"Hunt Slonem may have downsized his living space, but he remains a larger than life character. The artist's latest works, aptly called 'The Feather Game,' debut today at the Marlborough Gallery in Chelsea, and he celebrated with a Celine-sponsored dinner Wednesday night at his Hell's Kitchen studio ... Slonem's new digs have never been so populated. The sheer number of guests like Tatiana and Campion Platt, Jessica Joffe, Tara Subkoff, Glenn O'Brien, and Milly de Cabrol outnumbered Slonem's parrots. 'I feel like I'm at the Cooper Union,' remarked Genevieve Jones, who swapped her Celine dress for vintage after a tear mishap in the cab. 'It's so schoolish in here,' she said, later heading off to the Puck Building for The Kitchen's spring benefit." (Fashionweekdaily)
"The Bush administration's policies towards Latin America have contributed to the dramatic populist shift in the region since he took office. Bolstering governments of the region against the spread of the leftist menace as the Bush team did in its early years appears, in retrospect, stale, a holdover strategy from the Reagan administration. The chaotic reception President Bush received, for example, at the 4th Summit of the Americas in Mar del Plata, Argentina in 2004 was a pivotal moment in the history of U.S.-Latin American relations." (Ron Mwangaguhunga/ Kenneth Cole's AWEARNESS Blog)
"Cannes' perennial post-screening boos are not to be trusted. Neither, for that matter, are the standing ovations. To each his own cinema, to be sure: one viewer's masterpiece is another's misstep, depending upon your taste and even where you sit. It's been alleged that the Salles Bazin screening room is far less kind to a film than the bigger venues. Either Steven Soderbergh's 'Che' epic is an ambitious historical masterpiece or an unfinished mess (judging from the mix of cheers and jeers reported after its premiere ..." (Indiewire)
"It was the calendar that killed Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign. Yes, the obituary will (correctly) list several causes of fatality, particularly the decision of her campaign strategists to essentially ignore a string of ten contests between February 9 and 19 to Barack Obama. In that 11-day stretch, Obama scored one landslide triumph after another, amassing the bulk of the popular-vote and pledged-delegate lead that Clinton spent the spring chasing in vain. Had Clinton not won Ohio on March 4, her campaign would have ended on the spot. As it was, the damage from her mid-February slide has, in the end, proven insurmountable." (Observer)
"Oh, no my friends! Stay as far away from them as you can—they are the devil with the face of angel food cake! They will rip your heart out and stomp it to the ground, destroying you with their addiction, while somehow functioning well enough to stay afloat only because they can carelessly careen past all their fuckups and ooze enough charm to make you endlessly forgive them ... They're cheap! Any extra dough they have, they want to spend it on nose candy. Their own." (Musto)
"Sean Penn is on the Cannes wagon. He claimed before the festival he would stay 'wise and sober' throughout. That's because he is the jury president. He has, however, been smoking like a fiend, even at the jury press conference in the Palais where smoking is supposedly banned ... Media comes in all shapes, sizes and smarts. Most are professionals. A few are idiots. Worst are those who, at the end of press conferences featuring stars, storm the stage begging for autographs. The spectacle at the Indiana Jones event was disgusting, giving the entire media corps a bad name. Something needs to be done (such as confiscating their media badges)." (EdmuntonSun)
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