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Poodles not included.Photo: Courtesy of New Line, Getty Images
HSN will start promoting the collection in September during Fashion Week, and the line will go on sale only for five consecutive days starting September 23. They'll even kick off sales with a fashion show, and we sincerely hope that will allow us to relive the magic of the clothes in the Sex and the City movie. If nothing else, it ought to give the channel a desperately needed boost of quirky. Of the classiest variety, of course.
HSN and Patricia Field [WWD]
Michael Ball and — who else? — May Andersen.Photo: Courtesy of Radar Entertainment
It's up for debate when, exactly, the party turned into a full-on rager. But we'd place it around midnight, when Australian pop singer Sia started a clear-the-floor dance-off with her girlfriend, JD Samson of Le Tigre. Frankly, those two were just one ball of hotness the whole night. Our friend who got to the party before us said Sia spent most of the night sitting in JD's lap, legs wrapped around her waist, "rubbing up all over her." Kirsten Dunst, too, was a dancing fiend (at one point we saw her do that "broken arm" dance move from the eighties), though she mostly stayed in the D.J. booth, where her friend and Beatrice house D.J. Matt Creed was spinning. We're happy to report that Dunst, who's in town filming the detective thriller All Good Things with Ryan Gosling, looked really healthy and didn't drink all night, as far as we could tell.
Through the sea of hot girls doing high kicks and finance-type boys dancing on tables, we spotted André Balazs, Proenza Schouler's Lazaro Hernandez, and a newly bleached blond Chris Benz. Susan Sarandon's daughter, Eva Amurri, who kinda blows Dunst off the hotness scale, showed up around 1:30 or 2 a.m. — who can remember at this point? — with an equally good-looking crew of friends, including actor Sebastian Stan, who once dated (or dates?) Gossip Girl's Leighton Meester. But we saw her kiss and exit with an unidentified tall, dark, and handsome boy from her posse. We left around three in the morning, after the D.J. went from the Beastie Boys' "Girls" to Biggie's "Juicy" and vintage Mariah Carey. There's only so much awesome an aging party reporter can take, you know? —Jada Yuan
James Dolan, about to get kneecapped by the NHL. Photo: Getty Images
Of all Cablevision’s drama over the past few years — and there has been plenty — could this be the story that catches up to the company? If so, it would be the sports equivalent of busting Al Capone on tax evasion. Sadly, though, we can’t imagine this actually happening. And the NHL isn’t framing their threat right anyway: It wouldn’t be punishment to make them sell the Rangers; it’d be punishment to make them keep the Knicks. —Joe DeLessio
In letter, NHL threatens to kick MSG out of league [ESPN.com]
Wondering what to get the new parents Jamie Lynn Spears and fiancé Casey Aldridge to celebrate the birth earlier today of their daughter, Maddie Briann?
Here's what a few baby...
So, 9-year-old girls are kinda looking forward to Camp Rock, huh?
To quote tween expert Denise Restauri, "Let me just say, omigod!"
All signs—and Camp Rock...
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The Hills Kelly Cutrone: "In Christianity, Mary Gets Pregnant On Her Own, She Doesn’t Even Get F*cked.” [Jezebel]
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Most news organizations in the U.S. and around the world are in retreat, but Dow Jones is expanding its reporting resources, rapidly developing its digital content and providing journalism of the highest integrity to an ever larger audience in The Wall Street Journal.
Everyone else is "in retreat"? We're not sure we could write a more News Corp–y sentence if we tried.
Deck Shuffling at 'The Wall Street Journal' [Reuters]
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Radiohead Not Worth the Exercise, Say French: An ecofriendly concert promotion for a Radiohead show in France went bust when fans — who would only have had to ride to the Paris offices of XL Records on a bicycle to score tickets — failed to materialize, leaving 35 passes unclaimed. [Sun U.K.]
