Media-Whore D'Oevres



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"Those who need to know the state of whatever Michael Jackson is, should know he's getting around Vegas in a wheelchair .." (Cindy Adams)

"AS the Democrats prepare for their convention nominating Barack Obama for president, there are bitter feelings between his supporters and those of Hillary Clinton. There was a rumor this week that Hollywood mogul David Geffen - who once said of the Clintons that, 'Everybody in politics lies, but they do it with such ease, it's troubling' - was throwing a big party for Obama in Denver. 'The Clintons made it clear they wouldn't attend. Geffen said they wouldn't be invited any way,' laughed one Dem." (PageSix)

"At noon I went down to the Alliance-Bernstein Building on 1345 Sixth Avenue (Avenue of the Americas) where Paul Beirne was hosting a luncheon for Dee Dee Myers, the former Clinton White House Press Secretary, who has written a book called 'Why Women Should Rule The World' ...To hear her tell it, things really have changed since the Women’s Movement that took hold in the first decade of Myers’ life. She pointed out that the fourteen women senators, from both sides of the aisle and opposing opinions, all get together for lunches or dinners and discuss the issues and the problems at hand. This is something, she pointed out, that the men senators do not do. After that, you kinda wished they would. Dee Dee Myers believes that women solve problems differently. She even implied they might be more level headed. She said that they handle things differently, and that their contribution to motherhood forms the society that we live in." (NYSocialDiary)

"My head is still reeling from Lydia Hearst's comments in Page Six magazine, bristling about being compared to the immortal Paris Hilton. 'Remember, I am a supermodel,' Lydia wrote, dripping hauteur all over herself, 'and have the award to prove it, and she is a celebrity. There's no comparison.' It took me several days to process the multitude of thoughts shooting out of my lil' noggin as a result of this statement, but after popping some seizure pills, I finally have the wherewithal to address them: Firstly, 'I am a supermodel'? Does someone actually say that who's not a character on Mad TV?" (Musto)

"The Keszler Gallery positively sparkled for the opening of Russell Young’s show of his latest paintings. The usually pristine, all white gallery was repainted in black to show off to best effect Young’s oversize portraits of American icons from Marlon Brando in his 'The Wild One' phase to Elizabeth Taylor circa “Butterfield 8” to a gun toting Patty Hearst Shaw and more. What makes this show so special is Young’s extraordinary use of diamond dust in the paint used for his monochromatic portraits of tabloid recognizable faces that creates a magical glittering effect that makes the images almost three dimensional and in several cases an almost hologram-like floating picture." (Hamptons)

"I love a room full of black people -- even more so, a room full of beautiful black people. I can't get enough. It thrills me to no end. So when I walked into One Time Warner Center last night for the reception of Elvis Mitchell and Timothy Greenfield-Sanders's new documentary, The Blacklist, I was pretty much in heaven on the spot. Everyone knows that Kareem Abdul Jabar is tall -- but have you ever actually stood within arm's length to a man who is 7' 2"? Wow. I didn't introduce myself because I didn't really know what I might say ('Hi, you’re tall.'). Plus, I'm 5' 2" -- what kind of trauma happens when as a grown adult you stand directly next to another grown adult who is a full two feet taller than you?" (Papermag)

"The 15 economies of the eurozone contracted by 0.2% between April and June, heightening fears that the euro area is sliding towards recession. The eurozone's first decline since it was created in 1999 was driven by a slowdown in exports and consumer spending." (BBC)

"'Lucid Dreams,' the new teaser track from Franz Ferdinand, has been firmly stuck on repeat for me ever since those mischievous Scots dropped it on us unawares recently (h/t) — and it's not even in my iTunes. I've been going back to their official site and clicking 'play' to make the little turntable stream this tune over and over again for days." (Popwatch)