• Requiem For An Editor

    New York Mag's Peter Kaplan Tribute: "Perfect"

    Longtime New York Observer editor-in-chief Peter Kaplan's 15-year tenure ended yesterday; last night, Jesse Oxfeld compiled a great, 2,000 word piece of quotes and anecdotes on Kaplan, which Daily Intel ran. It is, as one commenter noted, perfect. My three favorite quotes, after the jump: More »
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    Comment by adster: Does he not look like Carl Fredrickson from Pixar's "Up"? [www.getthebigpicture.net] more » | Other threads

  • announcements

    Unnaturally-Faced Woman Naturally Pregnant

    Cosmetic surgery-enthusiast and grandstanding parent of a baby born through a surrogate Alex Kuczynski is with child. She's due in April. That ought to give her enough time to come up with a story angle.
    01/19/09
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    Comment by rubyruby: This has happened to so many women I know who swore over and over they could never conceive, did their... 9 Responses | Other threads

  • alex kuczynski

    Rich Times Reporter Slammed By WSJ Columnist

    The Wall Street Journal's Thomas Frank, he of the book "What's the Matter with Kansas?," eviscerates in tomorrow's paper that infamous Times rich-people reporter Alex Kuczynski. Kuczynski, herself quite wealthy, published a mostly shameless account of renting a poorer woman's uterus in the Nov. 30 Times Magazine. Frank is unsparing: More »
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    Comment by Never Stop Dancing: Thomas Frank is not in a position to judge a woman who was unable to give birth to her own... 32 Responses | Other threads

  • family matters

    Alex Kuczynski's Real-Life 'Baby Mama'

    New York Times official rich person-in-residence, plastic surgery addict, and orgy enthusiast Alex Kuczynski has a long, long, torturous story in the Sunday Magazine about her recent experience with a surrogate mother. Would you like to know how stressful and terrible it is to pay another woman to bring your child to term? No, probably not, but here you go. More »
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    By Pareene

    Comment by LucilleMcGillicuddy: OK, this is not going to be popular, but I don't think it is right to start kicking the shit... 22 Responses | Other threads

  • splits

    'Beauty Junkie' Alex Kuczynski To Nip, Tuck Her Marriage?

    Send Alex Kuczynski some sympathy plastic surgery gift certificates. Because the très public, cosmetic surgery-loving former New York Times high-priced-shopping beat reporter (and now sometimes Times freelancer) may be getting a divorce from her older, bazillionaire husband. Or at least Cityfile is hearing things to that effect! Kuczynski and money man Charles Stevenson have been married for six years, and had a baby by surrogate last April. But, I guess now it could be over. Cityfile's main evidence, I suppose, is the fact that Kuczynski has been laying low of late. More »
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    Comment by BookishLookish: These silly, spoiled people have no clue what it takes to make a marriage work. Away with you. 2 Responses | Other threads

  • the rich

    Alex Kuczynski Wants His Wood

    Times orgy-loving rich lady Alex Kuczynski is fascinated with wood. Not just any wood, you see, but fashionable wood, old and knotty, the sort of wood driven across the country at great expense and used to erect a new home by some jerk who tore down his old home for not looking old enough. The topic of "reclaimed" wood raises all kinds of potentially interesting issues around the environment, design and class in America, but of course Alex is interested in none of that. She is focused on the big strong man who will give her his wood if she pays him enough money: More »
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    Comment by felion: God bless the Japanese and their fetish for the blue-cheese of wood. Hey Kuczyn -- I've got some great stone... more » | Other threads

  • knocked up

    Someone Is Having Alex Kuczynski's Baby

    New York Times rich people beat reporter, billionaire-marrier, possible orgy enthusiast, and over-sharing plastic surgery addict Alex Kuczynski is expecting! Expecting a surrogate mother to carry and deliver her baby, that is, according to Liz Smith. Alex and her ridiculously wealthy (and ripped) husband Charles Stevenson have reportedly tried "several times" at this child-having thing, to no avail. Stevenson has five children from other women, a set-up the Kucz has commented on with approval on other occasions. (All you have to do is cheer them on at graduation—no weight gain or unseemly marks or scars!) So, we ask you, the Gawker readership: who on Earth is currently feeding and growing the spawn of the Amazing Plastic Woman? More »
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    By Pareene

