"Hmmmmm, I wonder what these round metal things are."
"Hmmmmm, I wonder what these round metal things are."
PARIS Hilton amused us in "The Simple Life." Now her parents are going to give it a go in "The Good Life." Rick and Kathy Hilton, via Handprint Entertainment, have convinced NBC to buy their version of "The Beverly Hillbillies." A family from the boondocks would be plopped down in New York, live with the Hiltons at the Waldorf, and be taught how to make it in high society. CBS tried to do a remake of "The Beverly Hillbillies," but it never made it onto the air. "Kathy and Rick have a softer touch [than CBS]," our insider said. "It's their turn to shine." NBC didn't return calls.
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MONICA Lewinsky was manning a stand at the Chelsea Flea Market on Saturday and Sunday selling tchotchkes, but it's not a new career for the former White House intern. She and her friend Victoria Leacock were simply getting rid of things. "It was old stuff they had lying around. They cleaned out their closets," said Lewinsky's mouthpiece, Barbara Huttson. Lewinsky is a "flea market addict," Huttson said. But she won't be going back: "They called themselves 'the one-weekend wonder.'
How fast will Lewinsky's junk end up on EBay? Hopefully all the buying customers got a free Monica creation ugly purse, it'd be the only way to get rid of them.
LIKE all good mobsters, "The Sopranos" have a long memory. Two years ago, then-gubernatorial candidate Andrew Cuomo took a poll to see whether New Yorkers thought the popular HBO series was anti-Italian. On Sunday, the Sopranos got even. When Carmela's mother boasted about her cultured Italian friends - Lena and Dr. Russ Fegoli, a retired assistant to the ambassador to the Vatican - the estranged wife of mob boss Tony Soprano was not impressed. Carmela sniffed about the couple: "She of the five-page Christmas card . . . and then on Flag Day, Grandpa Russ shook hands with Andrew Cuomo . . . what an honor.' BFD (Big f- - -ing Deal)!" Cuomo told The Post's Kenneth Lovett it was the mob show's revenge: "I mentioned their name in a poll and they mentioned mine in the show," he laughed.
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Decisions, decisions, a Jade Jagger party or a slow torturous death?
MARY Richardson thought the guy sharing the elevator with her and her husband, Robert Kennedy Jr., at the Gramercy Park Hotel the other day looked vaguely familiar. It turned out that the man on the way up with them to the password-only rooftop party for the launch of Jade Jagger's new Garrard jewelry line was none other than Marc Benecke, the notorious door god from Studio 54. He and Mary hadn't seen each other since the disco closed way back in 1978. "It was an emotional disco reunion," according to our source. Also at the rooftop bash: Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Damon Dash, Eva Mendes, Brooke Shields, Jimmy Fallon and Bianca Jagger, who danced up a storm to the sounds of the salsa band.