Media-Whores D'Oevres

It's all so incestuous: "SURVIVORS of the Cannes Film Festival report the best party of the star-studded, 12-day bacchanal so far was the bash Kid Rock threw on his yacht that featured a jam with Bono and James Blunt ..At the V.I.P. club on the Croisette, Petra Nemcova was spotted 'making out with Stavros Niarchos and dancing more sexily than the hired dancers.' Insiders say she’s trying to get revenge on ex-boyfriend Blunt, who supposedly had flings with Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan, women Stavros has also had the pleasure of knowing." (PageSix)

"BUSH administration officials, stung by complaints from Democratic Gov. Kathleen Sebelius that National Guard heavy equipment needed by tornado-stricken Greensburg, Kan., is in Iraq, are putting out word that she was two days late at the disaster scene because she was attending a jazz festival in New Orleans." (NYPost)

"Ms. Hilton, said Jamie Barton, 10, of Mobile, Ala.: 'spends all this time acting like everyone else doesn’t mean anything. It’s just me, me, me.' Said Diamond Martin, 12, of Parlin, N.J.: 'I don’t see her as a role model. I’m not sure what she’s really ever done, actually.'" (SundayStyles)

"The dervishes, distinguished by their green and red robes, eclectic prayer beads, charms and Rastafarian-style dreadlocks, represent a kinder, gentler picture of Sudanese society than the one world focuses on in the horrors of Darfur. While Sudan's Islamist government foments war there and disdainfully drags its heels over the implementation of a peace plan, the dervishes follow a mystical Sufi Muslim tradition that seeks harmony and 'oneness' with the universe. 'While the Islamists see only one right path, the Sufis see a house on the top of a hill, and understand that there are many different paths to reach the house,' says my host, Al-haj Warrag, a liberal Sudanese journalist whose white djellabiah sweeps behind him as we cross the dusty graveyard, approaching the mosque. 'There is nothing fanatical about them.'" (Time)