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"I hear Madonna had a dinner party last night in NYC at her apartment for her trainer Tracy Anderson. She works M out for 3 hours daily 6 xwk .. No sight or sound of the kids: all abed by 8:45. Boy, that wouldn't happen in my household! Apparently beautiful huge color photos of (son) David Banda's birthplace Malawi all over the walls. Everyone calls Madonna M, only M." (Bonnie Fuller/Twitter)

"Ted Kennedy makes appearance at WH hcare forum - walks in w POTUS for end session, crowd goes wild" (Jake Tapper/Twitter)



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"(Ruth Madoff's) lawyers have asked that she keep personal assets amounting to $69 million in bonds and cash that are 'unrelated to the alleged Madoff fraud.' This amazing sum includes the glamorous penthouse where the revolting MF is still sitting pretty. Of that amount, $45 million is in municipal bonds on deposit at Cohmad Securities Corp, which is co-owned by her MF husband. I was so close to vomiting on my computer when I read this that I had to calm myself by taking a walk around the block, which gave me more time to think and enraged me even more. Let me ask some questions that no one seems to have the answers to: Where did sweet innocent little Mrs. Ruthie MF get her millions? She couldn’t have made the money through her 1996 cookbook, Great Chefs of the World Cook Kosher, because she was slapped with an injunction for trademark infringement." (Alexandra Penney/TheDailyBeast)



" ..(W)hen Silicon Alley Reporter, my first business, got whipsawed by the dot-com bust, we went from $11.6 million in revenue one year to $600,000 the next. From 70 full-time people to 12. From leasing a 20,000-square-foot office to subletting 10 desks at a public relations firm. Personally, I went from being on top of the world, with appearances on Charlie Rose, 60 Minutes, CNN, and Fox News, to being savaged in the press as a fraud who got lucky and whom no one would ever hear from again. My office used to get 100 to 200 phone calls a day, and I had two assistants. Six months later, I answered my own phone—on the rare occasions it would ring. When it did, it was either my mom calling to check in on me or a vendor calling to yell at me. It was the worst year of my life, but it made me who I am today. I've never talked about the tailspin that my business went into, and how I barely managed to land the plane, but I get the sense that there are a lot of twentysomethings about to experience the same thing, and perhaps my lessons could help." (Jason Calacanis/Businessweek)

"DUSTIN Lance Black's Oscar success is rubbing some the wrong way. Black, who won the golden statue for writing the screenplay for 'Milk,' recently showed up at a birthday party at a West Hollywood bar with his Oscar in his backpack, and spent the night 'showing it off the whole time in a really obnoxious way,' says our source. 'He was showing everybody where Madonna scratched it and was bragging all night long. It was so inappropriate.'" (PageSix)

"Obama’s team is exaggerating Limbaugh’s place as a GOP power, House Republican leader John A. Boehner said Wednesday. 'The White House has created this big distraction so no one will pay attentiom to their budget,' said Boehner, R-Ohio. said. 'It’s not about Rush Limbaugh or Rahm Emanuel,' said House Minority Whip Eric Cantor, R-Va. 'It’s about real impacts on American families and businesses.' Meanwhile, just a few miles away in Manassas, Va, old-line conservative Richard A. Viguerie was pointing an accusing figure back to Repubicans in Washington. 'The Rushification of the GOP is the natural and inevitable result of the fact that those who are supposed to provide leadership — Republican elected officials and party officers – are doing little to bring the party back,' said Viguerie, Chairman of ConservativeHQ.com. " (CQPOlitics)

"The success of his Madea Goes To Jail has emboldened Tyler Perry to write, direct and star in his next two films, I Can Do Bad All By Myself and Why Did I Get Married Too. Lionsgate announced today it has acquired the rights to both pics. Academy Award nominee Taraji P. Henson (The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button) stars in I Can Do Bad All By Myself, which is based on Perry’s play of the same name. Perry's alter ego Madea will be featured in the film. Principal photography is scheduled to begin on March 16 at the new Tyler Perry Studios in Atlanta with a release date of September 11th of this year. Why Did I Get Married Too is a sequel to the 2007 hit. Principal photography will begin later this year, and the film is expected to be released nationwide on April 2nd, 2010, which is Easter Weekend. Tyler Perry has released seven films through Lionsgate since 2005 grossing nearly $350 million at the North American box office." (DeadlineHollywoodDaily)



"Porn star Sophia Rossi stopped by (The Howard Stern Show) to say hello ...Howard asked Sophia if Tommy Lee was her best sexual experience, but she said he was at least among the best: "He's a great guy...he's very spiritual, actually." Howard laughed that he'd believe in God too if he had a giant cock. Sophia said his size never gave her much trouble: 'It was fun...I railed him.'" (HowardStern)

"Wednesday evening kicked off MoMa’s annual The Armory Show from March 5th-8th with an opening night benefit after party at the Museum of Modern Art. Guests included Andrew Andrew, Kim Cattrall, Justin Rockefeller, Jack Heller, Susan Kirschbaum, Price Latimer Agah, Jared Clark, Kim Bates, Robert Fowler, and Suzanne Fuller among others who were given a sneak peak at one of the world’s leading international art fairs before they got down to a live performance by Gang Gang Dance, and drank a ton of cocktails." (Guestofaguest)

"The Democratic Leadership Council — a group of centrists that dominated Democratic politics during the Clinton presidency but is laboring to remain relevant in the Obama era — is on the brink of a major shake-up. Al From, the DLC’s founder and leader since its founding 24 years ago this month, said he plans to step down within the next couple months, handing the reins to his longtime protégé, Bruce Reed. At the same time, the Progressive Policy Institute, an influential think tank run by the DLC, is going separate ways. Will Marshall, who heads the think tank, said the recent Democratic electoral gains and a massive new agenda being pushed by the Obama administration 'require us to think anew.' The upheaval at the DLC is a striking sign of the political times. Under From, the group was always controversial — making its name during the 1980s and ‘90s with stark warnings that traditional, interest-group liberals were threatening to turn the Democratic Party into a permanent minority party. The DLC’s apogee came when one of its chairmen, none other than Bill Clinton, ascended to the White House, bringing Reed to the West Wing and enacting free-trade agreements, anti-crime laws and, above all, welfare reform — all pillars of a so-called 'new Democrat' agenda. Jesse Jackson once derided the group as 'Democrats for the Leisure Class.' As recently as 2004, then-presidential candidate Howard Dean said the DLC was 'the Republican wing of the Democratic Party.'" (Politico)