Christie's is holding a pop culture auction this summer and their sale will include none other than Tony Soprano's most notable wardrobe items. The auction takes place on June 25th (almost a year after the series finale, and the tag sale) and WNBC reports that the proceeds will go to the Wounded Warrior Project, a Florida-based group assisting severely wounded soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. While some pieces of the Gandolfini garb may go for......

Last month we all got to see Lindsay Lohan play dress up for NY Mag as she posed as Marilyn Monroe. Michael Musto wasn't about to let her steal the show though, he's now topped the troubled tart by posing as Lindsay posing as Marilyn. He tells his loyal readers how he prepared for his own "Last Sitting":The slinky Lindsay said she did 250 crunches the night before her shoot. Well, I did 250 Nestlé......

Lindsay Lohan by Bert Stern. In 1962, photographer Bert Stern shot a series of photos (2,571 in all) of Marilyn Monroe at the Hotel Bel-Air that are collectively known as “The Last Sitting.” The 36-year-old Monroe was in the darkest period of her life, having weathered two recent divorces, gallbladder surgery and sickness during production of the romantic comedy Something’s Got to Give, from which she was fired and rehired. Six weeks after the Stern......

Need a last minute costume idea and in a New York state of mind? Here are a few NYC-themed ideas for your Halloween fête... R.I.P.ped from the Headlines • Thor Equities Need: Winged Thor helmet and hammer, brochures or maps (which can be printed out) of Coney Island -- and something to destroy them with. • The Staten Island Ninja Burglar Need: Ninja outfit, complete with nunchucks. Fake stab wound to the chest. Map......

TIP: Starting today and running through the 16th you can see some of Off-Broadway's best for only $20! Go here for more details about the 20at20 deal. READING: Clintons + book stores = long lines, so start heading to Union Square now for tonight's reading. Our former president will be giving everyone a glimpse from his new book "Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World." Read more about the book, which is out......

Tonight's episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent features its ripped-from-the-headlinse take on the Anna Nicole Smith soap opera. Playing a blond bombshell named Lorelei Mailer is Kristy Swanson, best known as the movie Buffy the Vampire Slayer; playing her manager/boyfriend is David Cross (!). TV Guide interviewed Swanson:TV Guide: How did this Criminal Intent job come about? Swanson: Law & Order called my agent and said that they're doing the Anna Nicole Smith story.......

Judge Larry Seidlin wept when he gave custody of Anna Nicole Smith's body would go to her baby Danielynn Smith. Well, make that Danielynn's legal guardian, Richard Milstein. Five-month-old Danielynn was practically the only person who wasn't fighting for her mother's body, and the AP called it a "surprise middle course" decision. However, Newsday's Star Struck blog called Seidiln's sobbing "possibly the most embarrassing thing on television since 'The Magic Hour.'" E! Online has......

Reader Joseph sent us this screenshot of a Barnes & Noble mailer promoting an upcoming reading from Norman Mailer. It looks like his biography of Marilyn Monroe apparently elevated him to husband-of-Marilyn status! Norman Mailer, Arthur Miller, it's all the same! Or maybe it's a way to drum up more interest in the event. Back in 1973, Mailer's Marilyn book landed him on the cover of Time with Marilyn. Mailer says in the article,......

HarperCollins president and CEO Jane Friedman fired editor Judith Regan late-yesterday. The dismissal, which was announced while most employees were at the company Christmas party, comes after last month's O.J. Simpson book and Fox TV interview fiasco. Regan was the driving force behind the project, in which Simpson described how he might have hypothetically killed his wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman. After the project came under intense criticism, Rupert Murdoch, HarperCollins......

Okay, we didn't write about Episode 5 of Project Runway last week, and for that we apologize because that lack of discipline simply does not work. But that meant we've had time to watch the episode, oh, about 4 times all the way through, plus various snippets repeatedly whenever we turn on Bravo, we've had time to think: - Jeffrey is the worst person in the world, because even when he's right (as he was......

- Seriously, why does it seem like public libraries are always closed? The News investigates. - Today was the Singaporean Chili Crab Festival in Brooklyn. Yum. - The Times ponders the sudden building boom in our city's cultural institutions. Check out the slideshow if you like architectural porn. - The strike is over at American Girl Place. - Busted! A Parks Department worker was caught after stealing a woman's watch while she was sitting......

Just in case you had to actually go to work today (shouldn't Halloween be a national holiday?) we've taken the time to screencap the annual Today Show halloween buffonery. Award for best costume definitely goes to Ann Curry, who makes a fairly convincing Audrey Hepburn. Note to Katie Couric: you need bigger boobs to pull off Marilyn Monroe! And we think it's demeaning that Al Roker has to be Robin-- why couldn't he have......

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One thing that many New York women can look forward to in the colder weather is being able to walk on street grating - that is, only if they are wearing boots. If a woman has careened into you from almost a 90 degree angle, it may be because she doesn't want to get her heels caught in the grating that can attach themselves around heels of many kinds. Of course, women are unable to......

Sweet Serendipity: Delicious Desserts and Devilish Dish by Stephen Bruce with Brett Bara, Universe Publishing, 2004 Chocolate-tastic! Chocolate practically drips of the page in "Sweet Serendipity," a new dessert cookbook in which Serendipity 3's owner, Stephen Bruce, who founded the uptown shrine to sweets with two partners in 1954, reveals the secrets behind the restaurant's famous desserts. The cookbook commemorates the restaurant's 50th anniversary and the book's introduction details the restaurant's long history as sugar-peddler......

2 weeks ago the Andy Warhol "Summer Shadows"�show opened at the Woodward Gallery. It runs through July 31st. Gothamist loves Warhol, yet has never seen this type of work from him...so we'll be heading over to the exhibit asap! Needing a quick tutorial ourselves, here is what we learned about the Summer Shadows series. While starting out his career trying to stray from abstract art, Warhol actually ended his career submerging himself in it. In......

While researching the Barbie and Ken breakup, Gothamist was struck by a few things: - Supposed new love interest for Barbie, "Blaine," sounds like a loser as well...not to mention gay. - Who knew that one of Barbie's alter-egos was Modern Barbie, which is Barbie as an "independent film producer with a flair for fashion and a crush on Ken, a brooding artist with super stylin' colored hair streaks and a 'thing' for Melody, the......