Gossip roundup
· A few celebrities walked out when the band played "God Bless America" at Miramax's Oscar pre-party. [Page Six]
· Page Six on being disinvited to the Oscar parties: "It started to dawn on us reporters that we were like U.N. weapons inspectors. We knew the celebs were out there, but they were being moved around, out of sight." [Page Six]
· Salma Hayek on eating: "Listen, don't think I don't eat. I always eat. If I'm happy, I eat; unhappy, I eat. If I'm nervous, I eat. Not nervous, I eat. I eat alot." [Cindy Adams]
· Director John Waters thinks President Bush needs new writers: "I mean 'shock and awe?'...It sounds like one of my movies.'" [NY Daily News]
· Tom Wolfe's next novel "about college life" will be published next year. Tina Brown had her booker call around town, looking for "hot war photographers" for her talk show after the war in Iraq began. [The Word]