Kellz Up to His Old Tricks Again: An employee of the recently acquitted R. Kelly has been accused of threatening to kill a state witness in his child-pornography trial. Additionally, Kelly is working on a gospel album. [E!, MTV]
New Hulk Not As Smashy As Hoped: Marvel Studios' David Maisel may be publicly thrilled with the box office for the rebooted Incredible Hulk franchise ($55 million on opening weekend), but it actually performed worse than Ang Lee's "failed" 2003 version, which pulled in $7 million more in its first three days of release. [Playlist]
Academy Sorry for Making You Sit Through Three Songs From Enchanted: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has amended its rules so that only two songs from any given film can be nominated in the Oscars' "Best Original Song" category, which is terrible news for Dreamgirls 2. [Variety]
A paparazzi agency wants no part of a lawsuit claiming its shutterbugs lured Heath Ledger into snorting cocaine on camera two years before his drug-fueled death.
Attorneys for Splash...
What is the deal with celebrities driving their own cars? Why not hire a driver?
—Michelle, N.J.
Because it's their car! Theirs, theirs, theirs! Cue...
Twins. Twins. TwinsTwinsTwins! Photo: Getty Images
In an effort to establish themselves as two distinct people … Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen’s publicist wanted me to speak with each of them and asked that I not refer to them as “twins” or “sisters” in my story.— Caroline Tell, accessories market editor, WWD
The setting is a New York city loft (not in Soho!), in the morning-time. The floor is littered with castoff venti Starbucks paper cups and mounds of chunky plastic bracelets. Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen are brainstorming with a publicist about how best to promote their jewelry line for Elizabeth and James.
Mary-Kate: Can I just say something?
Ashley: I guess.
Mary-Kate: That was a rhetorical question, assface.
Ashley: A what question?
Mary-Kate: Rhetorical. It means, "Not to be answered by fatty retards." Anyway, what I hate about Elizabeth and James is that it is two names, and so obviously it makes people think of twins, and I am just really sick of the word "twin." And you, Ashley. Could you take up more breathing space?
Ashley: Yeah. We are so much more than twins! And I am not fat— I'm just medium-boned. Also, I hate the term "sister."
Mary-Kate: HATE "sister." It's like "blister," or something. Except that's how I feel about you, Ashley, you're like a human blister on me. But with, like, blond pus.
Ashley: Heh, pus.
Mary-Kate: Can you make sure no one calls us either of those things anymore, Publicist?
Publicist: Of course! [Scribbles in notebook] No "twin" … no "sister." Is there … something else you would prefer to be called?
Ashley: [Snorts.] The hottie and the nottie.
Mary-Kate: Shut up, carb breath. I don't know, Publicist, what else could people call us? This is what we're paying you for.
Publicist: Binates?
Ashley: Ew!
Publicist: Didymouses?
Mary-Kate: We're not lesbians. Well, I'm not. What about birth co-headliners?
Publicist: That has a ring to it!
Ashley: My name gets to be bigger on the birth marquee!
Mary-Kate: Only if we're going by ass size.
Publicist: Okay, moving on. Who wants to wash their hair this month?
Earlier: Imaginary Thanksgiving With The Olsen Twins
We're guessing Joan is taking advantage.Photo: WireImage
FRAGRANCE
• The Kate Moss Velvet Hour fragrance will launch in September with the tagline “embrace the night,” chosen by Moss because she loves nightlife. Sometimes the jokes write themselves. [WWD]
• Allure Homme Sport by Chanel packs a generic citrus-and-spice scent into a metallic package. [Moment/NYT]
• Estée Lauder Cosmetics filed a suit against Brooklyn-based Preferred Fragrance for trademark infringement, false advertising, and unfair competition. See, PF made products like Impression of Happy by Clinique and Impression of Beautiful by Estée Lauder. [Cosmetics Design]
SKIN
• Mike Albo on Spiff, a new grooming salon for men: "Along the wall is a mirror with plasma screens embedded in it, so if you are an obnoxious new-media type, you can watch 'Mad Money,' check your e-mail, and get a shave while selling your Website to Rupert Murdoch." [NYT]
• Men’s body-spray company Axe loves to play on sexual innuendo (as you've no doubt seen in the commercials), so it’s no surprise their new man loofah called a Detailer Shower Tool is rather phallic. [Moment/NYT]
MAKEUP
• The lip hue of the summer is orange, be it shimmery or glossy, in a pencil or out of a tube. Try the Shiseido Automatic Lip Crayon in LC5 Orange that complements both pale and darker skin. [Beauty Addict]
• Yesterday would’ve been Shu Uemura’s 80th birthday, so makeup artists celebrated by wearing his signature big lashes with rhinestones and sequins. [Bit by the Beauty Bug]
• BareMinerals just launched Little Sun bronzer, which comes with what looks like the perfect bronzer brush. [British Vogue]
NAILS
• Hate nail-polish fumes? Anna Sui’s shades ($13 a bottle) smell like flowers. [Bella Sugar]
HOT MAMA: Salma Hayek, shopping at Ron Herman at Fred Segal in West Hollywood.
