Media-Whore D'Oeuvres



"The Hollywood hunk, who has umpteen best looking man in the world titles to his name, was at HBO's party after the Golden Globes when he was confronted by the cheeky woman. Our spy at the Beverly Hills Hilton said: 'Brad (Pitt) was enjoying a cocktail and chatting with friends at party when this woman, who was clearly drunk, approached him. She went on and on about how the aging make-up in The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button made him look ugly as a dog'. In the movie, Brad plays a man who ages backwards, and spends much of the film with prosthetics on his face to make him look older. Our mole continued: 'Brad listened politely and explained that the make-up was essential to telling the story properly. The woman finally piped down for a moment, then looked closely at Brad's face. She then said, 'And you should definitely shave that goatee because it looks just horrible', before marching off. Brad's buddies cracked up laughing." (Thisislondon)

"AMONG those missing Jeremy Piven is model Ashley Chontos, whom he dated here and text messaged since splitting for LA. He'd promised to take her to the Golden Globes. Even offered a plane ticket. He took his mom instead. Ashley, who'd gotten a gown for the event, stayed home alone. In bed. Friends at SoHo's Salt restaurant say she's upset." (CindyAdams)

"President-elect Barack Obama reached across the aisle - and the table - last night, breaking bread with a slew of conservative writers at the Chevy Chase, Md., pad of syndicated columnist George Will a week before the inauguration. The Weekly Standard's William Kristol and The Washington Post's Charles Krauthammer were also reportedly among the right-leaning wordsmiths in attendance." (PageSix)

"A small group of lucky Massachusetts investors in two now-defunct and worthless Bear Stearns hedge funds received an unexpected Christmas windfall: the return of 100 percent of their original investment in the billion-dollar funds. The checks—some for as much as $1 million—were sent to the investors last month, after a confidential settlement between the state of Massachusetts and Bear Stearns Asset Management Inc., which is now owned by JPMorgan Chase. 'My investment in these two hedge funds turned out to be one of the best investments I made in 2007,' joked one very happy investor, who got all his money back in the settlement. 'I should have invested more.' William F. Galvin, the Massachusetts secretary of state, orchestrated the November settlement, which all sides agreed to keep confidential. But word of the deal has spread like wildfire and sparked a furor among the hundreds of other investors in the Bear Stearns hedge funds who were not fortunate enough to live in Massachusetts. Some lost all of their investment in the two funds, and many others received only a small portion of their money back." (TheDailyBeast)



"Brad's other half Angelina Jolie was overheard chatting with Drew Barrymore about kids. Drew was heard to say: 'My biological clock is ticking so loud it sounds like a drum. I want kids so bad, but with no husband prospects around, I am thinking of adopting.' Angelina was then seen giving Drew her phone number and telling her she'd be happy to help if she does decide to adopt. Across town, at another Golden Globes party in West Hollywood, Jonathan Rhys Meyers had to be helped out of a bash because he was too drunk." (Thisislondon)

"MRS. Ron Wood and son James, who was Ron's manager and knows what money Ron has and where it is, met with her divorce lawyer. So far she gets the house in England, he keeps the Ireland one, which has a pub on the premises .." (CindyAdams)

"As Jason Horowitz noted, Clinton, Barack Obama's soon-to-be confirmed secretary of state, accidentally addressed Kerry, the new chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, as 'Mr. President' during her confirmation hearing. After Clinton called it a Freudian slip, Kerry replied that 'We are both subject to those' - to which Clinton responded, 'On this subject especially.' Really, though, the joke is on Kerry - and, for that matter, on many of the other high-profile Democrats who went out on a limb for Obama's presidential campaign - because if there's been one notable trend as Obama as assembled his administration, it's that early loyalty in the campaign hasn't been rewarded, even as open hostility has been." (Observer)

"Back in New York, Mr. Sorgatz lined up a gig relaunching the Independent Film Channel’s Web site, which left him with too much time to work the bars. “The difference was that in Seattle there was no scene,” he said. “Once you met [sex columnist] Dan Savage that was it—there weren’t a lot of people that you wanted to know. Here, someone would say, ‘We’re meeting at the Magician,’ and you get there and you see a bunch of people you knew through the online blogging world.' That world, his friend Mr. Steele explained, can include 'everyone from your average ink-stained journalists, to legitimate bloggers, to Tumblr girls — who God knows what they do all day.' When he first began taking Mr. Sorgatz around, 'He was like a kid in a candy store' ..Last summer, he said, 'there was one morning when I realized that it was 9 o’clock in the morning and I had just left the Saturday Night Live after-after-party. And I was walking around Times Square still wearing my jacket, and still dressed up for the show — feeling lonely and looking for people to talk to and maybe a little enhanced mentally. And I remember walking up to a girl who was standing outside smoking a cigarette. She was a waitress at some tourist place in Times Square. I remember trying to talk her into leaving work, and spending the afternoon with me.' She said no." (Observer)

"Paris Hilton hid in the bathroom at Creative Artist Agency’s big post-Golden Globes bash Sunday night after CAA’s Kevin Huvane caught her slipping in uninvited — and loudly demanded she be removed from the Sunset Towers party. 'Kevin was outraged at her sense of entitlement, and he was adamant that she be removed,' an eyewitness confides to us. 'He was storming around, yelling ‘Who let her in? She is not invited, and somebody had better get her out of here immediately!’ LAPD security and event planners had to wait for the heir-head to exit the powder room so they could toss her, and finally — a good 15 minutes later — she emerged looking red-faced and embarrassed." (NYDailyNews)



"Mr. Mickey must confess that he does not watch America's Next Top Model, although Tyra Banks is a former PAPER cover-girl and yummy Nigel Barker got his start at PAPER. Still MM couldn't resist popping in at Oxygen TV's America's Next Top Model Obsessed party at Gotham Hall and brought along his cuddly protege J, who is a star of the downtown dance music scene and a major fan of Top Model. Being without his trusty photographer Caroline Torem Craig, MM somehow only managed to shoot one model plus some hot boys. Here's J with Top Model winner Jaslene (by far the most gorgeous girl in the runway show that night), with Lucky Magazine's yummy Kofi Yankey and with Broadway babe and star of the upcoming Guys and Dolls Nick Adams." (Papermag)

"Yesterday in New York. Not so cold, half-grey, half-sunny. Lunch was cancelled but I stopped by Michael’s to drop off the DVD of Milk to the friend who lent it to me. Peggy Siegal was occupying my regular seat. She’d just got back from Europe where she had some kind of hip surgery in Belgium and then went over to London to visit the Queen ..She invited me to a dinner for the producer, director and writer of the hit film 'Slumdog Millionaire' (Christian Colson, Danny Boyle and Simon Beaufoy, respectively) at the Four Seasons restaurant at 7:30 .. I got to the Four Seasons a little after eight. The invitation called for cocktails at 7:30, dinner at 8. No. By 8:30 most people were seated (placement). I was getting a few pictures. I got Ms. Fonda who looks great. I got Joel Grey and Warren Hoge. I got Olivia Hoge. These parties are fun." (NYSocialDiary)