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Ruth Reichl Disses Mom, Too

Ryan Tate — Tue, 06 May 2008 05:07:50 EDT

OK, this is way worse than Candice Bergen not crying at her mom's funeral earlier tonight: "Gourmet editor in chief [Ruth Reichl] told attendees... that her mother 'was everything I didn't want to be, and to this day I wake up every morning grateful not to be her...' Penguin Press, inspired by Reichl's speech, has signed a contract with her to write a tome about the meaning of motherhood past and present." [WWD]

Candice Bergen's Heartwarming Pre-Mother's Day Message

Ryan Tate — Mon, 05 May 2008 21:44:03 EDT

"After some rough, knockout years with my mom, we grew close and when she died, I loved her very much. I didn’t, however, cry when she died (or for my father, for that matter) and don’t understand why. Perhaps because of youthful choices not to be my mother. But my mom was bedridden for the last four years of her life. She was a great sport about it. But now, whenever I find myself sleeping until eight o’clock AM or stretching out on my couch to answer emails or read the paper … I panic. Am I turning to sedentary sludge? Am I steps away from being bedridden?" [wowOwow]

Celebrity Doyennes Launch Your Mom's New Favorite Site

Ryan Tate — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 03:41:07 EST

Five old media blondes are launching a website for women over 40 and enlisting their closest celebrity friends to contribute! The site is called WowOWow.com, which is supposed to refer to "Women On The Web," and should launch Saturday. It sounds a lot like that other celebrity website, the Huffington Post, except more like The View and less tech savvy — a good deal of the content is submitted via telephone calls, faxes and probably dictaphone cylinders that are then transcribed into digital bits by pitiable lackeys who "speak cyber," as one editor put it. The founders, who contributed $200,000 each, are Post columnist Liz Smith, 85; former advertising execute Mary Wells, 79; 60 Minutes reporter Leslie Stahl, 67; former Simon & Schuster President Joni Evans, 65; and Wall Street Journal Columnist Peggy Noonan, 57. They have wisely recruited contributors like Lily Tomlin, Candice Bergen and token-non-white-lady Whoopie Goldberg. But how can this thing take of with an address like "WowOWow.com?" After the jump, a number of more descriptive and accurate domain names, all still available at the time of posting:

MenopausalPost.com
Women.OfACertainRage.com
FaceliftsBook.com
HuffyOldPost.com
OleBiddies.com
WeAllDyeOurHair.com
Here.ALinkFromMom.com