"The address: 325 rue St. Martin. The condition: mob scene. The rationale: Jean Paul Gaultier. Six rows of gilded, red velvet-cushioned chairs spanning both sides of the circa 100 meter hall could barely accommodate the masses of die-hards .. As the minutes rolled on, impatience mounted. Anna Wintour put on her trademark sunglasses in anticipation but alas, the stage was still dark. Cathy Horyn used the time to chat up Emmanuelle Alt, leaning over Carine Roifteld in the process .. When the show finally began at 3:23, nearly an hour after its scheduled time, the masses were quelled, thanks to a raucous stampede of bona-fide fashion moments. But when The Daily took a final glance back at that storied front row as a rock starry Gaultier ran down the runway, we couldn't help but notice an empty seat. Horyn, qu'est que c'est?" (Fashionweekdaily)
"Madonna Brother's Book To Be Excerpted This Weekend In UK SUNDAY MAIL, sources tell DRUDGE..." (DrudgeReport)
"Meanwhile, all this memory-lane time, I’m running to get to Michael’s so I won’t be late for my lunch date. My lunch date was an old friend whom I see once or twice a month at Michael’s. I’m usually late. This time she was late. But very late. Finally so late I concluded she wasn’t going to show (I later learned I made the wrong entry in my calendar – she was out of town yesterday). There was another Michael’s customer a few tables over waiting for someone too. Steve Millington, the general manager, told me she was waiting too. Her name was Lisa Dallos, a public relations executive with Freud (a public relations firm). She passed by my table going to the reception, probably to check times or dates and I called her over .. Settled in and lunch ordered, Lisa’s lunchdate shows up. His name is Harold Ford. He’s a former Congressman from Tennessee, who served from 1997 (at age 27) through 2007 .." (NYSocialDiary)
"I’m a total gay, but sometimes a red-hot socialite makes me want to say bi-bi to my homo ways. Here are ten sizzling social beauties I’d go straight for: 1. Eleanor Ylvisaker (beautiful and nice) 2. Charlotte Ronson (then I could try and 'get with' her brother Mark) 3. Dani Stahl (the most fun girl in NYC) 4. Tinsley Mortimer (sure, she’s my sister-in-law, but we aren’t blood relatives so…)" (Papermag)
"Liberal groups plan to deliver a petition to Capitol Hill next week calling on Democrats to oust Sen. Joe Lieberman from his committee chairmanship in the 111th Congress. The Independent from Connecticut, who was the Democrats’ 2000 vice presidential nominee, has become a lightning rod on the left for his hawkish stances on the Iraq war and his staunch support for Sen. John McCain’s (R-Ariz) presidential bid. Senate Democrats have been alarmed as Lieberman has left open the possibility of speaking at the Republican Convention in September and has launched attacks at Democratic candidate Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.)." (TheHill)
"A film festival unlike any other, Bergmanvecken (or Bergman Week), now in its fifth year in operation and its first incarnation since the death of the man at its center last July, is a celebration of location as much as film. For Swedish cinema, Ingmar Bergman was always a one-man-show, its industry glue, its irreproachable standard-bearer, its looming demon genius -- and he has been resented throughout the industry for the past half-century nearly as often as he's been embraced. Not so on Faro, the island located on the northern tip of Gotland, where he made his permanent residence for decades even as he lived and worked in Stockholm during the off seasons. Viewed by his fellow islanders less as an irascible titan of cinema than as a peaceful fixture and neighbor, Bergman might have brought renown and a new economic dimension to an area previously known mainly for its fishing and agriculture, yet by keeping his beloved natural paradise (marked on the west side by barren, stony shores and arresting rock formations, and on the east its lush, green pastures, all surrounded by the glistening expanses of the Baltic Sea) a private, inner sanctum of artistic inspiration, the superstar filmmaker treated Faro's native villagers with the utmost respect." (Indiewire)
"'It's not Gone With the Wind,' said Daphne Guinness at the unveiling of her directorial debut, The Phenomenology of Body, at the Hôtel de Crillon. The four-minute film, which examines the style choices of independent-minded women like Joan of Arc and Marie Antoinette, may not be Scarlett and Rhett material, but it earned rave reviews from the fashion muse's many admirers. 'She's fantastic with film. Let's get her a script and a feature next,' enthused Lady Amanda Harlech at Kaviar Kaspia, where the crowd, including Wes Anderson, Margherita Missoni, and L'Wren Scott, gathered for a post-screening dinner. For his part, André Leon Talley finds Guinness to be fantastic, period. 'Look at her!' the editor said from his banquette perch. 'She is completely unique and utterly fabulous. [It] doesn't get more modern than this one.'" (Style)
"Bolivian President Evo Morales and Peru's Alan Garcia have never been close amigos, but now the mudslinging has gotten worse. Yesterday, Garcia told Morales to stick to his own country and "stop meddling in mine" after Morales criticized Peru's trade pact with the United States and allegedly started false rumors about U.S. military bases coming to Peru. Morales responded by calling Garcia an 'antidemocratic president' whose 'arrogance' shouldn't be tolerated." (ForeignPolicy)
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