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tina brown
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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magazines
Thinky New Newsweek Bringing on Stephen Colbert as Guest Editor
In a move that sort of reeks of desperation more than it does slick PR, Newsweek's Jon Meacham announced that Stephen Colbert will be the magazine's guest editor for the issue hitting newsstands on June 8. More »
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Comment by son of spam: I'm going to have Ashley Dupre guest edit my blog. 1 Responses | Other threads
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gossip roundup
LiLo Ex Shamefaced, At Least One Woman NOT a Whore says P6, Demi and Madge on Cougar Night
Stars and models and waitresses seek to salvage or repair their slutty reputations. Starring: John Mayer! Tina Brown! Lindsay Lohan! AND one lucky Waitress. More »
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By Joshua SteinComment by VoxPopuli: All Lindsay and Harry had in common was their appreciation for pink taco, apparently. 2 Responses | Other threads
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Panel Report
Ari Fleischer, Tina Brown, and Peggy Noonan (and Al Jolson!)
Hello, I've just returned from a panel of some of our favorite dynamic media personalities: Daily Beastie Tina Brown! Bush roboflack Ari Fleischer! And the (charmingly?) doddering Peggy Noonan! Come explore the fun! More »
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Comment by saintjim: @T.A.N.: "Single," yes. As in: not now or ever has been in any sort of relationship with anyone who is... 1 Responses | Other threads
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commenters
Tina Brown's Kids Will Rip You a New One, Anonymously
Tina Brown told NY1 tonight that the internet is a lot like theater; the audience gives instant feedback. But what to do about hecklers? Brown's two college-aged children knew: Heckle back, viciously and covertly. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by if_i_only_had_a_heart: she has an aeron chair? omg. 1998 is calling. 3 Responses | Other threads
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magazines
Tina Brown Terrified That Burning Money Now Frowned Upon
When Tina Brown looks at the closure of Portfolio, she must worry for her future. Publications are now expected to turn a profit? Time for the notorious spendthrift to panic. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by TalbotSmith: Does anyone actually care what Tina Brown has to say? I mean really. 3 Responses | Other threads
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moguls
Tina Brown: I'm a Pirate Too!
Just a few hours after after Somali pirates were shot and an American captain rescued, Tina Brown was able to tell everyone What It All Means: We're all pirates. But Tina Brown especially. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by angie _tempura: I thought that said Tina Turner for a second. That would explain some of the costumes. 2 Responses | Other threads
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Crazy schemes
Daily Beast Now Features 'Advertising'
The Daily Beast, Tina Brown's online journalism venture, has decided to sully itself by accepting money from a company in exchange for displaying various sales pitches for said company on its pages. Is nothing sacred? More » -
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Media Crack
Philly Papers Run By Terrible Person
In your ideal Tuesday media column: Forbes layoffs, Havana goes dark, Brian Tierney's a greedy rat bastard, career suicide, and Tina Brown's a communist: More »
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politics
Meghan McCain Is Confused by Ann Coulter
Meghan McCain, the famous blogger, now writes a column for Tina Brown's Like-HuffPo-But-Classy Illustrated Celebrity Internet Journal. Today she would like to write about Ms. Ann Coulter. More »
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By PareeneComment by Nice Beaver: I haven't had a reason to yell this in hours, but TRANNY FIGHT!!!! 3 Responses | Other threads
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field guide
Victoria Floethe, the New Media Ingénue
A staff writer at Michael Wolff's Newser, Victoria Floethe, is rumored to be having an affair with her boss. Who knew there were any media jobs still worth sleeping your way into? More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by FormerEnglishMajor: Hmmm. So her means of support is sleeping with older men. That would make her... ? 7 Responses | Other threads
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trendwatch
Five Print-to-Online Crossovers, And How Many Will Survive. (Maybe None!)
