Zoë Kravitz is certainly the belle of the ball, with popstar Harry Styles the latest to be smitten.
The good-looking couple has been seen hand in hand in Rome, London and Brooklyn, the latter of which Kravitz calls home.
“Harry has had a crush on her for a while and has pursued her across Europe,” one source said.
Kravitz, the daughter of actress Lisa Bonet and rockstar Lenny Kravitz, broke off her engagement to Channing Tatum last October.
She was recently seen flirting with Austin Butler in Paris while promoting their film “Caught Stealing,” but that was just work. The deal with Styles is real.
Butler, meanwhile, was spotted getting cozy with model Emily Ratajkowski at the Waverly Inn on Friday night. She was previously linked to Styles in 2023 when the two were caught kissing in Tokyo.
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Matt Damon jumped into action to defuse a tense moment with director Christopher Nolan while shooting “The Odyssey” on location in Iceland.
Nolan halted 400 extras in full costume and makeup to express his frustration with crew members who missed their cues to move a giant reproduction of a Greek galley on the sea.
The movie was filming in the village of Vik during a heavy rainstorm near the summer solstice, when it stays light for 23 hours a day.
The actors, extras and crew were all tired from long days and nights on the set, and everyone was on edge. But Damon, in a beard and a cape as the film’s main character Odysseus, cracked jokes to bring the tension down.
Everyone, including Nolan, laughed and went back to work.
The $250-million movie is reportedly over budget, and has been delayed by Iceland’s cold, windy and rain-soaked weather.
Damon and Tom Holland, who plays Damon’s son, and Zendaya, who plays Athena, went on to film in Scotland, where there was a second reproduction of the expensive boat used in the film.
Iceland has been hopping as of late with sightings of Justin Bieber, who recently traveled to the remote destination to record his long-awaited new music. He rented out Eleven Deplar Farm, the country’s most expensive hotel.
Local government officials got upset when Bieber posted photos of himself smoking a bong at the lodge. Insiders said management told the star to stop posting.
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Steve Stanulis, who stars as a hitman in the mockumentary series “Great Kills,” says he wasn’t prepared for his co-star Bai Ling.
“The first day we met, we had a sex scene,” Stanulis told me. “She was so good. She couldn’t care less who was in the room. The crew needed a cigarette.”
In the dark comedy, Stanulis’ Staten Island assassin is pursued by documentary filmmakers “who just want to get the shots, unmoved by torture and murder.”
Cathy Moriarty, who plays a mob boss, stayed in character and “scared the hell out of everyone,” Stanulis said. “The sound guy was afraid to look her in the eye.”
“I told her she was scaring everyone, and she said, ‘Good.’ Even I was scared of her.”
Eric Roberts, playing himself, was slated to get murdered by Stanulis, who asked him how he wanted to be killed.
Roberts told him, “You can kill me any way you want as long as my hair looks good.”
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A celebration of life for Elliot Cuker in the West Village on Thursday brought memories of the actor, producer and vintage car dealer who owned Cooper Classic Cars.
As a struggling actor in the 1970s, Cuker drove dignitaries around Manhattan in an old Bentley. On stage, he was the first white member of the Negro Ensemble Company. He and his cars were in countless movies. And he famously persuaded pal Rudy Giuliani to dress in drag for an annual political roast in 1997, and later on “Saturday Night Live.”
Actor Malcolm McDowell said Cuker “dove into every day and saw everything half full not half empty.” The pair had talked about doing a show together where they dined lavishly and then drove around in a classic car.
Pal and podcast host Bill McCuddy emceed the evening and confirmed Cuker’s love of art and great food.
“He said Perry St. by his friend Jean-Georges Vongerichten had the best pea soup on the planet,” McCuddy told me. “We went once and he was right.”
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The Cipriani Hotel was the place to be during the 82nd Venice Film Festival.
Last week, following the screening of Noah Baumbach’s “Jay Kelly,” the lobby filled up with cast members Adam Sandler, Laura Dern, Billy Crudup, Greta Gerwig and Emily Mortimer.
The only star missing was George Clooney, suffering from a sinus infection, although he did dazzle on the red carpet with his wife, Amal.
The film received an eight-minute standing ovation and one fan shouted out to Sandler, “You are on your way to the Oscars!”
