Amy Sedaris
Morning Memo: No New Baby for Madonna?; The Beatrice Inn's Neighbors Speak Out; Who Owns AshleyDupre.com?
Madonna's head flack Liz Rosenberg is insisting that the singer has no plans to adopt a three-year-old girl from Malawi in the near future, as had been reported. [Us]
Sources say actress Michelle Williams is taking extra steps to avoid the paparazzi in her Brooklyn neighborhood, reportedly "having a bodygaurd go around her block and make sure there are no photographers" each time she leaves the house. [P6]
West Villagers--including Amy Sedaris--are opposing the renewal of Beatrice Inn's liquor license, citing issues with noise, smoking, drugs, and taxis the club brings to the neighborhood. [Eater]
Joy Behar, Lorraine Bracco, Calvin Klein, Donna Karan, Alfie Fanjul, Pete Peterson, Sandy Hill Pittman, Marjorie Gubelmann, Debbie and Leon Black, and Tory Burch and Lyor Cohen all attended a special screening of Woody Allen's new film "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" in Southampton. read more »
Amy Sedaris Stays In West Village, Buys $1.3 M. Co-Op
Funny lady Amy Sedaris appears to have an ambivalent relationship with New York City.
On the one hand, she seems to appreciate the little urban conveniences that you can't find anyplace else--for instance, last October, she told The Observer about her "good memories" of getting pot delivered to her house--but will just as quickly complain about the noise pollution from the West Village Halloween Parade.
Back in October, she complained to New York magazine “that the people who we moved [to the city] to get away from are coming here and changing it — and not for the best. read more »
Shirt Subjects: Socialites, Sedaris Dress Down for Vogue-Gap Shindig
Is it just us, or are the names of designer labels getting weirder and weirder?
Five of ’em—3.1 Phillip Lim, Band of Outsiders, Michael Bastian, threeASFOUR and Philip Crangi—were feted by those unlikely bedfellows Vogue and the Gap over cocktails and risotto cakes in a whitewashed loft space off Rockefeller Center on Monday, April 14. CFDA/Vogue Fashion Finalists all, they’d each designed one or more white shirts for the chain, the second year of such a collaboration. read more »
Heavenly Feature
SNOW ANGELS
Running time 106 minutes
Written by David Gordon Green and Stewart O’Nan
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Amy Sedaris: New York is Ganja Town
Of all the New York stories that still float around Amy Sedaris' mind, one sticks out more than the rest. “You can get pot delivered to your house! I’ve got a lot of good memories that involve that, yeah,” she said, mocking a wistful side-glance. “I’m just saying that when you move here, you’re always told that that happens, and I was pretty amazed that that can happen!” read more »
Andy Richter Sells Himself ... Amy Sedaris Works a Double Shift