    Comment by oldiebutstillgoodiemedia: alas folks, I've got depressing news for you: she's actually a nutty, funny, kind girl who tried desperately to carry... more » | Other threads

  • books

    The Many Faces of Alex Kuczynski

    Which version of Times rich lady beat reporter Alex Kuczynski's book, Beauty Junkies, would you rather buy? The original hardcover is subtitled, "Inside Our $15 Billion Obsession With Cosmetic Surgery." The newer, younger paperback version is called: "Beauty Junkies: In Search of the Thinnest Thighs, Perkiest Breasts, Smoothest Faces, Whitest Teeth, and Skinniest, Most Perfect Toes in America." Whoa. Maybe they're trying to shore up sales? After the jump, we play a little game of "Which cover is better? More »
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    By Sheila

    Comment by dadoorunrun: Will she be reviewing her own book on amazon under a fake name again? C'mon, Kooch, give it up! more » | Other threads

  • the riches

    'The rich do strange and terrible things with their money' beat reporter Alex Kuczynski is supplanted at the Times today by second-stringer Deb Schoeneman, who introduces us to Brad Peik and Sara Kehoe, a couple who have retained a "personal manager" to help them invent their lifestyle. "'Allison is covering all the bases for me,' said Mr. Peik, who spends winters in Lake Tahoe in California and feels more comfortable navigating ski slopes than society. 'I didn't want to waste my short time here setting up an apartment and figuring out what we would do here.' His girlfriend, a photographer, was grateful that she didn't have to deal with the move. 'If I had no job and nothing going on, it would seem reasonable for me to do these things.'" [NYT]
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    Comment by Atelier: @valet_of_the_dolls: That would be lovely. Finally some recognition! more » | Other threads

  • bees

    Neither Alex Kuczynski Nor Michael Cunningham Can Spell

    At the cocktail party preceding the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses spelling bee last night, former Star editor Joe Dolce was rubbing up against cheetah-sheathed Page Six editor Paula Froelich. Was he here to spell, like Paula? "God no." He was here to cheer on his boy, HarperCollins VP Jonathan Burnham. Joe has been mostly occupied by cheering Jonathan on lately, though he hasn't been completely at loose ends during his year of unemployment: "I was working on a web-based project about design, but I had to pull back from it recently," he said, as a very tall, beautiful woman in a houndstooth skirt and enormous diamond earrings came up behind him and mischievously grinned at everyone. It was Alex Kuczynski, who has been described by this website as a "pervert," a "body modification expert," "somewhat plastically-reconstructed," a "facially-reconfigured semiotician," and most often, "Times rich lady beat reporter." "Hi Bunny!," she said. "I looove your bangs! You look like a person on the 'Brady Bunch'!" Did she mean Cousin Oliver? Whatever, totally charmed! Nikola Tamindzic documented this. More »
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  • blind item knowing game

    Is Alex Kuczynski Given To Sexual Overshares?

    "Which kinky fashion writer shocked guests recently when she asked her billionaire husband's pre-teen daughter—in front of company—to rehash the time the girl walked in on the couple in a compromising bedroom position?" asked Page Six yesterday, and as much as it pains us to imply this before breakfast, we're thinking the "fashion writer" in question might be Times shopping and rich people things reporter Alex Kuczynski. She is married to Charles Stevenson, a billionaire with six children. Also, we must once again recall that she has shouted "Orgy! Orgy!" at a party at her Idaho home. Yay pervert! We wish we knew more about this mysterious woman's inner life, but she is so reticent. Update: Ok, we are reliably informed that Alex is not the kinky person in question here, so.
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    Comment by benny145: "Compromising?"... more » | Other threads

  • facebooklift

    From yesterday's "Over 40 is Facebook creepy" article in the Times: "It's no secret that Facebook, which started as a networking playground for college kids, is graying, and that the percentage of active members who are over 25 years old and out of school has risen to some 40 percent of the overall population of about 45 million. The influx raises questions. Will the loss of the campus sensibility and the youthful gestalt dilute the Facebook experience? And will the newcomers use the site — and change it? Or is it just another example of the fact that Americans age, but never seem to mature?" On the other hand, some Facebook users mature but never seem to age! [NYT]
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    Comment by benny145: Its not called FACEBOOK for nothing... more » | Other threads

  • the riches

    What Did We Learn About Alex Kuczynski This Week?

