November 18th, 2009
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This past weekend saw a record breaking movie opening with the apocalyptic
“2012“. Despite negative reviews, the movie raked in well over $225 million and
regaled many who flocked to see a movie with not so famous actors. This tells us
that we are in for a winter of malcontents, but let’s keep our eyes on the more
famous people of Fame Game as we do our own countdown to December 21, 2012!
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This Should be Famous: Life is Beautiful
Children’s photographer Lori Ulrey is raising money for the National Kidney Foundation. All sittings are by appointment, and Lori will be photographing
children to raise money for research. Medullary Cystic Kidney Disease Type 2 is
also known as Uromodulin associated with kidney disease. Lori is using her
talents to raise awareness and support in research to save lives and find a cure
before the next generation. Test your Kidney I.Q. - Take the Kidney Quiz
here.
Check out Lori’s website, Fine Art Children’s Photography, and the Life is Beautiful project page on Fame Game. |
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Fame Game’s Most Visited Profiles
See what this week’s most visited profiles were…
1. Katrina Peebles
2. Brad Leinhardt
3. Bruce Hoeksema
4. Lauren Remington Platt
5. Alejandro Santo Domingo
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November 11th, 2009
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We are feeling good about New York. Bloomberg won, the Yankees won, Gossip Girl raked in top hype ratings with its threesome, what else can one ask for? How about some juicy New York gossip for your Wednesday? Check it out in this week’s round up!
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Learn more by visiting the Flying Scissors website, or by following the film on Twitter and Facebook.
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This Week’s “FASHION” Movers and Shakers
Cynthia Rowley +22.9%
Fashion designer
Angel Sanchez +20.9%
Venezuelan-born fashion designer
Suzy Menkes +20.4%
Fashion editor, IHT
See the full list here
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Fame Game’s Most Visited Profiles
See what this week’s most visited profiles were…
1. Stephanie Newhouse
2. Grace Hightower De Niro
3. Shala Monroque
4. Robert Patrik Winston
5. David Victor Rose
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November 4th, 2009
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We’ve turned another page in the calendar, it’s now November! Hope by now you’ve adjusted all your clocks to daylight savings - not sure we like how it gets dark so early now, but bring on the crisp weather! Let’s hear it for new jobs, million-dollar bonuses, and more, in this week’s round-up!
- Anna Wintour’s daughter Bee Shaffer is going to work for Notional, a new spinoff multimedia production company out of IAC-owned CollegeHumor.com. Notional is headed by Ricky Van Veen. Read more about the venture here.
- J Crew gives its Creative Director Jenna Lyons a healthy $1 million dollar bonus. Wow. Guess those trendy necklaces for fall are really paying off.
- Peter Brant ordered to pay Stephanie Seymour $27,000 per month in alimony while their divorce proceedings are underway.
- Louis Vuitton has hired Gabriel Aubry for the latest ad campaign. Gabriel is Halle Berry’s beau and the father of her child, and is rumored to be paid $30,000 per day as a model.
- The New York Times ran a profile of Raj Rajaratnam, the billionaire hedge fund manager charged with trading on inside information. (Raj has been a Top Most Visited Profile on Fame Game for several weeks now.)
- Alex Rodriguez is thinking of becoming a Buddhist for Kate Hudson.
- Author Anisha Lakhani writes about the Museum of Art and Design Paperball for Pink Memo.
- See award-winning journalist and author Harry Hurt interview Taos pueblo women in his videos on www.harryworldofhurt.com.
- Rebecca Minkoff will be making personal appearances at Henri Bendel on November 6th and 7th to showcase her newest accessories collection. Also check out Kara Ross’s window display at Henri Bendel this week!
- Coralie Charriol Paul and Eva Jeanbart Lorenzotti are in Dubai speaking at the Leaders in Luxury 2009 Summit.
- Downtown socialite Allison Sarofim’s halloween party did not disappoint. This year’s theme was “Eighties downtown New York” and Marc Jacobs, Carlos Souza,
Theodora Richards, Valentino, Nicole Miller, Yvonne Force Villareal, Cynthia Rowley all attended in costume.
- Check out Wisk-It: an application to help scrub those regrettable Halloween photos from Facebook.
