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sue decker
Yahoo's Depressing Backup Plan
No one wants to buy Yahoo. And the only person who wants to run Yahoo is an insider who helped sink it. Is there any hope left for the beleaguered Web giant? More »
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By Owen Thomas
Comment by Beautiful Stranger: Yahoo's impending demise raises an interesting issue which I am sure will delight us all (or at least those of... 2 Responses | Other threads
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Media
Conde Editors Get Their Precious Domain Names Back
Last month Cityfile unveiled, oh, a hundred or so domain names of famous New Yorkers' names that it had bought, just because it could. Conde Nast immediately marshaled its team of high-powered attorney warriors!
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By Hamilton Nolan
Comment by seyswho: I don't understand this. You don't have exclusive rights to a website just because it has your name in the 3 Responses | Other threads
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Gossip
The City's Secretly Trashy Nevan Tried to Swap Drugs for a Blow Job
We learned this morning that Nevan Donahue, from MTV's reality tinkle The City, had a warrant out for an old prostitution charge. Now we know all the white trash details! How will Olivia Palermo live this down?
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By Richard
Comment by Beautiful Stranger: how do we know the police officer was female? 8 Responses | Other threads
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rumormonger
Did Someone Send This MTV Exec a Box of Poop?
Joe Cuello is MTV's VP of "Creative Music Integration." He chooses what music goes into their fine reality shows. He "Makes The Hills Rock"(!). Why would someone send the nice man a box of poop? More »
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By Hamilton Nolan
Comment by the supergoddess: It is a crime against nature that there wasn't a "box of poop" tag on this post. Mostly because I 3 Responses | Other threads
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Facebook
Destroy Friends, Earn Fast Food
Burger King, for no good reason, has America's edgiest advertising. And it just got edgier. Now you can make it known publicly that someone's "friendship" is less valuable to you than 1/10th of a sandwich. More »
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By Hamilton Nolan
Comment by seyswho: So wait, the fatties will have no friends? Nothing's really changed.... 7 Responses | Other threads
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Media Crack
Media Death, Departures, and Disrespect
Your daily media column is here. Today, the Great Magazine Die-Off continues, your annual "Gawker sucks now" story, Les Payne's pain, and more! More »
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By Hamilton Nolan
Comment by MisterHippity: In 2008, Gawker jumped the snark. Now, in 2009, it's already jumped the shark. He's what I predict Gawker will do... 11 Responses | Other threads
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people's parties
The Only Obama Inaugural Concert Act We Care About Is Obama
The most important issue of Barack Obama's impending presidency has yet to be answered. Just who, pray tell, is going to perform at his big inaugural concert bashes?? No one knows! And it's so soon! More »
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By Richard
Comment by i'm_a_bottle: What's Captain Beefheart up to nowadays?... 5 Responses | Other threads
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Scandal
Larry Craig Guilty of Cruising for Gay Sex Now and Evermore
Larry Craig, the U.S. senator whose airport-bathroom gay-sex bust introduced the phrase "wide stance" into Beltway argot, has run out of appeals to withdraw his guilty plea for disorderly conduct. More »
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By Owen Thomas
Comment by tewkesbury: This case puzzles me so much--not that I haven't enjoyed watching that toad Larry Craig be publicly humiliated, but isn't... 17 Responses | Other threads
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"I've Got Something In Here I'd Like to Show You."
[Ed Westwick of "Gossip Girl" on that series' set today; image via Splash]
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By Richard
Comment by Colonel Mustard: The Guy With Kaleidoscope Ties 8 Responses | Other threads
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Interviews
Sarah Palin: Media, its Subjects, and Viewers are All Jerks
It appears that Sarah Palin's post-campaign career activities will consist exclusively of bitching about the media. In a new interview she takes on Katie Couric, Tina Fey, Caroline Kennedy, and all you jerks watching at home: More »
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By Hamilton Nolan
Comment by TheHonJudgeSmails: I am steadily falling in love with her again. 18 Responses | Other threads
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Crime
Jewelry-Mailing Madoff a Menace to Society, Prosecutors Say
The Feds still want to throw accused Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff in jail for mailing mittens. Oh, and some diamonds and emeralds and other expensive things. More »
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By Owen Thomas
Comment by sassypants: I'm still fairly shocked that no one has tried to off this guy. He fucked over a truckload of 7 Responses | Other threads
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new things
Mustaches are Back. Again!
Drop your razors, fashionable young men: the New York Times reports that mustaches are back—in style! Somehow this story sounds vaguely... familiar: More »
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By Hamilton Nolan
Comment by Colonel Mustard: A girl in my office is dating a guy who looks like Doc Holliday, rocking the 19th-Century mustache and sideburns.... 17 Responses | Other threads
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trendwatch
Can Upper Class Journalists Cover the Fall of the Rich?
