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holiday parties
Last night, the fire alarm went off at the Harper's Bazaar holiday party! But the resulting video was incredibly boring. (I mean, it was like, a fire alarm. And some queen going, "Ooh there's a fire." There wasn't.) But, thanks to the magic of a tragic and lurid dance remix of the native sounds from the video (so glad I spent that $500 on Logic Pro 8!), now it looks and sounds almost sort of exciting and flashy! (Also the picture of the car helps somehow, no?) OMG THE DRAMA. THE CHIC, CHIC DRAMA! (Also, they were totes playing Grace Jones, so kudos.)
'Harper's Bazaar' Holiday Party Nearly Derailed By Fire Alarm!
Last night, the fire alarm went off at the Harper's Bazaar holiday party! But the resulting video was incredibly boring. (I mean, it was like, a fire alarm. And some queen going, "Ooh there's a fire." There wasn't.) But, thanks to the magic of a tragic and lurid dance remix of the native sounds from the video (so glad I spent that $500 on Logic Pro 8!), now it looks and sounds almost sort of exciting and flashy! (Also the picture of the car helps somehow, no?) OMG THE DRAMA. THE CHIC, CHIC DRAMA! (Also, they were totes playing Grace Jones, so kudos.)
martyrs
Judith Regan Died For Your Sins
"The media went on a rampage, blaming me for the whole O.J. book debacle. They came out, guns blazing, and tried to kill me. I felt like Faye Dunaway's character in the final scene of Bonnie and Clyde. Bullets flying in every direction," former publisher Judith Regan writes in her hotly-anticipated Harper's Bazaar profile of herself. You know, the one where she talks about having sung 'My Way!' It's on newsstands now, and it is all about how she "took the blows." In fact, this phrase comes up several times. In one instance she writes that something happened "after a month of taking the blows without protection." Shots! Blows! Attempts on Judith's very life! What is fact here and what's hyperbole? Does Judith Regan believe in distinguishing between the two? More »
dina lohan
Dina Lohan Is The Coolest Mom!
Boy, Lindsay Lohan is looking rough in that picture. Oh, wait! That's actually her Mom, Dina, but with enough oversaturated lighting, it sure is hard to tell, right? Come on, play along. "I don't want them to know I'm her mom. It's a whole 'nother demographic. People just go dark," the speckly cougar told Harper's Bazaar, adding that she is not above wearing Linday's castoff clothes: "If you can button it and clip it when you're in your 40s, you're going out." Is clubbing with one's underage daughter a good parenting strategy? Who knows. Also, is Lindsay an alcoholic? Dina says noooo. "Noooo! She is just a 20-year-old who had to reel it in." But Dina also says yes: "She's from an addictive personality genetically." No shit, lady. More »
britney spears
EIC Glenda Bailey, you've got some explaining to do. Where to start with this? Obviously, yes, it is a pregnant, naked picture of Britney Spears. No, no, it is not necessary. Isn't Bazaar a fashion magazine? Should it not aspire in the direction of Vogue rather than Perfect 10?
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'Bazaar' Hates You, Puts Naked Britney on Cover
EIC Glenda Bailey, you've got some explaining to do. Where to start with this? Obviously, yes, it is a pregnant, naked picture of Britney Spears. No, no, it is not necessary. Isn't Bazaar a fashion magazine? Should it not aspire in the direction of Vogue rather than Perfect 10?
