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Morning Memo: Noel Family Finds a Taker for Mustique Home; Bristol Palin's Kid Doesn't Come Cheap; P. Diddy Cheaps Out

Fri, 02 Jan 2009 09:43:21 -0500

Madoff-tainted Walter and Monica Noel managed to rent out Yemanja, their Mustique vacation home, to someone willing to pay their $55,000-per-week asking price. [P6]

People paid around $300,000 for the first pictures of Bristol Palin's son, Tripp Easton Mitchell Johnston. [The Scoop]

Sean "P. Diddy" Combs doesn't think he should have to pay for his inauguration tickets because he's famous. [P6]

Actor Matt Dillon was given a citation for driving 106 miles per hour, which was...

Ruda Awakening

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:59:01 -0400

Morgan Freeman and his wife, Myrna Colley-Lee, were the first to arrive. They stepped out of a town car in front of the French restaurant Tocqueville on East 15th Street and made their way to the empty bar area. Neither knew what to expect; the hostess, Ruda Dauphin, had called it a “salon.” They were offered flutes of Ruinart champagne; the Oscar winner asked for vodka on ice.

Ms....

Bam! Pow! Society Superheroes Conquer The Big Swollen Ball

Tue, 06 May 2008 19:17:10 -0400

To the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s annual Costume Institute Gala on Monday, May 5, themed “Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy,” Gossip Girl star Blake Lively wore black gloves and a snug black Ralph Lauren gown involving feathers. She said that her favorite superhero was “Spider-Man. Cause he’s awesome! He gets to swing around, and, I don’t know....” Accompanied by her onscreen (and rumored offscreen) boyfriend, actor Penn Badgley, Ms. Lively had come straight from a...

Shott On Location: Matt Dillon's Favorite CD Store--Now With CDs!

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 12:55:31 -0500

Is that Tito Puente I hear in the distance?

It’s hard to tell, what with neo-classical shred violinist Michael Shulman just down the corridor, in black leather pants, loudly noodling to an instrumental track of Michael Jackson’s “Billy Jean."

But, yes, upon closer inspection, the sounds of salsa emanating from the brightly lit nook across from Wachovia signify that subterranean music retailer Record Mart is indeed back in business inside the labyrinthine...

J.T.'s World

Sun, 27 Apr 2003 20:00:00 -0400

The actress Winona Ryder stood onstage at the Public Theater on April 17, wringing her hands and squealing with adoration.

"The first time I met J.T. was during my first heartbreak," she said of the author J.T. LeRoy, whose work had just been read by a group of performers including musicians Debbie Harry and Shirley Manson, and actors Rosario Dawson and Tatum O'Neal. "It had been my first love," she went on, namelessly invoking the...

National Security Boils Over With Willis and Baldwin

Sun, 12 Apr 1998 20:00:00 -0400

Harold Becker's Mercury Rising , from a screenplay by Lawrence Konner and Mark Rosenthal, based on the novel Simple Simon by Ryne Douglas Pearson, places an autistic child-savant named Simon Lynch (Miko Hughes) in dire jeopardy because he has solved a secret code that no one was supposed to be able to solve. He is immediately marked for extinction by a malignantly murderous National Security rogue operation headed by Alec Baldwin's hard-nosed, hard-edged and...