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Zinczenko—Designated Magazine Industry Hottie—Passes The Torch

Dave Zinczenko of Men's Health has ceded the American Society of Magazine Editors honors to his Rodale colleague, David Willey, the industry association's incoming president. But that's not all the editor and best-selling author has given up. Willey, editor of Runner's World, appears to have been acclaimed the new hot magazine editor. Women's Wear Daily gushed that, at the ASME's awards event last week, Willey's looks prompted female editors to giggle "like teenagers." (The reception given by mag fags such as Adam Moss was not deemed fit for publication.) But it's confusing: Zinczenko and Willey both work on Rodale fitness titles, they're both good-looking by the low standards of the magazine industry, and they've both attracted the attention of that fame diviner, Star magazine talking head Julia Allison. Here's how to tell the two magazine hotties apart. More »

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Dave Zinczenko Has Had Enough of Miley Cyrus and Her "Manufactured Hoo-Ha"

New York asked top magazine editors what they thought of the recent Topless Miley Cyrus Scandal. Surprise! Out-of-touch elitist magazine editors did not see the problem with Vanity Fair sexualizing that 15-year-old tween star. "Men's Health editor Dave Zinczenko: 'I think it's a tempest in a teapot. I don't think it goes anywhere. It's manufactured hoo-ha.'" And he should know! Next month's Men's Health has a great feature on how to manufacture your own hoo-ha at home in 30 days. [NYM]

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Stuff White People Like Is Making All Other White People Blogs Obsolete

If there is one thing white people like, it's mocking themselves. That's why Stuff White People Like is such an internet sensation. As Homer Simpson once said, "It's true. We're so lame." (And when is the Simpsons going to be on Stuff White People Like?) Now the cultural tastemakers at Men's Health are saying "Stuff a Specific Variety of Upper-Middle Class Liberal Arts Graduates Like" is the new Corporate-Casual. Aren't the editors of Men's Health being a little white-centric? (Another thing white people like.) Stuff White People Like just makes fun of white people; Corporate-Casual's misanthropy knows no racial bounds. [via Corporate-Casual]

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Dave Zinczenko Threatens To Show His Abs

The Men's Health editor, who blames flabby abs for all male ailments in a best-selling recent book, threatens to display his washboard stomach. Zinczenko was putting aside his media persona, hetero lifestyle coach and aggressive top, to watch the Oscars with the gays at New York magazine's party last night at West Village restaurant, the Spotted Pig. Later in the evening, Zinczenko forced New York's editor, Adam Moss, to strip off his shirt. Hot! (At any rate, for the magazine industry). More »

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Vanity Saves Lives, Says Zinczenko

Ab-obsessed Men's Health editor Dave Zinczenko is busy promoting his new book, which should be called "A List Of Foods For Healthy, Stupid People To Eat." Washington Post pseudotrend specialist Laura Sessions Stepp caught up with Zinc [WP], who, now that he's not busy wrestling with Julia Allison, has plenty of time to fill humanity in on the areas of his expertise: Abs, vanity, and how Maxim sucks! More »

"Men's Health, the largest men's lifestyle magazine brand, today announced a media partnership with The Knot, the #1 wedding website, to launch the 'Ultimate Proposal Boot Camp' plan. The program will help guide over half a million men planning to 'pop the question' during engagement season, running November through February." Hold up: There exists engagement season now? Ladies, start chewing your creme brulée extra carefully when you're in the romantic candlelit restaurant, cause there might be a ring in there! Related: does this mean that Men's Health editor Dave Zinczenko is ready to quit tomcattin' around and resign himself to providing only his Rose McGowan-lookalike new girlfriend, Brit actress Melissa Milne, with subpar oral sex for all of eternity? Ah, romance!

big fish in ugly ponds

Justin Rocket Silverman's Effability Diminished By 'Men's Health' Spread

For months or maybe years, AM New York editor Justin Rocket Silverman has enjoyed a reputation as, basically, the only cute straight guy at blogmedia parties besides Times party-ho Nick Confessore. But a spread in the September issue of Men's Health has jeopardized that status, potentially forevs. More »

Men's Health acquiesces to the demand from MediaVest—the ad buying firm whose clients include Wal-Mart, Kraft, Coca-Cola, and Procter & Gamble—that "publishers guarantee each issue's circulation instead of averaging multiple issues like usual." Will other titles follow suit? There's a lot of bluster, but, yeah, probably. [AdAge]

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10 Ways Women Judge Your Wang

We were directed to this classic piece from Men's Health that describes the ten ways women judge prospective suitors.
"So much subliminal information is conveyed in those first seconds of contact," says Carol Kauffman, Ph.D., a relationship therapist and psychology instructor at Harvard medical school. Okay, so you're on the clock. Make every second count.
Too true. But how does this advice relate to your lifehammer? We asked our resident sexual expert to see if this advice applied for the members of his tribe. Okay, so you're on the cock. Make every second count. More »

