Earlier this week, we asked our readers for any information about Chipotle’s “Cultivating Thought” campaign—namely, how much dough the chain restaurant is offering famous authors to write the (extremely) short stories that appear on Chipotle cups and bags. Our readers delivered a few theories, and at least two…

Is it possible to assign a dollar value to a specific person? Duh, yes, Rutgers University just did it: Jersey Shore's Snooki is worth $32,000 and Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison is worth $30,000.

Designer Doo-Ri Chung turns 36 today. Matt Dillon is 45. Yoko Ono is celebrating her 76th. John Travolta is turning 55. Magazine icon Helen Gurley Brown is 87. Writer Toni Morrison is 78. Molly Ringwald turns 41. Breakfast Club director John Hughes is 59. Singer Regina Spektor turns 29. Dr. Dre is 44. Cybill Shepherd…

Cranky old John Updike has always used his bully pulpit at The New Yorker to blast popular writers who didn't fit his idea of fiction. As he's gotten older, his hatred of anything he doesn't understand has become commensurately more transparent, earning the ire of Salman Rushdie, Tom Wolfe, and David Foster Wallace.…

Toni Morrison is one of the most beloved and admired writers of the 20th century. The daughter of a ship welder, Chloe Anthony Wofford (she picked up "Toni," in college) was born during the Depression in Lorain, Ohio. After attending Howard University, Morrison earned her master's in English at Cornell and spent a few…

· City Club hotelier Jeff Klein says, "I wholeheartedly support Leona [Helmsley]and I'm gay!...I want to start a Leona Helmsley support group." [Page Six]
· Toni Morrison on the mayor's anti-smoking provisions: "This is a one-term mayor." [Page Six]
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