Get a driver!
These sad and addicted starlets should keep their black dresses and hats at the ready, because sooner or later one of them might be making a permanent cemetery run or cause the death of an innocent person.
THE SCOOP: Heard from my good friend, actor and native Chicagoan Larry Manetti, who told this sista': ""For the first time in almost 20 years, Tom Selleck, Roger Moseley and I (stars of the long running 'Magnum P.I.' series that has been in syndication since the late 1980s) will appear together in an episode of the NBC drama 'Las Vegas,' with filming to start on Monday. Selleck has replaced James Caan in the lead role on ""Vegas.""
SAD SIGHT, seeing those two handsome amputee soldiers with only one leg between them jogging with President Bush -- who still has two. . . . Is U.S. Rep. Dennis Hastert jockeying to become the new ambassador to Japan?
MOVIE UPDATES: Oprah and Oscar winner Denzel Washington have been busy filming ""The Great Debaters"" primarily in Mansfield, La., since June. Washington is directing and starring along with another Oscar winner, Forest Whitaker, as well as Kimberly (""Beloved,"" ""Diary of a Mad Black Woman"") Elise. The film tells the story of Melvin B. Tolson, a professor at the all-black Wiley College in East Texas who in 1935 started the school's first debate team, which later beat Harvard in a debate championship. They'll be back in Louisiana filming in other locations such as DeSoto Parish and Grand Cane. The movie has a late-year release.
MY STELLAR SPYS tell me that filming will likely begin July 29 in Chicago for the Angelina Jolie movie ""Wanted,"" co-starring Morgan Freeman, who is already in town filming ""Dark Knight"" a k a ""Batman"" a k a ""Rory's First Kiss."" Angie Mae will be in town soon to shoot her part. (And I sure hope she packs ol' fine Brad Pitt in her luggage!)
A HUGE CROWD gathered on Michigan Avenue the other day to watch the Bears' Brian Urlacher film a Comcast cable commercial. Coach Lovie Smith filmed his spot at Soldier Field.
CONGRATS TO attorney Leonard Amari on being elected president of the John Marshall Law School Board of Trustees. . . . And to the local Elite modeling agency, celebrating 25 years.
PEOPLE 'N PLACES: The Sox' GM Kenny Williams, WFLD-Channel 32 anchor Robin Robinson, former Bear Jerry Azumah were all at the grand opening of the flashy and classy new club, LaPomme Rouge. . . . Cubs manager Lou Piniella, coach Matt Sinatro and the Bears' Lance Briggs dined with friends and the eatery's Bobby Hitz. . . . Actor Chris Tucker, who is starring with Jackie Chan in the new ""Rush Hour 3"" movie opening Aug. 10, dined with director Brett Ratner at Room 21.
I WILL BE ONE of the judges for the six-week ""Rumba with the Stars"" dance competition and charity event tonight at the Rumba nightclub. The Sun-Times' Lisa Lenoir will be dancing for her charity, the Foundation for Sarcoidosis Research. Actor Freddy (""Six Feet Under"") Rodriguez was a judge recently. . . . Rapper 50 Cent is on the cover of the current Sister2Sister mag. And comic Mo'Nique is gracing Ebony's cover.
CITY SIGHTS: Nancy Sinatra and Tom Dreesen at LaScarola. . . . WLS Radio's Deborah Rowe dined at 200 East Supper Club with Pat Brickhouse while listening to the sounds of Jerry Hendrix, formerly of the Drifters. . . . The Tigers' Magglio Ordonez dined at Italian Village. . . . Smooth crooner Michael Buble and his crew were feted by Jam Theatrical at the 10pin Bowling Lounge.
HOLY MACKEREL! I must have made too many trips to the punch bowl myself. ... The new Harry Caray's Italian Steakhouse and the Holy Mackerel seafood eatery will open Aug. 24 in the Westin Lombard Yorktown Center.
THE BIRTHDAY AGENDA: Thom Serafin, WMAQ-Channel 5's Ellee Pai Hong and Frank Whittaker and V-103 radio's Irene Mojica. Friday: Nick Celozzi, Barbara Lumpkin and Ald. Ike Carothers. Saturday: Channel 32's Larry Yellen, Howard Carroll and anniversary wishes (34) to Channel 5 anchor Warner Saunders and Sadako. Sunday: Elizabeth Dole. Monday: Buddy Guy, Lisa Madigan, Yvonne Davila and Andrew Hayes.
Well, that's Stella in the City