‘Radio Silence’ at Ice-T’s home is the law & order
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” star Ice-T says he and his wife, Coco, have a strict rule in their house, where they where they live with their daughter, Chanel, 8 (all three in photo). “We have a time of the day we call ‘radio silence’ around 7:30, 8 o’clock when we turn off all our phones and computers so that we can all communicate like human beings. It’s a highlight of our lives and it makes us feel intimate and closer as a family.”
Before the clock strikes midnight on Dec. 31, Ice and his bodacious wife will head to the Hustler Club to host a New Year’s Eve bash with their pal movie producer Noel Ashman, who says he’ll have all the waitresses don blond wigs and revealing gowns in a visual tribute to Coco, whose look is now iconic.
The couple will kick off the new year by popping 50 magnums of the new sparkling rosé Aphrodise. The loving duo, who have been married for 22 years, will do the countdown to 2024 together and then start the new year with a sexy kiss.
Vernon Reid and Corey Glover of Living Colour say their songs are shunned by Black entertainment outlets in the mistaken belief that they composed “white people” music.
“It’s hard enough to live in places where you expect white supremacy, but not from your own people,” Glover said.
The rock quartet issued a statement last week to Guitar.com while doing interviews for their European leg of their tour with Xtreme addressing Lenny Kravitz’s recent complaints that he was being overlooked at awards shows hosted by the Black entertainment industry.
Kravitz told Esquire: “To this day, I have not been invited to a BET thing or a Source Awards thing. And it’s like, here is a Black artist who has reintroduced many Black art forms, who has broken down barriers — just like those that came before me broke down. That is positive. And they don’t have anything to say about it?”
In an Instagram post, Living Colour vocalist Glover wrote of Kravitz: “Black organizations in the entertainment industry never really sought him out.”
“Lenny was right,” Glover continued, “None of us has been … acknowledged for our achievements. Living Colour in the past has worked with such historical luminaries as a Little Richard and Mick Jagger. We’ve worked with a hip-hop royalty from Queen Latifah, Doug E Fresh, Chuck D & Flava Flav to Run DMC. And yet there’s barely a mention of rock’s contribution to what is modern black music.”
“It’s been our experience that most people of color have no idea how deep and far reaching the influence of Black people [is] in the modern-day rock ’n’ roll … let alone it’s impact on R&B and hip hop. What we hear is ‘that’s white people stuff’ when in fact, it is not!”
Powerful music lawyer Allen Grubman — who has represented Lady Gaga, Bono, Madonna, Bruce Springsteen, Elton John and Sting — was attorney Arthur Aidala’s first guest on his new video podcast, “These City Streets.”
Grubman told Aidala how he got to meet Frank Sinatra because he represented Princess Stephanie of Monaco, the daughter of Grace Kelly, who was launching a singing career. Sinatra was Stephanie’s godfather.
Stephanie got Grubman tickets to see Sinatra sing at Carnegie Hall and told him, “I’ve spoken to him about you, and he’d love to meet you.”
“After the concert, they took me upstairs. People were milling around. He opened his dressing room door. I walk inside and there’s Sinatra wearing a bathrobe, towel around his neck, slippers, vintage Sinatra.
“So after about two, three minutes, I see it’s winding down. And I said, ‘Can I call you Frank?’ … He said, ‘Call me Mr. Sinatra.’
“In those days I represented Madonna, Bruce Springsteen and I rattled off four superstars and I looked at him and said, ‘You know something, Frank? I’d give them all up in a minute to represent you.’ And he looks at me, he says, ‘You know something, kid? You’re stupid.’ ”
This interview will be followed up by chats with New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman, former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Cuomo’s former secretary, author Melissa DeRosa.
Martin Rodriguez is about to hit it big as a hit man in the Sofia Vergara-led Netflix limited drama series “Griselda” from the team behind “Narcos.”
Set to premiere on Jan. 25, the basedon-real-events crime series follows the life of Griselda Blanco (Vergara), a devoted mother who created one of the most profitable cartels in history and became “The Godmother” of the underworld.
Argentina-born, Spain-raised Rodriguez plays her right-hand man and enforcer, Rivi, in Miami during the ’70s and ’80s cocaine boom. “He was more than just a hit man,” Rodriguez told me. “He is completely fascinated by her, willing to do anything for her.”
At the annual PNC Championship at the tony Ritz-Carlton Grande Lakes golf club in Orlando, professional golfer Lee Trevino was asked by Joan Jedell’s Hampton Sheet’s youngest contributor, Bobby Love, if he would consider doing a sequel to “Happy Gilmore” since the movie “inspired” so many junior golfers.
Trevino, 84, who made a memorable cameo in the 1996 film as a disapproving golfer, told the inquisitive youngster that he was asking the wrong person and that he should call Adam Sandler — the star of the film.
Trevino quipped, “Make sure you tell him that Trevino says you gotta do another one because I need the money.”
OK Adam Sandler, the (golf) ball’s in your court.
Gurney’s, which plays host to the likes of Cindy Crawford, Scarlett Johansson and Jimmy Fallon, will offer its pampered guests a polar bear club swim in the frigid Atlantic the morning of Jan. 1. I think this reporter would rather be drinking mulled wine in a heated igloo.
Holiday dining is back in full force. In Midtown, White Olive — whose fans include Giants star Dexter Lawrence and jeweler Kayla Rockefeller — will be open for Christmas Eve and Day as well as New Year’s Eve. Uptown, La Goulue, whose fans include Sienna Miller, will host a luxe New Year’s Eve dinner complete with foie gras and truffle dishes and, in the eatery’s backroom, nightlife impresario Omar Hernandez will host his risqué cabaret. Meanwhile in Brooklyn, Shota Omakase will be open serving their 18 course feast with sushi, including a caviar dish that Consuelo Vanderbilt recently consumed.
Out & About: Top Park Ave. plastic surgeon Lyle Leipziger was at Cipriani with a group of women talking about the good work that the Katz Institute for Women’s Health is doing … Botox-boosting nurse Jane Scher of New York walked by a Picasso portrait at Art Basel Miami and said, “Even I couldn’t fix that.”