By Nicole Breskin
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
Taylor Swift finally got revenge on Kanye West for interrupting her acceptance speech at the MTV Video Music Awards.
Swift, 19, was the host of SNL on Saturday. Her ex-boyfriend, Joe Jonas, was also the butt of jokes, a clip on People magazine’s Web site shows. [people.com]
Ashton Kutcher, Demi Moore, Jennifer Aniston and more began assembling on Sunday night for the start of “24 Hour Plays” – in which the actors have a day to invent and perform skits.
The play will be performed on Monday night at the American Airlines Theater in midtown. Proceeds benefit the Urban Arts Partnership, which provides art education to New York City children. [nytimes.com]
Anna Wintour was thrilled to find out that the new New York Fashion Week director is coming from her own ranks.
Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, Vogue’s former director of special projects, will take over Fashion Week next September, the New York Post reported.
"The appointment is great for Stephanie and great for Fashion Week,” Wintour told the Post. “We're all very happy for her."
Wolkoff added: "I'm very excited to be working on this in the most fashionable city in the world." [nypost.com]
Disney’s "A Christmas Carol" hauled in $31 million at the box office, according to estimates by Hollywood.com.
The $175 million animated movie is expected to continue its momentum since it’ll be playing on nearly 200 IMAX screens until "Avatar" opens on Dec. 18, according to Entertainment Weekly.
Sarah Jessica Parker spoke to the New York Daily News about her life when she's not filming "Sex and the City."
"I love the smell of diapers,” said Parker, who now has three kids. “I even like them when they're wet and you smell them all warm like a baked good."
She was also promoting her new film “'Did You Hear About the Morgans” in which she plays a New York City wife who relocates to Wyoming with her husband (Hugh Grant). [nydailynews.com]
The shooting of a horror flick on the Lower East Side got so lifelike that someone called 911.
Billy Leroy, owner of the Bowery's icon Billy's Antiques & Props, filmed his own death in the film "Sotto Voce" with a mannequin in his likeness dragged behind a car in the street on Friday.
But the shoot stopped when one neighbor called 911.
Director James Tully told the New York Post, "This is a baroque fairy tale, and Billy dies in a horrible way. The model we used was very lifelike." [nypost.com]
