Ana Ortiz Just Can’t Win in CharadesDespite lengthy and public training, at last night’s LABrynth Celebrity Charades event, the ‘Ugly Betty’ star kinda tanked.
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Video: The Premiere of HBO’s ‘Recount’We sent our cameras to the premiere of ‘Recount’ to see how badly the Hollywood types were damaged by reliving Al Gore’s loss in 2000.
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Hilary Swank Put Her Boob on Someone’s HeadKelly Ripa said she’s going to check out occasional Live With Regis and Kelly co-host Damien Fahey’s band tonight at the Cutting Room. Hilary Swank accidentally put her boob on P.S. I Love You co-star Bob Balaban’s head when she hugged him as he was having lunch. Robin
Quivers’s boyfriend, comic Jim Florentine, joked at Caroline’s that he’s not sure why she’s dating him because he’s “a loser.” The Olsen twins, Bob Saget, and John Stamos had a Full House reunion at the Bowery Hotel bar on Wednesday. Michael Jordan, ex-Knick Charles Oakley, and Ahmad Rashad hung out at Buddakan and then Socialista. Black Crowe Chris Robinson got six figures to play a half-hour set for a Wall Street firm at Arena.
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At the Met Opening Night: Celebrities Gone Wild“I’m frankly not too big on opera,” Jane Fonda confided at the opening of the Metropolitan Opera’s season last night. “I don’t like the inevitable tragic-ness of it.” Indeed, Lucia di Lammermoor was a major downer, although an entertaining one: Natalie Dessay, in the title role, brought down the house with a hair-raising mad scene. Has Jane ever lost it like that? “In a scene in a movie, but never in life,” she said. “My mother did that for me. I didn’t have to go there again.” Uh, okay, dead mother, we’re super-uncomfortable now. Oh, hey, it’s Barbara Walters!
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Roddick Calls Federer a ‘Robot’Nicole Kidman may be playing Vanity Fair–style arbiter Amy Fine Collins in the film adaptation of her memoir. Rupert Murdoch may be trying to lure CNBC “Money Honey” Maria Bartiromo to his new Fox Business Channel, though the Post isn’t making matters easy by writing negative items about her. The Suffolk County D.A. has seized over 45,000 pages of legal papers in its investigation of the Fire Island double voting scandal. Mischa Barton may or may not have had a wardrobe malfunction at a Save the Children event at Lincoln Center. Andy Roddick referred to Roger Federer as a “robot.” Authors of a book about Doris Duke are claiming that Bob Balaban, director of an upcoming movie about the tobacco heiress, may have committed copyright infringement. Rudy Giuliani played golf — though presumably not well — sans Secret Service at the Noyac Golf Club in Sag Harbor.