Long-form trend alert: Lots of former print media people are launching websites. There was another one today! It's time for us to rate five of these—and their chances of survival—honestly. This is important: More »
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Comment by Lux Alptraum: A lot of people dislike the term bisexual because it references an attraction to two genders, which isn't particularly inclusive... 15 Responses | Other threads
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journalismism
Daily Beast Editor Sends 'World's Worst Email'
A tipster tells us that Rachel Syme, culture editor at Tina Brown's Daily Beast, has sent the "world's worst email" in an attempt to get free research for an article she's writing. Let's read it! More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by bringmemyTofu: Not that it matters at all, but she is cute. 16 Responses | Other threads
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Crazy notions
The Daily Beast Trying to Make Money?
What's this, Tina Brown's internet project The Daily Beast is trying to get a business model? I thought it was all just for kicks! Nevertheless, the Beast is considering selling some "advertisements." While staying pure: More »
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Comment by Aaron Altman: SPONSORED POST This special edition of (BEAUTY AND) THE DAILY BEAST is brought to you by LANCOME and HERBAL ESSENCES 4 Responses | Other threads
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Media Crack
Alt-Weeklies Doing Way Better than Time Warner
In your frostbitten Wednesday media column: Time Warner burns billions, the Daily Beast loses luster, alt-weeklies miraculously manage, and more! More »
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Comment by Catfish_Jones: And speaking of Tina...who declares in today's Daily Beast that "Gawker readers buy Playgirl for the stories"? a) Emily Brillb) Dianne... 1 Responses | Other threads
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no depression
Tina Brown on the True Victims of the Recession
Tina Brown, author of a best-selling book on Princess Diana and editor-in-chief of a neat blogsite that is like HuffPo but without the faux-populism "anyone can blog" shtick, is really sweating this new media environment. More »
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By PareeneComment by katastic: Yes, welcome to my impoverished little world. Want some of my can of tuna fish? 4 Responses | Other threads
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Annals of Travel
Tina Brown Gives Up on the New Yorker Crowd
Spotted: World's fanciest former magazine editor Tina Brown in Tulsa, Oklahoma, spreading the gospel of microfocused Princess Diana gossip-rehashing to interested citizens of the Sooner State. The local paper relives the magical encounter: More »
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Comment by Rupert Pupkin: What's with all the brown n orange n orange n brown? 3 Responses | Other threads
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media
Tina Brown's 'Reinvention' Is Wearing Thin
Tina Brown — who once edited Tatler, Vanity Fair, and the New Yorker and Talk — has reinvented herself by editing a website that mixes high and low culture. Where have we heard that before?
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By Owen ThomasComment by Julia Allison: Owen, your posts are always so bitchy - but without the requisite intelligence to support that bitchiness. So Tina... 4 Responses | Other threads
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secrets
Tina Brown Is Probably 'Secret Shopping' Too
Earlier we discussed Kathy Fuld's shameful habit of secretly buying stuff from Hermès. We noted that the Daily Beast item about the trend didn't have a byline to it. Why would this be? More »
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Comment by LucilleMcGillicuddy: It bugs me that only women get called out on this kind of stuff. No one seems to point... 1 Responses | Other threads
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tina brown
Tina Brown, The Biggest Spender
Tina Brown, who's edited Vanity Fair, the New Yorker, and now the Daily Beast, wrote an essay this week decrying the "Media Zombies"—the "feckless bureaucrats" who spent money unwisely and are really responsible for all the media layoffs going on right now. That's a bit rich (ha), coming from a woman who is famous, above all else, for throwing money around like confetti. Let's take a wildly abbreviated tour of Tina's spending history, shall we? More »
