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Who's the Asian Mystery Friend Helping to Topple 'THR'?
There's not much fun to be had watching The Hollywood Reporter implode, but a morsel in today's Page Six does offer a puzzling clue as to what might be responsible. Hint: It's not the economy. -
harvey fierstein
Who's the 'Bearish Showbiz Fixture' With a Taste for Latino Boys?
Harvey Fierstein, who plays Edna (while wearing a fat suit) in the about-to-close Broadway production of Hairspray, is also known for holding weekly poker games in the theater's basement. The Observer's Spencer Morgan attended recently. Aside from being attacked by a barrage of friendly "faggoty-ass faggot" remarks, he managed to glean—when his tape recorder and notebook wasn't being forcibly removed—that someone close to the production is summoning backdoor johnnys for his own entertainment... More »
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By SheilaComment by Saxon 212: I'm all for trade with Latin America, I guess this just isn't free trade. 3 Responses | Other threads
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What Loudmouth Movie Critic Bashed the 'Old Putz' His Son Was Hired to Replace?
A tipster wasn't naming names when s/he sent word of one film critic's rather vocal dissing of another, more "highly respected" critic at a press screening earlier this afternoon. But the math seems easy enough, even for us: A father, a son and a "pathetic old putz" who's no longer on the air? Show your work after the jump. More » -
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Let's Open Up My Inbox!
God, it's been a year. I've been keeping a little file of crazed "glaring omission" e-mails from both friends and foes. I've provided a mix n' match quiz. Who said what? It's up to you to guess. Featuring Julia Allison, Emily Gould, Ryan Adams, et al! There's a whole lotta dirt after the jump. More »
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By SheilaComment by scroll_lock: If Rod's Gawker sex involves other commenters, I want names and I want them now. 16 Responses | Other threads
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Dwayne johnston
Which A-List Actor Yanked $180,000 He Promised For An African Child's Surgery?
We don't generally turn to inspirational humanitarian news for our gossip, but that's where we found sort of an accidental blind item hiding in plain sight over the weekend. According to the OC Register, a 17-year-old Zimbabwean boy named Beloved traveled to the States last year for reconstructive surgery on his face; he had been disfigured in a land-mine explosion when he was 10. The cost: $180,000, which a charity administrator named Jennifer Trubenbach had reportedly wrangled from a "movie star, whose face is a common sight in celebrity magazines." And why won't she name him? Because the next thing she knew, the star yanked the cash: More » -
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Which Mogul Slept With Clooney's Girl?
"Sin City sources say that while the former cocktail waitress was dating Clooney, she 'came to Vegas for a weekend and cheated on him' with a media mogul." [Post]
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By Ryan TateComment by William Mize: Cheating? On George Clooney? I am sure this is a sign of Armageddon! Dr. Peter Venkman: This city is headed for a... 3 Responses | Other threads
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Which Male TV Personality Was Spotted Weeping In A Dollar Store?
Time now for a round of blind item armchair detective. In today's wistful case, brought to us via Twitter user Ronen V, a TV personality is spotted during a vulnerable moment while browsing the affordable Johnson & Johnson-shaped products at a dollar emporium: More » -
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No One Can Be a Secret Lesbian in Peace Anymore
"Just found out the the former President of my company is a lesbian. She was married w/ 4 kids! HINT—I work in Publishing," whispers a snitch on the YouBeMom parenting messageboard. No, not Bonnie Fuller, the secret lesbian was an "editor," someone else chimes in. Or, wait: "Wasn't an editor, she was in Advertising.. she has her own company now." Despite the unholy thread that unspools, we still have no idea who the secret lesbian—posited to be somewhere inside Conde Nast—could be. In case you were wondering what else these moms have on their shriveled little minds: More » -
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Which "Well Known Author" is Seeking an Assistant?
