When Senior Editor Danielle Stein interviewed Kate Hudson over lunch back in early June (they met at Rice on Elizabeth Street) the actress had so much to say that it was impossible to cram all of it into her September cover story. So in the name of not wasting anything--we're a frugal bunch here at W--here are some of the extra tidbits for any of you die-hard Hudson fans out there.  

On dating [at the time of the interview, Hudson was still dating Lance Armstrong]: "Dating is overrated as far as I'm concerned. I'm not a dater. I wish I could be. I wish I could be that kind of girl who's like, oh, I've got two guys on the back burner! I'm just not like that. Because I'm not really single. I mean I am, but I have a son. Being a single mother is different from being a single woman."

On gaining weight: "If you put food in front of me I'll eat it. Did you see how much weight I gained when I was pregnant? God! I gained 70 pounds! My doctor, when I had gained 45 pounds by the 5th month, his whole thing was, Kate, look, it's okay to just eat salads sometimes."

On her diet: "Give me a good burger and I'm so happy, but I know that if I eat crap, I'll feel like crap. So I don't eat the pastas and the sugars. I try to avoid wheat or dairy. I like my coffee black."



On developing her haircare line: "This has been three years of my life. It's been a long process. There are all these regulations. I joke that it's like, you go up to people and say, I wanna make the only natural product that's going to be in Duane Reade! And they're like, ok, that's great, but let's talk to the experts. And then you realize that you got a D in chemistry and there are people who dedicate their lives to formulating something that can sit on a shelf, to understanding that certain ingredients when mixed with others can become carcinogens."

On her favorite exercise class:"The S curve. It's the stripper class. It's a real girl's girl thing. I love it."

And there you have it.

Photos: Top: both BAUER-GRIFFIN.COM; Hudson and Naomi Watts: MATRIX/BAUER-GRIFFIN.COM; bottom: courtesy of David Babaii for Wildaid

On Tuesday night, some friends and I got to see actors Kathleen Chalfant and David Strathairn perform in a friend's loft in Soho. The gathering of about 25 people was the result of a winning bid some of us had made at a benefit auction for New York's Epic Theatre Ensemble back in January. (The hammer price was $4,400.) Celerie Kemble, Boykin Curry and actress Stephanie March were among the crowd, and Stephanie told me about one of her upcoming films, a comedy directed by Ricky Gervais. "It's called This Side of The Truth and it takes place in a world where lying and sarcasm don't exist," explained the actress, who was dressed down a tank top, shorts (Old Navy, as it turns out), and Louboutin wedges. "Ricky [who also stars] plays this loser guy who discovers lying. When he meets me, he uses this discovery to his advantage," she said. "I only had about two lines, but who would say no to Ricky Gervais?"

As we balanced plates of Vietnamese food on our laps, Kathleen and David sat perched on bar stools as they read their scenes together—one was a Burns and Allen sketch, and another was from Noel Coward's Private Lives. Each also read a monologue: Kathleen's from Wit addressed her heroine's stage four cancer, and David's, from a book of Edward R. Murrow speeches, was on the topic of war. "I'm not reading something from Good Night and Good Luck," said the actor, whose salt and pepper hair and wire-rimmed eyeglasses made him look particularly professorial. "I chose this one because I feel it is particularly apropos to our current situation," he explained.

Fortunately, the mood lightened up afterward, and both actors lingered to chat a bit. David headed back to his house upstate and Kathleen returned to New Haven, where she's currently in rehearsals for the Yale Rep's production of Sarah Ruhl's trilogy Passion Play. Depending on the night, she'll play Queen Elizabeth, Adolf Hitler or Ronald Reagan. Quite a stretch from Gracie Allen.

We were so taken by the absurdity of last week’s “Sacco-Richman” event at SoHo House (see our earlier post “Sacco A Ping-Pong No Show”) that we figured we should ask Sacco herself what she thought of it. (Society blog guestofaguest.com, for one, was duped by the tournie’s gag title.)

As it turns out, Bungalow 8’s founding babe was not at all pleased to hear about the table tennis tournament she supposedly co-hosted with personal injury lawyer Eric Richman. “I have no idea who he is and I wasn’t even invited, I don’t know what he’s up to—what’s the joke? I don’t get the joke,” she said when we reached her in London. “It’s just weird for someone to throw your name in for no reason, who really doesn’t know me. He’s not in my phone book.”

Richman’s shenanigans, however, might have given Sacco a few ideas. “If I was going to have a tournament, it would be air hockey,” she quipped. “If Virgin Airways or American wants to sponsor my air hockey tournaments—I’m a champion air hockey player.”

Photo montage: Sasha Filimonov
Photos: Table Tennis player: Ryuhei Shindo/Corbis; Sacco: Shawn Ehlers/wireimage

Heather Thomas, an actress who starred in 1980s TV hit The Fall Guy and is now married to Hollywood super-lawyer Skip Brittenham, set out to paint the world of the Bel Air wife in her frothy novel Trophies. Thomas has said that many of the stories in her book, which revels in the backbiting and social-climbing of the L.A. charity and political fundraising scene, were true but refused to name names. Now that the book has been published she's created this video, which reenacts a chapter of the book with dolls. With voices by Thomas (she plays one of the main characters, Pepper) and her friends, the video also features a cameo by Phyllis Diller and perhaps most puzzling, narration from Gore Vidal.

So, how did she get the esteemed political essayist to narrate a promotional YouTube video that shows plastic dolls having sex and comparing vaginal weights? Thomas told me that it came naturally; while she was attending a party for The Nation that Vidal was hosting at his L.A. home, she simply asked him. "He's Gore Vidal, but he's also a funster," Thomas says.

"It'll sell some books," she adds hopefully. "And sell a movie!"

Last Wednesday night, there were so many security guards at Rock and Republic's party at Beatrice Inn that it was only natural for partygoers to assume a major celebrity was en route. It turned out, however, that the strongmen were there for the jeans company's top execs, Andrea Bernholtz and Michael Ball, who apparently bring guards with them wherever they go.

Upstairs, LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy spun his favorite old-school disco anthems. Despite top billing on the invitation, he seemed itching to head off to his next gig, at Santos' Party House, a new club in Chinatown. He explained that he and the band's drummer, Pat Mahoney, are holding a biweekly party series there, called "Special Disco Version."

DJing after him was downtown it-girl Harley Viera-Newton, who was hanging out with 21-year-old realtor-to-the-Olsens Jared Seligman (subject of a profile in W's May issue). As it turns out, Harley and Seligman are next door neighbors, and Seligman told us that Harley had just been signed to Elite model agency.

Eventually, a security guard-worthy celebrity actually did make an appearance. Around 11 pm, the recently rehabbed Kirsten Dunst showed up, slouching discreetly beneath a fedora.

Top left: DJ Harley Viera-Newton; top right: James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem.