· Page Six rips Alex Kuczynski a new one over her mash note to Viggo Mortensen in January's Vanity Fair. [NY Post]
· Speaking of, Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter has supposedly sold a book to publishers FSG. The book, about the evils of the Bush administration, reportedly won't distract Mr. Carter from his long, late, smoky hours at the VF offices. [NY Mag]
· Sofia Coppola, writer and director of Lost in Translation, is confused as to why her film is doing well. "I think that everyone knows the feelings of longing... that you know is not going to last," she says, adding that she understands this success may well be a fluke and this time next year she could easily be washing windows for spare change. [Hollywood Reporter/Reuters]
· Set up that them there VCR, boy. The Arkansas town represented in Fox's Paris Hilton's reality show "The Simple Life" is gearing up for Hiltonmania. "The sex tape has nothing to do with Altus, has nothing to do with us," the mayor says. "I'm not going to judge people by their past achievements or faults. Always when they were with me they were friendly." [AP/ABC News]
· But perhaps the whole town doesn't agree: "I didn't like the way the girls ran around town, the way they were dressed and the way they acted," says Debbie Crabtree, 48, who works at Wiederkehr's Restaurant. "The young boys that work up at the restaurant, it was not a good influence on them. It was obvious they changed the way they acted when the girls came in." She added the boys were suddenly, by comparison, smarter and uglier than the heiresses. [NY Daily News]
· Miss Cleo, the former television psychic, is running into problems as a spokesperson for Fuse, the new un-VH1. Not only is her real name Youree, but it turns out that fellow spokesmodel Tammy Faye Messner (formerly Bakker) would rather talk to a dirty dirty porn star than a psychic. [NY Daily News]