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Stoudemire hams it up for cameras outside the Candie's Foundation 2011 Gala.Hey, Amar'e Stoudemire: Who's Carmen? The Knicks power forward cruised the silent auction portion of the Candie's Foundation 10th Anniversary Gala with two imposing men in suits who appeared to be bodyguards. Each time Stoudemire gestured toward a bidding sheet, one of the men would write down the name "Carmen" and a phone number. Using the moniker, Stoudemire bid $500 for a meet-and-greet with Mariah Carey's hubby, Nick Cannon. He also offered, get this, $800 for a signed Amar'e Stoudemire jersey. Maybe he figures it's less egotistical that way.
Too many pit stops
One of the stranger road trips in history gets some traction in the new issue of Vanity Fair. In Sam Kashner's piece on the last years of Elizabeth Taylor, a former employee of Michael Jackson says that in the aftermath of 9/11, Taylor and Marlon Brando ? who were in New York to see Jackson perform at two Madison Square Garden concerts in the days right before the World Trade Center towers fell ? escaped west, with Jackson, by auto. "They actually got as far as Ohio ? all three of them, in a car they drove themselves!" the source recalls. Kashner writes that "Brando allegedly annoyed his traveling companions by insisting on stopping at nearly every KFC and Burger King they passed along the highway.
A close friend and assistant of Taylor disputes the story, saying "Elizabeth stayed behind," went to church and even visited the first responders at Ground Zero. As Kashner notes, no media reports surfaced of Taylor at the rubble. We prefer to imagine her at the Colonel's.
Happy anniversary
The Broadway Association will celebrate its 100th anniversary at the Marriott Marquis without two big guests: Mayor Bloomberg and former mayor Rudy Giuliani will be standing with President Obama at Ground Zero instead. But association president Cristyne Nicholas says: "The show will go on" with Ed Koch, David Dinkins, Dan Lauria and Judith Light.
Maybe next time
Is Molly JOng-Fast's husband worried about life imitating art? On Monday evening, Isaac Mizrahi and art adviser Sharon Coplan Hurowitz hosted a party at the fashion designer's E. 67th St. boutique to celebrate the publication of Jong-Fast's darkly comic novel, "The Social Climber's Handbook." It's the tale of an upper East Side socialite with a banker husband, and how she begins dispatching those who threaten her perch at the top of the social food chain.
Perhaps because the author's husband, Matt Greenfield, is in finance (he's a partner at hedge fund Stonework Capital) and the couple live on the East Side, Jong-Fast said her spouse "was really happy that the wife didn't kill the husband in the book."
To which Hurowitz replied: "There's always the sequel."
When you put it that way...
Long Bon Fuller? Film publicist Jeremy Walker claims HollywoodLife.com editor Bonnie Fuller is "a pirate, not a journalist" after her website posted "exclusive" script leaks from the indie film "Hick" he's representing. Hollywood Life reported Tuesday that the movie ? which stars Blake Lively as a meth addict ? features salty language, a graphic assault scene and underage drug use by 14-year-old co-star Chloe Moretz. It was the second leak the site featured in a week and it sent Walker over the edge.
The Malibu-based publicist fired off a letter to new Motion Picture Association of America chief Christopher Dodd angrily asking the former senator to "draft legislation that will make such theft illegal." Walker called Fuller's actions an "assault to the creative process," and dropped this gem: "Fuller might as well have kicked a pregnant woman in the stomach." The MPAA and Fuller declined to comment.
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