"NATO countries endorsed Bush administration plans for installing a missile defense system in alliance countries in Europe on Thursday even as they rebuffed President Bush’s entreaties to extend membership of the alliance to the former Soviet republics of Ukraine and Georgia. The unusually rancorous meeting of NATO members in Bucharest exposed sharp differences between nations, but despite the rancor President Bush won some agreement on bolstering the number of NATO troops in Afghanistan and presenting a united front against Russia’s objections on the issue of missile defense." (NYTimes)
"Mayor Bloomberg was honored at the National Resource Defense Council gala at Cipriani with an award and a song from Broadway's Christopher Mason, but Hizzoner seemed to be more impressed that he'd dined at Waverly Inn the night before. He name-dropped the hot spot to several guests ..." (NYDailyNews)
"Diva Mariah caused a right Carey on after cancelling British radio interviews because she's 'not a morning person'. Perhaps that's because she was boozing it up at London celebrity restaurant San Lorenzo until 3am." (3AMGirls)
"The Uzbek group Islamic Jihad Union (IJU) has claimed a German national carried out a 3 March suicide bombing in Afghanistan. The claim suggests the Al-Qaeda linked IJU has strong and ongoing associations with German jihadist recruits as well as the Haqqani Network, the Taliban-affiliated militant group that claimed responsibility for the attack. On 3 March, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid announced a suicide bomber had attacked a base used by Afghan and foreign forces in the Sabari district of Khowst province in southeast Afghanistan. He identified the bomber as a Taliban fighter called Abdullah and said he had killed a large number of Afghan and foreign soldiers when he detonated a Mazda vehicle packed with explosives inside the base." (Janes)
"... Ellen Page — who may or may not be gay—is clearly playing along with all the speculation. She’s MAKING people talk by not giving definitive answers about her sexuality. She even did a sketch on Saturday Night Live that seemed to feed right into all the chit chat. By refusing to squawk, 'How dare you! I am NOT a lesbian,' she’s letting us think that this kind of talk isn’t appalling to her at all. Even when her publicist called me, she never said, 'She’s not a lesbian,' just 'That was me with her at the Oscars' (though I hung up on her, so who knows what else she was going to say)." (Musto)
"Love was in the air at Tina Brown's Sutton Place residence Tuesday night, when she and Vanity Fair contributing editor Vicky Ward (who was formerly Brown's executive editor at Talk) co-hosted a party with La Mer celebrating the launch of their friend Susan Nagel's new book, Marie-Thérèse, Child of Terror: The Fate of Marie Antoinette's Daughter ... For Brown, hostess duties come naturally, especially when literature is involved. 'I'm a history junkie and obsessed with 18th century architecture,' she said." (Fashionweekdaily)
"... But as the group moved together for the perfunctory photo, Rachel Binah, a former Richardson delegate who now supports Hillary Clinton, told Bill how "sorry" she was to have heard former Clinton campaign manager James Carville call Richardson a 'Judas' for backing Obama. It was as if someone pulled the pin from a grenade. 'Five times to my face (Richardson) said that he would never do that,' a red-faced, finger-pointing Clinton erupted. The former president then went on a tirade that ran from the media's unfair treatment of Hillary to questions about the fairness of the votes in state caucuses that voted for Obama. It ended with him asking delegates to imagine what the reaction would be if Obama was trailing by just 1 percent and people were telling him to drop out. 'It was very, very intense,' said one attendee. 'Not at all like the Bill of earlier campaigns.'" (SFGate)
"'I don't think of this as a road movie,' filmmaker Wong Kar Wai told New Yorkers last night, during a conversation about his new movie, 'My Blueberry Nights,' which was partially filmed in Lower Manhattan. 'The original idea was to have the film just be about Norah (Jones) and her relationship with the owners of this restaurant,' Wong Kar Wai revealed. 'But it was too expensive to shoot just in New York and the characters began to expand across the country.'" (Indiewire)
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