- Upcoming events: TONIGHT: Jimmy Choo and Vogue host the launch of Project PEP to benefit the Elton John AIDS Foundation. And the Fete d’Hiver sponsored by Chanel to benefit the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Tomorrow, don’t miss the book launch party for “The Kingdom of New York”, a collection of the New York Observer’s best moments over the past 20 years, and Esquire Soho’s VH1 Save the Music Benefit. And as always, visit our home page for information on other events.
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This Week’s “MEDIA” Movers and Shakers
Jeremy Kost +16.7%
Photographer
Jonathan Adler +7.2%
Interior designer
Pat Hackett +6.3%
Author, Andy Warhol Diaries
See the full list here
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This Should be Famous: Fame Game on Facebook
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Fame Game’s Most Visited Profiles
See what this week’s most visited profiles were…
1. Little Marvin
2. Melissa Zapin
3. Beth Ostrosky Stern
4. Mark Freitas
5. Hannah Bronfman
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October 28th, 2009
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There’s nothing like fall in the city as the leaves start to turn colors and pumpkins abound! We have fall fever and can’t get enough of our pumpkin spice lattes! So check out the new movies, more new books, and stalking ex’es in our round-up this week… And be safe for Halloween!
- Tom Ford is now a bona fide movie director and producer. “A Single Man” debuted at London’s Film Festival.
- Vogue’s Hamish Bowles, Vanity Fair’s Amy Fine Collins, and Peggy Siegal, will all appear in Oliver Stone’s “Wall Street II”.
- Scarlett Johansson and Liev Schreiber to appear on Broadway together in”A View From the Bridge”, previewing on December 28th.
- More new books! Assouline has released its new “The American Fashion Cookbook“. “The World in Vogue: People, Parties, Places” is also now on bookshelves; it was co-edited by Alexandra Kotur and Hamish Bowles. And Malcolm Gladwell, of “Tipping Point” and “Blink” fame, has a new book out called “What the Dog Saw“.
- Dana Delany is one smart cookie.
- Salman Rushdie has moved on from his ex, Pia Glenn - he attended an event with stunning author Min Lieskovsky.
- Alex von Furstenberg is stalking NBA legend Reggie Miller, talk about crazy ex’es.
- Marisa Acocella Marchetto was among the honorees at the benefit for the Cancer Vixen Fund at St Vincent’s.
- Hunt Slonem is auctioning off items from his Hudson mansion.
- Twitter item of the week: Michael’s restaurant is now tweeting about who’s coming to lunch.
- Upcoming events: Tomorrow night is the Tomorrow is Tonight event to benefit Project ALS. HALLOWEEN NIGHT, get out there and don’t miss the Social Life Magazine Halloween Bash at Skyline Studios! Also, mark your calendars for November 2nd: the KiptonART Rising 2010 Finalists Party.
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Fame Game’s Most Visited Profiles
See what this week’s most visited profiles were…
1. Sonja Morgan
2. Raj Rajaratnam
3. Wendell Figueroa Ruiz
4. Dalia Oberlander
5. Hilary Geary Ross
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This Week’s “MEDIA” Movers and Shakers
Mark Seliger +14%
Photographer, Vanity Fair
Jacquetta Wheeler +10.1%
Model
Rachelle Hruska +9%
Editor, Guest of a Guest
See the full list here
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October 21st, 2009
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Goings-on at Central Park West, the Boom Boom Room, and the Angel Ball. Lots of new books heading to bookstore shelves, and more video interviews: see Dana Levy talking about Daily Candy. And get ready for a big lineup of Halloween parties!
- Will Madonna be evicted from her apartment at Central Park West?
- Skinny girls and all, Ralph Lauren celebrated his 70th birthday in style at the Standard Hotel’s Boom Boom Room.
- Jennifer Hudson flew in to dazzle the crowd at Denise Rich’s Angel Ball honoring Thomas and Tricia Quick.
- A photograph of Brooke Shields was removed and replaced in the Richard Prince room at the Tate Modern Museum.
- Ivanka Trump is promoting her new book, The Trump Card. Check out coverage of the book party at Trump Plaza.
