Media-Whore D'Oevres



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"'This is going to be just like Cribs,' says (Tina) Fey, standing in the doorway of her Upper West Side apartment. She launches a brief tour that includes a stop to feed the fish belonging to her husband (and 30 Rock's music supervisor), Jeff Richmond, and to move a few stray picture books to the edge of the living room couch. A video baby monitor sits next to the TV, broadcasting a fuzzy, black-and-white image of her two-and-a-half-year-old daughter, Alice, asleep in her room. Fey then pauses by a bookshelf, on top of which sit two Emmys, a Writers Guild award, a Golden Globe, a SAG award, and a yellow toy robot that Alice finds too scary to keep at eye level." (Popwatch)

"TOUGH JOB MARKET: Former attorney general Alberto Gonzales has been unable to interest law firms in adding his name to their roster... Developing..." (Drudgereport)

"THE guys from Project Rungay are worried. You read right. Tom Fitzgerald writes a gay-themed blog with Lorenzo Marquez about their favorite reality show, “Project Runway.” Last week they learned that the show, about aspiring clothing designers, would be moving from its home on the Bravo network to Lifetime. 'Bravo is known for its sharp, urban programming and its large base of pro-gay programming' he said. 'And not casting aspersions on Lifetime, but they are known for victim-of-the-week movies and Golden Girls reruns. There is a real fear that the show is going to change because of this move.'" (NYTimes/Style)

"The Kremlin has long toyed with the idea of creating a centralised police and counter-intelligence agency generally, if perhaps misleadingly, compared with the United States' FBI. Authoritative sources suggest this may be imminent. Decisions made about this new agency's leadership will say much about the likely evolution of Russian domestic security under President Dmitry Medvedev. At present, the responsibility for combating foreign espionage, terrorism and serious crime is divided between a wide range of often competing agencies. The Federal Security Service (Federalnaya sluzhba bezopasnost: FSB) has prospered under President Vladimir Putin (one of its former directors) incorporating much of the former electronic security agency and dominating the National Counter-Intelligence Committee (Natsionalny antiterrorismicheskoi komitet: NAK)." (Janes)

"Christian Lacroix took a big bite out of the Big Apple on Thursday night when he injected his elegant eclecticness into a cocktail party and dinner to celebrate his recently opened East 57th Street store ... Anh Duong and Christine Suppes wore Lacroix Haute Couture, the former crediting the designer for bringing her to New York. 'I first met him when he was Jean Patou,' she recalled, having worn Lacroix Haute Couture for her wedding. 'I came here to model for him in 1987 when I was dating Julian Schnabel and I never left.'" (Fashionweekdaily)

"Last night at the Openhouse Gallery in Nolita, photographer Brantley Gutierrez premiered his 'Sound and Light' exhibition. Put together by Spring Court and Archetype, the exhibit features photos of musical acts like Daft Punk, Cat Power, Fiona Apple, Arcade Fire, Bjork and a whole slew of others. LCD Soundsystem's Pat Mahoney DJed the event, which brought out many of the hipster elite of downtown New York." (Papermag)

"Someone has been leaking stories to the New York Times and other major papers about the likelihood that Katie Couric won't be anchoring the CBS Evening News much longer; it could even be Couric herself, floating trial balloons to see what she might do next, either at CBS or elsewhere. In retrospect, perhaps CBS brass will finally acknowledge that the show wasn't the best use of her Today-honed talents, or maybe they'll decide that the nigthly network newscast (as an institution) is in such desperate straits that it will take more than just a marquee star like Couric to save it. But let's not think of the sinking ship just now; instead, let's ask where Couric should land." (Popwatch)

"Al Gore is speaking at the RSA security conference in San Francisco this afternoon. But good luck finding out what he says: Reporters are banned from the event. We don't know what's more disheartening: The fact that the former veep is trying to keep a trade show talk private -- or that this isn't the first time he's been oddly press-shy. When he was a guest lecturer at the Columbia University's journalism school in 2001, he tried imposed a gag order on his students, but eventually backed off. And in January 07, he banned the press from a speech he was giving in Sioux Falls, S.D." (SiliconAlleyInsider)