Media-Whore D'Oevres



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"IF actor and oil heir Balthazar Getty went to Italy to win back his wife, Rosetta, maybe he should have left alleged girlfriend Sienna Miller behind. After British papers claimed Miller and Getty were having an affair, Rosetta went to Italy with their four kids having reportedly decided to get a divorce. Getty has denied an affair with Miller. But a Page Six source spotted the two dining the other night at hotel Le Sirenuse on the Amalfi Coast. 'They were really rude, and Sienna kept smoking,' said the source .." (PageSix)

""Major television networks are considering curtailing coverage of the Democratic National Convention after Monday’s announcement that Barack Obama will accept his party's nomination in a Denver stadium. According to several broadcast executives, the networks will still cover all the major speeches. But beyond that, all options are open as they look for savings to balance out the anticipated costs surrounding the stadium event... Network executives expect Obama’s relatively late-breaking decision to speak at Invesco Field at Mile High, a 76,000-seat football stadium, could add hundreds of thousands of dollars in costs to already cash-strapped news divisions. Each network has budgeted millions to cover the political conventions, but that spending is already accounted for in specific costs ranging from hotel rooms to staffing to building convention platforms. For most networks, any additional outlays for the convention would come out of their 2008 campaign budget." (Politico)

"Speaking of the Russian National Orchestra last summer they headlined ten glorious days of world-class classical music at the second annual Festival del Sole. The spectacular celebration brings in an international roster of stars of the music world, such as Irish flute duo partners Sir James and Lady Galway, mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade, sopranos Melody Moore and Marnie Breckenridge, pianist Piotr Anderszewski, violinist Joshua Bell, composer John Corigliano, Soprano Danielle de Niese, and conductors Carlo Ponti, Jr. and Antonio Pappano, the latter of London’s Royal Opera House ..The Festival del Sole’s founding council members are a high-powered group and include the likes of Ann and Gordon Getty, Tatiana and Gerret Copeland, Athena and Timothy Blackburn, Lori and George Hall, Peter Paul, and Dede Wilsey." (SanFranciscoSocialDiary)