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twitterati
Kindle Thief Tortures Owner with Crappy Book Buys
The Twitterati ended the week punchy: Kevin Rose was plundering sofware; Anil Dash gleefully promoted the term "Facesquatting" and Mark Glaser lost his Kindle to a teenaged girl. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by ihatethatchick: Both times my ATM card was stolen it was used to buy porn. 3 Responses | Other threads
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bonnie fuller
Ever Wonder What It's Like to Work for Bonnie Fuller?
Working for Bonnie Fuller, who created the glossy gossip age at Us Weekly, was always a challenge. But since she was fired from her job at Star-publisher American Media last year, the only place she's had to aim her mercurial celebrity theories is her Twitter followers. More »
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Comment by SarahHeartburn: At this point in the tanking economy, I wonder what it's like to work. 1 Responses | Other threads
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populism
Bonnie Fuller Rides Rails With Hobos in Solidarity
Hark, who will stand up for the common man against Joe Biden and his hatred of public transportation? How about a multimillionaire media big shot with a compulsive need for money and luxury? More »
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Comment by YasashikuFonzie: Bonnie Fuller has fooled everyone! By the looks of this photo she traveled back to the swine flu free year... more » | Other threads
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twitterati
The Twitterati Buy Nick Denton Guacamole in Berkeley
So Meghan McCain, Suze Orman, and Bonnie Fuller walk into a bar ... no, we don't know the punchline either, but we suspect the real joke is that they're all on Twitter. Today's meetest tweets: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by MrInBetween: That Jessica Coen tweet sums up everything that's wrong with Twitter. I DO NOT WANT TO KNOW ANY OF THE... 6 Responses | Other threads
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twitterati
Methed-Out Twitterati Marry Evan Williams in Corpus Christi
The advent of Oprah has not changed the inanity of Twitter. Today, Bonnie Fuller met someone supercute, Karen Tumulty landed in the wrong spot, and Alex Blagg recommended meth! More » -
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Sarah Palin Lets the Twitterati Sleep in the Same Room
Twitter, the ideal medium for feigning emotion! Bonnie Fuller pretended to be shocked, Erick Schonfeld and Kara Swisher pretended to fight, and Sasha Frere-Jones pretended to function. Today's real fake tweets: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by rustneversleeps: Bonnie is shocked that Sarah Palin is more of a douche than we thought. Considering Palin's public stance on sex... more » | Other threads
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twitterati
The Twitterati Ride a Train to Unemployment
You know the media have fallen when former Star editorial director Bonnie Fuller can't get a car and driver. Also, another writer dude is newly unemployed! More vital information from the Twittersphere today: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by EhBologna: Wow! Heather Gold is trying to get pregnant! Only one question remains. Who the hell is Heather Gold? more » | Other threads
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twitterati
The Twitterati Drive Across the Yellow Lines of Our Minds
Twitter is so fresh and so now! It's where rumors get debunked and celebrities break up! And yet media people like James Poniewozik, Caroline McCarthy, and Bonnie Fuller make it just as banal as ever: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Gaytheist: Banal: Tweets. More Banal: Blogging about tweets. Most banal: Commenting about blog post about tweets. 2 Responses | Other threads
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twitterati
Twitter Is For Risotto Lovers
Today in Twitter, Spanish speakers confused Karen Tumulty, Touré was ready to sell out, Nick Douglas needed the money more, Bonnie Fuller believes celebrities and Patrick Gavin saw the bright side of soup kitchens. More »
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Comment by Uncle_Billy_Slumming: Why is it so hard to find the photos of Jessica Biel and Allysa Milano kissing (circa may '08?) ... 1 Responses | Other threads
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twitterati
Do You Cry, or Do You Just Twitter?
