{"id":905352,"date":"2026-09-22T12:50:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T12:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/905352\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T12:50:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T12:50:13","slug":"and-other-items-from-the-column","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/905352\/","title":{"rendered":"and other items from the column"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday September 22<\/p>\n<p>Chak-Aman<\/p>\n<p>Chaka Khan celebrated her new album at the Aman. She is shown here at the 2026 Sea.Hear.Now festival in New Jersey on September 19.  Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>CHAKA Khan brought her new album \u201cChakzilla\u201d to the Aman Jazz Club on Friday night, where she jammed out and sang along to her hits like \u201cI\u2019m Every Woman\u201d and \u201cI Feel for You.\u201d She kicked off the evening thanking everyone for coming, and explaining the mission of the evening. \u201cWe\u2019re going to listen to some of my new stuff, my new offering to you.\u00a0 It sounds like something nasty or weird,\u201d she quipped before clarifying, \u201cThis is an upbeat, wonderful contribution of mine to you and I\u2019m hoping you\u2019re enjoying it\u2026 We\u2019re going to do a little listening party, blah blah blah. Thank you for coming again, and I\u2019ll see you around.\u201d And see them around she did. Khan stayed all night, singing along to her song as onlookers, like \u201cMasquerade\u201d star and movement director, Maxfield Trucios-Haynes, caught her attention dancing to DJ Mia Moretti and Kamala playing her tunes. Lola Ogunnaike, Mickalene Thomas, Latham Thomas, Shaggy, Sylvia Rhone, L. Londell McMillan, Ty Hunter, and Unik Ernest, who produced the event, all came out to celebrate Khan\u2019s new project.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Artist blossoms<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s making her own mark. Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt\u2019s daughter Vivienne Jolie-Pitt is forging her own path as an artist \u2014 selling her original work at a Los Angeles street fair over the weekend. The 18-year-old, who was joined by twin brother Knox, sold prints, stickers and birthday cards under the name of her art project, \u201cThe Tulip Fields.\u201d Vivienne chatted with customers and worked the booth, while Knox helped with setup and snapped photos, <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/angelina-jolie-daughter-vivienne-18-sells-her-original-artwork-during-a-local-fair-with-knox-12131679\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">reported People<\/a>. The outing comes as Vivienne also takes steps to shed her famous father\u2019s surname. According to Los Angeles County Superior Court documents, the teen has published legal notices announcing her intention to change her name from Vivienne Marcheline Jolie-Pitt to Vivienne Marcheline Jolie. The notices ran in the Los Angeles Daily Journal four times between July 24 and Aug. 14. The name change has not yet been approved. A court hearing is scheduled for Nov. 2.<\/p>\n<p>Monday, September 21<\/p>\n<p>New sale in Towns<\/p>\n<p>Karl-Anthony Towns and entrepreneur wife Jordyn Woods are the latest celebs to become guest curators of sales at Sotheby\u2019s.  The pair are seen here in Tribeca on September 15, 2026. GC Images<\/p>\n<p>Knicks star Karl-Anthony Towns and entrepreneur wife Jordyn Woods are the latest celebs to become guest curators of sales at Sotheby\u2019s. The auction house has previously welcomed unlikely collaborations with Robert Pattinson, Cynthia Erivo and Karlie Kloss. And last week, Page Six spotted the pair arriving at Sotheby\u2019s on the Upper East Side for a bash marking their \u201cContemporary Curated\u201d sale. Among those spotted at the soir\u00e9e were Away\u2019s Jen Rubio and Knicks player Jordan Clarkson. Towns and Woods \u2014 who tied the knot last month in a star-studded Malibu celebration \u2014 selected 10 works by the likes of Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Helen Frankenthaler, Alma Thomas, George Condo, Ed Ruscha and Rashid Johnson, spanning painting, sculpture and works on paper. Woods snapped a pic of a vintage Birkin on display at the event \u2014 fitting for the newlywed, whose own handbag became a good-luck charm for the Knicks during their championship run. The exhibition opens Oct. 2, with the auction set for Oct. 7.