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Comment by KeatonDryope: Unnecessary criticism, really. The point of the article is about the failure of big media ventures to spend money on... more » | Other threads
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tina brown
Tina Brown Is The Media's Last Safety Net
Can Tina Brown and her newfangled "website" The Daily Beast singlehandedly provide refuge to all of New York's talented laid-off writers? Ha, no, of course not, not even a glimmer of a chance. She'll be lucky to get through the next two years without burning through tens of millions in start-up funds and flaming out like the Talk magazine of the internet. But there's no reason talented laid-off writers can't get a piece of that sweet monetary pie while it's here! The Observer notes that Tina's passing out freelance bylines to many deserving newly unemployed vets of dead publications like Radar and the New York Sun, like a blond Brit Santa with a media fetish. And the pay is not bad! Not by recession standards, at least: More » -
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A Free Burger and Beer Is Media Excess, 2008 Style
When Tina Brown's Talk magazine launched in 1999, its party was one of the biggest events of the year, an overblown, garish party that sprawled over Liberty Island. Today it's a sad memory of where magazines once stood in the New York social strata. Bob and Harvey Weinstein, then the dominating heads of Miramax Films, had lured away Brown from The New Yorker and Ron Galotti, the real-life inspiration for Sex and the City's Mr. Big, from Vogue. The Daily Beast, which launched last month and is bankrolled with a supposed $18 million of IAC's Barry Diller money, splurged for a party last night at tiny Pop Burger in the Meatpacking District. People were treated to mini hamburgers and hotdogs. More »
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By SheilaComment by if_i_only_had_a_heart: the engine of doom: those fuckers on wall st were lying all the way, and they knew it, via michael... 4 Responses | Other threads
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randi zuckerberg
Facebook CEO's sister turns on her Valley friends
Randi Zuckerberg, the limelight-seeking sister of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, has learned a key lesson of media success: As you scale the ladder, make sure to jab your stiletto heels into the faces of those you climb over. Zuckerberg, whose day job is in Facebook's marketing department, has been writing weekly for former magazine editor Tina Brown's mostly ignored Daily Beast website since it launched — but only recently has she turned mean. We love it, of course. The target of her freshly poisoned pen: the hipster lip dub, those single-shot singalongs so popular with startups and would-be Internet celebrities. What Zuckerberg does write: "In case there was any doubt that the chief purpose of the Internet is to perpetuate narcissism, lip dub videos put that to rest." What she does not write: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by grrgle: Okay, I've been meaning to ask, how do you guys get away with doing the same thing? Are you... 4 Responses | Other threads
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great magazine die-off
Tina Brown Glad She Got Out of Print Just in Time
Tina Brown just can't stop gushing about her new digital venture, the Daily Beast—especially now that she's escaped the overspending print world of Conde Nast. "I’d hate right now to be in the magazine world," Portfolio reported her saying at a conference with Hearst president Cathy Black. "It’s a really tough time to be a magazine editor," Brown added, rubbing salt into the wound. Meanwhile, Black floundered about, defining the future of media in Orwellian terms: we won't have "newspapers" but "news and content distribution." As far as making a profit, "it depends on how you define money," Fishbowl quoted her as saying. Given the harsh cutbacks at Conde today, it looks like making money is out for Fall and thereafter.
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By SheilaComment by Scout 3.0: If the definition of money is in question, it's time to bite down on the cyanide capsule. 1 Responses | Other threads
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tina brown
How Much To Birth Daily Beast?
