Hsu Really Got Around

I get the feeling Norman Hsu could really take a wrecking ball to many Democrats. Considering Hillary Clinton was sending him cooing phone calls and here he is with Barack Obama, the Democrat bagman must know a lot about shady fundraising, especially since he was pretty much the shadiest of them all.

Jurors got a glimpse of disgraced Democratic donor Norman Hsu's opulent lifestyle yesterday, peering at photos of his former SoHo pad filled with bottles of vintage wines and champagne, and a stack of Prada shoeboxes.

Hsu's 1,700-square-foot apartment on Wooster Street also boasted a massive, stainless-steel wine cooler in the living room.

The walls were hung with photos of a beaming Hsu alongside top-tier Dems, including then-candidate Barack Obama, former President Bill Clinton, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy.

Hsu, who has confessed to running a Ponzi scheme, is being tried in Manhattan federal court for allegedly channeling illegal campaign contributions through other people.

Speaking of Kennedy, HBO will soon be airing a biopic. How much you want to bet Chappaquiddick gets little if any mention?

UNLIKE John Adams, who couldn't watch his seven-part, multiple- award-winning miniseries starring Paul Giamatti and Laura Linney unless St. Peter hung a TV on Cloud Nine, Ted Kennedy's getting immortalized whilst still with us. HBO is, as we speak, organizing a documentary on the senator. Titled "Teddy," produced by Peter Kunhardt, who's done stuff on Lincoln, JFK and Bobby, a 90-minute job is now in work. Not with actors. Mostly with archival footage and never-before-seen home movies. It'll stretch from childhood through Ted Kennedy's 2008 Democratic Convention speech. The cable channel's co-president Richard Plepler plans a special VIP screening in DC, but it premieres on the network in July.

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