April 23, 2007

SPECTOR TEAM WILL SPOTLIGHT 'VICE GIRL'

THE Phil Spector murder trial, still picking alternate jurors, gets under way Wednesday. Of the two prose cutors, Alan Jackson will open for the County of Los Angeles. Defense lawyers...

EVIL PARENTS TORTURED CHEVY

CHEVY Chase has made us laugh since his first routines on "Saturday Night Live" in 1975, but behind the clownish façade are horrific memories of a childhood of beatings and...

NO TO HUGO

VENEZUELAN President Hugo Chavez has a big following among the quiche-eating leftists who wear Che T-shirts and vacation in Havana, but Maria Conchita Alonzo, a former Miss Venezuela, will lambast...

BREEDER BLUES

JAIME Pressly is psyched for the birth of her first child next month - but she's also freaked by the way her body has ballooned, especially her thighs and chest....

POSTER POWER

RESTAURANT impresario Keith McNally is still on the Gansevoort Hotel warpath. He's papering the Meatpacking District to protest the two 75-foot billboards on the hotel's side. McNally's posters read, "Shame...

SPIDEY'S BIG PRODUCTION BITE

"SPIDER-Man 3" will be the most expensive movie ever made when it opens May 4. While industry insiders claim Sony Pictures spent $350 million on production alone, Hollywood reporter Kim...

TOO HUNGRY

SOME Miami Beach restaurateurs are fuming over attempts by Danny DeVito and his partner to poach employees for his own new eatery. Nick Fielding, general manager of upscale Table 8,...

SIMILAR TASTES

FOR hard rocker Tommy Lee, sharing Pamela Anderson with Kid Rock wasn't enough. Spies at the Victoria's Secret party at Tao Beach in Las Vegas the other night said Lee...

HERE'S THE SKINNY ON ATKINS

THE widow of diet guru Robert Atkins is hitting back at the trustees of his estate, who want $8.7 million in back pay. Veronica Atkins, repped by powerhouse lawyer Roy...

ROYAL DESIGNATION A RARE ONE

QUEEN Elizabeth II, who celebrated her 81st birthday Saturday, looks likely to bestow the title of Prince Consort on her husband, Prince Philip, to mark the occasion of their 60th...