"Lily Allen bared a little more than she intended to when she flashed her bottom after a Christmas party. As the 23-year-old singer walked to her car after a PR bash in west London, the back of her floaty dress flapped open, showing the world her knickerless posterior." (Thisislondon)
"Which rocker has cheated on his girlfriend with another famous party girl? It's not the first time he has strayed and he's praying he won't get caught..." (3AMGirls)
"President-elect Obama on Saturday stressed the importance of science, saying it 'holds the key to our survival as a planet and our security and prosperity as a nation.' Democrats have often accused the Bush administration of disregarding science in its decision-making process, saying it instead followed ideology. 'It’s time we once again put science at the top of our agenda and worked to restore America’s place as the world leader in science and technology,' Obama said in his weekly radio address." (TheHill)
"It’s been a positvely exhausting year for everyone in publishing, n’est-ce pas? Anna Wintour deserves an extra-long, superlatively relaxing break. Chic hears she’s headed (avec famille) to the Dominican Republic, where she often stays with dear friends Oscar and Annette de la Renta. Their majestic home, known as Casa di Madera, was built in 1971; the couple spends several weeks there each year. It features a working fruit plantation." (FWD)
"I've temporarily abandoned the story of over-leveraged Sumner Redstone's protracted debt reorganization because at this point it continues to be nothing but speculation. And, frankly, one source's predictions are no more meaningful than another's, as I've learned from experience on this story. Hey, no one knows what the crazy old coot who controls Viacom, CBS, and National Amusements is really gonna do." (DeadlineHollywoodDaily)
"At cafe Sant Ambroeus next to Calvin Klein and Wallace Shawn. I know: inconceiveable!" (Rachel Sterne/Twitter)
"ANDREW Kirtzman, a former CBS News correspondent and Rudy Giuliani biographer, is the first man out of the gate with a book deal on the dizzying Bernard Madoff scandal. Industry sources said he is believed to have snagged an advance of more than $250,000 from the Harper imprint of HarperCollins to turn around a book on the scandal that has wiped out as much as $50 billion of investors' money." (Keith J. Kelly/NYPost)
"Last week, Al Gore sent an email message urging supporters to give money to Don Siegelman’s legal defense fund. Gore is the latest in a string of high profile supporters to suggest Siegelman, the former Governor of Alabama, was the victim of a Republican plot when he was found guilty of bribery, conspiracy and fraud in 2006, and sentenced to seven years in prison. Now, in the waning days of the Bush administration, Siegelman is trying to win back his freedom—not to mention his good name—in a courtroom in Atlanta. Earlier this year, an appeals court granted his release after he had served nine months, saying the Governor’s appeal had raised 'substantial questions'about the case against him. Siegelman’s cause was helped by a bipartisan group of 54 former state attorneys general from across the country who filed a federal appeals brief supporting his bid to overturn the conviction. Republican insiders have also come forward to say Siegelman was unfairly targeted by Rove and his circle." (TheDailyBeast)
"When Bernard Madoff spoke at a panel last year on the intricacies of stock trading at an eccentric New York salon called the Philoctetes Center, he didn’t mention that he oversaw the investments of the center’s benefactor foundation. The panel discussion was preserved on the center’s Web site, and excerpts have been broadcast in news reports around the world. A week after Madoff was arrested and accused of a $50 billion fraud, the Philoctetes Center for the Multidisciplinary Study of the Imagination is fighting for its financial life. 'The funding for the center was lost, and we have no other funding sources,' spokesman Adam Ludwig said in an interview." (Bloomberg)
"The current millennium began with a new sense of optimism regarding prospects for sustained growth and poverty reduction in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Better economic management, progress in governance, rising commodity prices, reduction in armed-conflicts, and increasing international support for SSA created hopes of a brighter future for the region. (2) There is no doubt that the recent economic performance of SSA has justified this new optimism. Evidence indicates that remarkable progress has been made since 2000: the average annual growth rate in SSA increased from 3.7% in 1996-2000 to 6.3% in 2003-2007, while inflation declined from 18.8 % to 8.2 % over the same period." (ISTSD)
"Natalie Cole in the Duomo Piazza in Milan - very holiday (see above image via flickr)." (Fred Wilson/Twitter)
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