Posted on 05/17/2004 4:40:46 AM PDT by BigWaveBetty
Good Morning.
DEMI Moore and Ashton Kutcher are not sleeping easily these days. Ever since a computer belonging to Jason Goldberg, Ashton's business partner and co-creator of "Punk'd," was stolen back in March, the two have been worried about some "compromising" photos they took of each other with their digital camera and downloaded on the computer. "Ashton is very worried," a friend of his family told Star magazine. Kutcher is also concerned Demi's daughters might see the pictures. (PageSix)
Here's a fun little tidbit from today's Wall St. Journal: (www.wsj.com/search)
A new fashion movement is afoot.
Flat shoes -- a look that has been all but absent since the 1950s -- have been stampeding out of stores this spring, fueling a boom in women's shoe sales.
A host of hot designers -- Prada, Marc Jacobs, Lanvin, Hermès -- showed flats for women on the runway the past two seasons, departing from the usual drama of towering high heels. Now, retailers report a parade of women (many with sore feet) seeking styles that are both dressy and more down to earth.
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A far cry from the "sensible" shoes of old, the new flats are even sexy, some would say. "The throats are cut a little lower," says Lisa Park, a vice president at Barneys New York, referring to the part of the shoe that covers the top of the foot. "They show some toe cleavage." The new flats often are adorned with bows, polite buckles and ribbons. Cuts are slim and streamlined; colors for spring include pink, orange, yellow or even silver.
...(snip)...
And fashion is moving into a new cycle for spring, emphasizing full skirts and capri pants, two looks that go especially well with flats.
"The inspiration is Audrey Hepburn," says Alan Johnson, ...
Kind of brings out the urge to do a little shoe shopping, no?
Talbots has a great selection of these. Of course they had them when they we're seen on the runway. Great classic stuff.
Flat shoes -- a look that has been all but absent since the 1950s -- have been stampeding out of stores this spring,
It's a first Mae, I'm ahead of the fashion trend this year. I bought four pairs of new flats last month! :-)
Looks like Timmy can dish it out, but he can't take it:
Official respect for the First Amendment is apparently in steep decline. The other day, an intrepid journalist and truth-seeker was grilling a powerful public figure. But before the interview was over, the powerful public figure's press aide abruptly broke in as tape rolled and stopped the interrogation.
Tim Russert interviewing Colin Powell?
Nope. Try Brian Lehrer interviewing Tim Russert.
"We were given precisely 10 minutes with Russert to tape an interview about his new book from 8 a.m. to 8:10 a.m. for broadcast at 10 a.m. last Friday," the WNYC radio host told me yesterday.
"My impression was that he was very tightly scheduled, and had to do five or six interviews one after the other and his people were trying to keep him on schedule ... Eight minutes into the interview, a woman's voice cut in and barked, 'WNYC, you have eight seconds left!' And the interview came to a quick end."
Lehrer added that the glitch was deleted from what sounded, when it was broadcast, like a seamless conversation.
"It was no big deal," Lehrer said, noting that the interrupter was not an NBC News employee. "These things happen. It was just the usual bureaucratic stuff and getting an interview. So we edited it out."
But two days later, Secretary of State Powell's press aide, Emily Miller, was so desperate to keep her boss on schedule that she tried to end Russert's taped interview when it ran into overtime. The "Meet the Press" moderator went ballistic.
Not only did Russert castigate Powell's aide on his own NBC show, he gave righteously indignant interviews about "attempted news management gone berserk" to CNN and The Washington Post.
On Monday, Lehrer poked fun at Russert's tantrum by airing the rude interruption that he had earlier excised.
"If Colin Powell's people were guilty of attempted news management gone berserk," Lehrer told me yesterday, "then I can say only that Tim Russert's people succeeded at it."
Russert could not be interrupted for comment yesterday.
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/195080p-168547c.html
Great tag, Sloth...so very true.
NEW YORK, May 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Maureen Dowd, the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist, has agreed to partner with G.P. Putnam's Sons for her first foray into the book publishing world. Her debut, entitled BUSHWORLD, is a powerful look at the current administration. Neil Nyren, Senior Vice President, Publisher and Editor in Chief of G.P. Putnam's Sons, has acquired world and audio rights from literary agent Esther Newberg of ICM and it will be published in hardcover by Putnam in August 2004. Its release is timed to coincide with the upcoming Democratic and Republican conventions and the home stretch of the run for the Oval Office. The Berkley paperback edition will be published in 2005.
Mr. Nyren commented, "Like a great deal of America, I've been an enormous fan of Maureen Dowd's work for many years. It's a genuine pleasure to be able to work with her on her first book -- and an extraordinary book, at that." For eighteen years, Dowd has written about Washington and America in a voice that is caustic, funny, passionate, outraged and eloquent. Nothing has engaged her so powerfully, however, as the deeds of the George W. Bush administration. Now, in BUSHWORLD, Dowd draws upon her celebrated work to probe the world of Bush, Cheney, Ashcroft, Rumsfeld, Rice, Rove and company. It is destined to be one of the most remarkable works of the year - a must read for anyone interested in American politics and the Presidency.