Blue? Just read Twitter, and you'll feel better. Jimmy Fallon's producer cried from fatigue. So did a Gizmodo blogger. An ABC news guy's biggest accomplishment? Going to the DMV. The sad life of Twitteronians: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by AtomicBalm: Maybe the "GIZ-MOIDS" and "GADGETEERS" are beginning to realize that their lives are just as uninteresting as the ELEC-SCREMENT celebrated... 1 Responses | Other threads
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bonnie fuller
Michelle Obama's Shopping Habits End Recession
President Barack Obama says he wants to save the economy, but all he does is give speeches and talk to fancy economists. Meanwhile, Michelle Obama is actually saving the economy, by shopping at Pottery Barn! More »
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Comment by LeGagneur: Uh... Anthropologie isn't exactly "affordable." It's not Baccarat, but it's definitely not Target. 5 Responses | Other threads
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twitterati
The Twitterati Are Not as Awesome as They Think They Are
Today on Twitter: Media people being pretentious, from Bonnie Fuller to Wired's Chris Anderson and beyond! More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Gospel X: re: headline No one who uses Twitter is awesome. No one. "Twit" doesn't even mean anything positive! 7 Responses | Other threads
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twitterati
A Vile Day for the Twitterati
Was it the sad news of Steve Jobs's ailments? Or just bad fish-oil capsules? Something was off in the Twittersphere today. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Alaska Miller: Why bother having a Twitter account? Just check this Valleywag feature constantly! 1 Responses | Other threads
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twitterati
The Twitterati Have Many Regrets
Twitter users are a sorry bunch. Especially the media! Errata, excuses, and eye-rolling from today's tweets: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Smitros: This reminds me of a question based on Devo. If you don't have the time or resources for both in one... 7 Responses | Other threads
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celebrity science
Celebrity Vacations of Doom: Bonnie Fuller Explains
Oh hey, former celebrity magazine editor Bonnie Fuller is still writing some of the internet's columns most inexplicable columns, about celebrity issues. Today she answers the secret question: Why do celebs always die on vacation? More »
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Comment by contradicto: Um. . . name one other celebrity (and I refuse to even consider Jett Travolta a real celebrity) who has... 13 Responses | Other threads
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david pecker
AMI Moving Towards Bankruptcy?
Is AMI going to go bankrupt? Nooooooooo! Do you know what that would mean: trouble for the new zombie version of Radar.com! Keith Kelly reports this morning that AMI, which publishes Star and the National Enquirer in addition to zombie Radar, missed a deadline on an interest payment and is "feverishly negotiating" with its lenders. How can you publish the National Enquirer in its finest year ever and still be coming up short of cash? We blame Bonnie Fuller, a little bit. More »
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Comment by MiltonKolder: If he can't hobble $20 million together for an interest payment, how safe is the half a billion he owes?... more » | Other threads
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dan abrams
Dan Abrams' Ring Of Media Informants
Last year the SEC and New York attorney general's office opened investigations related to a novel business: a company that hired as "consultants" moonlighting workers with access to proprietary information of interest to hedge funds. Ethical questions will also be asked about the network of insider media consultants Dan Abrams has assembled after Rachel Maddow took the Elle Macpherson-dater's MSNBC slot. With advisors like former Us Weekly editor Bonnie Fuller, ex-Huffington Post writer Rachel Sklar and Lockhart Steele, once of Gawker Media, Abrams Research is meant to be simply a "mock jury of bloggers, TV personalities and newspaper or magazine editors," the Wall Street Journal reports. But it could get so much more thorny than that. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by abbe diaz: Bold! So like, once a upon a time, these peoples were called "publicists" and/or "PR managers," yes? And being at the... 2 Responses | Other threads
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ok! magazine
For Frugal OK!, No Posh Bonnie Fuller
Perhaps the recent rumors about editor-from-hell Bonnie Fuller helming celebrity weekly OK! were a clever way of ensuring a warm staff welcome for the real editor-in-chief and publisher, both set for announcement tomorrow. They are former Quick & Simple EIC Susan Toepfer and Niche Media senior VP Lori Burgess, respectively, the Post's Keith Kelly is reporting. Recently-installed general manager Kent Brownridge insisted his choice for editor "had never been Bonnie," but his passing on the pricey and profligate former Us Weekly chief is as good a sign as any that the economic meltdown will slam celebrity entertainment media as it has banking and real estate. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by Minsley Tortimer: just misread as "OK! Speared Bonnie Fuller" 3 Responses | Other threads
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bonnie fuller
The Return Of Bonnie Fuller?
The last time we checked in with Bonnie Fuller, in August, the ex-Us Weekly editor was seeking "partners, financing and advertiser support" for a website aimed at women 20-40. That can't be going well right about now. Which might explain how OK! magazine could afford to bring on Fuller as a consultant, as CoverAwards is reporting, even though she was recently pulling down $2.1 million per year as editorial director at American Media Inc. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by if_i_only_had_a_heart: she could always team up with tina brown. bwa ha ha ha ha. 1 Responses | Other threads
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ok! magazine
Panic Reaches Famous-Baby Picture Market
As if celebrity babies didn't face enough perils — paparazzi, feuding celebrity parents, ill-advised playdates with Michael Jackson — they now have to keep a weary little eye on the stock market. Because amid Wall Street meltdown and the worst advertising decline in seven years rumors are now swirling that the undisputed highroller in the market for pictures of famous infants, OK! magazine, is cutting off payments for exclusive shots of the little tykes. (Sure, the fees usually went to charity, but you can't put a price tag on adulation.) New general manager Kent Brownridge has allegedly said "no more picture buying, and to keep readers interested we will have to 'get creative,'" a disgruntled staffer told Page Six. Underlings are no doubt praying Brownridge doesn't confirm another rumor and squander the savings hiring boss-from-hell Bonnie Fuller to replace a departing Sarah Ivens. Reports the Post: More »
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By Ryan TateComment by Trixie from Toronto: The cover of that magazine offends me. Yes, let's celebrate teenaged pregnancy. It's so hot right now to get knocked... 4 Responses | Other threads
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bonnie fuller
Why Does Bonnie Fuller Keep Writing Things?
