Society confidential

Diana Ross stops in Motown

Susan Whitall and Chuck Bennett

Princess Diana in the 'D'

Diana Ross paid a visit to Detroit's Motown Historical Museum on Monday trailing an entourage that included her handsome actor son Evan Ross . La Ross arrived at her old stomping grounds smartly dressed in jeans and boots topped by a hooded mink jacket. The visit was to show Evan the magical place on The Boulevard where Mama's musical career began. (Evan's here shooting the film "Highland Park" with Danny Glover .) A handful of mourners headed to a funeral at the Cole Funeral Home next door to the museum spotted the famed dreamgirl and called out: "Princess Diana," which prompted a smile and a wave. As for rumors that Ross and former Supreme Mary Wilson had lunch last June after Michael Jackson's death, Wilson, who emcees Saturday's "Motor City Hits" show at the Motor City Casino (featuring the Four Tops , etc.) tells us, umm, that's news to her.

Sharing the wealth

We nearly fell off our bar stool the other night when we overheard Georges Mokbel , manager of Iridescence, the plush eatery atop MotorCity Casino, call another restaurant to see if they could seat some of his dinner guests. Bobby Megargle at 24grille in the Westin Book Cadillac was happy to accommodate the extra bodies Friday night. "We do that all the time," says Mokbel. "I know if I send them to 24grille they'll be well taken care of, and Bobby does the same thing when he's overbooked." And you thought folks weren't eating out downtown.

You spent how much at the mall?

When we spotted social maven Cis Maisel Kellman on Tuesday night at the Schoenith family's lavish Black & White holiday bash at the Roostertail, we thought we sniffed something going on, but it wasn't until the next day that we found out what. During the Heart to Heart fashion show and luncheon at Saks Fifth Avenue and Brio Tuscan Grille inside the Somerset Collection, Cis boldly announced that she's giving the Ministrelli Women's Heart Center at Beaumont Hospitals a check in the amount of $1 million. Cis' friends weren't surprised by the generous gesture, but others were heard to gasp.

Scattershot

Horror TV host Wolfman Mac is howling about having his "Chiller Drive-In" show picked up for national syndication starting Nov. 28 by the Retro TV network, which covers 121 markets and 80 million homes nationally. The show, which tapes at the Erebus Haunted Attraction in downtown Pontiac, will air on Retro TV at 10 p.m. Saturdays; WXYZ-TV carries the network at digital position 7.2. Mac and his skeletal sidekick Bony Bob can also be seen airing the worst in horror films locally at midnight Saturdays on TV20. ...

We hear it was a real horror show at Bob Dylan last Friday, with the Fox Theatre's much-vaunted ushers unwilling or unable to keep order as ticketholders on the ground level argued over whether to stand or not stand. (The standees won, so folks under six foot pretty much couldn't see.) Those who called the Fox later to protest were told hey, that's what happens at rock shows. Hmm ... and those tickets cost how much?

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