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'If you have paparazzi, you know you’ve gotten somewhere'

That's Vanessa Hudgens, star of Disney's High School Musical, explaining to GQ how the entertainment industry works. Another truth: 19-year-old starlets sell copies of magazines for middle-aged men, particularly when packaged with these photographs and the headline High School Lolita. Incidentally, these photos will spread to fan sites frequented by Hudgens' main fan base, pre-pubescent girls, so passing on this wisdom to a new generation. And, before taking Hudgens' quote as the shallow babbling of a fame-drunk teenager, stop to think: it's also entirely true.

2:19 PM on Fri Apr 25 2008
By Nick Denton
1,299 views, 35 comments

Latest by VirusWithShoes: @Pope John Peeps II: That's usually by accident or joint-slippage due to over-oiling on both our parts. more »

Words Mean 'Nothing' To Murdoch The dreadful Bancrofts, while enjoying the diversification of their wealth out of Dow Jones stock, have already started complaining about the company's new owner, Rupert Murdoch. "Words mean nothing to him, unless they're his," the doyenne of the family, Jane Cox MacElree, tells Portfolio. A futile complaint from an heiress, but MacElree has a way with words herself.

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Putin Will React Negatively On Your Ass

Vladimir Putin has finally responded to internet and press rumors that the Russian president is leaving his wife for a 24-year-old rhythmic gymnast: "I have always reacted negatively to those who with their snotty noses and erotic fantasies prowl into others' lives." That's a relatively mild rebuke by Putin's standards: the former KGB agent once threatened a reporter with forced circumcision. But, from Russia's chilly leader, it still carries an air of menace.

1:02 PM on Fri Apr 18 2008
By Nick Denton
613 views, 26 comments

Poignant Metaphors Kurt Andersen, co-founder of Spy and former editor of New York, sees a future for print magazines. At last night's WNYC event, he said: "They will be beautiful luxuries, like sailboats in the 19th and 20th centuries."

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Broadcasters Are "Guardians Of The Human Spirit"

"Broadcasters of this great nation... You have the power to turn this country away from cynicism. You have the power to turn this nation away from the hatred and the divisive dialog that has rendered such a corrosive effect on our body politic. You can lift us up into a more enlightened age."—actor Tim Robbins, in his keynote address to the National Association of Broadcasters. Don't be modest Tim, actors are pretty big heroes too! But wait, there's even more ridiculousness from this meeting of the mutual admiration society: More »

12:09 PM on Wed Apr 16 2008
By Hamilton Nolan
543 views, 18 comments

Latest by famousauthor: Is there really that much of the human spirit that needs guardians? Can't it just go off on its own? more »

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Buck Up, Magazine Writers

Yeah, yeah, magazine features are shorter than they were. This Old House may be shut down. The lead times for printing and distribution are increasingly absurd in an age of instant online publishing. But do magazine writers have to be quite so depressed and depressing? More »

10:55 AM on Wed Apr 2 2008
By Nick Denton
1,918 views, 23 comments

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Barry Diller Gets The Point

The scene: two billionaires, former friends, are feuding over an internet conglomerate, IAC. John Malone's initial salvo comes in quotes given by the corporate assassin to the Wall Street Journal. Barry Diller, IAC's chairman, described his reaction in this week's court struggle for control of the sprawling internet company.
Malone: "The hook is set. It is our company... Barry ain't going to be able to spit the hook."
Diller: "I sail. I don't fish. I got the point."

10:36 AM on Fri Mar 14 2008
By Nick Denton
365 views, 6 comments

Latest by ILikeThemBig: There's a missing target in all this coverage on Gawker - Greg Maffei, who is clearly working out some anger issues for what Diller did to him re: Expedia (attempted hostile take over, etc). What Maffei clearly isn't more »

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Barry Diller's Fine Art

One expects flouncy Barry Diller, when he testifies in this week's court battle for control of IAC, will provide the colorful language which has kept journalists sweet for him for so many decades. But John Malone, the soulless corporate raider who is trying to seize the internet conglomerate from Diller, didn't do so badly himself today. The Coloradan billionaire told the Delaware court that the extravagant Diller, who decked out his office in IAC's Gehry-designed headquarters with fabulously expensive rugs, had made "a fine art" of his exploitation of the company jet.

6:05 PM on Mon Mar 10 2008
By Nick Denton
338 views, 2 comments

Latest by SixString: I've never really thought of Diller as flouncy. His jet abuse is nothing new though - the wall street journal, among other publications, has been bitching about it for years. more »

Oh No! The good news: one of the most prolific of personal journals went off the air, yesterday. The bad news: so many people went to make sure the site was truly on hiatus; it drew record traffic. Says the author: “I should stop blogging more often!”

