· A crew member on Barry Diller's yacht ran the tender into the marina breakwater at high speed during on of Diller's stepson Alexandre von Furstenberg's parties, resulting in another crew member being airlifted to the hospital, where he is in a coma. [Page Six]
· Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter last year: "I'm not part of the Hamptons social scene, I'm not part of the black-tie scene." This year: rents a house in East Hampton. [Page Six]
· Liz Smith says that "even serial killers would refuse to wear fashions" by John Richmond, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Yohji Yamamoto, [and] Vivienne Westwood. [Liz Smith]
· Recently fired right-wing talk show host Michael Savage threatened to sue Radar magazine over an article featuring a letter he wrote to Allen Ginsberg in 1970 with vaguely homoerotic subtext. So far: all talk; no action. [NY Daily News]