· "Mayor Bloomberg was 'distressed' to see that so many other guys had found out the annual Central Park Conservancy fund-raising lunch is a great place to meet babes. 'I liked the odds better in the old days,' Hizzoner quipped yesterday. 'Maybe next year I'll give an executive order that the only man allowed at the lunch will be the mayor.'" [NY Daily News]
· The owners of the Cheetah nightclub are forcing patrons to check their cigarettes at the door for $1, (which is probably distressing to the New Jersey and Long Island people who drove all the way into Manhattan to go there.) [Page Six]
· Paris Hilton was in talks with Playboy to bare all for $200,000 until mom, Kathy Hilton, ended the negotiations. [Page Six]
· Liz Smith on the movie version of The Devil Wears Prada: "This fictionalized [Anna Wintour-esque] character is one of the grand villains in pop literature and my ideas for her run from Rene Russo to Helen Mirren to Judy Davis to Susan Sarandon. Anybody in the Cameron Diaz vein will do to assay the beleagured young slave employee..." [Liz Smith]