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michael wolff
Politico Is Revolutionary, Says Man Who Should Just Be Writing About His Affair
Michael Wolff, internet shouty guy and writer-for-magazines, was supposed to write a juicy tell-all for Vanity Fair about his scandalous affair with an intern! Instead he's apparently been working on a piece about fucking Politico? More »
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By PareeneComment by GORDONGARTRELLE: Sweet "Virginia offices," Politico! more » | Other threads
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media
Why Can't Gisele Sell Magazines?
If Gisele Bundchen covers can't sell magazines, what is it that you people really want? This may be Michelle Obama's fault. More »
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Comment by ChanRasit: I'll tell you why. Because she's a MODEL... They're typically uneducated and pretty uninteresting, having led charmed lives solely due... 4 Responses | Other threads
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print is dead
Graydon Carter's Fool-Proof Plan to Save Newspapers
Newspapers have been having problems, and whatnot. Why have they not asked Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter's advice sooner? Despite this error, Carter has deigned to stop having amazing sex for a few minutes to tell you how to save newspapers: More »
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Comment by Vic_Damocles: Sounds like GC has been spending a little too much time in the Conde bunker. The Times, like a lot... 3 Responses | Other threads
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scandal
Michael Wolff Offers Odd Meta Analysis of Eliot Spitzer's Public Rehabilitation
Michael Wolff, whose affair with a 28-year-old Vanity Fair intern and subsequent divorce were publicized all over the place, is just thinkin' about Eliot Spitzer, today. More »
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By PareeneComment by czecher: In fairness... the editor of Vanity Fair having an affair with an intern isn't really on the same level as... 2 Responses | Other threads
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bravery
Ivy League Manhattanite Travels to Brooklyn, Somehow Survives
Kate Ahlborn—Harvard '07, Upper East Sider, Vanity Fair writer—ventured into Brooklyn, where dirty people live, for a weird Brooklyny art show, and wrote about it. May she never fucking return.
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Comment by Richard Lawson: I hope she wrote a daring piece for the Crimson called "My Journey to Jamaica Plain" or something. 26 Responses | Other threads
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Fucks
Graydon Carter: 'An Amazing Fuck'
What sort of fucker is Vanity Fair's George Washingtonesque editor Graydon Carter? An amazing one, according to a man who once stayed in a hotel room directly under his, listening: More »
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Comment by markscottmusic: That isn't fun. I was in Nashville recording a few years back. The folks in the hotel room next to... 14 Responses | Other threads
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television
Graydon Carter Thinks 'Menstrual Cycle' Is a Dirty Word
Vanity Fair's Graydon Carter was on the Early Show today sharing insider Hollywood tales. Graydon, why did Cleopatra have to schedule shots around Liz Taylor's menstrual cycle? "Ah...umbittyhumbittydahbahdoowelllllll..." I see. Click to watch.