Celebrity news hasn't been popping lately. It's vulgar—but more importantly, it's gotten repetitive. The new pastime is mocking the rich. But now, the journalists feel more sympathy with the fallen rich than ever before. More »
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By Hamilton Nolan
Comment by noUpside: This is a stupid premise for a post. 4 Responses | Other threads
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presidents
Barack Obama Tells Us Who's President Now
Sure, the inauguration is twelve days away, but Barack Obama's speech today was his most public declaration that he's in charge and (Lord help us all) knows the way out of the financial apocalypse. More »
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By Gabriel Snyder
Comment by braak: That's...hm. That's a pretty snazzy tie he's got there.... 9 Responses | Other threads
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Recessionomics
Madoff-Robbed Kyra and Kevin Still Flying First Class
Maybe Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick aren't so broke after all? Though they lost money in Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme, a tipster tells us they're flying first class to LA right now. More »
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By Richard
Comment by saythatscool: Isn't Kyra from old money anyway? Like Mayflower old money? 11 Responses | Other threads
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Sexiness
Axe Proven To Help Dumb Men Attract Mates
A landmark actual new scientific study has discovered that, yes, Axe Body Spray can help you get laid. But opening your stupid mouth could render the sickly juvenile aphrodisiac worthless. More »
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By Hamilton Nolan
Comment by Uncle_Billy_Slumming: My AXE smells like month old pee. It does seem to have an effect on the ladies though. 18 Responses | Other threads
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Crime
Annoying Guy from The City Has Prositution Rap
Ha! You know Nevan from The City? (Oh you don't? He's socialite cast member Olivia Palermo's fey cousin.) Well, it seems he has a police record for soliciting a prostitute in Miami. More »
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By Richard
Comment by princeCapsaicin: What's up with Olivia's legs???Did she fall out of a nest?... 4 Responses | Other threads
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Stalker deluxe
The Dickensian Aspect
Who sat next to me in celebrity hotspot Cafe Grumpy today? Clark Johnson, a.k.a. heroic city editor Gus Haynes from The Wire! Of course he is a big fan* of Gawker: More »
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By Hamilton Nolan
Comment by Dead Wrestlers Society: Oh shit. That's the guy from Homicide. Now that was a show. Well, at least until Pembleton had a stroke. 10 Responses | Other threads
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Top Chef
Mean British Bully Toby Young Is Overwrought and Underseasoned
Hello. My name is Joshua David Stein. I'm an avid Top Chef fan and am here to discuss with you that show. More »
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By Joshua Stein
Comment by SixThirty: Young sucked. Bring back Bourdain!... 16 Responses | Other threads
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Flackery
The Perfect Media Timing of Israel's War
Is it smart for Israel to blow the hell out of Palestinian civilians past all boundaries of good sense? No. But has Israel timed this war brilliantly, from a PR perspective? No doubt. More »
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By Hamilton Nolan
Comment by Kid_Twist: Oh yeah, everything Israel does is based on how it will play in the American media. None of this has... 40 Responses | Other threads
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recaps
The Real World: Brooklyn's Freak Show for 'Straight' Boys
I sat through the whole hour of The Real World: Brooklyn premiere last night. (Plus some of the After Show.) It was surprisingly better than I'd feared it would! And, ugh, surprisingly worse. More »
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By Richard
Comment by somedayarealrainwillcome: Some of you need to get over yourselves. I know you're all educated, worldly, and tolerant (you've always been that 16 Responses | Other threads
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twitterati
We Read Twitter So You Don't Have To
Twitter is supposed to save journalism 140 characters at a time. Media people love it, and we love media people, so let's take a look at what the Twitterati have to say for themselves. More »
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By Owen Thomas
Comment by BookishLookish: Props to the beautiful and intelligent Rachel S. 4 Responses | Other threads
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Marketing
Disney to Give Boys Their Own Screeching Icons
For years, the likes of Hannah Montana and the Jonas Bros. have ruled the kiddie icon market. No more. Soon, heterosexual boys will have their own channel full of crappy Disney tween characters from hell. More »
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By Hamilton Nolan
Comment by Astigmatism: When I was 12 I watched MTV for like 90 minutes every day when I got home from school. 15 Responses | Other threads
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Samantha Ronson You're Facing the Wrong Way
[Actress Kirsten Dunst out in that California place they've got over there; image via WENN] More »
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By Richard
Comment by feistykate: Samantha Ronson you're facing the wrong way 6 Responses | Other threads
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Blind Items
Which TV Show Has an On-Set Drug Dealer for the Cast and Crew?
Today we have a too-helpful TV exec, a lecherous media mogul, a druggie TV show, and a secretly gay anti-gay-marriage pastor. More » -
Recessionomics
Pay $100 an Hour for an Ex-Stripper to 'Hypnotize' You
Sad struggling businessmen can no longer afford to spend thousands on strippers at Scores. Instead, they're spending hundreds to have an ex-stripper from Scores hypnotize them. For business success! Really now: More »
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By Hamilton Nolan
Comment by Werrick: Why would anyone want to date a stripper? I'd rather lick a beer soaked ashtray.... 23 Responses | Other threads
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Gossip Roundup
Jeremy Piven May Have To Repay Producers After New Exam
Producers may be able to use the SECRET results of a second doctor's exam against "mercury" poisoned Jeremy Piven. Also, Oprah is maybe having a SECRET party. More » -
Books
Lying Holocaust Author To Turn Novelist
Capitalizing on Herman Rosenblat's infamy, a small upstate publisher eagerly trumpeted its "serious discussion" to publish Rosenblat's fake memoir as fiction. Or "to pull a Frey," in industry lingo. More »
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By Ryan Tate
Comment by EddieTheDane: ...and then Gawker can bring him on as an intern for one day, and we can all laugh about how 6 Responses | Other threads
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Fashion
Michelle Obama Must Save The Fashion Industry
Good luck, Michelle Obama. It's not enough to be reminiscent of Jackie Kennedy; now you have to sell clothes like her, except in a huge recession.
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