What drama! What intrigue! What mystery! What emotion! Oh, sorry. I was just thinking about my trip home for Easter. Now where were we? Oh, right. The Hills. Yes. Spencer and Heidi are no more.
What's this, the weekend magazine of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch has pictured miscegenation in action, and the locals are outraged! Imagine this photo, where your kids could see. Let's explore the comments, shall we? Yes:
We know that everything to do with work is especially stressful right now, and we hate to throw a new dilemma into the mix, but there's a disturbing debate currently taking place: Job insecurity is supposedly causing an epidemic of sucking up to the boss. But is brown-nosing in the office a good idea—or not?
Bernie Madoff didn't just screw over the members of the Palm Beach Country Club. He also managed to ruin more than a few families who belong to the North Shore Country Club on Long Island. A third of its members have had to cancel their $16,000-a-year memberships, the club is now laying off staff, and it may be forced to shut down entirely if it doesn't find an investor. [NYP]
It's never a good sign when a club closes down and no one notices (or cares), nor is it especially encouraging that a venue that once boasted about its long list of celebrity investors is forced to announce the news with a homemade sign taped to the door. It isn't clear why The Plumm closed its doors a few days ago. (Some sort of "legal problem," apparently.) But if it falling off the radar screen a few years ago has led to financial problems, co-owner Noel Ashman might want to take a page from Nikki Beach in Midtown, which seems to have come up with a surefire way to stay alive during the economic downturn: It's now hosting swinger parties for "sexy couples" and single women. Be advised, gentlemen: No leather pants with unbuttoned silk shirts, please.
Here's the spoiler: Mr. Petit says he will perform a high-wire walk in the fall in Midtown Manhattan. It will be high, it will be long, and it will be outdoors in a very recognizable location that he does not want revealed quite yet - arrangements are not final.
A comedy gets a major cast, an HBO movie gets majorly political. A skater gets a reality show, as do many, many fashion people. Because they're so interesting! Everyone watches TV on the internet now, especially Lost.
That $40 million townhouse that Madonna is buying? The Observer dialed up a few brokers to get their thoughts on the deal, and no one had anything good to say, describing the property as "horribly located and atrociously overpriced." "It's one of the worst blocks in creation," said one. (The block is 81st Street between Lexington and Third.) "It might as well be on the moon in terms of a great townhouse location." [NYO, previously]
Gov. David Paterson will announce plans to introduce legislation to legalize same-sex marriage at a press conference on Thursday morning, reports the Times. It's probably not a good idea to go out and buy a fabulous new tux just yet, though. Stiff opposition in Albany is expected and "it could take months—even longer—before the bill makes its way through the appropriate committees and onto the floor of the Senate and the Assembly." [NYT]
Heidi Klum and Seal crossing the street with their kids in Soho ... Gisele Bundchen walking in the West Village ... Drew Barrymore leaving ABC Studios after a taping of Regis and Kelly ... Elisabeth Hasselbeck carrying son Taylor on her hip ... Agyness Deyn walking with a mystery man in Soho ... Zac Efron talking on a cell phone outside his hotel ... Kelly Ripa leaving a press event in the meatpacking district ... Liev Schreiber and Naomi Watts carrying their two kids in Soho ... and Beyonce and Jay-Z leaving the Waverly Inn after dinner.
