Alex Rodriguez

Christopher Buckley will continue to work through his daddy issues with a new book about the death of his parents, William F. and Pat Buckley, which he predicts will "land hard in some quarters." [P6]

Cameron Diaz made a big deal of avoiding ex Justin Timberlake's current girlfriend Jessica Biel backstage at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles, but Ms. Biel was apparently too busy showing off her hot dad to notice. [Full Disclosure, second item]

It's probably not a coincidence that Madonna and Alex Rodriguez are both in Mexico City right now. [NYDN]

Samantha Ronson's half-sister, 20-year-old Annabelle Dexter-Jones, has been asking Lindsay Lohan for advice on picking an agent. [Page Six Magazine]

Orlando Bloom and model Miranda Kerr are not engaged, in case you heard they were. [Us Weekly]

Metallica drummer (and art collector) Lars Ulrich doesn't do drugs anymore, but he still likes "bonding" with friends in bathroom stalls. [P6]

 

According to soon-to-be ex-wife Cynthia, a "soul-less" Alex Rodriguez will be spending Thanksgiving with Madonna instead of in Miami with his children. [Page Six]

Amy Winehouse is back in the hospital after a bad reaction to medication. [Us Weekly]

Ann Coulter broke her jaw and had to have it wired shut. Really. [Page Six] 

Boy George is standing trial for false imprisonment after a male escort accused him of handcuffing him to a wall and beating him with a metal chain. [People]  read more »

Samantha Ronson has once again taken to her Myspace blog to make her opinions known. Now she's lashing out at the anti-fur activist who threw flour on girlfriend Lindsay Lohan: "The girl who threw [the flour] acted like an animal herself... I take that back, it's an insult to animals to group her in with them, my dog is FAR more civilized than that person." [People] 

Kate Hudson spent Friday night in Miami flirting with Madonna property Alex Rodriguez. A source says the actress's arms were "completely wrapped around A-Rod’s waist and every time he leaned over to talk to anyone she would pull him back toward her." [Full Disclosure]

Real World: Brooklyn has mostly been filming at East Village nightspots because "nobody in Brooklyn wants the losers on the show to be in their bar." And people in Manhattan do? [Page Six Magazine, fifth item]  read more »

Madonna has been drawing complaints from her neighbors at Central Park West's Harperley Hall with her practicing at "all hours of the night." [Full Disclosure]

Meanwhile, sources claim that Alex Rodriguez has been telling ex- wife Cynthia that his affair with Madonna "is just a phase he is going through, and asking her to hang on and wait for him." [Page Six Magazine]

However, Mr. Rodriguez is supposedly planning on accompanying Madonna on her South American tour. [R&M]

Lindsay Lohan continues to eschew labels. When asked by a magazine if she considered herself a bisexual, Ms. Lohan answered, "Maybe. Yeah," and "No" to whether she was a lesbian. [P6]  read more »

Madonna and Alex Rodriguez took seperate helicopters to Jerry and Jessica Seinfeld's house in East Hampton. The two couples stayed for four hours before all returning in the same helicopter. [P6]

Ivana Trump has been spending time with 23-year-old Belgian model Marius Rusovici while her new husband, Rossano Rubicondi, films a reality show in Italy. [P6]

In an effort to save money, Tracy Morgan says he has given up strip clubs. His plan to make up for the loss involves telling his next wife "to get on the bed and put big [underwear] on and throw $400 at her -- then take the money back and go food shopping." [R&M]  read more »

Thanks, Guitar Hero, for arranging this riff-raff supergroup starring Kobe Bryant, Michael Phelps and Tony Hawk to channel Tom Cruise in Risky Business and shill plastic instruments in their underwear. We now know the truth! Alex Rodriguez is a boxer-briefs man! Pink seems to be his color too. You go boys!

Lindsay Lohan's guest appearance on Ugly Betty was cut from six episodes to four because of trouble on the set. Issues included ego clashes with star America Ferrera, the size of Ms. Lohan's entourage, and a de-pantsing incident. People on set were also bothered by Ms. Lohan's tendency to "obsessively cut pictures of herself out of the tabloids like she was creating some sort of scrapbook." [P6]

Among the things Sarah Palin doesn't know: who Oliver Stone is. [R&M, second item]

Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes have been buying up a bunch of separate apartments in a building in the East Village, where Tom is friendly to the neighbors and Katie "keeps her head down." [P6]  read more »

Scandal-causing CBS correspondent Lara Logan might be in even more trouble; she allegedly (and illegally!) brought home a couple of pre-invasion portraits of Saddam Hussein from Iraq and displayed them in her office. [P6]  

Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, and their half-dozen children caused a traffic jam outside their hotel in Midtown Manhattan. Said someone on the scene: "Angelina undoubtedly has more foreign-policy knowledge than Sarah Palin...No wonder people don't know where to direct their attention."  [The Scoop]

