Media-Whore D'Oevres



"We had the pleasure of checking out the freckly British phenom Kate Nash last night at the Bowery Ballroom. What a voice! While the sound was a little off (it seemed as if her band was a little loud in comparison to her sweet, raspy voice), she was a delight to see live. We briefly chatted with her this afternoon (for a larger magazine feature that’ll run in the near future -- stay tuned! ) right before she was due for a soundcheck on the Conan O' Brien show. She told us about her post-show exploits out on the New York town: 'I went to a transsexual karaoke bar called... Lucky Cheng's? I said I wanted to do karaoke and someone mentioned this place. Everyone was like, 'it's so bad you can’t go there, it's rubbish. Come to this party with us -- Mark Ronson’s gonna be there.' And I was like, 'Let’s go to the transsexual karaoke bar.'" (Papermag)

"'I'm so glad the Golden Globes were cancelled because it draws more attention to this,' said Patricia Arquette, clad in a red disco sari and just back from a trip to India, on Saturday night. 'This' was a black-tie gala and fashion show sponsored by Vogue, Cartier, and Ford celebrating the tenth anniversary of the Art of Elysium, a nonprofit organization that encourages actors, artists, and musicians to donate their time to children with serious medical conditions. In the crowd at St. Vibiana's, a former cathedral in downtown L.A., were Harrison Ford and Calista Flockhart (who, along with the rest of the Brothers & Sisters cast, came in support of co-star and co-host Balthazar Getty), Casey Affleck, Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi, Ashley Olsen, Rachel Bilson, Camilla Belle, and Lenny Kravitz." (Style)

" As Marianne Williamson toasted the release of her newest work, The Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife, at the Upper East Side brownstone of Tom and Kathy Freston, she had few wise words about the cycle of book publishing. 'When you're young, the issue is whether or not your book got published,' the Hervé Leger-clad author joked. 'But when you're older, the issue is whether or not anyone gives a shit!'" (Fashionwekdaily)

"Despite a writers' strike now in its eleventh week, one network executive can soon breathe a sigh of relief. Come Jan. 15, Fox President of Alternative Entertainment Mike Darnell's top-rated singing competition American Idol will steamroll into prime time. Some 30 million viewers have tuned into the Fox talent show in seasons past--and with a dearth of viewing alternatives on CBS, General Electric's NBC and Disney's ABC due to the work stoppage, those numbers are poised to grow in the show's seventh season." (Forbes)

"In some scenarios, Time Warner could just end up being a movie studio and cable-television company: an all-Hollywood entity, and a very large and successful one at that. Which could set off another big deal. It could be combined with NBC Universal, which is owned by General Electric, either in partnership or sale. Reports in the business press have it that G.E. might put NBC Universal on the block after the 2008 Olympics. But the dealmakers of Wall Street also seem intrigued by the possibility of G.E.’s buying a future cable-free version of Time Warner. As another well-known media investor put it, 'There’s two big studios, which fit nicely. If you look at a lot of NBC’s hit shows, they come from Warner Bros. Television anyway.' The only big overlap would be with CNN and MSNBC. But both have strong Internet businesses." (NYMag)