Amy Sedaris and Justin Theroux Exchange Weird Photos, Old Douche Bags

Anyone who follows the wacky downtown crowd knows that Strangers With Candy genius-slash-cupcake maker Amy Sedaris and actor Justin Theroux (Broken English) are, like, total munchie buds. So last Friday night, it wasn't a surprise to see them both: We were at the opening for the eerily named "Sometimes Comes Mother, Sometimes Comes Wolf," an Adidas-sponsored installation by Theroux and designer Douglas Little. Open daily through February 9, the installation, which sits on Broome Street between Ludlow and Essex, is a big, iridescent modern blue box on the outside and a Victorian apartment on the inside, full of creepy curiosities, many of them from Theroux's own apartment, like a terrifying pile of ventriloquist's dummies, various stuffed bats, and, poignantly dumped on a velvet pillow, the cremated remains of Pooma, Theroux's beloved pit bull, who died a few weeks ago. Outside the installation, which quickly became infested with hipsters like the MisShapes kids and bearded Sting-spawn Jake Sumner, Amy Sedaris sat with her bud Callie Thorne, of the TV show Rescue Me, selling her cute cupcakes at $3 a pop. So, we asked her, Justin likes to collect weird, old things, huh? "We have that in common," she said. "I have a beautiful picture of a baby with syphilis, and he's the only one I could give it to. And when I die, he wants my picture of my baby with rickets."

Posted 02/04/08 in Daily Intel : Party Lines

Tags: amy sedaris, callie thorne, cupcakes, justin theroux, party lines, rescue me

Photogs Love Leary, and Other Pap Tales From the ‘Delirious’ Screening

Like all non-Hamptons happenings this month, last night's screening of Delirious at the Tribeca Grand was pretty low on star power. But Tom DiCillo's comedy stars Steve Buscemi as a star-stalking paparazzo, and the phalanx of real-life photogs in attendance hammed it up with lots of elbow-angling and shouting when DiCillo, co-star Callie Thorne, and a few Culkin brothers showed. Thorne, who said she gets her paparazzi-handling tips from Parker Posey, confessed that Denis Leary regularly gets stalked by photogs on the set of Rescue Me, where she plays his love interest. "We're trying to shoot a scene that's very serious and dramatic," she said, and "all of the sudden out of the bushes a paparazzo jumps out. We all break and laugh, but Denis gets cranky. That's probably the most crazy I've seen people get — around Denis." (Who knew?)

Posted 08/10/07 in Daily Intel : Party Lines

Tags: callie thorne, daryl hannah, denis leary, movies, paparazzi, party lines, steve buscemi