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 success and safety.
BESIDES Michael J. Fox’s show, NBC is doing the Kyle MacLachlan pilot “Believe.” Also “Blacklist” with James Spader. CBS will star Tate Donovan and Toni Collette in producer Jerry Bruckheimer’s “Hostages.” HBO’s onto James Gandolfini’s “Criminal Justice”, a miniseries done as 10 one-hour episodes.
MONDAY, the Skirball Center, was the seventh annual Broadway Beauty Pageant. We’re not talking Miss Universe. We’re talking males from shows showing whatever’s showable for a charity benefitting an LGBT shelter.
Tony-nominated host Tovah Feldshuh’s opening line? “Good evening, ladies and gentlemen and anything in between.”
Matthew Goodrich from “The Nance” did a burlesque strip. “Mamma Mia!’s” Paul HeeSang Miller’s wet suit “becomes a reveal, but props cover my private parts.” Orion Griffiths from “Pippin”: “I’ve been a circus acrobat since I’m 4 so, tonight, fully clothed, I’ll do a handstand while peeling down to my briefs.”
Judges included Ally Sheedy, Mo Rocca and Andrea Martin, who mumbled: “Some contestants are thinner than I am.”
The audience included a guy in shorts with leg tattoos and a mohawk. Another in turquoise tie, matching slacks, two-tone brown shoes applying lip balm. A platinum blond dude in 5-inch platform heels explained: “I practice walking by wearing them as I vacuum.”
Drag performer Marti Cummings in full makeup, false eyelashes thicker than a caterpillar and Patricia Feld’s tight-tight floor-length gold lamé told me: “It cost $78. I bought three. And my stomach’s held in with Spanx.”
IN April I reported — exclusively — all alone — my very own self — that the Clintons would opt out of Anthony Weiner’s mayoral rhumba. This was since picked up everywhere. It just made the Politico blog. Please could somebody — besides me — credit me?
MEGAN Mullally: “In ‘Will and Grace’ I talked in a real high pitch, much different from my own voice. Fans keep asking if that hurt. No. Tell them, No.” . . . Noah Baumbach, co-writer of “Frances Ha”: “When I was young, in early days in Brooklyn, I never ever thought I’d be a hot shot. In a million years, I didn’t think it would happen.”
THE late Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Ben Cramer was writing an Alex Rodriguez bio. Due for publication April 2014, he kept missing the deadlines. Finally “The Importance of Being Alex: A Life With the Yankees” was shelved. With a healthy advance, he’d been working on the book three years.
‘THE Big Bang Theory’s” Emmy nominee Mayim Bialik, a mother, is also a neuroscientist, nutritionist, now author of “Vegan Family Kitchen.” It’s a plant-based family cookbook, 125 fuss-free recipes, even for snacking and party nibbles.
The 165-page paperback with color photos has stuff like, “Your child will eat greens if you try a fruit-sweetened green smoothie.” She says kids must “eat healthier” and her recipes “will please even the pickiest eaters.”
PRODUCER of ABC-TV’s new fall-time Wednesday 9 p.m. comedy series “Super Fun Night” with Rebel Wilson of “Bridesmaids” is Henry’s son David Kissinger . . . To jimmy up a difference between Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon, the prior late-nighters will go heavy on his last name. Ads, p.r., and talk will be about “Kimmel.”
MARVEL’s first TV series, “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.,” stars Clark Gregg, who says: “New York is sexy. Its women are sexy. I married New Yorker Jennifer Grey, and our daughter’s 11. I lived here 18 years as a journeyman screenwriter and actor but ended up getting work in LA where I have a house. I got hot at age 40. I’m grateful to be at the party and hope for lots more money than I had. May it last long so I can come back and live here in the Village.”
DONALD Rumsfeld’s around TV hawking his book “Rumsfeld’s Rules.” As Bush’s Sec’y of Defense, he complained his memos were leaked. Why? Because instead of paper the memos were written on Depends?
ASHANTI and agent Universal Attractions’ Jeff Allen were at Grey Advertising. The topic? R&B’s hip-hop Grammy winner maybe advertising Red Lobster eateries . . . Forget timepieces, computers, sundials and TV screens. The Frick is staging a clock and watches collection dating from the 13th century.
GROUP of ladies dining on the Upper East Side. Each received party favors. One to the other as they exited: “I was given an extra blood pressure kit — would you like to take one home?”
Only in New York, kids, only in New York.