In a London Letter to the Editor, Michael Cole, formerly of the BBC, writes that Prince William’s grandparents-in-law Dorothy and Ronald Goldsmith are “both Jews.” Dorothy’s parents? “Both Jews.” “A Jew on her matriarchal side, Kate’s baby will be a Jew per Jewish law and tradition.”
A bris in Buckingham? They’d have to rename it Buckingpastrami.
New movie’s ‘hot’
Remember gorgeous mermaid Daryl Hannah in “Splash”? The blonde on young JFK Jr’s arm? She’s now talking up “The Hot Flashes.” Not that she’s having any. It’s a new film “about mature women facing challenges: Brooke Shields in a marriage crisis, Wanda Sykes in career difficulty, Virginia Madsen ostracized as a slut.
“We end up in a ladies’ basketball team. Learning to play, we trained with USC’s basketball team. Pros play for one hour, but we trained in 20 hour days. Brooke needed an icing unit. My knee got twisted. I had to have fluid removed, and now there’s no ACL ligament in it. It was really tough, but at least I can definitely make a basket. I almost can’t miss one.
“Today I have a hoop in my backyard. Being athletic, I did my own stunts. But it was so difficult. I didn’t understand why we had to train so hard.”
Activist Daryl’s “been arrested for disobedience five times. To save farmers. And bring awareness to Appalachia, where mountaintops get blown away to get at coal. And three times for fracking’s stupidity of putting our largest water reservoirs in danger.
“Our world’s changed. Spending big money, corporations have bigger say nowadays than citizens. No more by the people for the people. It’s now by the corporations for the corporations.
“I live in the Rockies with rescue animals. Horses, alpacas, pigs, chickens, cats. These little creatures haven’t families. They need advocates.
“When I made many movies they weren’t paying today’s kind of money. But I’m all right financially. More important to focus my energy on the really important issues. To be of service in your community is happiness.”
Smiley breakup
Despite his latest bedmate going pffft, George Clooney’s everywhere smiling. Ditto Miss Keibler. Like George’s other used merchandise, her profile, plus the rest of her, has risen. Now known, surviving well, Stacy hit Carbone, Thompson Street’s new old-school, red-sauce Italian restaurant, where waiters wear tuxedos. Smiling, eating, happy and friendly, she was. Hell hath little fury like a Clooney chickie fried.
Odds & ends
Adam Sandlerat a Yankee game . . . Mariska Hargitay with son and husband at Amagansett’s Sotto Sopra . . . Joan Rivers, whose sister’s death postponed her surprise 80th birthday, sent this expensive official gold-imprinted invite for her 85th on June 8, 2018: “RSVP no later than 2017. Your original invitation entitles you to one free drink. This again will be a surprise as, due to her age, Joan won’t remember that the original party did not happen.”
The jokes, folks
Comic Judah Friedlander, hosting Gotham Comedy Club Wednesday, will throw these:
“I was high school’s most popular person when I was in third grade.” . . . As World Champion, I’m an extra-dark black belt in karate.” . . . Double entendre should mean more than one thing.” . . . “I grew up on a dead-end street. I killed all my neighbors . . .
“As president in 2016, I’ll stop government spying because I have perfect hearing. I can overhear someone overhearing someone . . . During the hurricane Bloomberg said, ‘If you live in Zone A, you must evacuate. Dial 311.’ I said, ‘I live in Zone B, but my apartment’s floating into Zone A. Must I evacuate? I’m enjoying this little rafting trip.’ ”
Also there will be comedian Kevin Bartini with: “In college, the only A’s and B’s I generated were hepatitis.”
Plus colleague Nick DiPaolo and his: “Sex is like pizza. Even when it’s bad, you still have to pay for it.”
Only in New York, kids, only in New York.