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Beatrice Inn Patrons Not Happy About the Smoking Crackdown (BTW, You Still Can't Get In)

Thu, 15 Jan 2009 11:02:47 -0500

The Beatrice Inn has never been easy to penetrate. And so BlackBook decided to check in with two anonymous twenty-something Beatrice Inn patrons about the perpetually impossible door policy.

When asked about possible strategies for getting in, the male Beatrice Inn-goer confidently declared that being Kirsten Dunst is one way to ensure entry. Meanwhile, the female patron said, "There is no strategy. Just be confident. The doormen can smell fear."

We also learned that...

Eugene Jarecki, Danny Glover Are Cautiously Optimistic About Barack Obama

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:03:19 -0500

"The first thing is, we don't all live here," director Andrew Jarecki explained while introducing a short talk by his brother Eugene to the small crowd gathered in his mother Gloria's Upper East Side apartment on Wednesday night. The celebration was in honor of Eugene's recently released The American Way of War, a book about the American military-industrial complex (he also directed a documentary, 2005's Why We Fight, on the subject). In addition to...

Kirsten Dunst is Playing Journalist in North Dakota Today

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 12:44:14 -0500

In September, Kirsten Dunst told Harper's Bazaar that she was working on a film about election day called Why Tuesday? as the first project for her new company Wooden Spoon Productions, which she formed over the summer.

Our understanding was that the film would be something packaged for an election week or day release. But according to the Associated Press, Ms. Dunst is in fact in North Dakota right this minute working on the documentary...

Fashion Roundup: Beatrice Inn Expands Into Fashion; Katie Holmes's New Headgear; Jessica Stam has a Hobby

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:19:57 -0400

Beatrice Inn co-owner Andre Saraiva has come out with a clothing line called Andrewear. [NY Times via The Cut]

Having grown tired of pegged boyfriend jeans, Katie Holmes is now experimenting with head scarves. [Just Jared]

Kate Winslet will reportedly play Vivienne Westwood in the upcoming biopic about the designer. [Vogue UK]

Jessica Stam is learning how to fly planes. [WWD]

Model Lily Cole and her...

Toby Young Can't Resist One More Prank at Soho House

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 12:55:33 -0400

Wednesday evening, Gawker Media hosted a party at Soho House in honor of the soon-to-be-released film version of How To Lose Friends and Alienate People, Toby Young’s memoir of his misadventures as a contributing editor at Vanity Fair in the late '90s. Half of the crowd kept referring to the celebration as a book party, despite the fact that the book in question had been released over six years ago. Indeed, the film did...

Ten Things We Learned from the Harper's Bazaar Profile of Kirsten Dunst

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 11:43:03 -0400

We have long been fascinated by the new Kirsten Dunst—the rehabilitated Downtown girl whose dinners at Freeman's and late night outings have grabbed New Yorkers' attention—but until now, we have not heard Ms. Dunst discuss her reinvented self. It seems she has grown and evolved since spending time at Cirque Lodge in Utah earlier this year (she checked out in late March), which was the final step to leaving her child actress self behind...

Kirsten Dunst Parties Downtown With Adrian Grenier

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:02:39 -0400

On Sunday, September 7, the Moeller Snow gallery space on Bond street played host to a group of young, playfully disheveled, downtown types who had gathered there to hear the Swedish indie singer, Lykke Li perform, an event that was thrown together by Justin Kern of the Los Angeles-based boutique and event space, Not To Be Reproduced.

While guests like designer Erin Wasson and stylist Anastasia Barbieri awaited Ms. Li's...

Been There, Dunst That! Actress Kirsten Is Tardy Star at Band of Outsiders

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 17:36:57 -0400

Also on Saturday, Sept. 6: the scene in the lobby of the building at Scott Sternberg's Band of Outsiders show at Milk Studios in the Meatpacking District was, in a word, miserable.

Since the elevators were only allowing 15 people in at a time, a near riot was forming as security asked the damp crowds to "step back, step back, step back."

Upstairs, instead of using models to present his Spring '09 collection for women and...

