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AP - President Bush mourned NBC correspondent Tim Russert at a news conference Saturday with France's president, calling the veteran newsman who died of a heart attack "a hard-working, thorough and decent man."
AP - President Bush mourned NBC correspondent Tim Russert at a news conference Saturday with France's president, calling the veteran newsman who died of a heart attack "a hard-working, thorough and decent man."
AP - WASHINGTON (AP) Tim Russert, a political lifer who made a TV career of his passion with unrelenting questioning of the powerful and influential, died of a heart attack Friday in the midst of a presidential campaign he'd covered with trademark intensity. Praise poured in from the biggest names in politics, some recalling their own meltdown moments on his hot seat.
AP - Comedians will often talk about "the room" how it feels, whether it's good or not, how to work it. Chris Rock played to a room Friday night that few comedians could command.
 New York Times | Two Broadway shows draw diverse audiences San Jose Mercury News - By Josh Getlin NEW YORK - There are telltale moments when Lin-Manuel Miranda, the star and creator of "In the Heights," knows who's in the audience to see his new musical about Hispanics in Upper Manhattan: Whenever he mentions the Dominican Republic ... Rocker and rapper up for top Broadway honors Strong season for musicals, old and new |
AP - CHICAGO (AP) For R. Kelly, six years of pretrial delays came down to an agonizing 10 minutes.
AP - CHICAGO (AP) For R. Kelly, six years of pretrial delays came down to an agonizing 10 minutes.
 Los Angeles Times | Reese Witherspoon Officially, Officially Single Actress Archives - Over a year and a half after announcing their separation, and over 8 months after the Los Angeles superior court reinstated the ex-couple’s right to wed following the dissolution of their 7 year marriage, 32 year-old “Legally Blonde” star Reese ... Reese 'n' Ryan's Marriage Formally Falls to Pieces Witherspoon-Phillippe divorce clears final hurdle |
AP - A month after the death of Yves Saint Laurent, Christie's is auctioning seven pieces of the legendary French fashion designer's clothing and jewelry representing nearly every decade of his career.
AP - A month after the death of Yves Saint Laurent, Christie's is auctioning seven pieces of the legendary French fashion designer's clothing and jewelry representing nearly every decade of his career.
AP - A month after the death of Yves Saint Laurent, Christie's is auctioning seven pieces of the legendary French fashion designer's clothing and jewelry representing nearly every decade of his career.
AP - A month after the death of Yves Saint Laurent, Christie's is auctioning seven pieces of the legendary French fashion designer's clothing and jewelry representing nearly every decade of his career.
 TopNews | Judging Judge Kozinski Los Angeles Times - Hundreds of readers have shared their views of Alex Kozinski, the federal judge who is currently presiding over an obscenity trial in Los Angeles and has maintained his own publicly accessible website featuring sexually explicit photos and videos. 'Rebel' judge lands in flap over sex images on home-based site Judge declares mistrial in LA obscenity case |
Paula Abdul is back on the market.
Abdul's publicist, Jeffrey Ballard, confirms exclusively to E! News that Abdul and her boyfriend, restauranteur J.T. Torregiani, have been not...
Whether she's bounding down a Baywatch beach, jet-setting with rebellious rock 'n' rollers, taking a serious stance for PETA or in cahoots with a love-crazed kidnapping Kazak by the...
The floodgates opened just moments after Tom Brokaw took to the air Friday afternoon to inform the TV-watching nation that his longtime friend and NBC colleague Tim Russert had died suddenly at...
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The apparent suicide of prison-bound hedge manager Samuel Israel III prompted an international manhunt. A survey found that the quality of life in New York City is slipping. (Possibly related: A quarter of New Yorkers apparently have herpes.) A RAND report recommended that NYPD officers keep their weapons holstered, and a perp tasered by cops died trying to swallow a bag of cocaine. Lehman Brothers chairman Richard Fuld Jr. perspired bullets after the firm posted a $2.8 billion loss, prompting a Wall Street sell-off; he then turned the gun on his COO and CFO. Sanitation workers were swept away by broom temp Boy George’s offer to perform free at the department’s annual picnic.
