People: Let’s hope he called a cab
Move over, Michael Richards – looks like Danny DeVito is willing to take over the men-behaving-badly spotlight for a while.
DeVito stumbled onto the set of “The View” visibly hammered on Wednesday morning, launched into a boozy attack on President Bush and followed that with raunchy tales of having sex at the White House.
The former “Taxi” star said he was coming off an all-night bender with George Clooney.
“I knew it was the last seven limoncellos that was going to get me,” DeVito quipped.
Flushed and slurring, he called Bush something the censors bleeped and offered lengthy imitations of the prez as a monkey, a dribbling cretin and one of the Three Stooges.
Co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck tried to change the subject, but DeVito started reminiscing about a steamy visit he and wife Rhea Perlman made to the Lincoln Bedroom.
“We went in and we made it our business to really wreck the joint,” he said. “I mean, every place in that bedroom was, ah, utilized.”
Pot calling the kettle …
Meanwhile, none other than Mel Gibson has come forward in support of Michael Richards in the wake of Richards’ racist tirade during a stand-up comedy routine.
“I feel really badly for the guy,” says Gibson, who this summer delivered an anti-Semitic, misogynistic rant during a drunken-driving arrest. “He was obviously in a state of stress.”
He added that critics “will probably torture him for a while and then let him go.”
He shoots, he scores
San Antonio Spurs basketball star Tony Parker surprised his squeeze, “Desperate Housewives” actress Eva Longoria, with a “romantic and perfect” post-game marriage proposal Wednesday night.
They plan to wed next summer in Parker’s home country of France.
On the rebound
But it’s over (for now, anyway) between teen singer-actress Hilary Duff and Good Charlotte rocker Joel Madden.
Back on her feed
Nicole Richie, who recently checked into a treatment facility because of her inability to maintain body weight, seems well on her way to success.
The newly brunette Richie “has (put on) at least 5 pounds,” a source tells People magazine. “She wants to prove she’s trying to change.”
Can Danny come, too?
The newly single Britney Spears has been taking some heat for carousing with Richie gal-pal Paris Hilton and reportedly flashing her privates for the paparazzi – to the point where Rosie O’Donnell is ready to intervene.
O’Donnell said on “The View” that Spears should stop hanging out with Hilton and move in with her, her partner Kelli and their kids so she could have a “stable family around her.”
The birthday bunch
Actor-director Woody Allen is 71. Singer Dianne Lennon (the Lennon Sisters) is 67. Actress-singer Bette Midler is 61. Singer Gilbert O’Sullivan is 60. Actor Treat Williams is 55. Actress Charlene Tilton is 48. Model-actress Carol Alt is 46. Actor Nestor Carbonell (“Suddenly Susan”) is 39. Comedian Sarah Silverman is 36. Actress Ashley Monique Clark (“The Hughleys”) is 18.