Gossip roundup
· Liza Minnelli and David Gest's anniversary party was nearly cancelled because Gest wanted to book the Regent Wall Street hotel for next to nothing. [Page Six]
· Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick say they're not sending their son to an uptown private school because "In some parts of New York, you get a really narrow slice of life, and they turn out like Little Lord Fauntleroys. We wouldn't send him to a school like that." [Page Six]
· Antonio Banderas tells wife Melanie Griffith "no more cosmetic surgery." [Cindy Adams]
· When real estate queen Barbara Corcoran was still a waitress, she complained to her mother that "the ones with the big breasts were the ones getting the big tips." Her mother responded, "So, in the absence of big breasts, wear pigtails and put ribbons on them." It worked. [Cindy Adams]
· Norman Mailer (unsurprisingly) snapped at his audience at Barnes & Noble on Tuesday; Tina Brown's party for Arianna Huffington ended with Princeton professor Sean Wilentz falling asleep in Tina and Harry's bed which Tina says "hasn't happened since [she] was an undergraduate"; and rumors are still circulating that Billy Joel was drinking before his car accident last weekend. [NY Daily News]