The lawyer for French daredevil Alain Robert insisted the city should praise his client for scaling Renzo Piano’s new Times Building, not bury him in legal bills; a grand jury agreed, dropping criminal charges. Madonna’s brother announced that he’d written a tell-all book about his estranged sister. (“Madonna has not cooperated with any biography about herself” was chilly super-flack Liz Rosenberg’s only comment.) The Yankees hinted that they’ll need another $350 million in tax-free muni bonds to complete the new stadium. Michael Strahan, All-Pro anchor of the Super Bowl champion Giants’ defense, hung up his spikes after fifteen years in blue. And newsman Tim Russert died, at 58. —Mark Adams
September 11 con man Mario Mastellone, who was caught on camera doing the limbo after claiming to have a WTC-related debilitating back injury, will soon be spending his nights bending over the other way. A judge sentenced him to two and a half years in prison today for cheating the 9/11 victims’ fund out of $1.1 million. The 41-year-old was working as a contract painter in the north tower of the World Trade Center when the building collapsed on September 11, 2001.
According to the New York Daily News, he told officials of the September 11 Victims' Compensation Fund he'd been permanently disabled by a back injury. A month later, surveillance cameras caught him carrying gallons of paint and heaving them into the back of his minivan. At a 2002 wedding reception, he was caught on tape ducking under a limbo pole and doing the hustle. He also threatened to fight his son’s bus driver during an argument in 2004. And a video surveillance camera across from his New Jersey home caught him shoveling snow off his silver Mercedes and red Cooper Mini (just how many cars does this dude have?) after a 2005 snowstorm. "I am a victim," Mastellone told reporters outside of court. Asked if he had any regrets, he replied: "None."
He should have a lot of regrets, not the least of them his dance-floor skills. Please enjoy the above video in which he attempts to grind all up on it with some woman at the reception, while wearing a hat evidently on loan from the Lucky Charms guy. —Noelle Hancock
Sept. 11 Injury Faker Caught On Tape [NYP]
World Trade Center painter in limbo video sentenced for Sept. 11 fraud [NYDN]
HOT MAMA: Solange Knowles, toasting her upcoming album at a Hennessy-hosted dinner party at the Harrison in New York.
DESPERATE DRESSING: Eva Longoria Parker and Tony Parker, shopping at...
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Designers must shake up the look of things every season, and casting changes are a necessary part of that. So perhaps Agent Provocateur and Cavalli love Moss so much they don't want to let her go so they throw her in the slots they've got left. That would be rather flattering. But what if, on the other hand, they're seeing her in a different light — less ultra high fashion and more mass market (ahem, Topshop)? Donna Karan has hired Moss again for her fall campaign since she loved her so much in the spring ads. But how long will she last before she scoots down to DKNY?
Related: BREAKING NEWS: KATE SAYS "I DO" [British Vogue]
Moss Knocked From Cavalli Campaign; Wintour Toasts Obama
Edie Falco, Elaine Stritch, Carrie Fisher, Vivica A. Fox, Sarah Silverman and the 35 other women who were good for a hearty laugh over the last year can rest easy.
Lindsay Lohan has...
Father's Day will certainly have special meaning for Dennis Quaid this weekend. After all, it was just seven short months ago that the actor's newborn...
There's a brain behind that headband!Photo: Elle.com
On her purported eating disorder, which she has never been quoted on:
"I think it's important that what anybody goes through — and I'm not saying that it's true or not true — you realize it's part of growing up. Everybody is going to go through hard times. It's a part of life. I think the hardest part to get to is that point of asking for help or reaching out to other people and being honest with yourself. I do not want to go through my life with my eyes shut. And I don't want to go through it with a closed mind. I want to be aware of things. And I'd rather know than not know."
On Heath Ledger's death:
"I'm not going to comment on that. I won't give you a word about that in the nicest way possible. Let's move on."
On if she has ever seen a shrink:
"Yeah. I talk with people. I think it's important. I wouldn't call 'em a shrink, but it's good to have communication with whomever, whether it's a mentor or a therapist or a psychiatrist, whether it's your mom or your dad or your best friend. I think at some point I had to say that I deserve to be happy. As Diane [Von Furstenberg] would say, it was okay to love myself and be my best friend. I think everyone deserves that."
On what it's like to work with her twin sister:
“We don’t agree all the time. The way we go about business or designing or making a decision is that we come at it from two completely different angles that at the end of the day, even when we don’t think we’re agreeing with each other, we are agreeing. We’re just getting there in different ways. Unless you’re a twin, you honestly can’t know how close twins can be. There’s such a strength, but that also makes it…” Her voice trails off. “When there’s that much love there’s…” Again she stops…"[T]here’s the opposite of everything, but it stems from love, and it stems from passion. We’re driven people. I do know I can’t work in an office. Ashley, on the other hand, loves going to an office.”
