Media-Whore's D'oevres



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"After her Met epiphany, Lohan managed to stay in the news by crashing her cocaine-laden Mercedes convertible into a curb and shrub on Sunset Boulevard, fleeing the scene, and then passing out at dawn, open-mouthed like a groggy sailor on a bender, in full view of a passing paparazzo. This efflorescence of her ho-hum fleece-hoodie-and-sneakers mode was followed by the prankish surfacing of eye-opening photos of a visibly hazy but magnetically glowing Lohan horsing around with kitchen knives in kinky lesbo sex-play. Whether Lohan's acting career is permanently off the rails isn't clear, but as a childhood fan of Confidential magazine (the ur-tabloid of the 1950s), I'm enjoying every minute of this decadent spectacle." (Salon via Drudge)

"Bush’s visit to Capitol Hill to push his immigration reform bill has, in effect, transformed the vote on the bill into the American equivalent of a British confidence vote. In a parliamentary country, he would have to resign if he lost the vote. Here, he will stay but be slowly twisting in the wind for the next 18 months." (TheHill)

"Looks like Jake Gyllenhaal is going to be making his debut on Broadway this fall in a play called Farragut North, about Howard Dean's 2004 run for the White House. He took part in a reading of the play (written by Beau Willimon, who worked for Dean during his campaign), in which he took on the role of Dean's communications director, last week. According to the Post's Michael Riedel, Jake will decide by the end of this week whether or not he's going to be making the Broadway committment." (Papermag)


"(On Monday) Robin (Quivers) said that Judith Regan came over for the weekend and they had a good time. That led to Howard talking about working with Judith when he was writing his book. He said that she used to tell him stories about how she'd keep herself hidden from men when she'd sleep with them. She'd hide parts of herself every time and she'd wear a shirt or something like that to keep it hidden. Howard asked Robin if Judith shit her brains out. Robin said they both got coffee enemas in different parts of the house. It was all three of them giving themselves the coffee enemas. Robin said that it's organic coffee that they use to do that. Howard asked how they get that into their asshole. Robin said you put it into an enema bag and do it that way." (Marksfriggin)

"THE jury may still be out as to Jade Jagger's role at Garrard – her contract expired last June and announcements have not been forthcoming since – but persistent rumours that fellow Brit-grit designer Stephen Webster will take the reins, which resurfaced this week, have again been denied by the Royal Family's jeweller." (DailyVogue via FashionWeekDaily)

"It felt like practically everyone who has ever had a by-line had crowded into the sanctuary of Riverside Church Tuesday afternoon to say good-bye to David Halberstam, an author with the voice of a deity, the heft of a tight end, and a hardcover-track-record that was the envy of every writer in the room. Halberstam was 73 when he died April 23rd in a car crash in California, and dozens of people had experienced that news like a blow to the solar plexus .. Ben Bradlee headed a substantial contingent from The Washington Post, while Timesmen past and present in the audience included Bill Kovach, Anna Quindlen, Craig Whitney, Joe Lelyveld, Sam Roberts, Seymour Topping, Paul Goldberger, Frank Rich, Les Gelb and Gay Talese. Bob Caro sat way in the back, Michael Arlen spoke from the front, and Kati Martin, Nick Pileggi, Robert Sam Anson, Nora Ephron, Ken Auletta, Joan Didion, Gail Buckley, David Remnick, and Frances Fitzgerald were among the scores and scores of authors who helped to fill a thousand seats in the church." (Observer)

"Paul McCartney missed scoring his first No. 1 album in 25 years by 10,000 copies as T-Pain's 'Epiphany' (Jive) took the week's album sales crown and Rihanna's "Good Girl Gone Bad" slipped past the former Beatle to take the second spot. 'Epiphany,' the rapper's second release, sold 171,000 copies, far outdistancing "Rapper Ternt Sanga" which got to No. 40 on a sales week of 47,000, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Rihanna's 'Good Girl Gone Bad' (Def Jam), driven by the No. 1 single 'Umbrella,' just edged the McCartney disc. All three of her albums have debuted in the top 10, with each outselling its predecessor." (Variety)