- Deepak Chopra has a new book out too. It’s called Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting the Soul: How to Create a New You. Using Deepak’s ten steps to wholeness, you can harness those basic elements to change the distorted energy patterns that are the root cause of aging, infirmity, and disease.
- And also in book news, Jay McInerney’s Bright Lights, Big City will be brought back to film. Look for Josh Schwartz of Gossip Girl fame to do his magic.
- See DailyCandy’s Dana Levy being interviewed on the Harvard Business Blog. And Bob Pittman gets interviewed by All Things Digital about his new tequila start-up.
- Harvey Weinstein sells his stake in aSmallWorld.
- Lady Gaga is working on a video with Beyonce.
- Bethenny Frankel to become a real housewife? Jason Hoppy popped the question…
- In our weekly twitter newsbyte: Will Meghan McCain’s cleavage cause her to leave twitter?
- Lots of parties going on: TONIGHT: The Fountain House Fall Fete at The Plaza, co-hosted by Byrdie Bell, Lil Phillips, and more - and sponsored by Milly. Next week, let the Halloween celebrations begin on Tuesday, October 27th, with the Central Park Conservancy’s 14th Annual Halloween Ball. That same night, the Waldorf Astoria will be imbued with glamour for the Alzheimer Association’s Rita Hayworth Gala.
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This Week’s “MEDIA” Movers and Shakers
Johannes Huebl +6.4%
Model, boyfriend of Olivia Palermo
Nick Dietz +4.2%
Shin Advisors
Jeffrey Podolsky +4.1%
Editor at large, Wall Street Journal
See the full list here
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This Should be Famous: EcoChildsPlay
Goddard Child Development Centers and EcoChildsPlay are proud to sponsor the Second
Annual Eco-Friendly Toy Test, which evaluates the best green
toys for preschool and early elementary-aged children based on the creative, child-engaging qualities, the interactive qualities, the price, and the eco friendliness of the product. Green parents want to know just how environmentally friendly their kids’ toys are, and they want to know which ones are safe toys, because they care about the health of both their children and the planet.
With this in mind, the Goddard Schools and EcoChildsPlay Eco Friendly Toy Test is accepting submissions from toy makers which meet the following criteria: the toy is eco friendly, the toy is affordable (under $25), the toy encourages creative, social, and engaging play activities, the toy is interactive and lends itself to child-initiated play, and the toy is appropriate for preschool to early elementary school-aged children.
The top green toys will be awarded the Eco Friendly Toy seal and listed in the Top Ten Eco Friendly Toys of 2009. In addition, preschoolers at participating Goddard Schools will get to play with the Top Ten and then name the “Local Preschoolers Picks” for the top kid’s choices.
Click here for more information and visit EcoChildsPlay on Facebook.
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Fame Game’s Most Visited Profiles
See what this week’s most visited profiles were…
1. Raj Rajaratnam
2. Stephanie Newhouse
3. Jennifer Gilbert
4. Angela Chao
5. Sunni Spencer
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October 14th, 2009
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Launches, dinners, award shows, it is the Fall season! Check out the Glamourpuss fur funnel, and see who you think gives a better interview: Ivanka Trump or Mark Zuckerberg?
- There is a new housewife in town! It has been confirmed that Sonja Morgan is joining the cast of the Real Housewives of NYC on Bravo. (That would explain why she has been on top of the Most Visited Profiles list for the past 2 weeks - see list at bottom below!)
- Courtney Moss and Gigi Mortimer have launched GLAMOURPUSS NYC, a collection of fashion accessories. Check out the website and see none other than Kelly Bensimon modeling the “Fur Funnel“.
- Paper Magazine threw a dinner for Penelope Cruz and Pedro Almodovar at the newly reopened Casa Lever this past Saturday. Lots of New York regular scene-stealers were there: Cynthia Rowley, Hunter Hill, Stuart Parr, Allison Sarofim, Peter Davis, Patrick McMullan, Luigi Tadini, and… Madonna.
- Kim Kardashian, Amber Valletta, Pamela Anderson and more came out for the 6th Annual Hollywood Style Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday.
- Ivanka Trump appeared on Good Morning America and doled out advice about turning down a job offer from Anna Wintour. See the video here. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was interviewed by Silicon Alley Insider on why founders should run companies. See that video here. Clearly Ivanka is the more articulate of the two.
