The Beat

While munching on liver and onions at Manhattan's Smith and Wollensky steak house, his three swimming gold medals sitting on a table between a house salad and plates of shrimp and crabmeat, Ukraine-born U.S. Olympian Lenny Krayzelburg talked about being besieged with dozens of marriage proposals since he was in Sydney. But the slick-haired heartthrob has definite ideas about his dream wife. "A Russian Jewish woman would be ideal," says Krayzelburg....

Seems as if Marion Jones has been on every magazine cover in the country. In fact, she's even making it onto magazines that don't exist. Jones turns up on the cover of Blush, the fictional fashion mag on NBC's Just Shoot Me, in the show's season opener this week....

Turns out Playmate of the Year Heather Kozar isn't the only bunny to have attracted the attention of Bears quarterback Cade McNown. According to the Los Angeles Times, McNown's dalliance with Hugh Hefner's ex-squeeze, Brande Roderick, got him banned from the Playboy Mansion. "We have all kinds of guests at the mansion," said a spokesman, "and sometimes we must cast someone out into the darkness of the night, the transgressions ranging from the trivial to the more serious."...

Michael J. Fox scored two goals for a team of celebs against the Boston Bruins Alumni in the Celebrity Hat Trick hockey game in Worcester, Mass., to benefit the Leary Firefighters Foundation. Worcester native Denis Leary created the charity in honor of six firefighters killed last year in a blaze. Also on the ice: Tim Robbins, Kiefer Sutherland and Cam Neely....

Ike Richman, publicist for Philadelphia's First Union Center, got pop diva Tina Turner to pose for a photograph with him last month. Richman didn't tell Turner his intention—to use the photo on holiday cards offering season's greetings from Ike and Tina Turner.

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