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A Julia Allison Moment

"The moment that normal people have normally takes a couple of cocktails first, to have a Julia Allison moment that she has every day because they are so much fun." (Designer Mary Rambin's sister, actress Leven, stole the dating columnist's last boyfriend, and now dates another estranged friend, Beatrice barfighter Hud Morgan of Men's Vogue. But Mary remains on Team Julia. You've seen their awesome joint birthday party; now watch the bestest friends go crazy in Florida. This Julia Allison moment was brought to you by Pink vodka. More »

11:47 AM on Sun Mar 2 2008
By Nick Denton
7,909 views, 65 comments

Latest by hamburgerhotdog: What kind of person takes a video of themselves in a bikini dancing on a glass table, posts it on the internet, then has their friends repost it over and over and over again? it's not that she has a more »

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Asia Argento Watches Fox for the Lobotomy

"For ten years I didn't even have a TV," the pornish-turned-serious-ish actress tells Spin in its March issue. "But sometimes when I'm really depraved, I watch Fox News. I know it's completely manipulative, but at least I get to know what Britney is doing every day. It's not even about the news. It's like a complete lobotomy." Truer words have never been spoken.

3:01 PM on Tue Feb 26 2008
By Sheila
1,784 views, 12 comments

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Another Way Vanity Fair Could Respect Writers

"'Course, there's still obviously some collateral damage leftover from the strike — emotionally, economically, perhaps worst of all, the cancellation of the legendary Vanity Fair Oscar party. They said they did it out of, quote, respect for the writers. And um, oh! You know another way they could show respect for the writers? Uh, maybe one day invite some of them to the Vanity Fair Oscar party. They would enjoy it. They won't mingle, don't worry." [Jon Stewart, host of last night's Academy Awards telecast, ribs the Conde Nast magazine's notoriously snobby party planners, via Mixed Media]

4:39 PM on Mon Feb 25 2008
By Nick Denton
811 views, 6 comments

Latest by damiannyc: I find the excuse wonderfully ironic, given that their magazine does not pay their writers any additional fees for Web use of their content. Apparently only screenwriters deserve that. more »

Suicide Note So Lindsay Lohan posed nude, like Marilyn Monroe soon before her death, for the cover of New York magazine. Wittiest take: “Hard not to see the whole enterprise as a suicide note with unusually intense art direction.” [The Gurgling Cod via Alex Balk]

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roger ailes

"We live in America"

You've got to love the consistency of message. Even when Roger Ailes complains about "selfish complaining" and "petty whining" at his cable network, Fox News, the Murdoch henchman manages to work in a patriotic theme. From a memo leaked to TV Newser: "We make a decent living. Many of us are quite comfortable. Some of us are famous. We work for a great company. We contribute to the most exciting profession in the world and we live in America. If that is not enough, you should note that there are no locks on the outside of the doors keeping us here."

2:28 PM on Fri Feb 8 2008
By Nick Denton
726 views, 18 comments

Latest by Mediahohoho: It's hard work destroying America, people, but if you won't do it I will find a dedicated cadre of trained monkeys with the will and the gumption. more »

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Those Terrifying Scientologists

The Church of Scientology is a famously vindictive institution, prepared to use litigation and harassment to suppress critics. And nobody gets kid-glove treatment, not even relatives of the sect's high priest, David Miscavige. His niece, Jenna Hill, claims she's been subjected to harassment since speaking out in support of Andrew Morton's critical biography of Tom Cruise, the Hollywood star and fervent Scientologist. The dreadful price: "At least eight friends have removed themselves from my MySpace page."

10:25 AM on Wed Feb 6 2008
By Nick Denton
5,265 views, 24 comments

Latest by asherchang2: This isn't very surprising. With the practice of disconnection, it is clear that scientology hates families. more »

Happy Striking Writers This strike must be devastating, says a writer's empathetic friend. "Not at all," responds the writer. "Now I can just tell people I'm striking rather than simply unemployed."

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Cloverfield Some cinema-goers weren't impressed by the shaky amateur feel of the hit Manhattan monster movie. "I wish a bootlegger would go tape that movie in the theatre with the steadicam setting on."

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"Technologically infuckingcompetent" On a visit to Tribune Company's New York operations, gnomic owner Sam Zell discussed the media company's online strategy: ""You can do your internet thing. I'm technologically infuckingcompetent." [Media Mob]

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