Rep. Bob Filner Tells Republicans to "Chill Out"
"It is time to chill out, Republicans." -Representative Bob Filner, Democrat of California, being awesome.
J.D. Salinger —
describing a 1951 dinner party with Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh in a private letter to E. Michael Mitchell, according to the New York Times. The correspondence has been unsealed by the Morgan Library following the novelist's death.
D.M. Redfield —
the winning entry in a 1897 New York Times reader contest to find a motto that "most aptly" described the paper according to newspaper historian W. Joseph Campbell. The paper stuck with "All the news that's fit to print."
John Mayer —
honorary Gawker columnist and pretty fucking good guitar player, responding to the question "Masturbation for you is as good as sex?" in Playboy.
Diane von Furstenberg —
the designer on the sleeping arrangements with her husband, the happy-footed, presumed-gay media mogul Barry Diller, in the upcoming issue of Page Six Magazine.
Ron Arbuson —
Greenwich, Conn., jewelry store owner, on a client who bought his wife a Mercedes S550 sedan (starting price: $91,600) this year instead of her usual Rolls-Royce, in a wonderful McClatchy story about bonus season in the banker enclave.
Allen St. Pierre —
executive director of NORML, on the $700 pot smoking device called the Volcano Vaporizer that's shown up in Weeds and Bored to Death, to The Daily Beast. Apples still cost around 25 cents.
CIA Gift Shop Cash Register —
a sign spotted by Salon's Mike Madden who was the pool reporter covering Barack Obama's visit there today.
Michael Steele —
chairman of the Republican National Committee, speaking during a joint appearance with Harold Ford (ugh) at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, according to the Associated Press. Median income in Arkansas: $38,820
Kate White —
Cosmo editor on her choice for the magazine's next nude Senator centerfold, to PopEater.com. Reference photo of Bayh, of whom White added, "We think he's hot in a natural, low-key, Midwestern sort of way," provided after the jump.
Kelly Cutrone —
fashion publicist and Bravo reality star, responding to the question "What do you think about Harvard?" to the Harvard Crimson.
Eliot Spitzer —
former New York governor, prostitution enthusiast and hopeless romantic responding to the question "What's love?" in an interview with BigThink.com via the New York Post's front page.
Mika Brzezinski —
Morning Joe co-anchor and serial verbal abuse victim on her drink of choice, to Daily Intel.
Robert Carlock —
30 Rock producer and Boston native, when asked if he thinks Julianne Moore's Boston accent on the show is realistic, to New York's Vulture.
Rahm Emanuel —
offering his opinion of a plan by liberal groups to air television ads against Democrats House members who weren't supporting health care reform in a strategy session last August, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Tilda Swinton —
when asked if she'd be willing to play Conan O'Brien in the HBO movie version of the latest Late Night Wars, to Movieline.
"Rush Limbaugh" —
contemplating his life in a brutal and speculative internal monologue, by The Onion. Again: The Onion's not real.
Woody Johnson —
father of Casey Johnson and owner of the New York Jets, on how he's comparmentalizing his daughter's death from his football team's success in the playoffs, to the New York Daily News.
David Gregory —
when asked what mistakes he'd made as host of Meet the Press, to MarketWatch. Last June, Gregory promised Mark Sanford, Argentinian lover and South Carolina governor, Meet the Press would let him "frame the conversation how you really want to."
