New York, June 6-12 – Hitting the talk show circuit to promote his new record, Marc Anthony pointedly avoided directly addressing his marriage to Jennifer Lopez. On the Today Show on Tuesday, while he hemmed and hawed his way through Matt Lauer’s questions, we, er, focused on the ring on Anthony’s left hand. And at the CBS Early Show on Wednesday, Open All Night noticed that the salsa star kept spinning and touching that same ring as he chatted and kibitzed with the audience.

Speaking of the Lopez/Anthony union, at the Fragrance Foundation’s FiFi Awards, we asked designer Vera Wang how long she spent working on J. Lo’s top-secret wedding dress. “I can’t talk about it”, she snapped. Some speculate that Wang didn’t custom-make the gown - that Lopez saw the dress and simply had her stylist snag it.

Even with ready-to-wear, fashion designers are still important, and, we always figured, are prime targets for terrorists. So we weren’t the least bit surprised to find dozens of flashing police cars and elite NYPD forces with machine guns literally surrounding the New York Public Library during Monday’s Council of Fashion Designer Awards gala. Turned out to be a Terrorism Unit deployment; i.e. training session. We couldn’t help wondering what went through Martha Stewart’s mind when she left the building and saw all those police officers. Designer Michael Kors had a pleasant surprise that night. We asked him if he knew in advance that half the people there would be wearing his designs. “I knew about everyone but [American Idol winner] Fantasia. Actually, my whole staff knew, but they surprised me with it.”