On if it's harder to date as a "rich" and "famous" person:
"[T]hat's a weird question. Let's start with the words rich and famous. Those are weird words … It's nobody's business if I am or not. I mean, if you want to have a discussion about fame and what does it really mean to be famous these days, what's celebrity anymore, what's media? That's different. I have a completely different point of view about all this because I was never thrown into it. I grew up in it. It wasn't something that I aspired to. It's just something I knew. For me, I just worked. I had a job. I've had a job for 21 years."
On turning the trapeze lesson into something metaphorical about life:
"I think sometimes there's a certain safety in not feeling safe. I don't want to ever feel too safe. I mean, with my close friends and family, it's important to feel safe. But do I feel safe up there on that trapeze? No! I think you just have to feel not safe, exactly, but comfortable. Comfortable enough, like right now at this trapeze school, to let go when somebody says, 'Jump.'"
If your thirst for inspiration feels as severely unquenched as ours did after reading this, we suggest rocking out to the new Donna Summer album and not giving a damn about what anybody thinks about it.
THE TAO OF MARY-KATE [Elle (only partially online)]
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• Every new show of the fall TV season except for Fringe.
• Lucy Elllman's rave review for Chuck Palahniuk's new book.
• Jon Favreau's unringing telephone.
• Strawberry Shortcake's new look.
• The outrageous ticketing policy at Boy George's concert for the New York Department of Sanitation.
• Coldplay.
• The cancellation of M.I.A.'s European tour.
• The Happening's Metascore.
• Our awesome Q&A with Grandmaster Flash.
• Passing Strange's possible Tonys upset.
• Our mixed feelings about Katherine Heigl.
• Anthony Michael Hall's new job.
• Literally everything that happened in the R. Kelly trial.
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Norton Publicizes: Despite this morning's reports, Edward Norton did a little publicity for The Incredible Hulk, appearing on last night's Jimmy Kimmel Live in a semi-funny skit on which he presumably was allowed final cut. [Defamer]
The Happening Basically As Stupid As Predicted: New Republic film critic Christopher Orr thought M. Night Shyamalan's The Happening was so idiotic that, instead of reviewing it, he's posted a list of the eighteen things he found most inane about it. Surely there are more! [TNR]
But We Would Go See Comet the Super Horse: The list-making Photoshop experts at Cracked have created movie posters for the "20 Superhero Movies We Hope They Never Make," and nineteen of them are hilarious. [Cracked via Beat/PW]
According to The Brooklyn Paper, the beverage has already garnered its first celebrity endorsement.
Denzel Washington and John Travolta apparently quaffed a few during the filming of The Taking of Pelham in the neighborhood last month, a production assistant said.We expect this sort of thing from John, but et tu, Denz?
Now the question remains, will Starbucks dare to make The Manhattan? If so, will it cost approximately $12, have quadruple the caffeine of their normal coffee, and be administered via an IV drip so that we could switch out the plastic bag come nightfall and replace it with one holding a bourbon-and-vermouth Manhattan?
What would be in your Manhattan? Leave it in the comments section! —Noelle Hancock
She does look good these days.Photo: Getty Images
• Jasmin Noir, the newest scent from Bulgari, pairs jasmine with a woody floral. It will be available this October at Bloomingdale's for just $140 a bottle. [WWD]
HAIR
• Alicia Keys looks like Rapunzel with her extra-long ponytail extension. [BellaSugar]
MAKEUP
• Mascara wands are the new vibrators. Well, sort of. Both Estée Lauder and Lancôme are launching vibrating mascaras this season. Lauder’s TurboLash delivers 125 micropulses per second, while Lancôme’s Oscillation delivers 7,000 micro-oscillations a minute. They're the iPhones of makeup, we tell you. [WWD]
• Peter Thomas Roth is launching Un-Wrinkle pressed powder, which includes an ingredient called Syn-ake that acts as muscle relaxant to reduce signs of wrinkles. Sounds like a drug; we'll take it! [BellaSugar]
• For a beachy look, the Clarins Summer Fever collection includes a fun orange lip balm and turquoise eye pencils and mascaras. Looking like a moldy orange is hot right now. [Beauty Addict]
SKIN
• Skin specialist Patricia Wexler suggests anti-aging plans for women of all ages. For your twenties, use at least one anti-aging product and be proactive, not reactive. For your thirties, protect your eyes with sunglasses, and for your forties, get peels. [15 Minute Beauty Fanatic]
We argued yesterday that despite the many virtues of Stew's Passing Strange — great performances, awesome lighting design, rock music on Broadway that actually sounds like rock music — it simply wasn't the kind of show that could upset In the Heights for Best Musical at Sunday's Tony awards. But today, Campbell Robertson at the Times and Michael Riedel at the Post offer their awards predictions, both based on conversations with actual Tony voters, and they both predict Passing Strange will pull the upset.
