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Zing! “Boldface Names” totally disses Christian Slater

Christian Slater.jpgToday’s NYT Boldface Names column reports from last Thursday’s Reader’s Digest party at Skylight Studios, which boasted a plethora of stars and, arguably more important, a plethora of mini-cupcakes. There were also seared tuna bites but that’s not important right now; what’s important is that Boldface Names correspondent Fiona Byrne* totally zinged Christian Slater while he was having a smoke. After asking him about Jude & Sienna, scandal and live theater (to which, it must be noted, he gave very articulate and lucid responses) she commented on the – wait for it – plethora of women in their 30s and 40s who were fawning all over him:

There are lots of women here, our correspondent observed, who were clearly fans of yours back in the day when you were a teen heartthrob.

“Back in the day?” he said, laughing. “What a gal.”

Ouch. Aw, Christian. We thought you were totally good in “Kuffs.”

Senator Kutcher! Senator Kutcher! [NYT]

*Astute readers of the Boldface column will recall that Ms. Byrne was the very same correspondent who stared down Puffy in Atlantic City a few weeks ago, earning the column a Fishy. Campbell Robertson, why are you sending a girl in to do your dirty work? We’re joking, of course. Don’t you dare mess up that punum.
**Let us disclaim: we know/are friends with Fiona Byrne. Obviously not very good friends, though, otherwise someone might have brought someone else a mini-cupcake, hmmm?

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