    In another highly-necessary shopping piece in the Times Styles section (a piece that we could not face until now), the body modification expert Alex Kuczynski discusses shredders. The office kind, not the Van Halen kind. True to form, she used shredders as a lens to teach us about Alex Kuczynski. More »
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    Comment by benny145: I knew there had to be a silver lining in Alex K's donating 200 copies of her book to... more » | Other threads

  • phallophobia

    Alex Kuczynski Reminisces About Cocklearnin'

    "The first time I saw an International Male catalog was at the all-girls Virginia boarding school I attended in the 1980s. The cool girls—the ones who owned their own horses and got BMWs for their 16th birthdays, with car-size bows on top—got the catalog in their mailboxes, along with subscriptions to GQ. The uncool girls, if we were lucky, got to peer over their shoulders at pictures of male models in thong bikinis. I found the presentation of male genitalia, packaged and posed and seemingly aroused, totally terrifying. Were they really that long and tuber-like? And were men supposed to stare at you in such a brooding, animal way, their eyes glowering at siesta level, their mouths puckered in baby-doll O's?" Read on if you like, but this is where we stopped. More »
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  • the mind-face problem

    Maybe Alex Kuczynski Is The Smart One In Her Family

    Today's Page Six notes that Times gal and plastic surgery Kool-Aid-drinker Alex Kuczynski is the stupid one in the family, as her brother John-Michael Kuczynski (as Alex has noted) is a professor of philosophy and the author of the hot new beach-read "Conceptual Atomism and the Computational Theory of Mind: A Defense of Content-Internalism and Semantic Externalism." (Ooh, paging Jerry Fodor!) So if you enjoyed Mr. K's "A non-Russellian treatment of the referential-attributive distinction," you'll love this new one! But Page Six isn't being fair: Anyone who's played backgammon with Alex K. will tell you that she possesses a vicious cunning—beyond rat-like even! There's smart in there—and after all, she's the one getting chauffeured around and working at the Times just because she feels like it, not because she has to, while he's slaving away with grad students. So who's the stupid sibling now?
    09/13/07
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    By Choire

    Comment by superkootch: Umm, don't forget the runner-up Kootch kid; Sister Carolina (C.K. Reid) the MBA from INSEAD (en France), global wheeler dealer... more » | Other threads

  • how your sausage gets made

    Alex Kuczynski Needs Ideas

    Are you on pretty and somewhat plastically-reconstructed Times reporter Alex Kuczynski's email list? If you are, you'd better get cracking, because she has some columns coming up over there and she's got absolutely nothing. Her plea includes this priceless bit: "Next subject: Art! Any thoughts on art would be greatly appreciated." P.S. Later today we are writing some posts about things! Any of your thoughts on "things" would be totally appreciated! More »
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    By Choire

    Comment by christat: If Air Bud can still find sports to conquer, surely a rich woman can find an angle on "art?" to... more » | Other threads

  • diagnose jobs

    Understanding Alex Kuczynski

    Taken as a continuously unreeling whole, the oeuvre of Times style writer Alex Kuczynski is one of the more astonishing texts of our time. From her days at the Observer through her stint as serious auteur of a book about plastic surgery, Kuczynski's work has managed to move, baffle, and alarm nearly everyone it's touched. We wondered if maybe there was a method to her madness. Turns out, there is! More »
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    Comment by PBH: Woah, that impossible is nothing guy underwent a sex change operation and everything?? more » | Other threads

