Thursday, August 07, 2008

Media-Whore D'Oevres



"'They can't possibly be in the happiest of moods!' predicted the producers of Elegy seconds before greeting the exiting guests at the Cinema Society and Glamour-hosted screening of the film. They suspected right. The emotional love story of a professor (played by Ben Kingsley) and his forlorn student, portrayed by Penélope Cruz, elicited uncontrollable tears from the audience that included Donna Karan, Calvin Klein, Linda Fargo, Peter Brant, Alan Cumming, Nicole Miller, Gerard Butler, Helen and Tim Schifter, Michael Pitt, and Eva Amurri. 'Tearjerkers are my thing,' confessed Amurri. 'I've become really good in tearing up and drying up.'
(Fashionweekdaily)

"Andrew Wallenstein, deputy editor, The Hollywood Reporter, talked up advertising on celebrity content, or, as Wallenstein called it, the 'straw that stirs the drink,' with Henry Copeland, CEO, Blogads and director, sales and technology, PerezHilton.com; Brian Fitzgerald, co-founder & president, Gorilla Nation Media; Mari Katsunuma, VP of digital, Bravo; Karin Kovacs, associated publisher, People.com; Dave Rosner, director of innovations, Initiative Media. The main points made were that while it may be safer to advertise on a better known brand, there’s still money to be made in the smaller sites." (Paidcontent)



(image via JT/NYSD)

"Robert Verdi hosted Animal Fair Magazine’s 9th Annual Paws for Style Fashion Show, presented by Cesar Canine Cuisine. Celebs and activists including The Hills’ Lauren Conrad, Cornelia Guest, Nikki Blonski, Animal Fair’s chief pet officer and judge on the new CBS series Greatest American Dog Wendy Diamond, twin Maxim models Jodie and Diane Fanelli, Richard Belzer, Miss Teen USA Hilary Cruz ..." (NYSocialDiary)

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