic

  People come to New York, they get excited. Brad Pitt came to New York, New York went nuts.  To shill “World War Z,” which is about toppling governments, armies and people, Paramount Pictures cranked out a world war of...   June 19, 2013

• Low-budget films get boost

  As we speak, there’s the Lower East Side Film Festival. Judges include Rebecca Miller. She’s Arthur Miller’s daughter. Daniel Day-Lewis’ wife. Also a Sundance winning writer and director.  “This small festival began...   June 18, 2013

• My daddy for mayor, please

  On account of Fathers Day’s fervor and fealty, etc., etc., blaah blaah, Bill Thompson’s daughter, Jennifer, sent this tender missive: “My dad’s going to be a great mayor.” He “loved this city and understands deep in his...   June 17, 2013

• Father’s Day: what to get him

  Sunday. June 16. Father’s Day. Take him to lunch. Or, for a change, at least talk to him. Definition of “Father”: The person who can’t get into the bathroom, onto the phone or out of the house.  Fathers are important....   June 14, 2013

• Cruise’s dad/daughter dining

  You have part custody and an adored child . . . so . . . where’s a big gent with big money spend a small weekend with his small kid? Not that you asked — but because I am a truly wonderful human being I will tell you:...   June 13, 2013

• Brokaw opens military ‘Files’

  NBC’s Tom Brokaw is now onto “The Brokaw Files.” The Military Channel. Tomorrow it’s air-traffic controllers discussing America’s 9/11 skies.  “I grew up in Dad’s South Dakota Army base. I’ve always been associated with...   June 12, 2013

• Bey & baby bugged in B’klyn

  Beyoncé in Park Slope, Brooklyn. In the Fifth Avenue park. Singing “The Wheels on the Bus Go Round and Round” to Blue Ivy, who was in a baby bucket swing. Surrounding bodyguards warned, “No pictures.” When someone did...   June 11, 2013

• Kris parties after divorce

  Kris Humphries toasted the end of Kim Kardashian’s 72-day kockamaimie kouplehood in Miami’s Sugarcane Raw Bar Grill. He celebrated with Brussels sprouts, shishito peppers, chicken meatballs, spicy ribs, tuna, sweet...   June 10, 2013

• Priorities have changed

  WITH all our troubles — America’s difficulties, climate’s miseries, financial insecurities, Kim Kardashian’s ex Humph-ries — it is time to give gratitude. Deep appreciation. Fervent thanks. I speak not of the trivial....   June 07, 2013

• Celebs on faith matters

  Today, June 6, is also D-Day. A day of remembrance, gratitude, thanks. Yet, for some, a time to ponder their lack of faith . . .  Ian McKellen: “I’m an atheist. So God, if She exists, isn’t part of my life.”  Björk: “I...   June 06, 2013

• Mel ex-belle on new team

  Mel Gibson, you should kindly please pardon the expression. His ex Oksana Grigorieva, whose last time hitting the spotlight was when she accused Mel of hitting her and later dropped the claim. She has teamed with...   June 05, 2013

• Silda stands up for herself

  The Eliot/Silda Spitzer schism. Once she was standing by her husband. Understood. Now she isn’t sleeping with him. Also understood. This lawyer lady’s special. Good family, good relationships, charitable, refined. To be...   June 04, 2013

• Warm Venetian greetings to you

  Venice began to percolate or make its first cappuccino in 1200-ish. The famous palazzos date to 1500-ish. Nothing’s changed but the prices. Venice is gorgeous, historic, thrilling. But a thieves’ market. A short one-way...   June 03, 2013

• City’s being taken over

  Enough with these cockamamie cicadas.  NYC isn’t crowded enough? We’re jammed into condo and coop cubicles. Now we have to share it with cicadas? Already there’s no room to park. The streets are alive with the sound of...   May 31, 2013

• Actor leading his own way

  Handsome leading-man Alexander Skarsgård — not to confuse with Maggie Gyllenhaal’s handsome leading-man husband Peter Sarsgaard — is everywhere. Ten minutes earlier he burbled about his new film “What Maisie Knew” with...   May 30, 2013