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hearst
A View From the Moving Truck: Hearst Magazines
If nobody knows all your secrets quite like your doorman does, nobody knows a magazine quite like the dude who's helping coordinate its move into a new office tower. A guy involved with getting the Hearst titles out of their old offices en route to the Foster building (but: "I'm not a mover," he assured us) has learned a lot from his experience — that Bazaar girls are gorgeous and self-important, that CosmoGIRL! chicks drink communal beer, and that there's no way Hearst's new digs will be as cushy as Rodale's. We're skeptical on that last point, but, still Not-a-Mover's full report on the Hearst trek awaits after the jump. More »
media bubble
TV Week]
• Budget Living's failure shows that indie mags just don't work anymore. But shhhhh... Ron Burkle might hear. [NYT]
• Jim Cramer says the Times should ditch paper and move entirely online. He's crazy, of course, but in that case also probably right. [NYM]
• The NYT's new web redesign — and the Journal's of a few weeks ago — are about creating more ad inventory and adding news aggregators. [Ad Age]
• Is Hearst looking to replace Glenda Bailey at Bazaar when her contract is up later this year? Well, no, says the company, and her numbers look good, too. [WWD]
• ESPN to start broadcasting dominoes games (matches?). Remarkably, this does not seem to be an April Fools joke. [NYT]
• NYO TV columnist Rebecca Dana has a signed picture of Richard Dawson on her mantelpiece. We're a little jealous, to be honest. [Jossip]
Media Bubble: Is the Couric Move a Done Deal?
• "Katie Couric's deal to move to CBS News is completed in principle, and an announcement that she is leaving NBC might come as early as this week." Which would be a relief, so we could finally stop hearing speculation about it. [• Budget Living's failure shows that indie mags just don't work anymore. But shhhhh... Ron Burkle might hear. [NYT]
• Jim Cramer says the Times should ditch paper and move entirely online. He's crazy, of course, but in that case also probably right. [NYM]
• The NYT's new web redesign — and the Journal's of a few weeks ago — are about creating more ad inventory and adding news aggregators. [Ad Age]
• Is Hearst looking to replace Glenda Bailey at Bazaar when her contract is up later this year? Well, no, says the company, and her numbers look good, too. [WWD]
• ESPN to start broadcasting dominoes games (matches?). Remarkably, this does not seem to be an April Fools joke. [NYT]
• NYO TV columnist Rebecca Dana has a signed picture of Richard Dawson on her mantelpiece. We're a little jealous, to be honest. [Jossip]
celebrity nudity
• Only because we have to: Colin Farrell's sex tape. Enjoy, if that's your thing. And it probably is, considering it's someone worth seeing naked. The site has only been working intermittently, so you can use your imagination with this artfully cropped screen shot. [DirtyColin]
• While New York begs us all to remember that they were on the scent of JT Leroy's scam long before Warren St. John and the Times, let's all remember that the Village Voice was on this one, oh, four years ago. [VV]
• Let the mockery begin: "What I Plan to Embellish for Obvious Dramatic Reasons in My Own Forthcoming Memoir." [Minor Tweaks]
• You never forget your first Goatse. [Flickr via EdRants]
• Anderson Cooper undergoes an emotional investigation into the emotional work of Anderson Cooper. [Slate]
• Thanks to the expanding laws of the universe, mass quantities of douchenuggets are now able to enjoy simultaneously looking like a Gotti. [Sherdog]
• Breaking: Avril Lavigne is a LADY! [PITNB]
Remainders: An Intimate Look at Colin Farrell
• Only because we have to: Colin Farrell's sex tape. Enjoy, if that's your thing. And it probably is, considering it's someone worth seeing naked. The site has only been working intermittently, so you can use your imagination with this artfully cropped screen shot. [DirtyColin]• While New York begs us all to remember that they were on the scent of JT Leroy's scam long before Warren St. John and the Times, let's all remember that the Village Voice was on this one, oh, four years ago. [VV]
• Let the mockery begin: "What I Plan to Embellish for Obvious Dramatic Reasons in My Own Forthcoming Memoir." [Minor Tweaks]
• You never forget your first Goatse. [Flickr via EdRants]
• Anderson Cooper undergoes an emotional investigation into the emotional work of Anderson Cooper. [Slate]
