A Little of the Old In and Out

In: Pink is having a strapping good time in the Old World suing Austria's OVP Conservative Party, I shit you not. According to Tampa radio station 93.3's website:

"Bosses at Pink's record label are suing Austria's conservative party OVP for using the pop punk's name to boost support.

"The political organization infuriated BMG chiefs when they printed the 'Just Like a Pill' star's name on flyers promoting candidate Benita Ferrero-Waldner's election campaign, following her sold-out show in Vienna on April 4.

"According to her label the party broke 'more than one right of the artist. It was a misuse of an artist's name for a political campaign without the written consent of the artist.'

"It's not even clear if the artist approves or even shares the political view of that party."

Don't get the Party started!

Out: Ultraskanky Girls Gone Wild founder Joseph Francis is suing the woman who accused him of rape last month for $25 million, as TheSmokinggun reports. Adding insult to skankery, he is even suing the accuser to get back money for the post coital repast he bought her:

"Claiming that he would not 'sit back and be called a rapist,' Francis filed the below Florida Circuit Court lawsuit against the 21-year-woman and a friend who accompanied her to Francis's Ritz Carlton suite after a night of South Beach partying. Francis, 31, contends that he engaged in consensual sex with the woman--identified as Amy Doe in his complaint -- and even had lunch with the alleged victim and her pal the following day. Along with the $25 million, Francis is also seeking to be reimbursed the $36 he shelled out for the medium rare burgers the women ordered from room service."

And, (altogether now) a skankety skank skank!

In: Heeb Magazine. A very clever "downtown" magazine for people who love Jews. "a Jewish social-entrepreneurship venture fund (Steve Spielberg and Charles Bronfman) support happily gave Heeb $60,000 to get started," writes Jesse Oxfeld of Medibistro.Medibistro interviewed their new editor Josh Neuman:

"Mediabistro: Your background is not as a business guy. You have a master's from the Harvard Divinity School.

"Josh: I think it's impacted my experience. I think there is a line to be drawn. I'm aware this is commerce. I've always loved magazines, but I never mistook my magazine for Hegel or Kierkegaard or Marcus Aurelius. What interests me about magazines is the intersection of ideas and commerce, the way our magazine performs something subversive in the marketplace. Watching people experience Heeb at the newsstand, it's this triangular experience. They look at the image, then they look at the word Heeb, and then there's just this private moment. And that private moment is precious because it's not an, 'Oooh, that's cool,' and it's not an, 'Ugh, that's awful.' It's something like, 'What the hell is that? Could this really be here, could this be happening?' So that's really of interest to me.

"It's not my background. I thought I was going to be a philosophy professor, and I taught for five years at NYU. But marketing is very philosophical to me."

Whatever. I'm a real fan of this this magazine. Especially the pictures of full-figured bohemian Jewish women. Where else can I get my Semitic princess fetish on? I'm old school like that.

Out: Tom Brokaw. The popular if asthmatic sounding Brokaw is handing over the reins of The Wise Man seat to fellow Aryan Brian Williams. Somewhere, Geraldo Rivera is breaking things and bemoaning the fact that people who write memoirs about their sexual escapades with Bette Midler and the wife of a sitting Canadian Prime Minister don't get anchor jobs on network tv. Neither do ethnics, but that's another story.

In: Will Jennifer Garner rule the universe? I tried to warn you people, but now it's too late. I have no longer the energy to fight the inevitable. I have fallen under the spell of The Garner. Resistance was futile. Jennifer Garner is everywhere these days. Her new movie 13 Going on 30 is about to be released. She's got a recruitment page on the CIA website. She's got that cult hit on network tv, Alias. And both The Rock and Billy Bob Thronton have mentioned in interviews how hott they think she is.

Finally, she has geek cred: Garner presented the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Scientific and Technical Awards. She thinks like a geek but looks like a goddess. She collects old Moon Knight comic books, but looks like she stepped off the runway at lunch. Resistance was futile from the beginning: she had me at "hello." Jenny ... call me?

Is Jennifer Garner destined to take over the universe? VH1's Best Week Ever link.

Out: Bacon fat. Bruce Willis tells that significant cultural artifact Star Magazine a little bit more than we need to know about his artery hardening culinary habits:

"Star: Do you cook? If so, what dish can you whip up?

"Bruce Willis: Sometimes. I make lasagna. I make chicken cacciatore. Actually, my chicken cacciatore would make you cry. It's so good that you'd take your clothes off and stop what you're doing right now. I throw bacon fat in the sauce. It's very good."

(all together now) EEEEEeeeeeeeewwwwww. The Corsair doesn't eat swine. The Corsair abstains to partake of things with snout, much less their excess.

In: Lowculure. Do you remember Communique Magazine from the beloved defunct series Central Park West? If you do, you'll love the fake magazine titles at Lowculture today.

And, Out: Well, out May 5th at the Tribeca Film Festival (yes, guys, it's that time of year again; we heart Jane Rosenthal) is the documentary Point and Shoot. Fashionweekdaily writes:

"'Point and Shoot', Shawn Reguto�s reality-based film about the fashion industry, isn�t your typical high-gloss fashion movie � la Pret � Porter. Premiering May 5th at the Tribeca Film Festival, the film is a gritty, behind-the-scenes expos� on fashion scenesters, warts and all (models have warts?).

"For his first feature-length film, Reguto, 29, took real-life footage he shot over the past two years and edited it into a 90-minute narrative that follows him, his girlfriend Athena, and their crew of hipster friends clubbing, partying and sometimes even working. The Tribeca native began compiling footage in 2002 when he met Athena, a model for Yves Saint Laurent and Levis. The film follows their relationship and the challenges that face them as a couple living in this unstructured atmosphere (ed note to self: buy digital camera, attend fashion show, and hit on gorgeous models by telling them you want to make an 'independent film' about them). 'She loved me filming her,' Reguto said. 'It was a part of our relationship. A lot of photographers have a muse girlfriend and she�s my muse.' But when asked about the current state of their relationship, Reguto was vague (ed note: The Corsair softly chuckles) . Like most reality romances, it seems this one fizzled when the cameras shut off. Fortunately for Reguto, he still has his friends who also appear in the film. Alex Burns, a model/actor who will appear in Zach Braff�s upcoming film 'Garden State', says working with his friend of fifteen years was 'a real pleasure, surprisingly.' The film also includes Betsey Johnson, Carmen Kass, Mini Anden and Patrick McMullan (who�s also listed as an associate producer).

"'Most fashion movies shoot [this world] two dimensionally and there�s this lack of respect for the people in it,' Reguto told The Daily Monday afternoon. 'Just because you�re dealing with a superficial world doesn�t mean the people in it aren�t real and don�t have problems � It�s not exposing anything that people don�t already know or haven�t heard stories about,' he says. 'There is darkness there and I�ve been apart of it, unfortunately.'� (ed note: fashion movies shoot two dimensionality because the industry is two dimensional, frankly, Shawn, and I mean that in the most elegant and glamorous way)

On the glorious two dimensionality of the Fashion Industry, I'll leave you with this quote, also from Fashionweekdaily, in answer to the fundamental ground-of-being philosophical question 'Who is your style icon':

Clio Manuelian, Ferragamo:

�Ghandi � I like his message, he�s man-orexic and we�ve got great kaftans for spring.�

I rest my case.