Also on the scene were Shailene Woodley; Mike White, the creator of “The White Lotus;” Molly Simms and husband Scott Stuber, the former chairman of Netflix Films; and PCE’s Thomas Pierce, one of the executive producers of Jude Law’s “The Wizard of the Kremlin,” which also received a standing ovation at the festival.
Pierce hosted his own party in Venice at Harry’s Bar for the Children’s Oncology Support Fund, which he founded, to kick off Aspen Snow Ball Week, which will take place in March.
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New York Fashion Week is no longer just about hemlines, color palettes and supermodels.
On Saturday at the Léman Ballroom, 12 of the finalists for Miss Universe Switzerland will walk the runway to honor the memory of Kristina Joksimovic, a 2007 Miss Switzerland finalist who was allegedly murdered by her husband in early 2024.
The mother of two was strangled and dismembered with a jigsaw, knife and garden shears, according to an autopsy report. Her remains were then “pureed” with a hand blender, before being dissolved in a chemical.
“Kristina’s loss was a heartbreaking reminder that behind every radiant smile is a human soul deserving of care, compassion and protection,” said Magdaline Delany, founder and producer of EPN (Entrepreneurs and Producers Network) NYFW.
“We must recognize the signs of struggle and create safe spaces for healing,” Delany emphasized. “This isn’t just a fashion show — it’s a movement to save lives.”
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Evie Litwok, founder and executive director of Witness to Mass Incarceration, wants to save lives too.
Litwok went to prison for two years for tax evasion — “I wasn’t guilty of anything,” she told me — and was unemployable when she got out.
“I realized that if I couldn’t get a job, none of these younger people I was in prison with could either. They didn’t have a prayer.”
Litwok’s group takes 30, primarily LGBTQ+, students and trains them in fashion design for two years.
On Wednesday, with Skye Ostreicher’s Style Across the Aisle, her students will feature designs for a runway show at Manhattan Surrogate’s Court near City Hall.
The models, a bipartisan group of New York elected officials, include Queens Borough President Donovan Richards; Assemblymember Eddie Gibbs, the first formerly incarcerated person elected to the NY State Legislature; and Councilmember Julie Won, who represents Long Island City, which is home to the Witness headquarters.
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Sir David Attenborough helped renowned oceanographer Sylvia Earle celebrate her 90th birthday after a screening in Aspen of his film “Ocean,” which explores the greatest age of ocean discovery and humans’ exploitation of the sea.
The legendary director said, “If we save the sea, we save the world.”
After blowing out her candles at Alpine Bistro, Earle said, “My wish is a big wish but if we can make it happen, it can truly change the world and help ensure the survival of what actually — as it turns out — is my favorite species; that would be us.”
During the dinner, Earle planned a diving expedition in Indonesia for next spring.
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DJ Prince Hakim, the son of Robert “Kool” Bell of Kool & the Gang, will perform at the Montclair Jazz Festival Jamboree at Lackawanna Station on Saturday.
Other artists performing include Christian McBride’s multi-generational quintet Ursa Major, saxophonist Lakecia Benjamin, singer Jazzmeia Horn and the Jazz House Collective.
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Transgender comic Dana Friedman jokes about herself.
“Being a Jewish trans woman, my bar mitzvah was awkward: I was 13, 4-foot-9, and weighed 60 lbs. If that’s Jewish manhood, no wonder we’re not big in construction!”
Friedman also cracked, “Barbie turned 65, so Mattel released Barbie Estrogen Supplements, Barbie Living Will and Barbie’s Kid Who Doesn’t Call Unless They Need Money.”
She’ll perform next Sunday at Don’t Tell Mama in Hell’s Kitchen. Get tickets at HolyJokes.com.
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Word from Lincoln Center is that Misty Copeland will retire from the American Ballet Theatre with a star-studded gala built around her on Oct. 22.
For the past several years, the popular principal dancer has been focusing on her family — her attorney husband, Olu Evans, and their 3-year-old son, Jackson.
Misty’s real power is now on social media, where she’s the biggest influencer in ballet.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson — in town performing “Twelfth Night” for Shakespeare in the Park — was spotted recording his “Dinner’s on Me” podcast with comedian Lilly Singh over an al fresco brunch at Lindens in the Arlo Soho hotel.
