At the Film Society of Lincoln Center 35th Gala Tribute to Meryl Streep yesterday, the night's honoree, who is known to arrive at events via subway, does her best to keep the press at bay.
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• Donatella Versace is like putty in your hands.
• Who wears high-waisted short shorts? Mischa Barton wears high-waisted short shorts!
• Cameron Diaz is already training for her next role: Pimple Popper M.D.
• Kristin Cavallari is overhyped, overpriced and overexposed.
• Former Us Weekly reporter/pedophile Tim McDarrah gets sentenced to six years in the clink.
• Meryl Streep to team up with Philip Seymour Hoffman's double-chin for movie adaptation of Doubt.
• Scarlett Johansson does her civic duty by helping bikini waxers get through their day. [Page Six]
• Meryl Streep is not the devil — which she proves by not wearing Prada shoes. [AP]
• If Kate Moss weren't a fashion designer, no London women would ever leave the house. [NYT]
• Lindsay Lohan has found a new hero in Kevin Connolly. Sure, he's her enemy's sister's boyfriend … but, he did punch Brandon Davis in the face. [Perez Hilton]
• Not getting into the Teen Vogue party? We seriously don't know what could possibly be worse. [Lowdown]
Thanks to all who came out in droves yesterday to vote in our latest poll. One of the more pressing questions facing our society today is surely, "who should play Graydon Carter in the adaption of Toby Young's novel, How to Lose Friends and Alienate People?"
As of now, Jeff Bridges is in the lead, with Meryl Streep and Richard Dreyfuss closing in. Vote now! Hurry! This is extremely important and meaningful stuff! Ok, well at least it's funny. Hopefully.
We'll bring you the final results at the end of the day. (This gives us a reason to live, guys. So please contribute to our pointless existence in whichever way you can.)
When we heard that ex- Vanity Fair writer Toby Young's How to Lose Friends and Alienate People was going to be made into the next "life inside Conde" film, we were overjoyed. And today we find out that Simon Pegg of Shaun of the Dead will play Toby Young's character. But an actor to play "Clayton Harding," (the Graydon Carter based editor in chief of the VF based Sharps) has yet to be found.
Who we thought would be the perfect Graydon Carter? We' finally narrowed it down to the following five options. Richard Dreyfuss (who's balding, but could get some patches of grey pasted to the sides of his head), Jeff Bridges (he has the tanned face and wrinkly smile), Steve Carell (he can play anybody) or the random doppelganger Ray Winstone, (Grayon Carter is a pretty Sexy Beast.) Then there's Meryl Streep — who is such a ballsy actress, she could totz play a dude.
So, you decide. Who would be the best leader of the friendless and alienating publication? Get your votes in! We'll run the results tomorrow, and hopefully the studios will listen to the people.
Hollywood Elsewhere [Jeffrey Wells]
Bummed about working today? Wish you were outside shopping and enjoying your city? Well, in six years, you will be begging to put in overtime just so you won't have to enter the la la land that New York magazine promises our city will soon be. Intern Zack knows it's not as exciting as the Brangelina baby, but, just remember: that baby isn't giving you a magazine.
• Have fear — this is what Manhattan could look like in 10 years. A freakish Disneyland-type place where nobody's afraid to go up to Harlem anymore. [Building the (New) New York]
• What is a New Yorker without his "fuck?" Now FCC wants to ban the word completely! Those fucks can go you know what themselves. [What the [Bleep]?!]
• Who knew an art exhibit from Enlightenment-era France could make even the most hardened Villager blush? [Le Freak]
&bull'; Today in the "All Gore All the Time" magazine: global warming may scare the crap out of us, but An Inconvenient Truth scares us even more. Al Gore's "I should really be President right now damnit" beard is terrifying. [An Inconvenient Truth]
• Horny dads in New York paid a combined total of $40,000 at a charity auction for Anne Hathaway to babysit. And Meryl Streep had to bid on herself. Ouch. [Anne Hathaway: The $40K Babysitter]
Can you believe it? Well, maybe you can, but we can't! In the third story today that mentions The Devil Wears Prada and Anna Wintour Rush & Molloy's column is the only one that has some juicy gossip:
Anna showed up for the premiere! (Donning unspecified couture.) So, was there a bitch fight between her and Lauren Weisberger? Were little mini bottles of Chambord thrown at the screen? Nope, sorry folks. The show remained on screen. It was just Anna and her posse catching a flick, persuaded by the charming "I record children's books for Starbucks" ways of Meryl Streep.
"They purposely seated Lauren and Anna on opposite sides of the theater," says one source. "As far away as humanly possible."
Disappointingly, the plan worked. Wintour escaped the theater without a confrontation with the young woman who'd gotten rich off her.
