Stakeout Takeout Archives

New York, June 19 2008 – There’s the Naked Cowboy in Times Square, and apparently he spawned a female imitator, the Naked Cowgirl (although we personally have never seen her, she has a Web site with photos and video.) 

Perhaps it was their grandmother we ran into yesterday on Times Square?  She billed herself as the “Naked Cowgirl”, but unless the other Naked Cowgirl has aged a lot since she posted the photos on her Web site, it’s safe to say this is a knockoff. 

This being New York, a copyright infringement lawsuit can’t be far off, right?

Photos: Caroline Torem-Craig

Los Angeles, April10, 2008 – Mischa Barton was not required to attend her DUI sentencing hearing in Beverly Hills, and so she went shopping while her attorney represented her in the courtroom.  We hope Mischa spent a lot – she ought to be celebrating the fact that she escaped jail time! 

Sporting skinny jeans, suede boots, a cropped leather jacket and a Coke Vintage t-shirt, the actress hit the shops, and later that day, we hear, she jetted off to Australia. 

Photos: Octavio Vera Jr.

New York, March 4-7, 2008 – OAN happened upon some major stars wandering around New York City last week.  On Tuesday, we found Julia Roberts walking the streets, enjoying the unusually balmy weather.  However, Julia’s understated attire - chic brown coat and trousers, plus enormous matching Birkin bag – was actually her costume from the movie Duplicity, that she’s currently shooting in town.  Hope they let her keep the bag once the movie is in the can!

Later that week, strollers in Central Park were stunned to find a somewhat overdressed Sarah Jessica Parker being primped and pinned and buckled.  It turned out to be a photo shoot for Vogue magazine with legendary photographer Annie Leibovitz.   Chris “Mr. Big” Noth was there, but we wondered where the other Sex and the City stars were.  Jo Piazza at the NY Daily News has the answer in her Full Disclosure column on Sunday – only SJP was invited to promote the film on Vogue’s pages.

New York, January 22, 2008 – The world was stunned on Tuesday by the unexpected death of actor Heath Ledger, and the scene at the Soho apartment building where he spent his last moments was surreal.  The first media outlets began arriving around 5:30 P.M., about one hour after the Brokeback Mountain star’s death hit the news.  By 6 P.M., the New York City Coroner arrived, yellow crime-scene tape went up outside the building, and barricades were set up to control the tidal wave of media and onlookers descending on the scene.  At one point, a ladder was brought in, reportedly to cover the windows inside the fourth floor loft at 421 Broome Street.  The body was removed relatively quickly, and an autopsy is scheduled for Wednesday.  Reports that the apartment belonged to Mary-Kate Olsen were apparently untrue. 

New York, January 22, 2008 – Despite growing up among exotic animals with wildlife conservationist dad Steve Irwin, and having her own TV show, Bindi the Jungle Girl, Bindi Irwin was intimidated by a common sheep in the middle of New York City.   The Australian wunderkind is in New York for Australia Week festivities, and the event was to promote Australian wool.  A sheep farmer from Rhinebeck, New York, actually brought two sheep down to Columbus Circle for the publicity stunt, but only one got out of the van – and he was a handful.  The feisty sheep was not very calm, and Bindi stood aside while mom Terri Irwin handled the woolly creature.  Finally, the nine-year-old screwed up her courage and put a tentative hand on the animal, with no mishaps.