Elder President Bush and younger President Bush planned New Year’s Eve together. Boca Grande, Florida’s Gasparilla Inn & Club on the Gulf Coast where single, small closets start at $400 a night. Owner’s a DuPont, so the crust is seriously upper. I mean, have respect.
Hotel holidaying includes carols, gingerbread houses, beach games, sculpting and Bingo. Instead of where mommy and daddy booked, sonny rented a nearby house. He does gym workouts, not sand sculpting. Laura figures shove Bingo, she’ll do golf, spas and shopping where, trying on every item, she mutters, “It’s too skinny; I’m too fat.”
Each prez packs his own security. Peanut grower Carter once shlepped 16. Now, less. Everyone but Obama’s economizing.
ITCHING for schnitzel, Carl Reiner got himself and Mel Brooks takeout at Beverly Hills’ BierBeisl . . . NY Giant Victor Cruz gave daughter Kennedy a rara.com playlist of his (not hers) favorite songs . . . Megan Hilty’s cool Yule was “long walks, exploring new NYC neighborhoods” . . . No script yet, but Quentin Tarantino’s considering a “Kill Bill 3.” Great news for Love Thy Fellow Men’s Day.
SATURDAY, wed privately, hush hush, few guests, in a chapel in Vegas where both live, Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher’s previously married son Todd to soap opera’s Catherine Hickland. Her former husbands include David Hasselhoff. No ex-wives, ex-husbands, ex-mothers-in-law including, for instance, Connie Stevens.
JOHN Cohan’s been predicting for me 27 years — longer than Hollywood marriages. For 2013 this celebrity seer sees:
Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel. No future anniversary Hallmark cards.
The Dr. Phils call it ailing. Robin says doctor isn’t darling.
Whitney Houston’s Bobbi Kristina gets a movie deal, husband and family battles.
Prince Charles’ Camilla stops sipping. Back in the Queen’s good graces.
Prince Harry’s nude romps make reality TV. The Queen not happy.
Whoopi and Oprah do a film together but fight off-screen.
Tyne Daly and Sharon Gless rejuice careers doing “The Odd Couple” on B’way.
Brad Pitt does a Jeff Conaway biopic.
Katie Holmes rediscovers first boyfriend. Comes another child.
Before Justin Bieber became famous, daddy Jeremy did naughty things. Photos come to haunt him.
Jennifer Lopez stops teaching her kindergarten lover the ABC’s of sex and spelling. Back to Marc Anthony because of the kids.
Danny DeVito back with Rhea Perlman??
Charlie Sheen does porn. Martin Sheen to the rescue.
Queen Latifah gets a talk show, reveals a secret, the public loves her.
PAULA Roberts, psychic Celt who predicted Obama’s re-election, Con Ed blackout, Starbucks shrinking, beef recall, Prince Philip hospitalized, Adele winning singer of the year, now foresees:
International: No Israel/Iran military action.
Turkey seals Syrian border.
The super-rich stabilize Greece.
Mount Etna rumbles, spews pillar of smoke, no eruption.
Paris’ Élysée Palace fire damages one wing.
Amazon’s fly-borne disease sickens tourists.
National: Two new Supreme Court justices.
Unemployment steadily declines.
Local: Stock market gains.
Ferry boats protect buildings on New York Harbor from flood.
African cuisine the latest fad.
THOMAS John, clairvoyant for such one-namers as Courteney, Ramona, Sanaa:
West Coast oil spill.
East Coast power outage.
The South — Kentucky, Louisiana, Texas — crime soars.
ANTHONY WEINER ELECTED NYC MAYOR??????????????????????????
Underage male and a senator’s sex scandal.
Details out about Scientology chairman David Miscavige’s wife, Shelly.
The Arctic virtually ice-free by year end.
Major American bank failure.
Mars research depicts extra-terrestrial life.
Madonna’s son Rocco creates controversy.
CHRISTMAS. Gorgeous feast, glorious table, 20 starving guests waiting. One guest is late. Finally, he explains: “Sorry. I was in the car and had to go back. I’d forgotten my teeth.”
Only in New York, kids, only in New York.