A Little of the Old In And Out



In: Moist Towlettes. Nothing suggests swelegance quite like a humiliated assistant cowed into submission, wiping down her charge, a mad pop singer wearing a wedding gown for the second social event in a week, with moist towlettes. Smarvelous. According to Rush and Molloy, freak of the week Mariah Carey was well cooled down at P Diddy's birthday party:

"Mariah Carey, who was followed the whole night by an assistant with Handi Wipes to dab her face, tried to get the attention of 'King Diddy' as he stood on his gold throne issuing proclamations through a microphone. After a few pulls on his jacket, His Diddyness finally descended from his perch to plant a kiss on the singer, who wore a tiara and long-trained Vera Wang gown."

That's just all so Audrey Hepburn ... that I may just have to weep. (The Corsair's assistant gingerly dabs the moisture off his pronounced Ugandan cheekbones with a Handi Wipe)

Out: Mariah "Voices" Carey. The Corsair's flawless pop culture radar was scrambled at last week's sighting of Mariah Carey's wedding dress fiasco. What was she playing up to? At first he thought that she was up for another "Mariah" (verb, as in, to have a Mariah), but, then again, maybe she's crazy ... like a fox!

Perhaps Mariah is looking for a (wink wink) "Diddy Warbucks," if you know what I mean, cause according to the Page Six (link via my blog wife, the Magnificent Miu Von Furstenberg):

"DESPITE her whopping $50 million settlement to leave Virgin Records, Mariah Carey is said to be cash-strapped. "Mariah does not have a lot of cash left," said a source. "She got like $28 million after taxes, but went through a lot of it.

"She has a hairdresser and make-up artist who she keeps on a regular basis and they cost like $8,000 a day. She won't leave her house for anything without getting her hair and make-up done."

" ... Another problem seems to be Carey's houses. 'Mariah has houses all over and she redid her TriBeCa apartment last year and it was very expensive,' we're told. 'She just goes through money like water.' "

Like water for starlet.

In: Amanda Hearst. According to Fashionweekdaily, "Amanda Hearst is rumored to be the next Neutrogena girl."

Out: Jon Stewart: Page Six announces:

"JON Stewart, beware! You're the front-runner in IWantMedia.com's annual 'Media Person of the Year' poll kicking off today. But the honor might be a curse. The poll's first winner, in 2002, was Martha Stewart, who is now a jailbird. Last year, it was American Media editorial director Bonnie Fuller who was soon tarnished by high staff turnover and lagging circulation. Fuller tells IWantMedia.com that Jon Stewart has 'done the virtually impossible ? skewer the political process . . . and yet make it intensely important.' Stewart could be the right man to continue the poll 'curse,' because he's become a media darling overexposed on the covers of Rolling Stone and Newsweek, with nowhere to go but down.

In: Bai Ling. For the life of us, The Corsair cannot remember where he read that hottie Bai Ling has been offered a Playboy spread and she is currently mulling over the offer, but, well, damn, we hope she says yes.



Out: Sly Stallone. From Pete Hunsinger, publisher, GQ in Fashionweekdaily. The question, What do you think of Sly Stallone's new health magazine? Answers Hunsinger: �I think it is a great idea for Sly because he is a self made man who worships his creator!