Could we have been wrong? Of course! But we don't think we were. And since none of the rest of the awards are in doubt — or even matter, financially — we'll go officially on the record with what once seemed a safe bet but suddenly seems like picking the underdog: In the Heights will win Best Musical at the Tonys.
So how about it, Campbell and Michael? We're not allowed to bet money, but if we're wrong, we'll grant you one thing that's definitely in our power to grant: the position of editor-in-chief of New York Magazine. Can you step up?
Sunday in the Dark With Tony? [NYT]
'COUNTY'-ING ON A TONY [NYP]
Earlier: Finally, Some Drama at the Tonys: Could ‘Passing Strange’ Upset ‘In the Heights’?
Mariah Carey is in a great place and she wants everyone to smell like it.
The platinum-selling diva has spilled the details on Luscious Pink, the second scent for her signature...
Well, that was easy.
It took more than six years for the case to go to trial, but after less than a day of deliberations, a Chicago jury has found R&B superstar R. Kelly not...
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Update: MSNBC is reporting that Russert collapsed while at work at NBC's Washington news bureau. Anchor Tom Brokaw, voice slightly cracking, invoked "personal privilege" to note that "this news division will never be the same." Andrea Mitchell, commenting on Russert's ability to carry the bureau through 9/11 and the years thereafter, added that "It is Tim who has taught all of us how to be better journalists... He is the preeminent journalist of our time in any measure."
Update 5:17 p.m.: The Washington Post reports that Russert collapsed while recording voice-overs for Meet the Press.
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R. Kelly Found Not Guilty In Sex Trial [CBS]
Tim White’s Nutations #1 (2008)Courtesy of Mark Jason Gallery
Nurit Basin’s Red Balloons No. 1 (2007)Courtesy of AWOL Gallery
For those who have seen Good Night, and Good Luck (you should if you haven't, cigarette smoke looks really cool in black-and-white), the themes of Dan Rather's scathing twenty-minute speech on the media at the National Conference for Media Reform over the weekend should seem familiar. Rather's criticisms were in the context of the media's complacency in the run-up to the war in Iraq, but his targets, as the Observer summarizes, are numerous: "media consolidation, the corporate news environment, 'message discipline,' media cowardice, news-for-profit, celebrity fluff, 'so-called human interest stories,' sensational trials, gossip, 'news you can use,' [and] partisan shouting matches." In other words: everything. But we're with you, Dan. Those sensational stories, celebrity fluff, and gossip belong on the blogs, where no journalistic standards are expected or offered. Speaking of which, did you hear Austrian incest girl's daughter came out of her coma? —Dan Amira
At Reform Conference, Dan Rather Catalogues the 'Journalistic Sins' of Corporate Media [NYO]
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This is not the first time Kelly's legal problems have included hamburgers; a 2005 lawsuit filed by tour partner Jay-Z alleged that Kelly had, without explanation, left a St. Louis concert early to serve drive-through customers at an area McDonald's.
Juror reprimanded by Judge Gaughan for dinner table outburst [Kelly Chronicles/Chicago Sun-Times]
Juror wants out of R. Kelly trial [Kelly Chronicles/Chicago Sun-Times]
Jay-Z: R. Kelly Is a Crying Little B*tch [Smoking Gun]
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Dear Katherine (Kate? Katie?),
So you’ve acted out once again (no pun intended!). You’ve withdrawn your name from Emmy eligibility, because, in your words, ''I did not feel that I was given the material this season to warrant an Emmy nomination.'' And now you’ve started a fight with the writers of Grey’s Anatomy. Their feelings are hurt, Katie: "It's an ungrateful slap in the face," one show insider told EW. You actually won the Emmy for supporting actress last year, which was really so lovely for you. So why, this year, are you so sure your material doesn’t even warrant a nomination? Let’s think.
