Michael Vartan

Page Six’s lead item today about Michael Vartan’s anti-Jennifer Garner fan club has been met with .. yawns, as has most of P6’s August gossip.

But a few people have perked up following the report’s publication, such as the MV campaign chief.

We’re not going to even try to verify the existence of said fan campaign or that Jodi Weinraub is heading it up. We’re just going to publish her note to us, which hopes for some clarification in The Case of the Garner Street Memo.

I was wondering if you could do me a favor. Besides having a raging migraine my main problem right now is that I’m the creator of the MV Campaign. Yes, I know what you’re thinking…crazy fangirl. Well this “fangirl” is a forty-one year old married mother of two children whose heads I hope not to rip off when they come home from school due to all the crap I’ve been dealing with because of the article in “Page Six”.

I just wanted to clarify that the “memo” referred to in the “Page Six” column was absolutely not generated by anyone involved in the campaign. We have tried our best to gear the campaign away from the more salacious aspects of the situation. While I do realize Mr. Johnson did not say that the “memo” came from someone inside the campaign, people unfortunately will naturally assume that it did. In no way shape or form does anyone connected with the campaign condone this “memo”.

While I realize that you have not inferred too or mentioned the campaign, for better or worse at this time we are considered by many to be the most vocal group of “online fans” you know, us “crazy fan girls”. I hope that in some way you might mention that we had nothing to do with this so-called “memo”.

Thanks and Best Regards,
Jodi Weinraub
MV Campaign

We’re glad we could set the record straight for you, Jodi. But we don’t need to be the first to tell you that RJ & Co. don’t care whether it was you who sent the memo. They’re too busy criticizing Jessica Coen’s character.

Sep 2, 2005 · Link · Respond

Condoleezza Rice

• Don’t look to see Condoleezza Rice in any “I Love New York” ads anytime soon. After catching a Wednesday night performance of Spamalot (where she was booed when the lights came up), the Secretary of Insensitivity went shopping at Ferragamo on Fifth Avenue. While browsing thousands of dollars in new shoes (replacement dominatrix boots?), a horrified fellow shopper shouted, “How dare you shop for shoes while thousands are dying and homeless!” For being so forward, Condi rewarded her by having her security toss the shopper from the store — and then decided to cut her stay short to, uh, do her job.

• Nice to know Lil’ Jon and R. Kelly have their egos intact, even when trapped in an elevator. When a guest at the Sagamore Hotel called a friend to let them know he was stuck, the duo snatched the phone and said, “Go ahead and tell them who you are stuck in the elevator with.”

• Even though Michael Lohan is in the pokey for more sins than you can count, it’s reassuring to know he still has a song in his heart. In response to daughter Lindsay’s upcoming song about her strained relationship with her dad, Michael’s come up with this ditty: “I loved and protected you, I was THERE through it all./I do admit, I did at times fall./But these things you know were due to “THEM”/The ones that want to have a piece of my gem!” Though it’s Lindsay rocking the rocks, not daddy.

• Blame Bennifer 2.0! Or at least that’s what Michael Vartan fans want you to do. After learning the former Jennifer Garner plaything was being written out of Alias, his “fans” started a slander campaign alleging, among other things, that nobody is allowed to mention Vartan’s name on the set, everyone present must applaud Garner after each scene, no one can look at Garner going to or from her trailer and cast and crew aren’t allowed to speak with her. Oh, and be polite to Ben Affleck, even though Vartan’s friends can’t stand him.

• What would Janice Dickinson do? Say attendees at her one woman show, not much. Besides starting half an hour late, she forgot her script and couldn’t remember how her own stories went. When Bobby Trendy and Kimberly Stewart walked out, you know it’s bad.

• So what do you do when your home confinement ends? Leave! Martha Stewart, along with daughter Alexis, was spotted yesterday morning, coffee cup in hand, getting in a caravan of SUVs headed to Westchester County Airport. No word on her destination, but we’re betting she’s not going to visit her former prison pals in West Virginia.

• Rapper Juvenile has mixed blessings during Katrina. The good news is that he was able to save his entire family, but the bad is that his home is totally destroyed. The rapper is urging that people keep the city in their prayers, and to donate to the Red Cross.

Sep 2, 2005 · Link · Respond