KITCHEN HELP: Chris Evans, Evan Handler and Jonathan Bennett, hitting the opening of restaurant RockSugar...
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2. The Walkmen, "New Year's Eve"
We're about as far away from New Year's Eve as you can get, but fortunately the new Walkmen album (from which this sweet song is taken on which this old, but excellent song does not appear) is going to arrive a lot sooner. [Azltron]
3. The Acorn, "Goonies 'R' Good Enough" (Cyndi Lauper cover)
The Acorn cover this Cyndi Lauper title track from the classic film, but we gotta say, it doesn't sound like the Goonies really are good enough for them. [Quick Before It Melts]
4. Diplo, "Drew Barrymore"
Diplo uses Tribe's "Electric Relaxation" as the basis for this slinky summer jam, though the name is puzzling, as Drew doesn't really seem to be Phife's type. [Pitchfork]
5. Detroit Octane, "Barack Obama-sistible" (Robert Palmer cover, sort of)
Obama is apparently so popular now that merely mentioning his name in an otherwise hideously awful Robert Palmer cover will get you on national television. [Culture Bully]
—Ehren Gresehover
Funny guy, that Steve Carell, and he brought his game to our interview for Get Smart recently. Hit the clip to see what he tells me about his action-flick chops and the only nice thing...
Lynne Spears may be a brand-spankin' new grandma but that doesn't mean her motherly duties are taking a backseat.
Backing daughter Britney's bid to dismiss a misdemeanor...
Christie Brinkley and Peter Cook.Photo: Getty Images
Christy Brinkley Asks Court To Make Divorce Case Public [Access Hollywood]
Lilly McElroy’s I throw myself at men #4.Courtesy of the artist
Brian Williams is reporting for a solemn duty.
The NBC Nightly News anchor will be filling in for the late Tim Russert as the host of this Sunday's Meet the Press, a network rep...
Photo: Patrick McMullan
But Gunn isn’t worried about his endless work schedule. What really freaks him out is the idea of moving to Los Angeles when Project Runway switches to Lifetime for season six. “Can I be honest with you?” he said. “I'm panicky about it, and the whole idea of moving to a place that has a big car culture has me apoplectic.” Gunn won’t be moving to Los Angeles permanently but will have to stay there for a whole five weeks while the season films. He says he’s not even sure he wants to get an apartment: “I may have a little lean-to inside the set, wherever it is, so I don't have to worry about travel.” At least, unlike most New Yorkers, he knows how to drive. He just isn’t sure he knows how to drive in L.A. “I'm not a good highway person,” he said. “I'm much better at back roads. I'll make it work.”
And what of that ubiquitous catch phrase? Heidi Klum has indicated that the show might say “auf Wiedersehen” to a few old favorites like "Make it work." Is it true? “What?! No,” Gunn said, aghast. “I couldn't possibly. ‘Make it work’ comes with me. I've been saying it for decades.” At that moment, Stephen Colbert, another Peabody winner, stepped onto the red carpet and we were reminded of a great contest The Colbert Report has been holding called “Make John McCain Interesting.” How would Gunn make him interesting? With better clothes, of course! “That’s a challenge,” he said. “Give him some color. I'd give him better-fitting suits — Hugo Boss, John Varvatos. I mean, I will say, he's a man of a certain age, so at least he's cleaned up and polished.” Huh. We always wondered what color palette, exactly, works with McCain’s lovely shade of pale. Tim? “Oh, he’s a fall.” — Jada Yuan
Related: Heidi Klum: ‘Project Runway’ Will Get a Face-lift on Lifetime
Breaking: ‘Project Runway’ Moving to LA
Breaking: ‘Project Runway’ Moves From Bravo to Lifetime
Looks like feuding frenemies Lauren Conrad, Audrina Patridge and Lauren Bosworth have put aside their differences, at least when the cameras are rolling.
