Last night's Grammy gift baskets were reportedly worth $65,000 and, naturally, bestowed upon only the most deserving, bedraggled souls (Madonna, Kelly Clarkson, Mariah Carey, etc). The funny thing is, we don't actually know what the swag entailed: We were just given a list of 53 brands (flacks don't have time for…
• Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie want to get married. They also have no desire to get married. Star magazine will report both as fact. [R&M]
• Worried that they too might get bitch-slapped, St. Martin's Press is adding a big fat warning sticker on memoirist Augusten Burrough's just-released galleys. The Smoking Gun…
In the name of the Black Table, Mac Montandon dares to chase the dream, attempting to live an entire Manhattan workweek free of charge. Armed with little more than a roster of fake magazines for which he claims to be working (Jew York, DEETS, Ebony & Ivory and Party of One), Montandon manages an entire week of free…
By the by, we finally gave in and ate some of Norm Pearlstine last night. (We'd previously said we wouldn't touch any of this smuggled swag — from the secret ceremony anointing John Huey as Time Inc.'s new EIC — until we received a personal waiver from our double-super-secret source that he or she didn't want it…
Last night saw the secret Time Warner ceremony during which John Huey was finally, formally coronated to succeed Norm Pearlstine as Time Inc.'s editor-in-chief, only the sixth in the company's history. (Indeed, Keith Kelly has suggested in the Post that actual ceremonial headgear is involved, a Vatican-like bishop's…
Pantene's PR people recently sent a survey to top beauty editors around town, enquiring as to how they like to receive communications about new products. It examines important questions, like how much lead time the editors need, what experts are most helpful to talk to, and what sort of follow-ups they prefer:
