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Who's Buying Daily Candy?
Daily Candy, the email newsletter for women addicted to expensive handbags, has been on sale for more than two years. But word is that the highly profitable internet property—founded by Dany Levy but now controlled by former MTV and AOL boss Bob Pittman—is finally about to find a buyer. Details, anyone?
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Mars bought the huge chewing gum concern Wrigley a few months ago. Hershey is scared of being crushed, so it's boosting its marketing spending by 40% over the next two years. You know what this means, according to the press: they are locked in a "Candy War." A Candy War! [WSJ]
Mars bought the huge chewing gum concern Wrigley a few months ago. Hershey is scared of being crushed, so it's boosting its marketing spending by 40% over the next two years. You know what this means, according to the press: they are locked in a "Candy War." A Candy War! [WSJ]
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Warren Buffet Finances 2008's Most Delicious Acquisition
Mars bought the WM. Wrigley Jr. Company. You gotta imagine a business desk reporter's dream is to one day use the phrase "the chewing gum concern" within the first paragraph of a front-page item. Congrats, Andrew Ross Sorkin! Livin' the dream! That candy industry ought to ride out the depression just fine, right? Gum will be an especially important part of our recession diet at any rate. [NYT]
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One More Thing
SCTV's "Farm Film Celebrity Blow-up"!—plus a surprise bonus!—after the jump. More »
Super-Fun Easter Extravaganza
Awww... It's Peeps. And they're stripping. There's a whole gallery of this stuff? [asylum]
Awww... It's Peeps. And they're stripping. There's a whole gallery of this stuff? [asylum]
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CNN Reporter Says "Don't You Believe A Word Of That" CNN Story
TV journalists have been squabbling on camera and hilariously for years, and CNN reporter Candy Crowley reminds us that the practice continues to this day. Though she doesn't actually trade words with fellow CNN correspondent Chris Welch, she follows his report by telling the camera, "Don't you believe a word of that," followed by a brief description (slightly truncated in the clip) of how fun it is to be a political reporter. What sorts of lies was Welch spreading? He was showing reporters bitching on the presidential campaign trail about having to wait in line for hotel room keys, about not getting frequent guest points in hotels, about the lack of power outlets, about the food — about everything, really. In other words, the journalists are whiny and self-absorbed. Crowley spots this for the obvious slander that it is: More »
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Chocolate Addict Joss Stone To Pay Homage To Candy
[UPDATE:] Hippie pop star Joss Stone has signed on to do ads for Cadbury Flake. The product is shaped like a rod, so it was quite natural that they've promoted it [Adrants] in the past by having a pretty woman wrap her supple lips around it and roll her eyes back into her head in simulated ecstasy. And then walk down the beach with a horse. The not-so-subtle message: Women and horses will happily give you a blow job in exchange for a Cadbury Flake. Get yours today! Full [classic] ad below. More »
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Park Slope Candy Shortage Ends In Violent Melee!
First they came for the strippers—and now Park Slope has apparently turned against Halloween completely and denied its precious and bright children candy itself. According to an irate reader, nearly every store along 5th Ave ran out of sweets before the sun had even set! More »
So the Scores strippers maybe shouldn't have gone to the Daily News with word of their date with all the Park Slope kids. Now the school has disinvited them from the party and may cancel the event altogether. What has our society come to when a group of exotic dancers can't hand out candy to children? [NYM]
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Bill Clinton Samples The Sweets
The date: August 21stThe place: 1011 3rd Ave.
Sighted: Saw Bill Clinton yesterday at Dylan's Candy Bar. Dylan was also present and looking rather preppy (duh). Bill was rocking a "Hillary in '08" button on his lapel. Very friendly and taking lots of pictures with the ladies. More »
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'Jealous Husband Returns In The Form Of A Parrot' By Robert Olen Butler
Sure, we all know that Robert Olen Butler is the Pulitzer-winning author whose author wife, Elizabeth Dewberry, just left him to become one of media mogul Ted Turner's girlfriends, prompting him to pen the nuttiest email of all time. But how familiar are we all with his award-winning work? Maybe some excerpts from this short story, which first appeared in the New Yorker in 1995, would be a good primer. It is about what you think: a man turns into a parrot, is purchased as a pet by his wife, and is forced to watch her cavort around the house with her new lover. More »
"If you're going to swallow, just swallow it. Don't do that thing where you practically gargle it, get it all foamy in your mouth, and then half-spit it out to show the camera. This isn't Cum Guzzling Sluts—it's educational!" [VV]
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Candy Spelling Is Worried About Paris Hilton
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Now, A Chicken In Blank
Pet a Silkie chicken and you understand how it got its name. The feathers are fine and flutter in wisps in the breeze. With a walnut-shaped crown of plumage, blue earlobes and feathers that come in a variety of colors, it's a striking-looking bird that's often raised for show. Breeders also like them because they will hatch other birds' eggs. "They are such good moms," said Frank R. Reese Jr., the founder of Good Shepherd Turkey Ranch in Lindsborg, Kan., who breeds Silkies for show. "They'll sit on anything and hatch anything. They'll hatch ducks, turkeys, chickens."Yes, but will they really eat grapes out of anywhere you put them? Anywhere? More »
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Bob Pittman Will Buy You Now
Taking up an austere few thousand square feet on Madison Avenue are the offices of the Pilot Group, a shadowy private investment firm run by Robert Pittman, the poor sap who took the fall for the AOL/Time-Warner merger. Of course, they're not really shadowy, just secretive and private and investy, and Bob Pittman is anything but poor. The Pilot Group specializes in "control positions" (i.e. they like to top) on emerging new media and Internet companies. Most famously, the P-Group purchased a controlling stake in girly e-newsletter Daily Candy for $3.5 million in 2003, then put DC on the block earlier this year for $100 million. That sale ultimately didn't happen, as really — $100 million for an email list? Even so, Pittman and Pilot still managed to score an undisclosed minority investment to placate those other stakeholders who wanted their Bubble 2.0 money right now. Comes the rumor that Pilot has inscrutably made a deal for music blog Stereogum. (Perhaps this will console Stereogum's Scott Lapatine after last night's altercation with Jared Leto.) No doubt, you're asking yourself — hey, I have a blog, how can I get Robert Pittman to cover me in bags of filthy lucre? Know your quarry, after the jump. More »
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Daily Candy Off the Block, Finds Minority Crackhead Investor
Well look who's got themselves a new sugar daddy: the pretty ladies at Daily Candy have found themselves a minority investor valuing the company at $130 million. Back in February, Daily Candy's controlling investor Bob Pittman put the trendy email service on the auction block with a minimum bid of $100 million — but the ballsy number was enough to scare off the New York Times Co., News Corp., and Hearst. Instead, the Wall Street Journal reports that the company is no longer for sale, the ladies having decided to whore themselves to just one minority investment, the money from which shall go towards maintaining their well-stocked closets. More »
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Today, rather than tell you pretty ladies how to be even prettier, DailyCandy has a reader survey. Just be careful: answer incorrectly, and you may be blackballed from Intermix — or their mailing list.
Daily Candy New York Reader Survey 2006
DailyCandy Is Testing You
Today, rather than tell you pretty ladies how to be even prettier, DailyCandy has a reader survey. Just be careful: answer incorrectly, and you may be blackballed from Intermix — or their mailing list.Daily Candy New York Reader Survey 2006