"A one-time $18 million start-up cost for the launch of a web site is excessive, inconsistent with IAC’s operations, and just not accurate in this case." [Wired]
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By Ryan TateComment by Rumpelstilskin: The Beast of the Apocalypse is gonna cost a lot more, get ready, Sinners! more » | Other threads
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arianna huffington
Internet Doyennes Both Love Cash Bonfires
It is easy to be so taken by Arianna Huffington's charm and personal history that one loses sight of the big picture. Just ask the New Yorker's Lauren Collins, whose profile of the Huffington Post publisher had too much on Huffington's yoga and sleeping habits and not enough about how she operates her business. The Times, too, seems to be overly concerned with personal narratives this morning, educating readers at length about how Huffington and royalist competitor Tina Brown went to fancy London parties together in the 1970s and both dated older men, so they're friendly rather than cutthroat competitors. Whatever. The real question: How is either of these money-losing publishers going to attract advertising? More »
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By Ryan TateComment by Nick Denton: Best line from Arango's piece, about Arianna Huffington and Tina Brown in swinging 1970s London: "Theirs was a world of... 2 Responses | Other threads
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tina brown
Tina Brown Says Arianna Will Publish Anything
Internet publishers Arianna Huffington and Tina Brown may both be foreign transplants to the U.S., but there's little question which of the two fifty-somethings has more fully assimilated her site to the democratic rough-and-tumble of American Web culture. It was Huffington who offered blogs to five virtual strangers over the course of two days, as documented in the New Yorker earlier this month, including "the Asperger’s-afflicted teen-age son of a radio d.j." and "a woman, dressed exclusively in green, who was trying to stop insecticide spraying." Brown, in contrast, has lent her Daily Beast a distinctly royalist feel, as one might expect from a Commander of the British Empire. And the former New Yorker editor played the snob angle for all it was worth in a lengthy interview with Portfolio's Lloyd Grove: More »
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By Ryan TateComment by MrInBetween: I just can't get it up for a Tina-Arianna cat-fight. 4 Responses | Other threads
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clips
Facebook's Randi Zuckerberg moonlights for Tina Brown
In New York, the notion that the girl in marketing really wants to be a Broadway singer is taken for granted. In Silicon Valley, it's seen as a bit bizarre. But I'm charmed by Facebooker Randi Zuckerberg's career aspirations. Her singing-and-dancing sideline, first seen in "Valleyfreude," has waxed and waned with the demands of her day job. (Yes, her younger brother, Mark, is her employer.) But she's back with a paean to undecided voters, "Should I Red or Should I Blue?", which she produced (and sang) for Tina Brown's overstaffed, undertrafficked website, the Daily Beast. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by colonelpanic: one other thing? Did she get implants? How very un-valley. 2 Responses | Other threads
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tina brown
Tina Brown Orgasmic Over Getting Buckley Fired
Though she's a newcomer to the internet, Tina Brown has spent a lifetime honing her ability to self-promote. Which is how the former Vanity Fair editor seemed to have instinctively grasped what was expected of her last night on the Colbert Report: sell the sizzle, not the steak when it comes to her new internet venture, the Daily Beast — and remember that no points are deducted for going a bit over the top, per the self-parodying bloviations of host Stephen Colbert. When it came time to discuss the Beast's central role in getting Christopher Buckley fired from National Review, Brown couldn't just say the incident was exciting — no, she had to claim it turned the whole office into a party! Lest anyone think she was joking, Brown again mentioned how much the firing thrilled her a few breaths later. Brown, who has herself done away with plenty of magazine writers, may be learning the nuts and bolts of the Web on the job, but her gleeful, shameless bloodlust may yet reveal her as a natural for the medium. For proof, click the video icon to watch the attached clip.
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By Ryan TateComment by veganrampage2: yeah, that was gross, but somehow I think Buckley will manage, he's a gotta be a rich bitch, no? still,... 2 Responses | Other threads
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tina brown
Beast To Devour $18m
Is The Daily Beast Tina Brown's clever homage to Evelyn Waugh's fictional newspaper or an inadvertent description of the new website's voracious financial appetite? The web property needs $18m from Barry Diller's IAC to fund its next three years, according to Simon Dumenco.
