Kelly Cutrone
Oh, Lowly Blogger? Your Seat's in the Back
For two years, Kelly Cutrone, the brash headmistress of public-relations firm People’s Revolution and frequent guest star on MTV’s The Hills, has banned Julie Fredrickson, editor in chief of Coutorture.com, from her fashion shows. In a well-publicized incident that was covered from MSNBC to MediaBistro.com, Ms. Fredrickson said she quietly asked Vogue editor in chief Anna Wintour if she could get a video interview at Costello Tagliapietra’s Fashion Week show in Bryant Park in September 2006. Ms. Wintour agreed, but after just two questions, “Kelly went apocalyptic on me and told me to get away from Anna immediately,” Ms. Fredrickson said. This is what happens when you are a blogger who crosses a publicist. read more »
So That's Why The Hills is a Snooze Fest; All the Good Stuff Happens Behind the Scenes!
For a "reality" show that's supposed to be all about drama, The Hills hasn't really encompassed much of it over the past few seasons. It seems like the juiciest footage we get is stuff like: Uh oh! Spencer and Heidi sort of broke up, but actually they really didn't! CRISIS! L.C. ruined some expensive dress she didn't have to pay for because she doesn't know how to work a curling iron! Audrina won't come out of that shack she got forced to live in after Lo stole all of her camera spotlight! Snore.
What ever happened to gratuitous post-teenage binge drinking sessions that lead to crazy fights with blonde girls calling each other whores and fratty dudes giving each other bloody noses with their fists? Isn't that what reality TV is supposed to be all about?
Apparently on The Hills, the new season of which premieres on MTV on Aug. read more »
Morning Memo: MTV Rejects Tinsley Mortimer; Anne Hathaway Cuts Loose
MTV reportedly shot a reality show featuring socialite Tinsley Mortimer, but the project was killed because she just got dressed and went out to parties every day. [P6]
Kelly Cutrone responded to The Observer's commenters' questioning of her age by scanning her driver's license. She is, in fact, 42-years-old as she had told Meredith Bryan. [The Cut]
Christie Brinkley went to New York Supreme Court yesterday to ask that her divorce from Peter Cook be made public. The documents reportedly contain details about Mr. Cook trolling porn and swinger websites for young women. [Access Hollywood]
Chuck Schumer will appear on Law and Order: Criminal Intent as himself on Sunday night. read more »
Lineup for June 18, 2008
Leon Neyfakh tracks the latest bookish fad: Picking up girls (or boys) using a galley: "This is what happens when someone reads a galley (a.k.a. ARC, or advance reading copy) in public: publishing people take notice and begin to wonder about certain things. There’s the galley’s provenance, of course. But what about its owner? Where does he work? Does she like the same things I do? Is he single?"
Felix Gillette looks back at the life and career of Tim Russert. "He was shrewd enough to make his shrewdness appealing. ('He was a ruthless guy,' one of Russert’s former coworkers told The Observer. read more »
Dark Angel of The Hills
The viewers of MTV’s wildly popular kind-of reality show The Hills, which will begin airing its fourth season in August, first glimpsed fashion publicist Kelly Cutrone in season one, when series star Lauren Conrad was dispatched by her boss at Teen Vogue to procure 11th-hour tickets to a fashion show being produced by Ms. Cutrone’s company, People’s Revolution.
“They said, ‘Don’t make it hard, but don’t make it easy,’” recalled Ms. Cutrone, 42, on a recent evening, sipping cabernet and working her way through a three-tiered antipasti platter at the Soho Grand (where, as the hotel’s former publicist, she eats for free). read more »
