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Paul McCartney's New Ambition

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:05:14 -0400

Forty-five years ago, Beatlemania was semiofficially diagnosed when the Beatles performed to an audience of millions on The Ed Sullivan Show.

A year later, they performed the very first concert ever held at Shea Stadium.

This week, Paul McCartney is back to christen that arena’s replacement, Citi Field. And while in town, he’ll be heading to the Ed Sullivan Theater July 14 to play for that theater’s new inhabitant, David Letterman.

The...

Ohmmm! Even Lazy Moby Turns Out For Star-Studded Transcendental Meditation Benefit

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 08:00:00 -0400

David Lynch likes to swim in “an ocean of consciousness,” which he was describing to a sold-out crowd at Radio City Music Hall on the evening of Saturday, April 4.

“It is an ocean of infinite intelligence. Creativity. Happiness known as bliss. Infinite universal love. Energy. Dynamic peace,” mused the 63-year-old filmmaker, dressed in a black suit and a yellow tie that was brighter than his signature silver pompadour, at the beginning of a star-studded...

Vegging Out: Sir Paul and Stella McCartney Espouse Meatless, Hybrid Lifestyle at Eco-A-List Bash

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:57:55 -0400

“My daughter is getting an award so I’m a proud duh-dee!” Paul McCartney told the Daily Transom at the Natural Resources Defense Council’s annual Forces for Nature benefit at 583 Park Avenue on Monday, March 30, where his daughter, fashion designer Stella McCartney, and Discovery Communications’ CEO David Zaslav were honored for their respective environmental work.

Mr. McCartney, wearing a lightweight European aristo scarf indoors, was accompanied by his lady friend, M.T.A. board member Nancy Shevell,...

Paul McCartney Awarded Doctorate By Yale

Mon, 26 May 2008 11:57:05 -0400

Call him Dr. Sir McCartney! Or rather, Paul McCartney, D.Mus., M.B.E.? Actually just stick to Mr. McCartney.

Yale announced that it has awarded Paul McCartney with an Honorary--we assume honorary means he didn't actually have to schlep out to New Haven to attend classes--Doctor of Music degree, an academic degree of the highest level also awarded to Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, and John...

New Museum Hands Out First Altoids Award

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:38:48 -0400

I was never big on Altoids -- they're a bit too chalky, a little too fresh, perhaps. But I would be chewing the hell out of those things if they made me $25,000 richer, as they did the four individuals (one of them a New Yorker) whom the New Museum has named the winners of the first Altoids Award, a new biennial prize for emerging artists that's sponsored by the "curiously strong" mint maker....

Paul McCartney, Rosanna Arquette: 'Spending More Time Together'

Mon, 03 Dec 2007 10:28:36 -0500

The Arquette siblings are many things, but shy is not one of them. That hold especially true for colorful sister Alexis, whose cross-dressing fabulosity puts her back in the headlines from time to time. Now, it seems, she is even willing to spill the beans on 48-year-old sibling Rosanna’s rumored relationship with Paul McCartney. (The two were recently spotted canoodling outside of the former Beatle’s North London home.) According to Ms....

Barbara Walters, Nancy Shevell Are Related

Thu, 08 Nov 2007 18:04:02 -0500

Barbara Walter’s negative comments about Heather Mills on Monday’s The View took on some considerable weight today. In the episode, Ms. Walters called Paul McCartney’s ex-wife “so impossible” and “not a very nice woman.”

As it happens, Mr. McCartney’s new lover, Nancy Shevell, is Ms. Walters’ kin. Cousins, in fact. During the said episode, the venerable newswoman’s also said that when she interviewed Mr. McCartney’s now-ex-wife, she...

The Expert: Josh Hartnett's Face (Emotional, Paternalistic) Proves He's Datable; Matthew Perry, Not So Much

Thu, 08 Nov 2007 15:17:49 -0500

We checked in today with celebrity life coach Patrick Wanis, Ph.D., in order to hear his expert opinions on what Hollywood people should be doing with themselves right now.

Again this week in the romance department, rumors and announcements surrounding novel couplings have proven their power to flabbergast outsiders. Last time we checked in with Mr. Wanis, he offered a bleak outlook on the prospect of Lance Armstrong and Ashley Olsen...

Heather Mills on Today

Thu, 01 Nov 2007 10:50:22 -0400

Heather Mills may want to just disappear sometimes, but one wouldn’t know it from her recent press march. Ms. Mills, 39, a onetime nude model and the erstwhile spouse of Paul McCartney, went on the Today show this morning with a bad case of logorrhea. (“I fell in love with a man, not a Beatle!” she reportedly said at one point during the 10-minute long interview.) Apparently, it’s not the fear of being alone...

Page Six Blind Item!

Wed, 06 Sep 2006 08:55:02 -0400

WHICH TABLOID reported a false rental price for an ex-Beatle's ex? Today's Page Six reports: Heather Mills can thank her ultra-rich Hollywood pals for her quality time in the Hamptons this past weekend--she had the use of a stunning oceanfront home in Amagansett and didn't pay a dime for it, Page Six has learned. Earlier this week, it was reported that Mills was shelling out close to $80,000 for a weeklong Hamptons rental so she...

Worried About the War? Why Not Forget Your Troubles at Little Fish

Sun, 02 Mar 2003 19:00:00 -0500

Forgive my uncharacteristically murderous mood, but I've just come from a new musical about a neurotic, woebegone girl from Buffalo who finds it very hard to give up smoking. Pardon me while I untangle my duct tape. Am I alone in thinking this isn't the best choice Michael John LaChiusa could have made right now? Isn't it a dead issue, anyway? Nobody smokes any more. And if you do smoke, nobody cares about your...

A Clear-Headed Look At Harrison's Brainwashed

Sun, 05 Jan 2003 19:00:00 -0500

The early commercial success of George Harrison's latest and, I'll presume, last album, Brainwashed (Capitol)-it debuted in the Billboard Top 20-may prove that even in the midst of widespread Eminemania and Avrilidolatry, an audience still exists for guitar-based pop in the hallowed 1960's-70's tradition.

Then again, it may only prove that nothing sells quite like death. A decent chart placement for Brainwashed was guaranteed as soon as the word went out that Harrison's family had...

Harmonic Convergence? Ginger Baker's Crazy Story

Sun, 06 Jun 1999 20:00:00 -0400

It was an article of faith in my preadolescence that Ginger Baker, drummer, junkie and founder of the rock trio Cream would never outlive the 60's (or the early 70's at the outside). I met and interviewed him this past April, alive (though looking like one of those leering skeleton figures in a medieval woodcut), well (at any rate drug-free for the past 18 years) and fuming (with cause). "Will I be hassled if...