John Mayer, man-whore.Photo: Getty Images
Mayer and Cameron Diaz canoodled at the Bowery Hotel. Protesters are hanging around Viacom head Phillippe Dauman and buyout artist Henry Kravis’s respective homes. An assistant of Annie Leibovitz was involved in a bad Vespa accident but is expected to recover. Eli Wallach, the star of The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, just turned 92 but is still acting. Morgan Spurlock may or may not have found Osama bin Laden in this latest documentary. Donald Trump says he did not leave a waiter a $10,000 tip, despite what was reported by the restaurant.
CNN was slated to air a two-hour documentary about how the White House would hypothetically deal with an Iranian nuclear threat, but is no longer doing so because Iran discontinued its nuclear program four years ago. The cast of The Sopranos had a big group dinner at Il Cortile on Mulberry Street. Walter Cronkite, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, and former Fed chairmen Paul Volcker and Alan Greenspan all ate at Le Perigord. The reason legendary Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee didn’t win France’s Legion of Honor award until last week because he was once expelled from the country for trying to interview leaders of Algeria’s revolutionary rebel army. Businessman Barry Cohen inadvertently insulted Brian Grazer’s new girlfriend, pianist Chau-Giang Nguyen, before she was to perform at a party Cohen was hosting. Sam Riley, the guy who plays Joy Division lead singer Ian Curtis in Control, actually sings all the songs in the movie. Bam Margera is being sued for spray-painting some guy’s Peugeot in London. Damon Wayans’s girlfriend got mad at him for flirting with a waitress at Home. Francis Ford Coppola wants a 1922 original edition of Ulysses published by Shakespeare & Co for Christmas. Casey Ribicoff, the widow of Connecticut senator Abe Ribicoff, celebrated her 85th birthday at The Four Seasons. George Michael and Aretha Franklin both performed at a Unicef charity event at Cipriani Wall Street.
