And Then He Opened All Of His Trump Cards
We mentioned that Donald Trump turned 50 last week, but we didn’t tell you how he turned 50. So here goes:
Attendants in white gloves offered the 400 Trump Tower guests glasses of champagne and long-stemmed strawberries, while a violin trio and a pianist played at the door. There were flowers, a chocolate cake with all of Trump’s buildings on it and a sugar figure of The Donald, dressed like Superman with a money sign on his chest.
Marla Maples Trump tried to get their 2-year-old daughter, Tiffany, to say, “Happy birthday, Daddy,” but the tyke kept saying, “Ho, ho, ho,” instead. At the climactic moment, as the theme from “Superman” began playing, the cake was wheeled on stage, Eartha Kitt warbled “Happy Birthday” and 600 gold balloons cascaded from the ceiling.
Loose talk
Dr. Jack Kevorkian, on attending the U.S. Open golf tournament: “I’m going to walk up to Jack Nicklaus and tell him, ‘If you don’t win, I’m here.”’
But for his party, it’s OK to show up in Gene’s
Roger Ebert turns 54 today.
Then he takes one of Carter’s little liver pills
He may be turning 89 in August, but jazz saxophonist Benny Carter hasn’t slowed down too much. As he tells People magazine: “I get up around 8, fool around at the piano, have a dash of cognac before or after breakfast. My doctor prescribed it about 50 years ago.”
The Deadheads were the ones drinking Ripple
San Francisco Symphony regulars were a bit taken aback Saturday to see a contingent of tie-dyed Deadheads on hand to watch surviving Grateful Dead members Mickey Hart, Bob Weir and Phil Lesh perform with the youth orchestra. Sniffed one silk-scarved woman sipping white wine: “This is where the time machine must have let them off.”
Just think of it as her 15 minutes of flame
Set that alarm clock: Preternaturally perky Katie Couric will carry the Olympic torch for a few blocks in midtown Manhattan this morning while “Today” cameras capture the action live.
It had to be one of her peak performances
Linda Hamilton had a close call off-screen last week while filming “Dante’s Peak” in Wallace. Sources said her driver almost backed a minivan off a mountain when a car came the other way on the narrow road; Hamilton and her companions crawled to safety as the back end hung over a chasm.
Pinch a princess? Why, he wouldn’t derriere
Society columnist Ann Gerber has come to the defense of Michael Wilkie, the millionaire tool manufacturer who cut in and asked Still-the-Princess Diana to waltz at a recent Chicago gala. Wrote Gerber: “In Chicago, a single guy should be able to dance with a princess. He wasn’t trying to pinch her bottom.”
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