The Liz Smith Column | 06/29/2009 11:00 pm
Liz Smith: Going to the Dogs With Janice Dickinson
Also from Our Gossip Girl, summer in Central Park with Anne Hathaway … Angelina and Brad – giving millions to charity!
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"The best things can’t be said. The second-best are misunderstood," said Heinrich Zimmer.
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Janice Dickinson refers to herself as "the world’s first supermodel." Oh, puh-leeze! Others disagree, including me, and refer to her differently.
Dickinson, well-known for her fire-starter temper and her cliff-like cheekbones, has been very busy of late filming episodes of "I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!" Frankly, I think anyone who would admit to and be proud of being "a celebrity" needs their head examined.)
This is a show in which the semi-famous are tormented so it’s no more than they deserve. But nothing has tormented Janice so much as the worry over her two pooches, left behind in Hollywood while she toils in Costa Rica.
This speaks well for Janice but here are the details. She had someone install doggie doors at the back of her Bel Air house so her chocolate Lab and her baby bulldog could wander in and out as they wanted. Then Janice worried that the doggie doors might be too big and allow "tiny burglars" to enter her home, so she had the doors scaled down. Now she is worried the pups are growing too fast and may get stuck! (Hey, Janice, get these dogs their own keys.)
Recently, the beauty was rushed from the Costa Rica set for some kind of medical help but it wasn’t serious and she is used to certain miracles of being patched back together.
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It was at the home of L.A. real estate developer Gil Garfield that current Attorney General Jerry Brown kicked off his recent campaign to replace Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in the next California election. Heavy-hitting political contributors were there as well as some Beverly Hills matrons.
Jerry Brown is always thought of as a renegade who chases moonbeams, but he says he still believes he will be the best candidate and his backers say he is simply ahead of his time. Brown says America’s real anger over unemployment has yet to be unleashed.
He expects former e-bay CEO Meg Whitman "to command the eyeballs of TV and outspend me." Sen. Dianne Feinstein could also be in the running.
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Notables showed for the first perfect night of summer outdoors in Central Park and the opening of "Twelfth Night," starring three of New York’s favorite females – Anne Hathaway, Audra McDonald and Julie White.
The benefit dinner before – saluting director Mike Nichols and exec genius Susan Lyne – drew Nora Ephron; Nick Pileggi; Louise Grunwald; Steve Martin; Sandra Bernhard and her beautiful daughter, Cicely; Liz and Felix Rohatyn; Barry Diller; Martin Short; Christine Baranski; Judith Light; Hannah Pakula; Marshall Rose and Candice Bergen with her grown-up daughter, Chloe Malle, back from Africa; Susan and Donald Newhouse; Ashley Leeds and Chris Harland – all benefactors who support Shakespeare in the Park.
As for "Twelfth Night" – it is beautifully executed, and Anne Hathaway, who I thought outdid herself in "The Devil Wears Prada" and "Rachel Getting Married," proves she can appealingly do and be anything, even a guy in drag. Along with Amy Adams – these two constitute our next big superstars!
News of Michael Jackson’s death raced through the dinner crowd, but somehow failed to put a damper on the evening. If you can, you must come get in line for free tickets and see Ms. Hathaway do Shakespeare credibly and pretend to be an adorable young man. Walk into the Park at 81st and Central Park West and follow signs to the Delacorte Theater.
***
Janice Dickinson refers to herself as "the world’s first supermodel." Oh, puh-leeze! Others disagree, including me, and refer to her differently.
Dickinson, well-known for her fire-starter temper and her cliff-like cheekbones, has been very busy of late filming episodes of "I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!" Frankly, I think anyone who would admit to and be proud of being "a celebrity" needs their head examined.)
This is a show in which the semi-famous are tormented so it’s no more than they deserve. But nothing has tormented Janice so much as the worry over her two pooches, left behind in Hollywood while she toils in Costa Rica.
This speaks well for Janice but here are the details. She had someone install doggie doors at the back of her Bel Air house so her chocolate Lab and her baby bulldog could wander in and out as they wanted. Then Janice worried that the doggie doors might be too big and allow "tiny burglars" to enter her home, so she had the doors scaled down. Now she is worried the pups are growing too fast and may get stuck! (Hey, Janice, get these dogs their own keys.)
Recently, the beauty was rushed from the Costa Rica set for some kind of medical help but it wasn’t serious and she is used to certain miracles of being patched back together.