Morning Memo: Lindsay Lohan Won't Be in Playboy; Lynne Spears Tells All; The Hills, Manhattan-Style

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:39:57 -0400

Lindsay Lohan turned down an offer of $700,000 to do an eight-page spread in Playboy's 55th anniversary issue. [P6]

Comedian and host Russell Brand isn't giving details on Britney Spears's plans for opening the 25th MTV VIdeo Music Awards, saying only that she will not be "serving canapés or doing a bizarre haircut on herself." [US Weekly] Ms. Spears's mother Lynne is being less discreet—her tell-all book, Through the Storm: A Real Story...

Morning Memo: Martha Stewart's Bad Luck; Kirsten Dunst Spotted Snogging Drew's Ex; Spike Lee Defends Barack Obama

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 07:54:52 -0400

Martha Stewart has been the victim of natural disasters this summer. First, Ms. Stewart's farm in Bedford, N.Y. was struck by lightning earlier this summer, and now her East Hampton home on Lily Pond Lane was also struck with a bolt, which fried her stereo system and her electronic driveway gate. [P6]

Kirsten Dunst was spotted making out with Drew Barrymore's ex Justin Long at Sunset Junction in LA, where she seems to have returned...

The Transom Week In Review

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:05:59 -0400

The Jonas Brothers failed to impress Ali Lohan with their East Hampton invasion.

We attempted to measure Kirsten Dunst’s hipster street-cred.

Howard Street’s Opening Ceremony celebrated Beijing’s opening ceremony for 72 hours.

Gwyneth Paltrow, Devorah Rose, Arden Wohl and others showed up for a benefit at Steven Klein’s Bridgehampton estate.

We discussed publishing and finance with the attendees of Vibe’s fifteenth birthday party....

The Transom in Print, August 13, 2008: The Reinvention of Kirsten Dunst; Brice Marden's Island Paradise

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 09:10:10 -0400

Irina Aleksander goes on the trail of Kirsten Dunst, who took up residence in her $3 million Tribeca penthouse in March and has since been spotted all over (down)town--hanging out near the DJ booth at the Beatrice Inn, wandering the West Village in her trademark Ray Bans, dancing at Bowery Electric. Is New York courting her, or is she courting New York?

And Spencer Morgan finds out that New York artist Brice Marden is trying...

The Reinvention of Kirsten Dunst

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:10:47 -0400

A few weeks ago, at a party for the second Chelsea location of 303 Gallery, a crowd of downtown creative types milled around, outfitted in ’80s Ray Bans and indie rock T-shirts. Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore was the guest DJ, and the Virgins, a New York band of perfectly disheveled young men whose songs have been featured on Gossip Girl, performed onstage next to a pile of rubble. (The gallery was still under construction.)...

Ryan Gosling Is Robert Durst

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:41:13 -0400

The riveting tale of one-time real estate baron Robert Durst – estranged older brother of developer Douglas Durst – has been made into a feature film starring Kirsten Dunst and Ryan Gosling. Called All Good Things, the film will debut in 2009.

Its release will mark yet another painful episode for the otherwise upstanding Durst family, which is known in New York City for its impressive property holdings (including the new One Bryant Park...

The Boots of Summer Augur Seasonless Revolt of Autumn

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:59:27 -0400

On a recent balmy Saturday on the Ladies Mile of lower Fifth Avenue, the windows of Intermix, Anthropologie and H&M were just beginning to transition into displaying fall collections, but many of the shoppers shlepping around in 90-degree heat were curiously dressed in what could be mistaken for winter wear: Frye boots! Knit scarves! And woven beanie hats!

“You know you might get some looks if you wear boots...

Morning Memo: Kirsten Dunst's Guys; Tinsley Mortimer's Gigs; Anna Wintour's Advice

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 08:52:26 -0400

Depending on which day you read the papers, rehabilitated Kirsten Dunst is chasing Into the Wild actor Emile Hirsch, or maybe Drew Barrymore's ex, Justin Long. [P6]

CNBC interviewed Tinsley Mortimer as the "socialite-turned-entrepreneur," who designs handbags, lip gloss and clothes. Apparently she's huge in Japan! [Park Avenue Peerage]

Anna Wintour has offered to "discuss her career, stories of former successful Vogue interns and give advice on how to do well in the...

Morning Memo: Stoical Exes, Angry Managers, 'Asian Beauties'

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 08:03:07 -0400

How'd Lenny Kravitz get pulled into a tabloid love quadrangle with Lenny Kravitz, Mr. and Mrs. Rod and Madonna? According to Page Six, it was the revenge of his manager Guy Oseary, whom he fired two weeks ago. [P6]

Lizzie Grubman will now manage her clients in addition to publicizing them. [P6]

Ashley Dupré is reportedly in talks with the Los Angeles production company Handprint Entertainment and MTV to do a dating-based reality series...

