Oscar Update

 
Aussie actress Mia Wasikowska shines in an Antonio Berardi gown at the 2012 Vanity Fair Party held at Sunset Tower on Sunday in West Hollywood, Calif. 
Mia has four films soon to be released : Oddboy, The Double, Wettest County and the Stoker. As her star continues to rise so does her bank balance. In 2010 she tied with Johnny Depp as the second highest grossing actor after their appearances in Alice In Wonderland.


Mia first hit the public eye in the TV series In Treatment that also stars Melissa George. She's also an amateur photographer and her portrait of co-star Jamie Bell from Jane Eyre hangs in the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra.
              

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McMullan is a contributor to Interview, New York Magazine , The Village Voice and he's a contributing editor on Vanity Fair.

PMc features an exclusive interview with Oscar winner Demian Bichir from The Artist. It's by Tyler Malone..click here.                                      

PR Bitch-Fest Spans Two Continents!

It's been the talk of the town in coffee bars and at smart shindigs over flutes of champers and canapes. Sydney-siders excitedly discussing the slap-down given by Murdoch newspaper columnist Ros Reines of the Sunday Telegraph to local charity boy Rupert Noffs and New York celebrity fashion publicist, author and reality TV star Kelly Cutrone.

 Reines called Cutrone's recent visit to Sydney for Noffs and a Gideon shoe store opening 'tragic' and accused her of 'creating mayhem' and infuriating organisers of the $2000-a-head Prix de Marie Claire Awards when Cutrone and Noffs failed to appear after being given tickets to the event. The full piece can be read here.

Not that the Awards themselves got off easy. The host of that event and editor of Marie Claire, Jackie Frank got a good dressing down as well.

Trying to get anyone to go on the record about the spat though has been a Herculean task. No-one locally seems to want to  upset Ms Reines and in the Big Apple it seems Ms Cutrone's name carries considerable weight as well.

Michael Musto, top columnist on New York's Village Voice responded with an enigmatic : "I don't really know what to say about Kelly. Perhaps you should talk to Patrick (McMullan), he knows her well".

Patrick McMullan, New York's top society snapper, a contributing editor on Vanity Fair and host of a TV fashion show  was oddly silent and didn't return the Shuttle's call. Messages left for McMullan usually bring a response at an ungodly hour when he returns from his nightly rounds of New York's top parties and he's always up for a good natter about the latest happenings.

Reines, whose twitter moniker is 'tabloid terror' and who described herself as 'ruthless' in a Spectator piece continued : "On Twitter last week, Cutrone asked whether I was OK or just "vicious". When it comes to being vicious, it takes one to know one."

Calls to Cutrone's New York People's Revolution public relations firm for a comment were met with "we'll get back to you with a statement eventually". It never came.



Kelly Cutrone at Gideon Shoes. sassisamblog.com

Two other top New York publicists agreed to speak as long as their names weren't used.

One who said he regularly ran into Cutrone socially and at industry events said:



 "Kelly doesn't suffer fools gladly but she can be  forthright at times and has upset some people. But she's so damned good at her job she's readily forgiven. She's had an amazing ride to the top and I really respect her. Reading the piece by Ros Reines though-she should be writing for one of  the New York dailies, they could use her !"

A female publicist who has worked with Cutrone on various projects said :

"there's been quite a bit of chatter about the Ros Reine's piece and everyone thinks it's a bit of a scream. Most people seem to think that if Reines and Kelly met under other circumstances they'd get on like a house on fire, they seem so similar. Gideon's by choosing Kelly to promote their shoes in the US made a wise choice, there is none better at pr"

Rupert Noffs



As for Rupert Noffs he simply sent a diplomatic " Ros is just doing what Ros has to do " reply to our email.

Perhaps the last word should go to a well known Sydney face and a regular attendee of the town's best parties who was at Paddington's swish La Scala restaurant's first year birthday bash last Tuesday evening :

  "oh thank God for Ros. She breathes some sort of life into what at times seems like a completely moribund social scene."

Coming up : Rupert Noffs-charity runs in the family

Paris Hilton Vs Perez Hilton

 Update :  "RADAR EXCLUSIVE: Paris Owns Purse That Appears Identical To One She Claimed Was Borrowed Night Of Cocaine Arrest"
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By Twitter :

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  Love this site, it's nice reading the truth instead of these invented stories on other blogs. Check it out - http://tinyurl.com/283qyug

Paris Hilton isn't happy with Kim Kardishan or the gossiper Perez Hilton. That's if you believe the website

Paris Hilton is HUGE  which gets Ms Hilton's seal of approval with her above tweet earlier tonight. 

According to the site:

"Paris Hilton would never jeopardize her career by doing cocaine. We believe her and know exactly what it feels like to be tangled in a mix-up to that degree, all too well. That is another story, for another time, on another blog! This is about Paris! "

On Kim Kardashian the site says : "To add salt to this HUGE wound, Paris Hilton former friend, or should we say leech, was on Jay Leno’s late night show talking bad about her. This is what she had to say about Paris Hilton’s run-in with the law:"

And another former friend Perez Hilton comes in for a serve : "Enough is enough Mario! We think it is disgusting you are using Microsoft’s Paint application to deface Paris Hilton’s photo’s for your posts, mock her, and jump on the Anti-Paris Hilton bandwagon, when you were just butt-kissing a few months prior. 

If it were not for Paris Hilton or your stalkerish ways to get into her inner circle, you would be a TRAGIC waste of space living in your mother’s house."

Our favourite piece :

"Paris Hilton’s recent run-in with the Las Vegas P.D., has been keeping the internet full of made-up stories and rumors. We absolutely hate it! The latest rumor that has spun completely out of control, is that Paris Hilton thought that the cocaine that was found in the purse, was gum.

Yes! Chewing gum that has be around since the dawn of time. This is so disrespectful to Paris Hilton intelligence as a human being. This blog’s owner has shed tears about this, and spoken to her family about it.

So the cocaine that Paris says wasn't in the handbag she was carrying ...that she says wasn't her handbag but a friend's ....didn't have gum in it..and that gum was actually..err ..cocaine!. Wonderful. 

read more of this madness here.

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