More from Monday's Howard Rubenstein PR party, in which Dr. Ruth puts today's whipper-snapper social-climbers to shame:

[H]er attention was diverted by a popping flashbulb and she stage-dived into a photograph with Regis Philbin, Cindy Adams (who looked positively hieroglyphic in thick Nefertiti eyeliner) and the man of honor himself, Howard Rubenstein. Later the sly "sexpert" repeated the move just as a photographer was about to snap a rare photo of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and the Reverend Al Sharpton. Nestled between the unlikely pair, she beamed for the camera like the clueless love child of what might have been the world s strangest political union.

Howard's Friends [2nd item, NYO]

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