Mia Tyler. Daughter of Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler. Model, designer, artist, actress, photographer, writer, age 35.
“I was born into the right world at the right time. I’m a hard worker who does lots of different things. I appreciate being in every cookie jar.
“I didn’t like Catholic school or the nuns who said my art is too dark. A mess of kids of famous people go left. Into drugs. Or, born with the door open, you can go right. It’s how you walk through that door. I appreciate my family and try to give back. I live my life in metaphors.”
Not sure what that meant, I asked about her lifestyle.
“I live in New York. I’m not social. No party scene. I hate idle bulls - - t talk. Evenings it’s home watching TV. Or traveling. Visiting strange locations when my father plays places like, maybe, Alabama. And I collect odd objects — railroad spikes, iron nails. I love ancient buildings in small towns. Antique shops. Weird phones. My home has old barn pulleys — wooden structures to pull up ropes.”
Not sure what that meant, I asked about her artistry.
“I do my own thing. Make stuff I like. Nobody does what I do. I print pictures on metal and frames. One birthday Dad gave me a camera, but I’m not basically a photographer. I’m an artist. I print on wood and metal. I don’t spend on shoes or jewelry. I spend on my art. Every penny’s for the next exhibit. You’re only as good as what you make.”
And the Important Question: What’s she think of her father’s coif?
“He’s always had wild hair. He just grew a moustache. He’s like a child. He doesn’t care what people think.”
Until June 21, adorable Mia’s exhibiting at ArtNowNY on West 28th. But instead of rusty nails, maybe she could stick some of that money into shoes and jewelry.
Gender-bending Tonys
Tonys: Lena Hall won Best Featured Actress in a Musical. In “Hedwig and the Angry Inch,” Neil Patrick Harris plays a woman. And beautiful Miss Lena Hall plays a man. She says: “I’m the luckiest girl in the world because I wanted the part very badly. My parents were thrilled.” Why? “Because they really always wanted a son.”
She keep the gown she wore on the Tonys? “No. My tiny apartment allows no room in the closet for anything. Not even a man’s suit.”
Nikki M. James: “I performed on the telecast. Then watched with friends. Then stayed up all night. Then slept till noon.”
Two awards ago “Book of Mormon’s” Andrew Rannells, Best Leading Actor in a Musical nominee, lost to Norbert Leo Butz. He now says: “Maybe because he had a much classier name?”
Find shades for your eyes here
L.A. LANDON’s lookalikesunglasses.com, due to be plugged on Joan Hamburg’s radio show, weren’t because that show’s gone. Since his sunglasses aren’t, he asked me to please mention them. So I’m mentioning them . . . When the “Jersey Boys” movie wrapped, the cast danced to the Four Seasons’ hit “Oh, What a Night.” Playing Norm Waxman, a shylock who hustles for vig, Donnie Kehr’s partner was Chris Walken . . . Jennifer Tilly: “I’m quoted saying I wanted to play a chunky stripper. No! Get it right. That’s junkie stripper.”
These are the jokes, folks
JOKE sent to me. The Apostles take two gossip columnists onto the Sea of Galilee. A wind blows up. The boat can’t make shore. Miraculously, Jesus walks across and gets onboard. Frightened, the Apostles are amazed. One gossip columnist says to the other: “And I’d heard rumors He can’t swim.”
A long Islander: “Our citizens are becoming so elderly that developers are planning a new hotel called Seizures Palace.”
Only in New York, kids, only in New York.