Media-Whore D'Oevres




"Overheard dialogue at Beige: 'AMY WINEHOUSE has made a career out of just that one line.' 'No, honey, I know her and she's done a lot of lines.' .. Overheard at the Tony Awards? I have no idea, since this year I watched from the peacefulness of my gay living room. My chronological thoughts: ANNE HECHE is with a woman! TAYE and IDINA are still together! The two featured-actor winners are a scenery designer's worst enemy: They chew it nonstop. ANTHONY CHISHOLM was robbed. So was KEVIN SPACEY in that cruise park." (LaDolceMusto)

"Financial projections for the President’s Dinner tonight confirm that Republican confidence in the president is in a state of collapse. The National Republican Congressional Committee’s (NRCC) fundraising goal is $7.5 million, which is half what was raised last year. But to reach this lesser goal, each individual lawmaker has been asked to raise the same amount as 12 months ago. In other words, the NRCC is assuming lawmakers won’t be either willing or able to hit the targets they managed last year .. Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) said she thinks her former GOP colleagues Sens. Mike DeWine (Ohio) and Lincoln Chafee (R.I.) lost reelection because of Bush’s unpopularity." (TheHill)

"It was another star-studded night at the movies for Andrew Saffir’s Cinema Society with the premiere of Evening at Clearview Chelsea West Cinemas on Monday .. Co-host Donna Karan, who sponsored the evening, let Glenn Close know how excited she was to see her in the film. 'Blink and you’ll miss me!' the actress joked .. The crowd, including Rachel Weisz, Ang Lee, Felicity Huffman, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, Rachel Roy, Amy Sacco, Ziyi Zhang, Marjorie Raein, Lynn Wyatt, and Bettina Zilkha soon bucked up for the after party held at The Bowery Hotel’s indoor/outdoor terrace, where moviegoers drowned their sorrows in green cucumber-vodka cocktails and Moët champagne through a passing thunderstorm." (FashionweekDaily)

"If I were an aspiring young film producer today, I'd be out there pitching an action movie about a WallWalker (remember those creepy blobs from the '80s?"} and his exciting encounters with creatures like Thundercats and Hungry Hippos. The WallWalker would go on to save the world, of course. Sound like a truly dopey idea? Well, let's get real here: Hollywood is avid for stories about toys and creatures from video games. If you want to see a green light flashing, be prepared to put aside those foolish stories about 'real people.' ..Paramount, DreamWorks and Hasbro Toys want to prove us wrong July 3 when they come out with Transformers. Indeed if the film turns out to be a hit then gird yourself for a relentless surge of toy-based movies like GI Joe, Bratz, Robosapien, Voltron, He-Man and virtually every other remnant of Reagan-Era comic effluvia." (PeterBart)