Hot-Rock Rod Still Loves To Cruise For Some Brews

Say what you want about Rod Stewart, the man will go to his grave a true rocker. With the rest of his mates cleaning up their act, Stewart continues to swill the booze.

“So many people don’t do anything now,” the 50-year-old singer told the British trade paper New Musical Express. “They’ve all dried out, it’s all carrot juice. I can’t have that.”

Why? Because he needs help to get through a show, and he says alcohol provides that.

“I started to cut down 10 years ago - getting off the port and brandies because I had a vocal coach who said, ‘You’re just ruining your voice,”’ Stewart said.

“I’ve found a drink now - rum and coke,” he said. “If I have a rum and coke before I go on and a couple halfway through the show, it doesn’t have any effect at all.”

Loose talk

Actor and potential politician Alec Baldwin, describing Sen. Alphonse D’Amato (R-N.Y.) in Esquire magazine: “(He’s a) bozo pool attendant from Island Park.”

What’s that growing on your back there, Ron, moss?

Ron Wood turns 48 today.

Straight from the heart? More like straight to the wallet

Ivana Trump, ex-wife of New York deal-maker Donald Trump, will unveil her advice column “Ask Ivana” in the June 13 edition of the supermarket tabloid The Globe. The column promises “straight-from-the-heart answers” to questions about love, money, marriage, children, fashion or fitness.

And her talent? Humming while she swallows a bug

Responding to the criticism levied at her by sign-language proponents, Miss America Heather Whitestone - who refrained from signing during the 1994 pageant - says that, “Every Miss America should go through survival training, like in the military.”

This thrifty royal unveils her Contract with Britain

Here’s our nominee for notable quote of the day. It comes from Britain’s Duchess of York, who recently had a charge card refused for nonpayment of bills. “I have learned, among other things, the value of money,” she says.

And was that the T-shirt that she lifted for Letterman?

It’s tough being young, rich, famous and arguably attractive. Just ask Drew Barrymore. “I’m an adult, and I’m a child,” the 20-year-old actress told Rolling Stone magazine. “They go in and out. I get to be a kid now because I wasn’t a kid when I was supposed to be one. But in some ways, I’m an old woman - lived it, seen it, done it, been there, have the T-shirt.”

Yeah, and she’s made the movie to prove it

At a recent benefit auction in Cannes, HBO president Michael Fuchs offered to buy a ring donated by supermodel Naomi Campbell on one condition: “If you throw in your underpants, Sharon.” “Anybody who knows anything knows I don’t wear underpants,” retorted Sharon Stone.

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