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"(Mark) Penn appears to have loved Obama’s inexperience negative so much that he decided to base Hillary’s entire campaign on setting it up. But while Penn’s strategy might have been effective in a general election, where voters value experience, it made no sense in a Democratic primary, where voters want change. That, after all, is why they are Democrats in the first place. But Penn himself had little experience in Democratic primaries and little tolerance for listening to others who did. Because of Penn’s blunder, Hillary essentially surrendered the mantra of change to Obama, giving him the high ground in a Democratic primary. And, by stressing experience, Penn laid his candidate open to the devastating recitation of the dynastic alternation of Bush-Clinton-Bush-Clinton. When he failed to advise his candidate to forgo lobbyist campaign contributions, to say nothing of staffing her campaign with corporate lobbyists (like Penn), he further permitted Obama to stake out his anti-Washington candidacy. More than anything Obama did himself, Penn was instrumental in letting Hillary’s opponent co-opt the ground of change and opposition to Washington politics-as-usual, an incurable misstep in a Democratic primary." (Dick Morris/Vote)
"MADONNA and Britney Spears are about to get socked with scandalous, tell-all books about their wild and crazy lives. Madonna is sure to be the more betrayed. Her brother Christopher Ciccone, who had a falling-out with Her Madgesty several years ago, has collaborated with British journo Wendy Leigh on an exposé of his sister for Simon Spotlight Entertainment, an imprint of Simon & Schuster - and it's going to be 'brutal.' 'It's extremely graphic and devastating,' said a source who declined to give details. 'He wrote it on the sly without telling Madonna. They want to put it out before her lawyers can get a hold of it.' The book, due out next month, has a massive print run of 350,000 .. Ciccone - a gay decorator/chef once described by Rupert Everett in Everett's biography as 'a solid raft for Madonna in the shark-infested waters' - was ditched by his sister after she hooked up with her now husband Guy Ritchie, who Everett said was 'uncomfortable around queens.'" (PageSixxies)
"'It was my dream to be a ballerina, but instead I'm a model,' lamented Adriana Lima as she arrived at Lincoln Center Tuesday evening to experience her first ballet. The Victoria's Secret mannequin was on hand for American Ballet Theater's third annual Noche Latina, which celebrates the company's Spanish and Latin American dancers. Prior to the spectacular Don Quixote performance, guests like Isabella Rossellini, Christian Cota, Susan Fales-Hill and Gillian Miniter enjoyed a thematic dinner and paid tribute to Carolina Herrera and former ABT principal dancer Julio Bocca, recipients of the inaugural Fernando Bujones Award." (Fashionweekdaily)
"The night before last in New York it rained and poured and the winds blew and the thunder struck and the trees fell and so did the garden tables atop the penthouses while I was sitting blissfully on the First Tier of the Metropolitan Opera House watching the American Ballet Theatre at their Noche Latina .. Last night’s benefit honored the beautiful Carolina Herrera (take your cues there, girls) and Julio Bocca. Onstage, accepting their honors, just before the show, Sr. Bocca said that indeed he was honored to be finally standing on the same stage as the incomparable Sra. Herrera. Hugs/kisses abounding. Staged, not so incidentally, by Kevin McKenzie and Susan Jones." (NYSocialDiary)
"I’m obsessed with the photographs of Korea- born Hanuk, the Warholian-like creative man-about-town. (He makes clothes! He paints! He takes photographs! He’s a web designer!). His party shots are an encyclopedia of chic. I especially dig the snaps of Hanuk kissing a glam girl on the cheek, his signature self-portrait pose." (Papermag)
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