Nicole Kidman says she’ll take six months off when she has finished filming “The Producers” alongside Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick, wherein she plays the supersexy Swedish secretary Ulla. She does not mention what she’ll be doing with her free time or with whom she’ll be spending it, but she has said, “It would be lovely to have another child with somebody. I’m not pregnant, but I would love to be. I would love to be married again. I’m still a huge believer in marriage. I like being married and I like having a family. I think there’s something lovely about raising a child together.” Surely there are millions out there, somewhere, who would be thrilled to help her with her plan.
Nicole has been out and about lately with multimillionaire Steve Bing, the big-time bad boy and babymaker, but is he listening — really listening — to Nicole? Naturally gun-shy after the big fiasco with Elizabeth Hurley, whose child he fostered out of wedlock, to use a quaint expression, he’s probably wearing earplugs around the clock.
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Maria Callas’ collection of jewelry was auctioned for $1.87 million at Sotheby’s in Geneva on Wednesday. The sale included the legendary diva’s 11.7-carat marquise cut diamond ring, a ruby and diamond collar, a gold and diamond evening bag and a huge assortment of earrings, necklaces and brooches from all the great jewelry houses. Most of the items were gifts from Maria’s husband, Giovanni Battista Meneghini, but surely in the glittering horde there was a bauble or two from her lover, Aristotle Onassis. Director Franco Zeffirelli, a friend of Callas’, said the auction was “a shameful exploitation of the legacy of Maria.” But that didn’t stop the anonymous friend who inherited the jewelry after her death in 1977 from going ahead with the sale.
The world knows Callas’ tragic story. After Onassis dropped her for Jackie Kennedy, who, by the way, Maria never met — “and never wanted to,” she once told me — it was not only a wound from which she never recovered, but also “Ari was very selective about whom he wanted on the Christina. If the guests were great and powerful, I was often left off the list. It made me feel unloved, unwanted and insecure.” It was a given that he loved her always but when it came to the main chance, it was his nature to ride rough-shod.
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Julianne Moore and Bart Freundlich’s two-year-old daughter Liv, who’s just like a mini-mommy, is getting a lot of attention on the set of “Trust the Man” with daddy at the helm and mommy emoting with David Duchovny, Billy Crudup and Maggie Gyllenhaal. Little Liv is entertaining everybody by playing with her bright red hair and giggling at everything she sees. Perhaps they’ll find a cameo for the little charmer.
Neve Campbell is filming “Churchill: The Hollywood Years,” a movie spoof wherein she plays the young Princess Elizabeth. Her character has an affair with a U.S. soldier, played by Christian Slater, which results in a love child. When Neve had a chance to meet the Queen at the recent premiere of “Ladies in Lavender,” she chickened out for fear that the sovereign might not be amused. Oh, she’s so right.
Victoria Beckham will launch her own line of jeans, which she calls “Wonderbras for bottoms” — is that adorable? — in London next week at Harvey Nichols. The jeans will feature her signature and a crown motif — crown motif? — on the back pocket and will be priced at $280 a pair. But only 100 pairs will be offered for sale to see how many people want a Wonderbra for their bottom. It’s been said that her trendsetting husband, David Beckham, who has been known to wear sarongs and kilts, got the first pair. Victoria is in talks with the U.S.’s top retailers to bring her designs to our shores.
I can wait if you can.
New York is all atwitter about Dame Edna Everage’s, aka Barry Humphries, return to Broadway in “Back With a Vengeance!” which opens Sunday night at the Music Box Theatre. At the very first preview were such worthies as Nan and Tommy Kempner; Bing Crosby’s widow, Kathryn; Mario Buatta, and Anne Slater. The Dame called Anne on stage to play the part of her mother. She put Anne in a wheelchair, dressed her in a lavender housecoat and a purple head scarf, but did allow her to keep her own signature blue glasses. Anne may not be a pro, but she and Daughter Dame Edna brought down the house.
On Dec. 7, Dame Edna’s performance will benefit Australia’s National Institute of Dramatic Art, whose alumni include Cate Blanchett, Mel Gibson and Baz Luhrmann. The benefit committee includes Hugh Jackman, Julia and David Koch, Dina Merrill, Evelyn and Leonard Lauder, Pauline Pitt and Patricia Patterson.
That smart little dinner at Swifty’s was a smart little welcome to New York for Austrian Princess Manni Wittgenstein, who lives where the hills are alive with the sound of music, entertaining sometimes in a dirndl to make the point, and the American-born Countess Aline de Romanones, who lives at her hunting lodge in the Spanish countryside. Though both ladies are glamorous staples of the international set (which gets less and less glamorous as the years go by), neither has been in New York for several years.
Lee Thaw, the New York hostess who entertains titles, bluebloods and the proletariat alike, gave the dinner, and gracing the banquettes were such as the vivacious American-born Baroness Bernard d’Anglejan of Paris, Mrs. Douglas Auchincloss and Lee’s granddaughter-in-law, Mrs. Sebastian Thaw. As for the gents, how about Kenneth Jay Lane, James Figg, Boaz Mazur, Alexander Hitz, John Dobkin, Raymond Kassar and David Ferguson?