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Princess Di Stalker Reminded of Princess Di
You know who Sarah Palin totally reminds Tina Brown of? Princess Di. Previously in "People who remind Tina Brown of Princess Di": Paris Hilton, and everyone else in the world. [Daily Beast]
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Comment by krismry: Oh yeah, post script, I forgot to say this, Tina Brown thought the Sarah P. speech was alot like an... more » | Other threads
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rielle hunter
Edwards Mistress Beloved At Classy Parties
"The late Diana, Princess of Wales, was a big fan of John Edwards' lover Rielle Hunter... [At] a dinner party she hosted in London, [Diana] had someone read the dirty parts of Jay McInerney's 'Story of My Life' to guests while the waiters stood behind the chairs and tried not to laugh." [Post]
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By Ryan TateComment by Charlotte Rae's Web: @Ausoleil: Bingo. I tried to tell people that when all of this started. The word around Chapel Hill and Raleigh... more » | Other threads
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how we watch
The Scale of Celebrity Death
Tim Russert died. I'm not sure if you've heard. But, yes, the Meet the Press moderator and dedicated D.C. journalist passed away, at a too-young 58, last week and the media has been in a frenzy since. Jack Shafer at Slate (among many others, I'm sure) feels that the coverage is a bit overdone. Yes Russert was by all accounts a good guy and a good worker and just one of those decent people that feel in short supply, especially in Washington, especially in the media. But isn't it still a bit much? All the tributes and montages and teary testimonials. I mean, nearly every life deserves parades and fireworks and tears and montages when it ends. But, because this is on TV and people are being paid, somewhere, doesn't this seem all a bit circusy? Maybe that's cynical, but television has, to some extent, earned our cynicism. If this is indeed a "circus," then where does it rank among other notable, much-covered celebrity deaths? A writer for Psychology Today says it's the biggest death since John Lennon. We disagree. We'll put this all in some context after the jump.
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hypocrisy watch
Tina Brown Damns Celebrity Journalism, Except When She Commits it
Tina Brown, with all the dignity that comes with a lifetime achievement award, declares celebrity journalism has made America sick. "We're at a point where we're in a giant reality show," the former Vanity Fair editor tells the Naples News-Press. "I'm not interested in digging into someone's private life just for the hell of it." Oh yes? Tina's tenure of Vanity Fair was a success because she turned the title into an upmarket supermarket tabloid. And the purpose of this interview with the obscure Florida newspaper was promotion of The Diana Chronicles, Tina's gossipy account of Princess Diana's affairs. After the jump, a summary of the Dianamen, the succession of cockney bodyguards, riding instructors, rugby stars and phone sex buddies, whom Tina Brown inventories with lip-smacking relish. More »
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By Nick DentonComment by magdzinr: It isn't the Naples News-Press. It is either the Fort Myers News-Press or Naples Daily News. I guess that explains... more » | Other threads
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appearances
Tina Brown Last Night Among The People
Tina Brown's book The Diana Chronicles is perched prettily atop the New York Times Hardcover Nonfiction bestseller list. (Take that, Chris Hitchens!) All Tina's careful plans have gone exactly right. So if one takes as a given that Tina Brown is the queen of intentionality, her decision to have a discussion with Times reporter Warren Hoge (who was London bureau chief for eight years) in the overheated, scruffy surroundings of The Strand (one of her favorites, and her husband Harry Evans's as well) last evening was to be another indication, perhaps, that Tina is Of The People.
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Comment by Colonel Mustard: It's just like in Twin Peaks, when Donna put on Laura's sunglasses and suddenly took up smoking. Except that here... more » | Other threads
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there's something scary about stupidity made coherent
Did Bill Clinton bug Princess Diana in an attempt to ease Hillary's path to the Senate? Mickey Kaus uses Tina Brown's recent biography of the late princess to connect some dots showing that, well, we're not sure. Nice to know that Bill can still make people crazy though! [Kausfiles]
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By abalkComment by Dwayne Provecho: @nigerienne: Totally. They also killed Vince Foster, Kurt Cobain, Shannon Hoon, Richard & Pat Nixon, Chris Farley, Phil Hartman, Mobutu... more » | Other threads
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celebrity bloggers
Tina Brown Wants To Believe Paris Hilton Is Not Our Generation's Princess Di But She Is Wrong
After a three-week hiatus, Tina Brown is finally blogging over at Salon, and already it's like W. T. F. On why Paris Hilton is so emphatically not today's Princess Diana: "Ms. Hilton's defining moment was a webcam video of herself with a loomin [sic] phallus in her mouth, whereas Lady Diana Spencer at the age of 19 was beet-red-faced with embarrassment when a tabloid photographer snapped her with her infant charge outside a nursery school in a pose against the sunlight that revealed her shapely legs." Also! "Unlike Britney, Lindsay or any other of the pitiful starved waifs attached to hair weaves, she never acted out her private pain by throwing up in the backseat of a car, winding up in rehab or displaying her shaved pudenda to a stricken nation." She's fabulous and hilarious—waifs attached to hair weaves! Pudenda! But. Is she also totally incorrect? More »
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By Emily GouldComment by arirang: WOAH Tina! If those eyebrows were any higher at a resting state they'd wrap around your head lengthwise. Might want... more » | Other threads
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utterly grisly
Diana Biographer Shreds Tina Brown
Sarah Bradford, a biographer of the late Princess Diana, reviewed Tina Brown's rival biography for Britain's Spectator magazine. For reasons undisclosed, the publication refused to print it. The Guardian gives it an airing today, and it's a scorcher. Here's the best line:Really there is only one blonde in this story and it's not Diana. By the end, I got the impression that Tina Brown didn't have much time for her subject, inserting herself into the text whenever she could, if possible in conjunction with a famous name. "Henry Kissinger told me", etc.
