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**** SOUTHAMPTON'S DRIVER'S SEAT CELEBRATES 50TH **** Alex And Irma Herzog Paul Corrigan With Michael Lohan, Kate Major And Eric George Michael Lohan took his sweetheart Kate Major to the Hamptons for Memorial Day Weekend. Lohan made sure to bring his beautiful blond fiancee to his favorite eatery The Driver's Seat on Jobs Lane in posh Southampton to congratulate owner Irma Herzog and her family on the restaurant's 50th Anniversary as a Hamptons institution. Michael and Kate were joined by a few of Lohan's pals Eric George and Paul Corrigan for a leisurely lunch on the dining spots beautiful flower-filled patio before heading off for a stroll on the nearby famed Cooper's Beach just voted the most beautiful in America and well known for its romantic sunsets.

Naomi Campbell Former model Naomi Campbell's billionaire boyfriend, Vladimir Doronin, is going to make sure she celebrates her upcoming 40th birthday with a bang. He's throwing a lavish party on the French Riviera, according to gossip reports. Naomi turns 40 on May 22nd, at the end of the Cannes Film Festival, and Vladimir plans a star-studded bash on a private yacht. A source tells the New York Post's gossip column Page Six, "Naomi's birthday is going to be as lavish as other recent big celebrity 40th birthdays, such as Sean Combs, Jay-Z. ... Invites are already being sent out and people are expected to jet in from New York, London and Moscow. "Vladimir is planning and paying for the whole event, which is slated for May 22 in or near Cannes. There will be a series of events for Naomi leading up to the big party at a secret location, which is believed to be on a super-yacht." Editors Note: I have never liked Naomi. She was always such a bitch when I phot...

Tommy Lee Mitchell Binder Danny Way And DJ Scotty Boy Rocker Tommy Lee took over house night at Blush Boutique Nightclub on Wednesday at Wynn Las Vegas to host the King Baby Studio grand opening after-party. Lee showed up to the hotspot shortly after 11 p.m. with his girlfriend, German-born singer Sofia Toufa, and a bright red lip print on his cheek. Lee entertained clubgoers by playing a drum machine and providing video mixes on the Blush screens alongside DJ Aero who manned the turntables. Enjoying the electro house set were King Baby owner Mitchell Binder; legendary skate boarder Danny Way; DJ Scotty Boy and guitarist SmittyonSteel. Lee smoked cigarettes and switched from drinking a vodka cranberry early on in the evening to swigging Veuve Clicquot champagne from the bottle late in his set. Lee left the club at 1 a.m. Photos By: Denise Truscello

**** THE WEINSTEIN COMPANY & INSIGNIA PRODUCTIONS CELEBRATE QUENTIN TARANTINO AT STAR-STUDDED LUNCH **** Michael Nouri With Jon Voight Norman Lloyd With Roger Corman Eli Roth With Roger Corman And Ron Howard Jacqueline Bisset With Cloris Leachman Ranee Bartolacci-Meir With Quentin Tarantino The Weinstein Company and hot, new event-planning company, Insignia Productions – owned by Ranee Bartolacci-Meir – held an afternoon fête for legendary Director Quentin Tarantino, toasting the Academy Award-nominated film, Inglourious Basterds at legendary L.A. eatery, Musso & Frank’s. The day’s A-list guest-list – including Eli Roth, Ron Howard, Jacqueline Bisset, Jon Voight, Harvey Weinstein, Norman Lloyd, Martin Landau, Cloris Leachman, Bruce Davison, Sam Jean, Irwin Winkler and Lawrence Bender – enjoyed a gourmet lunch and brief speech by the honored filmmaker himself. The critically-acclaimed film has made a splash this 2010 Awards Season, taking home the Golden Globe for Best Suppo...

**** THE WEB GOSSIP **** The guy or girl that writes this column is a very big industry insider who wishes to remain anonymous, but wants to write about all the headlines happening in Hollywood and the Music Industry. **** Jay Leno LENO/LETTERMAN --- So Jay Leno officially signed off last night on his prime-talk talk fest that lasted barely five months … plagued by disastrous reviews and negative press. Leno said the network allowed him the early sign off “for good behavior.” Good behavior? Does that not mean trashing NBC as bad as Conan and Letterman did? God, how can Zuker sleep at night? I watched Sunday’s Super Bowl commercial, with Dave and Oprah, and marveled at the machinations that made it all possible … and, it was, rather funny! As several of my colleagues have said, ‘it was good TV,’ and, that my friends is the essence of successful TV! No matter what one is saying about the other … if it’s funny, if it gets a good rating … then it’s all worth it. Apparently, Leno briefly ...

Will Ferrell Will Ferrell was a huge hit during the Opening Night Performance for Will Ferrell's "You're Welcome America. A Final Night with George W. Bush" at the Cort Theatre in New York City. Photo By: Walter McBride / Retna Ltd.

Mark Juliano And Michael Phelps 2008 Olympic Gold Medal-winner Michael Phelps took time to chat with Trump Entertainment Resorts’ CEO, Mark Juliano during a recent visit to the Penthouse Suites at Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort in Atlantic City, NJ. We at Times Square Gossip are sure he loved his visit to the famed casino mecca, as this is the place we stay every time we want to get away to play the slots and to have some of the best fine dining around. The Taj Mahal is a Olympic winner to us !

The stalker who terrorized actress Sandra Bullock and dumped pieces of animal fur in the Hollywood star's backyard has been sentenced to three years' probation. Marcia Valentine left "weird signs" in the stars garden, planted fur in her palm trees and hurled abuse at Bullock's husband, motor cross champion Jesse James, when he tried to note her license plate. Bullock was so terrified that she obtained a restraining order in 2007 banning Valentine from contacting her or visiting her home in Sunset Beach, Calif.Valentine pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of stalking earlier this month and has been ordered to undertake three years' probation. A felony charge of assault with a deadly weapon was dropped by the court. Photo By: RD/Leon / Retna Ltd.

Morgan Freeman Hollywood icon Morgan Freeman always wanted to be a actor, but before embarking on a career as an actor, he was a writer for a newswire service.The Academy Award winner had huge dreams of becoming an actor at an early age, but was forced into another career after moving to New York City and discovering he was desperate for money. He says, "I didn’t have much in the way of money, so I had to crank it up some other way. I found a job with an outfit called Press Wireless as a telegrapher."Correspondents from around the world sent all of their dispatchers into Press Wireless and we sent them to whatever newspaper they were scheduled to do."I was working in October, November, December and January of 1960/61. It was an exciting time to work. That was when Fidel Castro took over Cuba."

Star Trek television star Patrick Stewart is returning to his roots in the Broadway production of Macbeth. The actor will star in the play at New York’s Lyceum Theater starting April 8th after conquering London’s West End as the tragic king for the past few months. It’s not the first time Stewart has performed on the New York stage, he has previously starred in Broadway productions of The Tempest and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. We look forward to seeing Patrick walking around Times Square !

Legend Shirley MacLaine Hollywood Veteran actress Shirley MacLaine sympathises with young stars such as party girl Lindsay Lohan because she never had to put up with being trailed by the paparazzi every day. MacLaine’s next movie, Poor Things, had to have its shooting start date postponed when Lohan was admitted to rehab in Utah in the summer. And MacLaine is aghast at the pressure the 21-year-old is under. She says, "There’s too much tabloid invasion of privacy. Those poor kids.That wasn’t true in my day. I did some pretty interesting things, but they never knew. You could live your life, learn who you are."Now they have to make them (mistakes) in public. I don’t think that’s fair."