Vanity Fair's John Heilpern invited Eliot Spitzer out to lunch recently. Given VF's apparently recession-proof budget, the Spitz could have proposed feasting on a giant platter of caviar at the Four Seasons. Did he? No, he did not:

June 10 @ 8pm Eating At the Yama Sushi at 49th and 2nd. The guy she's with doesn't look too happy... Click to see the cell phone snap! [Submit your own Gawker Stalker sightings to stalker@gawker.com]

Hey, kiddo. Stop your crying. We know you were worried that Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick lost everything to Bernie Madoff, because it sounded really bad. But now Kyra's spoken publicly about it, and they're gonna be just fine.

To make up for employing Sean Delonas, News Corp. is forming a "diversity community council" to rubber-stamp bland statements affirming the company's commitment to non-white individuals, or whatever. Which frees up Sean Delonas to expose NObama as an Arabian terrorist!

Real estate mogul Harry Macklowe made the worst business decision of his life in 2007 when he agreed to spend $7.25 billion to acquire a collection of office buildings in Midtown controlled by Steve Schwarzman's Blackstone Group. (Blackstone had acquired the buildings in 2006 as part of its buyout of Sam Zell's Equity Office Properties.) It's been a long, hard road for Macklowe since then. Creditors have since reclaimed 11 of the properties that Macklowe's real estate firm once controlled, including the iconic GM Building and, as of last week, Worldwide Plaza. The Observer surveys the carnage today, if you're interested in reading about Macklowe's misery in more detail. The good news, if there is any, is that Macklowe hasn't had to sit at his desk and watch his empire unravel over the past few months. He handed over control of the firm to son Billy Macklowe last year, so Billy's been the one with that super-fun job. [NYO]

We get some exciting news about horses today, and some not so exciting news about a zombie movie. Being upset about a zombie movie is like crying on Christmas, I know. But sometimes it happens.

Warren St. John, the dreamy NYT reporter and author of incongruous 'Bama football book Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer, has a heartwarming new book about refugee soccer players that is a smash hit. Why won't his own paper review it?

This summer, when you spot yet another New Yorker vamping around in a pair of perfectly round glasses these are the people you should blame for turning our city into a perpetual Harry Potter lookalike contest: Malian photographer Malick Sidibé, John Lennon and the cast of Hair. At least those are the suspects Eric Wilson IDs in a typically absurdist, slightly loveable Styles section story about why Marc Jacobs, Proenza Schouler, Ralph Lauren, Zegna, Lanvin and others have suddenly started pushing sunglasses your dad thought were cool circa 1968.

So before airing his hot-knife-in-the-buttocks takedown of the New York Times as old and slow on the Daily Show last night, Jason Jones was forced to give an interview to the NYT. It was not a fair fight.

As we learn more about Don Broderick, the Fox News staffer who's accused of dragging a cyclist through Central Park, it sounds like he fits the tradition of Fox News' affinity for angry white men.

["Twilight" star Robert Pattinson in a New York cab; image via INF]

Today we have an actor flagrantly (and fragrantly) doing drugs, a Real Housewife who got drunk and inappropriate (shocking!), and two warring actresses who fought over a talk show.

This is not turning into a very good week for New York City's nascent pedicab industry. A pedicab speeding down the bike lane of the Williamsburg Bridge crashed into a taxi cab yesterday, injuring the driver and two of his three passengers. ("We were telling him to 'Slow down! Slow down! Stop!' But he just kept going," says one of the people inside.) In a totally unrelated incident yesterday, a "confused" pedicab driver was arrested by Port Authority cops after he tried to peddle through the Lincoln Tunnel. The driver, who was arrested for trespassing, explained to officers that he knew he wasn't allowed to enter the tunnel, but he'd gotten "lost." Makes sense! Remember that time you were casually strolling down Tenth Avenue and you suddenly realized you were in Hoboken? It must have been just like that. [NYT, NYDN]

According to a Bahamian police report taken in February after his son Jett's death last year, Travolta acknowledged in his own words that "Jett suffered from a seizure disorder and was autistic." That's a big no-no in Scientology.

Sick of haggling with an uncooperative union as an irretrievably dying paper loses more money every day, the New York Times Co. has hired an investment bank to sell off the Boston Globe. Buyers: ignore the preceding sentence. Great opportunity!

The two words that most befuddle New York Times readers: saturnine and solipsistic. [Nieman Lab]

Alessandra Ambrosio leaving Bar Pitti with daughter Anja Louise ... Penn Badgley talking on his cell phone in the Village ... Jessica Biel dropping off a package at a FedEx ... Beyonce leaving JFK ... Whitney Port eating lunch in the West Village ... Kathy Griffin leaving her hotel in Midtown ... Ashley Olsen walking downtown ... Heather Locklear arriving at JFK with boyfriend Jack Wagner ... Robert Pattinson getting in a taxi ... Kate Hudson leaving her West Village home with son Ryder ... Rihanna going to a Black Eyed Peas concert at The Griffin ... Alec Baldwin drinking coffee with a friend in Bridgehampton ... Sarah Jessica Parker eating breakfast at Morandi ... John Stamos wandering around ... Hugh Grant leaving a downtown restaurant with a "mystery woman" ... Jeff Goldblum and Rachel McAdams hanging out on the set of Morning Glory ... Gerard Butler walking around ... Nick Jonas arriving at LaGuardia ... and Jessica Simpson going to dinner at La Esquina.

Are you a resident of New York City? If you answered 'yes,' have you passed away in the last two months? Surely you have. Look to your left. Look to your right. Both of those people have swine flu!

• Billionaire financier John Paulson has finally unloaded his house in Southampton, albeit for about $10 million less than he'd hoped to sell it for. The 7,000-square-foot home, which Paulson picked up for $12.75 million in 2006 and put up for sale for $19.5 million in 2008 before later dropping the price twice, just sold to an anonymous buyer for $9.99 million. [NYP]
• Karen and David Fleiss are cutting prices again at 1030 Fifth Avenue. The couple, who have tried just about everything to sell the 16-room duplex they first listed for $47.5 million last June (including dividing the apartment in two), have reduced the price of the bottom-floor unit from $11 million to $9.95 million. [Cityfile, PDE, previously]
• Now that she's no longer with the Count, "Real Housewife" LuAnn de Lesseps has moved out of the couple's rented townhouse on East 62nd Street. She's currently staying at her Bridgehampton place where she's supposedly "contemplating her next real estate move." [NYP]

How much does it cost to take the sting out of commuting around New York? $144,014. That's how much Senator Chuck Schumer spent between October 2008 and March 2009 on travel, more than any Senator but one. (Republican John Cornyn of Texas spent more, after dragging 59 of his staffers to a retreat in St. Michaels, Maryland). According to Politico.com, Schumer took 25 chartered flights to various locations around New York State, most within 30 minutes of an international airport, at $1,000 to $7,000 a trip, running up a travel tab that's ten times more than some of his colleagues.