Oct. 31 coming soon. Thrillist.com lists National Trust for Historic Preservation’s 25 hotels where Halloween spirits also check-in.
No. 1, Concord, Mass., has mass hysteria at the Colonial Inn. Ghoulish since 1716, could be George Washington’s still snoring there. No. 2, Homestead in Hot Springs, Va. No. 3, Maryland’s Historic Inns of Annapolis. New York’s No. 20 with Saranac Lake’s Hotel Saranac, circa 1927, actually asking the spirits to get the Halloween out of the room.
Listen, I’m just trying to help you.
Truth dean-ied
Anti-Israel college displays are driven by fear. Now politically correct cowards run our schools. Bill O’Reilly: “Administrators fear radical left students. In today’s cancel culture, students hold power. Colleges lost control.
“Marist, the small institution north of NYC I attended, was built by Catholic Marist brothers. Now a left-wing campus. Its president, Dr. Kevin Weinman, hired from ultra-liberal Amherst College, said he’s ‘grappling’ with Hamas’ attack. Grappling? Hamas killed thousands of innocents. He should’ve repudiated Hamas. He didn’t.”
No shame in fame
Bergdorf’s elevator. Smashed in and staring into space, a lady’s clenched mouth almost said, “Don’t dare talk to me.” It was Meryl Streep. For other brushes with the bitch and famous like Jackie O, Sinatra, Lauren Bacall, Kurt Vonnegut, Marlo Thomas, Paul Newman — and a few hookers — comes David Hughes’ book, “Hop, Skip and a Jump! Life: Proceed With Caution.”
Honing his kitchen craft
Celebrities like to chow on Mr. Chow’s Chinese chow. New HBO doc “Aka Mr. Chow” says his road to the kitchen was tougher than burnt toast.
“I wanted to be a painter. But they said you can’t. You can work in a restaurant or laundry. Chinese were the low of low.”
Now a painter, his art is easier to get than a table at his restaurants.
Whispers
Tidbits I’m collecting: Brad Pitt once gave Jennifer Aniston guitar lessons for her birthday . . . Britney Spears’ pet name for Justin Timberlake was “Stinky. His for her, “Pinky” . . . Bjork believes cold climates improve her music — so her onetime habitat was an Iceland igloo . . . Antonio Banderas’ mama so unthrilled with his onetime ponytail that she phoned to say he looked lousy on TV.
P. Diddy’s first job was modeling for Baskin-Robbins ice cream. He was then age 2 . . . It’s coming turkey-time and Gwyneth Paltrow spends every Thanksgiving with neighboring Spielbergs in the Hamptons . . . Tim Robbins said his and Susan Sarandon’s choice of candidate Ralph Nader one time was asked by a VIP not to support him. When they refused he said he thinks maybe he got disinvited to some parties.
Future NYC headlines: “Thieves steal burglar alarms” . . . “Post Office paychecks lost in the mail” . . . “Unlicensed cabby forced to abandon driving”. . . “Items reported stolen from empty store” . . . “Condoms just opened stretch product line.”
Only in New York, kids, only in New York.
