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http://www.nypost.com/gossip/liz/liz.htmTHE EVENING'S "When Worlds Collide" moment happened after the stunning performance of the Dixie Chicks. The Chicks were seated, preparing to dig into the excellent lamb. Suddenly,
conservative Fox News emperor Bill
O'Reilly was hovering above lead singer Natalie Maines and he said, "I enjoyed your performance. I'm glad you performed. I don't agree with some things you say, but you've got guts. We just wish you'd said what you'd said in the United States" (referring to Natalie's anti-Bush remarks made a couple of years ago in England - the Chicks have suffered mightily for that).
Miss Maines, who kept her expression free of surprise,
remarked, "Oh, I'd say it in the U.S." O'Reilly left the dinner early, missing out on Stephen Colbert's riff and Paul Simon's sizzling hot set. (Backstage, Simon was attended to by a minimal entourage. He accepted compliments shyly.)
The best part of the O'Reilly/Natalie encounter was the Chicks' press rep Cindi Berger. As soon as she spotted O'Reilly talking to Natalie, she moved in. The only way she could overhear was by crushing, literally, the guy sitting near Maines. Berger pressed down so forcefully, the man's face was almost pushed into his plate. Once O'Reilly left, Berger relaxed. The battered man looked up and said, "Oh, it's you. I wondered whose bosoms were smothering me." Berger replied, "Well, now you know they're real."
OTHER MOMENTS of note . . . Katie Couric, arriving late from one of the evening's three other big events. She was a knockout in low-cut blue. "You're looking very anchor-ish," said one admirer. "Oh, no, I am? In this? Where did I go wrong?" Sen. John
McCain approached Couric and said, "Congratulations and condolences." Nobody knew quite how to take that, but Couric said, smoothly, "I'm very happy and very excited." A noisy mob converged on the two, but within the clamor, McCain was heard to remark on the Randy "Duke" Cunningham scandal . . . "And the worst part is he's a Navy man. I'm ashamed, as a Navy man myself." He also said, of the increasingly tense Washington atmosphere, "
So much is going to come down, so many indictments . . . well, it's all so corrupt." The Food Network's superstar Rachael Ray, as adorable in person as she is whipping up those 30-minute meals, wanted to introduce herself to Couric, the Dixie Chicks and McCain, but hugged the wall shyly. She could not be persuaded to intrude.
AS THE evening wound down, the par ty's planner, sexy Ronnie Davis, was leaning against the bar in the cocktail area, casting a jaundiced eye at whippet-thin conservative volcano Ann
Coulter. A buddy wandered up, nudged him and said, "You know,
she probably has a gun in her purse." Davis replied, "I'm sure. But a sandwich would do her more good."
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