MANHATTAN private eye Joe Mullen will never forget his run-ins with hell-raising "Harry Potter" actor Richard Harris, who died Friday at 72 from Hodgkin's Disease. Mullen recalls sending his two sons, Tom and Mike, to spy on Harris on behalf of the star's suspicious then-wife, actress/model Ann Turkel. The Mullen brothers found Harris at a hotel bar in Toronto. But he outsmarted them by getting them so drunk, they were too hung over to follow him the next day. Another time, Mullen tried to serve Harris legal papers in a hospital bed. (Hard-living Harris was no stranger to hospitals. He nearly died from a cocaine overdose in 1978, was said to have been in intensive care five times, and been given his last rites twice.) Because Harris had tubes coming out of his arm, Mullen left the room and told Turkel he was afraid Harris' condition would worsen if he was served. "I waited in the stairway, and Ann went in," Mullen recalls. "Within five minutes, the air was ringing with alarms. The nurse ran in and yelled, 'My God! What the hell are you doing?' " Ann was performing oral sex on him.
SHE'S baaaaaack! Barbra Streisand - despite a plague of misspellings, a misattributed quote, and a mixup of Iraq with Iran - has a new harangue on her Web site. "There has never been a more important time to get out the vote," Streisand writes. "If the Republicans end up with control of the presidency, the Senate, the House of Representatives and the federal courts, there will not be any check on the power of the right wing. The result would be devastating for reproductive choice, the environment, civil liberties, Social Security and health care, as well as corporate accountability."
Hey Babs, BOO!