Media-Whore D'Oevres



"...(I)t was four-year-old Lila Grace Moss-Hack, who proved she had inherited her mother's knack for fashion statements as she was spotted out with her supermodel mum yesterday in a T-shirt reading 'I love Kate Moss'." (Thisislondon)



"Today is the last day of the Milan shows .. Tyson Beckford opened and closed the Dsquared show, which was an homage to the birth of rap and the 1980s. Breakdancers and heavy gold chains galore! .. I sat with supermodel Gabriel Aubry at the Calvin Klein dinner at Ristorante Ricci, where across from us was Wilhelmina models head honcho Sean Patterson, who is currently on TV Land's hit show, She's Got The Look. Also at our table was the New York Times' Guy Trebay, David Farber from Men's Vogue and Out's Aaron Hicklin .. Meanwhile, the Armani cocktail party, held in another beautiful palazzo on the Via Mozart from the 1930s called Villa Necchi Campiglio, had actor Adrien Brody and Clive Owen, as well as Maria and Bobby Shriver there to support Project Red." (Fashioinweek)

"Over the years, it's been both disconcerting and somehow satisfying to watch Matthew Broderick gradually morph from a lithe, cocky teen heartthrob to a pudgy, middle-aged sad sack. The puppy-dog eyes have sunken deeper into down-turned crevices of disappointment, and he seems lost in his burly torso, often vacuum-packed into tucked shirts and constricting ties. Broderick's onscreen persona has come to embody early forties despair, when fading youth has given way to ambivalence about the future; this seems to have been a long, slow journey, which began somewhere around Alexander Payne's superlative 'Election.'" (Indiewire)

"If Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen is content to be a preening hack, that is between him and his feather boa. That his preformulated ideas ooze across the op-ed page like synthetic foam from an aerosol nozzle makes him no different from David Broder or any of the other giants of journalism blinking in the abrupt light left behind by Tim Russert's departed shadow." (JamesWolcott)



"Beautiful last night in New York. First stop Georgette Mosbacher’s cocktail reception to celebrate the publication of Man of the People: The Maverick Life and Career of John McCain by Paul Alexander. Six to seven-thirty. The evening sun was setting in the west over avenue. The Mosbacher shades on the 12-foot windows were drawn but the light filled the room, giving it an extra sheen and softness. The author was there. I took a picture of Jolie Hunt and Cat Buckley. Ms. Buckley is the daughter of Ms. Hunt’s Main Personal Interest, Christopher Buckley and grand-daughter of the late Pat and Bill Buckley. She has her father’s sunny countenance and her grandfather’s quick wit, albeit presented with her grandmother’s divine grace." (NYSocialDiary)

"Senator Elizabeth Dole has long been a Republican star: U.S. transportation and labor secretary, spouse of 1996 presidential nominee Robert Dole, and a candidate for president herself in 2000. Dole was elected to the U.S. Senate from North Carolina in 2002 with 54 percent of the vote, the state's biggest Senate margin in almost a quarter-century. Now, it's Dole's Republican credentials that threaten to undermine her re-election chances. Considered an easy bet for re-election earlier this year, Dole is facing a tighter race against Democratic state Senator Kay Hagan. Democrats say Dole, 71, now is a leading target in November's elections, as the slumping economy and Iraq war are endangering Republican seats in states that earlier seemed out of reach." (Bloomberg)

"The gayest book in history is about to come out! Gayer than even Harvey Fierstein's children's book or my own column collection that came out last year. It's a collaboration between author Mark Bego and the Village People's original cowboy Randy Jones about how, you know, gay it is to be gay in a culture that's increasingly, you know, gay." (Musto/VV)

"Just a month ago, Republican strategists were trying to closely link Democratic House candidates to Sen. Barack Obama, convinced that in certain parts of the country Obama would drag candidates from his own party down to defeat. This week, a Republican senator, Gordon Smith of Oregon, offered a much different assessment of Obama's coattail effect: He included words of praise from Obama as part of an ad promoting his own reelection." (WashPo)



"Last night, Milk Gallery hosted The Art of Elysium (an organization of artists, actors and musicians voluntarily dedicating their time and talent to children battling serious medical conditions) exhibit, 'Rebel Rebel,' a special collaboration with Mick Rock and Russell Young. PAPER asked host Elijah Wood if his seriously scuffed shoes were vintage, to which he replied, 'Oh yeah, they are re-runs.' I told him they used to call those 'shit-kickers' and he shot back, 'they still do!' We surely hope that the new 'haunted look' on fabulous Agyness Deyn’s face is replaced with her usual joi de vivre countenance." (Papermag)

"There are many touristy stereotypes concerning Santa Fe, NM, a UNESCO-certified 'Creative City.'(For one thing, as I discovered, it’s the sort of burg where housekeeping leaves a smudging stick of sage on the pillow in lieu of a mint.) Similar bromides accompany SITE Santa Fe’s international biennial, typically known for entertaining novel curatorial conceits. Last weekend’s opening of the biennial’s seventh edition, optimistically titled 'Lucky Number Seven,' found high-concept hitting the high desert. Curated by former dealer Lance Fung, the show was conceived as a loose set of ephemeral 'site-inspired' commissions by twenty-two emerging artists .. Usual biennial suspects were refreshingly absent. This was no 'Grand Tour'affair (though there were reportedly two 'Gagosian girls' in town for Friday’s gala dinner). Few present were familiar with the young, unrepresented artists in the show, and there weren’t many recognizable art folk milling about, save Fung—whose face pops up on brochures and in every local publication—and brassy local Judy Chicago, who was hard to miss at Thursday’s press preview, where she chatted with Bulgarian SITE artist Luchezar Boyadjiev (who, like Chicago, wore dark glasses in the galleries). 'We were in a show in Japan together,'Chicago proudly announced." (ArtForum)