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It Can Always Get Worse: Ivana Could Be Involved

Compiled By Staff Writer Dan Web

With the fall of communism, and the rise of capitalist-inspired gangs, it seemed that - save for the return of communism or the advent of World War III things couldn’t get much worse for Moscow.

But that was before Donald Trump got interested in the Russian capital.

The New York-based deal-maker announced recently that he’s interested in building another of his trademark towers there.

“We’re looking at building a super-luxury residential tower, which I think Moscow desperately wants and needs,” Trump told the Moscow Times.

Moscow, he said, “is really a city with a great future, great potential.”

Loose talk

Iggy Pop on his drug-haze past (in Newsweek magazine): “The only thing I ever thought might kill me off was clean living. I thought, ‘How am I going to listen to that horrible noise I make without a gram of coke and a couple of double Jack Daniels?”’

And all his sailors send their regards

Sinbad turns 40 today.

Only so much candy can be squeezed through a peephole

Halloween wasn’t much fun for actor Johnny Galecki. “I always loved playing dress-up, but it’s difficult to trick-or-treat in L.A.,” Galecki told People magazine. “Where I live is like Fort Knox - there’s no way anybody can get in the place.”

So, what, he tried punching out the medical staff?

When Frank Sinatra was hospitalized recently for a pinched nerve, he wasn’t a model patient. Variety columnist Army Archerd quoted daughter Tina Sinatra as saying, “He’s cranky and he wants to go home.”

Afterward, he won’t have a leg to - ba-dah-boop - stan on

Prince Charles, on a tour of nine former Soviet Union republics, paid tribute in Sevastapol, Ukraine, to British soldiers who died in the Crimean Wars of the 1850s. Next, Prince Chuck will head out for Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.

Well, at least it brought some color to his cheeks

When cowboy actor Roy Rogers heard that his daughter’s gun collection had been stolen, he got a bit down. When the collection was recovered. “He was just tickled pink,” a San Bernardino County Sheriff’s spokeswoman said of of the 84-year-old star.

He now drinks Lipton tea in search of the missing Linc

“Mod Squad” star Michael Cole, 51, says drinking hurt his career after the show went off the air in 1973. “And then God said, ‘Michael, I did not give you this for you to play around with.’ So I got some help and here we are.”

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