"Disgraced ex-governor Eliot Spitzer recently headed off for a summer vacation with his wife and daughters in tow. Just before the family headed out of town, one member of the family celebrated a very special event: 18-year-old daughter Elyssa Spitzer attended her senior prom. The Horace Mann graduate—and soon-to-be Harvard student—hit up the Pierre in Midtown for the big event. Beforehand, though, Elyssa had to suffer through that all-too-familiar rite of passage—the parental meet-and-greet—introducing her date, Sam, to her dad." (Cityfile via Observer)
"This post has it right: No one saw this one coming. Senator Jim Webb, the former Republican and Reagan era Navy Secretary who has been touted as the perfect tough guy complement to Barack Obama, unexpectedly and very publicly withdrew his name from V.P. consideration today. The most immediate beneficiary of this could be Tim Kaine, the first-term Governor of Virginia, which has emerged as perhaps the preeminent swing state of this cycle. Republicans have carried it in every election since 1964, but the Old Dominion's demographic evolution strongly favors the Democrats. Polls this year have shown Obama even with -- or even slightly ahead of -- John McCain." (Observer)
"Cheating Sienna Miller cuddles up to her new multi-millionaire lover...DAYS BEFORE she dumped actor Rhys Ifans. The 26-year-old beauty secretly met married dad-of-four Balthazar Getty in Prague in a tryst that blows apart the belief that she fell for the oil heir AFTER ending her relationship with Rhys, 39. In fact Edge of Love star Sienna got so smitten with Getty while making a movie in the romantic Czech city she got rid of her Notting Hill star fiancé with a phone call." (Newsoftheworld)
"Hillary Rodham Clinton folded her campaign’s tent last month, shedding spokespeople, fundraisers, lawyers, and advance men and women by the dozen. But two senior aides remain: Katie Dowd, who runs Clinton’s website and e-mail list, and Peter Daou, her campaign liaison to the blogosphere. The survival of Clinton’s online operation highlights her induction into a small but growing new club of presidential losers who have used the Internet to maintain some of their national profile and power. The defeated candidates use e-mail, websites and social networks to maintain contact with their supporters through legacy online campaigns that keep their coffers full, their bases intact and their political futures viable. 'This is a medium that allows candidates — whether they're successful or not — to maintain direct contact with their supporters,' said Daou, who said Clinton’s e-mail list is in the 'seven figures,' though he wouldn’t give a more specific number." (Politico)
"Very muggy in New York, overcast as if to promise relief from some rainfall. Alas, no rainfall. Nevertheless, holiday over, back to business. Last night I went down to the Park Avenue Armory for an evening of the Lincoln Center Festival '08: a dinner and a special performance of the opera Die Soldaten, the only opera written by German composer Bernd Alois Zimmermann and first performed in 1965 in Cologne. The philanthropists and cultural supporters of the town were out in force (although the Armory seating can hold no more than 1000). The dress was summer casual – some suits and ties, some open neck and short sleeve shirts; women in cotton silks and linens -- The Newhouses – Susan and Donald, Si and Victoria; Leon and Debra Black, Jim Zirin and Marlene Hess, Randy Bourscheidt of the Alliance for the Arts, and Joe Astienza, Mary Sharp Cronson, George Steel, conductor and director of the Miller Theater at Columbia University .." (NYSocialDiary/ image via JT)
"When the recipe involves gorgeous women and Mario Testino, it's only natural that obsession is par for the course. Such was the case Wednesday evening at Phillips de Pury's unveiling of the shutterbug's latest exhibition 'Obsessed By You' .. While guests noshed on cucumber sandwiches and sipped blue champagne served by topless male bartenders, hostess Elizabeth Saltzman (in Alexander McQueen) chatted with Christopher Bailey." (Fashionweekdaily)
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