Columnist Sends Beanie To Halfway House

I have done a lot of things on this blog to piss people off, but I am pretty sure I never got anyone in trouble with the law. Apparently, Dan Gross sent Beanie Sigel to a halfway house. Geeze, Dan. Steve Volk didn’t do anything like that.

Dan Gross says oops on his blog and not much else. He reported Beanie was at the Tropicana — the Trop? Really? Beanie! — and that was a violation of his parole. He has to stay at a halfway house for the next sixth months. Let’s hope Gross has a basket of fruit ready for Beanie.

Big Alycia Lane News! Well…

Dan Gross reports today that PhillyGossip.com exclusively reported in December on Alycia Lane’s arrest! Oh, and also, today is the last day (sans weekend) of Alycia Lane’s three-week vacation after allegedly punching a cop and calling her a “fucking dyke.”

So, the DN gossip guru asks, Will CBS 3 announce Alycia Lane’s fate today? CBS 3 says there is no new news to report, and, hell, even I was too lazy to do a new Photoshop of Lane, which we know is the real harbinger of “no news.” (The bigger tits galore version is here, pervs.) But maybe Lane will get fired today in the best Friday news dump of all time.

More interestingly, a source tells Gross Lane has approached a high-powered Center City law firm about a wrongful termination suit, if she is indeed fired for her alleged transgression. She denies any cop punching or dyke-calling, so I guess we’ll all just have to wait this one out and be content to write about her for increased pageviews.

Superman, Quick Endorse Vaccinations

This is my favorite Dan Gross item ever: Dean “Superman” Cain and Mike Quick are giving out flu shots: “Vaccinations cost $25, or free for folks on Medicare. The vaccinations are open to anybody over four years old. For more info, call 800-LUNG-USA.” Hey, if Superman and the guy who says “Matt Blatt Auto Sales Splat of the Game” want me to get a flu shot, I’m sold.

Cain is able to help your health [DN, 3rd item]

Vince Fumo Now Available For Dates, Social Events

Vince Fumo is back on the market, ladies!

Dan Gross reports today the recently-indicted state senator split up from his girlfriend, Roseanne Martin, who was formerly engaged to Ed Snider. “It just wasn’t a good match,” Martin said. “He has a very difficult year ahead of him.”

Meanwhile, this leaves Fumo free to get back to what he does best: Attempt to date the city’s cute anchorwomen. Gross has previously reported Fumo was after both Alycia Lane and Kerri-Lee Halkett. So who’s next? Is Erin O’Hearn too young for Fumo? Will he try to seduce Cecily Tynan? How about Jennaphr Frederick? (Yes, I know, some of these people are married. Shush.)

In the meantime, Jessica Borg, be prepared for a date invitation.

Dan Gross | Fumo, Martin split for good [Inquirer]
Feb. 8: 63-Year-Old Man Lusts For Thirtysomething
Feb. 12: Vince Fumo Is All Over The City’s Anchorwomen

Local Woman Visits Foreign Country

We all know there’s not much going on in this fair city of ours, celebrity-wise. Sure, we all like Donovan McNabb, Ryan Howard and Doug Kammerer, but that’s about the height, fame-wise, than our city can get. This makes Daily News gossip columnist Dan Gross’ job fairly hard, since, well, he writes local gossip.

And while Philadelphians are usually wild/stupid/etc. enough to get Gross a good first item, by the end of the column we’re back to local TV news anchor sightings again. And sometimes, we have to go to Israel to find, erhm, a “celebrity” sighting.

Dr. Donna Gentile O’Donnell, managing director of the Eastern Technology Council, arrived in Israel a few days early for the international Biotech Conference in Tel Aviv. While staying at Jerusalem’s David Citadel Hotel, she bumped into U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman and his wife, Hadassah, and joined the couple for drinks and political discussion. O’Donnell was active in the 2000 Al Gore/Lieberman drive.

If you’re scoring at home, Donna Gentile O’Donnell, a tremendously nice woman who was a columnist at the Daily Pennsylvanian the semester before I was, met Joe Lieberman in Israel. When Gross starts writing about my top-8 finish at the Rock Paper Scissors City League Championship this weekend, then I think it’s time for me to retire. (If it wasn’t time already! Rimshot.)

Out and about [Daily News, last item]

al-Zarqawi, Bill Henley Dine At Continental

A letter in today’s Daily News:

IF THE Public Eye in your paper can spot all those people dining, drinking, socializing and getting into trouble, why don’t you use those skills and go out and find Osama?