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Comment by Truculent: I LOST MY STAR! I'm compressed. The shame!! 20 Responses | Other threads
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waverly inn
Graydon Carter Controls His Neighbors Like So Many Puppets
SCANDAL: George Washington doppelganger Graydon Carter is reportedly wooing his West Village neighborhood critics by giving them reservations at his Waverly Inn and putting their pictures in his Vanity Fair. Yes, and? More »
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Comment by Nic Fit: Deni, who owned Save the Robots in the old days, famously bribed all the neighbors with free drinks until they... 10 Responses | Other threads
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magazines
No Economic Downturn Can Stop Vanity Fair (Except the One That Did)
New York City was lucky enough today to play host to a fancy panel discussion featuring the world's three fanciest magazine editors: Vanity Fair's Graydon Carter, Vogue's Anna Wintour, and The New Yorker's David Remnick. And Joe Nocera of the Times uncouthly "lashed out at the editors and asked how each of the them could be so sanguine about the future." Pish posh! Graydon Carter is convinced his invincible publication will weather this economic storm as it always has: More »
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Comment by raincoaster: The oldest continuously published magazine in the English language is, I believe the Tatler, which was last interesting in the... 2 Responses | Other threads
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seth mnookin
Salesman Is Insufficiently Familiar With Vanity Fair Writer's Work
There's nothing easier than hating on dumb young telemarketers and their annoying sales pitches. Though it is possible to summon some sympathy for the unfortunate Bloomberg sales caller who mistakenly thought that Vanity Fair contributing editor Seth Mnookin was a Vanity Fair PR person. Outrageous! Doesn't this anonymous business services salesman read Seth Mnookin's stories? More »
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Comment by braak: How can that be? How can a person's name be "Mnookin"? That doesn't make any sense. 11 Responses | Other threads
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rupert murdoch
Rupert Murdoch's Strange Kids
Vanity Fair has a new excerpt from professional media beef-starter Michael Wolff's upcoming biography of News Corp. chief Rupert Murdoch. Murdoch already said publicly that the book is flawed, but his problems with it seemed to center on how some of his business relationships are portrayed. The excerpt today, disappointingly, focuses on Murdoch's family life, and some of it is predictable. Friction between the new wife and the old wife and the kids from the old wife! Drama about succession! The only real interesting parts come when Wolff starts riffing on Murdoch'sgreedyambitious kids and their Oedipal tendencies: More »
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miley cyrus
Miley Cyrus A Sexual Being, Get Over It
Miley Cyrus, who was shamelessly hoodwinked and tricked and bamboozled into taking off her shirt by Vanity Fair's hypnotic lesbian Jewish mystic, Annie Leibovitz, has suddenly developed normal teenaged sexual urges just a few months later! Go figure. Cyrus, still 15 despite a fake Disney Sweet Sixteen party a couple of weesk ago, is almost definitely hooking up with a 20-year old model boyfriend named Justin Gaston. Daddy Bill-Ray has said the two kids are just friends, but after Page Six ran the latest and most detailed sighting of the couple yet this morning, from an LA Fashion Week rendezvous, it's hard to believe him. Just listen to what the little harlot is up to: More »
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michael lewis
Graydon Carter Sticks It To Portfolio Again
It was something of a coup when Vanity Fair, in May, did what its Condé Nast sibling Portfolio couldn't and poached Fortune's winsome star writer Bethany McLean. If Portfolio's uncertain editor Joanne Lipman was annoyed then, she must be really steaming now that rival Graydon Carter snagged his latest catch from her own magazine. Vanity Fair's editor just inked an exclusive deal, the Observer reports, with Michael Lewis, who had contracts at both Lipman's glossy and with the Times magazine. Carter lured Lewis even though the Liar's Poker author recently saw his pay upped at Portfolio and despite a grudge the financial writer harbored against Vanity Fair for 10 years over an an unflattering 1997 profile. How did Carter do it? More »
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By Ryan TateComment by Aaron Altman: Ryan, there's no such thing as a $55 plate of mac and cheese, stop lying! 3 Responses | Other threads
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this thing looks like that thing
Toby Young Cheerfully Admits to Sort-of Plagiarism
It took years and years and the attention of a new movie, but someone finally uncovered a smidge of plagiarism in the fired Vanity Fair Brit's How to Lose Friends and Alienate People. Daily Intel found near-identical passages from the book and a New York Times article by John Tierney. Young was unruffled, saying it wasn't plagiarism but loose English journalistic standards at work: More »
