"This morning, Top Chef host-judges Padma Lakshmi and Tom Colicchio treated the food press to a conference call to discuss the upcoming fifth season of the show, which was mostly filmed in Brooklyn. Besides learning that guest judges will include Eric Ripert, Dave Grohl, Martha Stewart, Lidia Bastianich, Wylie Dufresne, and Marcus Samuelsson, we found out that Ms. Lakshmi usually 'gains about 10 to 15 pounds over the course of [filming] … I always go up one dress size, without fail.'" (Observer)
"Last night Gail Hilson invited me to a dinner at the Mandarin Oriental hosted by the Board of Trustees of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and its president Bruce Stillman -- the Double Helix Medals Dinner and honored Sherry Lansing for Humanitarianism, Marilyn and James Simons for Corporate Leadership, James D. Watson for Scientific Research, and J. Craig Venter for Scientific Research ... Phil Donohue was emcee for the evening along with Deborah Norville. Marlo Thomas couldn’t be there. 'When I married Marlo,' he told the audience, 'I also married a hospital.' Marlo Thomas’ father Danny Thomas founded St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital in Tennessee." (NYSD)
"When I spoke to (Howard Dean) on the day after Barack Obama swept into the White House with the largest Congressional Democratic majorities since the 1970s, Dean, characteristically defiant, refused to admit to feeling vindicated. 'Everyone asks me that,' he said. 'Vindication is not an emotion that ever touches me, because I don’t have any doubts when I’m doing it.' But if election night stamped Obama indelibly into the pages of American history, then Dean’s place in that history, too, should probably be revisited. Very nearly discarded by his contemporaries as a spectacularly flawed presidential candidate and a bumbling chairman, Dean may well be remembered instead as the flinty figure who bridged the distance between one generation of Democrats and the next, the man who first gave voice to liberal fury and tapped transformative technologies at the dawn of the century — and then channeled all of it into rebuilding the party’s grass-roots apparatus." (NYTimesMag)
"OPRAH Winfrey is dumping ABC for her own new network. Discovery Communications, which is partnering with Winfrey in the OWN (Oprah Winfrey Network) cable channel starting next year, announced yesterday Winfrey's namesake show will cease to air via syndication on ABC by September 2011. 'The expectation is that after that, her show will go off of ABC in syndication and she will come to OWN,' Discovery CEO David Zaslav said on the company's first earnings call as a public company. 'We're talking now about what the presence will be and what kind of programming she would be involved in directly. But this is her Chapter 2, and building the OWN brand online and on-air is . . . a core mission for her.' Zaslav said Winfrey now is 'very involved with us and focusing on what the channel is going to be, as well as developing Oprah.com.' The move is a blow both to CBS-TV Distribution, which syndicates the show, as well as to ABC, which airs it. A rep for ABC didn't return calls." (PageSix)
"On a night of crazy bust-ups, an amazing Grace Jones ding-dong saved the day for The Ting Tings. The hot-headed former Bond girl ran riot after gatecrashing the band's interview with Jared Leto. We looked on in amazement as Grace raced around the room, with her poor assistant desperately trailing in her wake." (3AMGirls)
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