Chris Mort: "We don't want to do a Leeds. It doesn't make sense. "This club had £100million-worth of debt which has now been cleared and it would be foolish to stretch it beyond its limits.
NO sex please, we're Channel 2. Producers of the Broadway musical "Passing Strange" say WCBS-TV has axed their song "We Just Had Sex" from a pre-Tony Awards show to air June 7 because it was deemed too racy. The lyrics go: "We just had sex. There's nothing sleazy 'bout a natural reflex. It's nice and easy. No need to crane your necks. It's all cool and breezy, baby." Producer Oskar Eustis said
WE can just imagine how the casting went for the New York Philharmonic's "Camelot": Wise King Arthur? Get Gabriel Byrne. A hunk who can sing, for Lancelot? Grab that smokin' Nathan Gunn. Wacky, dragon-chasing King Pellinore? Paging Christopher Lloyd! The "Back to the Future" star is back for Lerner and Loewe's glorious knights-of-the-round-table musical - replete with sword fighting, onstage
ANDERSON Cooper at the Columbus Circle Kinko's to have his passport photo taken, as the clerk shouted, "Hold on. Andy, we just have to fire up the camera . . ." RICHARD Belzer, Joan Rivers, Esther Newberg and Ronald Perelman power-lunching at Michael's . . . JUSTIN Long and Catherine Zeta-Jones "in cougar character" filming scenes for "The Rebound" at Pop Burger on Ninth Avenue . . . FAT Joe
Baseball Roger Clemens isn't welcome on the US Olympic baseball team. US general manager Bob Watson said yesterday he isn't considering the 45-year-old righthander for his roster for the Beijing Games. "From my standpoint, we don't need that type of distraction," Watson said. In addition to his duties as vice president of on-field operations for Major League Baseball, Watson is
GEORGE Clooney had women swooning in the lobby of the Hearst building yesterday when he arrived at 10 a.m. to shoot a spread for Esquire's 75th anniversary issue. "All the fashionistas lost their cool," said a source, who told us Clooney (left, on Tuesday night) "danced with different women" who work in the building - including Gayle King. We're told, "You couldn't even get to the elevators