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Sexy Lounge Threatens Brooklyn With 'Details' Crowd
Details Magazine executive editor Greg Williams was caught by a Times reporter sipping Snow Mosquitos, twee blueberry/ mint/ vodka drinks, at a terrifying den of yuppiedom called The Hideout in the already teetering hood of Fort Greene, Brooklyn . Look how precious: More »
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'Details' Ed Has A Baby (With His Wife!)
Details editor Dan Peres—not gay but ok with that, unrepentant douchebag and totally ok with that—just had a kid! Peres' son, Oscar Dallas Wynter Peres, was born Monday and will be impeccably groomed. [WWD]
Details has finally ended its backpager, "Gay or...?" We did not realize it was still running! In any event, the sometimes-apologized-for "humor column" is now dead. [Ad Age]
How in the name of all that is magabranding and holy can Details put Kevin Federline on its cover FOR THE SECOND TIME? (The first was all the way back in March, 2005: "the second-worst selling issue of the year," says WWD.) Do not understand! [Memo Pad]
So the tussle between the Details freelancer and Ben Affleck gets murkier. Says a spokesperson about the mag's correction, which says the piece quotes Affleck saying things he did not say: "Statements taken out of context.... Nothing fabricated." Well, they can't have it both ways. The New York Observer asks: "Will Details run a correction of their correction?"
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'Details' Tosses Freelancer Under Ben Affleck's Hybrid SUV
Today's Page Six provides a vehicle for Details editor Dan Peres to either school or destroy his former staffer and current freelancer Bart Blasengame. In a December editor's letter editor's note, Peres claims that Blasengame (who goes unnamed) printed a quote by Ben Affleck that Affleck "never made." Also, the article (which lacked the writer's byline) "implied" that Affleck might leave L.A.—but Peres writes that was a "statement" that Affleck never issued. A Details publicist then says that the Details editor and Ben Affleck are "good friends," and says that "Dan realized there were things taken out of context." What now? Were things taken out of context—or were they invented, as Peres says? Because there's a really serious line there to be considered before destroying someone's career in journalism to appease a snippy star. These are the kind of things that keep lawyers very busy! Blasengame did not return an email this morning. Details recently killed his story on Sarah Silverman, which then appeared in Nerve.
Even though there aren't any gay neighborhoods anymore, all the gays in Latin America are still moving to New York to be Out and Proud. But they don't really need those lame old homosexualist ghettos because they're all super-rich. They can never go home again, despite their massive wealth, so they're forced to live like kings in New York and read Details. [Details]
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'Details': Is It All Right To Make Her Take It Up The Butt?
Good question, Details! We asked our resident sexual etiquette expert. "Absolutely not," says My Cock. "Beg, wheedle, cajole, whatever you need to do. But a true gentleman never demands. Of course, that's not to say that you can't buy a certain pill and make her slightly more receptive. Nah, I'm kidding - it's flat-out wrong. As wrong as the image Details used for this story. Seriously, shouldn't that be a man butt? Anyway, if you are lucky enough to be granted the favor of anal congress, it's only polite to shove a dozen roses in that train tunnel once you're done."
Is it Ok to Demand Anal Sex? [Details]
Supposedly formerly cool Details editor Dan Peres doesn't want to be the new Dave Zinczenko, but, okay, he'll "get out there and shill" the new Details men's style book. [WWD]
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Is 'Details' Nearly Done?
Might Details go the way of ElleGirl, Teen People, Life and all those other magazines that close their print versions to go web? A source in the advertising industry has begun thinking that Details' days are numbered, spurred by the fact that many of latest issue's ads came through from bundled corporate ad sales, instead of from the Details team, as a cross-magazine buy. But would it be so crazy if the content (but presumably not all of its staff!) were folded into men.style.com, "the online home of Details and GQ"? Let's look at the numbers! More »
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Conrad Black Even Swears Like Nixon
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Patrick Dempsey Shills For Conde Nast
Conde Nast is rolling out its celeb-studded print ads, in a campaign called "Point of Passion." It's this nifty thing where people who might be in the magazines are shilling for the magazines! So you have Mary-Louise Parker posing for the New Yorker, and Patrick Dempsey working it for Details, and Richard Branson hawking Wired, and Diane von Furstenberg clutching Vanity Fair, and, naturally, Stanley Tucci caressing Gourmet. See, if famous people like magazines, well, then clearly you will enjoy them and buy them too! We thought we'd make some revisions—you know, to aim for that youthful demo that Conde is opting out on. More »
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The $40 Million Question: Define "Nappy"
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'Details' Mandingo Article Not Afraid To Be Servicey
Late to the party with this one, but what a party it is: a Mandingo party, to be precise! This phenomenon, detailed in March's Details, entails a bunch of rich white men getting together a bunch of well-hung black men and then paying these persons to do their saggy wives. Wait, maybe not paying them: "Each guest at Hammer's parties pays an annual membership—couples pay $30 and Mandingos $75. Everyone pays an additional fee of $30 for each party." Wait, so these men are paying to be whores? More »
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Rich and Dowd Remember Small Times
What do the king and queen of weekend media do together when they're alone? We find out, all gory details intact, in this month's issue of Harvard Magazine, a once-stodgy alumni glossy that has reportedly been trying for a sexier, more 'now' sort of look ever since the presposterous 02138 started crowding the field with their famous attitude and cool thoughts about lifestyle. More »
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Dopesmoking Metrosexual Mag Editors Dig Queens
Damn, you people know a lot about pot. The flood of tips engendered by our solicitation for expert advice on current spot pricing resulted in a number of e-mails, but our favorite came late in the day:I used to work for a now-defunct delivery service in Manhattan in the early years of the millenium. Runners would be dispatched by pager all over the city (from 96th street down, naturally). The going price was $60 for a 2 gram box of hydroponic ( Cannabis Cup winning varieties like Juicy Fruit, White Widow, White Rhino, Blueberry, AK47, Humboldt Harvest, Bulldozer, G13). At $30 a gram, the price per ounce would be $810, so certainly $560 is nowhere close to the most expensive weed that exists, unless there were a volume discount. A funny blind item anecdote: Among many other low-grade celebs, I once delivered to the editor-in-chief of a certain magazine that rhymes with "Retails". Apropos of wide speculation as to the sexual proclivities of its readership, this editor chose a box of the cannabis varietal named "Closet Queen".We knew it! Retails readers, you are so ray! More »
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