Thursday, September 20, 2007

Media-Whore D'Oevres



(image via nysocialdiary)

"Eleanora Kennedy introduced me to the Secretary General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon and Madame Ban. When I was ten, the Secretary General (it was Trygve Lie at the time) was a monumental character, absent from our sight. Now I was shaking the Secretary General’s hand, and his wife’s hand. The Bans are from Korea. They were very soft-spoken and gracious. And I was very impressed. About seven-thirty, quarter-to-eight, everyone had taken his or her seats. Sigourney Weaver spoke. Then the Secretary-General. The premiere of 'Trade' was held for the benefit of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime and Equality Now, an international human rights organization that works to end violence and discrimination against women and girls around the world through action and mobilization of public pressure." (NYSocialDiary)

"A TVNewser tipster says Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton will be a guest on all five (MTP, Face The Nation, This Week, Fox News Sunday and Late Edition) Sunday morning public affairs shows." (TVNewser)

"The friction between DreamWorks and Paramount showed no signs of dissipating Wednesday, as DreamWorks Animation topper Jeffrey Katzenberg defended Steven Spielberg and threw an elbow at Viacom chief Philippe Dauman. 'As a filmmaker, storyteller, artist and conscience, Steven Spielberg is nothing short of a national treasure,' Katzenberg said at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia media confab. 'To suggest that not having Steven Spielberg is completely immaterial seems ill-advised. I think calmer heads need to prevail here.'" (Variety)

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