This is what happens to ex TV sex goddesses who refuse to age gracefully and get sloppy plastic surgery.

The effects of too much sun, bad facelifts, bad nose job ( It’s called ‘alar retraction’ and happens when too much cartilage is resected from the area ), the remains of some sloppy lip collagen and so much Botox that her left eye is unable to open all the way, have made Hollywood’s once radiant golden girl seem more like one of the Golden Girls.

One would think those residual checks from Charlie’s Angels would be enough to get a good doctor, or did Farrah decide to save money and drive south of the border for this butchery? Compare Farrah to these recent snap shots of her former co-stars Jaclyn Smith and Kate Jackson ( below ), who although might not be completely free of a little work themselves, have at least done the right thing and maintained a normal and age appropriate appearance. Sad.

No, it’s not a post about a Gwyneth Paltrow sex tape, I’ll spare you that much. Seeing as how she’s not doing much these days, Miss Paltrow went on Oprah to show soccer moms across the nation that she can cook. Her recipe is hardly new though: one of my favorite Japanese restaurants Edo Sushi on 17th off Union Square, makes an excellent Chilean sea bass with miso paste which has long been a favorite of mine. Paltrow’s version substitutes flounder which sounds interesting non the less. Here’s the recipe, from Oprah’s site to god’s ears:

Source: Oprah

Flounder with Miso Sauce
Created by Gwyneth Paltrow

From the show “New Mom Gwyneth’s First Interview & Jude Law”

fish and salad The talented Ms. Paltrow is not only a mom and award-winning actress, she’s also a cook who loves to use organic ingredients. She likes to serve this fish with organic brown rice and a side of greens with shredded carrots and ginger. For salad dressing, she likes to use a combination of organic sesame oil and organic rice wine vinegar. Most of the more unusual ingredients (like miso and mirin sauce) can be found at gourmet supermarkets or health-food stores.

INGREDIENTS

1 thick piece of white fish, like flounder
1 cup mellow white miso paste
3/4 cup of mirin sauce

Whisk the miso paste and mirin sauce together. Place the fish in an oven-safe pan. Coat the top side of the fish with the miso/mirin mixture. Bake for 20 minutes at 400 degrees, until the sauce is slightly caramelized. Serve with rice and fresh salad.

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WE HEAR . . .

THAT Julianne Moore has been slapped with a summons for the garbage piling up outside her West Village townhouse, which is being renovated . . .

SHE skipped the Golden Globes to go on vacation with husband Matthew Broderick and 2-year-old son James Wilke, but we suspect Sarah Jessica Parker may be skipping many things in the near future. Trying to be discreet, the “Sex and the City” star was spotted buying a home pregnancy test at a drug store near her home in the Village, InTouch Weekly reports. Parker, who will turn 40 this year, has let it be known she’d like more children. Her reps did not return calls.

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TOBEY Maguire was supposed to introduce the clip of “The Aviator” at the Golden Globes but he dropped out at the last minute, supposedly because he’s overweight and his handlers want to keep him out of sight until he loses the lard.

Maguire is a friend of Leonardo DiCaprio, who plays Howard Hughes in the Martin Scorsese flick. The producers scrambled and got Orlando Bloom to fill in for the “Spider-Man” star.

* Star Jones Reynolds and Melissa and Joan Rivers ignored each other on the red carpet as they broadcast for rival channels. The air was icy, witnesses said. But Star and Joan later posed together for photos where Joan was “mock bitch-slapping Star.”

* Nicky Hilton and “Entourage” star Kevin Connolly also looked “miserable,” our spies say. Hilton was upset after a run-in with Shannen Doherty in the bathroom at the Glamour/Miramax party at Trader Vic’s. The two hate each other ever since Nicky’s sister Paris ‚Äö?Ѭ¢??‚Äö?Ñ?? mysteriously absent from the evening ‚Äö?Ѭ¢??‚Äö?Ñ?? did a sex tape with Doherty’s ex, Rick Salomon. “Shannen won the staredown and Nicky backed off,” a spy laughed.

* Quentin Tarantino stepped out on girlfriend Sofia Coppola. The quirky, foot-obsessed director hit the Glamour party with a male pal and was “approached at the end of the night by a pretty girl who said she admired his work,” our spy reports. Tarantino “snuggled” with the unidentified woman in a booth for the rest of the night.