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By Nick DentonComment by JC Hewitt: Hey, they only need to find 18,000,000 morons to give them a dollar each. I can see it happening. Maybe try to... 2 Responses | Other threads
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ousters
Buckley Ankles 'National Review'
So Christopher Buckley, the smart-ass novelist son of late conservative intellectual William F. Buckley, went and endorsed Barack Obama in the internet pages of Tina Brown's Daily Beast. He explained, in his endorsement, that he was writing for the Beast because he didn't want to read the hate mail he'd get if he wrote the endorsement at his usual venue, the back page of the National Review. Joke's on him, everyone who reads the National Review Online is even crazier, and the NRO linked everyone to the endorsement! Now it is time for Buckley to write a "wow look at my crazy hate mail" column. And also to quit the National Review! Like forever! More »
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By PareeneComment by the_marquee_de_lafayette: This is frankly unsurprising. Christopher's father had a sincere desire to encourage the "loyal opposition" (quaint notion that is... 11 Responses | Other threads
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blogging for dollars
Tina Brown to waste $18 million on Daily Beast blog
Strip away the disclaimers, the Manhattan-media insideriness, the me-me-me from Simon Dumenco's report in AdAge on the Daily Beast, the Tina Brown-led news-aggregation website backed by Barry Diller's IAC Internet conglomerate, and you get these staggering figures: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by sggrf: add this site to the deadpool, will never work based on unfocused edit and horrible timing more » | Other threads
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daily beast
Bad Buzz
Remember that minor fuss over the curious resemblance of the logo of the Daily Beast, Tina Brown's supposedly pathbreaking news site, to that of the Philadelphia Daily News? It won't go away. The Philly tabloid has now sent a cease-and-desist letter to the one-time Queen of Buzz. -
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Tina's Homage To Philadelphia
Magazine-turned-web guru Tina Brown has never claimed her design sense was that original. At the stillborn Talk, she opted for a portable format, a magazine published on thin paper that could be rolled up and carried around like a European newsweekly such as Stern. And that same inspiration is shared by her baby news website, the Daily Beast. "I've always loved the look of the European smart tabloids," she says with the sophistication that comes from a media career on both sides of the Atlantic. There's just one problem: the logo of the new IAC-backed website looks more like that of the Philadelphia Daily News, the tabloid paper of New York's rather dowdy southern neighbor.
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By Nick DentonComment by Aaron Altman: Commenter uwishunu noticed too... and, heh. [gawker.com] 3 Responses | Other threads
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tina brown
Tina Brown Launches Daily Beast
Tina Brown unveiled this morning her new internet venture, the Daily Beast. The Post's Keith Kelly said the website, a revival of the fictional paper in Evelyn Waugh's Scoop, is in the "soft launch phase," meaning apparently that it's devoid of advertisers, and that it "sees itself as a must-read for hipsters in news, politics and pop culture." Ahem. From our quick look — it temporarily went password protected as we were reading — the site seemed more noteworthy for its slavish devotion to internet publishing memes than for any particular innovation. Some traffic-baiting Apple coverage? Yes, there's a column by former Think Secret publisher Nicholas Ciarelli. Celebrity contributors? Sure, if you count the likes of Bill Clinton, who mails in book recommendations, and Project Runway alumna Laura Bennett, who posted a column. There's counterintuitive, Slate-like material such as "Why I Call My Wall Street Patients Pussies," by an ostensibly caring psychiatrist. And, as if to prove she is now truly blogger, Brown concludes her debut column with the one-word sentence, "Heh." Soon she'll emailing Digg requests to her old publishing friends and trying to get to 10,000 friends on Facebook, and we'll all find it hard to imagine she ever edited the New Yorker.