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By SheilaComment by TheHonJudgeSmails: Journalism in the UK, much like dentistry, is kind of an amateur pursuit. 7 Responses | Other threads
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graydon carter
Graydon Carter's New Investors
"Carter notes in his Vanity Fair editor's letter that... [Monkey Bar investors] 'include four people who are a part of this year's New Establishment: Ronald Perelman, Jerry Weintraub, Jean Pigozzi and Bryan Lourd.'" [Post]
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By Ryan TateComment by smithhimself: I get the "establishment" part of the title, but don't get the "new." Smithhimself has dealt with one of the... more » | Other threads
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aimee bell
Vanity Fair's New School More Exclusive Than Waverly Inn
It's one thing for Graydon Carter to deem you worthy of, say, a 7 pm reservation at his 70-seat Waverly Inn. But if you really want an emblem of the Vanity Fair editor's approval, try getting your child admitted to the 45-child freshman class of Carter's other exclusive West Village institution, the forthcoming Greenwich Village High. The school is the brainchild of Carter deputy editor Aimee Bell, as first reported in the Observer, and her neighbor Sara Goodman. But according to the Times it's becoming something so much posher than all that! More »
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By Ryan TateComment by Scarion: To set the record straight, you fools, Graydon's lending his name (and hopefully his money and connections) to launch a... 3 Responses | Other threads
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Journalism as Hobby
Vanity Fair's New All-Star Team
Anyone notice the masthead of the latest Vanity Fair? Sir Graydon Carter, the gentleman editor, has apparently made some staffing changes. More »
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creative underclass
Toby Young Oddly Prescient on "Making It" in Media Today
Fired Vanity Fair writer Toby Young's How to Lose Friends and Alienate People (movie version forthcoming) chronicled the Manhattan media hellmouth of the 1990s. It would be much more difficult to make it in print journalism today, he admits to WWD. In fact, he says, if he were trying to start a media-career in the aughts, he'd probably be, like, working as a "slave" for this website in particular—and "sleeping on [Brit It Boy] Euan Rellie's floor": More »
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By SheilaComment by papa-galo: I love Simon Pegg! ever since that since that scene in Shaun of the Dead where they fight fight... 2 Responses | Other threads
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rupert murdoch
Softer Murdoch Eyes Times
It should really come as no surprise that News Corporation Chairman Rupert Murdoch wants to be respected by the limo liberals who (officially) disdain his politics and tactics. That's why he paid so dearly for the Wall Street Journal, and was proud for having done so, right? But no one really thought age and young wife Wendi Deng would gentrify Murdoch's barbarian soul to such an extent that he now spins fantasies about buying the Times from one side of his mouth while betraying his conservative shock troops at Fox News Channel out of the other. Murdoch's brash past is becoming an embarrassment to him as his portfolio becomes more respectable, at least according to Michael Wolff, who excerpted his sanctioned Murdoch biography in the October Vanity Fair. And yet the Aussie can't help but revert to his old ways, like when he told Wolff that Muslims are, as a group, inbred: More »
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barack obama
Obama Speech Media Hierarchy: Losers And Winners
Not all reporters are created equal at Invesco Field, where Barack Obama is about to close out the Democratic National Convention. John Koblin at the Observer printed a seating chart (left) and gave a rundown on the winners and losers. It looks like the Obama campaign continues to snub the New Yorker for its controversial parody cover, sitting the magazine's correspondents in worse seats than Jezebel/Glamour (team Megan!), the Nation and the New Republic. More delightfully, the campaign totally dissed those conssumate insiders at Vanity Fair, "which is stuck in the back row in Section J" behind basically everyone except the Gotham tabloids. Ha ha, I guess the entire free world is not actually obsessed with getting into the Waverly or your damned Oscar party, Graydon Carter! After the jump, early chatter among reporters, plus a list of seating winners. More »
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election
Posh Convention Candyland For Bloggers
It's bad enough that 500 bloggers are wasting time and energy "covering" the pointless media spectacle of the upcoming political conventions. Can't tightly-orchestrated pageantry and vacant messaging be left for the television networks and political trades while top bloggers find important actual news that would otherwise go ignored? Apparently not. But the bloggers are making themselves look even more silly and co-opted by accepting a package of goodies, and an embarrassingly nerdy one at that. Reports the Wall Street Journal: More » -
the internets
Facebook-Fired
