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George Rush grew up in a small Midwestern town, and then went on to Brown University, followed by Columbia University, where he received his master's degree in journalism. He wrote articles on weighty topics for national magazines, and a book, "Confessions of a Secret Service Agent." But after meeting Joanna Molloy, a fifth-generation New Yorker, Rush soon straightened out his life and began writing a gossip column with her. The couple, who have been married since 1992, have a little Rush.
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Sex education Dustin (Screech) Diamond will be appearing in a way many of his fans hoped never ever to see him. He may have played nerdy eighth-grader Samuel (Screech) Powers in the sitcom "Saved by the Bell." But former TV geek Dustin Diamond can now take his place with Colin Farrell, Tommy Lee and Kid Rock as the star of his very own sex tape. Everyone who remembers Diamond as a lovable putz is in for a shock once they see a 40-minute video in which he engages in a kinky three-way with two women, sources tell us. We can't get too graphic here, but word is that the action includes some bodily functions and an act known as a "Dirty Sanchez." Phoenix-based agent David Hans Schmidt, who has brokered some of Hollywood's biggest celebrity-skin deals, confirms that he's acquired the rights to a tape featuring Diamond. "Just when you think you have seen everything in this business," he tells us, "mankind has raised the bar another notch. Schmidt is in LA, shopping the tape to Hustler's Larry Flynt, Vivid's Steven Hirsch and other major distributors of adult video. Now age 29, the 6-foot Diamond is much brawnier than you may remember him. He's a black belt in karate, and, four years ago, he defeated Ron Palillo (Horshack on "Welcome Back, Kotter") on Fox's "Celebrity Boxing 2" Diamond's manager, Roger Paul, said his client has become a successful standup comic and will appear on the ABC sitcom "The Knights of Prosperity." In 1996, former "Saved by the Bell" sweetheart Elizabeth Berkley bared all in the Paul Verhoeven-Joe Eszterhas trashterpiece, "Show Girls." The Camden, NJ, show will feature John Mellencamp, Neil Young and Dave Matthews, as well as Nelson, country music's pot-fueled phrasing genius, who founded the organization to help family farmers 21 years ago. Linklater, director of such comic hits as "Slacker," "Dazed and Confused," "School of Rock" and "Bad News Bears," got serious this year with "Fast Food Nation," based on Eric Schlosser's expos of factory farms and the fast-food industry. Linklater wanted the movie - which stars Bruce Willis, Wilmer Valderrama, Ethan Hawke, Greg Kinnear, Avril Lavigne, Esai Morales, Patricia Arquette, Kris Kristofferson and a host of other big names, and hits theaters in a few weeks - to have its first screening at the benefit. But Farm Aid turned down the director and his producers, including punk progenitor Malcolm McLaren, saying the film doesn't fit in with this year's message. "We're dumbstruck," said a source close to the producers. "They even have Chipotle as a sponsor, and they're owned by McDonald's." Chipotle, which its parent is selling this week, joins politically correct backers like Silk soy milk, Horizon Organic, Annie's Naturals, Whole Foods and Wild Oats Natural Marketplace. But Farm Aid campaign director Mark Smith told us: "We in no way disagree with the message of 'Fast Food Nation,' and we think the message of the film is a very powerful one. We're bringing farmers into classrooms, city chefs to farms, farmers from across the country to tour cutting-edge farms, farmers to food pantries. We're trying to do events that focus on positive ways to link family farmers with local economies." The hotel heiress was charged yesterday with driving under the influence. The "Simple Life" star, who said she'd had one margarita that night, denied driving recklessly but has admitted, "Maybe I was speeding a little bit." Meanwhile, vintage glam rocker Alice Cooper tells Steppin' Out's Chaunce Hayden: "Her publicist, Elliot Mintz, is one of my oldest friends.
The rapper yesterday appeared in Jersey City Municipal Court to hear her former associate Rasheeda Ellis tell a judge she was dropping her claim that Foxy made terroristic threats against her. Both ladies agreed not to have contact with each other or dis each other in the press. A judge refused Brown's bid to bar photogs from taking her picture and ordered her to remove her sunglasses in court. Naomi Campbell is due in Manhattan Criminal Court today to face charges of allegedly smacking her maid Ana Scolavino with a crystal-encrusted BlackBerry. Meanwhile, Australians are saying they feel safer than ever flying Qantas now that Campbell has sworn never to use the airline. The potty-mouthed poser apparently assumed it was a Qantas employee who notified the swarm of press of her arrival from Bangkok. A local paper revealed it was actually a fellow passenger. Surveillance Diddy celebrated the release of his album "Press Play" and his next brood of babies Monday night.
Toasting all his arrivals were Andre Harrell, Lil' Kim, TI, Cassi, Nelly Furtado and Vanessa Minillo Jon Heder, who brings his dorky "Napoleon Dynamite" brilliance to "School for Scoundrels," is also bracing for fatherhood.
PS Check out Billy Bob Thornton reading Rush & Molloy at the airport in the movie. Director Todd Phillips apparently thinks we're an excellent primer for scoundrels George Clooney and Renee Zellweger had dinner together at the Deco-flavored Sunset Tower Hotel in West Hollywood, but it was all biz. Zellweger's in talks to star in "Leatherheads," the football flick Clooney will direct Uma Thurman and on-again hotelier boyfriend Andr Balazs chowed down on Kobe strip streak and rock shrimp tempura with Joel Schumacher at Morimoto Monday Vanity Fair columnist Michael Wolff and Columbia Journalism School prof Todd Gitlin mixed it up at yesterday's PBS panel on "News and Documentary Television for a Tabloid Culture." Gitlin was trying to make a point about a comment fellow panelist Carl Bernstein made about CBS' coverage of Watergate, when Wolff interrupted: "How come we can't get over this Watergate thing?" Laurie Heifetz reports that Gitlin shot back, "Excuse me!
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