· Actor Mark Ruffalo does extreme nude scene in upcoming Meg Ryan flick; now known as Mark Buffalo. [NY Daily News]
· Paris and Britney give up panties, stock up on Monostat-7. [Daily News]
· Celebrities paid to attend fashion shows. Models and stylists and journalists? Also paid. At fashion week, everyone has a job to do. [NY Post]
· In other shocking news, Tara Reid dresses like a tranny hooker. [People]
Craig — the Craig, of Craigslist, the man who brought you those horrifying Missed Connections — needs your help. While reading The Devil Wears Prada, he noticed that the main character (who is Not Author Lauren Weisberger) sublets her apartment on Craigslist (for a profit, natch). Craig would love to know if this actually happened; please drop us a line with any insights at tips@gawker.com. (We're happily assuming he wants to confirm this so he can ban Ms. Weisberger from Craigslist forever.)
The Devil Wears Prada, or seems to post on craigslist [Craig Newmark]
Last week's Week in Craig [Black Table]
· Warning: Bennifer may still be one. National nightmare prolonged. [NY Daily News]
· Fashion week report: a stoned Woody Harrelson watches model Gisele Bundchen table dance. A suit-clad dwarf, speaking backwards, beckons them into another dimension. [NY Post]
· Drunk Alec Baldwin ready to be gay. Gays toss him back. [NY Mag]
· Laid-off Star/Bonnie Fuller employees had their ages revealed publicly at termination; lawsuit planned. Fired journalists band together as enraged feminist advocacy group "Bonnie's Angels." [Cindy Adams]
· David Bowie did some drugs, can't remember anything. [NY Post]
Manhattan Henry Higgins wanted for utterly retarded California frat boy: "You get a weekly salary in exchange for being my wingman, my social secretary, my party planner, my personal assistant, etc. [...] We would throw one upscale dinner/cocktail party every week and one larger party every month. You would be very well connected in the NYC social scene (i.e., access to model parties, benefits, VIP access to clubs, know lots of beautiful people, etc.) and it would basically be your job to build my superficial NYC social life in exchange for a generous salary."
Social Secretary [Craigslist]
Sightings are sent in by readers; send yours to tips@gawker.com
· Bennifer pal: "Sooner or later, they're going to use that dress and those rings." Yeah, hopefully to asphyxiate each other. [NYDN]
· David Letterman to spawn. [NY Post]
· Elton John raffles off the contents of his London house. Screaming rent boys cling to leopard-skin furniture. [MSN]
· Alias star Jennifer Garner to appear in CIA recruiting video. Will and Grace star Debra Messing to appear in interior decorator recruiting video. Cast of Friends to appear in white supremacist recruiting video. [MSN]
Dartmouth Sigma Delta sorority girl and Believer editor Heidi Julavits' plan to keep the literary world clean and polite is a big sloppy mess. Her Snarkwatch campaign — sort of the suburban Neighborhood Watch program of the literary world — is attracting submissions, but, well, they suck. Fabulously ironically, original snark victim Rick Moody was one of the first to submit to Snarkwatch, in an elegantly worded but bizarre criticism of a James Fenton review.
Some of you may be interested to know that we've collected sweepings of Gawker founding editor Elizabeth Spiers' hair and toenails from Gawker HQ. They will be available on Ebay; preemptive offers considered.
A Brief History of Elizabeth Spiers [Felix Salmon]
Spiers bidding war [Boing Boing]
Gawker in the Spotlight [MemeFirst]
Gawker to Launch Gawker LA [Adrants]
Sqawking 'Bout Gawker [Gothamist]
Hothouse [Frankenstein]
Gawker Stalker sightings are provided by readers. Send yours to tips@gawker.com.
· Uma's giant brothers to kick Cheatin' Ethan's ass. Fight proposed for 3:30 p.m., after 8th period, behind the cafeteria. [People News]
· Bennifer may have cancelled their wedding, but nothing can stop the sapphic freight train that is Melissa Etheridge's Malibu wedding this weekend. But back to Ben-Jen: there are reports, it should be noted, that the yucksters were married on the 7th. A violinist claims to have played in their string quartet. Yeah right, like they had a string quartet. [NY Post]
· After an early 70s California earthquake, a broke Arnold Schwarzenegger and friend posed as European bricklayers. While "estimating" repair jobs, they'd damage the houses so they'd actually have something to repair. This experience is not at all dissimilar to the manufacturing of California's energy shortage situation: perhaps Mr. Schwarzenegger is actually uniquely qualified to be California Governor. [Kausfiles]
We're disturbed by how many of you have requested information on Britney Spears' tattoos after seeing her slanchy Rolling Stone photos today. According to Ruben at the World of Britney, "I asked my friend Brandon about Britney's tattoo that she has below her stomach, and he said that it's a flower with a Chinese symbol in the middle, and the Chinese symbol stands for 'Mysterious.'" Mysterious. Flower. Below her stomach. How symbolically confusing.