Ladies Retort With—Good Lord!—a $990 Cocktail Short

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:46:22 -0400

It used to be that if a grown woman were wearing shorts, it would be for purely utilitarian, counter-style moments: jogging, errands on a hot Saturday, a trip to the Laundromat. That is no longer the case.

There is the return of the ’60s high-waisted hot pants, sent down the runway this season by Erin Fetherston and L.A.M.B. There is the Bermuda short that reaches right above the...

Morning Memo: Bad Karma for Sharon Stone; Secret Straight Lives of Gossip Girl Gays Revealed!

Fri, 30 May 2008 09:00:01 -0400

Gossip Girl's Ed Westwick and Chace Crawford post their very private photos on the very public Photobucket. And there is one where Chuck--sorry, Mr. Westwick--is in bed with a girl! [Gawker]

Steven Tyler said he checked into rehab to treat a foot injury, which is of course a specialty of Celebrity Rehab's Dr. Drew. [US Weekly]

Meanwhile, Kirsten Dunst is being questioned going to rehab for depression since Cirque Lodge said it does...

Kirsten Dunst Was Just Depressed, OK?

Tue, 27 May 2008 17:08:49 -0400

For several weeks now, Kirsten Dunst has been spotted on the Upper West Side with co-star Ryan Gosling while shooting the film All Good Things.

Ms. Dunst took some time during a lunch break on the set of the film to dispel some rumors. The young actress wants everyone to stop referencing her mysterious trip to Cirque Lodge rehab center in Utah earlier this year, every time someone publishes a sighting of her. She's...

Morning Memo: Foul-Mouthed McCain! And the Spitzers Take a Walk Under the Cherry Boughs

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 07:05:06 -0400

Sen. McCain may have called his wife the c-word in 1992 after she suggested he might be balding. To her credit, she wasn't exactly wrong. [NY Daily News]

Recently rehabilitated Kirsten Dunst was spotted dining with co-star Ryan Gosling at Freeman's restaurant on the Lower East Side on Saturday. [P6]

Richard Golub, fierce lawyer, author of The Big Cut, and producer on Factory Girl, has found a surrogate mother to carry his child and is...

Mr. Lonelyhearts

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 20:26:29 -0500

A 32-year-old ad copywriter, who sings in a downtown band and has a lot of tattoos, was on the phone from the East Village. His tone was confessional.

“For the last two years,” he said, “I’ve been chasing tail, sowing my wild oats, literally meeting girls and bringing them up to my apartment. And now”—his voice dropped a decibel or two—“I’ve gone three weeks without having sex. And I’m getting this...

Zodiac Scribe to Write Spider-Man 4

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 11:08:12 -0400

James Vanderbilt, writer of the Zodiac and Basic screenplays, will replace the original Spider-Man scribe David Koepp in the drafting of the fourth installment of the superhero series. Producers want more character-driven stories, rather than a focus on special effects, according to Reuters/the Hollywood Reporter.

No deals have been made to bring back series director Sam Raimi or stars Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst.

Plot points are being closely guarded by the studio, though the...

Spidey’s Back, Caught in a $350 Million Web

Tue, 01 May 2007 16:24:02 -0400

SPIDER-MAN 3
Running Time 140 minutes
Directed by Sam Raimi
Written by Sam Raimi, Ivan Raimi and Alvin Sargent
Starring Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco, Thomas Haden Church, Topher Grace

Clocking in at up to $350 million, depending on which moguls you ask and how secure their jobs are prior to the end of the fiscal year, Spider-Man 3 is the most expensive movie ever made. Translated from the kind of language...

How to Milk a Millionaire: 10 Must-Haves For Less Than $10 Million

Sun, 19 May 2002 20:00:00 -0400

So that nice Russian guy you've been dating is turning out to be a bit rough around the edges. First he handed you wads of cash and pressured you to dye your hair blond and splurge on tarty clothes. As a result, your closet is now groaning with high-priced Versace and Cavalli, and you look utterly fantastic -sort of like a Southern Italian version of Spider-Man co-star Kirsten Dunst.

Now he's seen how well you...