The Hills costars all hit Green...
What's up, G?Photo: bigaila's flickr
Greenpoint: With Scarano-type condos popping up everywhere, only the crappy G train may keep the quirky, Polish 'point from becoming the next gentrihipsterfied Williamsburg. [NYP]
Red Hook: Yeah, yeah, Ikea opened here yesterday, but all the cool people were down the street at the shoot for the Santogold video. You know, the one with the bikes and the giant fake-looking speakers? We saw you there, right? [Gothamist]
Upper East Side: A partner in the group behind Worldwide Plaza will build a massive mixed-use project at 57th and Second in return for creating a new, 40 percent–bigger High School for Art and Design. [NYS]
Washington Heights: Here, not the nearby Bronx, is where Doctor Ruth has long lived, but that didn't stop her from being inducted into the Bronx Walk of Fame. Hey, her daughter's prez of the Riverdale Y, and her son went to Horace Mann — don't that count for somethin'? [VV]
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But then, this morning, Ain't It Cool News' Harry Knowles weighed in: "The Love Guru is astonishingly rancid." Not just rancid — rancid in a way that is astonishing. Recently, Knowles declared Speed Racer "the single greatest trip" since the final sequence in Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. He absolutely
loved Rambo. His taste in comedy has been broad enough to embrace Semi-Pro, The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas, and Beerfest ("easily the funniest film I've seen this year"). And even Harry says, in The Love Guru, Mike Myers "puts a shotgun in the mouth of comedy and kills it," so we're starting to think it might be kind of bad. —Linda Holmes
Harry says, 'If Shit Got THE LOVE GURU On It, Shit Would Wipe It Off!' [Ain't It Cool News]
Check out those, uh, well... all of it!Photo: WireImage
A glance at our desktop background reminds us that the first Beckham campaign featured David splayed out on a bed with his shirt all undone. The concept of the new campaign — Becks working out on a Malibu beach — is a sufficient enough departure to keep us interested. Which is about all you need. So congrats, Armani, on another round of marketing genius.
All images from the campaign will roll out online on June 23, and billboards like these will spread to Rome, London, Paris, Tokyo, New York, and more. San Francisco will continue having all the fun until then.
David Beckham Hung In San Francisco [Gawker]
Amy Winehouse's fainting spell has her doctors stumped.
The "Rehab" chanteuse has been hospitalized since blacking out Monday, and doctors at the London facility where...
Photo: Marion Etlinger
The parallels between Edgar Sawtelle and Hamlet are very striking. Edgar's mother is named Trudy (Gertrude), his uncle is Claude (for Claudius), and even Almondine, a dog, bears some resemblance to Ophelia. Was that a deliberate decision on your part?
It was a conscious decision for sure. Hamlet is one of my favorite plays — I saw the movie version starring Laurence Olivier many times in college, and I was also briefly a theater major, so that's how my interest in it began. But one afternoon, maybe ten or twelve years ago, I was thinking about how to write this story idea I had in mind about dogs, and all of a sudden my brain started juxtaposing the Hamlet story with another about a remote farm near the wilderness.
Did having Hamlet as a road map make it easier to tell this story as a result?
Well, I never treated the play as a road map per se, more as a source to draw from. It didn't interest me as much to follow things to the letter. I preferred to pick and choose the elements the served the main story of Edgar and Almondine. There are parts of the book that have no relation to Hamlet at all. Ida Paine [an enigmatic older woman] has no analogue in the play. Edgar being mute is the exact opposite of Hamlet's hyperverbal nature.
