... a quick review in WSJ of Woody Allen's recent collection of short stories contains this tantalizing one (or two) liner:

Mr. Allen's loopy non sequiturs and highbrow allusions are here, too. "Bidnick gorges himself on Viagra, but the dosage makes him hallucinate and imagine he is Pliny the Elder."

... and from Marc Haefele's Citywatch column:

I knew that at one point or another, the name of Paris Hilton would have to darken my column. So full of years am I that when I first heard those two words, I immediately recalled that ugly new hotel in the City of Light where, 40 years ago, you could reputedly get the best cheeseburger in Europe. But this turns out instead to be a child of the family who built that hotel. And not, as one might surmise, a male child--the name being that of a famous man in the Iliad, you recall the story, the one who ran off with Helen of Troy -- but of a female. I have no idea why. If the Hilton parents wanted a Homeric girl’s name, there is always Helen. Or Clytemnestra. If they wanted a boy’s name, they could have picked something less ambivalent--like Agamemnon.

[was PH named for the Trojan or the city?]