This Craigslist-ad placer and "bestselling" author has been on the Tyra Banks Show, is willing to pay you $12 an hour (after you pay your own taxes), and just in case you didn't know what an assistant to a "well known author" does: "Did you see Sex in the City? Did you remember the role played by Jennifer Hudson where she's Carrie's assistant? Well, that's what I'm looking for." Oh, and don't reply if you are too good for "occasional light housework." (Even Louise from St. Louis organized Carrie Bradshaw's apartment!) Um, what else? More » -
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Dynastic Alliance
Which recently separated newspaper publisher has been seen regularly in the company of a woman from an even more famous dynasty? They're longstanding friends; she's still married; and she's too preoccupied with an illness in the family to think about the future. But that hasn't stopped the speculation. (Okay, so the newly separated newspaper publisher is pretty obvious: the New York Times' moose-loving Arthur Sulzberger. But the identity of his supposed lover is a surprise.)
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By Nick DentonComment by VoxPopuli: @TheHonJudgeSmails: Being the Sausage King of Chicago probably puts him at some risk for heart disease. more » | Other threads
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Who Is 219west?
Our hard-partying reporter has no trouble finding bedmates among his media colleagues, but he plays fratboy when trawling for one-night stands on the notorious Manhunt. "I'm a writer, runner, ex-football player and Zeta Psi brother, bar-hopper, people-watcher—and I'm a blast," he writes. There's nothing that shocking in the profile: he lists the usual menu of kinky gay sex; and he's not the only person to have been caught out with an online ad. Here's the mystery: this journalist is on the biggest and most sensitive story of his career, and he's been rooting around in other people's personal lives. How on earth does he have time to trawl gay hookup sites? And why would he leave so many clues as to his real identity when he's so much in the public eye?
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By Nick DentonComment by Spankle: How does Nick Denton have so much time to trawl Manhunt? Alex needs to send him out into the field... more » | Other threads
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Which Forbes Boss Compromised By P.I. Shots Of Mistress?
Klutzy Adam Penenberg, in a boring story about personal privacy for Media Post, gives away a juicy tidbit about one of his former bosses at Forbes. The magazine decided against a probe into the chief executive of Kroll Associates, the private investigators, because of a fear that he might possess photographs of a high-ranking Forbes executive's mistress, and expose the relationship.
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By Nick DentonComment by raincoaster: Back then Forbes was rather interesting. Generally incorrect, but interesting. So...Steve Forbes? more » | Other threads
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Which Rising Starlet Has a Taste for Teens?
Eonline gossip Ted Casablanca brings us the tale of an aging Hollywood swordsman, his tween son, and the babe who bagged them both. "If this one’s true, Butch Spit-Spat should haul out a friggin’ movie about it—after all, isn’t that something he does rather well?" More »
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Comment by lavalove: I'm not sure who the girl is but the father/actor is Billy Bob Thorton. This was on TMZ (yes I'm... more » | Other threads
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Upchuck
Which magazine boss, managerial successor to the flamboyant characters who used to run his shop, is more colorful than one might imagine? Word is he's dating one of his daughter's classmates. -
from the archives
Who Is Bear?
"As I have mentioned, the Bear and I were introduced through Sam, perhaps as a means to get me off his (Sam's) back, but I suspect more as a goodwill gesture toward Bear, whom even Sam kissed up to.
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By Nick DentonComment by mitchel_stevens: @BobGoulet: well, i'm sold. i'll meet you at the boulevard tavern. but watch it, the angry dead second owner's ghost... more » | Other threads
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blind items
Name That Childish CNN Anchor
According to her HuffPo bio, "Linda Keenan worked 7 years as a head writer/senior producer for various programs on CNN. Before that, she worked as a writer/producer for Bloomberg TV." Now she's a mommyblogger. Which makes her more than qualified to present a series of amusing blind items about childish behavior by famous television newsanchors. After the jump, we solicit your guesses and present a couple of ours. More » -
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Which "Big Hollywood Actress" Is A Total Lez?
