It's a rare event when Page Six issues a correction — which means when they do, it's handed down from the top. Or Steve Rubenstein.

So today's item, which backtracks on a report that Darren Star stole the idea for his Cashmere Mafia from ex-friend Candace Bushnell's Lipstick Jungle, should be cause for suspicion.

P6 says their March 25, 2008, item is the one they're retracting, but in fact it was their original item, on April 30, 2007, that claimed Star stole the concept and pitched it to ABC while Candace was bunking at his house; now the Post says ABC approached Star directly. "The two shows were conceived independently," they insist. (It was that first item, last year, that also claimed the 13-year friendship between the two had gone sour after the backhanded dealings.)

Which begs the question: Just who threatened what against the Post to score this event?

Read P6's original item in full below.

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The war between former BFFs Darren Star and Candace Bushnell may have come to an end, at least to declare a winner in their similarly scripted series. Bushnell is set to wear the crown, with her Lipstick Jungle on NBC having new episodes ordered, while Darren Star's Cashmere Mafia looks all but dead on ABC, though a spokesperson denies any decision has been made. The decision comes down to ratings: Lipstick commanded around 7.5m viewers, while Cashmere pulled in just 5.5m.

So why did one win out over the other, when they're basically the same plot? Maybe it's because the girls in Cashmere went to, ahem, Cielo.

The Post reports today that Ron Galotti, the inspiration for Mr. Big, is in talks with McGraw-Hill, for a book deal. I had to wonder, how would Carrie Bradshaw react to the news? -raronauer

In a city like New York, opportunity is always around the corner. One minute, you’re walking through SoHo, unable to find a cab or Starbucks for your life, and by a stroke of luck, you uncover the best sample sale of your life.

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Although the 90's are behind us – as are, thankfully, the giant flower-broaches, the gold-plated name necklaces and the throngs of Midwestern tourists flocking to the Meatpacking District for "one of those Cosmo's" – it seems the "empowering" shows (about aging female executives trying to balance their lives, careers and insatiable appetite for casual sex) are still very much upon us.

And who's the man to blame? That would be producer Darren Star, currently known as "the producer most likely to try and replicate his success with Sex and the City".

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As we write this, we’re looking out the window and salivating over the picture perfect weather outside, currently being wasted on lazy, unemployed persons and pretentious NYU students. And so, for your sanity and ours, we’ve decided to kick off a glorious new feature called “Comment of the Day,” to provide a transient glimmer of entertainment for all you working stiffs who would much rather be downing margaritas poolside on the Jersey Shore (while fending off advances from married, guidos named Tony) than slaving away in your cubicles.

Today’s “Comment of the Day” comes to us from the New York Observer website, and it pertains to Jared Kushner's bizarre decision to reprint Candace Bushnell's "Sex and the City" columns (that originally ran back in April of 1995).

But will they stand the test of time? Do people still care about Samantha Jones, Carrie and Mr. Big? And why hasn't Bushnell written anything new in the past ten years?*

Find out, after the jump.

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• The upfronts are here, the upfronts are here! ABC and CBS pick up dramas, NBC hopes to attract Dungeons & Dragons crowd by focusing on Sci-Fi and fantasy.

• Meanwhile, The Apprentice is "missing" from the new fall lineup. (Alternate phrasing: NBC to The Donald: You're fired.)

• Scientologists incur wrath of deranged BBC reporter.

• Rupert Murdoch attempts to placate the Bancrofts by creating a special, imaginary position just for them.

• Pop culture professor Bob Thompson only gets 80 media calls a day? We get, like, 200—counting all the complaints.

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Earlier, we mentioned that mega producer (Sex and the City! Beverly Hills 90210! MacGyver!) Darren Star and his longtime friend—and "Sex and the City" author—Candace Bushnell are on the outs.

The reason for the alleged tiff? Apparently the duo is in a fight because Star oh-so-casually submitted a pilot that's a blatent rip-off of Bushnell's newest would-be series, based on her latest bestseller, "Lipstick Jungle." As the Post reports:

While Bushnell's novel focuses on three high-powered New York women who struggle to balance their careers and families, "Cashmere Mafia" features four "successful female executives who have been friends since college turn[ing] to each other for guidance as they struggle with their careers and family."

