Tanya Snyder Battles Breast Cancer

Dan Snyder, usually so businesslike, got very personal Saturday night. "My wife is currently battling breast cancer," he told the audience at the Larry King Cardiac Foundation gala. "Hopefully, it will be all taken care of."

The Redskins owner, who chaired the fundraiser, arrived at the Ritz-Carlton without Tanya, his wife of 14 years, and quietly shared the news with Larry and Shawn King. Later in the evening, Snyder appeared onstage to present the Gerald Snyder Heart Award -- named for his father, who died in 2003 of heart disease -- to Chrysler chief Robert Nardelli. Snyder explained to the crowd (including new Redskins Coach Jim Zorn, Sandra Day O'Connor, Larry Flynt, Darrell Hammond and Seal) why his wife wasn't at the dinner, adding that the past few weeks had been tough.

Tanya Snyder, 45, was treated at the Mayo Clinic and is back at their Potomac home, King said; Snyder would not comment further on her condition. We're told that good pals Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes-- in town for last night's Kennedy Center spring fundraiser -- planned to spend the afternoon with the Snyder family.

O'Meara's Goes Dark for Good in Manassas

It's one of those celebrity rites of passage: Get famous, then become a partner in a cool restaurant and hang out with fans. But it doesn't always work out: Ask Mike O'Meara.

WJFK-FM's afternoon talker just shuttered O'Meara's, his Irish pub in Manassas. The nationally syndicated radio star bought the restaurant on Center Street in 2003 with business partner John Cantrell and opened it the following Saint Patrick's Day. The plan was to make it a NoVa hot spot, full of fans of O'Meara and his on-air partner, Don Geronimo. O'Meara liked the bar biz so much that he made a serious bid to buy downtown's Sign of the Whale in 2006.

Arnold Schwarzenegger and Bruce Willis made Planet Hollywood famous; Eva Longoria Parker just opened her L.A. place, Beso. Washington's celeb eateries lean toward sports figures: Michael Jordan had a place in the Ronald Reagan Building, Richie Petitbon (Redskins head coach for a nanosecond) owned one in Oakton. They're gone, but Joe Theismann still drops in frequently at his remaining restaurant in Alexandria.

Alas, O'Meara's is another victim of the economic slowdown. According to neighbors in Manassas, the owners tried to keep it going by opening only on weekends, but finally closed it down entirely 10 days ago; the Web site has disappeared.

O'Meara -- usually so chatty -- did not return repeated calls for comment.

HEY, ISN'T THAT . . . ?

· Kate Moss drinking and playing pinball at the Red Room bar of the Black Cat Friday night. News that the world's most glamorously louche supermodel had tagged along with guitarist boyfriend Jamie Hince for that night's show by his band, the Kills, set off a text-message frenzy across Washington; those who made it to the club report she was tiny, dressed like a hipster -- an H&M hipster, not a designer one.

UPDATE

James Carville and Mary Matalin have taken their Old Town Alexandria home off the market -- even though they're still moving the family to Louisiana. The quintessential Washington power couple offered their five-bedroom riverfront home for sale for $4.5 million in March after buying a new place in New Orleans. But Matalin said they decided there's no point in selling now and buying a separate crash pad for the business trips that will bring them back to D.C. a couple of times a month. "I don't have time to set up two houses," she told us. So for now, they're hanging on to the house (as first reported by the Alexandria Times) -- but as of June 7, New Orleans will be their new home.