• While Vanity Fair's Graydon Carter has been stepping out from Fashion Week, new wife Anna Carter has been spotted front row everywhere from Oscar to Marc, though she's not working for the mag. Meanwhile, Graydon and Anna planned on going to Diane Von Furstenberg's show on Sunday, but just like Anna Wintour, they had U.S. Open tix.

• Time Warner is looking to unload a portion of its AOL unit to Microsoft, combining the ISP and instant messaging operations with MSN to create something fierce for Google to deal with.

• Fox News prez Roger Ailes isn't President Bush's bitch. He's President Bush's bitch Rupert Murdoch's bitch.

• Details publisher of 17 months Chris Mitchell is leaving behind Daniel Peres' gay vague title for the even gayer vaguer world of furniture design.

• Note to self: Writing a column calling for Arabs to be "stripped naked and cavity-searched if they get within 100 yards of an airport" might cost you your cushy student newspaper gig.