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attention? Yep, we’re officially back from summer break. Goodbye flip-flops, hello political theater. Bill McKibben, author of best-selling “The End of Nature” and an expert on global warming, is heading to Washington with one of the solar panels originally installed at the White House in 1979. His goal: to present it to Obama on Friday and urge him to reinstall it on the roof, therefore inspiring millions of like-minded citizens to go greener. “When Michelle Obama put the garden in the White House, it was one of the things that caused seed sales to jump 30 percent,” McKibben told us. “We’d rather have a climate bill than solar panels on the roof, but we’re not going to get it this year. This is a way to help build visibility for the steps we need to take. In a way, it’s a reboot of 1979.” To tout clean energy bona fides,
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President Jimmy Carter had 32 panels installed— which the Reagan administration took down and stowed away in a government warehouse. A professor at Maine’s Unity College later sought out the panels, which were installed on the school’s cafeteria roof. Now one of the 6-by-3-foot plates (they’re old but still work) is on its way to D.C. McKibben, who’s organizing a
huge environmental rally next month on 10/10/10, left Maine on Tuesday with stops in Boston, New York and Washington. He scored an appearance on David Letterman’s show last week — much wonkier than your typical late-night fare. Now he’s angling for a splashy photo op at the White House, although nothing is set yet. “We keep hearing, ‘We’ll see’ and ‘It’s complicated,’ ” he said. “Compared with the other things Obama has to do, it seems relatively easy. They can’t filibuster the roof.”
steemed environmentalist launches PR stunt to get President Obama’s
New mom Rachel Dratch and dad-to-be (again) Mike Tyson.
LOVE, ETC. Born: A son to Rachel Dratch on Aug. 24 in New York. The “Saturday Night Live” alum, 44, named her baby Eli. She hasn’t revealed the identity of the baby’s father; the pregnancy has a “crazy story” behind it, she told People. Expecting: Mike Tyson and third wife Lakiha, who’s pregnant with their second child. The couple has a 21-month-old daughter, Milan. Tyson has several children by previous relationships; his 4-year-old daughter, Exodus, died last year after she was
accidentally caught in a treadmill cord.
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HEY, ISN’T THAT ...? Lady Gaga dropping in for the Wednesday noon class at Bikram Yoga Capitol Hill, after her previous night’s show at Verizon Center. What does Gaga wear to yoga, you ask? Five-inch Louis Vuitton heels and a gorgeous blazer, which she shed to work out in a bra-and-panty-type ensemble. Platinum bob, fake eyelashes. One advance guy, one bodyguard. She made charming small talk with a teacher’s 6-year-old daughter. Left a trail of white-tipped bobby pins in her wake. The eight or so other people in the class were unruffled by the celebrity in their midst, said studio owner Liz Glover: “Everyone’s the same in the yoga room.”
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Environmentalist Bill McKibben is on a quest to get a White House solar panel, first mounted in 1979 under Carter (left) but removed under Reagan, reinstalled.
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A bit of good news: No Obama, but “a White House representative will hold a meeting with the group to discuss support for renewable energy,” Christine Glunz from the White House Council on Environmental Quality told us Wednesday. And no promises about the solar panel itself. But McKibben is optimistic: “I think we’ll leave it in Washington. This thing wants to go home.”
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Do they need more closet space? Lolly Amons and mom Mary.
baths, three fireplaces, a four-car garage. Unclear if Mary’s as-seen-on-TV biometric closet-door lock (to keep the girls from borrowing mom’s clothes!) conveys with the property.
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A breathtaking night of showmanship, with political asides reviewfrom C1
year-old is apparently taking a crack at the definition of feel- good music, too. Her genius lies in buttressing those euphoric, big-tent pop songs with a hyper- eccentric, outsiderish sense of style. At a Lady Gaga concert, the misfits and the masses somehow become synonymous. “I want to be a Washington,
D.C., star,” Gaga declared before “The Fame,” and without men- tioning the words “cupcake” or “Salahi,” she sauntered across the stage, evoking an entire con- stellation of pop stars that came before her. As her ambition grows, her Madonna-debt shrinks, but onstage at Verizon, she also managed to summon Grace Jones’s aggression, Annie Lennox’s steeliness and Prince’s
superhuman ability to dance for two hours in stilettos heels. Amid the touchy-feely blither-
blather (“I want you to let go of all of your insecurities. . . . You’re a superstar!”), there were touchi- er-feelier moments in a more lit- eral sense. At times, Gaga grabbed anything within arm’s reach: her crotch, her backup dancers’ crotches, a light-span- gled sorcerer’s staff, a giant key- tar shaped like a mutant hon- eycomb. She played the latter during a lumbering version of “Money Honey,” proving that her better songs warranted even better out- fits. (For this lurching tune, her black plastic get-up appeared to have had metastasized from an old Missy Elliott video.) For the pulsating “Love Game,” she posed as a nun in a latex habit
and sang of having her tush “squeezed by sexy Cupid.” For “So Happy I Could Die,” she donned a winged fairy’s dress made of cel- lophane. Each garment looked wildly imaginative and rather uncomfortable. But she wore next to nothing during “Speechless” — and proved anything but. Seated be- hind a grand piano that belched flames from its soundboard, Ga- ga frequently digressed to lash out at the U.S. military’s don’t- ask, don’t-tell policy and dis- crimination against the gay com- munity writ large. “I’m not going to prance around in underwear and a bra and not stand for something,” she quipped. And for fans who didn’t agree with her politics, she offered a conso- lation: “At least I sing live at this show.”
So sing she did, into a home-
stretch-turned-hit-parade that included ubiquitous singles “Ale- jandro,” “Poker Face,” “Paparaz- zi” and “Bad Romance.” Each felt bigger than the tune that preced- ed it — and between songs, her breathing sounded like an ob- scene phone call.
Hffffffffff-hffffffff. Hffffffffff-hffffffff.
It was Lady Gaga huffing and
puffing into her headset micro- phone, sucking oxygen and re- minding her flock that the icon behind these marvelous muu- muus and smears of fake blood wasn’t some abstract spectacle, but an actual living, panting hu- man being. Cooler than Darth Vader, and with better capes.
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FIRED UP: While performing “Speechless,” Gaga made her disapproval of the military’s don’t ask-don’t tell policy very clear.
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