  • the kucz is loose

    Gosh, it's been so long since we've written about Times rich lady beat reporter and plastic surgery volunteer Alex Kuczynski that we almost forgot how to spell "Kuczynski!" But the opening of today's review of Oh The Hell Of It All cannot be ignored. "When Sean Wilsey's memoir, "Oh the Glory of It All," was published in 2005, I went through it in great mouthfuls, laughing so hard I choked on my own spit, gasping with such noisy abruptness on the subway that I was forced to explain to my fellow passengers the contents of the passage I had just read, and why they had to immediately run out and buy this book." Look, the subway is for the poors, Alex. Stop bothering us with your spit.
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    Comment by ellagood: this is just like the time i laughed while reading alex's critical shopper column and had to explain to the... more » | Other threads

  • girls who like boys who have boobs like they're girls

    At Least One Hollywood Agent Had Man Boobs

    After last week's triumphant return to the pages of the Times Styles section, Manhattan upper crust queen Alex Kuczynski gets front page placement with an investigation of gynecomastia, also known as "boy boobies." Apparently, there's a growing epidemic of man-mammarage amongst our nation's youth, probably because kids today are so outrageously fat. The solution? Plastic surgery. The Kucz is clearly in her sweet spot here. More »
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    By abalk

    Comment by hercules q. einstein: @SixThirty: Your doctor wasn't messing with you - pot smoking before puberty is another cause of gynecomastia. more » | Other threads

  • shop making sense

    Alex Kuczynski: 'John Varvatos Is Trying To Live A Death'

    At long last, facially-reconfigured semiotician Alex Kuczynski has returned to her old stomping grounds in the Times' Thursday Styles section, and she's more inscrutable than ever! Yay! Reporting on John Varvatos' new Hamptons outpost, she describes the popularity of the designer's signature laceless Chuck Taylors: "The first time I saw a pair, they adorned the feet of a Hamptons-hopping Beverly Hills money manager. You see what I mean. They're not just sneakers; they are the footwear equivalent of the white man's overbite." This might be the most inaccurate usage of the phrase "you see what I mean" in history! More »
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    Comment by raincoaster: But...why did you illustrate the post with an old photo of Susan Dey from the Partridge Family? more » | Other threads

  • literary feuds

    Alex Kuczynski Further Distancing Herself From the Disgusting Book Critics

    Back in April, when Alex Kuczynski last contributed to the New York Times Book Review, she struck out against "jealous book critics" who like tearing down modeling novels because they "aren't tall and gorgeous" and because they want "to wield their puny amount of power to establish some sort of moral order." She sort of whispered it, but we heard her; this weekend, she appears in the Book Review once again, writing on a pair of short fiction lady books (not yet online, mysteriously), and her campaign for singularity in the scribble sphere is becoming more pronounced. More »
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    Comment by Monte Wooley: Did she actually review a book under her OWN byline this time? And a book she didn't write herself?... more » | Other threads

  • internal investigations

    How Alex Kuczynski Almost Became A Blogger

    A few months ago, the Times decided to ramp up some of their more lucrative "verticals" on their website—including Fashion and Style. They had lots of ideas, which they put on the company wiki for everyone to read and comment on. But did all of their plans come to fruition? Well, let's just say we were spared the disaster that inevitably would have been an Alex Kuczynski blog. The wiki, and what really happened, follow. More »
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    Comment by Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate: @ellagood: Or like Rose McGowan in a wind tunnel. more » | Other threads

  • who are these people?

    Josh Quittner and Michelle Slatalla

    Josh Quittner is the editor of Business 2.0. Michelle Slatalla is responsible for the New York Times' inexplicable "Online Shopper" column, a collection of hyperlinks well-gussied up with advice on how to Google things that for some reason appears in that paper's print edition on Thursdays. In it, you can learn how to buy English muffins that cost five dollars. Five dollars. Michelle and Josh are married to each other! Boy, are they ever. More »
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    Comment by oberry: Kudos to Gawker for sussing these 2 annoysters out. I knew them from earlier days at the dawn of... more » | Other threads

  • new york observer

    The 'New York Observer' At The Four Seasons

    The significance of holding last night's party to celebrate the New York Observer and its new website at the Four Seasons restaurant was intentional, obvious, and not at all lost on anyone. Despite its recent Frank Bruni demotion to two New York Times stars, the restaurant remains the symbolic and probably actual center of New York old-guard media power. After so many years of playing gadfly to the media, politics, and real estate elite of this city, the Observer and its boy-owner and his advisers chose to make a very specific sort of statement. More »
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    Comment by dishalicious: @the cajun boy: Good one. But I am so crushing on the Kush. Yummy. more » | Other threads