"I heard she was there," Weisberger told us. "I haven't run into her since the book came out. We travel in different circles. All I know is that it was one of the most exciting nights of my life."
Ok, Lauren. We know you wrote a book and you're a little more rich now than you were growing up because it was made into a movie. And we know that a few people care about who you are now. But nobody for even one second thought you traveled in the same circles as Anna Wintour. Did you have a rendezvous with Bob Marley? Didn't think so.
Wintour gives the 'Devil' its due [Rush & Molloy, Daily News]
• Oh, Meryl Streep. You are the best sell out celebrity ever! Even the Desperate Housewives aren't reading children's books for Starbucks. [AP]
• Oooh, they're giving away free plastic surgery at Cannes now? Now we're shocked Brad Pitt skipped out. [SMH]
• Will the Namibian governor name Brad and Angelina Jolie’s baby? We’d believe it — if only so that the press would have a really hard time printing and pronouncing it. [Scoop]
• Ashton Kutcher takes time off to try and impregnate Demi Moore. [Scoop]
• We totally need a D-List celeb who has tons of fuck buddies to run for senate. [Page Six]
• Michelle Rodriguez's version of heaven involves rubbing her face in a bunch of strangers' boobs. [Socialite's Life]
• You know United 93 sucks when Robin Williams' most overly promoted family fun movie beats its ticket sales. [AP]
• Meryl Streep, Cher, did you two know you were Lloyd Grove's heroes? [Lowdown]
• You knew it was coming, you knew it would have a skull … and you know you're going to read it in the privacy of your own upstate castle. [FBNY]
• Shaquille O'Neal's wife, luckily, delivers a very normal sized baby. [People]
Today, W emerged as the next magazine to be accused of lying about Lindsay Lohan.
In January, Lohan accused Vanity Fair of printing false quotes about her being bulimic and coked out. (In fact, this was obviously true to anyone who reads Star or goes to Bungalow 8 … oh, and they had a tape.)
Unfortunately for Kevin West, the James Frey inspired W writer, he did not. Therefore, in his recent interviews with Lohan and Meryl Streep, West's claim that Dina Lohan and the kid's visit father Michael in jail has no back up.
In the final article, which Lohan got a glimpse at on Tuesday morning, West wrote: "As for the ongoing drama with her father [Michael], Lohan acknowledges that she hasn't spoken to him, although her mother and siblings do visit him in jail, where he is serving time for multiple unrelated crimes, including assault and driving while intoxicated."
Lohan never said that and West is, according to Lohan's representative, acknowledging his mistake.
According to Leslie Sloane, who took a break from protecting George Clooney to defend Lohan, West will run a correction in next month's issue.
Dina is apparently "freaking out" about this W article … but don't worry. It isn't at all distracting the uber mom from hanging out with 12-year-old Ali at Crobar.
MAG GOOFS ON LINDSAY'S MOM [Page Six]
• Lindsay Lohan, Meryl Streep, and Lily Tomlin are all no-shows for Robert Altman's lifetime achievement Oscar celebration. Robin Williams went, though … mostly for the open bar. [NYT]
• Sob your hearts out, well, everyone. We want to not love Chad Michael Murray, but we can't help it. And now, he's freakin' engaged. [People]
• Naomi Campbell, fresh from beating the crap out of her assistant, is in South Africa with none other than Nelson Mandela. [Fox]
• Maybe George Clooney and Lindsay Lohan really are made for each other. She should go for the "we both like to show our bare asses" angle next time she hits on him. [A Socialite's Life]
• We have a feeling Kevin Costner actually paid this dude to steal his laptop, just so he could get his name back in the news. [AP]
• Meryl Streep as Anna Wintour will be wearing a lot more Bill Blass than Prada on the set of Lauren Weisberger's book-to-film. Gucci, Calvin Klein and Valentino are all showing their support, no matter what the Vogue editrix might do. Now it's just a matter of getting some of Conde Nast's titles to put Anne Hathaway on the cover. [WWD]
• If all the hype surrounding Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger's on screen romance in Brokeback Mountain hasn't forced you to boot like you mixed Patron, Klonopin and Jewish guilt, then perhaps a run down of the hottest man-on-man lip locking will interest you. [Radar]
• As if airports weren't frustrating enough to traverse, some genius thinks it's a good idea to pull up with your luggage curbside .. on your bike. [NYT]
• There probably aren't any spots left, but perhaps Queerty's editors will quit their diva attitudes for a few minutes and add you to the guest list of Adam New York, the city's newest and hottest (oh god, did their publicist write this?) gay networking event. [Queerty]
• Episodes of Law & Order for just 99 cents each? No thanks, we get TNT already. [USA Today]
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