"I have to admit that being so deeply in love with Allan Wyse these past four years has made me happier than ever before." That is Kim Cattrall, "Sex and the City’s" rapacious bombshell on her real-life boyfriend.

Allan is tall and blonde and muscular and moonlights as radio shock-jock Howard Stern’s personal chef, of all things. (And here I thought you just threw Howard raw meat, from a distance!) Kim and Allan were at the annual James Beard festival feast in Bridgehampton. At this event, Cattrall also told writer Gregory Speck that she and her man were "very amused" by rumors of their mutual "metrosexuality."

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Great people are dying on us far too young. The comic Bernie Mac at age 50. And music icon Isaac Hayes at 65 — while treadmilling, no less!

It might interest and amuse you all to know that Frank Sinatra — who for all his "swing" wasn’t much of a modern music fan — just loved Isaac’s famous theme from "Shaft." Frank considered it a "masterpiece" and told his daughter, Nancy Sinatra, that he wanted to record his own version of the song, "Soulsville " — complete with the spoken word lyrics referencing urban plight. (Hey, it worked for Elvis with "In the Ghetto.") Nothing came of this, alas.

But there still might be a Sinatra tribute to Isaac Hayes. The soul singer told Nancy about ten years ago he’d love her to cover the classic Carla Thomas R&B number, "B-A-B-Y ," with him producing. She was thrilled. Well, maybe now?

Nancy hasn’t recorded in a few years, spending her time on the radio with her "Siriusly Sinatra" deejay duties. It’s time to put those still sexy, smoky pipes to use, Nancy!

And speaking of those pipes, check out Nancy Sinatra’s self-titled 2004 CD release. (Go to Amazon, if you have trouble finding it in stores.) Nancy is so much more than the 1960s girl with the frosted lips, blonde tips and go-go boots, made for walkin’. All the songs on this one are great, and there’s the bonus of a poignant and deeply personal nod to her father, titled "Two Shots of Happy, One Shot of Sad." Almost everything you need to know about Francis Albert Sinatra is compressed into this four-minute musical vignette.

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