• Kerik, now out, gave tips in jail

  Yesterday 9 a.m., after three years and change in jail, Bernie Kerik, NYC’s former police commish, USA’s former Homeland Security Chief nominee, Cumberland, Md.’s now ex-inmate No. 84888-054, was driven home-sweet-home....   May 29, 2013

• Liberace's lover speaks for himself

  Following Michael Douglas’ uncanny ability to inhabit the skin of Liberace, I spent Memorial Day locating an Aug. 22, 1988, interview with Liberace’s lover Scott Thorson — depicted by Matt Damon.  Scott told me then:...   May 28, 2013

• Not just another tequila sunrise

  A book’s out called “The Patron Way: The Untold Inside Story of the World’s Most Successful Tequila.” So the question is, so what? So the answer is: author Ilana Edelstein, a financial adviser who drops names like...   May 23, 2013

• Taking nanny act on the road

  Our Mayor, may his tribe increase, what’ll he do when he’s unmayoring? While heretofore undecided, Bloomberg now is allowing he might work at offering these years of experience to help other cities achieve financial...   May 22, 2013

• Aussie actress a real Rebel

  Rebel Wilson. Funny. Pretty. Hefty. Aussie. Stand-up comic. This hot shot in the film “Bridesmaids” stars in ABC-TV’s coming Wednesday series “Super Fun Night.”  I adored Rebel although my table tilted as, centimeter by...   May 21, 2013

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• Bevy of brides

  House Speaker John Boehner’s daughter Lindsay, 35, who lives in Hollywood, Fla., married Jamaican construction worker Dominic Lakhan, 38, last week in Delray Beach’s Sundy House garden. She has a tatto’d arm. He a...   May 20, 2013

• Can’t take city out of NYer

  New York. Everybody loves New York. Everyone wants in on New York. Every foreigner’s moving to New York. Living in New York is the world’s dream. Residential buildings are going up even higher than Keith Richards ever...   May 17, 2013

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• Nathan Lane: onstage & off

  Nathan Lane’s onstage in “The Nance” at the Lyceum. Opens tomorrow in the film “The English Teacher.” The guy’s like crab grass. Everywhere. He calls his play “a heartbreaking gay show-business history [that] deals with...   May 16, 2013

• Daughter’s story is one-sided

  Adopted ingrate Christina Crawford did a quickie theatrical Mother’s Day vivisection of her mom, Joan Crawford. Her show came — and went — in days. It’s already over. Crawford is long over. Christina? She never began....   May 15, 2013

• Barbara Walters, a treasure

  Even newborns in Siberia know it’s The dawning of The Year of the Walters. Today ticks off Barbaratime.  Yesterday she announced next summer she’ll quit TV. This weekend I picked the Tribeca Grill for our dinner....   May 14, 2013

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• Kerik’s coming home

  Bernard Kerik, NYC’s former police commissioner, USA’s former Homeland Security Chief nominee, Cumberland, Md.’s current federal prison camp inmate, is home in two weeks.  Indicted for ethics violations. Sentenced to...   May 13, 2013

• Call Mother now

  Moses, down from the Mount, delivered The Commandment to Honor thy Father and Mother. Come Sunday restaurants, stores, florists, chocolatiers, and Hallmark shops are temporarily shelving Papa to remember Mama.  The...   May 10, 2013

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• Graveyard watched sternly

  In the Bahamas, Anna Nicole Smith’s longtime publicist David Granoff wanted to pay respects. The small cemetery is watched closely. He said he was Anna’s relative. Stolidly protective, they refused to point out the...   May 09, 2013

• Silence for Dame

  In London’s new West End play “The Audience,” Helen Mirren plays the Queen. Naturally. Helen Mirren always plays the Queen. Like, I mean, who else should play Her Majesty — Lena Dunham?  The drama’s about Elizabeth...   May 08, 2013

• OK, it’s ‘Great’

  Enough with “The Great Gatsby’s” great p.r. It’s probably even getting screenings in basements in Bulgaria.  Director Baz Luhrmann’s costume- designer wife, Catherine Martin, on researching the ’20s-era wardrobe:...   May 07, 2013

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