Okay, Heigl, we agree that Izzie’s story lines have become increasingly marginal and unbelievable. Lately, everyone on the show seems to think that Izzie’s completely irritating. So do we! We actually groan aloud when your perky face appears onscreen! There’s a theory we have about this, Katherine, so listen closely. Have you ever thought that maybe the writers are incorporating your own personality into that of your character? Because we read a lot of women’s magazine and gossip sites, and we think we kind of know you at this point. And guess what? You’re totally annoying and self-righteous, just like Izzie!
Of course, we, too, were offended by Isaiah Washington. He called your on- and-off-screen best friend, T.R. Knight, a faggot, and that’s just uncalled for. You established yourself as Knight’s defender and kept speaking to the press about how Washington should be fired. So we guess that’s nice of you and all, but you really should have let your friend fight his own battle. You ended up looking pretty darn priggish.
And then (and then!) you called your own hit movie, Knocked Up, “a little sexist.” You have a right to your opinion, and we might even agree with you. But you were Apatow’s first choice for that movie, you did it, you made lots of money, and it made you a certified movie star. What possessed you to bash it? Do you think you’re above the work that you do? It was a comedy, and you profited tremendously. You’re no Streep, honey, and even she does Abba with a smile.
Now we’re going to throw you a bone: We think you’re a talented comedic actress. That’s right, your timing is much better than most, and you have a goofy onscreen persona that combines nicely with your California-girl looks. Plus, My Father the Hero was one of our favorite movies growing up, so we’ll always have a soft spot for you, Heig-y. Though last week, in a dark moment, we watched 27 Dresses on demand. Now that was a case of writers messing up your material.
So please take our advice. Grey’s Anatomy is a soap opera. Get off your high horse, missy. You talk all about the integrity of the Academy? Ha! You know they’re giving an Emmy to a reality-TV show host this year, right? Stop pissing off your writers and directors and castmates. We want to like you, Katherine, really. Please stop making it so hard to do so.
Warmest regards,
Emma Rosenblum
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Two big stories today scrutinize the press coverage of the Obama and Clinton campaigns. The Wall Street Journal examines the media's uncontrollable urge to blurt out offensive things about the candidates, specifically Barack Obama. According to their count, cable television has been forced to issue ten apologies this campaign season for things they've said or written on air. Three of them happened this week, the first week of the general election (and we still have a few hours of Friday left), so maybe we're just getting warmed up. With the introduction of an African-American candidate, apparently, "the lines of appropriate speech have become fuzzy." Is calling a black candidate's wife his baby mama wrong? It's too fuzzy to know for sure!
The New York Times, meanwhile, has focused on the media's handling of Clinton, which many supporters feel was sexist. The media begs to differ. Most media types feel the bad press Clinton received was brought on by her own actions. (Katie Couric, herself a veteran of a glass-ceiling struggle, dissents.) Like the Journal, the Times finds the most trouble originates with cable television, where, for starters, Chris Matthews claimed Clinton only got so far because her husband "messed around" and Tucker Carlson said that "When she comes on television, I involuntarily cross my legs." —Dan Amira
News Outlets Face Increasing Scrutiny in Campaign [WSJ]
Media Charged With Sexism in Clinton Coverage [NYT]
It's Lucy and Eth — er, Naomi and Posh!Photo: Getty Images
Naomi's Namesake [British Vogue]
Tagline: "In World War II, there were heroes and miracles."
Translation: You know, all the stuff happening in the background in Clint Eastwood's WWII movies.
The Verdict: Given recent events, it's hard not to see the new trailer for Spike Lee's Miracle at St. Anna as a rebuttal to Eastwood's perceived whitewashing of WWII in Flags of Our Fathers. It's also hard not to see it as a surefire, all-bases-covered Oscar contender (after we figured Lee had given up on that sort of thing): There's war! Nazis! Prison drama! Forbidden romance! Civil rights! Religious unrest! Dying children! Joseph Gordon-Levitt playing a tough-talking grown-up! Additionally, it looks really, really great, and we kind of can't wait to see it.