Madonna and Alex Rodriguez, who caused a stir by denying their relationship this summer, had a "secret dinner" at Dos Caminos. [P6]  read more »

Recently separated Yankee Alex Rodriguez, who was recently linked with Madonna, has been playing the field. He's been spotted out with different women in Miami and Manhattan. [P6]

At New Jersey's Parker House bar, Ashley Dupre qualifies as enough of a celebrity to skip the line, though she apparently will never shake the hooker jokes. (First Item) [NYDN]

The Gossip Girl kids were a mess at a party held in their honor at the EMM Group’s estate in the Hamptons this weekend—cast members picked their teeth, inadvertently flashed the cameras, and spilled vitamin water. (Second Item) [NYDN]

Danity Kane's Aubrey O’Day, currently starring in Hairspray, defended herself to Wendy Williams, telling the talk-show host that she has not had plastic surgery.  read more »

Model Christie Brinkley and ex-husband Peter Cook--who are involved in a vicious custody dispute--managed to bring their children to a Jonas Brothers concert (read Daily Transom's report!) at their school in East Hampton without incident. [NYDN]
 
Great Britian's Princess Michael of Kent is angry with New York Social Diary blogger David Patrick Columbia over his report that her husband, Prince Michael, was seen out with another woman. [P6]
 

New York Yankee Alex Rodriguez will reportedly donate at least $500,000 to Madonna's charity, Raising Malawi. [TMZ]
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Three years ago, during a happier time in Alex Rodriguez's marriage, the heavy-hitting Yankee third baseman bought a four-bedroom apartment (not counting the maid's room) at Trump Park Avenue, that beautiful 79-year-old building at 59th Street and, well, Park Avenue.

But times have changed for Mr. Rodriguez, whose wife, Cynthia, accused him of "marital misconduct" in divorce papers filed this July.

So perhaps it's not a surprise that his Trump Park apartment, which, according to an old listing, has his-and-hers whirlpool baths in the master-bedroom suite, is going to be sold off. A source tells The Real Estate the condo is quietly taking offers at the $13 million mark, although the listing hasn't officially hit yet.  read more »

Vacationing in Miami, Samantha Ronson and Lindsay Lohan "aren't hiding their affection at all." [People]

Long Island girl Nikki Blonsky, of Hairspray fame, could go to court over an altercation with America's Next Top Model's Bianca Golden. The two 19-year-olds got into a physical fight over a row of saved seats in the Turks & Caicos airport last week. [NY Daily News]

In the Hamptons, Gossip Girl mom Kelly Rutherford was overheard telling a companion that her son Hermes Gustaf Daniel Giersch was named after the designer label. [P6]

Morgan Freeman will undergo surgery for injuries sustained during a weekend car wreck. [  read more »

Courtenay Semel (daughter of former Yahoo CEO Terry Semel) and heiress Casey Johnson are no longer an item after Ms. Semel spent an  evening partying with Tila Tequila, Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson. [P6]

Michelle Williams is reportedly officially dating her close friend director Spike Jonze, who was previously married to Sofia Coppola. [Daily Mail]  

Vogue intern and New York Ranger Sean Avery, 28, is dating 51-year-old Kelly Klein, ex-wife of Calvin. [P6]   read more »

Wow, is it ever slow out there. It's almost like nothing is happening at all. Except for this: 

Gossip Girl's Chase Crawford likes to give his fans hugs. [Daily Intel]

In other GG news, Blake Lively says there's no real kissing on the show: "it's just an open mouth. Your lips are touching each other, but there's definitely no kissing." [P6]

A wild animal tore Gisele Bündchen's denim outfit into shreds, but she decided to wear it anyway on the cover of V magazine. [The Cut]

Alex Rodriguez talks to The Insider's Pat O'Brian about his personal life, says "everyone has distractions," and he is no exception.  read more »

Madonna is reportedly so pleased with the press that her alleged affair with Alex Rodriguez has gotten for her Sticky and Sweet tour that she plans on attending A-Rod's game at Yankee stadium tonight to keep it going. [P6]

Jimmy Kimmel and Sarah Silverman's reps confirm their break-up. [Vanity Fair]

Friend to Christie Brinkley and Today show contributor, Jill Rappaport is reportedly handling all press for the recently settled divorcée, granting the first televised interview to the Today show. Ms. Rappaport is also apparently telling other outlets, that if they want any information, they have to introduce her as "Today show correspondent and renowned entertainment journalist.  read more »

At last the Jolie-Pitt twins, Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline, entered the world on Saturday night via a Ceserian section at the Lenval hospital in the South of France. Giving a press conference shortly after the birth, Dr. Michel Sussman told reporters:
"It was an epidural, so [Angelina] was awake and speaking and laughing. They were happy. [Brad] was my assistant! He was perfectly calm, totally determined, very pleased to be at the birth of his children, very moved and very emotional." [Us Weekly]

An official photo of the precious twins is estimated to fetch between $15 and $20 million. [NY Daily News]

Meanwhile, Brad Pitt is reportedly going right back to work, meeting with Quentin Tarantino in France today about starring in Inglorious Bastards, a World War II movie inspired by spaghetti westerns. [P6]  read more »

Cindy Adams got an interview with Mrs. Alex Rodriguez. How long was the interview? There's one quote. Here it is:

"I did not spend one dollar shopping in Paris. I did not go to super-fancy expensive restaurants. I did not go to any spa. I didn't do one thing. I spent the most innocent four days with my children's godparents, who are as close to us as family."

