COME TO MAMMA Hillary (Photo: Getty Images)
• Lock the liquor cabinets: Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton's putting her best mommy foot forward, offering teen babysitters to potential caucus-voting parents in Iowa. But who's to say those parents won't just up and fly to Anguilla while they have the chance?
• Move over, Carl Hiassen: Fresh off a breakup with longtime publisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, novelist/journalist Tom Wolfe is basing his new novel in Florida, where his beloved white suits are de rigueur and he can feel appreciated.
•Bills, bills, bills: Comedian David Cross stands up to sour detractors angry at him for lending his talents to the children's movie Alvin and the Chimpmunks, saying, convincingly: "I haven't worked in six months and I wanted to buy property in upstate New York."
• Thanks, go away: The plug is at long last being pulled on the flower decals that have adorned a majority of NYC cabs for the better part of 100 lifetimes. Brace yourselves, New Orleans! They're coming to you next.
• Stick and move: Ever-scrappy political operative and newly joined Team Huckabee campaign honcho Ed Rollins is out for rival Mitt Romney's blood: "What I have to do is make sure that my anger with a guy like Romney, whose teeth I want to knock out, doesn't get in the way of my thought process."