roulette table: Gayle King wants Star role,
Gayle King is definitely angling for a spot on "The View" despite her claims to the contrary, our spies swear.
"Gayle really wants the job in a big way," says one source. "It's her absolute dream situation. She thinks it's perfect, because there are others to share the spotlight with and she wouldn't have to deal as much with the 'Oprah's Best Friend' label that follows her everywhere. She just wants to be 'Gayle King, television personality.'"
King is already at ABC as a correspondent on Oprah Winfrey's show, she's girlie-stylish, has years of experience and a reputation for good ethics. So what's the trouble?
"The problem for her," a cognoscento confides, "is that she's friends with [current 'View' co-host] Star [Jones].
"She can't publicly lobby for the job in any way. Star would certainly get upset about her friend trying to get a job she's not technically done with yet."
Still, an insider adds, "You can bet Gayle has every back-channel entity she can get working to lock up the position for her. The last thing she'd want is to make it look like she lobbied for the job and that Oprah's influence had anything to do with her getting it."
A spokesman for "The View" would only say, "We are not auditioning right now."
Surveillance...
The "Entourage" crew wasn't getting any high-roller freebies the other night at Las Vegas' Bellagio. Jeremy Piven, Adrian Grenier, Kevin Dillon, Jerry Ferrara, Kevin Connolly and Seth Green looked startled when a bill for $1,650 arrived at their table at Fix. Hoping to come up with some fast bucks, the crew hit the roulette table. "They bet on black, but the wheel hit green," says a spy. They still managed to pool enough cash to pay up...
Top NFL draft choice Mario (40 Million) Williams and pals popping Perrier Jouet corks at Home on W. 27th over his pick by the Houston Texans, as Trudie Styler and gal pals sipped appropriately pink Moet Rosé nearby ...
David Schwimmer, celebrating his new life on Broadway in "The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial" at Bond 45, the oak-and-mosaic former men's clothier (and '80s disco) on W. 45th that has its own new life as a restaurant...
"Jersey Boys" cast members, having such a good time at the Drama Desk nominations party at Arte Cafe on Columbus Ave. that they missed their 7 p.m. curtain. It's okay: the audience gave them big love with a standing ovation anyway.
Side Dish
Julia Roberts' odds of getting a Best Actress Tony nod for "Three Days of Rain" just went up: The Antoinette Perry Awards committee just decided that the great stage actress Cherry Jones, if nominated, will be in the Supporting Actress category for "Faith Healer"...
Josh Lucas gave Entertainment Weekly a bit too much info on shooting "Poseidon": "Anytime you put a lot of grips and special-effects people in water, there's going to be urine ... And you got comfortable to the point where you were drinking it"...
Charlie Rose is back in New York and looking great after undergoing emergency heart surgery in Europe. He hopes to be back on the air next month...
ABC News star Cynthia McFadden arrived at the Waldorf to host the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America benefit - and realized she'd left her speech in a cab. A frantic call to the Taxi and Limousine Commission summoned her driver in time for McFadden to salute Martha Stewart, Vera Wang and Madeline Boyd...
Fertility specialist Dr. Niels Lauersen, who helped Celine Dion and Liv Ullmann have babies, is optimistic after doing a hard 5 years for insurance irregularities: "It's a new beginning. And, I can now press 250 pounds"...
Just in time for sweeps, Dennis Rivera's 250,000 members of Local 1199 members will tune in to "60 Minutes" to hear the union's international prez Andy Stern talk honestly about labor's current power...
Seven-year-old Memorial Sloan Kettering cancer patient Dylan Hartung has had visits from Nicole Kidman and Angelina Jolie, but he misses Grandma, who lives in Australia. Thanks to the Select Comfort company, which supplies beds to Ronald McDonald House, where Dylan's family stays during his treatments, Dylan's grandmother flew in last night and will be at his surprise birthday party today at the House.
13th Precinct bounty: Hunter
At least one New York cop wanted to put his cuffs on Rachel Hunter Wednesday night.
The cantilevered Kiwi and her divorce lawyer Mike Heller were headed to Bungalow 8 when Heller, who recently won Hunter a whopping settlement from Rod Stewart, got a call. It was from a client who'd been rounded up in a major raid on a poker hall.
Just back from Washington on a serious criminal case, Heller politely offered Hunter the option of continuing on to Bungalow 8 alone, but the supermodel wanted to go with him to the 13th Precinct on E. 21st.
The 5-foot-11 pinup poured it on for the police, purring that she finds men in uniform sexy, saying she wants to be a bounty hunter and signing autographs. One officer offered the actress his number; another, his cuffs. Thankfully, nobody was robbing anyone near Gramercy Park at the time. Then it was on to Bungalow, where Heller and his sexy sidekick hooked up with owner Amy Sacco and Victoria's Secret models Ana Beatriz Barros and Alessandra Ambrosia.