Dowd: Welcome to Bushworld, where things aren't what they appear to be.
Speaking of books, it finally registered in my brain that clinton's book to be released June 30th just happens to coincide with the Iraq handover.
And what would Mo be able to find out about the administration that hasn't already been covered in the most recent round of Bush-bashing tomes, considering there's not a single insider who would give her the time of day? Oh, I know - just do like Michael Moore and make it up as you go along.
Considering Effin' does better in the polls whenever he is neither heard nor seen, Alexandra's pups may be exactly what he needs to "stir up" his base. (And they're pretty base, all right).
I swear we're living in Bizzaro World, what with Dowd's ranting and now this information, of which I was completely unaware, Gene Sperling was once dubbed Washington's most eligible bachelor!
• Former Clinton White House economic adviser Gene Sperling, once dubbed Washington's most eligible bachelor by W magazine, is finally engaged at 45. The bicoastal relationship started three years ago when Sperling met Allison Abner, 38, at a Hollywood lunch for staffers of the NBC series "The West Wing," where she was a writer and he a consultant. He proposed last month beneath the same oak in Big Sur, Calif., where Abner's parents had wed. (How romantic!) WP
Holey smokes!!! Slim pickins in DC that year!
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Hill staffers possessed of naughty imaginations -- and perhaps too much time on their hands -- were madly swapping theories yesterday about the identity of a young Senate aide who kept what appeared to be a detailed online diary boasting of her many sexual partners. The woman's explicit accounts of her alleged frolics -- including an affair "with a married man who pays me for sex" -- were given wide notice this week by Ana Marie Cox, the Washington cyber-gossip at www.wonkette.com, who posted the diary. Continued
Wow, you're not kidding. It must be terrible to be a single Dem female - there's just not much to look forward to (of course, that's as much due to being Democrat as it is to the lack of worthy likeminded men).
Send her a sandwhich so she'll have the strength to vote come November.
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Bill Cosby keepin' it real:
Cosby mocked everything from urban fashion to black spending and speaking habits.
"Ladies and gentlemen, the lower economic people are not holding up their end in this deal," he declared. "These people are not parenting. They are buying things for kids -- $500 sneakers for what? And won't spend $200 for 'Hooked on Phonics.' . . .
"They're standing on the corner and they can't speak English," he exclaimed. "I can't even talk the way these people talk: 'Why you ain't,' 'Where you is' . . . And I blamed the kid until I heard the mother talk. And then I heard the father talk. . . . Everybody knows it's important to speak English except these knuckleheads. . . . You can't be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth!"
The Post's Hamil Harris reports that Cosby also turned his wrath to "the incarcerated," saying: "These are not political criminals. These are people going around stealing Coca-Cola. People getting shot in the back of the head over a piece of pound cake and then we run out and we are outraged, [saying] 'The cops shouldn't have shot him.' What the hell was he doing with the pound cake in his hand?" Continued
I've always thought it fascinating that NOW never made a peep during all the Lewinsky mess and it made me smile to know they must have been fuming but had to keep their lips zipped.
Yep, she's caused the biggest rise, to date.
You show'em, girl.
Good morning, all - it's great to be home.
Send her a sandwich so she'll have the strength to vote come November.
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That's funny, SL.
But not as much as his wife (my impression) so what what she thinking when he spoke? I'm thinking he slept in the spare room.
Swimming is dangerous around these parts!
DELTONA, Fla. - A 12-year-old Central Florida boy who fought off an alligator is a national celebrity today.
Malcolm Locke was pulled under water by alligator. Image by WKMG Local 6 News. Malcolm Locke was featured this morning on "The Early Show" on the CBS network, using a report from Orlando's WKMG Local 6.
Malcolm was swimming in Lake Diana on Wednesday when he noticed a 4- to 6-foot alligator swimming toward him. The boy tried to swim back to shore but the alligator attacked and pulled him under water, said Joy Hill, a spokeswoman for the Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission.
Locke fought the alligator off and swam to shore. A neighbor drove the 5-foot, 4-inch boy to Florida Hospital in Orange City where he was treated for cuts and lacerations.
Locke said the alligator clamped down and wrapped its tail around his stomach before pulling him down.
"I thought I was going to get swallowed up," Locke told Local 6 News.
A trapper found and killed two alligators in the lake. A third alligator eluded capture and will be hunted again today, officials said.
The best thing to do during an alligator attack is struggle, make noise and create confusion, Hill said.
"Malcolm did the right thing," Hill said. "He fought the alligator and it let him go."
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