Former Star editor Bonnie Fuller, who floats menacingly over the celebrity media like mist on a bog, has a new web venture in the works. She also has an insatiable thirst for money. And, of course, she has but a tenuous grasp on reality as a whole. Which of these is the explanation for the elusive question: Why the fuck has she spent the last several months writing the same meandering column over and over for increasingly unlikely outlets? More »
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Comment by Saxon 212: Bonnie Fuller is like that awful smell in your fridge that you can't pinpoint the source of, then one day... 1 Responses | Other threads
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Bonnie Fuller Knows A Few Things About This Palin Situation
"Having been the editor-in-chief of teen magazine YM for five years, and now as the mother of a 17-year-old girl myself, there are a few things I know." What does that sentence tell you? That's right, it's time to hear another one of former Star editor Bonnie Fuller's unique screeds comparing the Presidential race to various moments in celebrity history! Here is why Sarah Palin is just like Lynne Spears: More »
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Comment by rosaluxembourgeoise: You could totally be an editor, Hamilton. 1 Responses | Other threads
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ami
American Media Will Pay Later
American Media, the publisher of Star and the National Enquirer, has come to an agreement with its creditors to "refinance" $570 million of its more than $1 billion in total debt. That's code for going to the people you owe money to and saying, "Funniest thing—I just can't pay you. Wanna change our deal a little bit? Or would you prefer I just declare bankruptcy and we both get screwed?" As savvy financial types like to say, if you owe the bank $1 million, they own you; if you owe the bank $1 billion, you own them. More »
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Comment by ADismalScience: I can't see the WSJ article because paying for the internet is something people did in 1998, but any chance... 1 Responses | Other threads
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huffington clones
Every Print Diva Must Have A Website
You know how you are always saying to yourself "What the world needs now is a website… that would devote itself to chronicling the entertainment industry"? Well, another half million venture capital dollars has found a home trying to do that under the great helmsladyship of ex-New York Times Hollywood reporter Sharon Waxman. So now it's a trend, this "internet as representing some sort of future for the media" thing! Because Tina Brown told us last week her plans for internet moguldum involve a new website called the Daily Beast, and Bonnie Fuller confirmed she was starting her own new website a few weeks before that, and while Waxman is not, like the two other media divas, internet retarded — she has a blog! — she is a lady, and as with the other two we hope her venture, The Wrap LLC fails because we're sick of having new sites we're supposed to check on the internet. More »
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By MoeComment by LipstickLibrarian: @I.Can. Haz.Black.Editors?: This flood of comments may be overwhelming, but I'm sure you'll be used to the flow in no... more » | Other threads
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marketing
Bonnie Fuller Exposes Obama's Secret "Celebrity" Plan!
Seriously, what's going on with these Bonnie Fuller columns in Ad Age? The deposed Star chief must still be desperate for cash. And Ad Age must be desperate for amusement, because the main thing these columns do is expose the fact that Bonnie Fuller—despite being paid astronomical amounts of money by several media moguls—is not all that bright. At least when it comes to writing about and/ or analyzing things. Her last column blew the big A-Rod-and-Madonna conspiracy wide open; and today, she reveals what's really going on with Barack Obama's "celebrity" strategy. The twisted truth must come out! More »
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Comment by KatyaMoskva: The most baffling paragraph:"He also points out that like Barack's celebrity endorser, Oprah, and other mega-stars like Brad, Angelina, Jen,... more » | Other threads
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american media
National Enquirer Publisher Desperate For Cash
It looks like American Media didn't cut its $2.4-million-per-year editorial chief Bonnie Fuller fast enough: the tabloid publisher is reportedly nearly broke, desperately trying to raise money before a bunch of junk bonds come due in February. Granted, those bonds are worth $415 million, so Fuller's salary is only a sliver of the problem, but had Fuller delivered on hopes she could improve Star and National Enquirer enough to beat back competitors like Us Weekly and People perhaps the situation might not be so bleak. The company's worth has fallen by half in seven months, and its private equity owners will likely give up equity to keep it going. Perhaps some sort of juicy scandal will come along to breathe some life into the firm! [Post]
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By Ryan TateComment by ShavedbyJesus: Dear American Media, Two words: Rupert Murdoch. more » | Other threads
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conspiracy theories
Bonnie Fuller, Madonna Truther
Now that Bonnie Fuller's been kicked out of American Media, she can finally reveal the dirty secrets of how the Celebrity Tabloid game is really played. It's all an elaborate Watergate-like conspiracy! The celebs are in collusion with the glossies! You know that thing where baseball player Alex Rodriguez was suddenly hanging out with Madonna and divorcing his wife? Remember that? You know how none of it made any sense? Well Fuller—whose career in the tabloid trenches gives her a special understanding of how these sorts of stories work—smells a rat. An aerobics-addicted 49-year-old celebrity rat.
