Morning Memo: Scarlett Johnansson Slights Bouncer; Chace Crawford Lives Like a Pig; Travis Barker and DJ AM Expected to Recover

Scarlett Johansson informed a photo-seeking bouncer at Lower East Side bar National Underground that she is "not the Statue of Liberty." [

Investors in Vanity Fair editor and Waverly Inn owner Graydon Carter‘s new Monkey Bar include John Goldwyn, Ronald Perelman, Jerry Weintraub, Jean Pigozzi, and Bryan Lourd. [P6]

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At Big Time 100 Bash, Rupert Murdoch Plays it Cool

Rupert Murdoch was standing in a deep corner of the Rose Hall at about 7:30 p.m. last night to toast his fellow influencers: It was the Time 100 celebration, an event that drums up publicity for the magazine’s decreasingly influential list of the 100 most influential people in the world.

The day before, Mr. Murdoch Read More

Dear David Plouffe: Please Make Obama More Like Mariah

On Monday, April 14, Mariah Carey—“incredibly well-funded, corporately polished,” according to the bitter pop music critic of the Chicago Sun-Times—was on Oprah, stumping for votes.

“Now Mariah didn’t get her new body just by eating artichokes,” said Oprah.

Cut to the video, Mariah at the pool in a black bodysuit.

Madge and Mariah Switch Beds

On Friday night at the Ritz, that trumped-up gay bar up in Hells Kitchen, something entirely too ordinary happened once too often: Madonna’s “Get Together” came on.

That’s the one that goes: “Can we get together? / I really, I really want to be with you.” (OMG, LOL, she’s so like deep.)

The Read More