1. Strokes lead singer Julian Casablancas is engaged to assistant band manager Juliet Joslin. He announced plans to get married at a show in Cental Park on Wednesday before introducing the song "It's Hard to Explain" with one last gasp of bachelorhood, "I'm getting married and it's hard to explain!" Right, but what's really difficult to grasp is why he went in-house when he has all those groupies. [Page Six]
2. "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" producers are looking for subjects who need advice on their doggy-style. [Page Six]
3. Acne-riddled actor Robert Downey Jr is in Queens eating pizza, writing checks...and making a movie about the timeless story of a boy who goes from the mean streets to underwear model to punk band. [Page Six]
4. At the Metropolitan Home magazine's Design 100 party the other night, Four Seasons Restaurant's Julian Niccolini pictures himself in a clear plastic kayak on a pool with tangerine trees and two young ladies. Newspaper editors appeared on the shores waiting to take him away. [NYDN]
5. New York City cops-for-a-day, actresses Candice Bergen and Lorraine Bracco, get a ride to a real midtown murder scene yesterday. No plans yet to turn this into a reality television series. [NYDN]