By Drew Grant 12/13/12 6:08pm

Celebrities give back

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Learn From the Best During a One-on-One Meeting With Hollywood Hit-Maker Harvey Weinstein in NYC or L.A.

Chat with Weinstein, Swim With Lochte, or Skype With Egan: The 10 Best Celebrity Holiday Auctions

If you still haven’t picked out the perfect stocking stuffer for the guy (or gal!) who has everything, mosey over to CharityBuzz.com, an auction site that is currently offering a holiday-themed assortment of goodies. Its celebrity auctions are particularly spectacular. Who wouldn’t want David Lynch reading their screenplay, or Jennifer Egan to Skype into their book club? (Don’t even get us started on the two-hour date with Academy Award nominee James Cromwell.) Read More

By Daniel D'Addario 12/05/12 12:18pm

Theatre

Kathie Lee Gifford (Drew Friedman)

The Anarchist, Scandalous Close on Broadway

Two shows are departing the Great White Way before the competitive holiday season even begins. Onetime Observer cover girl Kathie Lee Gifford is saying goodbye to her charismatic-Christian-themed passion project Scandalous, which will have played 31 previews and 29 regular performances when it says goodbye on Sunday. It departs this weekend, allowing Ms. Gifford to return her full energies to broadcasting the famously wine-drenched fourth hour of Today each morning.  Read More

By Frank DiGiacomo 11/08/99 12:00am

Rosie Says Boo! to Nyack

Rosie O’Donnell loves the little children of Nyack, N.Y. It’s the adults she can live without.

Perhaps it’s a good thing the syndicated talk-show host has put her 1880′s Victorian mansion there up for sale (not enough privacy, according to a recent press report). For on the evening of Oct. 31, Ms. O’Donnell did Read More