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By PareeneComment by UpstateAudacity: Um...I just checked tickets at MSG. I chose "any price" to prove my point...$354 per seat, plus a $20 convenience... more » | Other threads
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bonnie fuller
Bonnie Fuller Can Never Get Enough Money
Bonnie Fuller was axed last month from her job as editorial chief of American Media. But the company gave her $2.4 million in fiscal year 08, which is 50% more than even CEO David Pecker got. And AMI, which is facing some serious financial challenges of its own, was planning a $2 million severance package for her if she left by the end of March (since she didn't, they haven't revealed her actual severance—but it's surely in that ballpark). Fuller's rich, but she's still a well-known neurotic about money issues, dating back to her own mother's rough period of being broke after a divorce. Understandable—but it doesn't really give one the right to start yelling at the good people from the freaking Make-A-Wish foundation, as Fuller once famously did when she thought they were being too stingy: More »
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Comment by ☭: I now feel much better about never contributing any money to anything, ever. Though this article does leave me wondering what... more » | Other threads
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Times Incorrectly Portrays Bonnie Fuller As Sympathetic Figure
For unclear reasons, the Times felt compelled to hand a huge chunk of its Sunday Business section over to a profile of Bonnie Fuller—the woman most responsible for creating our nation's soul-destroying cast of powerful celebrity magazines—who was recently axed from her multimillion-dollar gig as editorial chief of American Media. A sympathetic profile! The news peg, purportedly: Bonnie Fuller is doing some vague new project on the internet. For women! With specifics to be determined! Color us skeptical. The Fuller that the Times describes does not sound like the woman who was so despised by her assistants that they put snot in her food. What's the major malfunction here? More »
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Comment by lizzybennet: @virgilicious: Considering all the ball sweat she has forced American females to ingest from her YM days onward, serves her... more » | Other threads
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editors from hell
Bullied Assistant Put Snot In Bonnie Fuller's Mini Soufflé
Class resentment and anonymous speech on the internet make a toxic combination. (According to Fucked Company, I once paid for lazik eye surgery for a young MBA on staff whom I actually despised.) But occasionally the office legends are accurate—which is lucky because there were some particularly lurid stories about axed Star supremo Bonnie Fuller. Before the stake was put through her heart, the celebrity mag editor was so demanding and abusive to her underlings that she warranted her very own rumor message board, 'I Survived Bonnie'. The demand for first-class tickets from the Make-A-Wish charity? The bullied assistants who exacted revenge by rubbing snot in her souffle and crotch juice on the bread? All true, according to 2004's bitchy profile by Judith Newman of Vanity Fair. After the jump, read about the editor who made all her counterparts look like saints.
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By Nick DentonComment by lizzybennett: @Rbastid: And get fired and have a fucking hard time finding a job afterward.Unless of course you're graydon carter.Problem is... more » | Other threads
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Bonnie Fuller Lies On Her Mother's Grave
Amid general rejoicing in the humiliation of boss-from-hell Bonnie Fuller, have some sympathy for the departing American Media editorial director. Fuller not only failed to turn American Media's supermarket tabloid Star into a real competitor to the glossier Us Weekly; she recently lost her mother. But the driven Canadian-born super-editor—who boasted of her ability to juggle career and family in a recent advice book—may have used her mother's death to manage the news of her departure. New York Post terrier-like media reporter Keith Kelly was sniffing around last week. Bonnie Fuller's shameless response? More »
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By Nick DentonComment by tracyflick: JA has been being marginalized since January, in case no one has noticed. Sure, she has 2 months left on... more » | Other threads
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request for information
Did You Survive Bonnie Fuller?
To mark the passing of the much-hated magazine editor, Gawker will run eulogies from former colleagues who survived Fuller's reign of terror at Us Weekly and Star. Let it all out.
