Media-Whore D'Oeuvres



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"In his memoir, 'My Word Is My Bond,' due out next week, (Roger) Moore stirs - never shakes - a delightful cocktail of stories from his seven Bond flicks and other big-screen efforts. For instance, he tells how, on 'A View to a Kill,' co-star Grace Jones so often ignored his pleas to turn down the dreadful music in her trailer that 'I marched into her room, pulled the plug out and then went back to my room, picked up a chair and flung it at the wall.' Sir Moore lightened the mood for their sex scene with help from a long black sex toy that 'I slipped between the sheets. ... I'm glad she thought it was funny.'" (NyDailyNews)

"MARK Ronson learned to watch what he eats at P. Diddy's famed White Parties. 'I hadn't eaten all day, and I was starving. They were coming around with this bowl of brownies, and I grabbed three of them and just started scarfing them down,' the deejay tells Paper. After that, 'every lyric sounded like it was the Cookie Monster yelling in my ear, and I started feeling really [bleep]y, but I had to play through the set. I couldn't just go up to Puffy and say, 'Sorry, I ate a [bleep]-load of hash brownies, I can't do your White Party.'" (NYPost)

"Sometimes, when a political campaign has run out of ideas and senses that the prize is slipping through its fingers, it rolls up a sleeve and plunges an arm, shoulder deep, right down to the bottom of the barrel. The problem for John McCain, Sarah Palin, and the Republican Party is that the bottom was scraped clean long before it dropped out. Back when the polls were nip and tuck and the leaves had not yet begun to turn, Barack Obama had already been accused of betraying the troops, wanting to teach kindergartners all about sex, favoring infanticide, and being a friend of terrorists and terrorism. What was left? The anticlimactic answer came as the long Presidential march of 2008 staggered toward its final week: Senator Obama is a socialist." (Rik Hertzberg/TheNewYorker)



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"But Gemma Arterton - who arrived in a stunning purple dress slashed to the thigh - said Daniel Craig was the lucky one to have a sex scene with her. The new Bond girl, 22, said: 'There are not many people I would strip off for. Daniel was a very lucky boy to see me naked.'" (3AMGirls)

"A (Howard Stern Show) caller asked if a recent tabloid report about Tracy (Morgan's) behavior at Prince's house was true, and Tracy said it was: 'I woke up on the couch and he and his wife were at the door telling me, 'You got to go'...I grabbed him by the shoulders and told him, 'My father loved "When Doves Cry'...then I smoked a blunt in his driveway while the sun came up.'" (Marksfriggin)

"Barack Obama is shaking up the South by greatly expanding the black vote and forcing Republicans to confront splits in the same white conservative base that has long fortified the GOP in Congress. Georgia’s U.S. Senate race is Exhibit 1, as a record turnout by African-Americans in early voting has lifted the candidacy of Democrat Jim Martin against Saxby Chambliss, the Republican incumbent. At the same time, Wall Street’s meltdown — punctuated by the state’s own fiscal woes — has soured the mood for Republicans, and Chambliss must win back conservatives, angered by his vote for Treasury’s $700 billion financial rescue plan." (Politico)

"Last spring, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center sent Wall Street firms its annual pitch for a major donor to underwrite the group's fall gala and quickly began receiving rejections. By April, a few weeks after the collapse and fire sale of Bear Stearns Cos., 'it was clear that we were not getting the kind of responses we needed,' said Norma Hurlburt, executive director. The gala was canceled and now she is poring over the society's $6 million budget 'to see what we can do for less.' U.S. nonprofit organizations are slashing budgets, freezing salaries and postponing programs as a turbulent economy forces donors to rethink their giving. The worst credit crisis in seven decades, which began with the collapse of the subprime-mortgage market in early 2007, has cost the global banking industry $680.5 billion in writedowns and losses." (Bloomberg)

"Are you ready for this? Next Tuesday, at CNN's Election Center in New York, an Obama campaign strategist will be in the studio to comment on the incoming voting results. Only he'll be... (wait for it) in 3-D! As a hologram! Instead of the normal flat-screen version of talking heads, the Obama spokesperson's image will be projected from Chicago and into the New York studio -- in a 360 view. CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer will essentially be talking to the strategist just like when Princess Leia sent Obi-Wan Kenobi a hologram message that he was her only hope. Only there will be talk about Ohio, rather than Alderaan." (Observer)



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"Last Night, PAPERMAG headed to the Lower Eastside Girls Club Willow Awards and Benefit Gala, hosted by former PAPER cover girl Rosario Dawson. The event was held at Jing Fong, which, if you Google it, is described by reviewers as a second floor gargantuan dining hall decorated in blood red for the 'chicken-feet-eating crowd.' The restaurant also features one of the tallest escalators in New York! Musical giant (also a former PAPER cover star) Moby DJ-ed and told us that he hopes all goes well on Election Day! Ana Matronic and her Scissor-Sister-in-law Aimee Phillips were present, and tucked away in another corner was Piper Perabo." (Papermag)

"Last night, rains stopped, very cool, more overcoat, I went down to the 57th Street aerie of Carolyne Roehm who was having a cocktail party reception to celebrate her new book 'A Passion for Blue and White' ..I saw Pauline Boardman and her constant companion, Jerry Seay, Sharon Hoge, John Dobkin, Suzanne Cochran, Felicia Taylor .." (NYSocialDiary)