"Rick Stengel had a piece in this week's issue of Time, the magazine he edits, about Nelson Mandela. It was the cover story: 'The Secrets of Leadership' ... What Mr. Stengel didn't say in his piece--and we're not suggesting he should have, this is just for transition purposes--is that he has started working on another Mandela book. We haven't been able to find out what the thrust of the book is exactly, but Mr. Stengel's literary agent Joy Harris sold it to Crown, where it will edited by Rachel Klayman." (Observer)
"This summer, Daniel [Benedict] and I made a pact--no deadly boring Hamptons benefits! Why traipse along a soggy lawn in velvet slippers and the requisite navy blazer for a chicken dinner and big band music? Nah. The one exception we do make, though, is Cocktails at Sunset, a rip-roaringly fun and chic and hip benefit if ever there was one, thrown by ACRIA, the AIDS Community Research Initiative of America.
Calvin Klein Collection and Vanity Fair sponsored this year's bash, and I .. nabbed Kelly Bensimon as my date. We pulled up (in her super-cool pick-up truck) and partied the night away with Padma Lakshmi (who just arrived from Wimbledon), Carol Alt, Daphne Guinness, Calvin Klein, Rachel Zoe (gearing up for her Bravo TV launch in September) .." (Andrew Saffir/Fashionweekdaily)
"Ronnie Wood emerged from his Irish bolthole for crisis talks with his son Jessie at the exclusive K Club last night. It is the first time the 61-year-old guitarist has been seen since he 'battened down the hatches' at his £3million country mansion in County Kildare. He is living there with 19-year-old Kazakhstan waitress Ekaterina Ivanova and, say friends, is struggling to control his alcoholism. In a series of emotional phone calls, Jo Wood, 53, has asked the Rolling Stone to return home but he has so far defied her pleas. His family are desperate for him to return to London and check in to rehab but believe it will be hard to persuade him to leave. He has his own private pub in the sprawling grounds of the home, meaning he has a huge quantity of beer, wine and spirits available." (Thisislondon)
"I took my vitamins this morning cause it's going to be a busy week. Today I am hosting a little lunch with Jeffrey Deitch at the Longchamp store in SoHo in celebration of the 60th anniversary of the luxe leather goods label and their collab with French artist Jean Luc Moerman. And tomorrow, of course, is our party in honor of our Hermes-toting coverboy Pharrell, who will perform with N.E.R.D... Then Wednesday I head up to The Studio Museum to see the Kehinde Wiley show, 'DAKAR,' and attend a dinner for him at the Al Hambre theater up there." (Papermag)
"I am a total whore for attention, but I prefer it if fans that rush me at least have a vague idea of who I am. 'Ain't you that guy from some TV show?' works for me. (It's not exactly, 'Aren't you the world-renowned wit Michael Musto?' but it's warm enough.) What I really DETEST, though, is when people stare at me from two feet away, then muster up the nerve to toddle over and screech insulting stuff like 'Who are you?' Or 'Aren't you somebody?' Or 'What's your name again?'" (Musto)
"Way out East in Southampton last Saturday at the home of Joanne and Roberto de Guardiola, Margaret Russell, editor-in-chief of Elle Décor, hosted a cocktail party in honor of one of New York’s most stylish (and legendary) glamorous grande dames, Carroll Petrie .. Mrs. Petrie, the widow of retailing tycoon, Milton Petrie has had a life that would read like a great novel. A beautiful young girl from the South, at a very young age she married the Spanish Alfonso, Marquis de Portago, a dashing racecar driver who had numerous well-known affairs with famous beauties including Dorian Leigh and Linda Christian with whom she had two children ..She has also been a very big contirbutors to the Republican Party and is a great friend of Nancy Reagan." (NYSocialDiary)
"NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) says advertising inventory for the roughly 2,200 hours of online Olympics coverage next month is about 85 percent sold out, according to tells Mediaweek. Although many popular events—like swimming (Gold Medal finals), volleyball, boxing, track and field and gymnastics —won’t be streamed live, Zach Chapman, director, digital sales for NBC Sports and Olympics, is convinced that office workers will be glued to NBCOlympics.com, its dedicated site for showing the Beijing games, which begins on August 8th." (Paidcontent)
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