Where the celebrities go to spend their vacation time
So here’s where they’ve schlepped for vacations:
Greece.
He’s hawking Omega watches and with his houses all over, he needs extra bucks like Barbie needs a hairdresser . . .
Newly single Sofía Vergara? La dolce vita.
She says: “If life gives you lemons you come to Italy to squeeze them.”
Which means, who knows.
Maybe on the hunt for another shape to squeeze?
Also there, Gwyneth.
Don’t ask, Gwyneth who?
Javier Bardem — Rio . . . Liam Neeson — Anguilla . . . Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas have a house in Mallorca.
Doesn’t everyone?
Camila Cabello’s warming her varying parts in Puerto Rico.
Steve Harvey and fam — St-Tropez.
Pregnant Kourtney Kardashian — Hawaii.
Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz — Colombia.
Maybe for coffee?
Nick Lachey & Co. — Disney World.
Jimmy Fallon and family — New Hampshire’s Lake Winnipesaukee.
Brian Cox — Turks and Caicos.
Melissa McCarthy and husband — New Mexico.
Gal Gadot — Seychelles.
Liev Schreiber — Bahamas.
He got seen hugging a flamingo.
And Tracee Ellis Ross at GoldenEye in Jamaica.
Not Jamaica, Queens.
Stars may shine
SEPT. 29 begins NYC’s 61st annual New York Film Festival.
Oct. 15 our hot shot Hollywood celebrities then go back in the bottle — or TO the bottle.
Held every autumn, all considered the best in global moviemaking.
Listen, talkies began 1927.
Warner’s “The Jazz Singer” — also premiering in New York and starring Al Jolson — cost $422,000 to make. New nice “Barbie” — $145 million.
In days of yore, Eastwood, Coppola, Clooney, Baumbach, Almodóvar, those Coen brothers, Ang Lee, Woody — don’t ask Woody who? — showed.
Now, who knows? There’s been cost cutting.
So, red carpet? How? Helpers, assistants, coordinators gone.
Who’ll now lead, push or nudge stars to walk, talk or stalk? Second, there’s a strike! What stars will even want to show up?!
Maybe now no carpet. Maybe just a mat?
Going all to pot
Cannabis pros are now awarding cannabis permits.
Bureaucrats — Cannabis Control Board and Office of Cannabis Management — are charged with licensing those previously convicted of marijuana possession.
Disabled combat vets want priority.
Their court hearing’s next week. We a great country or what?
Farewell to a legend
MONDAY we lost William Friedkin.
Age, 87.
Born, Chicago.
Lived, Los Angeles.
Married over 30 years to Sherry Lansing — former Paramount chairwoman, former 20th Century Fox president, first woman to head a major motion picture company.
Director, producer, screenwriter, Billy brought us “Caine Mutiny,” “The French Connection” and “greatest film of all time . . . most terrifying film in history” — 1973’s “The Exorcist,” starring Linda Blair, Ellen Burstyn, Lee J. Cobb.
I knew Billy. I know his wife. I knew he was hospitalized days ago. I also knew he and Sherry invited friends over every weekend.
Their chef served dinner.
Entertainment — always — a never-before-seen first-run screening of a new movie.
The friends, the industry, all loved you Billy.
In 1933, President FDR ordered all banks closed to save our economy.
Today banks are open.
But only to save that money for the IRS.
Oy.
Sighed mostly only in New York, kids, only in New York.
