We talked mob money with writer Gay Talese at the screening of Gomorrah.

After months of speculation, we got to the bottom of Marquee's temporary summer shutdown.

We tallied gifts, drank absinthe, and chatted with godfather Michael Musto at nightlife heir Liam McMullan's 21st birthday party.

Russell Crowe got a little testy at the Body of Lies premiere--par for the course, we suppose.

We partied with Diane von Furstenberg, Tory Burch, Fern Mallis, Martha Stewart and Rory and Elie Tahari as the CFDA welcomed its newest members.

It looks like residents of the Soho block recently taken over by Delicatessen--one of whom peed on the restaurant's glass roof in early September--still have not warmed up to their loud, cocktatil-gulping neighbor. Via Eater, we bring you what they are calling "one of the best reader emails of all time":

Last night a friend and I were walking around SoHo and saw Delicatessen...Within five minutes of sitting at the bar, some young super-angry dude storms up to the bar and starts laying into the bartending staff screaming shit like, 'Fuck you!!! Fuck your restaurant!!! Fuck your hipstery little patrons who think they are so fucking cool!!! People fucking live on this block!!! I can hear these people screaming outside my fucking apartment all fucking night!!!' And all through his rant everyone, including the bartending staff, are just staring at this dude with big grins on their faces, clearly enjoying his rage.  read more »

Anya Hindmarch's handbag collection for Target sold out within two minutes when it went on sale at 11 a.m. on the designer's Web site. [Vogue UK]

Balenciaga has signed a deal with Coty Inc.’s Coty Prestige division to create a new line of fragrances under the Balenciaga name. [WWD]

Gossip Girl Taylor Momsen's high fashion spread in Crash magazine is everything we hoped it would be: a little awkward, a little scary, and way too fun to stare at. [FabSugar via The Cut]

Marc Jacobs is still wearing skirts around town. [FashionIndie]

While some celebrity homeowners--Julian Schnabel for one--are hurrying to get rid of their lavish homes as the economy continues to dissolve, others are taking to the old tradition of "nesting," a term that gained currency post 9/11 when (as USA Today wrote in January 2002) people started "spending more time at home" and "feathering [their] nests with more elaborate and entertaining diversions." (Does that mean we can finally get a Wii?)

Indeed, high-profile New Yorkers have recently taken to remodeling their homes to make them more livable. Some have even taken to acquiring (additional?) weekend homes to get away from all the negative talk of the economy around the city.   read more »

We've already heard about rich people trying to hang onto their private jets in the face of global economic collapse. And we've heard how the chairman and CEO of Lehman Brothers, Richard Fuld Jr., is selling off his private art collection. Even the $50,000 tables at New York's fanciest benefits may be left empty come spring.

And so The Wall Street Journal has posed a reasonable question: Is Bling Over?

Francois Henri Pinault, the CEO of the PPR luxury group that owns Gucci, reportedly said a few weeks ago that the rich will always be rich. Still, Francesco Trapani, chief executive of the Bulgari Group, recently had to sell his 137-foot yacht. And Barry Sternlicht, the chairman and chief executive of Starwood Capital, told The Journal that he's "just waiting out the tsunami. That's what this is, a financial tsunami."  read more »

Britney Spears will address the causes of her infamously erratic behavior in an upcoming documentary. Sample quote: "I sit there and I'll look back and I'm like: 'I'm a smart person. What the hell was I thinking?'" [People]

The cover photo from the November issue of W, which features Angelina Jolie breast-feeding one of her children, has been released. [Radar]

In preparation for his role in The Wrestler, Mickey Rourke cut his own forehead open with a razor blade he had taped to his forearm; how exactly this helped him to prepare is unclear. [R&M]

While touring with Madonna, Swedish musician Robyn was told "not to approach Madonna, not to speak to Madonna and, above all, no pictures.  read more »

Marc Jacobs and business partner Robert Duffy have settled on a theme of "Rock and Roll Circus" for their annual holiday party, to be held Dec. 10 at the Rainbow Room. [WWD]

Diesel will throw a 30th anniversary party in Brooklyn on Saturday night featuring performances by N.E.R.D., MIA, and possibly, Britney Spears. [FWD] 

For people in the fashion industry, seeing nude male and female models backstage at shows is hardly exciting. [NY Times] 

Vanessa Paradis, the new face of Miu Miu, on her life with Johnny Depp: "I'm really lucky. I do stay in wonderful hotels and houses and that's amazing, but we're not very social at all. We don't go to parties or premieres." [Vogue UK]

Sarah Palin wore a tote in public that reads "Real Women Hunt Moose." [Ecorazzi via Racked]

Ryan Reynolds, the actor best known for his role as Scarlett Johansson's new husband, is running the New York Marathon this year! In an entry on Huffington Post this morning, he begins by recalling his previous experience as a spectator of the 38-year-old race:

I joined the crowd about a half-mile before the race's end at Tavern On The Green. With my arms resting on the cold cordon, I saw an incredible spectacle of people pushed to the very brink of collapse. I expected exhaustion, but what I didn't expect was to see just how much these runners had to EARN their prize.

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On Saturday night, Celerie Kemble celebrated her birthday! So what's wrong with that?

One gets the distinct impression that Page Six is having a populist moment: never afraid to glamorize the lives of the rich and famous, the item this morning chronicling the "blond" and "Harvard-educated" interior designer and socialite's party for her "privileged guests" at the bawdy pop-up venue Spiegeltent on Pier 17 over the weekend is indulging in a bit of a scold.

"LIFE doesn't stop just because the economy is cratering," the write-up begins. The item describes the stripping down to the waist of Bronson van Wyck onstage. He's that guy "whose family has a Queens expressway named after it.  read more »

Fancy watch hoarder Charlize Theron will have to pay luxury watchmaker Raymond Weil for violating a $3 million endorsement deal with the designer by wearing a Dior watch in public, a Manhattan judge has ruled, according to the New York Post.

Last week, Daily Transom stumbled on the court documents on The Smoking Gun that indicated this wasn't the first time the actress has used her popularity in the press to expand her jewelry collection.

From the court filings:

She also was paid $200,000 by Chopard to wear its jewels to the 2006 Oscars and received another $50,000 from the Swiss firm for wearing its gems to that year's BAFTA awards in London.

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