Kabbala Red String Theory

Those cats at The Smoking Gun are at it again! Scooping the mainstream press, they give us the goods on Paris Hilton, who, when she is not wearing a black wig and keeping it on the down low, is wearing Kabbala red string to ward off bad mojo.

Now I know what I want for Christmas: some Kabbala red string!

The Observer's Simon Doonan was a precog on the Kabbala thing, but he has another plan for Partis' image rehabilitation:

"FINAL DAY: First outing. No, not the Ivy or the Kabbalah Centre (The Corsair is shiverring now, because Doonan wrote this days before the fact) or some other tragically trendy, paparazzi�d destination: I�m talking about lunch at Le Deli Grandeville, a public eatery located in the basement of 450 West 33rd Street. This inappropriately monikered, unglamorous canteen feeds a wide spectrum of earnest hard-working New Yorkers, including the employees of Lerners, Channel 13 and Doubleclick. Le Deli Grandeville will be Ms. Hilton�s big opportunity to find out, via supervised conversations, how the other half live."

Hey, Doonan, can you gaze into your crystal ball and tell me if you see The Corsair hooking up with the BBC's sexy Washington Correspondent Katty Kay?