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Paris' Pop Career Fizzles: "AS if facing 23 days in the slammer isn't bad enough, Paris Hilton has now been dropped by her record label. We can exclusively reveal that the 26-year-old socialite has been given the boot by Warner Bros. She is said to be gutted after learning of their decision this week. A spokesman for the record label confirmed: 'We are not expecting any new Paris Hilton material in the foreseeable future.'" (3AMGirls)
"Democrats collected 75% of the $1.1 million in presidential campaign contributions by top hedge-fund executives in first quarter, according to Absolute Returns magazine and PoliticalMoneyLine…. Senate Banking chairman Dodd led with $347,000 received…. Most generous fund was Fortress Investment Group, which gave ex-employee Edwards $226,000." (WSJ via BenSmith)
At the FiFi's, Media-Whore extraordinaire P-Diddy embarasses himself as only a grown man going by the handle "P-Diddy" could: "Sean 'Diddy' Combs followed on stage to give his speech, in which he explained that his perfumery skills came from his days as a kid when he would 'mix different flavors of Kool-Aid to create custom flavors.'" (NYPost)
"Then it was upstairs to the White Room for a podcast with Bob Geldof on Africa - Africa, a quarter-century compulsion of Bob's and a solid 10-year enthusiasm of Tony's. Then it was downstairs to the long table and a multinational convocation of bishops. Power has been described as a drug, an aphrodisiac, a "filthy venom" (in the words of Maxim Gorky); it is also, for much of the time, carcinogenically boring. Like all politicians, Tony has seven or eight kinds of smile. Smiles two and three would do for the bishops. When he is making the rounds of a crowded room, his smile, towards the end, is a rictus, and his eyes are as hard as jewels. All the boredom is what the world doesn't see - the hidden, humble toil of dosing and humouring, of giving face and jollying along. It is this that keeps politics halfway honest, and impedes the process that Bob Geldof alluded to, up in the White Room: 'It's a bit naff, isn't it? What happened? The politicisation of celebrity or the celebritisation of politics?' And the question arose: what will Tony be when he quits? An ex-politician?
"'No,' he said. 'I'll be a former celebrity.'" (Guardian)
Who said NBC was weak on Drama?: "NBC Universal is expected to dump Angela Bromstad and tap Katherine Pope as the head of its studio arm. Pope has been the frontrunner for the gig since Tuesday, when NBC U TV Studio co-chair Marc Graboff made it clear he wanted Pope to remain with the company. Pope's future at the conglom was in doubt over the Memorial Day weekend after she and NBC U supremo Jeff Zucker clashed when Zucker apparently reneged on promises to put Pope in charge of all studio development. In fact, Zucker was negotiating to bring Silverman into the company, with he and Graboff taking oversight of both the studio and the network. Zucker and Pope made up, and Graboff said she was welcome to stay at NBC." (Variety)
"'Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson and wife Dany Garcia Johnson have separated, they have announced in a statement to PEOPLE. While certain aspects of our relationship have changed, we are both vitally important to each other's lives,' their statement reads." (People)
"Well-armed with all your great questions, I interviewed Al Gore over the weekend. After talking with him and reading his book, The Assault on Reason (which will debut at #1 in the New York Times on Sunday), it was clear that he is obsessed with two kinds of pollution -- the pollution of our planet, and the pollution of our politics and culture. In other words, the toxicity of the atmosphere and the toxicity of the public sphere." (AriannaHuffington)
A Jersey Cheer for that flop-sweaty Pseudo-front runner? "Supporters of Rudy Giuliani for president are changing New Jersey's longtime proportional representation rules for allocating national convention delegates to winner-take-all, seeking a coup to give the former New York City mayor the lion's share of the state's 52 votes. A June 14 meeting of New Jersey's Republican State Central Committee is expected to adopt a Feb. 5 presidential primary procedure giving the first-place finisher all three delegates in each of the state's 13 House districts, and the statewide leader all 13 at-large delegates." (Rovak)
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