I had the pleasure of meeting David Hampton in 1991 through Chris Jones ( brother of Grace Jones ), who was a regular at my Monday night soir?¬¨¬©e Sugar Babies. This was fitting since Sugar Babies, in it’s early incarnation, was a melting pot of celebrities, models, and journalists mixed in with downtown club kids, social misfits and the proverbial average Joe on-looker. David was not introduced to me as David Poitier however ( his facade at this point was very well over ), instead he was introduced as David Hampton; the man who’s life story had been made into the play “Six Degrees Of Separation”. It wasn’t hard to see where the upper crust of New York society could be fooled into believing he was anything but what he pretended to be, he was well versed, polite and very charming. Unfortunately David Hampton passed away on July 18th, 2003, of complications due to AIDS, but his incredible life lives on in the people he touched, both bad and good, and in the stage and film versions of his life “Six Degrees of Seperation”

Below is a more in depth article on David’s life, which I found on the net at this link. The original author’s name and the source of the article was not provided.

Update: November 14th, 2006 - Unfortuantely that link is now dead and the story has since been taken down, a prime example of why my site exists. The following is the story as it was published. Read more »

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JAMMIN’ JOINT

PEOPLE are still talking about Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown’s wacky behavior at the Windjammer Resort in St. Lucia over the New Year’s holiday. One night, a wobbly Whitney jumped onstage to sing “My Love Is Your Love” with the resort’s reggae band. “She couldn’t hit some of her high notes,” tattles our source. “After she sung, Bobby grabbed the microphone from her and asked the band to play ‘My Prerogative.’ They didn’t know it. Then the band played ‘Superstitious’ by Stevie Wonder. Bobby didn’t know the words. He tried to rap, but it didn’t work.” On New Year’s Day, Whitney came down to Jammers, the poolside restaurant, and placed what appeared to be a joint in her mouth, but got up and left after a father eating nearby with his young daughters objected.

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“PLAY some Picasso” - former New Jersey Net Chris Morris to a piano player at a hotel bar while trying to impress a date, according to the Las Vegas Review Journal …

“THE governor of New Jersey resigned about a month ago. I know some people that know him, and they say, ‘Don’t worry about him, he’s a fighter. He’ll be back on his knees in no time!’” - venture capitalist David Moore at The Original CEOs of Comedy show at the Friars Club …

“HEF’S pajama parties are great, but they would be even better if they were for lesbians” - centerfold Stephanie Adams.

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CRUEL CRITICS BASH HESTON

LAUREN Bacall marred an otherwise-pleasant evening celebrating 2004’s best movies by trashing Charlton Heston, the screen icon detested by lefties because he headed the National Rifle Association before he developed Alzheimer’s. Bacall was presenting the New York Film Critics Circle award for Best Foreign Language Film to director Pedro Almodovar for his “Bad Education.” At the Roosevelt Hotel ‚Äö?Ѭ¢??‚Äö?Ñ?? where Clint Eastwood, Virginia Madsen, Paul Giamatti and Clive Owen were also honored ‚Äö?Ѭ¢??‚Äö?Ñ?? Bacall told the crowd how Almodovar introduced himself to Heston one night at a similar event. “Pedro said, ‘Mr. Heston, you are a great star. Everybody knows you. Everybody loves you, but you are sitting in my seat.’ Heston ignored him. Pedro went and sat somewhere else. That’s the kind of guy Pedro is, and that’s the kind of guy the other guy is.” The critics in the room ‚Äö?Ѭ¢??‚Äö?Ñ?? who also honored the absent Michael Moore, Heston’s tormentor in “Bowling for Columbine” ‚Äö?Ѭ¢??‚Äö?Ñ?? laughed and cheered. Al Franken, presenter of the Best Non-Fiction Film award to Moore’s “Fahrenheit 9/11,” praised Miramax chief Harvey Weinstein, who accepted for Moore, saying, “Harvey stood by this movie even in the face of sure signs of success.”

From Hollywoodreporter.com

Jan. 07, 2005

Morrissey has ‘Instinct’ for Stone sequel

British actor David Morrissey will star opposite Sharon Stone in “Basic Instinct 2: Risk Addiction” in which Stone will reprise her role as the seductive novelist Catherine Tramell. Morrissey will play Dr. Andrew Glass, a psychiatrist who becomes entangled in her cat and mouse game.

Principal photography will begin in March in London. To be released by MGM, the sequel follows Tramell from San Francisco to London, where she again finds herself in trouble with the law. Glass, a criminal psychiatrist, is appointed by Scotland Yard to evaluate her.

Morrissey will also be seen this year opposite Jennifer Aniston and Clive Owen in Miramax’s “Derailed” which he recently wrapped. Intermedia has financed the film with a domestic distribution deal at MGM, with C2 Pictures handling international rights.

On August 2000, Brad Renfro was arrested by Florida cops ( mug-shot above ) and charged with grand theft after he and a buddy tried to boost a 45 foot yacht from a Ft. Lauderdale dock.

The dynamic duo failed to untie the boat from the dock during their get-away, causing damage to both the boat and the dock. Renfro, who was 18 at the time of his bust, pleaded out and was sentenced to two years probation and ordered to pay the yacht’’s owner $4000 in damages.

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