Hell hath no fury like an ex- police commissioner scorned.
Yesterday former top cop, former almost Homeland Commissioner, former prisoner, current litigant Bernie Kerik lobbed still more lawsuits against his one-time lawyer.
Kerik’s newly added material has long been in the offing. I first knew its contents last year. After release from jail, after swearing I wouldn’t mention it until he considered time was right to spring it, Kerik revealed a private recording.
It was a 40-minute phone conversation he’d kept under lock and key. He’d already been convicted. Joe Tacopina had placed that call to Bernie’s home. As the lawyer spoke, Kerik, sensing he needed to document what was being said, reached for the recorder.
In this chat, despite allegations that Tacopina had been cozy with the government, he tells Bernie: “I love you, brother. I’ve got your back.”
Kompletely done
Please, shove Kim, Kanye, Khloé, Kourtney, Kendall, Kylie, Kris, K-K-K-krappy Kardashian. In days of yore the Couple was Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford. A few divorces later came Elizabeth Taylor Hilton Wilding Todd Fisher Burton Burton Warner Fortensky and to whom it may concern.
After Kanye kicks YouKnowWho in her Vuitton-sized ass, this non-talent bride will get rice marks on her face.
Day in a NYCB dancer’s life
Wendy Whelan, 47, stick thin, New York City Ballet principal dancer on what it takes to be a ballerina:
“Principal dancer means only leading roles. Always with the light on you. A large focus of the ballet. An orthopedic team — X-rays, specialists, therapy — is around all the time supporting you. I began at age 3. Young’uns bodies are soft. Bones are malleable. Muscles get going. It’s muscle imagination. Learn to stand well. Abdomen, back legs in alignment or your body will shift.
“Preparation’s needed. Easy to slip away. Forget one day, and you’re not sharp. Energy produces energy. Daily regimen is a two-hour class beginning 10:30. Show days it’s rehearsal to 6 p.m. with one hour break. Then the show until 10:30 p.m. Since it’s hard to come down afterward, we eat as much as we can. Not just junk, protein to replenish the physical and mental stress.
“We try making it look easy. Using your back leg to soar into the air is extra unnatural. If it looks easy, then we’ve done our job.
“But things happen. In front of four girls, a quick dance, I was burnt out and didn’t know where I was. It was to be a counterpoint, the curtain was rising and I forgot the first step. Like on a Broadway stage you’d whisper to your fellow actor, ‘What’s the next line?’
“I’ve also fallen with a big kaboom! My partner helped me up. The audience went wild loving me. Then you must show how you recover. Never let it beat you.”
Place your bets
A pack of legislators are in hot water for allegedly dealing inappropriately with campaign contributions.
Meanwhile, casinos have spent $60 mil on New York lobbying and political contributions.
Wannabes — 22 applicants — put up $1 mil each to offset vetting costs. Caesars, which operates 53 casinos worldwide, Grossinger’s, Nevele, Malaysia’s Genting Group, which runs Aqueduct slots, etc.
Bids are due June 30. Four will be greenlighted. Now we wait to see who hits the jackpot.
Chris Carey, Harmonie Club dining room manager: “Day One after leaving office my dad, Hugh Carey, said: ‘I took off my jacket, and they let it fall on the floor. I knew I was no longer governor.’ ”
Only in New York, kids, only in New York.