And while, admittedly, the concepts do sound remarkably similar, we'd like state—just for the record—that neither one is particularly original.

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• Britney Spears is ready to tell Allure all about her daddy troubles. Maureen Orth fumes.

• Darren Starr and Candace Bushnell are on the outs, ever since he ripped off her latest book like dozens of authors have been doing for years.

• Sandra Bullock and husband Jesse James are doing fine after some crazy tried to act out the plot of an Ashley Judd movie.

• Chamillionaire, certainly the one to weigh in on these things, believes all this talk about profanity in rap lyrics isn't productive.

• Take Lindsay Lohan's photo, or she'll hate you.

Candace Bushnell isn't the only one looking to (finally) cash in on her writing with the TV spin-off of Lipstick Jungle — Brooke Shields is on board, too. With enough time in between getting branded on Nip/Tuck and shooting Colgate commercials, Shields is taking a starring role in the NBC script.

Shields will play Wendy, a movie exec at a Miramax-esque studio who's working on her Oscar hopeful picture "while placating her unemployed hubby at home."

Which is all sorts of ironic, given that Brooke's real-life husband Chris Henchy has been out of work for two years.

• Luke Wilson clings to his last shred of dignity, telling the whole world "I will never make a movie with Jessica Simpson." Good boy, Luke. Very good. [Scoop]

• Candace Bushnell's new radio show launches tonight, and will guest star Cynthia Rowley and Paula Froelich. As long as Jessica Joffe never makes an appearance, we'll tune in. [Page Six]

• Jon Stewart tells Ann Coulter she should write a book about "Mother Teresa shoving a dick in her eye." Lovely. Oh, and Stewart's 2-year-old was in the audience shouting "dada." More lovely. [R&M]

• Despite their recent publisher drop-out, Maer Roshan says Radar is going "full steam ahead." We didn't know people still talked like that. [WWD]

• Scarlett Johansson insists on telling everyone she's not a slut. Even though nobody asked or called her a whore or cares if she's getting laid. Really, Lindsay Lohan has the only cunt we care about. [AP]

• Brian Farnham joins Time Out New York as EIC. Dan Peres is totally jealous. [WWD]

• Bertelsmann, a German company, is looking to create a MySpace type site for an older, lonelier crowd. Don't they know that all the old lonely people already stalk underage teens on MySpace? [Cnet]

• Jack Shafer reveals his thoughts on media bias: it sells big time. And he completely duped us into reading his long involved column while he was at it. [Slate]

• New York Women in Communications Inc. honored "eight ladies of renown" with its Matrix awards yesterday. The only place where Jill Abramson, Candace Bushnell and Geena Davis can receive the same level or recognition — except when it comes to their outfits. [Fishbowl NY]

• Michael Wolff's latest political rant pretty much rips Press Secretary Scott McClellan a new one. Again, we try not to agree with Wolff, but we just always happen to hate the same people. [VF]

Joining the likes of Howard Stern, Oprah, and Martha Stewart, Candace Bushnell is set to jump on the Sirius Satellite wagon.

Fittingly titled, Candace Bushnell's Sex, Success, and Sensibility, the weekly, four-hour talk show, is slotted for a spring debut.

The live call-in chatfest will look to explore what women think about men, relationships and their careers. Special guests will be invited to take listeners' calls. "It's really about the challenges, dreams and fears of contemporary, modern women," Bushnell told the Daily News.

The show will be more toned down on between the sheets heat than her famed Sex and the City tales; Bushnell claims to be more focused on "careers and aspirations" than on the quest to find a man. What a fabulous way to promote her latest book Lipstick Jungle, which, on the Monolo's of Carrie Bradshaw and gang, has been rumored for a series.

Not to mention that without her, Oprah and Martha would retain full control of women's satellite radio minds. Which means all Wintours-in-waiting would become meatball rolling, closet organizing, celibate freaks. And, as only Bushnell knows, there really is no purpose to life without Vogue and gay porn.

Sex & Sensibility on Sirius [Daily News]