
Sex and the City star Chris Noth recently popped in to SciusciĆ , the new restaurant in the Hotel Giraffe, and asked owner Gianfranco Sorrentino if there were any bartending jobs available. No, heās not looking to make some extra cash. He was asking on behalf of his girlfriend, actress Tara Wilson. Sure enough, Sorrentino told Noth to fax over her rĆ©sumĆ©. No decision has been made yet, but our tipster tells us that Noth has been in three times since then to ask about Wilsonās chances.
It appears New York Daily News and U.S. News & World Report publisher Mort Zuckerman is looking to settle down again. We hear that Zuckerman, 65, has been dating model-actress Marisa Berenson, 56. A spy at the recent Whitney Museum of American Artās Black White + Whitney party overheard Zuckerman tell a pal, āI want to start another family.ā Zuckerman ā who was once linked to Patricia Duff ā divorced his wife of five years, Marla Prather, in May 2001. They have a 5-year-old daughter, Abigail. Berenson has been married twice and has one daughter, 25-year-old Starlite Melody. A rep for Zuckerman denies thereās any romance between his boss and Berenson: āMr. Zuckerman thinks Ms. Berenson is a wonderful woman, but they are just friends.ā
Tyson Beckford has woman trouble. Well, at least with the two who keep showing up at his weekly party at Noel Ashmanās Veruka. The drama started about a month ago when two twentysomethings ā a chunky brunette and a lithe redhead ā showed up at Beckfordās Tuesday-night āSaint-Tropezā party and wouldnāt leave his side. āThey were following him around everywhere, talking to him about getting him a part in their movie,ā an insider told us, ābut after they followed him to the bathroom, he told security they had to go.ā But even after a guard escorted the wacky duo outside, they stayed put ā screaming and crying ā by the curb until 5 a.m. āThey were acting so crazy, security escorted Tyson to his car,ā one reveler told us. The pair has shown up every Tuesday since, trying to dupe security by wearing disguises. āIāve seen them standing at the door, wearing different hats,ā says our spy, ābut they never get in.ā
It appears Billy Joel and former flame Carolyn Beegan may be rekindling their romance. Not only did she accompany him to the opening of his Broadway show, Movinā Out, but we hear that he recently caused near-pandemonium in the East Hampton restaurant Bamboo when he surprised the towering redhead ā who was celebrating her birthday with twenty friends ā with a ten-week-old pug to replace Lola, Beeganās pet who passed away last spring. During their six-year relationship ā which ended in 2000 ā Joel became so enamored of Lola that he penned āWaltz #3 (For Lola)ā on his first classical album, Billy Joel: Fantasies & Delusions. Beegan named the new pup Isabelle. Joelās rep insists the two are just āvery good friends.ā
Ted Baker provides the uniforms for the managers at DB Bistro Moderne and the waitstaff at Butter; Club Monaco outfits Cafeteria; English haberdashery Thomas Pink dresses them at Washington Park; and now the buzz among staff at the legendary Magnolia Bakery on Bleecker Street is that theyāre getting free shirts from Marc Jacobs, who has two stores across the street. But this isnāt simply another case of the designer promoting himself. The shirts are the ones that Jacobs specifically designed to raise money for Cancer Care. He hopes to boost sales by dressing the bakery workers.
Jay McInerneyās been hanging out at the Flatiron-district offices of Lot 47 Films, but heās not working on a movie deal, at least not at the moment. Heās shadowing the independent film companyās CEO, Greg Williams, while researching his novel-in-progress. McInerney ā whose last novel, Model Behavior, was published four years ago ā is said to be basing a character on Williams, a former investment banker who left Wall Street for moviemaking three years ago.
Robert De Niro is the latest celebrity to entertain our troops. We hear heāll be at Tampaās MacDill Air Force Base ā headquarters for the U.S. Central Command ā on December 4 for a special screening for 1,500 troops of Analyze That, the upcoming sequel to his and Billy Crystalās 1999 comedy hit Analyze This.
With Catherine Townsend.