Since so much is being made of the parallels, though, do you worry about readers picking up your novel with preconceived notions about how it's going to unfold?
In a perfect world no one would know, but of course, it's not a perfect world … I remember when I first read A Thousand Acres, by Jane Smiley. I came to it late, a few years after it was published, and I wish I hadn't known it was retelling King Lear. So it's a fact of life that people will know Edgar Sawtelle's background. What's funny is that after I finished a draft of the book I showed it to a few people and told no one about the Hamlet connection. About half of the readers got it, but nobody figured it out until the ghost of Edgar's father showed up. Then it was more or less obvious to them.
Why was it so important for you to tell a story about dogs?
My childhood was spent with dogs, and I work with dogs surrounding me. This relationship is hardly unique — man-and-dog stories date back to ancient history, up to 10,000 years ago — but it feels that way to me. I used to have a love-hate relationship with dog stories because some got the dynamic right but most were dead wrong. The older I got, the more I realized there were no stories that reflected a true understanding of how dogs think and act.
But now there are all these novels with dogs as protagonists or at the center of the story…
Now, yeah, but when I started writing Edgar Sawtelle, most of the books I knew about were nonfiction. Elizabeth Marshall wrote a great book about raising dogs. Vicki Herman, too. I was writing the book long before Marley & Me came out. There's also that new novel The Art of Racing in the Rain that's being published now.
Right. So why do you think there's this dog-fiction explosion?
Why now? I have no idea. If I had to guess, I'd say that it probably comes out of the writer's personal connection to dogs instead of some specific literary motive. That's how it was for me. —Sarah Weinman
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The whole family seems to be pretty laid-back about the whole addiction thing. According to longtime pal Nathan Lane, who showed up for the after-party at the Soho Grand. “If ever you wanted someone to have an intervention for you, it’s Matthew Broderick, because he’ll probably bring liquor.” Wow. We love the Broderick-Parkers! Who knew?
Related: Love Supreme for Carrie Bradshaw [NYM]
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Fashion Scoops: A Stone's Throw [WWD]
Related: Dior Drops Sharon Stone — Was It Karma?
No, I was NOT the star of Mad About You! Photo: Bauer-Griffin
Steve Gutenberg Still Alive, Also A Dick [The Superficial]
LOVE.Photo: Courtesy of Securite-Routiere
This is just amazing. We can't wait for the day when either (a) Karl pops out of a car at an event wearing his new yellow vest or (b) we're driving through the French countryside and see this image of Karl on a giant billboard. It might startle us enough to send us off the road.
Karl Lagerfeld Dons Yellow Vest to Promote French Road Safety [Bloomberg]
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"I must say, there's a particular satisfaction in beating up somebody in the government." —Alan Arkin [LAT]
"He was saying, 'If you quit the show, you have the clout to get me back on.' And I said, 'You're fartin' way higher than your ass on that one, because everybody is disposable.'" —Billy West, the voice of Ren and Stimpy, on John Kricfalusi [A.V. Club]
"I apologize to anybody that was on the train that got a weird delay, but when I had an idea, I had an idea, and I just had to write it down. So that train that wasn't moving, that was me." —transit worker turned screenwriter Michael Martin [NY1]
"It's true in Death Race that we don't run over a huge amount of pedestrians. It's true. But if you watch the end of the trailer, there's a man on foot, and it doesn't look good for him." —Paul W.S. Anderson responds to the criticism that Death Race won't have enough pedestrian carnage [MTV]
Shrimp in the curtain rods? Perhaps…Photo: Retrofile/Getty Images
There was the Williamsburg "Herpes Avenger" — a gal who got the STD after having unprotected sex with a guy and then covered the neighborhood with posters of his picture reading "I have herpes!'" (Um, not to play it down or anything, but lady, you're in good company). Jessica Grose from Jezebel peed on her ex's porch after he dumped her, and another woman put a marble in a past beau's car door to, uh, drive him crazy. But the one that really got our attention was the work of one Lakisha Atkinson, a cheated-on probation officer who made her man an Ex-Lax cake and then reveled in the results. "He ate the whole thing. He thought it was delicious," she told the News. "I'm sure he'll never forget it!" Satisfying for her, absolutely, but also a warning to future generations: Atkinson was 31 when she concocted this scene. What will be the fate of those who wrong girls at the Brooklyn School for Global Studies? —Lori Fradkin
Spurned women, seeking payback, can turn into toxic revengers [NYDN]
From left, Liya Kebede, Sessilee Lopez, Jourdan Dunn, and Naomi Campbell
“I thought, it’s ridiculous, this discrimination,” said Mr. Meisel, speaking by phone from his home in Los Angeles. “It’s so crazy to live in such a narrow, narrow place. Age, weight, sexuality, race — every kind of prejudice.”
