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Continuing along with her busy day at the Venice Film Festival, Charlize Theron once again looked stunning on the red carpet - this time for the premiere of her new movie “The Burning Plain”.
The Academy Award-winning South African actress both starred in and acted as executive producer for the Guillermo Arriaga directed drama.
She’s been making her rounds at the 2008 Venice Film Festival, and the latest stop for Charlize Theron was the photo call for her film “The Burning Plain.”
The “Battle in Seattle” babe looked absolutely gorgeous in a sleeveless pink wrap-textured dress teamed with a pair of shiny black high heels as she posed for the paparazzi.
This weekend brought us the first iteration of the smaller, cuter Times book review. Last week we learned that the bestseller lists were being revamped and expanded, at the cost of one editorial page, in an effort to appeal more to advertisers. But who's actually placing ads in those pages?
We'd always thought, based on cursory flips through the Review and a few years of working in publishing, that putting an ad in the Times was mostly something mainstream publishers did in order to appease diva authors. Most of the ads have always seemed to us to be for books on tape and books selfpublished via iUniverse and for Bose speakers. So we had Intern Mary tally up the ads in three consecutive Reviews. And:
We were right.
At the Time 100 gala a few months ago, I approached Joel Stein ("humorist," LA Times and Time columnist), whose relationship with this website has been, shall we say, tense, and introduced myself. Almost immediately, he asked why Gawker hates him. He said he "really wanted to know." He also said that his wife gets really upset when she reads Gawker and sees all the mean things people say about her DH. As we parted, I offered to send Joel and his wife a Gawker commenter invite. In the grand tradition of people leaving this place with a fuck-you to the people who, despite being total hacks, have managed to wrangle themselves a lucrative, high-profile job in journalism, I've decided to post our correspondence. Joel Stein, congratulations. You're my Joe Dolce.
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Doree
You should meet Balk. He's the one who wrote the Hasselhoff thing.
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