  • alex kuczynski

    Alex Kuczynski: Book Critics Ugly, Power-Hungry

    Alex Kuczynski, writing in this week's New York Times Book Review, delivers a taut, 850-word piece on the debut novel by 80s supermodel Paulina Porizkova. Between this and her article on virginity from March 24th, that's two appearances in the NYTBR in three weeks. Might the Kucz be moving over to books full-time now that she's gotten sick of the shopping? More »
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    Comment by Pope John Peeps II: I just picture the Kooj approaching Porizkova at a book party, one bony hand clawed around the stem of a... more » | Other threads

  • alex kuczynski

    Rapidly Decaying Alex Kuczynski Would Be Hot No Matter What

    The Alex Kuczynski Beauty Junkies publicity parties continue on the other side of the pond. There's a profile in the Times (U.K., obvs) that provides very little new information but does occasion this amazing quote from everyone's fave shopping columnist:
    I ask Kuczynski if she feels that she looks significantly different to the way she would look if she had done nothing at all. "I wouldn't look that different," she says with a laugh. "Perhaps I would have some more wrinkles and I would have droopy eyelids. But in finishing the book and realising that we have to decay, I think it is better to decay with a sense of self-respect. Having stopped everything I feel so completely at rest with myself. I'm much more beautiful, I look healthier and I feel so much more relaxed."
    I was a $100,000 beauty junkie [Times U.K.]
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    Comment by Lucia Toledo: So funny to see Alex wrestling with the fact "that we have to decay," when so much is being discovered... more » | Other threads

  • alex kuczynski

    There's A Story In Alex Kuczynski's Box

    We'd been missing our Critical Shopper lately, but we totally understood that she had important book-writing duties to tend to. So today's appearance was a pleasant surprise — a gift we weren't expecting! Apparently, the Kucz's editor said, what about Breakfast at Tiffany's? Alex said that she thought that she remembered the film, then went off on a long showoffy tangent about the Capote novella's superiority. As she recalled, though, they'd both kind of liked it, and her editor said, well, that's the one thing we've got. The result was this:
    I credit the store for its gentle displays here: the most inexpensive rings — prices start at $1,090 for a ring with a round .18 carat diamond — seem to be presented in the clearest, brightest lights. This is not intended to make these rings seem bigger; rather, it makes them appear to be just as important as the icebergs down the counter — say, the round 10.5 carat diamond ring that sells for $1.12 million.
    Gentle to the underclass — yes, that's our Kucz. More »
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  • new york times

    Things We Learned From The Glamour "Success at 20, 30, 40" Panel

    From the Times:
    Mary Cheney, at a Glamour magazine panel at Barnard College Wednesday, said of her baby: "It is not a political statement. It is not a prop to be used in a debate, on either side of a political issue. It is my child."
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    Comment by raincoaster: Don't expect a riches to rags tale from the Kucz after the divorce. Wasn't her granddaddy president of Peru or... more » | Other threads

  • thursgay

    Alex Kuczynski Fords the East River in the Name of Crochet

    We apologize for bringing you the analysis of the Kucz's Critical Shopper column about a shop in DUMBO from today's edition of Thursgay Styles, but there was just so much in it that it took us all day to properly mine. For one, we love how she oh-so-casually reminds us that when it comes down to it, the Kucz is not like you and me:
    On the thoroughfare below, a hardware store stands near a glossy West Elm outpost. On Front Street, a deli with fluorescent lights is not far from a high-end organic grocery store on Adams Street called Foragers Market. It's safe to say the only foraging going on in Foragers is the search for the American Express platinum card at the bottom of one's handbag.
    Yes, that really is a problem. You'd think that when you pay $395 a year for a credit card that they'd have some sort of system that makes it easier to find! More »
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    Comment by ChristieLove: The Kucz doesn't have a black Amex? For shame. more » | Other threads

