Media-Whore D'Oevres

"Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) has finally caught Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) in Capitol Hill endorsements. When unpledged superdelegates Brad Miller (D-N.C.) and Rick Larsen (D-Wash.) became the latest members of Congress to endorse the Illinois senator on Thursday, Obama for the first time in the Democratic presidential primary race tied Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.) in the number of public endorsements from lawmakers. Ten months ago, Clinton led Obama in endorsements from legislators, 51-22. Three months ago, she was up 90-62." (TheHill)

"'I was rubbing shoulders with John McCain on the red carpet!' exclaimed a star-shocked Jason Wu. That sentiment aptly describes the deliriously diverse guest list at Time's annual celebration of the 100 most influential people in the world at the Frederick P. Rose Hall in Time Warner Center ... Zhang Ziyi mingled with Rupert Murdoch, Kate and Laura Mulleavy gazed at Lance Armstrong, all was as it should be. 'We're pretty shy,' confessed Kate Mulleavy. 'We're satisfied with looking at people rather than talking to them. But we did get to meet David Bowie on Monday at the Met which was spectacular, and we're dying to meet Mia Farrow if she shows up.' Time's listmaker Adi Ignatius, Tyler Perry, Chris Rock, Martha Stewart, Robert Downey Jr., and Brian Williams surveyed the scene. Even Lorne Michaels was impressed. 'I was kind of hoping Dalai Lama would be here,' he craked. 'But so far, I don't see him at the open bar. Maybe he'll join me at my table.'" (Fashionweekdaily)

"Wednesday night's fundraiser for DKMS, a nonprofit that matches marrow donors to leukemia patients, drew such well-wishers as Cindy Crawford, Natasha Bedingfield, and Eva Mendes to Capitale. Not surprisingly, the talk was still of Monday's Met ball. 'I'm not pompous, but I think I was the best-dressed person there,' said Mendes of her Calvin Klein Collection gown. 'I felt like I was wearing a beautiful piece of architecture.' Sex and the City's Mario Cantone, the evening's emcee, was his usual chatty-catty self." (Style)

"Clinton's paste-on populism changed absolutely nothing. The demographic blocs that had determined the shape of this remarkable campaign remained stolidly in place. Blacks, young people and those with college educations voted for Obama; Clinton won women, the elderly, whites without college educations. Clinton's slim margin of victory in Indiana was provided, appropriately enough, by Republicans, who were 10% of the Democratic-primary electorate and whose votes she carried 54% to 46% — some, perhaps, at the behest of the merry prankster Rush Limbaugh, who had counseled his ditto heads to bring 'chaos' to the Democratic electoral process by voting for their favorite whipping girl. Clinton's new glow, her newfound stump proficiency, her symbiosis with Limbaugh, seemed an eerily Faustian narrative." (Time)

"In her guaranteed-to-top-the-charts book, Barbara speaks for the first time publicly about her passionate affair in the 1970s with former Massachusetts Senator Edward Brooke and how the romance almost destroyed both their careers. At the time, Barbara had already been twice married and was a rising television news star and co-host of the 'Today' show. When Senator Brooke, now 88, told her that she was the oldest woman he had ever been with, she wanted to say - but never did - 'Oh yeah? Well you are the blackest man I have ever been with.' Clearly, some of Barbara’s best quips never made it out of her mouth." (Hamptons)

"The United States fears that tensions between Russia and Georgia could spark armed conflict. Russia has been sparring with its former satellite over influence with two breakaway regions of Georgia. Recently Moscow has moved to increase ties with Abkhazia and South Ossetia and has added to its peacekeeping troops in Abkhazia. Acting U.S. Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Daniel Fried says the United is concerned the situation could escalate." (IHT)

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"'I would love to have one to put in my garden!' exclaimed Valentino as he walked into Lever House for Tom Sachs' Bronze Collection Thursday night ... Host Aby Rosen welcomed Jackie Astier, Countess Georgina Brandolini, Peter Brant, Cynthia Rowley, Hana Soukupova, Elie and Rory Tahari, and Yvonne Force Villareal. 'The artists have freedom to do what they want, and he really took advantage!' Rosen quipped. And while Richard duPont's exhibit was removed to make room for the Japanese sensation, he still came to show support for Sachs." (Fashionweekdaily)

"There were some questions earlier in the week as to whether or not Farrow would be allowed to host the Foreign Correspondents' Club lunch in Hong Kong as the torch relayed through the city on Friday. The torch's presence in Hong Kong was particularly sensitive because it appeared for the first time on Chinese soil. The lingering questions of Hong Kong autonomy, which reverted to Chinese rule in 1997, caused anxiety in Beijing." (Ron Mwangaguhunga/Kenneth Cole AWEARNESS Blog)

"Barack Obama's victory in the North Carolina primary was actually the second important election result for his campaign this month. The first, which has not received enough notice, was the triumph of Louisiana Democrat Don Cazayoux in the race for an open U.S. House seat despite an aggressive Republican campaign to link the moderate Cajun to Obama, liberalism and high taxes. That the Obama link did not bring down Cazayoux in a district that voted 59 percent for George W. Bush in 2004 will help reassure Democratic superdelegates from Republican-leaning districts that they can live with Obama at the top of their party's ticket." (TNR)

"The tragedy was in plain sight, but nobody thought it would hit this hard. As word spread today that Warner Bros. planned to close its specialty divisions Picturehouse and Warner Independent Pictures, shifting all projects currently in development to the larger studio and its recently absorbed subdivision New Line, a mournful tone took hold of the independent film industry." (Indiewire)