Hey, Sean Parker: If you want to put your party-boy image behind you, then at least take your partying private. The new-media mogul recently complained that there’s “a certain pressure” to “live up to” Justin Timberlake‘s portrayal of him as a hard-partying dude in “The Social Network.” We believe him, since he seemed to succumb to that pressure at the opening of “Late Nights” at Rockography with deejay Alexander Dexter Jones early Saturday. A source says Parker was downing vodka shots and buying rounds of drinks for his entourage at the Village hot spot.
Ronson’s rival
Does Samantha Ronson have a rival? We hear that up-and-coming New York deejay Jane Bang, who, like Ronson, is gay, has been getting a lot of comparisons to Lindsay Lohan‘s ex lately. And things could get more competitive: Bang just released her first single, “Crunk It,” and a source tells us she has been approached by Roc Nation, the same management team that represents Ronson.
Literally ‘xoxo,’ Gossip Girl
Kelly Rutherford lives “La Dolce Vita,” baby. The “Gossip Girl” actress spent her elevator ride to the Cinema Society party for the Fellini classic engaged in a vacuum-sealed liplock with lawyer-boyfriend Marcus Ernst on Thursday night. The handful of other partygoers riding to the Top of the Standard did their best not to stare but couldn’t help noticing that the couple didn’t come up for air for almost the entire ride.
Less flagrant were Adrien Brody and model Paige Hathaway. A source tells us the actor introduced the blond beauty as “my girlfriend” at the screening, which was held at the Tribeca Grand hotel earlier that night.
Just about the only celeb who didn’t seem to be engaged in some hot-weather hanky-panky was Matthew Broderick, who came to the party solo.
The actor chatted with Susan Sarandon (who arrived with SPiN Ping-Pong club partner and beau Jonathan Bricklin but didn’t hang with him) and other friends. Broderick ended up staying at the Standard until after 12:30 a.m., and on his way out, he struck up a conversation with a woman in the elevator who mentioned that her over-the-counter drug of choice was Tylenol P.M.
Broderick said he thought it “should be illegal,” adding, “That stuff knocks you out.” Isn’t that the point?
PR’s bottled coke
Denise Rich‘s former communications director will be incommunicado for a long time. Last week, PR consultant Kieron Kawall, 50, received a seven-year jail sentence for attempting to smuggle almost $900,000 worth of high-purity cocaine into London’s Heathrow Airport.
According to the U.K. Border Agency, which polices this kind of stuff across the pond, Kawall pleaded guilty to importing a class A drug at Isleworth Crown Court on Friday and was jailed. He was stopped by Border Agency officers in March after stepping off a flight from Sao Paulo. (Kawall claimed he’d been to Brazil to organize a hot-air balloon race.) The drugs were found concealed inside three packages of chocolate cookies.
The Canadian citizen, who once did much of the planning for the socialite songwriter Angel Ball, hasn’t worked for Rich for approximately two years.
Bombshell Barkin gets ‘airbrushed’
Anxiety gave way to approval when Ellen Barkin saw her Sardi’s caricature last week. The 57-year-old bombshell looked immensely relieved when the legendary Theater District eatery unveiled its illustration of the actress looking happy, sexy — and young. “It’s already been airbrushed!” laughed Barkin, who clearly liked what she saw. Her “Normal Heart” cast mates Joe Mantello and John Benjamin Hickey — who said his dressing room is plastered with Barkin pics — were pleased with their caricatures, too.
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