  • alex kuczynski

    Correction: Alex K. Is Only A Bitch If You're Wearing Zipper-Assed Pants

    Yesterday, we reproduced a tip from a long-ago Observer intern who worked for "pre-plastic surgery" Alex K., whose "cackling" at this young lady's unfortunate choice in panstwear still causes her pain. As you know, our goal is to bring you balanced coverage of the issues that matter, and it's in that spirit that we bring you this counterpoint: More »
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    Comment by JupiterPluvius: And said pants were the acme of style at CBGBs back in the day. Especially when worn with an... more » | Other threads

  • alex kuczynski

    Before They Were Botoxed: Alex Kuczynski

    As the noted intellectual Heidi Julavits once put it,
    For those who suffer a little pooch around the eye area, there's the ''instant face-lift'' ponytail, which involves pulling the side hair along the ears back tightly (really tightly).
    Ahh, that's our Beauty Junkie. Even as a Barnard student in 1990, she was already figuring out ways to iron out her imperfections. More »
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    Comment by pigfoot: Our cousins across the pond- and bh, correct me if I'm wrong here- call this style the "Council Estate Facelift." more » | Other threads

  • alex kuczynski

    Alex Kuczynski's Bitchery Has Long, Storied Past

    The news that Alex Kuczynski's being sued by a doctor she allegedly libeled in her Beauty Junkies tome brought forth this missive from a former New York Observer intern, who had the good fortune to be employed there at the same time as the Kucz. We say good fortune, because honestly, you can't get this kind of fashion advice from just anyone:
    When I was a senior in high school, I interned twice a week at the Observer, and one of my main duties was opening Alex Kuczynski's mail. This was brown curly-haired, pre-plastic surgery Alex. Anyway, she wasn't any less of a bitch. As I'm sitting there, opening her mail one afternoon, she walks over and exclaims "Do your pants have a zipper up the back??" They did. "Uh, yes..." She walked away, cackling to herself. WTF dude. I was 17. They were my internship pants. Black pinstripes and I probably got them at Marshalls for $15 but whatevs, at least I made the effort not to wear jeans. The pain is still there.
    We'll reserve judgment on the appropriateness of ass-zippers for the moment to ask: Any pre-plastic surgery shots of Alex floating around out there? If you've got one, please do send over, stat.
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  • alex kuczynski

    Plastic Surgeon Sues the Kucz*

    Sure, semi-spurious libel suits against publishers aren't usually anything to celebrate, but this one is special. Special K, that is. We're delighted to report that Alex Kuczynski has been named as a co-defendant in a lawsuit being brought against her publisher, Doubleday! The plaintiff is a plastic surgeon who claims that Special K. maligned him in Beauty Junkies, her recent non-bestseller. Dr. Arnold W. Klein, who specializes in 'injectables,' is demanding $10 million in damages, claiming that Doubleday knew that the book's claims of his negligence, incompetence, and his conflict of interest with a pharmaceutical company were false. He also — and this is the really sad part — says that the book libels him by reporting that he "lost control of his bladder" when faced with a troubling allegation in another case. His rebuttal? "Klein did not lose control of his bladder for any reason remotely connected to the case or his concern about the supposed 'coup,' referred to above," the complaint states. So why did he pee himself? Rest assured, we're looking into it. More »
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  • clips

    Alex Kuczynski's Vacuumed Ass Sits At The Front Of The Plane

    Plastic surgery disaster Alex Kuczynski appeared on "The Colbert Report" last evening: here's the clip. It's amusing (or at least Colbert's end is) and nothing more, but a few things you may want to note: More »
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    Comment by Pete the Chop: And don't believe her. She totally feasts on the dead at night. more » | Other threads

  • remainders

    Remainders: Room With a View

  • Soon, the Daily News will be all Widdicombe, all the time. Anyone know what ever happened to that Grove guy? More »
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  • alex kuczynski

