THE HIDDEN RANDY JONES CRUISE STORY

Village People icon Randy Jones has been forced to scrap an story about Tom Cruise from his new memoir Macho Man, after editors feared lawsuits from the superstar’s lawyers. Jones’ book lifts the lid off the Y.M.C.A. band’s 1980s heyday, and his very wild lifestyle away from the stage and screen. The 55-year-old wanted to include a tale about the night he partied with a 20-year-old Cruise, before the actor found fame in 1983 film Risky Business but it failed to make the cut because of legal fears, editors tell the New York Daily News. Jones says, "Tom and I had the same management company at the time. I met him at a party Andy Warhol threw in Atlanta." However, the book, due for release at the end of this year, does include the time Jones smoked drugs at legendary New York nightclub Studio 54 in the presence of U.S. president Jimmy Carter’s mother Lillian: "We were in the corridor, and someone was passing around a joint. They handed it to Lillian, and she looked horrified. She didn’t take a puff, but she handed it to me very expertly."
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RITA COSBY'S NIGHT OUT AT PLUMM NYC

The newsmakers of the world with Rita Cosby

Rita Cosby had one hell of a bash at 'The Plumm', who has departed MSNBC for new opportunities. But then Rita has always been a one of a kind, make it happen, and roll with the punches kind of gal. I toasted her on all her good fortune, her “significant other” the handsome singer-songwriter Tomaczek Bednarek (who composed "You Make The News" for her) a good part of that, as did radio advice guru Dr. Judy Kuriansky, publisher Alistair Duncan, Fox News' Lis Wiehl & Attorney Mickey Sherman, MSNBC hosts Contessa Brewer, Chris Jansing and Alison Stewart, actor Bobby Abid, Celebrity Service's Bill Murray and The Village People's Randy Jones.

Actor Bobby Abid with Pete Paranicas Roscoe Deniston and Public Relations wiz Tony Vargas