- Dad Billy Ray tweets to get his daughter Miley to tweet again, just a regular family.
- Heidi Klum gave birth to a baby girl.
- Lots of parties going on: TONIGHT: Don’t miss the launch of the Rosenthal Concept Store at the Plaza featuring the Karl Lagerfeld EGO Photography Exhibit. Tomorrow night, Gotham Magazine celebrates the Bachelor Issue at M2 Ultra Lounge, and the Bijules SS10 Scream and Spirit Launch Party supports Keep a Child Alive. And on Monday the 19th, don’t miss the Whitney Studio Party.
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This Week’s “ARTS” Movers and Shakers
Denise Rich +6.9%
Songwriter, socialite, philanthropist
Rogan Gregory +5.3%
Designer
Robert Rauschenberg +4.8%
Artist, deceased in 2008
See the full list here
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This Should be Famous: Eyebeam Open Studios Eyebeam, the cutting edge not-for-profit art and technology center, is hosting Open Studios on Friday, October 23rd and Saturday, October 24th for its 2009 Senior Fellowships and Summer/Fall residents at
Eyebeam’s new media design, digital research, and fabrication studio. The Open Studios will showcase work in the areas of performance, experimental film, wearable technologies, open culture, and sustainable
art.
Eyebeam’s residents are selected from
two yearly open calls of emerging artists, technologists and engineers for a five-month residency, which includes a stipend as well as access to Eyebeam’s facilities, equipment, and opportunities for collaboration and presentation of work. This group of five residents was selected from a group of 195 applicants.
Click here for more information and visit Eyebeam’s website.
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Fame Game’s Most Visited Profiles
See what this week’s most visited profiles were…
1. Sonja Morgan
2nd week running!
2. Jared Najjar
3. Anne de Zogheb
4. Kirby Bumpus
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October 7th, 2009
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Talk show hosts getting extorted, magazines shutting down, Roman Polanski denied bail - all this and more in this week’s roundup!
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This Week’s “FASHION” Movers and Shakers
Reed Krakoff +16.3%
President of Coach
Gisele Bundchen +4.5%
Model
Alexander Wang +3.1%
Fashion designer
See the full list here
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This Should be Famous: Nicole Williams and Girl on Top
Best-selling auth or and friend of Fame Game, Nicole Williams has just written a new book, Girl on Top: Your Guide to Turning Dating Rules into Career Success. In the book, career-expert Williams
takes 20 tried-and-true dating rules you know (and have probably used)
such as “Play Hard to Get” and “Don’t Give Away the Milk for Free”-and
shows you how to put them to use when the object of your affection is
your job. The book is launching with a nationwide tour this month. Fame Game members are invited to the networking
and shopping event of the season wrapped around Girl on Top! The first 50 Fame Game readers to
sign up will receive a VIP pass to an evening of:
-Networking with women in NYC you need to
know
-40% of on The Limited merchandise
-A filled-to-the-brim gift bag
-Free-flowing cocktails
-Career advice from Nicole
Click here to buy the book and
RSVP for the Oct. 15th event in NYC!
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Fame Game’s Most Visited Profiles
See what this week’s most visited profiles were…
1. Sonja Morgan
2. Samantha Geimer
3. Brad Leinhardt
4. Marco Battistotti
5. Dalia Oberlander
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October 7th, 2009
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September 23rd, 2009
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Have you noticed President Obama keeps coming to town and snarling New York City traffic? He’s even weighing in on our governor’s race and asking David Paterson
to drop out of the 2010 election. We don’t mind a little attention from our
president, but we have other things to attend to after all!
- The New York Film Festival kicks off this week at Lincoln Center at the
newly renovated Alice Tully Hall. Highlights include Pedro Almodovar’s “Broken Embraces” with Penelope Cruz, and
Lars von Trier’s “Antichrist” starring Willem Dafoe.
- Monday night, Esquire Magazine co-sponsored an exclusive premiere of Michael Moore’s new film, “Capitalism: A Love Story“, with a Q&A led by Tina Brownof The Daily Beast. Dinner followed at Esquire’s new showhouse space in Soho at
the Soho Mews. See what Rachel Sklar had to say about the movie.