    The Kucz Thinks You Spend Too Much On Shoes

    Christmas, New Years, whatever — today marks a much more important holiday: the return of the highlight of our week, the Times' Critical Shopper column. And Beauty Junkie Alex Kuczynski is back from her vacation in fine form, regaling us with tales of a sherry-soaked, churro-glutted undergraduate sojourn in Spain, and explaining to us that though featured shop T Casan's owners say that its name "comes from the Gaelic phrase for 'a woman's path,'" she refuses to accept that meaning because "that sounds like a self-help book for women going through menopause, so I prefer the Spanish translation. If you don't count the accent on the first word, it translates as "they marry you," and frankly I felt married to at least two pairs of the shoes by the time I left." Oh, Kucz, never leave us again! More »
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    Comment by Pangloss: Vogue also tells us we should all have perfect bodies and be willing to pay ridiculous amounts for them, but... more » | Other threads

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    Gawker's Personalities of the Year

    As 2006 huffs toward its inexorable end, we decided to take a moment to recognize those personalities that made our job that much more tolerable this year. These are the people who gave us endless fodder for our douchebag mill, who were attracted to the spotlight like moths to a flame, whose stated disdain for our coverage of them was contradicted by their almost pathetic attempts to court it. The adage that there's no such thing as bad publicity has never felt more apt. More »
    12/29/06
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    By Doree Shafrir

    Comment by htotheomo: Muffman: double the ewwwww. more » | Other threads

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    David Patrick Columbia, Nancy Drew of the Information Superhighway

    Remember when we posted that YouTube clip of Beauty Junkie Alex Kucz lambasting 740 Park author Michael Gross via voicemail? And remember when, after the clip, we mentioned that "This obviously has nothing whatsoever to do with Monday's Kucz Fresh Air interview, by the way"? Well, David Patrick Columbia wants to lift the scales from your eyes, America: that "voicemail message" is actually a clip from the Fresh Air interview, taken out of context and spliced together with Gross's voicemail via the magic of technology! Let's let Columbia explain it a little more thoroughly:
    It was that NPR interview from which they clipped Ms. K's voice saying "you are a complete and total utter ... etc." about another subject entirely, to accompany the clip from Michael Gross' answering machine. You with me? In other words he said it and she said it but not in the sequence (or even on the medium) represented by the clip. They used their real voices saying things they actually said, albeit out of context (in a radio interview rather than a deposted phone message), and presented as truth to the undiscerning (most of us).
    Uh, David? Most of . . . you. Seriously, it was just you. More »
    12/18/06
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    By Emily Gould

    Comment by GaryGnu: Damn, Emily I knew my neurons weren't firing right this morning. Sorry, I should have known jalopy was too... more » | Other threads

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    Alex Kuczynski Leaves Mean Voicemail For Michael Gross

    Apparently writing bitchy Amazon reviews of Gross's book wasn't enough for the Kucz. No, our favorite sockpuppety Loehmann's shopper has stooped to even more highschooly tactics in her battle against the author of a book that revealed some nasty goss about her husband. We've somehow appropriated this voicemail, which Richard has been kind enough to animate for us: More »
    12/14/06
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    By Emily Gould

    Comment by GaryGnu: But does he get Carl Kassell to record the message on his home anwering machine? more » | Other threads

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    Alex Kuczynski Makes Shopgirl's Sisyphean Task Even Sisypheaner

    Alex Kucz sure has been trying to be a little bit more of a woman of the people lately. First H&M, and now, Uniqlo, the new Japanese bargain cashmere emporium on lower Broadway with Kelis and Kim Gordon in its advertisements. Alex is hip, yo. Clock the nose piercing. And just to prove that she's really not so different from you, me, or the help, she's also incredibly courteous to those whose fate it is to serve. Why, just listen to this instance of her compassion!
    Just as Sisyphus was condemned for eternity to roll a giant boulder up a mountain to have it inevitably roll back down into the valley, these clerks wait and watch as shoppers waltz up to the sweaters they have neatly arranged. The shoppers shake them out, hold them up to their bodies, then stuff them back onto the racks and shelves. I did exactly this, dozens of times, and asked one clerk if the ceaseless and seemingly pointless toil bothered her. She shook her head. "It's my job," she said.
    We bet she drives the maids crazy with that shit. More »
    11/30/06
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    By Emily Gould

    Comment by VioletVerq: They've put wonderful make-up on that body. Really more » | Other threads