BY LESLEY ABRAVANEL lank@aol.com http://www.miamiherald.com Wilmer Valderrama, who will star as Ponch in the big-screen version of CHIPs this fall, was spotted at the Miami debut of the Aston Martin DBS Volante in the Design District last week. He chatted with Aston Martin global design director Marek Reichman about the new drop-top version of the car made famous by James Bond, and took special interest in the Jaeger-LeCoultre watch that opens and closes the car. A far cry from CHIPs' choppers, huh?
More dangerous than a falling roof in the lobby: Chris Brown along with R&B singer Mario seen Saturday afternoon at the Fontainebleau, hanging out poolside at the salvaged-from-the-deluge Blade with seemingly not a care in the world.
And in the We Couldn't Have Written It Better Ourselves Department: Brown was sporting a -- drum roll, please -- wifebeater. Now that's what we call dressing appropriately! (For more about Brown, see ``La Vida Local.'')
LIV at the Fontainebleau was also, uh, alive and well Sunday night, with a slew of celebs attending the Michael Gardner and Louis Oliver party, Imagine. Among them: Mario, who sang his new single Late Night, Brown, Valderrama, New Orleans Hornets player Rasual Butler, and Tampa Bay Buccaneers player Antonio Bryant.
Brooke Shields was on a major Miami shopping spree when she was in town last week, first picking up things at Inca boutique at the Gansevoort and then hitting the Tuccia di Capri sandal shop in Miami Beach, where she picked up five pairs of the handmade footwear. Shields was there for two hours, offering suggestions to other shoppers. If she finds her career faltering, we know where she can find a job.
Screw Handy Manny! My kids shouldn't flush the toilet or use lights but he can go out and buy that. talk about a hypocrite1
Chief of Staff, 007's gone round the bend. Says someone's been trying to feed him a poisoned banana. Fellow's lost his nerve. Been in the hospital too long. Better call him home.