"I needed to get away. With clear-headed friends. To breathe. To think how I'm going to handle my kids. I just needed a little time. My husband knew I was going. He encouraged it.  read more »

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How'd Lenny Kravitz get pulled into a tabloid love quadrangle with Lenny Kravitz, Mr. and Mrs. Rod and Madonna? According to Page Six, it was the revenge of his manager Guy Oseary, whom he fired two weeks ago. [P6]

Lizzie Grubman will now manage her clients in addition to publicizing them. [P6] 

Ashley Dupré is reportedly in talks with the Los Angeles production company Handprint Entertainment and MTV to do a dating-based reality series in which she may be  "the next  Tila Tequila," says an unnamed source. [E! Online]  read more »

Stoical Exes: Sarah Larson isn't mad about being dumped by George Clooney; she's thankful for the career opportunities she's gotten out of dating him! [

Amidst divorce rumors, Madonna may be having an affair with Yankee, Alex Rodriguez. [Us Weekly]

In a freak year at The Dalton School, not a single student got into Harvard and many are finding themselves attending non-Ivies like Syracuse, Vanderbilt, and Tulane. [Page Six Magazine via Daily Intel]

Gossip Girl's Blake Lively politely asks you not to compare her to Paris Hilton since she doesn't go to clubs, dance on tables, or like sex tapes, she says. [P6]

Christie Brinkley and Peter Cook's divorce hearings begin in open court tomorrow. The New York Daily News has a detailed round-up of their divorce proceedings thus far. [NY Daily News]  read more »

Alex Rodriguez and the New York Yankees have agreed to the framework of a 10-year, $275 million contract, bringing a happy resolution to a process that the Yankees announced had ended on October 28, when Rodriguez opted out of the final three years of his contract.

According to the New York Times, the Yankees are willing to offer incentives to push the contract beyond the $300 million mark if Rodriguez passes current all-time home run leader Barry Bonds.  read more »

Since the Mets are talking with Alex Rodriguez, it's worth considering how the team would make room for the All-Star third baseman.  read more »

The Yankees ultimatum not to negotiate with Rodriguez if he opted out of his contract has backfired.  read more »

As has been argued in this space, the Mets can put themselves in a position to win next season with a few meaningful, if not flashy, moves this winter. Signing middle reliever David Riske would solidify the bullpen, for example, but is unlikely to earn headlines from the Daily News or the Post (provided they can resist the endless possibilities his name provides).

But this isn’t to say there aren’t some potential blockbusters out there that would improve the Mets significantly for 2008.  read more »

It’s hard to justify the schedule worries at this point: only a complete collapse will prevent New York’s entry into the American League playoffs.  read more »

Why Does Vicious Media Persecute Poor Alex Rodriguez? It Couldn’t Be His Salary or His Blonde—Look at the Mick!— Says the Great Buster Olney: ‘Wow! The Line Had Been Moved’.  read more »

TAMPA—Brian Cashman, the pale, wonky general manager of the New York Yankees, was perched on a  read more »

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It seems the Yankees' efforts to buy a winning team are not restricted only to the playing field. According to today's Metro City Council Land Use Committee Chair Melinda Katz and Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrion also received checks from the men in pinstriped suits. Granted, nothing close to the roughly $26 million a year given to Alex Rodriguez, but the campaign contributions were arguably more effective as the Yankees seem well on their way to building a new stadium. —Jason Horowitz

Who's winning the battle of the front pages?

"Dirty Harry" would be clever if the Post had bothered to include a subhead mentioning the movie is PG-13; "CARD TRICK" feels like a desperate attempt to keep up with the non-developments in the FAKE BRAVEST 'SEX FIEND' story.  read more »

But the Post could have run dummy text and a photo of Cindy Adams' dog's bunghole and it still couldn't have been worse than the feeble, embarrassing spectacle of the Daily News trying glom onto Alex Rodriguez's MVP win as an opportunity to promote a rehash of a scoop nobody was interested in the first time around.

Winner: New York Post Overall standings: Daily News 10, New York Post 8

Low expectations can be a blessing.  read more »

It's heresy to say it, but with the addition of Alex Rodriguez to the Yankees' star-studded lineup,  read more »