Deferring for Darfur

Published 10:53 pm Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Starvin’ Mia: Actress and activist Mia Farrow says she plans a 21-day hunger strike in support of the people of genocide-wracked Darfur.

Pointing out the medical dangers of not eating for 21 days, Farrow’s physician suggested she instead adopt Darfur.

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McRecession-proof: McDonald’s first-quarter earnings rose nearly 4 percent. Americans are “scaling back and being more discernible about what they purchase,” Golden Arches honcho Jim Skinner explained.

Pointing out the medical dangers of regularly eating at McDonald’s, Americans’ physicians suggested we instead learn to cook at home.

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Not so priceless: A reader of Terry Kovel’s antiques column is advised that a tea set believed to have come over on the Mayflower with Puritan leader William Bradford in 1620 is worthless because, well, the English didn’t start drinking tea until about 100 years later.

Nevertheless, The Buzz remains hopeful that our family heirloom, an electric hair dryer that came around the Horn with 19th-century actress Lily Langtry aboard a clipper ship, will fetch a pretty penny on the antiques market.