Media-Whore D'Oevres



"Want to see Paris Hilton's MySpace profile? How about Lindsay Lohan's? Don't worry about those pesky privacy settings. Thanks to 'data portability,' a faddish technology movement that the Valley has been buzzing about for months, you can see any profile you want on MySpace." (Valleywag)



"Fashion has a fresh, albeit familiar, new 'It' girl. According to sources, Julie Macklowe, the portfolio manager for Sigma Capital Management and wife of William Macklowe (president of the New York real estate conglomerate Macklowe Properties), has been anointed to 'It' girl status in Vogue's July issue. She joins past title holders Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, Michelle Obama and Marion Cotillard." (Fashionweekdaily)



"You know when you're hanging out with Alan Alda and a bunch of physicists at Columbia University on a Saturday night, something weird is going on. Lucky for us, it was the good kind of weird ... On Saturday night, as the inaugural whiz-fest made a surprisingly theatrical pit-stop at Columbia’s Miller Theatre, Alan Alda (of M*A*S*H lore) revisited his portrayal of legendary physicist Richard Feynman in the Nobel Prize-winning play QED ... Following the reading, Alda was joined onstage by a panel of physicists, including Vera Rubin, who is credited with the discovery of dark matter—a thing that not only apparently exists, but drew considerable interest from the audience during the Q&A session." (Minonline)

"'I've moved from JV to Varsity,' Michael Bastian quipped Sunday night. The designer, nominated along with Tom Ford and Thom Browne for Menswear Designer of the Year, was on hand for the pre-Council of Fashion Designers of America Awards gala dinner at the private club Norwood, where he was in a relaxed and jovial mood ... While CFDA president Diane von Furstenberg and Anne McNally held court in the first room, Linda Fargo, Patrik Ervell, Gilles Mendel, Mary Alice Stephenson... and Monique Lhuillier, who asked Cynthia Rowley how her recent Elle Décor shoot of her home went, roamed about the townhouse." (Fashionweekdaily)

"Chances are, very few New Yorkers will ever step inside the gorgeous townhouse-slash-private-club Norwood. Or sip a cocktail with a designer the caliber of Dries Van Noten. Probably not too many will wait patiently for Sex and the City star Cynthia Nixon to finish her sherbet before asking her to pose for pictures… and I’m sure no one could possibly get a bigger kick out of discussing the difficulty of texting with my crazy long natural fingernails with the beautiful and lovely heiress of the Swarovski dynasty, Nadia Swarovski. If I sound excited, it’s probably because Ashley Olsen, my favorite TV star other than Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, was there and in the best mood EVER!" (Papermag)

"...Also up at the Natural History Museum in the LeFrak Theater, Norah Jones, Seamus Blake and Ravi Coltrane performed At 2008 Band Together Benefit for the Center for Urban Community Services (CUCS). The evening celebrated CUCS' accomplishments and generate funding for its housing and service programs assisting more than 17,000 of NYC's homeless, disabled and low income households." (NYSocialdiary)

"A friend of mine who knows everything about movies swears Penelope Cruz will win the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for the Woody Allen film Vicky Cristina Barcelona. Two years ago, he predicted around this very time that Jennifer Hudson would nab the exact same trophy for Dreamgirls. She did. Case closed." (Musto)



"Brevity, they say, is the soul of wit. And last night's faster, shorter, funnier CFDA Awards, clocking in at a mere hour and a half, proved the point .. For the above, thank acerbic emcee Fran Lebowitz—if Jon Stewart isn't available for next year's Oscars, they'll know who to call—and a witty, glammed-up roster of presenters that included Kim Cattrall, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, and Simon Doonan (though the latter's joke about André Leon Talley's 'borrowed turban,' delivered during an introduction of the International Award for Dries Van Noten, didn't immediately seem to amuse the Vogue editor). A more surefire line belonged to Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who, in accepting his Board of Directors Tribute, deadpanned, 'My skinny jeans are at the cleaners and my gladiator sandals are being resoled.'" (Style)

"Despite the threat of severe thunderstorms, things were beachy keen Saturday night at Elie Tahari's East Hampton shop. The designer, along with his wife, Rory, hosted a cocktail party to celebrate their summer collection collaboration with Kenny Scharf ... Scharf's 24-year old daughter, Zena, joined him for the trip out east, mingling over cocktails and canapés--including hors d'oeuvres designed to mimic Scharf's iconic donut series--with Robbie Myers, Cristina Cuomo, Caroline Hirsch, Fern Mallis, Lucy Sykes and Euan Rellie and Samantha Perelman, who's graduating from Spence this week and going to her parents' alma mater, University of Pennsylvania, in the fall." (Fashionweekdaily)