- Last Thursday was the grand opening of the Renaissance New York Hotel 57 which just completed a $40 million makeover by
innovative designer, Jordan Mozer. The opening was attended by Brooke Shields,Chace Crawford, Penn Badgley, Kelly Killoren Bensimon. See the photos
here.
- Alec Baldwin rocked the house with his 30 Rock win at the Emmy’s: Best Actor!
Way to go Alec, you won an Emmy! But it was Heidi Klum who stunned the red carpet with her Marchesa-clad baby bump.
- US Weekly released its list of “Most Stylish New Yorkers“: Elle Macpherson,Christie Brinkley, Chris Cuomo, Vera Wang, Danielle Staub, Sara Paxton, Amber Rose, Countess Luann de Lesseps, Zill Zarin, among others.
- Style was the theme of the night at the 10th Annual New Yorkers for Children Fall Gala with stunners Selita Ebanks, Ines Rivero and Hilary Rhoda glamming it up.
- Town & Country Magazine featured seven women in a special on
stylish Career Women. Alina Cho, Allison Aston, Kerry Diamond, Lucy Mitchell Innes…
- Katie Couric and CBS have launched a new live web-based show. It’s called “@KatieCouric“.
- Fame Game’s Tatiana Platt appeared on Fox News’ Strategy Room, hosted by Eric Bolling. Click here to view. Co-hosts Patricia Kara and Melanie Notkin brought insightful commentary to the Strategy Room discussion.
- Next up: Don’t miss tonight’s Caron Renaissance 20th Anniversary Benefit at
Butter Restaurant. Hosts include Lorraine Bracco, Stella Schnabel, Arden Wohland Russell Simmons.
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Top Searched People on Fame Game
See what this week’s most searched profiles were…
1. Alex McCord
2. Dori Cooperman
3. Tracy Bjelland
4. Gillian Miniter
5. Keith Lissner
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This Should be Famous: America’s Giving Challenge
The Case Foundation, Causes and PARADE have joined together to present the 2009 America’s Giving Challenge.
America’s Giving Challenge is a national online competition that enables
passionate individuals and nonprofit organizations to easily leverage the web to
increase awareness, attract new donors, and encourage people to get and stay
involved with causes they care about.
Participants in America’s Giving Challenge will compete for daily and overall
awards of up to $50,000, which will be given to the causes with the highest
number of individual donors (not dollars). By encouraging people to give what
they can- no matter how big or small, America’s Giving Challenge seeks to
demonstrate that philanthropy is about real people coming together to make an
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Fame Game’s Most Visited Profiles
See what this week’s most visited profiles were…
1. Maryam Sachs
2. Anne de Zogheb
3. Sarah Basile
4. Mark Maurice
5. Valerie Boster |
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September 16th, 2009
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Fall is in the air, the kids are back in school, aaaaah. It feels good! What are you tweeting about this week?
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This Week’s “MEDIA + DIGITAL” Movers and Shakers
Lloyd Grove +9.3% Editor-at-large, The Daily Beast Julia Allison +8.2% Non Society blogger
Arianna Huffington +5.2%
Founder, The Huffington Post
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This Should be Famous: The Feast Conference The Feast Social Innovation Conference is a gathering of the world’s greatest innovators from across industries and society to empower, inspire and engage each other in creating world-shaking change, The Feast is sure to get you full on good.
Annie Duke, Rod Arnold and Becky Straw of Charity Water, and Host Cindy Gallop, Founder of If We Ran The World. Check out pictures from last year’s conference, and to register or get more information, go to http://feastongood.com |
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Retna Photo of the Week

What: The 2009 MTV Music Video Awards
Who: Taylor Swift, who picked up the award for “Best Female Video” only to be interrupted on stage by Kanye West’s bizarre outburst. (Check out her recent NY attention graph as a result of the incident!)
Want a Retna photographer at your next event? Go here to fill out details and we’ll get back to you.
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Most Visited Profiles
See what this week’s most visited profiles were…
1. Stephanie Newhouse
2. Maya Haile
3. Rebecca de Ravenel
4. Betsy Bingle
5. Dana Hammond Stubgen |
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