And all the recent coverage of Barbaro is making me sick.

You’d think, other than making money off him, he was a talking horse like Mr. Ed!

Laurence Barberra, Philadelphia

I can’t help but agree with the Barbaro comment, though I suspect Mr. Barberra is just upset his name is close to that damn horse’s (and also that he didn’t invent Huckleberry Hound). As for the other point he makes, I have to disagree on that one. I mean, didn’t he see Dan Gross’ latest column?

Letters | Eye on Osama [Daily News]

T.O. Wants No Part Of Dan Gross

For a while, the Daily News‘ Dan Gross has been content to write about Lil’ Kim masturbating, make Alycia Lane angry, piss off John Ogden’s mother and, of course, publish the Iron Sheik’s insults toward Hulk Hogan.

Well, apparently, Terrell Owens has been reading, because he wanted nothing to do with the Daily News columnist:

“Don’t be calling my phone, I don’t know you like that,” was all Terrell Owens said when we reached him on his cell yesterday seeking details on what business brought him and agent Drew Rosenhaus to town last week. [...]

[CN8's Greg] Coy asked if the former Iggles star wanted to come on the live show, but Owens declined, between bites of an omelet. When we reached Owens yesterday, he said he had nothing to say about why he was here and asked again that we not call his phone. We asked him for a name of a publicist whom we should be calling, but he hung up on us.

In summary, the report: T.O. was in Philly and ate an omelet.

Dan Gross | T.O. tight-lipped about recent overnight here [Daily News]
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Mayor Street, In Aisle 12

I’ve joked about the sightings Dan Gross is forced to put in his daily gossip column before; they tend to be of things like “local meteorologist,” “local athlete,” “B-list celebrity in town,” “opposing team’s athlete in town.” Nothing wrong with that, it just shows that we were in Philadelphia don’t really have too many celebrities.

Today’s sighting is, by far, the best ever:

With all the hullabaloo around the mayoral race, it’s apparently pretty easy not to notice Mayor Street. Hizzoner went widely unrecognized last night while pushing a cart through SuperFresh (1851 S. Columbus) and shopping for groceries. At least one worker there was on the ball.

That’s right: John Street is the only vegetarian in Philadelphia who apparently doesn’t shop at Whole Foods. Then again, he goes to Franklin Mills, so it’s clear he’s more pleb than patrician.

Out and about [Daily News, 3rd item]

Puppydogs Of Local Media: Dan Gross

Time for a new feature: Puppydogs of local media! Yes, if you’re wondering, this is probably the only time this feature will appear. But Daily News gossip Dan Gross sent me photos of his new puppy, Clark W. Griswold. (Cute, though I think I would have gone with “The Gross Puppy.”)

Aww! Even cuter! The pup is a black lab mix that’s about 10 weeks old. Gross and his wife, Holly Maher, adopted him from PACCA. Fearing a revolt from his other doggy, though, Gross later sent me photos of the other pup, which are after the jump.

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Ivanka Trump’s (Fake?) Boobs Are Everywhere

Today’s Daily News continues the theme of nonstop Ivanka Trump boob coverage, which means I have to write about it as usual so I can run this photo of Ivanka Trump.

Let’s do the background: Rumors were swirling sometime late last year that Ivanka Trump got a boob job in Mexico, because we all know that if you want good health care, you go to East Timor, and if you can’t find it there, then you go to Mexico! (Aren’t we the king of plastic surgeons? I can’t imagine any other country produces more plastic surgeons per capita than we do.)

And, after the Golden Globes, Gross reported her boobs were definitely bigger. He followed it up a few weeks later with a denial from Ivanka and from Donald Jr.

And now, today:

The plot thickens. Donald Trump refused to comment yesterday morning on Howard Stern’s Sirius Satellite Radio show about whether his daughter, who like himself is a Wharton grad, has gotten implants. Ivanka hasn’t entirely answered the question, and her brother, Donald Jr., got angry the other week when 102.9 WMGK’s John DeBella and sidekick Brian Carothers quoted one of our recent columns and asked him about the implants.

Now this conspiracy to protect Ivanka from having the awful truth that she got a boob job — No! No celebrity has ever done that before! — has expanded to include not only Donald Jr. but The Trumpster himself. Pretty soon Dan Gross is going to be talking to the president about this.

Another titillating Trump tidbit [Daily News, 3rd item]
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