Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries make their way back to NYC from honeymoon ... - New York Daily News

When Hurricane Kim — Kardashian — and her new hubby Kris Humphries hit the city this week, Zone A will be Bowery and Grand St. Media mogul Jason Binn and event designer Colin Cowie will welcome the newlyweds to N.Y.C. with a party at Capitale there on Wednesday night. Although the Beaux Arts landmark has been used for weddings, a spokeswoman for the soiree insists the event won't be an I-do-over. Nonetheless, Cowie says he plans to create a "magical evening" for the couple. He'll have some help from the late Stanford White, who designed the striking space — a former Bowery Savings Bank — in 1839.

Italians offended by DSK likeness

J'accuse! The chairman of the Italic Institute of America is not happy with "Law & Order: SVU" producers' decision to depict a character based on Dominique Strauss-Kahn as an Italian. Rosario Iaconis, who describes the institute as a "think tank devoted to the continuity of Italian culture," tells us that "SVU" creator and producer Dick Wolf "slanders Italy" by "transmuting" DSK, "the frisky French pol accused of sexual assault" into a "lascivious" — and, we predict, Berlusconi-esque—Italian dignitary played by actor Franco Nero for an upcoming episode.

Instead of "recycling hoary stereotypes," Iaconis says producers could have based their "DSK doppelganger" on a number of scandal-scarred public figures including Arnold Schwarzenegger, Eliot Spitzer, John Edwards or Moshe Katsav, the former Israeli president who is serving seven years in prison for rape.

A spokesman for the show said he was unable to comment by deadline, but noted that the program is fictional.

Laughing at Irene

Thanks to Irene, the audience at Friday night's performance of "Anything Goes" found new humor in an old line. A Broadway insider tells us the crowd that caught the Roundabout Theatre Company's production of the Cole Porter musical got a kick out of an exchange between the musical's ocean-liner captain (Walter Charles), and his purser (Robert Creighton) in Act One.

"Captain, Captain — a catastrophe! We may have to delay the sailing!" Creighton said.

"What is it? Icebergs? A hurricane?" Charles replied. The line is delivered in every show, but, for obvious reasons, it got "a big laugh" on Friday night.

We dare Charles to throw in "earthquake," when "Anything" returns to the Stephen Sondheim Theatre Tuesday.

Fabulous, simply fabulous

Rudolf Piper still loves New York from afar. Although he lives in Sao Paolo, the nightlife impresario behind such storied N.Y.C. clubs as Danceteria, Mars, Tunnel and Palladium is lending his expertise to a new Brazilian restaurant that will open on Ninth Ave. in Hell's Kitchen next month. Piper claims "Brazilian food abroad is lousy" and that New York "finally needs a fancy, fitting venue."

A lover of f-words, Piper adds that the restaurant, which is called Brasilina, will fulfill his three-point maxim for a "fabulous" restaurant: "fabulous food, fabulous decor and fabulous people." We're told that last ingredient will be supplied by the restaurant's co-owners, fashionista Silvanei Silveira, her son Daniel Bull and daughter, chef Mariana Bull. Okay, enough with the "fabulous" usage. We're having an '80s flashback here.

Serena stays in on Saturday

Serena Williams likes her weekends to rock. As preparations for Hurricane Irene left Manhattan eerily empty of humans and cars, the tennis star tweeted, "Never seen NY like this [on] a Sat. night." We agree.
Maybe Williams should have looked up Zachary Quinto. The actor who played young Spock in the latest "Star Trek" film was left stranded in N.Y.C. after the city's airports were shut down in preparation for the storm, but he found a silver lining. "Now I get to have a storm watching party in my hotel room," he tweeted — "kind of excited about that..."

Contact Gatecrasher:
Frank DiGiacomo: fdigiacomo@nydailynews.com
Carson Griffith: cgriffith@nydailynews.com
Adam Caparell: acaparell@nydailynews.com

29 Aug, 2011

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