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By Ryan TateComment by Calraigh: You forgot to mention the ''First Peek'' at the Piven on Broadway and 6-yes, 6! ''angles'' ... 12 Responses | Other threads
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books
Promiscuous Tina Brown To Bring Tom Wolfe's Deflowered Virgin To Screen
So Tina Brown's job as creative consultant to troubled HBO—"If I collide with some interesting material, I’ll call or e-mail them"—has finally paid off. The former New Yorker editor is to produce a movie version of Tom Wolfe's college novel I am Charlotte Simmons. It's not as much as a stretch as one might think. The magazine veteran and the Bonfire of the Vanities author are both still on the Upper East Side scene; many editors, including Clay Felker of New York and Graydon Carter of Vanity Fair have been flattered by Hollywood into the movie business; Tina Brown's father George was himself a moderately successful producer in the UK. But it's still a perplexing role. More »
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By Nick DentonComment by Smitros: I am starting to think that no one over the age of 35 should write about college sex. 5 Responses | Other threads
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tina brown
Media Power Player Update
What is high-powered editor Tina Brown doing to re-establish her dignity after having her new venture snubbed by Hollywood? Giving a speech to "the League Club" in Southwest Florida. Oh Tina, the road down is just as steep as the road up. [Gulfshore Life]
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Comment by HK_Guy: She was undoubtedly paid big bucks to make the appearance. Hardly falling. BTW, you didn't mention Anna Quinlen was also... more » | Other threads
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tina brown
Tina Brown Stumbles Early In Comeback Attempt
Tina Brown's image as a media power player remains anchored in the 1980s and the 1990s, when she edited Vanity Fair and the New Yorker. She's attempting to change that with an internet venture, the Daily Beast, funded by InterActive Corp. chairman Barry Diller. But an early blunder getting Beast off the ground has left Brown red-faced and more shackled to her past than ever. It seems Brown's big idea for launching her website was — stop us if you've heard this one before — to publish a big list of the most powerful people in Hollywood. "The idea is so 1980s," one source told Nikki Finke. Apparently no one is even bothering to call Brown's staff back as they attempt to report the feature: More »
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By Ryan TateComment by stew: SUCH a racist description of Tom Tapp. Do we refer to Valentino as "orange man Valentino"? Ok, yeah we do. Never mind. 2 Responses | Other threads
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olympics
Hoity-Toity Elitists Hate On Beach Volleyball, Fun
The Olympics: yay, a thing I don't need to add a contextual sentence lest you haven't been watching! Of course you're watching! At this point not having watched the Olympics is like not having heard of September 11. DMX himself knows about it! And NBC just got its best Saturday ratings in 18 years, restoring every last eight hundred forty seven million dollars they fronted for the thing along with the whole notion of American mass media. How did NBC do it? New Yorker television columnist Nancy Franklin has an answer: by appealing to the "lowest common denominator"! (Which is funny, because we thought appealing to the lowest common denominator didn't actually work on the Nielsens anymore unless you multiplied the Nielsen rating by some mysterious inflated self-importance multiplier reflective of the proportion of viewers employed in the New York media.) Franklin kvetches that 2008's "not painfully handcuffed but handcuffed nonetheless" Olympics coverage has been the shlockiest yet in an anachronistically curmudgeonly review that sounds… very New Yorker circa 1990! More »
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By MoeComment by FloydBasilisk: naw, Beach Volleyball is silly stuff. What's next, getting tattooed and pregnant? It's just stupid. It's a... more » | Other threads
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dan rather
Is Dan Rather Joining Tina Brown's New Venture?
Dan Rather's contract with Mark Cuban's TV network HDNet should not be up until nearly a year from now, assuming the terms Rather disclosed just before he inked the deal still hold. But would the contract prevent the former CBS Evening News anchor from contributing in some way to Tina Brown's forthcoming news website The Beast? Perhaps that's what Brown and Rather were discussing during a "very long lunch" at The Park on Tenth Avenue, as reported by a Post spy. Though Rather's work at HDNet has garnered some positive recognition, it's not nearly as visible as his work for CBS was. A Web gig or partnership would give Rather a shot at regaining more of the attention he once had — and that any veteran TV newsman would crave. Perhaps the skilled lawyers working for Brown's business partner Barry Diller can work something out on the proud old newshound's behalf. [Post]
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By Ryan TateComment by dotorg greg: what about that Cronkite fellow? Isn't he still alive too? [wikipedia says: yes!] more » | Other threads
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