Media-Whore D'Oevres



"Andre Simwerayi looked on with satisfaction as the army blasted rockets over a verdant hillside, pummeling what officers said were the positions of forces loyal to a renegade Congolese Tutsi general. Members of the Congolese Army, shown in eastern Congo last month battling renegade forces. 'If the bombs don’t do the job, we are ready with machetes to finish it ourselves,' said Mr. Simwerayi, 31, a street tough standing nearby in a tattered trench coat. 'We must crush the inyenzi,' he spat, using a word made notorious by the genocide against Tutsi in neighboring Rwanda more than a decade ago. It means cockroaches." (NYTimes)

"Next week, the global film industry will turn to Park City, Utah for the Sundance Film Festival. But does Sundance, in turn, look back at the rest of the globe? The answer, of course, is sort of." (Indiewire)



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"Eager to show off their holiday tans and reimmerse themselves in the social fray, Manhattanites turned out in droves at the Guggenheim Tuesday evening to join Louis Vuitton in celebrating the final day of the Richard Prince exhibition and for a sneak peek at the spring collection bags the celebrated artist designed with the French fashion house, which were available for pre-order that night--albeit discreetly ... Others, however, including Jennifer Creel, Mario and Anne Grauso, Nina Garcia, Kelly Killoren Bensimon, and Jackie Sackler, who made her first official outing since having missed the museum's Young Artist's Ball after giving birth to her son the day prior, toured the multi-level displays of Prince's work, making sure to check out the nurse paintings tucked in a hidden room on the top floor. 'He's a rockin' dad and hot,' said Bensimon, just back from Turks & Caicos, 'plus he gave me five photos for my bikini book.'" (Fashionweekdaily)

"The chronic insomniac – an avid nightclubber at the height of his fame - is often in bed by 9pm but rarely sleeps more than a few hours at a time. (Eminem) usually gets up at dawn but instead of working on new songs in his home studio he lolls around watching TV or playing mind-numbing computer games." (Thisislondon)