– Ashton Kutcher made $24 million last year. Sure, it’s not entirely from Two and a Half Men. (After all, he only gets $700,000 per episode). The rest is savvy tech investments, but still. That like seven Lena Dunham books!
– Remember how ex-Housewife Jill Zarin was like “I didn’t even want to be Read More
- Lady Gaga had dinner last night with Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian embassy in London. Now there is a couple that makes some sort of sense in this crazy, mixed-up world.
- The New Yorker Festival this weekend brought out Lena Dunham, if that was any sort of surprise.
- Good job Read More
Ron Howard fits snugly in the category of people and things that are loved unreservedly, along with pita chips, Gchat and money. So it was not especially surprising that his Tuesday-night event at the Museum of Natural History was attended happily by many a New Yorker and one ex-Real Housewife.
The occasion was the premiere of When You Find Me, a film Mr. Howard produced and his daughter, Bryce Dallas Howard, directed. Read More
Now that Bravo has officially given the axe to Real Housewives of New York Alex McCord, Jill Zarin, Kelly Bensimon, and Cindy Barshop , the rumor treadmill is already up and burning its morning calories over who the new school of classy ladies will be. New York Daily News has already fingered Kennedy-by-association Carole Radziwill, along with Yummie Tummie designer Heather Thomson and philanthropist Aviva Drescher. Read More
Stop the presses! Four of the ladies from Bravo’s The Real Housewives of New York City have been cut from the new season, so Alex McCord, Kelly Bensimon, Jill Zarin, and Cindy Barshop will no longer be around to air all their crazy drama and terrible brand image over the airwaves (unless they, like Bethenny Frankel, get a spin-off show). That leaves only two of the original NYC‘ers in the cast, Countess LuAnn de Lesseps and Ramona Singer. Also avoiding the chopping block is Sonja Morgan who is bankrupt, which is a known requirement for being on a Housewives show.
But the real tragedy will not be losing these four women — who we’re sure will be replaced by equally entertainingly desperate social-climbers — but the lack of Simon van Kempen, who has been the best part of the show since its inception. Read More
Wednesday, July 20
Pugh Foundation
The Met’s Alexander McQueen wingding is due to close soon (Who’d have guessed that the summer’s biggest blockbuster would feature weird shape-shifting metallic entities, but not be the Transformers sequel?!), and we need a new British avante-garde type to turn the female shape into manic pointiness. Gareth Pugh it is! Read More
Dog lovers turned out in packs to Animal Fair magazine’s 10th Annual Paws for Fashion Show, benefiting the Humane Society of New York, at the M2 Ultra Lounge on Monday, July 22.
During a canine-centric fashion show featuring doggie designs by Oscar de la Renta, Roberto Cavalli, Marc Bouwer and others, Olympic fencers Tim Read More
ALBANY—It's a Tuesday lobby day, and State Senator Craig Johnson held a press conference with….a Real Housewife of New York City.
Jill Zarin, along with her daughter Allyson Shapiro appeared alongside Johnson to push for a bill that would ban Styrofoam products in schools.
The three high school students articulately made the case Read More
ALBANY—It’s a Tuesday lobby day, and State Senator Craig Johnson held a press conference with….a Real Housewife of New York City.
Jill Zarin, along with her daughter Allyson Shapiro appeared alongside Johnson to push for a bill that would ban Styrofoam products in schools.
The three high school students articulately made the case Read More
David Paterson’s appearance at a party in the Hamptons last summer just popped up on the show The Real Housewives of New York City last night.
The video is here.
The woman narrating the segment, cast member Jill Zarin, complains about the topic another cast member, Ramona Singer, raises with Paterson.
“She’s Read More
