That’s UNICO President Andre Dimino talking exclusively to RadarOnline.com about, of course, Snooki. UNICO is an Italian-American service organization that’s railed against the “Jersey Shore” since it came on MTV. And in light of Snooki’s recent crash into a police car in Italy, Dimino had more things to talk about.
-KH
[Radar]
Creepy Sounding Guys Sound Even Creepier in “Trend” Piece. A bunch of (perhaps not-so-hot) bachelors show off their totally hot apartments to the New York Post and explain how their digs help them snag women. “Women see windows — and skirts come off,” comedian Jim Norton told the paper (ha ha?) He says the women he brings up to his one-bedroom apartment in the Trump are impressed mostly by the kitchen, which features a state-of-the-art kitchen with stainless-steel appliances. But Norton admits he doesn’t cook—I guess that’s what the women are for? (ha, ha?)
-KH
[NYPost]
Dominique Strauss-Kahn is hanging in TriBeCa, serving out his house arrest for allegedly sexually assaulting a maid in a hotel. And now The Post says that—based on the sight of a man walking out of the apartment holding garbage bags—the notorious womanizer has hired only male housekeepers (The Post described them as “blue-collar dudes who look like plumbers.”)
-KH
[NYPost, h/t @thisisjendoll]
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said in a conference call that NFL season ticket holders are in favor of an 18-game season. And what he doesn’t mention is that the reason they prefer an 18-game season is because they’re often forced to buy worthless preseason game tickets when purchasing regular season game tickets, so essentially Goodell is using the fact that his owners regularly rip customers’ wallets as a way of trying to curry favor with the general public in the current NFL lockout.
-DM
That’s Brian McDonald, who worked for over a decade as a bartender at Elaine’s (and later wrote about his experience in a book.) The iconic Manhattan restaurant closes tonight, six months after Elaine passed away. McDonald said he didn’t think Elaine could survive without her restaurant, which was frequented by celebrities and other luminaries in the decades it was open. Turns out the restaurant couldn’t survive without her.
-KH
[NYT]
That’s a lot of tickets! Today’s story in the NY Post shows that the number of tickets cops have written for cyclists is up 48 percent from this time last year.
-KH
[NYPost]
That’s Governor Andrew Cuomo, wondering where all the state’s education funding goes. A new study found that New York state spent more money per public school student than any other state in the country in 2009.
-KH
[TuCapCon, Newsday, h/t @AziPaybarah]
Wow. Is this bubblehead curse real? I’d suggest the Mets abolish the promo. But if they didn’t have bobbleheads, how would the Mets get people to come to games?
-KH
[NYT]
That’s Robert Moses. He built a lot of highways and, depending on what you read, may have ruined New York City. The New York Times quoted him in a story trying to solve the never ending debate over the correct way to pronounce the Van Wyck Expressway. Some pronounce it “Wike”, others say it’s pronounced like “Wick”, while others just try to block the whole road out because of the insane traffic usually found on it. This question has been asked countless times, and nobody seems to know the answer. But what does it matter if the potholes are still giant?
-KH
[NYT]
Ticket Fix. Sources are now saying that in addition to fixing tickets for family members and friends (allegedly), the NYPD has fixed tickets for celebs like Alex Rodriguez and the late George Steinbrenner. This doesn’t surprise me, as I’ve seen it tons of times in the movies. A-Rod was reportedly pulled over on the West Side Highway after running late to a women’s bodybuilding competition (that aspect actually not confirmed, I’m just guessing.) And a driver for Jay-Z was also busted for cruising down the West Side Highway too fast, but his ticket made like Ma$e and disappeared.
-KH
[NBCNewYork, DN, h/t @azipaybarah]
