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First, it looks like Tony Romo and Candice Crawford are quite the cozy item.
So who draws more stares from the crowd, Candice, the 2008 Miss Missouri (currently a 33TV reporter), or Tony, who just managed to squeak past the Washington Redskins on Sunday? It was hard to say when they walked in together Sunday night at Al Biernat's steakhouse following Tony's win at Cowboys Stadium. Regardless, the other diners got silent and just gawked when the duo arrived.
Come to think of it, everyone might have been staring at Candice's brother, Gossip Girl star Chace Crawford, who joined the party of six. He appeared to be a real hit with the female diners.

Protocol experts may wonder who gets precedence when both presidents George W. Bush and George H.W. Bush are in the room. But it is no conundrum for 43. He did take the stage first at Monday's Celebration of Reading Dallas but only to pave the way for his dad. "Now it's my honor to introduce the real President Bush," he said as his father came out from the wings and on stage at the Meyerson Symphony Center.
In a historical pairing only seen when President John Quincy Adams visited John Adams in Massachusetts, father and son presidents sat side by side on the front row of the Dallas symphony hall and listened to readings from authors David Baldacci, Jeffrey Engel, A.J. Jacobs and Louise Bayless Parsley.
"I was looking for something to do tonight," George W. explained. "I'd finished my time as a greeter at Elliott's."

Barbara Bush might have had cause to reconsider the surprise guest that she invited to read at Monday night's Celebration of Reading Dallas benefit after he got a big laugh at her expense. When her No. 1 son, President George W. Bush, was unexpectedly introduced, the hometown crowd in the Meyerson Symphony Center stood up and gave approving whoops.
Later, after several famous authors had read, George W. got up from his front-row seat next to his father, George H.W. Bush, to read from his forthcoming memoir.
"I am writing a book," he said. "This is going to come as a great surprise to some of our fellow citizens who live on both coasts."
He said he had checked with his publisher, Crown, to get permission to read from the manuscript. "They said, 'No way will you read from the book.' I said, 'I've got to. My mother said to read from the book.'"
Instead, he began reading a tongue-in-cheek version of moving to West Texas as a toddler. He closed his vignette with, "Mom was celebrating our new life in the desert by drinking bourbon...straight bourbon...right out of the bottle."
He quickly added, "Gotcha!" folded his notes and sat down.
"Ha, ha, George, that's very funny," Mama Bush said sarcastically. She closed the evening by turning to her husband and telling the crowd, "The good George and I would like you to join us in the lobby for a light supper."

Laura Bush caught exhibitors by surprise this week when she made a surprise visit to the Dallas Internationl Art, Antique & Jewelry Show at the Dallas Convention Center.
The former first lady was accompanied by her pal Debbie Francis and interior designer Ken Blasingame who helped the Bushes with the décor in the White House residence.
Mrs. Bush walked down every aisle to personally greet exhibitors.

Thursday night's grand opening of the Louis Vuitton luxury boutique at NorthPark looked like the good old days of spring 2008. Lots of well-groomed and well-shod beautiful people grabbed nibbles of caviar and glasses of champagne while chatting with Vuitton's dashing CEO Daniel Lalonde as well as W magazine's publisher Nina Lawrence and editorial director Patrick McCarthy who had all flown in for the occasion.
But as swellegant as the occasion was, it was merely the preamble. After the party, the Louis Vuitton and W magazine high commands decamped for the Rosewood Mansion on Turtle Creek.
In the Mansion's history-laden wine cellar, they hosted an intimate dinner for the local gentry like Dallas-Monterrey businessman Eduardo Brittingham and his wife, Kary; Eduardo's British-born partner Horatio Lonsdale-Hands and his wife, Karen; lifestyle entrepreneur Kimberly Schlegel Whitman and her husband, Justin (son of one-time Hollywood leading man and John Wayne co-star Stuart Whitman); Goss-Michael Foundation director Joyce Goss; and Deborah Scott, wife of Rosewood Hotels & Resorts CEO John Scott.

If you're craving a Boeing private jet with a master bedroom, shower and dining room, Donald Trump listed his famous 727-100 with "Trump" emblazoned across the top of the fuselage for sale this week. (The master bath features a bidet...eeewww.)
Unlike most rich New Yorkers who run their planes in and out of the less congested Teterboro Airport in New Jersey, The Donald has always kept his plane ostentatiously parked on the general aviation tarmac at LaGuardia Airport--a marquee to arriving airline passengers.
This particular bird kept a much lower profile during seven years when it lived at Dallas Love Field. The airborne palace was already an aging grand dame when Trump picked it up on the cheap from Dallas-based Maxus Energy (previously Diamond Shamrock) in 1987 after oil prices and the entire Texas economy collapsed.
Diamond Shamrock bought the 1968 model from American Airlines on Dec. 16, 1981, refitted it with a luxury VIP interior and based it at Love Field.
Today, even though it is practically a tourist attraction at LaGuardia, its tail number, VP-BDJ, identifies it as having Bermudian registry. (The DJ at the end stands for his first and middle names, Donald John.)
CNN estimates the plane may be worth $4 million to $8 million. That's putting a pretty big premium on the luxury interior. The airframe itself has very little value.
One Texan who has owned a 727-100 tells me, "I bet that airplane wouldn't go for $2 million."
By contrast, a Gulfstream V like those operated by T. Boone Pickens, Mark Cuban and Jerry Jones costs north of $40 million.
George Sorial, managing director of international development and assistant general counsel at the Trump Organization, told CNN that the boss is upgrading and "Mr. Trump simply doesn't need two [planes]."
Or perhaps his wife, Melania, doesn't like flying on a plane that's two years older than she is.

When she got back to Texas this fall, homegrown Disney star Demi Lovato bought herself a 17th birthday present from Park Place Motorcars Dallas--but it was a couple of months later than she had hoped.
The locally raised star of the movie Camp Rock and the Disney TV show, Sonny with a Chance, was in Canada during her August birthday shooting a sequel, Camp Rock: The Final Jam, with the Jonas Brothers. (She also used this summer to split with Trace Cyrus, older brother of Miley Cyrus.)
Filming on the Disney movie recently wrapped. When Demi got back to her family home in Colleyville, she ventured out to see her uncle David De La Garza who works at Park Place Dallas.
Demi picked up her first car: a black 2010 Mercedes E350 and