Toby Young's tome on Graydon Carter and life at Vanity Fair, How To Lose Friends & Alienate People, is hitting the big screen just like its female counterpart The Devil Wears Prada. If you don't have a prior engagement and have fantasized about your 15 minutes seconds of fame blurry background screen-time, head over to Empire State Park tonight to be an extra. What have you got to lose, it's a beautiful night anyway! The......

This week Bruni goes to P*ong, the dessert/savory restaurant brought to us by pastry chef Pichet Ong (formerly of Perry Street and Spice Market), awards the restaurant one star. Finds the restaurant "tantalizing, often irritating," and says it challenges one's ideas of what should be sweet and what should be savory. But the desserts are the restaurant's strenth, says Bruni, and also it's too crowded and the service is not good enough to make staying......

New York Shitty's Miss Heather let us know that this adorable cat named Julie needs a new home. Miss Heather rescued the husky and healthy adult cat from terrible conditions last December and found a temporary home for her. Miss Heather writes:Well, her temporary home (a local bodega) ended up being just that: temporary. Although the owners of this store (and their landlord) love her dearly, the decision to let her go was not theirs......

It's the convergence of restaurant hot spot and restaurant hot topic: The Waverly Inn meets health inspection - and fails! The NY Times looks at the recent health inspection woes of Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter's noshery, finding that the Department of Health found a number of issues during a March 28 inspection. Hmm, perhaps picking up on the mice-alert-at-the-Waverly that Eater wrote about in February? Here's what the DOH found:1.) "Choking first aid" poster......

38-year-old New Yorker Larry Smith has parlayed his extensive magazine experience (Yahoo! Internet Life, P.O.V., ESPN, Might) to create the online magazine that's not only named after him, it represents his vision for the future of populist storytelling: SMITH. Launched on January 6, 2006 (National Smith Day), the site features everything from photo essays to diaries, memoirs, interviews, blogs, and reader-generated content. The site has also spawned two book deals: one for its first webcomic,......

Like many New Yorkers, Graydon Carter could care less about noise caused by new development, renovations, and all the like. But who knew he'd be up for throwing scaffolding down in extreme frustration while wearing shorts in 36 degree weather? Luckily, the Post has the "photo exclusive" that shows the Vanity Fair editor get up in a construction worker's business. The scaffolding was being put up in the West Village, near Carter's home and near......

Bruni one-stars The Waverly Inn, writing the review in the form of a letter to Graydon Carter. He doesn't get to the food until about halfway into it, first covering the space (cozy), the scene, the $55 mac and cheese (no, you can't order it without the truffles) and the difficultly in getting a reservation. While "it's not attention-getting cuisine," he likes it. Calls it "a modest menu of comforting favorites." This week Eater (scroll......

Bruni three-stars the recently renovated Picholine. Though he doesnt much like the physical changes-"still too quiet and sadistically bright"-the renovation "reinvigorated this restaurants soul," he says. In fact, he now likes it so much he celebrated his recent birthday there. And the Eater oddsmakers nail it again. Theyre also all over the reopening of Waverly Inn (Graydon Carter edition). Also in the Times, Peter Meehan visits Italian restaurant Lunetta on Smith Street in Brooklyn for......

Rachel Sklar, co-editor and writer of FishbowlNY...

Legendary Director Roman Polanski (Chinatown, The Pianist), who testified against a Vanity Fair article - via video, of course, to avoid extradition in the US where that sex with a minor issue is still hanging over his head, just won his libel case in a British court. The VF's article claimed Polanski seduced a woman at a NYC restaurant en route to the funeral of his wife Sharon Tate and their unborn child, who were......

The Hollywood Reporter says that Meryl Streep will be playing the Anna Wintour-inspired devilish boss in the movie of The Devil Wears Prada. Streep has already played another Conde Nast employee, New Yorker writer Susan Orlean, in Adaptation, so we can't wait until she plays Graydon Carter or Jeff Jarvis next (hey, she played a rabbi in Angels in America - she can probably do it!). We think that someone like Lara Flynn Boyle, with......

Tamar Adler, Editor at Harper's...

Phew! Turns out that all of our worrying that Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter and Mayor Bloomberg really hated each other was just that - worry. And by worry, we mean "passing interest." The Times looks at the Carter-Bloomberg relationship, which suffered a low with the Mayor's smoking ban. Carter, nic addict, struck back with a damning editor's letter in Vanity Fair earlier. Even though Carter smokes up in public to ruffle the Mayor's......

Gothamist was wearing a sweater and puffy coat during this week in June. There are so many things wrong with that. Anyway... - Graydon Carter likes 'em young - Tests for New York tour guides - TiVo, Your Habits, and Big Brother - Someone at Vogue actually eats - When chain restaurants attack - Kitchen cut-ups - Book for the dumped - Captain Derek - When Will Ferrell went to Harvard - Solid gold lightswitch......