New York- BEFORE Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton, Manhattan's reigning wild child was Bijou Phillips. So it seemed like déjà vu when the club-hopping spawn of The Mamas and the Papas' John Phillips recently landed on this page after she smacked around former Playboy model Nicole Lenz at an L.A. nightclub.
In Phillips' hellcat heyday, she gained fame as an underage nightclub fixture, heroin addict, Calvin Klein model and Interview magazine cover girl. Phillips had a violent streak back then, too - she stabbed a friend in the leg one Valentine's Day and severed another pal's fingertip with a cigar cutter. She once shoved a certain socialite to the ground at Spy nightclub - the injured heiress had to be rushed to the hospital and received stitches to her skull.
"I realized that perhaps she had anger issues," the socialite told us recently. Director James Toback, who cast Phillips in "Black and White," may have summed it up best when he opined that she "has no line between her unconscious and her articulation of it."
