Here's a gossip column from Nov. 26 National Post (Toronto). Paul Gross, by the way, is a Canadian TV/movie star (is that an oxymoron? -- oops, sorry, Bush is the moron). Before he became ensconced in the firmament, Gross was a part of the memorable cast of Tales of the City (playing the straight hunk Brian, whom Mary Anne Singleton eventually hooks up with.) ----------------- SCENE Then She Left in a Big Yellow Taxi?
Joni Mitchell crosses paths (almost) with Paul Gross Shinan Govani Last Wednesday at Prego: a TV Mountie, a singing icon and a certain gossip columnist. The impeccably pecced Paul Gross missed Joni Mitchell by a whisker, but I caught both of them at the ever-popular eatery. He left just before she got there, although I'm not really sure if he left full. The guy smoked more than he ate ... Mitchell, so you know, arrived en famille, looking well-rested and frolicky. Nothing like the happy-challenged Joni Mitchell profiled in the current W, in which she talks about quitting the music biz ... Rather, the warbler seemed in serious grandmother mode, as she settled at a table with her formerly long-lost daughter Kilauren Gibb, and her kids, wrestling amiably with one of the tykes' coat zippers. All seems peaceful between Mitchell and daughter -- "hummin'" as she puts it in W ... FYI: Earlier that evening, just before Prego, I hear that Joni left a trail of gasps of recognition when she swept into a little cocktail party on Richmond Street. It was for some arty and media type organizations ... "I started smiling at her, because I thought I knew her," a spy tells me, "but I then realized I didn't really know her. Has that ever happened to you?"
