October 31, 2006 – OAN covered the big Halloween bashes on both coasts, and we can’t decide which celebrity had the best costume. In New York, Al Roker’s Today show turn as Davy Jones was our favorite, until we hit Bette Midler’s Hulaween Ball that evening, where a bullet-riddled, bikini-clad Shalom Harlow toted Scarface, complete with giant plastic bag full of “cocaine”. This very original costume stunned us all, and everyone roared when Shalom’s guy dropped the bag on the floor and it broke, leaving a huge pile of white powder on the carpet right in front of the elevator at the swanky Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.
Midler’s long-running Halloween bash benefits her NY Restoration Project, which funds parks and green spaces throughout New York City. The evening began with an auction run by the Queen of England – actually Joy Behar dressed as Queen Elizabeth. Yep, she saw the movie and was inspired. “I’m the auctioneer tonight. We’re gonna sell trees. Bette Midler, you know, wants to green up Manhattan, and we’re going to help her”, Behar told us.
Bette’s costume was appropriate: “I’m Goddess of the Garden; Flora, the goddess of Spring. I’m wearing a garden hose on my head”, she said. Willie Nelson insisted that he simply chose an all-black suit, and was not dressed as Johnny Cash. Martha Stewart was a black cat, and Margaret Cho was a ‘ho.
Meanwhile, Heidi Klum took her legendary Halloween bash to L.A. for the first time – because she’s too pregnant to fly! But pregnancy didn’t stop her from donning an over-the-top costume, as the biblical Adam’s apple and serpent. Hubby Seal got into the spirit, dressed as Eve, and laughed when we told him he makes an ugly woman.
And we thought their costumes took the Left Coast cake until we saw Tisha Campbell dressed as Tyra Banks, complete with big forehead, and two cohorts channeling Tyra’s "America’s Next Top Model" sidekicks. “Tyra’s going to kill me”, Tisha said, but it was brilliant!
Bandito Jeremy Piven kept pointing his big rifle at all the women at the party, including Paris Hilton, Alyssa Milano, Minnie Driver and Elisha Cuthbert.
