Yet, leading up to the show, the squawks from the models sounded more like practical concerns than diva demands. David Paterson, the seventy-one-year-old former governor of New York, who is mostly blind, worried about navigating the runway. (Adams, his rep told the Post, has “a city to run, not a runway.”) Paterson shrugged. “I was going to do a front flip, but when I put my hands down they slipped,” he said. Having never held office, he was ineligible to walk, yet he had a few saucy words to say about his rival.