Celebrity Mound

The aging rocker and sultry actress were spotted at an after-hours spot in NoHo a week ago Wednesday, the Box on Thursday, and the Boom Boom Room on Sunday until 3 a.m.

On Tuesday of this week, after the curtain of “A View From the Bridge,” Johansson was seen playing pingpong with Rose at SPiN. “They were laughing the whole time,” says a spy. “They looked like they were having fun.”

The Guns N’ Roses frontman later turned up solo at celebrity haunt Avenue. A different source said, “He swaggered in wearing jeans and an unbuttoned T-shirt, showing off his chest, and wearing lots of bracelets and rings. He had a pingpong paddle in his hand . . . He was in a good mood drinking vodka . . . He even danced on the table for a while.” Johansson’s new husband, Ryan Reynolds, is in New Orleans filming “Green Lantern.”

Scarlett Johansson, in town rehearsing for her Broadway debut in “A View From the Bridge,” celebrated her 25th birthday Saturday at club Griffin on Gansevoort Street.

ScarJo arrived at midnight with husband Ryan Reynolds and a few friends and family and danced until 3 a.m. “They looked very much in love all night,” an eyewitness said. The group peeled off to a local pizzeria for a late-night snack before heading home.

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Scarlett Johansson may be beautiful, but Robert Redford thinks she’s less than lovely to direct.

In “Robert Redford: The Biography,” due out in early November from Knopf Publishing, author Michael Feeney Callan says that the then-13-year-old starlet had Redford pulling his hair out in frustration on the set of their 1998 film, “The Horse Whisperer.” Although the director acknowledges Johansson’s talent, her paint-by-numbers approach to acting and overbearing stage manager mom proved to be a lethal combination.

A crew member from the flick tells Callan that Johansson put her own personal spin — or, rather, her mother’s interpretation — on her scenes, which conflicted with Redford’s vision. In addition, the actress’ constant back talk caused “friction” between the two on the set.

But while Johansson and Redford had their differences, Redford perhaps got along a little too well with Barbra Streisand, his co-star in 1973’s “The Way We Were.”

According to what Wayne Van Wagenen, brother of Redford’s first wife, Lola, told Callan, Streisand was more than hot for the Sundance Film Festival founder.

“It was obvious that Barbra was just too, too crazy about Bob. She had a hard time controlling her emotions, and when she played scenes with him — like the fireside courtship scene at Malibu — she was drooling. Lola just turned the other way,” said Van Wagenen. “Bob was very tactful.”

Redford also showed tact when it came to working with Streisand’s “good side” (the Oscar winner is famous for favoring her left side). When director Sydney Pollack pulled him aside during a dance scene and mentioned Streisand’s discomfort regarding the camera angle, the affable star simply said that whatever Streisand needed to boost her confidence was fine by him.
If only more men could be like Robert Redford …

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