Media-Whore's D'oevres



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"Time Warner Inc. chairman and CEO Richard Parsons on Thursday signaled more clearly than ever that he might drop at least his CEO title in the next year or two and again backed president and COO Jeffrey Bewkes as his heir apparent. Speaking at a Merrill Lynch media investor conference in London, he also said TW expects to be in a position to make a decision on the future of its AOL unit by year's end and said the world's largest media conglomerate could completely sever its ties to majority-owned Time Warner Cable in about five years or so, even though no such decision has been made. Parsons also shot down continued Wall Street talk about a sale of the Time Inc. magazine unit, signaled that the TW board likely will vote for a new stock-buyback program and promised that the conglomerate's dividend would grow 'modestly but predictably' over time. (TheHollywoodReporter)

"Cable nets: (Dick) Parsons: 'We’re still thinking about how to make TNT and TBS more online-friendly. ... 'I’m going to say something I shouldn't say. I worry about CNN more now than I do about CNN.com.'" (Paidcontent)

"All you need is love, right? That and a little Hervé Léger, the designer of choice at Wednesday night’s fifth-annual Whitney Art Party, sponsored by BCBG Max Azria, to celebrate the museum’s newest exhibit, Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era .. Fortunately, music and entertainment were already accounted for, thanks to Joshua White from the Joshua Light Show and VJ Honeygun. Even host committee member Arden Wohl hopped in to the DJ booth to spin things up with fellow documentarian and DJ Jauretsi Saizarbitoria. The MisShapes’ Leigh Lezark was also on hand just in case, and toured the room with Max Minghella, who looked more beatnik than boho. 'I didn’t get the hippie chic memo,' he admitted .. But not even the city sidewalks or the late night hour could keep the diligent shutterbugs from showing Ivanka Trump more amour, trailing her down the block as she exited with her squeeze, The New York Observer’s Jared Kushner. Ah, young love!" (Fashionweekdaily)

"Va-va-va-voom! Fred Thompson’s wife is a hottie. Do a Google image search for the name 'Jeri Thompson' and check out the photo of her in the blue dress standing in front of a purple backdrop with her husband. If that woman doesn’t strike a note with red-blooded American men, I don’t know who would." (TheHill)


"There are two kinds of books about Clinton. The first tries to prove that she’s really much worse than you think she is, the second that she’s really no worse than you think she is. Bernstein has apparently mellowed since his Watergate days, and his book belongs squarely in the latter camp. Even as he chronicles one fabulous misstep after another, he describes the former First Lady as 'well-intentioned' and 'principled,' motivated by deep religious faith and a passionate sense of caring. He characterizes the 'so-called Whitewater matter' as 'overblown almost from the moment the New York Times first wrote about it,' and relates Clinton’s various self-justifying comments—'If I wanted to destroy these things, I would have”—with
Jeff Gerth and Don Van Natta, Jr.,’s 'Her Way: The Hopes and Ambitions of Hillary Rodham Clinton' (Little, Brown; $29.99) is the other kind of Clinton book." (ElizabethKolbert)

"Well get ready: Hostel: Part II joins that rare group of fright sequels like Evil Dead 2 and Dawn of the Dead that not only reinvents itself and ups the ante but crosses over into hard core horror art as well. Eli Roth is a rarity among genre directors. He has an affinity for horror but is smart enough to shape his films into something original, darkly funny and disturbingly visceral .. And then to throw the legendary Italian director of Cannibal Holocaust -- Reggero Deodato -- in a scene right out of a Lucio Fulci’s 1988 Touch of Death is demented and too wonderful for words. This is a true horror movie classic." (Papermag)

"WE HEAR... that tomorrow's New York Post will report that Paris Hilton is throwing a big old house party tonight to celebrate her 'freedom.' Or at least her freedom to stay home for 40 days and contemplate her new jewelry." (Gawker)

But ..Isn't Marx Dead? "Harvey Weinstein recently became an investor in a new West Village lounge named Socialista, along with Cipriani heir Giuseppe Cipriani and Mrs. Sting, Trudie Styler. The lounge, located at Jane and West Street, is the brainchild of Bungalow 8 doorman Armin Amiri, who is functioning as Socialista's public face: 'What I'd like to be done is a socialism as far as the door,' said Mr. Amiri, who grew up in Persia and later Vienna, and speaks with a slight accent. 'What socialism really means is, I give you this and you give me that.' .. According to food blog Eater, Amiri does not have ownership of his own restaurant. Instead, Amiri pretends to be the restaurant's proprietor when in reality, he is a salaried employee of Giuseppe Cipriani." (FishbowlNY)

"Paris Hilton's parents, Kathy and Rick, showed up at their daughter's West Hollywood home this afternoon and were greeted by a swarm of paparazzi. The beleaguered parents could barely make their way to her front door through the pack of paps! Meanwhile, famed author Dominick Dunne mulled around outside. He told reporters that he was in town for the Phil Spector trial, but just had to check out the scene at Chateau Hilton. Dunne actually expressed a twinge of regret about Paris leaving jail early, saying, 'I think she should have served out the whole thing. I think she could have come out a heroine. Man, I don't know, this sounds like rich kid stuff.'" (TMZ)