We're still thinking of you, Eli.Photo: Getty Images
Consider this: The Celtics pulled out their own improbable comeback to beat the Lakers last night, giving them what is very likely an insurmountable 3-1 lead in the NBA Finals (no basketball team has ever come back from such a deficit in the championship round). We're actually happy about this in itself — at the very least, we hope it means we won't be hearing any more comparisons between Kobe Bryant and Michael Jordan. But if not for the Giants, the city of Boston would be closing in on an unprecedented three-sport three-peat, with the Red Sox, Patriots, and Celtics reigning as champions of baseball, football, and basketball simultaneously.
Having to read Bill Simmons's columns about how nice Boston is these days is bad enough; one can only imagine the Boston media saturation that would be going on right now if the Patriots had won — soft-focus ESPN features on the glories of the city, Times editorials on what New York sports franchises can learn from the geniuses up I-95. And oh God, let's not even talk about the fans. In short, we were just one David Tyree catch away from an intolerable summer. So while this week may be about basketball and the Celtics, we're thinking football and the Giants. Thank you, David. Thank you, Eli. Thank you, Giants. You have no idea the misery from which you've saved us all. —Ben Williams
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You’ve described My Winnipeg as a “docu-fantasia.” Can you explain?
That’s just a label I threw on because I wanted to avoid arguments over whether it’s a documentary or not. But it’s a useful starting point. Rather than having to research facts, I just conducted all my research in my memory and in my heart. I got to rant, I got to squirt some bile.
Which all begs the question a lot of your fans are asking: What’s real and what’s not in My Winnipeg?
Virtually everything in the film is real. It’s either real, or it’s a wish, an opinion, or a legend. There are no outright lies in the film.
Animals don’t fare very well in this film, do they? You keep referring to your dead dog Toby, horses freeze, squirrels get fried on electrical lines, and the bison stampede.
Yeah, and I even left out some stories that were just too disturbing. A friend of mine told me about how she had a family farm right on the edge of the city, with one of those cow ponds, where the cows drink water. And then late one autumn, one of the cows just died. It fell over in the pond, and then the pond froze, with the cow on its side, so that it had two legs under the ice and two legs above the ice. And just happened to make a perfect hockey goal – for a winter’s worth of half-court hockey. Apparently like a million goals were scored on the belly of that poor dead cow that winter. It’s just a Canadian prairie boy’s winter!
How is the Guy Maddin of this movie different from the real Guy Maddin?
Not all that different, actually. My goal with these pictures, masochistic as it might be, is to reveal myself. Not because I’m exhibitionistic, but because my movies have been described as bizarre for so long that I fear I’ll be thought of as some kind of wanker. I don’t mind representing myself as someone who bullies an old woman or outs family members – because that’s exactly what I am doing. By just being as honest as possible about myself, I thought maybe I could achieve something almost literary — about how cowardly I am, how wrong I’ve been about a lot of things.
What prompted this recent personal direction in your work?
It goes back to Cowards Bend the Knee, which I made in 2003. I had just been through a bad, stormy relationship, and I finally got around to reading Euripides around that time. I devoured them like telenovelas. And one of them, Elektra, basically was my relationship with this girl. I couldn’t believe it. All I had to do was rearrange some things — I had to make Orestes into a boyfriend figure who was forced into doing all these horrible things by a temper-tantrum-throwing woman with a daddy complex. Next thing I knew, I had a script. And I felt masochistically liberated — just having to stand behind every craven act, like a confession.
What do the folks in Winnipeg think of the film?
They haven’t seen it yet. I am, in fact, trying to escape from that place. But I’m really hoping that the citizens of Winnipeg will run me out of town on a rail after I screen this thing there at the end of June. It would take all the vacillation out of it.
