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 potato, Japanese eggplant and two females doing shots of Don Julio Anejo.
He looked relieved. The 6-foot-9, 235-pound Brooklyn Nets power forward also looked stuffed.
Odds & ends
Barbara Walters at top chef Eric Ripert’s Le Bernardin . . . Maybe Anthony Bourdain couldn’t get a table at Le Bernardin so he was at Schnitzel Spot in Tel Aviv . . .
Indonesia’s fifth president Megawati Sukarnoputri, daughter of Indonesia’s first president Sukarno, lost husband Taufiq Kiemas this week in Singapore. The current head of state sent two planes for the family. Ten thousand attended his state funeral.
Telecast snub
Back to the B’way season. It’s light on traffic, light on product, light on SROs, light on smash shows, light on big names. Major stars dazzle only in minor successes. From Wichita to Utica, nobody trembles with excitement to see the Tonys. Ratings couldn’t sink lower if Vito Lopez were debating Anthony Weiner.
Still, they think themselves so important they’ve barred journalists from dress rehearsal. And they need all the help and publicity they can get. And some of us have reported rehearsals since Shakespeare was doing rewrites.
Does CBS know they’re nuts?
Film season’s enticing
Last theater season was crappy, but next movie season looks snappy. Paramount for us is what Paramount’s releasing.Bruce Dern, who just won best actor in Cannes: “I’ve worked with Kazan, Hitchcock, Coppola, Tarantino but the father/son relationship in this film hit home. I never had much with my own dad but with ‘Nebraska,’ I found my father.” Bruce plays a poor old guy who escapes Montana to collect what he figures is his sweepstakes prize in Nebraska.
From “Nebraska” to “Wall Street.” Opening Nov. 15, “The Wolf of Wall Street.” True story of a hotshot broker who flops from pressure, decadent lifestyle and an FBI investigation. Oscar winner Scorsese, director. Oscar-nominated DiCaprio, star. Also, Matthew McConaughey (hopefully for a change with his shirt on), Jonah Hill, Jon Favreau, Jean Dujardin, Rob Reiner. The trailer debuts June 21 during Brad Pitt’s “World War Z” opening.
Also “Anchorman 2.” Will Ferrell, Paul Rudd, Steve Carell, Christina Applegate, James Marsden, Greg Kinnear, everyone but the theater’s concessionaire. Plus some nifty cameos. This trailer also debuts with Brad Pitt’s film. When the Brad Pitt trailer debuts, this I don’t know.
Farewell, fine actress
Esther Williams. 1950 she starred with Howard Keel in “Pagan Love Song” at the then Capitol Theater. Onstage were the Ink Spots, Shep Fields and his orchestra, and New Year’s Eve tickets were $1. 1994 Bill Clinton received her in the Oval Office, saying, “I watched her films as a growing boy. I spent my childhood money sitting in the movies all day.”
July 1997 she played Carnegie Hall. A special night honoring MGM musicals.
2001. Esther’s 80th birthday. Remembering her big-time lover was the late movie star lover Jeff Chandler, Michael Feinstein scrambled around and found an old 78 recording of Jeff singing: “I Should Care.” He sent it to her. And did Esther care? Her entire comment was: “This was from one of my films. It should have been me singing it.”
Snotty directions
So this Upper East Sider — so Upper East Side that she considers 56th Street downtown — ran into TJ Maxx for something her family needed. Her chauffeur double-parked at 59th and First. Straight from rainy Southampton, she wore jeans, T-shirt, sneakers, baseball cap. A disheveled shopper accosted her with: “Miss, can you tell me where’s the kids’ department?” Replied Miss Snotty: “Yes. Go one flight up, walk 100 feet out the door, make a right, then proceed straight to Madison Avenue.”
Only in New York, kids, only in New York.