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]

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Conrad Black Even Swears Like Nixon

  • In an interview with the Guardian, Conrad Black calls his fraud trial "bullshit" and announces that he's at war with the U.S. government. The paper also has an excerpt from Black's forthcoming biography of Richard Nixon, which praises the former president's "surpassing dignity." Read into that what you will. [Guardian]
  • Fashion mag ad pages sales: Count Vogue, W, Cosmopolitan, Elle, Marie Claire, Lucky, Men's Health, Men's Journal, and (maybe) Details and Teen Vogue as winners. Your losers: Esquire, InStyle, Seventeen, Cosmogirl, and Maxim. [WWD]
  • San Francisco Chronicle to cut 100 jobs, or 25% of the staff. [WSJ]
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    Dave Zinczenko Will Do You Now

    We're gagging our way through this one, but we'll give it a go: Hey, ladies, looking for that special someone? Ready for a man who's not afraid to commit? Want a hardworking fellow who dreams of having a family someday? Well, you just may be in luck! Thanks to "Extra," if "you're single, sexy and looking for love, here's your chance to score a one-of-a-kind man!" That man? Men's Health editor Dave Zinczenko, a dynamic go-getter, brimming with self-confidence and ready to—ah, we can't do this. We're sure some lucky girl will enjoy the benefits of Dave's subpar tongular ministrations sometime soon. Why not you? More »

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    Hot Dave Zinczenko/ Kate White Mutual Favor-Exchanging Action

    We're almost certain that no one's as sick to death as we are of the tired old 'Men's Health editor Dave Zinczenko = inferior cunnilingus' joke (with the exception, perhaps, of "Adorable" Dave himself). So we were flooded with a mix of emotions when we learned that he'd once again provided us with a perfect setup. In an AdAge piece on how he and Cosmo E in C Kate White will edit sections of each others' respective mags' May issues, Dave describes the switcheroo like so:
    It's a mutual favor that we're doing for each other's readers. If it works out, maybe we'll joint-venture on a parenting magazine.
    Uh, we hate to break it to you, Dave, but that's not how babies get made. Also, while we're sure it'll start out 'mutual,' we're pretty sure it'll end up with one magazine getting off while the other hovers awkwardly with its butt in the air, like always. More »

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    People Who You Should Never Let Go Down on You: Dave Zinczenko

    On Fox News yesterday, media whoring Men's Health EIC Dave Zinczenko appeared to promote his new book; LA sex writer Anna David was patched in, for female counterpoint purposes, via satellite. This was interesting because, alas, David has had the misfortune of Zinczenko's mouth on her lady parts. As Radar explains, in April 2003, David and New York "sex" columnist Amy Sohn traded coasts for a Playboy article. David spent a few days dating/humping men in New York, and Sohn did the same in LA: More »

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    Dave Zinczenko on Men and Twinkies

    Poor, dedicated WWD reporter Jeff Bercovici undergoes the ultimate sacrifice — previewing Men's Health editor and iron cocksman Dave Zinczenko's authoritative new book, Men, Love & Sex: The Complete User's Guide for Women. Zinczenko, with his co-editor, MH contributor Ted Spiker, intend to generously decipher the mystery of testicles for women everywhere through their mastery of metaphor. Some examples: More »

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    Today on 'Today': Dave Zinczenko Wants to See You Sob

    Well, what a pleasant morning surprise: Sitting down with Matt Lauer and Al Roker just now was beloved Men's Health editor Dave Zinczenko. Awesome — time for some early morning ass-babbling! The topic was the ever-important issue of whether or not it's OK for men to cry, and Zinczenko declared that the era of the manly man was over. (Really? What was his first clue? Details or Thursday Styles?) More »

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    Today in Internal Memos: Go, Rodale! R-O-D-A-L-E! Rodale! Yay!

    Health-and-fitness people tend to be rah-rah enthusiastic sorts — folks like us prefer sloth, booze, and cynicism — and so it's not particularly surprising that Rodale CEO Steve Murphy sent a 10-paragraph, 800-word internal memo congratulating his staff on the company's eight finalists for this year's National Magazine Awards. Still, even so, the hyperbole is a bit, well, over the top: More »

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    Laurel's World: On TV With Dave Zinczenko


    Ask and ye shall receive, they say. And apparently it's true — thanks to the good people at FishbowlNY, who today give us exactly what we've been asking for. Boa-constricted Mediabistro founder Laurel Touby has lately refashioned herself as the Howie Kurtz of public access, and ever since we saw her riveting interview with Us Weekly editor Janice Min, we've been jonesing for the clip of her interview with Men's Health's Dave Zinczenko. What could be better than two people who believe their own spin facing off on amateur TV? More »