—Bilge Ebiri
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Yes, that makes us worship Slimane even more. But back to Petey. His big love? “Jim Carrey is my hero. His character and his movies have always been a huge influence on me. He's the one guy who, if I was to ever meet him, I would be afraid I might literally die. And I'm not being funny.” And the new model has ambitions to be a pro wrestler. “I would love to be on the cover of WWE magazine. But that's impossible seeing as I’m not even in the WWE. I've always loved pro wrestling, though, and have been involved with it for almost three years. That's one of the main things I miss. I'm sure my agency wouldn't want me coming in with cuts and bruises.” Well, a little makeup could fix that right up. —Kendall Herbst
Related: About Petey [V Man]
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FINANCE
• Yahoo's announcement that Microsoft is no longer interested in buying the entire company hammered the Internet giant's investors, including billionaire Carl Icahn, who saw the value of his 9 million shares drop 10 percent yesterday. The question on everyone's mind: How long will it be until his head explodes? [NYP]
• Erin Callan, the ousted Lehman Brothers CFO, joins Zoe Cruz, formerly the Morgan Stanley co-president, as the latest senior woman on Wall Street to fall. Now only a handful of women are left in high positions down in the financial district. How quaint. [Bloomberg]
• Sometimes, when you really mess up, it is good to admit you erred. Unfortunately, no one seems to have gotten that message through to Lehman Brothers. [NYT]
MEDIA
• Errors in The Wall Street Journal are up 25 percent. Is it because the Journal is running more stories, or was Robert Thomson right when he suggested that the reporters have become too arrogant? [Mixed Media/Portfolio]
• "Fake" Steve Jobs, Dan Lyons, is leaving his job at Forbes to blog at Newsweek. He joins a long list of recently departed Forbes staffers. [NYP]
• Hey, how about a rant about newspapers being not dead? Just to mix it up a bit. [Bing Blog]
REAL ESTATE
• The $950 million Barclays Center, the 18,000-seat basketball palace for the Nets, is going to be the most expensive arena in the world — and the IRS' new proposed rules on tax-exempt bonds might make financing the project even more difficult. [NYT]
• It's official: Developer Harry Macklowe, who was forced to sell the General Motors Building after defaulting on billions of dollars in loans, stepped down as chairman and chief of Macklowe Associates. He's succeeded by his son. [NYP]
• The invasion of foreigners continues. Italy's Sorgente Group, a group that invests in landmark properties, wants to buy a larger stake in the Flatiron Building. Let's just outsource every last one of our landmarks! [NYP]
LAW
• Just how far those in Hillary Clinton's lawyer fan base will be able to wriggle into Barack Obama's inner circle — and possible administration — is an open question. [Law.com]
• New York's Dead Man's Statute does not bar Manhattan attorney Richard Zalk from defending himself against charges of allegedly raiding $200,000 from an escrow fund of a deceased client. [Law.com]
• Joan Lukey, considered one of the nation's preeminent trial lawyers, will join Ropes & Gray after nearly 34 years at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr. Although she's Boston-based, she'll be allowed to work from New York City, where her daughter is in law school. [Law.com]
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"Mario was originally No. 1 on our radar as we planned the campaign," said an insider. "We were ready to call him with an offer, but then we saw Nick. He's younger, sexy, more interesting. On top of that, his body was crazy. We set up a meeting, and when he walked in, that was it. We never even looked at anyone else after that."
What's that? You want to see them without their shirts side by side to see if 2(x)ist made the right choice? Alright. Fine.
Photo: mariolopez.net, nickadams.com
UNDIES AD FUELS 'CHORUS' FEUD [NYP]
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Not to endorse robbery but the latest iPhones scam was kind of genius when you think about it. A group of Brooklyn teens were posting ads on Craigslist offering discounted iPhones and would then lure customers/victims to deserted areas around Flatbush, East Flatbush, and Flatlands. When the victims arrived, the guys robbed them at gunpoint.
The ruse was brilliant and this is why: The types of people who want iPhones aren’t the type of people who fight back. Think of everyone you know who owns iPhones. Admit it, of all your friends, they’re the ones least likely to be able defend themselves if shit went down. You couldn’t have pulled this kind of crap on a BlackBerry or Treo loyalist. They’re scrappier. iPhone fans, on the other hand, are touchy-feely types, with their multi-touch interfacing and their adorable, oversize icons. iPhone users like shiny things. They’re used to having everything done for them. Now! All at the same time!
The scam was busted Wednesday night, when cops set up a sting on a Flatlands street corner and arrested four suspects, who were later charged with robbery, weapons possession, and conspiracy to commit robbery (let's see you horizontally scroll your way out of this one, robbers!). But take note iPhone fans: The next time someone tells you, “Meet me on a back street in East Flatbush with a large amount of unmarked bills!”, take a ‘berry or Treo user with you. They’re better equipped for these types of situations. Literally. Treos even come with their own mini jousting spear! —Noelle Hancock
iPhones Used As Bait In Craigslist Robberies [NYP]
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