…Mr. Meisel has his own theories about why black models, save for the token few, have disappeared from runways. “Perhaps the designers, perhaps the magazine editors,” he said. “They are the powerful people. And the advertisers. I have asked my advertising clients so many times, ‘Can we use a black girl?’ They say no.” The concern is that consumers will resist the product, he said. “It all comes down to money.”
Meisel's pictures span 100 pages in the issue, hitting European stands in one week and American stands soon after. He cast many older models, like Veronica Webb, Campbell, and Tyra Banks. Speaking of Lady Banks, he also cast Toccara Jones, the plus-size model from America's Next Top Model, Cycle 3. “I wanted to say something about weight, and I’m never allowed to do that,” he told Horyn. “I met Toccara and thought, she’s beautiful. What’s the deal with her? She’s great and she’s sexy.” So we suppose that makes one ANTM contestant to actually hit the "top" part of the deal!
For more photos from the issue, we highly recommend you check out the New York Times' slideshow.
Conspicuous by Their Presence [NYT]
Related: Chanel Iman on Shooting the All-Black Italian ‘Vogue’
Iman Doesn't Want Black Models to Be a ‘Caricature’
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Archuleta's Daddy Day Care [TMZ]
Earlier: Have the ‘American Idol’ Producers Turned Against David Archuleta?
Outrage: David Archuleta's Father Banned From ‘American Idol’ Rehearsals
David Archuleta's Father Is Taking Stage Parenting to a Whole New Archu-Level
John Mack.Photo: Getty Images
MEDIA
• The July issue of Italian Vogue tries to address the issue of racial stereotyping in fashion by photographing only black models. [NYT]
• Susan Lyne, who recently stepped down from Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, is now in talks with Oprah. That leaves us wondering what went down at Lyne's lunch with Time Warner's Anne Moore the other day. [Fortune]
• Star says Julia Allison was an "embarrassment." Seriously? [Radar]
REAL ESTATE
• Carly Simon is selling her West Village co-op for $3.8 million. She doesn't need the space, since she's living almost full-time in Martha's Vineyard. Plus, Heather Mills is anxious to get settled in her new Village digs, and Rachael Ray finally closed on a $2.9 million Southampton mini-compound. [NYP]
• After yesterday's news that South Street Seaport is going to be turned into condos, city councilman Alan Gerson, who represents lower Manhattan, spoke out against the project, saying that the plan was "certainly not going to pass in its present form." [NYT]
• The courts are offering to help New York homeowners who face foreclosures. [NYT]
LAW
• The managing partners of New York law firms Girvin & Ferlazzo and Hogan, Sarzynski, Lynch, Surowka & DeWind settled with Attorney General Cuomo in his probe of alleged public-pension-fund abuses. Their reason for cutting the deal? It made good business sense. [Law.com]
• Several lawyers could make good running mates for Barack Obama. [Law.com]
• A Schulte Roth & Zabel summer associate jokingly put a guy at the company picnic in a headlock and called him a punk, and it turned out to be a partner. Oops. [Above
the Law]
What they're doing to change the neighborhood:
Henry Codin: Cleaning the street every morning, helping organize parking, and greeting everyone in a friendly manner.
