Media-Whore D'Oevres



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"On Tuesday, September 23rd, Anonymous Gallery officially
opened it’s doors for the first time for a VIP preview event sponsored by
PATRON TEQUILA, KIEHL’S, and SPREAD Magazine to showcase 'PLAF -Autonomous Mechanisms', an exhibition exhibiting the work of
world-renowned interventionist artists Eltono and MOMO. The gallery held an exclusive private cocktail reception from 6pm until 8pm where guests such as Dirty, Sexy, Money’s Jordana Spiro, Saturday Night Live’s Brett Marcus Cody, American Idol’s Constantine Maroulis .." (Anonymousgallery)

"Tonight, for the fourth time in five shows, the CBS Evening News will feature a Katie Couric interview with Gov. Sarah Palin. But TVNewser has learned Palin will be featured tomorrow and Thursday as well on the Evening News." (TVNewser)

"Katie Couric’s newsmaking interviews with the Republican vice presidential candidate, Sarah Palin, last week had only a slight impact on the ratings for her CBS newscast. But if the network could have added up all the other viewers the interviews (and its spoof) racked up, on places like CNN, YouTube and 'Saturday Night Live,' Ms. Couric would surely have been more seen and talked about than in any week since she began her tenure as anchor." (NYTimes)

"The polls now make it clear that McCain lost the first debate, and has lost ground during the entire gambit of suspending his campaign, going off the trail, going to Washington, and working on the bailout. He was tied, or 1 to 2 percent behind when he made the suspension announcement, and he is now 5 to 6 percent behind. The fallout in the electoral map does not make for a pretty picture. Core Republican states like Louisiana, Tennessee, West Virginia, Arizona, and North Carolina are now really toss ups, and even states like South Carolina and Georgia are in play." (DickMorris/NewsMax)

"Joe Biden may be off the trail Wednesday for debate prep, but Obama gets a different kind of running mate Wednesday as former President Bill Clinton takes to the stump in Florida, visiting Orlando and Fort Pierce. The newest polls have shown a deadlocked race in the Sunshine State, and a few have even put Obama ahead. Observers will be watching Clinton closely to see if he can muster all of his famed political ability on Obama's behalf, or if he still seems a little reluctant in his support. Obama himself will be playing defense in Wisconsin, holding a rally in La Crosse. Like McCain, both Obama and Biden intend to be in Washington later in the day for a possible vote on the bailout plan." (Politico)

"Jack Bryan, who is related and connected to everyone in the magazine world (think: Anna Wintour, George Gurley, Alexis Bryan Morgan, Spencer Morgan) is Quest's new 'The Young and the Guest List' columnist. 'It's a great creative outlet now that my documentary is all but finished,' Jack, who directed a doc on the defunct, legendary after hours dive bar Siberia, told me." (Papermag)



"About six I went down to Doubles, the private club in the Sherry Netherland where Chris Meigher and Quest magazine were hosting a cocktail party to celebrate the annual Quest 400 list which came out in the August issue. The 'celebration' was moved into autumn because so many of those on the List are out of town in August ..There are highly social names on this list who rarely attend public events except for things like the opening of the Opera or the Ballet or ABT. There are highly social people who contribute to the institutions like The Frick and who represent families that go back a century or more. Then there are others whose portfolio took on crust forty years or a quarter century ago. Society in New York is fluid and always shifting. In each successive generation there is a new crop of social patrons, who define the times and the temperment. Those who dominated in the Roaring 80’s are no longer prominent on the scene." (NYSocialDiary)