Media-Whore's D'oevres



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"Snapping pictures of her guests with a Polaroid camera, Charlotte Ronson celebrated the reopening of her Mulberry Street flagship store with cupcakes, cocktails, and close friends like Kate Young, Melissa Bent, Byrdie Bell, and her mother, Ann Dexter-Jones."

"Which lens-loving 'socialite' is having an affair with an internationally famous married-with-kids artist?" (Gatecrasher)

"DUI probationer Eve toasted friends with Evian at Stereo on W. 29th St. Thursday night. When asked 'Where's your drink?' she showed off her ankle alcohol- monitoring bracelet - see, it was cool before Lindsay - and said, 'Only a few more days to go!'" (RushMolloy)

"In advance of a formal solicitation for funds or an announcement of his candidacy, Fred Thompson's presidential campaign is quietly organizing its first Washington fund-raiser at the downtown J.W. Marriott hotel the last week in July. This event will give the clearest signal so far of how successful the actor-politician will be in his late-starting drive to finance his run for president. It will be watched carefully to see whether Thompson picks up important lobbyists and other Washingtonians who earlier had lined up for Sen. John McCain's fading campaign for the presidential nomination." (Novak)

"In a rare instance of the printed word grabbing the spotlight over movies and videogames, youthful buyers snapped up 8.3 million copies of 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows' in its first 24 hours of release in the U.S. this weekend.
Tally for the seventh and final book in J.K. Rowling's mega-selling series tops the previous record for the first day of a book's release, which belonged to Potter as well: The series' sixth installment, 'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,' sold nearly 7 million copies in its first 24 hours when it bowed in July 2005, according to U.S. publisher Scholastic." (Variety)

"Mr. Romney, who had led the pack in private-equity fund-raising in the first quarter, has fallen to third among all candidates of both parties. Mr. Obama got the most private-equity money in the second quarter, followed by Rudolph Giuliani, a Republican." (DealBook)