Egg Timer: Arlette Schweitzer, the first American...

Egg Timer: Arlette Schweitzer, the first American to bear her own grandchildren, says she “listened to Anne Murray tapes and prayed” after the crucial transfer of fertilized eggs. Schweitzer--who underwent the procedure because her daughter was born without a uterus--had to lie still with hips elevated for four hours after the eggs were implanted. Twins Chelsea Arlette and Chad Daniel were born Oct. 12.

Tattoo Tale: Cher, known for baring her body, is going to bare her soul on tattoos, breast implants, her ex Sonny Bono, music, children, movies, politics and exercise in her as-yet-untitled book due this fall. “Outspoken as she has been over the years, this is the first time that we will have from Cher a personal account of her experiences,” says the star’s literary agent, Irving Lazar. But all is not revealed: Nobody’s saying what the singer-actress is being paid.

Tasteless Headline on Tacky Tie!: The New York Post is in fashion, now that designer Nicole Miller has taken the tabloid’s best--some say worst--headlines and printed them on silk ties, scarves and shirts. For $60, you can own a tie that screams: “Headless Body in Topless Bar” or “Deadfella.” “Her ties are kind of quirky looks at what Miller perceives to be chic New York,” Post Editor Jerry Nachman said. But nobody claims to have engineered the whole thing: Nachman says it was Miller’s idea; Miller says it started at the Post.

Filing Fling: The 62-year-old wanted to party, so a bejeweled Imelda Marcos discoed in the Philippines capital to the music of a band featuring a transvestite entertainer. It was all to celebrate her filing of papers earlier in the day to run for president in the May 11 election. The song the band played while Marcos danced: “I Want to Be Rich.”