WHAT ARE YOU TAKLING ABOUT?

Village People cowboy Randy Jones told us last week at Beige in the East Village...In 1977, he found himself sharing a table at Studio 54 with two people he recalls as being Paris' parents, Rick and Kathy Hilton.
"There was one rock of cocaine left, and it rolled off the table," he said. "They just didn't even bother bringing it back up to a hard surface - they just crushed it into the carpet and snorted it off that."
But the Hilton's suggest Jones might not have the clearest memory of the '70s. "Never happened," Rick said yesterday, adding that the couple didn't move to the city until 1979.

Camel ads coupled with illustrations promoting rock music in Rolling Stone magazine violate the tobacco industry's nine-year-old promise not to use cartoons to sell cigarettes, prosecutors in various states said Tuesday.

So Ohio is joining in the multi-state lawsuit against RJ Reynolds:

CARTOON TROUBLE: During the past year, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. has taken several hits in the media and on Capitol Hill over its print ads and now it's facing legal trouble. Eight states, from California to New York, are filing lawsuits regarding the Camel Farm advertisement that ran adjacent to an independent rock music section in the Nov. 15 issue of Rolling Stone. The section opened with a full-page ad illustration of a woman above a banner reading "Welcome to the Farm," advertising RJR's Camel cigarettes. After the section's cover, there is then a two-page ad featuring a camel in silhouette with the words, "The Farm: Free Range Music" and the headline, "Committed to Supporting and Promoting Independent Record Labels." The editorial in the section follows, made up of cartoon images and graphics.
In a statement Tuesday, Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann asked a judge to hold RJR in contempt, and issue a fine of more than $5 million for violating the Master Settlement Agreement, which prohibits the use of cartoons in ads to promote tobacco products. Similar language was used by other attorneys general in the case. A spokesman for RJR
reiterated the company would not have chosen to advertise in the Nov. 15 issue if it knew of cartoonlike graphics prepared by Rolling Stone.

DUM-DUM OF THE WEEK:

A DRIVERS education instructor is suing the makers of "Borat," claiming Sacha Baron Cohen and 20th Century Fox took him for a wild, life-threatening ride. Michael Psenicska was duped into participating in the film believing it was "a documentary about the integration of foreign people into the American way of life," according to a suit filed in Manhattan federal court seeking $400,000 in damages. Instead, Psenicska encountered Cohen's "kissie huggie" routine. Then, Cohen "attempted to engage the seatbelt on by wrapping it between his legs, and twisting it all different ways, and struggling like a child," the suit says. The comic, playing a phony Kazakh reporter, then took off down the wrong side of the road into oncoming traffic. When Psenicska protested, the suit states, Cohen rolled down the window and offered a female pedestrian $10 for "sexy time" and hollered "Chocolate man!" to a black pedestrian. Psenicska says he told Cohen as he exited the car "that he needed a lot of practice, but not to call [him]." Psenicska claims he was paid just $500 and signed paperwork without reading it after he was told it was "standard."

MODERN DAY BONNIE AND CLYDE

They're out on bail and back in their theivery condo which is making their neighbors uneasy. Read whole story of the thieving couple here here and here and facebook group

1/2 of Google Larry page is getting married this week so stay away from Necker Islands {NYP}