Woody, Mia and child ... but whose child?

There is something about a closet that makes a skeleton terribly restless.'' -- Wilson Mizner, playwright

The Mia Farrow/Woody Allen past history concerning whether or not Mia's handsome son -- Ronan Farrow -- is actually the son of Mia's onetime hubby Frank Sinatra (and not Woody's) has played out in rumors under this byline for months. Mia always refers to Nancy and Tina Sinatra as Ronan's "sisters'' and the latter seem proud of their intellectually precocious little "brother.''

Ronan Farrow, a prodigy by anyone's light, was on Vanity Fair's men's best-dressed list only last month. He is a true intellectual and I hope he won't fall prey to being a "celebrity.'' But it may have already happened.

"Greetings! Greetings! Welcome to the world where we are no longer Democrats or Republicans; just call us The Apprehensibles!''

This is how I opened the Lighthouse International luncheon that just happened to coincide with the closing down of the government last Tuesday.

The Lighthouse exists to help hundreds of people with failing eyesight and it is a marvelous institution. The Henry Grunwald Foundation makes it possible for this to happen at the Metropolitan Club and VIPs love to buy those...