But they're all good. See for yourself. More »
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By abalkComment by raincoaster: The Speccie wouldn't do it, eh? The best thing about the incestuous British media world is that, like in any... more » | Other threads
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our far-flung correspondents
'New Yorker' Really, Really, Really Likes Tina Brown's New Book
This week The New Yorker reviews the new Princess Diana biography and issues a rave:It's hard to imagine any revelation that would alter the shape of this sad narrative, which has been told overexcitedly (by, for one, Paul Burrell, Diana's butler, in "The Way We Were"—emetic book, emetic title) and soberly (by Sarah Bradford, in her serious and balanced 2006 biography, "Diana"). But the best book on Diana is the newest, "The Diana Chronicles" (Doubleday; $27.50), by Tina Brown. She is well qualified to tell this story, since it was Brown who wrote the Vanity Fair piece that first exposed the trouble in the Waleses' marriage, back in 1985.
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By abalkComment by Colonel Mustard: "She is well qualified to tell this story, since it was Brown who wrote the Vanity Fair piece that first... more » | Other threads
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the tina chronicles
Tina Brown: "Hide From The Change And It Will Hide From You"
This morning Tina Brown allowed the unwashed masses to ask questions about her new book about Princess Di. They also asked some other questions! And revealed way too much information about themselves:Kensington, Md., USA: I am an Anglophile. I have traced my ancestry back to the 16th Century towns of Barchester and Holt, England.
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Comment by grandenchilada: She just doesn't want to look that much like Hillary Clinton. more » | Other threads
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princess pile-up porn
England's Channel 4 will air photos of Diana Spencer's smashy squashy Paris death. [Guardian]
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information wants to be free
Tina Brown Wants To Get Paid For Her Hatchet Job
Following a recent Book Expo America luncheon, former New Yorker editor Tina Brown expressed the following concern about the industry to the Times:Giving an author's book away for nothing on the Web as a way to market books seems a mirage to me. All it does is feed the hungry angles of journalists and bloggers who plunder it without any of the author's context or nuance and makes the reader feel there is nothing new to learn from the genuine article when it finally limps on its weary way to a book shop.
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By abalkComment by Pandora Spocks: She probably was a "vacuous schemer." Tina, of course is, um, well... more » | Other threads
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tina brown: act vi, scene ii
Is Tina Brown Headed To The Web?
Former New Yorker editor Tina Brown wants to get back into print, but notes the difficulty of such an endeavor: "There's still room for good content but you have to work like crazy to get people's attention." Are there other options? "I'm quite attracted to the online world, it's something that I have not done. I could get quite immersed in it," she told attendees yesterday at a Periodical Publishers Association conference in London. "The trouble," said the woman known most recently for writing a hatchet job biography of Princess Diana, "is that no-one wants to read long pieces online. It's too difficult and too hard on the eye." Hmm... could Tina be planning an online magazine that skews slightly highbrow but doesn't tax its readers with extensive prose? Something like Talk, but for the web? It's a good idea! And no one's doing it. Maybe she should have lunch with Maer! More »
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By abalk2Comment by Sam_Glamgee: After my Firefall=NYMag thing, I had to go out of town - or into town, depends on how you look... more » | Other threads
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tina brown
Tina Brown's Big "Cash-Out"
As we begin the months-long pre-publicity tour for Tina Brown's forthcoming biography of Princess Diana, expect that knives that have long lain dormant for Brown—why stab someone so intent upon doing it themselves (see "Topic A")—to receive a fresh sharpening. In a piece on The First Post, British hack Charles Laurence calls out the The Tina for, uh, selling out Diana, whose royal ass she used to kiss. More » -
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Did Jack Bauer Kill Princess Diana?
This Thursday, Scotland Yard will release their final report on the 1997 auto crash that killed Princess Diana and her loverman Dodi Fayed. The greater mystery may be why anyone still cares, unless it's an attempt to drum up buzz for a 10-year anniversary series of commemorative plates. Nevertheless, other than the fact that yep, it was a drunk driving accident, one little leaked nugget has the British press claiming that the "American secret service" was bugging Diana's phone line at her Paris hotel without knowledge or consent of British (or, one presumes, French) authorities. Again, seems unlikely due to the who-cares factor, but remember — this was after the end of the Cold War but before 9/11, when American spy agencies didn't have a real job, and thus were up to all kinds of crazy pointless crap. Plus, blogs hadn't been invented yet. More »
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By Chris MohneyComment by grandenchilada: It's 10 years later and the bitch just won't go away. more » | Other threads
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