The Tattoo Britney Has Below Her Stomach [World of Britney]
Britney Spears Rolling Stone Cover [Stereogum]
Here at Gawker, we look up to so few people — and look down on so many. Very rarely, however, we are impressed, and we can't help but scream at our cowering assistants: is someone perhaps bitchier than us? Greg Lindsay, writing yesterday in Women's Wear Daily, is one such exemplar of bitchitude. In an item on Gawker and the glamorous career of its founding editor Elizabeth Spiers, he insinuates that Ms. Spiers was fired from Gawker (untrue), and that, furthermore, "Spiers," he writes, "is 'on vacation' [from Gawker] in the offices of New York magazine..." Yeah, kind of like New York's Intelligencer column co-byline said on Monday, scoop. Mr. Lindsay also took the time to snark upcoming Gawker Media projects porn website Fleshbot and Gawker LA as "socially redeeming." God, we certainly hope not.
Gawker Hawker [Buzz Machine on WWD]
· Party Monster, the story of murderous clubkid Michael Alig, is evidently a filmic horror to behold. Finally, downtown Manhattan gets its own Showgirls. [NY Post]
· Alleged war criminal Henry Kissinger parties with TV hostess and former Talk editor "Downtown" Tina Brown. We can't imagine that drinks weren't thrown at Tina's house: the political mix included a Baldwin, Lewis Lapham (whose Harper's published Christopher Hitchens' "The Case Against Henry Kissinger" in 2001), and a Gore. What the hell did they talk about all night, sports? [Daily News]
· Oprah makes Madonna cry in taping of upcoming show. Please. We all know Madge bought those tears from some third-world ragamuffin. [People News]
Gawker Stalker sightings are provided by readers. Send yours to tips@gawker.com.
· Professional probationist Winona Ryder has been ousted from Woody Allen's next film. Like a teen drunk driver mucking up her parents' insurance, Ms. Ryder's five-fingered lifestyle would have trashed Mr. Allen's completion insurance. [NY Post]
· Ron Galotti, the inspiration for Sex and The City's Mr. Big, has lots of free time on his hands since recently leaving his position as GQ's publisher. Now he's ripe to write a tell-all. But how much all could there really be to tell? He totally did SATC progenitor Candace Bushnell. The end. [NY Daily News]
· New Star publisher Bonnie Fuller is allegedly driving her office crazy with last-minute deadlines, indecisions, and second-guessings. Depending on who you ask, sales are up or down. Bonnie couldn't be reached for comment: inside sources say she was performing an analysis of her shar-pei's response to hideous garish neon colors for upcoming magazine covers.
· Madonna evidently craves Gina Gershon's part in the big-deal forthcoming West Memphis Three movie. That's crazy talk. Anyone in Hollywood will tell you that Gina would totally slice Madonna's face without a second thought. [People News]
On Sunday, we noticed an intriguing Craigslist ad. This ad, allegedly placed by the assistant of a Manhattan-based female celebrity, was a call for men to be hired for the unnamed celebrity's on-call gigolo harem. We wondered: what sort of man applies for this position? We are pleased to report that the ad's poster was thoughtful enough to forward one of her favorite responses to us for our edification.
Finally, an online dating service with the suave stylings of a WB reality show. At the newly-launched Vanity Date — whose slogan should be "As Cruel As Actual Dating" — members must either be rated a 7.0 on the hot scale or be "talented" and bring home more than 200K a year. "At Vanity Date we have a vision of creating a database of the world's most good looking, rich and superficial people we could muster," the site proudly states. Don't dive headfirst into this dating pool, you'll break your neck even in the deep end. In fact, browsing the site is quite comparable to spending a Saturday night in TriBeCa.
Vanity Date
· Magician David Blaine, just beginning his 44-day fast in a plexiglass box suspended over the Thames, is being kept awake by partying Londoners. Blaine has been pelted by eggs and fish, and been golfed at, taunted, and flashed. Fortunately for him, as a faster Mr. Blaine has the perseverance — and political relevance — of Ghandi. [People News]
· Over-publicized anti-publishing cracktard outfit the Underground Literary Alliance are coming to town to coincide with the New Yorker Festival. Perhaps they will drop acid at Dave Eggers sold-out Friday night Bowery Ballroom reading and atttempt to scratch his demonic glowing eyes out. [NY Post]
· Patty Hearst's teen daughter Lydia to make revolutionary chic catwalk debut during fashion week. She'll rob your hearts — but it'll be against her will. [NY Mag]
· Harvey Weinstein is sitting on exclusively-contracted Chicago director Rob Marshall. [Daily News]
I spent most of my free time last week brainstorming the right word to describe straight downtown rocker guys who, although sensitive, will never become metrosexuals. Now it seems I was shortsightedly forgetting another very important New York market. A reader writes in: "Everyone keeps talking about metrosexuals, but what about the stromos? Am I the only one who has noticed all the cute gay guys in the East Village masquerading as straight hipsters? If it weren't for the telling hip swivel, a girl could go seriously astray." Spread that word, people: I want it in the OED by 2005.
