December 26, 2008 - 'WHEN ARCHAEOLOGISTS discover the missing arms of Venus de Milo, they will find she was wearing boxing gloves," so said the famous actor and womanizer John Barrymore. Sorry, readers, but I couldn't find any appropriate quote for Boxing Day! I AM in tune with the philosophy of that...

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• CHARITY THE BEST GIFT

  December 23, 2008 - 'THAT'S in every contract. That's what they call a sanity clause," says Groucho. "You can't fool me. There ain't no Sanity Claus!" says Chico. IN THESE days...more >

• IN THE JEANS POOL

  December 21, 2008 - 'WORK HARD, and if you can't work hard, be smart; and, if you can't be smart, be loud," says Sammy Glick in Budd Schulberg's "What Makes Sammy Run?" E ARLY last...more >

• CAT LEAVES 'NINE' LIFE FOR ME

  December 18, 2008 - 'EVERYTHING you see I owe to spa ghetti!" This was Sophia Loren, com menting on her fabled figure, the one that molded her stardom back in the early 1950s. And she's still going...more >

• BROADWAY DOE$ CARE

  December 16, 2008 - 'HE ERRORS who thinks Santa enters through the chimney. Santa enters through the heart," said Charles W. Howard, who founded the Santa Claus school of Midland, Mich. I would think the...more >

• 'MOTOWN' REVISITED

  December 14, 2008 - 'THE WORLD is proof that God is a committee," said one Bob Stokes. S PEAKING OF that, President George Bush opined to ABC's "Nightline" co-anchor Cynthia McFadden, when she...more >

• WINSLET BOUND TO WIN

  December 11, 2008 - 'THE DEAD are still dead, aren't they?" That's Kate Winslet, in charac ter as Hanna Schmitz, in Stephen Daldry's beautiful new film, "The Reader." Hanna is speaking...more >

• ACTOR GETS BIG BREAK

  December 9, 2008 - 'WHEN TWO people love each other, they come together - WHAM! - like two taxis on Broadway." That was icy cool, red-hot Grace Kelly, trying to talk Jimmy Stewart into marriage in "...more >

• STARRY STARRY NIGHT

  December 7, 2008 - 'IF MY film makes one more person miserable, I'll feel I've done my job," says Woody Allen. WENT DOWN to Cipriani Wall Street for the Gotham Indepen dent Film Awards, where I was...more >

• IVANKA'S WORKING IT

  December 4, 2008 - 'MY FATHER always impressed upon me the idea that America is a meritocracy and that you must work for everything you get. I hope to share a positive perspective with the women of my generation...more >

• JEWELRY IN THE SAFE

  December 2, 2008 - LEARN POLITENESS from the impo lite," goes the Egyptian proverb. WHAT A week was the last week that boasted the name "November." I needed a rest cure before it ended. One of the...more >