If you've been watching HBO's Entourage lately, you've probably been enjoying the performance of Martin Landau as Bob Ryan, a past-his-prime producer unfamiliar with the new ways of Hollywood and able only to communicate in anecdotes that refer back to people long since dead and forgotten. It's an incisive…

Post gossip dowager Cindy Adams relates the following news concerning a recent game of chance: "HUNCH players in New York's daily lotto game won the other day when they boxed numbers 1880. That just so happens to be the year of N.Y.C.'s legendary snowstorm. And how's that for 100-degree August?"

Fascinating piece in the Times this morning about Mrs. Astor. The hook: It's not about the recent allegations of poor treatment at the hands of her son, it's about how she managed to live so long in the first place. The Times offers a variety of reasons that the woman could have lasted this long: diet, health,…

Either it's the heat or her medication's been adjusted, but Post gossip dowager Cindy Adams is even more disjointed than usual today. Items crash into each other with no attempt at transition, there's an entire bit about Star Jones that never once mentions Star Jones by name, and, best of all, there's this:

Post gossip dowager Cindy Adams is in a wistful mood today, reflecting on patriotism and great moments in our city's past. Cindy claims that the following information comes from the kind of pamphlet you pick up in any hotel lobby, but we're pretty sure this is actually gussied up oral history from her own memory:

Post gossip dowager Cindy Adams shakes a bony finger at her readers this morning as she reveals how, once again, the world won't listen to her powers of prognostication:

Post gossip dowager Cindy Adams alights from her crypt this morning to remind you that she sees and knows all. Specifically, she predicted that "House of Representatives members would be indicted," George Pataki would run for president, Charlie Gibson would take the top slot at ABC's "World News Tonight," and that…

Post gossip dowager Cinday Adams today breaks the news that "just before his fight with Sonny Liston, [Floyd Patterson] told me: "If I lose the championship tonight, I hope you'll give him the same honors and respect you've always given me."

Mayor Bloomberg has signed a proclamation honoring Sigmund Freud here in town, which provides The Times' Take-A-Senior-To-Work-Day columnist Clyde Haberman yet another opportunity to dial it in. Haberman, who's never met a bad joke he didn't like or an easy assertion he wouldn't make, turns his laserlike acuity on…

As a coda to her controversial column "Nicole Kidman deserves to be happy," antediluvian tattler Liz Smith notes that her own recent appearance on "CBS Sunday Morning" sent her book Dishing (a "little work about celebrity and food"; and here we'd thought Gael Greene had cornered the market on geriatric culinary…

In a rare move certain to assert its relevancy amongst the under-25 crowd, the NY Sun dips into MTV's Sunday Stew and comes out with a mouthful of the Andy Milonakis Show: