We couldn’t help but find headline maestro Matt Drudge’s recent headline a bit curious.  His truncation of the title above left our wandering minds to wonder what “box” is Jodie Foster on exactly?  And was the title’s double meaning a simple result of layout constraints, thereby rendering it a coincidence?  Or was Matt being a naughty little boy?  We think the latter. 

So we say to you Matt Drudge: Leave Britney Jodie alone!  Matt Drudge recently talked about professionalism.  Well speaking of professionalism, since when does a professional try to publicly out a lesbian?  Leave Britney Jodie alone!

Who will sell more records this weekend? Does anybody care?

Happy New Year to all our Jewish readers!  I am not Jewish….I am midwestern. (Yes, I realize there ARE some Jewish people in the midwest, I had just never met them).  I missed out on the Torah readings in my ”Bush-inspired” catechism classes.  Which means I really didn’t have a clue about any of this until I moved to NY (and, coincidentally befriended a holocaust surviver in my first week here).  It also meant I was pretty much the only one at the office yesterday.  (My consolation prize was “jeans day”).  That being said, I have several Jewish friends, and some that were kind enough to include me in their Rosh Hashanah dinner celebration last night, so as not to have me feeling completely left out.  Now, there was no confetti, noise makers, or champagne around to ring in the new year, but if being Jewish means you get to eat like we did, I have been seriously missing out. 

Here’s my new plan, which my boss, himself Jewish thinks would be hilarious.  I go to the Rabbi saying that I would like to convert to Judaism.  After going through the explanation of the seriousness of this request of mine he will ask me the reason I wish to be Jewish.  I will reply: “for the rugelach, kugel, and teiglach“.  I’m sorry if this offends anyone out there, but that shit is just so good.

Well, who the f@*k doesn’t know Wass Stevens!? Or rather, who hasn’t been rejected or admitted by him at one time or another at Marquee? Wass is the middle weight Brooklyn bomber who sports custom made Ron & Ron suits and runs the door at Marquee.  Always located on the left side of the door, (Rich Thomas works the right side), he relishes in his 30% acceptance rate, and 70/30 girl-guy ratio (sounds like he is running a school of higher education).  At Veruka, Wass was known as the highest paid doorman in New York City, and has certainly continued this trend at Marquee.

He has also been shot more times than 50 cent by disgruntled club rejectees over the past two decades.   And those Italian driving gloves you see him wearing?  Those are in case he has to break out his semi-pro boxing skills and take you to the matt!  Wass doesn’t mess around with his suits or his job.  Curiously you’ll NEVER see him inside Marquee enjoying the crowd or drinking, he’s ALWAYS at the door.  And you’ll NEVER get his age.  He’s said in different interviews that he is either in his 30s or refuses to give an age.  We are guessing 45ish…

So what does he do when he’s not working the door from 11pm-4am?  He’s an actor of course.  You may have been a surprised as we were when we saw him in World Trade Center, playing the brother of a Transit Cop (Nicholas Cage).  We don’t know what his character said throughout the entire film because everytime he opened his mouth the only words we heard were ”three bottle minimum!”

We know our Tinsley posts are getting rather old but we couldn’t resist.  It’s a slow Friday and well…just look at her.  WHEN is she going to realize she’s a 30+ year old grown woman?  This is the ensemble she choose to wear to Carolina Hererra’s show, which means in one week she pretended she was a 5 year old ballerina and an 11 year old school girl.  If these are the outfits she’s wearing to attend stylish public gatherings, we are curious to see what she has in her “personal costume” collection…

[Byrdie Bell, Olivia Palermo, Zac Posen]

Even after his highly anticipated fashion show got sub par reviews (the NY Times said “Just about everything was off”, there was “pointless details” like “prairie frou-frou” and that Posen was “out of his hood“), the 27 year old designer who is set to be the next Marc Jacobs, still proved he was loved by anyone that matters.  His after party was at D’OR underneath Amalia last friday and he was ROCKIN’ IT, with both the rockstars and the Socialites (above with Byrdie Bell and Olivia Palmero):

Posen rocking out with the band Stylofone…maybe he picked the wrong career?

[photos courtosy of Rob Rich]

Lately everyone has been talking about Gossip Girl, the new show debuting on the CW Wednesday nights this fall.  It is based on the popular novel series by Cecily von Ziegesar and is set to be the new OC of the East coast.  It will revolve around the lives of socialite young adults growing up on the Upper east side.  We for one can not WAIT to watch how they manage to portray the dramas of this elitist crew that we know all too well.  It brings us back to the rainy afternoon last Spring where we were forced to share a cab uptown with one of them.  She was a private schooler around 16 and just getting done with her “sample makeup do” for prom…which was still two months away.  She had 5 dresses already to choose from including a Cavalli and Klein though was getting “bored with them all”.  Which is why we are well aware that any show portraying these specimens will undoubtedly have some fine fashion (the dialogue will most likely be annoying yet you’ll laugh because it will be familiar).

In comes designer Eric Daman (former assistant costume designer and stylist on Sex and the City) who apparently has based the character’s outfit choices based around such NY socialites as Tinsley Mortimer and Lydia Hearst-Shaw. 

An insider tipped us to one of the designers who’s Spring line will be debuting on the show.  Her name is Abigail Lorick and her new Lorick New York line looks to be the real thing.  Once a Ford model herself, Abigail’s line looks fresh and original.  We will be doing further research on the young designer as her career unfolds. In the meantime: “Look for Modern Manners and Dressing with Style and Ease as Lorick Collection premiers in Spring of 2008″

As for Gossip Girl?  We’re pretty sure it will just be so-so as far as story line.  However, if the producers can manage to stick with their promise of the city being the only backdrop (scenes will all only be filmed in NY), and keep up on cutting fashion, we think it will be a hit, even without the brozned surfers running around.

[Photo from NY Mag]

Mayor Mike Bloomberg (pictured above) likes food…he just knows when to stop eating and wishes that you would too.

Yesterday, Federal Judge Richard J. Howell threw out the rule that would make NY fast food restaurants post their calories up, a rule that Mayor Bloomberg has been so keen on passing he is already working on ammending the ruling. “Anyone who thinks we’re going to walk away from trying to tell the public what they’re eating and what it’s doing to them doesn’t understand the obligation this city’s Health Department has.” (from ny mag). So maybe Bloomberg is a little off his rocker on this one, but we are still on his side. Maybe if this law passed here, it would motivate more cities around our country to follow and we wouldn’t have such fat asses everywhere.

Seriously, enough is enough. Whenever we have an occasional cigarette we have to put up with hearing people bitch at us for being retardarded, this after having to stare at a blatant reminder on the pack that we are, in fact killing ourselves. We have to see billboards and listen to campaigns all the time about how alcohol, drugs, cigarettes and sex will destroy us, and yet the fact of the matter is, more people are dying of obesity related issues than ever before. 58 million Americans are overweight, 40 million are obese, and 3 million are “morbidly obese” (think Maury Povich shows with bed sores and cranes). 8 out of 10 of American’s over 25 are overweight, and we don’t even want to look up the statistics on the rise of child obesity because it will ruin our morning. There is absolutely no more excuses. Obsese people need to shape up…literally.

We want everyone to know what they are placing in their bodies at all times, just as a smoker would. The arguement that these places already have the information out there available (online, etc.) is not a valid one. Obviously the people that are in the most need of this aren’t the types that are being pro-active on their own about information regarding food. What a great city we live in that our mayor cares enough to try and promote guilt trips in ourselves to better our health.

…And he’s starting with his very own facebook profile.

Please find him and become his friend (he’s lonely)

Stanley Stuyvesant is the name.  Ruff!

[Photo courtesy of NY Mag]

This is what Tinsley Mortimer chose to wear to the Just Cavalli Flagship Boutique Store Opening. We would love to just pick her up and place her right on top of our cupcake. Why didn’t someone pull her aside and remind her that she wasn’t walking down the runway in the Betsey Johnson show nor the Heatherette one? This outfit belongs on 2 year olds ballerina birthday cake, not a woman in her late thirty’s.

Yesterday, writer Spencer Morgan from the New York Observer wrote about his time spend with the “Princesses of Prince St.”   Here are some our favorite take aways from the article…

So what goes on in this cramped little room in the wee small hours? Pillow fights? Endless boy talk?

“No, we don’t talk very much about boys, we have enough problem of our own,” she said.

Political discourse?

“No, we’re girls, we are not talking about politics,” she said. “Sometimes we talk about shows we have done. Every morning, we talk about what clothes to put on.”

Nice, way to give aspiring models something to look forward to…It continued:

Over on the couch sat Tanya Chubko, the oldest girl in the house at 20. She wore all black and was chain-smoking while playing solitaire on her laptop. Her red hair was pulled back, exhibiting those big blues Nastya so admires.

“I love New York, it’s totally my city, It’s not about clubbing or drinking, it’s all about people around you. Even on the street eating ice cream, you can have more fun than going to club getting drunk.”

From what we know about the models under 20 coming here and being cramped into apartments, this bit about not caring about “partying” is just laughable (see above photo).  Might as well do it while your young girls, and don’t try and cover it up with icecream-we know that’s bullshit too.