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By Nick DentonComment by if_i_only_had_a_heart: who will tell us now how to be better than britney? more » | Other threads
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breaking
The Witch Is Dead
Bonnie Fuller, the Canadian mother-of-four who defined both the celebrity weekly and the celebrity magazine editor, is to leave her job. As the demanding editor of Us Weekly, Fuller was the most sought-after executive in the magazine industry; but she traded in her reputation for a richer deal at David Pecker's American Media. Fuller did improve group flagship Star, but it wasn't enough to dislodge Us Weekly, which continued to thrive under Fuller's successor, Janice Min. It became apparent that the peppy formula was stronger than the personal magic which Fuller had sold to American Media's Pecker. Marginalized at her new employer, Fuller spent her last couple of years in increasingly bizarre efforts to promote Star and her own flagging brand, appearing on game shows such as Identity (see screencap) and damning in blog posts the trashy celebrity culture that she had done so much to promote. It was a brutal fall from grace; and now Fuller cannot even claim to be seeking a quieter life. Her book, The Joys of Much Too Much, extolled the virtues of a hectic but full career and home life, over the simplicity and tranquility from which she will now suffer. (After the jump, American Media's press release.)
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By Nick DentonComment by if_i_only_had_a_heart: Julia Allison's Friends Julia Allison has no friends. more » | Other threads
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hyperbole
Yucky Miley Pictures Are Just Like Teen Cult Impregnation, Says Bonnie Fuller
Bonnie Fuller, who oversees Star magazine and is therefore the arbiter of American media standards, has a question about this whole Miley Cyrus thing, and its connection to the current Texas polygamy scandal: "Is it OK to sexualize a fifteen-year-old if it is in the pages of a high falutin' magazine and her parents seem OK with it? Or is this really not much different from parents in a cult acquiescing to having their teen daughters wedded and bedded?" Ummm... can we say 'No' to all of the above? More »
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Us Calls Bullshit on Star!
Star overlord Bonnie Fuller is getting her ass kicked this morning. "Online reports that Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt tied the knot in New Orleans Saturday are 'complete and total bulls—t,' a source tells Us. 'Bottom line, they aren't even in New Orleans.'"
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gossip wars
Brangelina Married! No it's Not!
The poor, poor bastards Star magazine spent Saturday evening furiously shoving out their scoop that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie had gotten married in New Orleans yesterday. It was "an intimate wedding ceremony in the couple's adopted city" editor-in-chief and horrible person Bonnie Fuller's scribes report. And that got the kids at People magazine crazy! A couple hours later, they had tracked down a "source" who declared "There was no wedding." Then Star got slammed with The People's Elbow when the rag claimed that Brangelina wasn't even in New Orleans yesterday! More »
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Comment by flyoverstate: Star should have known it was bull. No way those two would do such a thing in total privacy. They... more » | Other threads
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blogs
Smell The Innuendo
There's a new book about blogs that the blogs can't stop talking about because bloggers love books about them. But actually reading a book about blogs? Nothing could be more boring. But there are nuggets in Ultimate Blogs: Masterworks from the Wild Web that make reading it, or the reviews of it at least, worthwhile. For one: In Eurotrash Geraldine Hayward takes bad breath to new literary heights describing her former (possibly famous!) boss. More »
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By rebeccaComment by Lysergic Asset: @blakeley: They should've printed a coffee-table Foxymorons book instead... 11,311 comments to choose from. more » | Other threads
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listicles
Internets, Gays, Celebrities: Three Things That Will Destroy Your Family This Valentine's Day
The American Family is Under Attack. Homosexuals, liberals, Europeans, celebrities, immigrants—all seek to undermine our nation's moral code. Marriage, parenthood, even chaste teenage courtship are embattled and probably doomed. Movies about children having children out of wedlock, gays trying to marry gays, and wife-stealing media moguls are just symptoms of a deeper moral rot in our culture. Here, we present to you, exclusively, three of the greatest dangers to your family unit that you are sure to face this February—and beyond!
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By PareeneComment by the lesser of two weevils: Coming this fall to ABC: He's a holy priest, she's a resto druid, and with two small children at home... more » | Other threads
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broken borders
The Canadian Media Mafia
A story in Canada's National Post about how Canadian journo Clive Thompson is secretly jealous of more famous Canadian author Malcom Gladwell made brief mention of "a Canadian mafia of print journos that exists in the Manhattan magazine world." There are more Canucks in the New York media world than you might imagine, and nearly all of them hold positions of terrifying power. Do you know your Canadian Mafia members? Join us on a trip through Manhattan's dirty underbelly with the Molson-guzzling old time hockey aficionados who secretly run the media.
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