Media-Whore D'Oevres



"(I)n Lars and the Real Girl, which is—brace yourselves—quirky, and which, according to co-star Emily Mortimer at a special screening last week, used two $10,000 sex dolls for filming, one of which Ryan Gosling ended up keeping." (Musto)

"The Fifth Congressional District in northwestern Ohio is solidly Republican, giving President Bush 61 percent of the vote in 2004. But Democrats believe that they may have an outside chance for an upset, given that Latta was bloodied during the campaign by a slew of negative attacks. The anti-tax Club for Growth poured in big bucks for a blistering ad campaign accusing Latta of supporting tax increases. And his campaign fired back, accusing Buehrer of taking campaign cash from indicted GOP fundraiser, Tom Noe. The nasty nature of the GOP primary prompted the state’s deputy party chairman, Kevin DeWine, to urge both candidates to 'start acting like congressmen, or neither of you will ever be one.'" (Politico)

"Sarkozy, who is an expressed admirer of the U.S., won the presidency earlier this year. He spoke in the House of Representatives, where France has often been maligned in recent years for not supporting the military effort in Iraq. French fries in the House cafeteria were renamed 'freedom fries' during the run-up to the Iraq war as a way of showing displeasure with Sarkozy’s predecessor, who opposed military intervention. They are now known again as French fries." (TheHill)