With Jo Piazza and Chris Rovzar
Originally published on May 12, 2006
"Gayle really wants the job in a big way," says one source. "It's her absolute dream situation. She thinks it's perfect, because there are others to share the spotlight with and she wouldn't have to deal as much with the 'Oprah's Best Friend' label that follows her everywhere. She just wants to be 'Gayle King, television personality.'"
King is already at ABC as a correspondent on Oprah Winfrey's show, she's girlie-stylish, has years of experience and a reputation for good ethics. So what's the trouble?
"The problem for her," a cognoscento confides, "is that she's friends with [current 'View' co-host] Star [Jones].
"She can't publicly lobby for the job in any way. Star would certainly get upset about her friend trying to get a job she's not technically done with yet."
Still, an insider adds, "You can bet Gayle has every back-channel entity she can get working to lock up the position for her. The last thing she'd want is to make it look like she lobbied for the job and that Oprah's influence had anything to do with her getting it."
A spokesman for "The View" would only say, "We are not auditioning right now."
Surveillance...
The "Entourage" crew wasn't getting any high-roller freebies the other night at Las Vegas' Bellagio. Jeremy Piven, Adrian Grenier, Kevin Dillon, Jerry Ferrara, Kevin Connolly and Seth Green looked startled when a bill for $1,650 arrived at their table at Fix. Hoping to come up with some fast bucks, the crew hit the roulette table. "They bet on black, but the wheel hit green," says a spy. They still managed to pool enough cash to pay up...
Top NFL draft choice Mario (40 Million) Williams and pals popping Perrier Jouet corks at Home on W. 27th over his pick by the Houston Texans, as Trudie Styler and gal pals sipped appropriately pink Moet Rosé nearby ...
David Schwimmer, celebrating his new life on Broadway in "The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial" at Bond 45, the oak-and-mosaic former men's clothier (and '80s disco) on W. 45th that has its own new life as a restaurant...
"Jersey Boys" cast members, having such a good time at the Drama Desk nominations party at Arte Cafe on Columbus Ave. that they missed their 7 p.m. curtain. It's okay: the audience gave them big love with a standing ovation anyway.
Side Dish
Julia Roberts' odds of getting a Best Actress Tony nod for "Three Days of Rain" just went up: The Antoinette Perry Awards committee just decided that the great stage actress Cherry Jones, if nominated, will be in the Supporting Actress category for "Faith Healer"...
Josh Lucas gave Entertainment Weekly a bit too much info on shooting "Poseidon": "Anytime you put a lot of grips and special-effects people in water, there's going to be urine ... And you got comfortable to the point where you were drinking it"...
Charlie Rose is back in New York and looking great after undergoing emergency heart surgery in Europe. He hopes to be back on the air next month...
ABC News star Cynthia McFadden arrived at the Waldorf to host the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America benefit - and realized she'd left her speech in a cab. A frantic call to the Taxi and Limousine Commission summoned her driver in time for McFadden to salute Martha Stewart, Vera Wang and Madeline Boyd...
Fertility specialist Dr. Niels Lauersen, who helped Celine Dion and Liv Ullmann have babies, is optimistic after doing a hard 5 years for insurance irregularities: "It's a new beginning. And, I can now press 250 pounds"...
Just in time for sweeps, Dennis Rivera's 250,000 members of Local 1199 members will tune in to "60 Minutes" to hear the union's international prez Andy Stern talk honestly about labor's current power...
Seven-year-old Memorial Sloan Kettering cancer patient Dylan Hartung has had visits from Nicole Kidman and Angelina Jolie, but he misses Grandma, who lives in Australia. Thanks to the Select Comfort company, which supplies beds to Ronald McDonald House, where Dylan's family stays during his treatments, Dylan's grandmother flew in last night and will be at his surprise birthday party today at the House.
13th Precinct bounty: Hunter
At least one New York cop wanted to put his cuffs on Rachel Hunter Wednesday night.
The cantilevered Kiwi and her divorce lawyer Mike Heller were headed to Bungalow 8 when Heller, who recently won Hunter a whopping settlement from Rod Stewart, got a call. It was from a client who'd been rounded up in a major raid on a poker hall.
Just back from Washington on a serious criminal case, Heller politely offered Hunter the option of continuing on to Bungalow 8 alone, but the supermodel wanted to go with him to the 13th Precinct on E. 21st.
The 5-foot-11 pinup poured it on for the police, purring that she finds men in uniform sexy, saying she wants to be a bounty hunter and signing autographs. One officer offered the actress his number; another, his cuffs. Thankfully, nobody was robbing anyone near Gramercy Park at the time. Then it was on to Bungalow, where Heller and his sexy sidekick hooked up with owner Amy Sacco and Victoria's Secret models Ana Beatriz Barros and Alessandra Ambrosia.
With Jo Piazza and Chris Rovzar
Originally published on May 12, 2006