OK, fine, we'll admit this is funny: it's a video of Vanity Fair editorial assistant getting "fired" for failing to get 10,000 friends on Facebook for the magazine. Editor Graydon Carter even makes an appearance: "Facebook—what's that again?" (By the way, we hear that the underlings hate hate the stunts they're forced to act out for VF's website.) [VF Online]
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By SheilaComment by HoopsPrincess: @UnreliableNarrator: The guy Grayden is speaking with is named Bill Bradley, who is not related to former NJ Sentaor Bill Bradley. more » | Other threads
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restaurants
Rules Of The Waverly Inn
Leslie Kaufman's feature on Waverly Inn for the Times dining section reads too cutesy and is almost nakedly self-ingratiating. The writer couldn't find one angry chef or would-be patron to slag Graydon Carter's It-restaurant? But the piece is well-researched, on its own puffy terms, and thus useful to those strivers eager to be seen among the restaurant's celebrity diners, no matter how expensive the macaroni or rich the wine list. Here, then, is a quick list of the ways to lose friends and alienate people, and perhaps accomplish the opposite, at the Waverly:
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By Ryan TateComment by wholenuther: Am I right that this place is being disparaged because they don't cater to hedge-funders and attention craving reality TV... more » | Other threads
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graydon carter
Graydon Carter's New Bar Probably Already Booked
"The Vanity Fair editor, who already co-owns the Waverly Inn, has bought the lease of East 54th Street's famed Monkey Bar from the Glazier Group with two partners, hotelier Jeff Klein and London- based restaurateur Jeremy King." [Post]
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By Ryan TateComment by BookishLookish: Graydon Carter shall suck the solitary hoof of Satan for all eternity if he pulls down that gorgeous monkey wallpaper. more » | Other threads
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vanity fair
Vanity Fair Barely Celebrates New York
Are you excited that Vanity Fair and American Express' glamorous "Campaign New York" launches in a mere 40 days? The "dazzling two-week series of events," as far as we can tell, offers the following dazzling events: a discount hotel room, a book signing at Barneys, and a "cocktail and shopping night" during which you can swill booze and go spend money on Madison Avenue. That's it. Any AmEx card holder attempting to enter the Waverly Inn at any time during the course of the dazzling two-week series of events will be laughed off the premises by Graydon Carter himself, who disapproves of riff-raff. [Campaign NY via Jossip]
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Comment by Harvey Birdman: Damnit, he's adorable. Oh, and the gold will get you some decent chances at booked Broadway shows. But I'm not... more » | Other threads
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magazines
The Waverly Inn Will Seat One Vanity Fair Facebook Fan
OK, the "beleaguered Vanity Fair editorial assistant Bill Bradly has to get 10,000 VF fans on Facebook before he gets fired" stunt is wearing a bit thin, but it's still relevant. Why? Because it proves that somehow, deep down, Vanity Fair actually believes that getting those 10,000 fans on their Facebook group is actually important to their online brand strategy. That's what's funny! But. Ladies! You could win a date to Graydon Carter's Waverly Inn. Hang on to your panties, though. Ol' Bill won't be getting fired anytime soon. [VF Online]
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By SheilaComment by UnreliableNarrator: @UnreliableNarrator: Correction: Not fired. more » | Other threads
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miley cyrus
Miley Cyrus Brings 915 Letters To Vanity Fair
Mostly angry, and run next to the self-parody pictured at left. "No story has apparently come close to sparking such a response." [WWD]
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By Ryan TateComment by miasma-protege: @Bell County: Ha! No more yanky my wanky! more » | Other threads
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funny jokes
'Vanity Fair' Fights Fox With Foto Funnies
Remember when Fox News inexplicably displayed terribly and offensively photoshopped photos of two Times reporters without explanation on what is ostensibly a news program? Yeah? Well Vanity Fair totally got them back! They photoshopped the hell out of some Fox people! Zing! Taste of your own medicine! That'll show 'em! [VF] -
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Is Conde Nast Trying To Buy Rolling Stone?
FOLIO magazine spotted a juicy bit at the very end of a Charlie Rose interview earlier this week with Vanity Fair chief Graydon Carter and Rolling Stone editor Jann Wenner. Rose casually asks, "What's this story that Conde Nast wants to buy Rolling Stone?" That triggers a look of sheer terror on Graydon Carter's face, and a great deal of forced laughter and jabbering between the guests. We think we can hear Graydon saying, "We'll see." What it does not trigger is a denial. RS would certainly be a decent pickup for Conde Nast, but what the hell would Jann Wenner do with himself if he sold out? (Then again, Jeff Bercovici thinks Wenner's company is in a permanent decline, and he should cash out). Click to watch the clip, and parse the reactions carefully. [If you have any further info, email us.]
