At the New York Film Festival premiere of Broken Embraces:

● PENELOPE CRUZ - Favorite restaurant in New York? "Oh, I have many because I love food so much!" And in Madrid? "I go to many that are out in the countryside, but whoever goes there for the first time should go to Botin. It's the oldest restaurant in the world." What did you like about it? "Everything!"

● PEDRO ALMODOVAR - Favorite restaurant in New York? "Mr. Chow's -- we had dinner there the other day, and it was really very impressive." And in Madrid? "In Madrid, there are many. Casa Lucio is one of my favorites."

● Paris Hilton tries to remain relevant by gushing about former/current BFF Nicole Richie’s new son, calling Sparrow “a perfect addition to the family.” [Us]
● Friends of Jessica Simpson worry the singer (?)/actress (?) is about to go all Sylvia Plath and fall into the bell jar now that her "baby" Daisy was mauled by a coyote. [People]
● Jason Segal and Chloë Sevigny are bumping uglies -- the TV duo were spotted making out at an after-Emmy party, but quickly de-locked their lips once noticed by the masses. [E!]

You won't see a lot of interviews with Michael Moore in the lead-up to his new doc Capitalism: A Love Story. Why not? Well, as the LA Times’ Patrick Goldstein recently found out, Moore’s doing a sit-down with Oprah on September 22, and the price of her oh-so-critical attention is total exclusivity. The doyenne-of-daytime doesn’t want anyone stealing her thunder. A New York Times piece and a Leno appearance scraped by because they preceded the Oprah booking, but otherwise that’s it until the 23rd when the film drops in NY and LA.

The last time I was imprisoned in the waiting room of a hospital, I spent the better part of an hour trying to figure out how many Q-Tips I go through in an average month. Not so for Erik Luchauer and Kevin Antoine, brothers-in-law from Knoxville, Tenessee, who did battle with slogging healthcare monotony by creating Rootclip.com. It's a website through which aspiring Stan Brakhages are invited to add "chapters" to an existing short. Rootclip provided the first two-minute clip, an open-ended plot introduction, and users are asked to finish their story—one one-minute entry at a time.