<\/p>\n<p>Kid sews up record<\/p>\n<p>A 10-year-old fashion designer set a Guinness World Record during New York Fashion Week. We hear Max Alexander grabbed the honor for threading a sewing machine in 10.5 seconds \u2014 the record had been 15 seconds \u2014 during a live display at Mood Fabrics. He had to prove that he threaded it correctly by stitching a swatch of fabric. We hear he threw the sample into the audience, where it was caught by his mentor, Fern Mallis. He then also draped his fabric onto a mannequin and pinned it all into a gown.<\/p>\n<p>Blonde model a poser at Open<\/p>\n<p>Page Six did a double take when we spotted model Laila Hasanovic at the US Open as the competition was wrapping up last weekend \u2014 mostly because her boyfriend, Jannik Sinner, wasn\u2019t competing this year. But we were even more puzzled because the Danish beauty\u2019s Instagram suggested she wasn\u2019t anywhere near New York. Also curious: The blond was eagerly filming celebs as they swept through the VIP entrance \u2014 not typical behavior for a person who is a VIP herself. Turns out, there was a very good reason: It wasn\u2019t her. Though the credential hanging around the mystery woman\u2019s neck appeared to read \u201cLaila Hasanovic,\u201d when we sent a message to the model on social media, she confirmed to Page Six that she wasn\u2019t at the Open. When we asked whether someone else had somehow gotten their hands on her credential, she simply replied, \u201cI\u2019m not there\u201d \u2014 accompanied by a cheeky emoji. So who was the credentialed mystery blond? Your guess is as good as ours. But we will say this: It would be a shame to let a perfectly good WAG pass go to waste, wouldn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n<p>Royal indifference <\/p>\n<p>Irish actress Sharon Horgan is most definitely not invested in the Prince Harry and Meghan Markle drama unfolding since their recent relocation back to the United Kingdom. When PageSix.com\u2019s Nicki Gostin asked her if she \u201cgave a toss,\u201d Horgan (above) laughed and replied, \u201cNo, I couldn\u2019t give a f\u200a-\u200a-\u200ak.\u201d The \u201cBad Sisters\u201d alum\u2019s response tracks. When we asked her in 2023 if she was excited about King Charles\u2019 coronation, Horgan, 56, scoffed that she \u201cdidn\u2019t give a s\u200a-\u200a-\u200at.\u201d Horgan\u2019s latest show is the semi-autobiographical HBO series \u201cYouth,\u201d which premiered last night.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday, September 20<\/p>\n<p>Light-hearted gig<\/p>\n<p>Cyndi Lauper, shown here at WeHo Pride June 02, 2024, knows how to pose.  Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Cyndi Lauper\u2019s secret to a great shot: no overhead lighting.\u00a0 The \u201cGirls Just Wanna Have Fun\u201d singer was spotted at Joey Arias\u2019 revived show, \u201cArias with a Twist,\u201d on Thursday night, and she had some strict demands on how to snap her picture while catching up with downtown performing artist. Arias, and Lauper, Arias and the show\u2019s director Basil Twist posed for a selfie that had Lauper barking, \u201cFlat lighting! Overhead is bad. Flat lighting better.\u201d Lauper was in a playful mood throughout the evening. At the start of the show, as the director explained where the exits were, she shouted \u201clike an airplane\u201d from her seat in the audience. <\/p>\n<p>Times B\u2019Day above the fold<\/p>\n<p>After nearly two centuries, the Gray Lady has still got it. The New York Times celebrated its 175th year with a blow-out bash that drew politicians, celebrities, power players and the paper\u2019s biggest stars. Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch, Senator Chuck Schumer, Barry Diller and Diane Von Furstenberg, Robert De Niro, Robert Kraft, NBA commish Adam Silver, Kevin Bacon, and Ashley Judd were seen making the rounds at Spring Studios Thursday night, while Karlie Kloss greeted pals, Fran Drescher chatted on a couch, and journos Kara Swisher, Mark Guiducci, Kaitlan Collins, Lachlan Cartwright and Oliver Darcy listened to the speeches. \u201cToday\u2019s\u201d Savannah Guthrie was seen in the crowd. Jeremy Strong read an 1863 article by Samuel Wilkeson Jr. from the front lines of Gettysburg; Julia Louis-Dreyfus gave voice to an editorial on infamous Tammany Hall pol Boss Tweed; and Regina King read an 1971 article on the Pentagon Papers. The \u201cDaily\u201d host Michael Barbaro played emcee, while reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor \u2014 whose reporting on Harvey Weinstein launched the Me Too movement \u2014 spoke as did publisher A.G. Sulzberger and CEO Meredith Kopit Levien. \u201cMay we all look so vibrant and energetic at 175,\u201d Sulzberger said. Janelle Mon\u00e1e performed.<\/p>\n<p>Nice talk, dahling<\/p>\n<p>Billie Lourd says she hears her late grandmother, Debbie Reynolds\u2019 voice in her head all the time. She said the late Hollywood legend would call, and say in an unmistakable timbre, \u201c\u2018Hello dear, this is your grandmother, Debbie,\u2019 I\u2019m like, \u2018Oh, I thought it was that other lady that talks like this, that\u2019s my grandmother, that\u2019s calling me,\u201d she kidded with PageSix.com\u2019s Nicki Gostin at the premiere of the Ryan Murphy Netflix series: \u201cMonster: The Lizzie Borden Story.\u201d \u201cIt was the most specific voice and it will never leave my brain, the most magical, hilarious voice of all time.\u201d Lourd explained that Reynolds was taught to speak in an odd Trans-Atlantic style at MGM, which she used in \u201cMonster.\u201d \u201cIt was so fun to get to lean into that,\u201d she explained. \u201cI didn\u2019t go as hard as she did but it was really fun for me to get to play around with that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stumped by forest <\/p>\n<p>In the \u201cWeight,\u201d Ethan Hawke Hawke plays a character in 1930s Oregon who is forced to smuggle gold through a forest. But the \u201cBoyhood\u201d star doesn\u2019t fancy his chances of surviving in the wilderness \u2013 unless his brother was there. \u201cMy stepbrother is a colonel in the Green Berets,\u201d told PageSix.com\u2019s Nicki Gostin at its premiere. \u201cIf my brother were there, everything would be fine. If he wasn\u2019t, I\u2019d probably be in trouble.\u201d Meanwhile, the actor \u2013 who made his screen debut at 14, told us that it\u2019s still a joy. \u201cIt\u2019s amazing, I do love it\u2026I\u2019ve loved it since I was a young man. I feel the profession is constantly humbling you, meaning the more you learn, the more you understand what you don\u2019t know,\u201d he said, \u201cAnd the more I think about it, one lifetime is not enough to really excel at this profession.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dig up the past <\/p>\n<p>As a child, actor Rupert Friend thought he wanted to be\u00a0 an archeologist \u2013 but on reflection, it\u2019s possible he didn\u2019t really know what an archaeologist does. \u201cI think I wanted to be Indiana Jones more than an archeologist,\u201d he told PageSix.com\u2019s Nicki Gostin at the premiere of the new HBO series, \u201cYouth.\u201d \u201cI have more interest in adventures than in the fine art of brushing dust off relics\u2026and I like the idea of punching out Nazis on tanks.\u201d Friend plays the charming but immature love interest of Sharon Horgan in \u201cYouth\u201d and shared that he was a bit of a \u201clate starter in most every way.\u201d \u201cAnd I definitely kept tearing it up for maybe a little bit too long,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Advice for \u2018Youth\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Irish teen Aran Murphy, who plays Sharon Horgan\u2019s son in the HBO series \u201cYouth,\u201d told PageSix.com\u2019s Nicki Gostin that his dad, actor Cillian Murphy, gave him some simple advice before his first big role. \u201cJust trust your instincts,\u201d he told us at the show\u2019s premiere. \u201cThat\u2019s probably the best advice\u2026I think (he meant), trust yourself and trust your ideas and not be afraid to give your effort.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tuesday September 22 Chak-Aman Chaka Khan celebrated her new album at the Aman. 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