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Comment by semiserious: I've long fantasized about a CN music magazine, and I've also fantasized about the day Rolling Stone dies. A music... more » | Other threads
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graydon carter
Graydon Carter: "I'm Such A Pussy."
The last time Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter ever met with Gonzo god Hunter S. Thompson, the drug-vacuuming writer was sitting in a hotel one morning with "a tumbler of scotch, a bowl of cocaine, and some cereal." He asked Graydon what he would like. So did the patrician editor hoover up some massive lines or what? Well, he prefaces his answer by telling Charlie Rose, "I'm such a pussy." Sigh. Click to watch the tale of Gonzo vs. Non-Gonzo in action
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Comment by Hey_mikey: Miss Manners states it clearly: Gentle reader, when busting out the blow for your boys and your boo, it is... more » | Other threads
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political wives
The Story That Made Arianna Huffington Hate Tim Russert
It's a tangled web. Liberal-ish MSNBC pundit Chris Matthews hates liberal convert blog-runner Arianna Huffington because of a feud between Huffington and center-liberal deceased NBC journalist Tim Russert, whom Matthews idolized (and who never cared for Matthews). Why? Where did this all begin? It all started with a terribly nasty Vanity Fair piece written back in 1994 by Maureen Orth, Tim Russert's wife. The piece is about Michael Huffington, who almost bought himself a seat in the US Senate back when he was married to Arianna. This story helped end his political dreams, won Orth an award or two, and caused bad blood that lasted up until the day Tim died. And we have awesome clips from it!
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By PareeneComment by MaelstromInTheMiddle: @PandoraSpocks: And drink vitamin water coffee, wear tinted moisturizer sunscreen with salysitic acid, have great physiques from driving manual-powered cars,... more » | Other threads
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top
Media Bitchery: The Definitive Bibliography
Think of how easy it might have been to understand Arianna Huffington's bloggy animus toward Tim Russert if there were a book out chronicling all the sordid details of their decade-and-a-half-long secret feud. (There is.) Every gossip-mongering gadabout should know the full backstory on every spat, falling out, and long-running mutual antagonism in media. Below are the volumes no shelf should be without.
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marketing
Vanity Fair's Guide To The Summer
Vanity Fair is a national publication, but it's gone to a lot of trouble to market itself to the tastemakers of New York City. The magazine has produced a 40-page guide to the summer in NYC, with lists and quick critiques of everything from the best outdoor bars with roof decks to the hottest summer concerts. It's a smart (if labor-intensive) promotional move: making the in-crowd know you went to a lot of effort on their behalf. Populists that we are, we're bringing the entire document to the public—you can view the whole thing here. Below, a sample page of VF's editorial comments on summer bars: More » -
war
Clinton v. Purdum (And Everyone Else)
Bill Clinton has become an embarrassment to his party, friends, and family, with his tone-deaf angry tirades and bizarre rhetorical missteps and also his habit of globe-trotting with scummy over-sexed billionaires. But if you tell him this, he becomes quite angry! Todd Purdum, who, despite being married to a former Clinton staffer, has written a number of negative things about Clinton over the years, is now the target of a raging tirade by the former president. All because he insinuated some untoward things using dozens of unnamed anonymous sources in Vanity Fair! Now Purdum has responded (clip attached). So. What did the article do wrong? And what did Clinton get wrong? And, uh, what the hell happened to the guy? More »
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By PareeneComment by itsalwaysthequietones: @ljnd2: There's a lot of things we'll tolerate in a man that we won't tolerate in a woman. more » | Other threads
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scandal
Bill Clinton Calls Vanity Fair Writer "Scumbag"
Audio emerged tonight of former President Bill Clinton calling Vanity Fair writer Todd Purdum a "sleazy... dishonest... slimy... scumbag." Former Times reporter Purdum, of course, is the guy who wrote the just-released article about how Clinton is running around the world on private jets, including one called "Air Fuck One," with billionaire scuzzballs like Ron Burkle, Steve Bing and Jeffrey Epstein. Clinton told a Huffington Post reporter Purdum was awful, and that the Vanity Fair piece has "five or six blatant lies," but then added he had never read it. But that didn't stop him from continuing to trash it, nor did the fact that Purdum is married to Clinton's former press secretary Dee Dee Myers. Audio after the jump, along with a text summary. More » -
the cinema
Graydon Carter's Devil Wears Prada?
