Congratulations to Multimedia Brand Lena Dunham on Her $3.5 Million Book Deal

Book publisher Random House has signed sitcom writer Lena Dunham to a $3.5 million contract for a collection of "frank and funny advice on everything from sex to eating to traveling to work," to be called Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's Learned. Lena Dunham became eligible to vote in 2004, so…
James Franco's Solo Art Show Will Focus on Sexual Confusion
Actor-artist-writer James Franco has a solo art show! It opens June 23 at the Clocktower Gallery in New York. What will be in it? A "work explor[ing] a romantic encounter between "Star Trek" characters Spock and James T. Kirk."
Failed Gawker Editor Wrote The Times' "Crash Course in Online Gossip"
One unremarked aspect to that JuicyCampus article in the Times today is that it was written by Richard Morgan. Remember him? Morgan's the guy who quit Gawker after one day. Denton said he "spluttered out" after being unable to handle the site's fast pace, but Morgan claimed he quit because he wanted no part of all…
Kurt Andersen To Be Embalmed In L.A.
Spy magazine co-founder who didn't make quite as good as the other one Kurt Andersen has been named the Los Angeles Art Center College of Design's "visionary in residence" for the spring semester of 2009. Kurt, admitting that he "should be flattered," admits to actually feeling "embarrassed." Which he should! Because…
