If you like Bill O’Reilly, read this. Don’t like him, read it anyway. It’s interesting.
TBA: Oct. 6 he and Jon Stewart will co-juice up a live mock debate rumble, 90 minutes, in DC’s nice air-conditioned George Washington University auditorium. Filmed, available subsequently on DVD, it’ll stream worldwide on the Internet.
Cost: $5. Money to charity. Former “Fox and Friends” host E.D. Hill moderates.
Why? Why not. They’ve done one another’s programs. They like each other. And both can outtalk Obama. Even Clinton.
Another thing. A two-hour movie job of O’Reilly’s best seller “Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination That Changed America Forever” grabs National Geographic Channel early next year. Ridley Scott, exec producer. Tom Hanks, narrator. Through great-great-great-grandfather John Hanks, Oscar winner Hanks is also a third cousin, four generations removed, from Abraham Lincoln.
EMMA Watson, Paul Rudd, Joan Cusack, Dylan McDermott grace the new film “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” based on a best seller — banned from some schools — about love, not love, more love, less love, lots of love, hope, fear, a little sex, a lot of bacchanalia, and some heavy love.
Emma’s character, named Sam, is charismatic but melancholy. Who cares what she is? Nobody can take their eyes off her. Her first major role since becoming a “Harry Potter” star at 11, she’s now a face of Lancome and attends Brown University.
Screenings organizer Andrew Saffir told me: “The film’s starting 7:30. Emma’s arriving 7:15.” Right. She showed promptly 7:50.
“Watching yourself in a movie is a struggle,” she said. “Not just now but even in early childhood days. Every second of the time I’m on-screen, I’ve had to step back and try to see myself. It’s intense. Looking at myself, I had to try and explain: Am I just being me, or am I really the character?
“I’m just back from filming in Iceland with Darren Aronofsky, who got an Oscar nomination for directing ‘Black Swan.’ He’s so caring of his actors. He was always making sure I’m OK. I’d never seen Iceland before. The place is like going into space.”
She looked pretty heavenly herself. Short bob. Half-cutout all white dress by new designer Brood. Large middle finger ring.
“I seem to have passed over the ‘Harry Potter’ crazy. Nobody shouts that out at me anymore. When they see me now, they just call out, ‘Hey . . . Emma . . .’ ”
Then — since it was late — somebody shouted out, “Hey . . . Emma . . . ” — and off she went.
ONE of the most beautiful things on earth is the logo of 1stdibs, where Gloria Vanderbilt, 88, displayed her artwork. Most beautiful thing Anderson Cooper showed for a fast hello. Most beautiful Four Seasons private pool room got redecorated just for a private dinner afterwards in her favorite red — lights, flowers, cloths, seats, candles — by event planner Jerry Sibal, who just did the Princess of Doha’s palace wedding. And may that last as long as Gloria.
ROCKER Madame Mayhem celebrating her Social Life cover at the Sanctuary Hotel . . . Jonathan Goldberg’s Cherub Improv cheering up the Kittay House elderly . . . Christy Cashman, in Parker Posey’s new film (which I don’t know what it is), modeled Callua Lillibelle for a fashion spread in Brooklyn.
IT’s mumbled that New Yorkers may form their own country, taking along other Blue States — Oregon, California, Hawaii, Washington, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois and the whole Northeast.
We have Cuomo, Hillary, stem-cell research, the best beaches, Statue of Liberty, Golden Gate Bridge and two-thirds of tax revenue. Also Intel, Microsoft and Harvard. Red States have Texas, Oklahoma, the slave territories, Bobby Jindal and Todd Akin, OpryLand and Dollywood. Also Alabama and Mississippi. And Perdue. We — 85 percent of entrepreneurs and venture capital. Plus Hollywood and Yosemite. Them — majority of single moms and obese Americans, most tornadoes, hurricanes, mosquitoes, 99 percent of Southern Baptists, and 100 percent of all televangelists.
We control the fresh fruit, fresh water, domestic wines, most low sulfur coal, and all redwoods, sequoias and condors. Red Staters consider life sacred except for the death penalty or gun laws, and 61 percent of those crazy bastards claim higher morals then we north of the Mason-Dixon.
We’ll be known as Citizens of the Enlightened States of America.
BROADWAY bus. Cute head of a little white dog in a carrier poked out. Passenger alongside asked: “What’s its name?” The owner: “None of your business.” The questioner burbled, “Ohhh, sorry . . . I didn’t mean to intrude . . . ” Owner: “Oh, no, it’s OK. That’s her name. I named her ‘None of Your Business’ because she always sticks her head out and gets into everything.”
Only in New York, kids, only in New York.