Reality TV star Donald Trump was on Letterman tonight braying about how much he loves pageant broads and how Carrie Prejean was crucified on a wooden cross just like Jesus because mean people hate her for being so damn hot.

With McKinsey digging around at Conde Nast, it makes sense that quite a few people are shaking in their Chanel boots, one of which may be Anna Wintour now that the consultants are reportedly "taking an early look" at Vogue.

If the city of Los Angeles hadn't already earned its insufferability wings, it's about to! Curbed reports that the West Hollywood city council has approved plans for a West Coast Soho House outpost, and the neighbors are not pleased. [Curbed]

Have you seen the insane video of a woman yelling "Heil Hitler" at an Israeli-Jew who supports health care reform at a recent town hall meeting in Vegas? Well, her name is Pam Pilger. She's on Facebook.

Julia Allison has signed a yearlong deal to make commercials for Sony. Let there be no doubt: This is a major coup for the fame-hungry "lifecaster." There, we said it.

Dr. Conrad Murray, Michael Jackson's personal physician and the man authorities believe injected him with a lethal dose of the surgical anesthetic Diprivan, issued a message late this afternoon to his supporters on YouTube.

Yesterday we learned about socialgay Kristian Laliberte being "assaulted" by some mouth-breathing straight for unknown reasons over the weekend, inspiring Laliberte to paint himself as the gay Rosa Parks. Now we know why it happened: Laliberte stole the guy's booze!

• Agyness Deyn isn't bidding goodbye to NYC, after all. But her little sister's moved in with her. [Grazia]
• Just before he died, Michael Jackson was supposedly in talks to launch a clothing line with Christian Audigier. Naturally, the slight turn of events isn't putting Audigier off from moving ahead with a Jackson-themed line. [MSNBC, SW]
• In news that will be of precious little value to you, Rachel Zoe's QVC collection is hitting Fashion Week this year; Kenny Chesney is launching a line of clothing; and some company is under the impression the public wants a collection of Desperate Housewives-inspired perfumes.
• Betsey Johnson chats with PlumTV about her retirement plans. [PlumTV]

Gothamist took aim, Felix Salmon took a swipe and Jason Linkins took stock. The Twitterati were on the receiving end.

[In Union Square today, Skye Mazur found one of the few cool places in New York City today to play with her hula hoop; pic via Getty]

We are actually super-excited for this: Oliver Stone is creating a "10-part documentary series for Showtime titled 'Secret History of America.'" A ten-hour Oliver Stone history of America! Can you imagine how crazy wonderful this will be?

Remember the Unspiked Files? We had almost forgotten, too! It's where we reprint worthy pieces killed by editors. Today, we have a first: a comic! Specifically, Eli Valley's Too-Hot-for-The-Forward comic comparing chimps and Israelis, metaphorically speaking.

Unalloyed xenophobic rage presents a challenge similar to one posed by habitual lying—just as it's hard to keep up with one's own falsehoods, it's difficult to remember whether shouting "Heil Hitler!" at a Jew is good or bad.

Hero Milwaukee mayor Tom Barrett should be released from the hospital soon, after being totally smashed up by a baton-wielding thug at the state fair after Barrett stepped in to quell a disturbance. Well guess who loves him, too? Obama!

• Not surprisingly, the prospect of a TGI Friday's opening across from the Greenmarket in Union Square has provoked all sorts of outrage. [Eater]
• On a related note (and notwithstanding the economic downturn), chain stores are rapidly expanding across the city, in case you haven't noticed. [NYT]
• Magnolia Bakery, coming off the heels of a minor scandal at its West Village location, reports that it's opening a Grand Central location this fall. [VV]
• Places to eat in the Hamptons should you happen to be on a budget. [Zagat]

Google is such an insult to French national pride that the country is pumping $153 million of government money into building a competitor to the search engine. And then the national library went and struck a deal with the enemy.

Westin Hotels had a media event in Times Square today celebrating their new survey showing that 51% of US travelers "prefer a great night's sleep to great sex." Shit. Two percent difference and there woulda been fuckin' in Times Square.

Ok, there weren't evil hate-mongering, gospel-singing homophobes cashing in on Manhunt, like we originally reported. As for the site's new redesign, Manhunt's CEO hates it as much as everyone else.

Barack Obama backing off (or maybe not?) the public option is either the death of health care reform or yet another of this month's distractions from what is actually still a very viable bill. We lay out both cases, below.

Giuseppe Cipriani hasn't been seen on U.S. soil since last December, either because he suspects he may end up in handcuffs if he returns, or because he's been "exploring new business ventures" in far-off locales for the past nine months or so. But just because he isn't physically present—and has left his family's crumbling hospitality empire in the (undoubtedly) capable hands of his teenage sons—doesn't mean you're not allowed to give his (undoubtedly) overworked attorney another headache to deal with. Cipriani, his father Arrigo, and their collection of NYC-based companies, were slapped with (another) class action lawsuit this week by a former employee who claims he was stiffed on wages and never compensated for his overtime work. The suit, which is probably now sitting atop a giant tower of legal paperwork on Cipriani's lawyer's desk, is below.