Gossip Girl actress Blake Lively is so just one of the people, while Helena Christensen is categorically not. Ms. Lively went to Café Habana over the weekend and waited in line! For more than half an hour! Meanwhile, Ms. Christensen walked up to the eatery but kept on walking when she saw there was a wait. [P6]  read more »

Joan Rivers says she’s become bored of talking about celebrities’ designer duds on the red carpet. But Regis Philbin, 76, is just preparing to reinhabit the you-look-fantastic red carpet roost he ruled back in the 1970s. It turns out the morning chat-show host has just been tapped to cover the textile beat during ABC’s Academy Awards preshow on February 24.

“Regis is the perfect guy to serve as host…He knows everyone and everyone loves Regis! I’m thrilled that he has greed to be the ringmaster for this year’s extravaganza,” said Dennis Doty, a producer of the Academy Awards. This means that Mr. Philbin will have free reign of the carpet for the entire half-hour preceding the show’s start-time. This means that American Idol’s Ryan Seacrest, who offers garment gab for E! on Oscar night, will have to stand back and observe as Mr. Philbin takes to the stars. This news comes just days after the cheery TV personality let a future scheduling agreement slip on Live with Regis and Kelly. Apparently, beginning in the fall of 2008, he will co-host the caffeine-fueled chat-fest only three days a week.

Sydney Pollack and the late Philip Johnson.

Every seat was taken in the DOLBY screening room (formerly the MGM room). But a handful of invited guests snagged director's chairs that were placed along the sides of the small theater.

Mr. Pollack addressed the audience prior to the start of the 82-minute film by saying, "one thing I've never learned is how to introduce a film."  read more »

"One afternoon a few weeks ago, Jennifer Philbin, a writer for 'The O.C.,' was driving her BMW in heavy traffic on Wilshire Boulevard, in Los Angeles, when she passed the remnants of an accident. She turned to look and promptly ran into the car in front of her—a Saab wagon. She and the Saab's driver, a man in his late forties, pulled over to assess the damage. There didn't seem to be any; she had hardly been moving. Nonetheless, the man insisted on summoning a police officer. Eventually, one came over from the other accident, examined the Saab's bumper, and said, 'I don't really see anything here.' The driver of the Saab, citing possible 'structural damage,' was adamant. The policeman filled out an accident report.

"Jennifer Joy Philbin, a daughter of Joy and Regis Philbin of New York, is to be married today to Michael Herbert Schur, the son of Anne Herbert of Cambridge, Mass., and Warren M. Schur of Boston. The Rev. Mark A. Connolly is to officiate at the Roman Catholic Church of St. Ignatius Loyola in New York.

"The couple met in January 1998, when Mr. Schur, who had been hired by 'Saturday Night Live' in New York, walked into its writers' room for the first time and was introduced to Ms. Philbin, then the assistant to the writers."

"According to a well-placed ABC insider, Philbin—who's known around the network as 'King of the Freebies' despite a reported $20 million a year salary—used his star power to strong-arm several luxury outlets into pro-bono sponsorships of his daughter Jennifer's wedding this past Sunday."

"A chauffeur-driven Mercedes sedan nearly knocked me down on Madison Avenue this past Sunday around 5:30 p.m. Its occupants were calling my name, so I looked inside. There was entertainment reporter Claudia Cohen, PR maven Peggy Siegal and classy actor Michael Nouri, all dressed to the nines in black tie. The women sparkled; Claudia sported a string of beautiful pearls as big as pin balls.

'To the Philbin wedding!' they shouted, and sped off into the twilight.

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- Regis Invited Kathie Lee to Daughter's Wedding, by Roger Friedman, FOXNews.com, Oct. 12, 2005.