Arlene Harrison: Keeping people off the grass in Gramercy Park, growing bushes to block views of the park from the outside, preventing soccer playing in the park, blocking the building of playgrounds for children in the park, and banning dogs, Frisbees, and groups of more than six people.
When they can usually be seen:
Henry Codin: Between 3 a.m. and 8 a.m., with his broom and lengthy set of keys, making sure everything on the block goes smoothly.
Arlene Harrison: Between 6:30 and 8:30 in the morning, with her clipboard, monitoring noise, renovation, and "quality-of-life issues."
What perks they dole out:
Henry Codin: If you are a regular on the block, he will move your car for you to avoid tickets and find you a parking space.
Arlene Harrison: If you are a big-budget developer, she will get you in to take over a Salvation Army boarding house and transform it into a luxury-apartment complex.
Key quote:
Henry Codin: “I’m not on this job because I need to be, you got to understand that. But it keeps you going. It keeps me moving.…Once you’re sittin’ there with the TV, then you die."
Arlene Harrison: Children's playgrounds cause “too much wear and tear,” Harrison says. “But do you know what? The children who grow up here learn to use their imagination.”
Does your neighborhood have a "mayor"? If so, which school of thinking does he or she fall into?
The Guardian of Gramercy Park [NYT]
The Mayor of West 11th Street Is a Street Sweeper [NYO]
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Photo-illustration: Everett Bogue; Photos: iStockphoto, Michal Daniel/Courtesy of The Public Theater
And then there are the Public's furry friends, a pair of raccoons who call the Delacorte Theater home. "They live in the theater, and they will occasionally stroll across the stage," says Eustis. "One night during the gravedigger scene we had a couple of raccoons just walk across upstage. The entire audience reacted to the raccoons, and the actors, who were downstage, had no idea what was happening. They thought suddenly they'd become very funny." Their affinity for ruining dramatic moments has earned the raccoon nicknames, says Eustis. "But they're not names that I can say in what might be a family publication." —Jada Yuan
That's why we're declaring this week Meathaus Week on Vulture. We're printing three full stories from the anthology — one of the best comics of the year.
Today: "Empire Service," a grimly funny New York story from Zohar Lazar, an illustrator whose work has appeared in GQ, The New Yorker, Entertainment Weekly, and on They Might Be Giants CDs.
Meathaus: S.O.S. will be published by Nerdcore in July.
"Empire Service," by Zohar Lazar
Meathaus Week:
Farel Dalrymple's "Fotogloctica"
Dash Shaw's Bottomless Belly Button (excerpt)
Profile of Dash Shaw [NYM]
Reuters - As Hollywood recovers from a
tumultuous writers walkout that ended in February, U.S.
television networks are bracing for a possible actors strike
that could delay the upcoming fall TV season.
Reuters - As Hollywood recovers from a
tumultuous writers walkout that ended in February, U.S.
television networks are bracing for a possible actors strike
that could delay the upcoming fall TV season.
AP - "The '90s were a bit of a disaster for me in so many ways. On a personal level, I don't think I could have toured. Also I had some physical problems with my back that are now sorted and I just wasn't in the right state of mind." George Michael, kicking off his first North American tour in 17 years.
AP - "The '90s were a bit of a disaster for me in so many ways. On a personal level, I don't think I could have toured. Also I had some physical problems with my back that are now sorted and I just wasn't in the right state of mind." George Michael, kicking off his first North American tour in 17 years.
AP - Rapper Young Jeezy was charged with driving under the influence and speeding after he was pulled over on an Atlanta highway early Wednesday.
AP - A Senate panel rejected calls Thursday to ban certain swear words on Australian TV following an inquiry prompted by a popular series on restaurant kitchens with foul-mouthed British chef Gordon Ramsay.
AP - WASHINGTON (AP) The crowd at Tim Russert's funeral Wednesday would have made a great panel on his Sunday morning news show.
AP - WASHINGTON (AP) The crowd at Tim Russert's funeral Wednesday would have made a great panel on his Sunday morning news show.
AP - Google Inc.'s YouTube is setting up a virtual screening room to bring the work of independent filmmakers to a global audience.
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