Media-Whore D'Oevres



"Demi Moore joined director Michael Radford at Cinema Society for a Piaget-sponsored screening of Flawless, a crime drama set in 1960s London ... Guests, including Andre Leon Talley, Russell Simmons and Porschela Coleman, Jamee & Peter Gregory, Arden Wohl and Elise Øverland, enjoyed cocktails, dinner and Piaget cookies. Comedian Pauly Shore even made an appearance. 'I was staying in this hotel and decided to come upstairs, and this is what I found!' exclaimed Shore, who is in town promoting the DVD release of Natural Born Komics.'' (Fashionweekdaily)

"It's getting harder and harder to keep tabs of all the people being thrown under the killer bus running amok through our political discourse.Some say the Clinton campaign threw Geraldine Ferraro under the bus after her bird-cheep about Obama catching all the breaks because he's black, while a more Machiavellian minority suggest that Ferraro threw herself under the bus--taking one for the team, as it were--in order to launch that insidious meme into the mainstream while giving Hillary disavowal distance. Now, of course, we have a ragged chorus howling in faux indignation that Obama threw his kindly white grandmother under the bus when he should have fed firebrand Reverend Wright to the sacrificial tires." (JamesWolcott)

"When Gov. David A. Paterson told NY1 News on Monday that he had used marijuana and cocaine as a young man, he was joining a list of New York politicians who have answered such questions in recent years. Here is a guide to what they (and a few national figures) have said." (NYTimes)