***
It was at the home of L.A. real estate developer Gil Garfield that current Attorney General Jerry Brown kicked off his recent campaign to replace Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in the next California election. Heavy-hitting political contributors were there as well as some Beverly Hills matrons.
Jerry Brown is always thought of as a renegade who chases moonbeams, but he says he still believes he will be the best candidate and his backers say he is simply ahead of his time. Brown says America’s real anger over unemployment has yet to be unleashed.
He expects former e-bay CEO Meg Whitman "to command the eyeballs of TV and outspend me." Sen. Dianne Feinstein could also be in the running.
***
Notables showed for the first perfect night of summer outdoors in Central Park and the opening of "Twelfth Night," starring three of New York’s favorite females – Anne Hathaway, Audra McDonald and Julie White.
The benefit dinner before – saluting director Mike Nichols and exec genius Susan Lyne – drew Nora Ephron; Nick Pileggi; Louise Grunwald; Steve Martin; Sandra Bernhard and her beautiful daughter, Cicely; Liz and Felix Rohatyn; Barry Diller; Martin Short; Christine Baranski; Judith Light; Hannah Pakula; Marshall Rose and Candice Bergen with her grown-up daughter, Chloe Malle, back from Africa; Susan and Donald Newhouse; Ashley Leeds and Chris Harland – all benefactors who support Shakespeare in the Park.
As for "Twelfth Night" – it is beautifully executed, and Anne Hathaway, who I thought outdid herself in "The Devil Wears Prada" and "Rachel Getting Married," proves she can appealingly do and be anything, even a guy in drag. Along with Amy Adams – these two constitute our next big superstars!
News of Michael Jackson’s death raced through the dinner crowd, but somehow failed to put a damper on the evening. If you can, you must come get in line for free tickets and see Ms. Hathaway do Shakespeare credibly and pretend to be an adorable young man. Walk into the Park at 81st and Central Park West and follow signs to the Delacorte Theater.
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I would think Lisa Fonssagrives would have been the first super model, and she was certainly before my time, but I still know who she was, and Carmen Del Orifice makes Janice look like Kibbles and Bits…even now, later in her career. And what about Dovima? All elegant, aristocratic looking women. Swans. Janice? Quack.
I used to love seeing Shakespeare outdoors in the summer. I wonder why I don’t do that anymore?
I’ve been surprised hearing about Jerry Brown. Hasn’t his peace, love, and harmony sun grope dancing time passed? My instinct tells me he doesn’t stand a chance.
Janice has learned how to keep re-inventing herself. She has mastered extending 15 minutes of fame!
Jerry Brown let it go! Your political sun has set. There are many ways to give back. Volunteer, hold citizen empowerment workshops etc.
Good for Angelina and Brad. I believe it’s our responsibility to give back It’s a human thing!
The term Supermodel is so over used that it really has no meaning.
Like Washington Cube, it has been a very long time since I attended an outdoor Shakespeare production. I need to remedy that.
"Brown says America’s real anger over unemployment has yet to be unleashed."
Sheesh! Same old Jerry with the same old babble that makes no sense whatsoever.
Janice D was not the first supermodel. Sheesh. Janice was hotter than hot in the 70s, but what about Jean Shrimpton or Twiggie or Varushka from the 60’s? Or Suzy Parker, who was the little sister of Dorian Leigh from the 40’s/50s? Janice’s drug use has pickled her brain!
She messed up her face with all the surgery too, so her former beauty is gone, gone, gone.
Liz has a good sense of what’s important and what’s not. I don’t give a tinker’s damn about whether Angelina and Brad are fighting, but the fact they have given a large sum of money to those fleeing the Taliban? Now that’s worth reporting.
Janice Dickinson puts herself on a higher pedestle than anyone else ever could. She also treats people terribly and though that seems to be what people enjoy watching these days, personally, I can think of better ways to spend my time.
I’ve stated on more than one occasion that I think the media blitz over Michael Jackson is too much (not a surprise, mind you, but still…) but amidst all the press, I do have to say one thing. Though I respected Jackson as a young performer, the fact that he became beyond "creepy" (as Liz puts it) completey colored my thinking of him. Now that he’s gone however, and I see how the media is acting, how his family is acting (his father is a piece of work), and the push and pull of all of those close to him, I almost understand and feel sorry for him. If this is the way people treated him throughout his life, no wonder he left reality.
Jerry Brown? Hmmm… I think this will be a very telling campaign for California.