Media-Whore D'Oevres



"Once upon a time in the 1980s I did a movie with River Phoenix that was released under the title A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon. I played the older woman who shares a... a... who spends the night with... uh... who seduces... or rather... maybe... who is seduced by... oh well. You get the point. They call these women "cougars" now but I like to think the scenes we had together were slightly more multi-dimensional than just another Kim Catrall fling in Sex and the City." (Ann Magnuson/Papermag)

"Ghostface Killah got RZA to agree to push back the highly anticipated fifth studio album, 8 Diagrams, of the Wu-Tang Clan—the hip-hop collective to which they both belong—a week, so that he could release his third album in two years, The Big Doe Rehab, today. It’s been hit or miss for the Staten Island rapper all of his career, but with such talent, even his 'misses' are worth a gander. (Our own Gabe Boylan thinks so--read his review here.)" (Observer)

"Back in New York, at the Tribeca Grand, Guy Ritchie screened his new flick, Revolver, before a crowd of Cinema Society regulars like Donna Karan, Rachel Roy, Eleanor Ylvisaker, Zani Gugelmann, and Zac Posen, as well as an impressive group of celebrities including Sarah Jessica Parker, Liza Minnelli, and Alan Cumming, the last of whom remarked, 'That film had a very liberal use of lighter fluid.' Blood or no blood, at the after-party at the Gramercy Park Hotel's rooftop bar, Calvin Klein and Maggie Rizer admitted they arrived as admirers of Madonna, but left as staunch Ritchie supporters." (Style)

"'Tanner Hall,' a never-made UPN pilot, is finding new life as an indie feature. Chris Kattan, Amy Sedaris and Tom Everett Scott have been cast in the feature, being directed by Tatiana von Furstenberg and Francesca Gregorini ... The script, written by von Furstenberg and Gregorini, is a coming-of-age story set in a boarding school. Four teenage girls navigate adolescence while the adults in their world -- the parents and teacher -- struggle with their own midlife hurdles. Von Furstenberg is the daughter of fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg, and Gregorini is the daughter of Barbara Bach and the step-daughter of Ringo Starr. The two met while attending Brown University, became fast friends and cooked up 'Tanner Hall' as a TV series based on their experiences attending boarding schools." (HollywoodReporter)

"Speaking in the very same Gotham hotel where he asserted that a DreamWorks exit would have 'no material impact' on Viacom's balance sheet, the conglom's chief exec, Philippe Dauman, changed his tune Monday. 'We are very happy to have one of the great filmmakers of our time and actually of all time with us,' Dauman said at the 35th annual UBS Global Media Week & Communications Conference. He meant DreamWorks principal Steven Spielberg, whom Jeffrey Katzenberg defended in September after Dauman's comments, with Katzenberg proclaiming the filmmaker a 'national treasure' and criticizing Dauman's cold shoulder as 'ill-advised.'" (Variety)