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Britney Spears Has Your Conservatorship Right Here
You may want to ask yourself something in this, a week that represents the first expansion of "Daylight Saving Time" since 1987: Why do Clorox and 7-11 and Modell's and the all-powerful potato and oil lobbies want so desperately to make it dark in the morning for longer? Media outlets randomly report that we save either "10,000" or "100,000" barrels of oil a day on the "Daylight Saving" system, a number that is completely made-up, as neither Australia nor the U.S. has ever seen a reduction in energy use—and a simulation in Japan projected a rise in electricity use. The U.S. itself sees a rise in gasoline use during "Daylight Saving."
From the mailbag: "Bono is at the New York Times for a publisher's luncheon (?) He says he wants to see the Politics Desk, so he might be down on the third floor soon."
Are the Forbes family and Bono's Elevation Partners looking to cash out on Forbes? [NYP]
Money's so tight at Forbes that the publishing company had to sell of its two corporate airplanes. That Bono runs a tight ship! If you're looking to pick up a Faberge egg on the cheap, you might want to keep your ear to the ground: We wouldn't be surprised if they offload a few from Steve Forbe's collection sometime soon. [NYP]
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Sometimes A Butterscotch Pony Gets Depressed
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Crazed British Children Want To Destroy Your Airplanes!
Literally dozens of menacing long-haired young people have set up eco-camps around London's Heathrow airport, claiming that airplanes are bad for children and other living things and that you can't hug a child with a nuclear airplane and what if British Airways had to hold a bake sale and all the schools got free upgrades to first class? Apparently these youth believe that airplanes are a significant cause of so-called "global warming" and that nobody should fly in them—that we should all just hop around on giant toadstools and live off the magical power of the wind. The protesters, all of whom are out-of-country millionaires due to the insane value of the English pound, expect to be visited over the next week by green-sympathizers like Bono, Jann Wenner and Graydon Carter, each of whom will arrive in his own private jet.
Heathrow eco-protesters steal a march on police [Guardian]
Heathrow climate camp [Guardian]
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Penelope Cruz Is Helping Bono Figure Some Things Out
Rodale—home of Men's Health superhunk Dave Zinczenko and the South Beach Diet—is looking to expand. Bono's Elevation Partners may want in. [NYP]
'Vanity Fair' Wants You To Love Diamonds And Africa
A correspondent from the UK notes that this month's Bono-produced pro-Africa issue comes bundled with a separate 74-page magazine devoted to diamonds and other "jewellery." (Click to enlarge.) It appears to be a UK exclusive.
A correspondent from the UK notes that this month's Bono-produced pro-Africa issue comes bundled with a separate 74-page magazine devoted to diamonds and other "jewellery." (Click to enlarge.) It appears to be a UK exclusive.
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Celebrities Almost Make Africa Interesting Again
Hey, so the Vanity Fair Africa issue hit newsstands today! Guest-edited by Bono! We rushed out to get our copy and brought it to the office where we realized that, you know, we're kind of shallow. Isn't Africa kind of last fall? We don't have the attention spans for that stuff. You know what we do care about, though? Celebrities! And with twenty different celebrity-studded covers, the magazine kept up involved for a good five minutes looking at the Annie Leibovitz compositions. Each one blends one subject from the previous cover, so you've got your Don Cheadle and Barack Obama giving way to Barack and Muhammad Ali. Here's a handy guide to who you'll want to look for at the newsstand. More »
Bono-edited issue of Vanity Fair to have different covers featuring every single resident of Africa. [WWD]
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Bono Fights Billy Squier's Unforgettable Fireplace
When Bono is through chillaxing with The Edge and saving Africa, all he wants is to spend some quality time with his family in their San Remo penthouse. But according to the Times, ex-rocker and fellow San Remo resident Billy Squier's chimney is blowing smoke into Bono's pad, giving the singer no small amount of strife and his asthmatic daughter no small amount of attacks. Can't a man enjoy a pine-scented evening spent rehashing his astounding fall from fame in the privacy of his own home? But isn't also true that for $14.5 million, Bono's daughter should be able to live a long and at least sort of healthy life? There's only one way to decide. To the tape! More »
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We Read 'Portfolio' So You Don't Have To
Let us begin with the cover of Portfolio. It's a gilded city image, a metropolis of lit-up office windows in earth tones, oddly, as it is supposed to be an homage to Berenice Abbott. (A funny reference, as she was told that New York City was too toxic for her to live in and so she left.) Publisher David Carey and Editor in Chief Joanne Lipman are shown in the Times this morning comparing their cover favorably to a recent Fortune cover, with Carey saying, "We're not giving you peas and carrots. We want to capture that glamour." By that measure things are certainly already a success; the magazine certainly weighs as much as Glamour. More »
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