Media-Whore D'Oevres



"Joss Stone has an unlikely admirer - Pete Doherty. The Babyshamble hung around the singer's dressing room for ages but failed to get an introduction to her. He was probably overwhelmed by the shapely pins she'd shown on the red carpet. But Joss wasn't exactly bowled over when we broke the news to her. She groaned: 'Oh pur...lease. I thought he was still going out with Kate Moss. He hasn't got a chance with me.'" (3AMGirls)

"One by one guests left their beautifully appointed tables at the formal dinner portion of the La Dolce Vita Gala to benefit the Sarah Ferguson Foundation to gather around the stage to worship the Queen of Soul, Miss Aretha Franklin! ... Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York (who has been having quite the busy week), may be rather privileged, but looking at her clear, guileless blue eyes, one can see a truly loving charitable soul. At one point, during the auction segement of the evening, she offered herself as a 'down home' dinner guest and the bidding began at $25,000. The crowd was a clever mix -- Natasha Bedingield (who performed), LL Cool J, Mario, Clive Davis, Jason Lewis, Brandy and the handsome Prince of Dubai." (Papermag)

"In anticipation of a bruising week ahead, Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) wants the Senate’s four Democratic presidential candidates to call off campaign events to help thwart Republican objections in the escalating budget battle on Capitol Hill. 'I’m going to leave here and go call our presidentials and let them know that they better look at their schedules because these are not votes you can miss,' Reid said of Democratic Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.), Barack Obama (Ill.), Joseph Biden (Del.) and Chris Dodd (Conn.). He warned senators to prepare for possible weekend work ahead." (TheHill)

"Paris Hilton has been caught on CCTV throwing a tantrum in a Toronto porn shop. The blond socialite is seen dressed in a skeleton costume ripping down a cardboard cut-out of herself advertising the sex tape 'One Night In Paris' and threatening to "sue the f**k" out of the adult video shop. The footage, filmed on October 24, shows Paris asking to see the manager before telling a member of staff: 'You can't use my image in a porn store. I'm going to call my lawyer and sue the f**k out of this place if you don't take them down right now.'" (Hollywoodrag)

"President Bush has yet to be truly challenged on any of his vetoes of Democratic bills this year. But with his Friday veto of the water resources development act, known by the acronym WRDA, Bush may have finally found something that unifies Congress against the veto pen.The WRDA bill passed both chambers of Congress with much more than the two-thirds margin required to override a veto, but the White House has decided to create a confrontation over spending in the bill because $9 billion was added to the measure, which funds water infrastructure projects around the nation. The legislation's total cost is about $23 billion, and it has won such widespread support in Congress because it would help with hurricane protection, flood mitigation and wetlands restoration. In theory, Republicans could rally behind Bush's veto because the bill is chock full of items they could deride as "pork barrel" projects. But the WRDA bill is that it is so expansive that virtually every member of Congress would benefit from the legislation, so in allowing the veto to stand they would be denying their home districts money." (Politico)

"Heather Mills is saying Stella McCartney did 'evil things' to break her and Paul McCartney up. Supposedly, Heather Mills felt that Stella didn't want Heather to "get all the planes and diamonds'." (Socialitelife)

"The Iraqi government announced on 1 November that it was setting up checkpoints along the border with Turkey in an effort to cut PKK supply lines while US defence officials said that they were providing the Turkish military with "actionable intelligence" on PKK positions, presumably in the Kandil mountains. Turkey also announced that it was instituting economic sanctions against groups which support those responsible for the recent upsurge in attacks against Turkish troops in southeastern Turkey, a move which could open the way for a Turkish boycott of the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) based in northern Iraq." (Janes)

"Gramercy Park Hotel wasn’t the only central point for glamorous Halloween celebrations this year. Nur Khan cheerfully led the troops following the Rose Bar fun to the Sagatiba & Kiki De Montparnasse blowout at the Box where Leelee Sobieski, Lance Armstrong, and Sante D’Orazio were already partying inside. Mary-Kate Olsen showed off a new playful braided look, André Balazs sported a 1970’s naughty hotelier guise, and Simon Hammerstein was dancing among Mini Michael Jackson and Marilyn Manson on the center stage." (Fashionweekdaily)

"Mrs. Clinton’s visit to the state comes as New Hampshire’s political establishment is standing by idly, refusing to set a date for its presidential primary until Senator Carl Levin of Michigan—who covets the Granite State’s first-in-the-nation status for his own state—makes the first move. And so until William Gardner, New Hampshire’s tight-lipped secretary of state, officially says otherwise, it remains theoretically possible that the primary, which was held in late February not too many elections ago, will take place sometime next month, in December 2007. Not that anyone expects that to happen. 'The sense that this thing can move to 2007 is kind of a feint,' one member of the state’s Democratic committee told me, 'because ... this is death if we do this. It will be so egregious that we’ve moved into 2007, and people will never forget it and never forgive us.'" (Observer)