A whole new ballgame
He loves basketball and he's from Brooklyn. But in May, filmmaker Spike Lee will be writing about baseball for a new upscale Manhattan magazine.
Lee has been hired to write a sports column for Gotham. His debut effort will appear in the magazine's third issue, and according to Monday's New York Daily News, will contend that Babe Ruth was black.
Lee did not respond to requests for comment, and Gotham editor Joseph Steuer was unable to shed light on the subject.
"All I know is that basically he's writing a column for me and I was asked to pull a picture of Babe Ruth for it," Steuer said.
Joanie loves Simon
Joanie Cunningham has grown up.
Actress Erin Moran, now 39, is half of a two-person cast on tour with Neil Simon's "They're Playing Our Song." The musical comes to Albany, N.Y., for a single performance Thursday.
"I've always been scared to do a play," Moran said by telephone during a stop in Montgomery, Ala., three weeks into the tour. "I don't know why, because doing 'Happy Days' was like a play with three cameras."
The "Happy Days" sitcom ran on ABC from 1974 to 1984. Moran played Ron Howard's little sister. She co-starred with Scott Baio in a short-lived spinoff, "Joanie Loves Chachi."
She took the stage for the first time last year in Simon's "Lost in Yonkers."
Moran said she finds herself naturally drawn to Simon's work.
"He writes so much to how human beings act and feel," she said. "It's so easy to say his words."
Tag, Lil' Kim's it
World Wrestling Federation superstar Chyna says Lil' Kim would make "a great tag-team partner."
"I just bought the Lil' Kim album," Chyna told Vibe magazine in its April issue. "I wasn't too familiar with her music, but I bought it for the album cover. I loved her makeup and her outfit."
Chyna told Vibe she listens to all types of music, but when asked to name her favorite rapper, she replied, "I like the old stuff. Like ... like ... I like that 'Funky Cold Medina."'
Then she laughed.
After-hours is prime time
As NBC's "Saturday Night Live" enjoys a ratings revival so too do the hedonistic post-show parties, which peaked back in the 1970s with John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd knocking back quarts of beer with guests and jamming as the Blues Brothers.
Not-Ready-For-Prime-Time cast members Will Ferrell, Chris Kattan, Chris Parnell and Tracy Morgan are regulars at the latest after-show festivities and post-festivities festivities which continue long past the 4 a.m. bar closing hours, The New York Times said Sunday.
The bar bashes have become so popular that cast members have started rotating the location every Saturday and sharing entry code words with a chosen few.
During the show's heyday, party guests included David Bowie, Keith Richards and members of the Grateful Dead. Recent sightings include Ben Affleck, Heather Graham and comedian Garry Shandling.
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