"WHICH big Hollywood actress is about to come out of the closet?" today's Page Six just asks. "She's been living with her girlfriend in a small town, where all the neighbors know, and the two are now engaged to be married." Is "outing" celebrities inherently trashy? Is it just an excuse to be kind of homophobic while pretending to be interested in "the truth"? Who cares! Here's a poll! More »
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By Emily GouldComment by BraidMyHair: Nobody believed me! But I knew ALL ALONG!!! ALL! A! LONG!! more » | Other threads
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All The Worst Bosses In The World
The Times "City Room" post on the "fraught world of the personal assistant" has turned into a commenter blind item party full of hilarious tales of terrible mistreatment from potentially murderous former PAs. Won't you help us identify a couple of the assistees? More » -
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Who's The Rehabbing Designer With The Model Connection?
Today's Page Six asks: "WHICH designer who's gone 'round and 'round the revolving rehab door gets his fix from a model—who's been in rehab herself, though for a different problem?" Um, we spent like an hour working on a poll for this but all the answers had poor Marc Jacobs in them so we didn't bother? (Despite this AP photo from the other night, and despite the coverline of this 2002 issue of Women's Day ("Tragic Linda Evangelista In Rehab"), we're pretty sure the god-like Linda Evangelista never actually did.) So?
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By ChoireComment by josh speed: @Arundel: I love how you can say 'maid beatdown issues' and everyone knows what you mean, hehe... more » | Other threads
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Who's The Blacked-Out Actor Playing Backseat Tonsil Hockey With Another Dude?
Yesterday's Page Six asks, "WHICH big TV star who dabbles in nightlife enterprise took his drunkeness to the next level? He was spotted sucking face with another guy in his car while hammered." Hmm! "Nightlife enterprise?" Well, we took a stab at it, now it's your turn. More »
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By MaggieComment by Dwayne Provecho: @janna: YES! I imagine this happening with him clad in his "Werewolf Bar Mitzvah" costume. more » | Other threads
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toe tappers
Gossips Nail T.V. Hottie As Manhunting Sex Lurker!
In a strange reversal, today Page Six published the answers to a blogger's blind item. And not only does Page Six say that former CNN gay hottie Thomas Roberts is the hot anchor with the nudie sex-seeking Manhunt profile (that's SFW, just shirtless shots), but they describe it as "another embarrassment" for tabloid T.V. show "The Insider" and compare it to "Insider" host Pat O'Brien's sex-partying hard-drinkin' rehab scandal. We are not so scandalized. Near as we can tell, Page Six's Paula Froelich is still a regular correspondent for "The Insider"—(or did they sever ties last Fall? That would make more sense)—despite Page Six's description of it as "a tabloid show known best for its round-the-clock coverage of Anna Nicole Smith's death and featuring carnival-like freaks during sweeps week." But we're loving the new Moral Police outlook for fall over at Page Six! It's so extremely unlikely! -
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Who's The Hollywood Trio On Drugs?
Today's Page Six wonders: "WHICH Hollywood trio of friends is in trouble? One is on crack, one's on smack, and the other cheats so much on his wife that he single-handedly is supporting several hookers..." We've narrowed it down to a few possible candidates; your input is, of course, mandatory. More » -
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Is 'Radar' In Trouble Already?
Yesterday the Daily News's resident Aussie-gossie Ben Widdicombe took a break from doing blind items about closeted actors and offered up this little gem: "Which struggling new glossy is so out of money that staffers are having to pay for photos on personal credit cards?" Hmm! The reader who sent this in suggested it was Portfolio, but we're inclined to disbelieve that; for one thing, there's the famous $100 million figure that's been bandied about ad nauseam, and for another, Condé would probably close down first. To be extra fair, we considered all the suspects. More »
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Comment by TedSez: Hey Radar -- I've got a bitchen new camera-phone, and I take PayPal. more » | Other threads
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Which Manhattan Media Executive Will Reveal His Office Affair?
