Stevie Wonder - Part Time Lover

Whitney Jefferson · 11/11/09 12:00PM

This music video throws together some of our favorite things: awkward situations, New York City skylines, 80's color schemes, and of course Stevie Wonder himself.

Angelina Jolie: Hero to the (Syrian) People

cityfile · 11/11/09 11:33AM

Angelina Jolie has picked the latest far-flung country from which she plans to pluck another child. And the winner is Syria! According to OK!, which first broke the news of Jolie's latest acquisition, Brad Pitt has decided to sit this one out, since he thinks six kids is plenty. But the people of Syria sure are thrilled!

The Best of DOS Adventure Video Games

Anderson Evans · 11/11/09 11:01AM

Were you one of the proud few indulging in DOS adventure games in the late 80's and early 90's? Here's a video collection of some of the great moments in adventure games, from Leisure Suit Larry to Monkey Island 2.

Spotted

cityfile · 11/11/09 10:30AM

Anne Heche taking a walk with her nine-month-old son Atlas ... Kate Winslet picking her kids up from school ... Michael Douglas and Shia LaBeouf walking on the set of Wall Street 2 in Battery Park ... Rihanna arriving at JFK before catching a flight to Europe ... David Duchovny walking down Third Avenue this morning in sunglasses and sweatpants ... Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes walking on the set of The Romantics on Long Island ... Hugh Jackman picking up daughter Ava from school ... Anna Paquin walking on the gym on Long Island ... Emily Blunt filming scenes for The Adjustment Bureau ... Sienna Miller walking her dog downtown ... and Gerard Butler standing next to his bike downtown.

Martin Scorsese — 

Gabriel Snyder · 11/11/09 10:03AM

explaining why he doesn't read newspapers at the book party for Harry Evans' My Paper Chase: True Stories of Vanished Times, to Daily Intel. (For what it's worth, he doesn't like computers or BlackBerrys either.)

Standard Hotel: Too Sexy for Its Own Good, Perhaps

cityfile · 11/11/09 09:54AM

All that unbridled sexual energy at the Standard has a downside, it seems. A guest staying at the hotel was arrested on Saturday after he forced himself on a maid and has since been charged with attempted rape, sexual abuse and unlawful imprisonment. Needless to say, when the hotel was informing guests that the Standard was "all about sex all the time" and "you're our star," this wasn't quite what they had in mind. [NYP]

Washington Lobbyists Land on Lower Fifth

cityfile · 11/11/09 09:04AM

• Washington power lobbyists and Democratic insiders Tony and Heather Podesta have been busy bees since Barack Obama was elected last fall. According to a report earlier this week, the couple's separate lobbying firms have racked up $25 million in fees thus far in 2009. Now they're spending some of their earnings, it seems: The couple has picked up New York pied-à-terre, paying $3.247 million for a sixth-floor apartment at the Sohmer Piano Building at 170 Fifth Avenue. [Cityfile]
• Four months after it was pulled off the market, the Sloane Mansion on 68th Street has a new listing and a new broker. The 104-year-old mansion, which was purchased by bankers Joseph Ingrassia and John Rice III for $20 million in 2007 and was offered for $64 million last year, is now in the hands of Corcoran's Leighton Candler. And it's almost half the price it was a year ago. The new listing has it priced at $39 million. [NYO, Corcoran]
• A one-bedroom co-op at the Sherry-Netherland has gone on the market for $9.5 million with Brown Harris Stevens broker Richard Wallgren. [NYO]