• Thanks to the expanding laws of the universe, mass quantities of douchenuggets are now able to enjoy simultaneously looking like a Gotti. [Sherdog]
• Breaking: Avril Lavigne is a LADY! [PITNB]
lewis lapham
Number of Readings that are verbatim excerpts from publicly available documents, speeches, or instruction manuals: 7
Number of Readings that are verbatim excerpts from publicly available documents, speeches, or instruction manuals generated by the government: 6
Number of readings that are taken verbatim from Internet chats, email forwards, or websites: 1
Number of dead European white men mentioned in editor Lewis Lapham's "Notebook" editorial: 4
Number of references to European cities in editor Lewis Lapham's "Notebook" editorial: 7
Number of references to American cities in editor Lewis Lapham's "Notebook" editorial: 4
Number of references to non-American non-European cities in editor Lewis Lapham's "Notebook" editorial: 0
Number of times Voltaire is mentioned in editor Lewis Lapham's "Notebook" editorial: 2
Number of times editor Lewis Lapham uses "Christina Aguilera" and "orgasm" in the same sentence: 1
The Literal Harper's Index: May 2003
Number of "Readings" (short articles at the front of the magazine): 11Number of Readings that are verbatim excerpts from publicly available documents, speeches, or instruction manuals: 7
Number of Readings that are verbatim excerpts from publicly available documents, speeches, or instruction manuals generated by the government: 6
Number of readings that are taken verbatim from Internet chats, email forwards, or websites: 1
Number of dead European white men mentioned in editor Lewis Lapham's "Notebook" editorial: 4
Number of references to European cities in editor Lewis Lapham's "Notebook" editorial: 7
Number of references to American cities in editor Lewis Lapham's "Notebook" editorial: 4
Number of references to non-American non-European cities in editor Lewis Lapham's "Notebook" editorial: 0
Number of times Voltaire is mentioned in editor Lewis Lapham's "Notebook" editorial: 2
Number of times editor Lewis Lapham uses "Christina Aguilera" and "orgasm" in the same sentence: 1
kate betts
Review of Kate Betts' review
Kate Betts, the former Editor-in-Chief of Harper's Bazaar, reviews The Devil Wears Prada, Lauren Weisberger's roman-a-clef about working at Vogue under editor Anna Wintour. Betts tears into Weisberger, criticizing her for the character's (read: Weisberger's) superiority complex: "Andrea makes no bones about the fashion business being beneath her, or that her true calling is not to be fetching tall lattes for Anna/Miranda but to be supplying high-minded prose for The New Yorker." More »
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Union blues at Bloomberg [Keith Kelly - Post]
Glenda Bailey and Bazaar
Harper's Bazaar Editor Glenda Bailey's head may not be on the chopping block just yet. Newsstand sales for the second half of 2002 were up. Subscriptions, however were down 2%. A Hearst spokeswoman dubiously insists that the drop occurred because they're managing circulation and "the dip was by design." (Elsewhere in Manhattan, AOL execs are slapping their palms against their foreheads and saying, "Why didn't we think of that?")Union blues at Bloomberg [Keith Kelly - Post]
chic happnes
Chic Happens, where "updated weekly" means every 20 to 30 days (but it's always worth the wait), suggests that Harper's Bazaar's PR department cooked up the whole Kate Winslet fiasco so that people would actually be forced to talk about Harper's Bazaar. Gooooood point.
Chic Happens [Hint Mag]
Winslet conspiracy
Chic Happens, where "updated weekly" means every 20 to 30 days (but it's always worth the wait), suggests that Harper's Bazaar's PR department cooked up the whole Kate Winslet fiasco so that people would actually be forced to talk about Harper's Bazaar. Gooooood point. Chic Happens [Hint Mag]
kate winslet
The Kate Winslet challenge
If you missed the Kate Winslet brouhaha at GQ or the current one at Harper's Bazaar, here's the back story: Winslet's GQ cover was airbrushed without her approval. (She's been very vocal about her belief that beauty should not and does not equal "thinness.") Now Women's Wear Daily is saying that Winslet's Harper's Bazaar cover is actually a shot of her head digitally grafted onto the fashion director's body. In light of all the controversy, we're having a Kate Winslet photoshop contest. Send us your work and we'll publish the best ones.
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