The trailer is out for the movie version of Toby Young's Vanity Fair memoir, How To Lose Friends And Alienate People, apparently a longer version of the one that surfaced in December. In an item titled "Devil Graydon," Page Six claims Vanity Fair Editor Graydon Carter "comes off worse than Anna Wintour did in The Devil Wears Prada." Carter should pray for such a glamorous portrayal. Instead, with actor Jeff Bridges in his shoes at the fictional Sharps magazine, Carter comes off looking a lot more like Jeff Lebowski. Clip after the jump. More » -
hannah montana
The Kiddies Are Abandoning Miley Cyrus!
Hannah Montana, the kids' show starring exploited teenager (or, alternately, picture-posing strumpet) Miley Cyrus, ran its first new episode in two months last Sunday. And the ratings were down 24%! Could this be the end for our hero—done in by Annie Leibovitz, Vanity Fair, and a child-unfriendly wave of bad publicity? More »
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Comment by Queen of the Passive Aggressives: The Simpson's will no doubt be cancelled when Marge is on next month's cover of penthouse. more » | Other threads
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vanity fair
Graydon Carter On Miley Cyrus
Graydon Carter, the rotund Vanity Fair editor and undersecretary of the celebrity-industrial complex, weighs in on the magazine's controversial Miley Cyrus photos in a video message: "She seems like a girl with a head on her shoulders," he says. Right-o! "But parents, rest easy. We think Cyrus is going to make it through adolescence. And this issue." [VF]
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Comment by sitespy: Honestly, let's get some new blood at the magazines, there is so much to choose from, have you seen Chad... more » | Other threads
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michael roberts
Vanity Fair Fashion Director Can Add Self To "Stylish Casualties" List
Michael Roberts, the Vanity Fair fashion and style director who attributed the uproar over the sexy Miley Cyrus photos to unsophisticated Americans who don't handle "chic pictures" as well as his fellow Europeans, is not just dispensing cultural criticism through the media: he has a book coming out! And in a fun coincidence, the 112-page tome is going to be called Fashion Victims: The Catty Catalogue of Stylish Casualties, from A to Z. Perhaps he'll add a section addressing the fact that "The whole kiddie porn prurient angle seems to be worryingly sour grapes from other magazines that didn't get a picture like this." After all, at Vanity Fair "We don't do cheesy teen pictures. We do chic pictures and pictures that are beautiful portraits." Alrighty then. Just for kicks, another now-ironic quote from last October's Telegraph profile of Roberts: More »
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Comment by Jeremy: Is he wearing a short-sleeved shirt with a skinny tie? Isn't that enough to take away his fashion credentials? more » | Other threads
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scandals
The Miley Cyrus Reaction Roundup
This whole Miley Cyrus incident, a young pop star being immodestly scandalized by Vanity Fair photos: it's so complicated! How should you feel? Who should you blame? Who is the biggest jerk in this whole sordid incident? Where should America direct its momentary outrage so that it can return to playing video games, eating snack foods, and conducting imperial conquest? Allow us to help. After the jump, a roundup of all the reaction from our most important opinion leaders to the Biggest Media Celebrity Scandal Of The Final Quarter Of April 2008. Was Rosie O'Donnell right, that we all need to lay off the heroic and intimidating Annie Leibovitz? Or is Germaine Greer, a Guardian critic, correct in predicting the beginning of Miley's existential decline? It's quite the heated argument: More »
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