It's been a while since we've had a guessing game, because lately the only blind items gossip hen Ben Widdicombe's been offering up have been along the lines of "WHICH recently rehabbed cokehead starlet still snorts coke" and that's just boring. But today's is kind of interesting to us because we have no idea who it's about. None. "Which very senior Manhattan media executive looks like he might be about to go public with that office affair everyone has been talking about?" Everyone, eh? Please send us your guesses. -
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What Male Oscar Winner Is Always Drunk?
Post feminist Andrea Peyser strikes a blow for the sisterhood today, demanding equal effort from celebrity men to join the unholy trinity of Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, and Britney Spears in the Superstar Retard Public Spectacle Iditarod. The bad boys have settled down—Sean Penn, for instance.Sean boy may have won an Oscar, but he really hit my zenith the day he was arrested for tying up Madonna. But those days are, sadly, in the rear view. Now, Sean is too busy practicing foreign policy with enemies of the state to tie up wifey Robin Wright, or anyone else. Can he be popped for treason? Please?
It's a good question, but it sort of blows a hole in our guess for today's Page Six blind item about the constantly drunk Oscar-winner. More »
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By abalkComment by Mediahohoho: Could Andrea Peyser have her open mouth shit in by Sean Hannity? Please? more » | Other threads
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What Prize-Winning Author's Wife Left Him For A Tycoon?
Apparently, an email is "making the rounds"—we haven't seen it, which makes us suicidally sad!—about a scandal in our literary community. Per Galleycat, in this email "a prize-winning author notifies some of the grad students in his creative writing program that his lovely wife, also a writer, has left him for one of America's most prominent captains of industry—so those students can 'clarify the issues for any of your fellow grad students who ask,' as 'this sort of thing can get wildly distorted pretty quickly.'" Ron Hogan credits this email as more plausible than the Jonathan Galassi-Bill Clegg rumor, which means it must be, like, realer than real! Do you have any guesses? Send 'em in or leave 'em in the comments and we'll run a poll later. More »
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By Emily GouldComment by Scout: I've never actually seen a parasite attach itself to it's host, but somehow I think it would look alot like... more » | Other threads
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who sells
"I'm a wire photographer. The socialite has to be someone you can't sell. Any photographer will take a picture of a girl you can sell except Samantha Cole—that's where I draw the line. Berkelhammer doesn't sell and she's super desperate. She'll stand over your shoulder while you write her name to make sure you spell it right."
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Comment by Krampus: of course, the hammer! I completely forgot about her... along with everyone else, evidently. more » | Other threads
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The Socialite And The Blow Job
Today's Page Six asks a very interesting question: "WHICH 'socialite' who's suffering photo withdrawal since socialiterank.com closed got down on her knees for a party paparazzo? He accepted her favors and then snapped away." Isn't that generous of her! We decided to consider the most obvious candidates; you, of course, will select the one you think is most guilty of giving out party favors. (Separately, you may also consider: Which party paparazzo? Bill Cunningham? (KIDDING.) Patrick McMullan? Urgh.) You might also speculate on who might plant such an item about someone! Also: We have considered that putting the word "socialite" in quotation marks was some sort of code, and have adjusted our guesses accordingly. More »
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Comment by the earl grey: olivia has been getting much less snaps on PAP than SR . tinsy is looking sexier to me every day more » | Other threads
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Which Hollywood Couple Are Double-Bearding?
Today Page Six ran two blind items, the first of which was so obvious that if you don't get it then, really, we feel sorry for you. But the second one left us scratching our heads! It said: "WHICH too-good-to-be-real Hollywood leading man and his hard-bodied wife deserve Oscars for their portrayal of a perfect marriage? They both have secret lives with members of the same sex." Hmm! Options were proposed and summarily dismissed for various reasons, until finally we came up with a list of suitable candidates. Guesses, in the form of a poll, after the jump; feel free to leave additional options, as always, in the comments. More »
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Comment by vee8babe: Are you people kidding? First of all when the hell is Becks being a soccer playing a leading man? And... more » | Other threads
