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She’s across the pond in London, England looking for her “British bestie” for her new MTV UK reality show. And Paris Hilton was all over the English capital city last night (October 8).
The “Stars are Blind” songstress began her night with a swanky dinner at Kyashi restaurant in Leicester Square to get some partying fuel for her night of clubbing. And she looked hot in a black wool coat overtop a black dress with a white top, and black leather zip-up knee-high boots.
Tin Pan Alley, the stretch of West 28th Street (between Broadway and 5th) where songwriters like Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, George Gershwin, and Scott Joplin worked and published over the decades, creating some of the best pieces of the American songbook, is now up for sale. It's being hawked at some $44 million, ending an era that, well, really ended in the 1950's. But whatever, chronological semantics aside, it's a significant group of buildings that are essential pieces of the city's cultural history and now, well, they'll probably be condos. A listing recommends that the buildings be torn down, and that some sort of awful high-rise be erected in their place. Probably all steel and glass. No soul.
She arrived in London earlier this week, and last night Paris Hilton made her way around the English capital city, stopping off at a couple of watering holes before calling it a night.
The “Stars are Blind” songstress paid a visit to Madonna and Guy Ritchie’s Mayfair pub The Punchbowl as well as the Whisky Mist, looking stellar in a colorful animal print dress with a faux fur handbag.
Clad in a white shirt, black pants and brimmed white hat, Brad Pitt was spotted leaving his New Orleans home on Tuesday afternoon (October 7).
The “Fight Club” stud and his family returned to the “Big Easy” following a trip to NYC for the New York Film Festival screening of Angelina Jolie’s new movie “The Changeling”.
Finally making it to back to the red carpet, Angelina Jolie stole the show at the New York Film Festival in New York City on Saturday night (October 4).
Accompanied by partner Brad Pitt, the new mother-of-twins looked simply stunning as she posed for photographers at the Ziegfeld Theater in between mingling with fellow guests prior to a screening of “The Changeling”.
Stepping out to promote her new movie, Angelina Jolie was accompanied by Clint Eastwood as the two headed over to the New York Film Festival in New York City on Saturday night (October 4).
The couple walked side-by-side as Angelina waved to fans lining the streets prior to a scheduled screening of “The Changeling”.
Want to stay crucial moments ahead of your neighbors watching the vice presidential debate on a network feed? Try the Times' website . Not only is the old-media stalwart streaming live video of tonight's Biden-Palin faceoff with a surprisingly smooth interface, but it's a good eight seconds ahead of the likes of CNN and MSNBC.
Taking a break from the tasks associated with moving into a new home, Audrina Patridge was spotted venturing out in Los Angeles, California on Thursday afternoon (October 1).
The brunette beauty hopped in her white Mercedes SLK, proceeding to drive over to former roomie Lauren Conrad’s house to shoot scenes for an episode of MTV’s “The Hills”.
Taking full advantage of the beautiful southern California weather, Paris Hilton was spotted out and about on Robertson Boulevard yesterday (September 29) making some purchases.
The “Simple Life” hottie stopped into Kitson boutique for some new duds, emerging with several shopping bags full of fantastic finds.
The New York Times ran a huge (huge!) A1 investigative piece on John McCain and his weird gambling obsession and ties to the Indian Casino industry and Vegas and lobbyists and ten thousand other things yesterday. It was well-reported, historical in focus, and fair. It ran on the front page of the Sunday edition, which reaches almost half a million more readers than the weekday edition. But, you know, no one is talking about it. It didn't really stick! Did anyone read the whole thing? Were there bombshells? Who knows! What happened? The Times sabotaged itself, either intentionally or through ineptitude. Allow us to explain.
Times editor Bill Keller complains a lot these days about how no one pays enough attention to the Times and their big stories. He blames the internet and a million competing voices for distracting people from the Important Work of Times journalists. He's sorta right! Gone are the days when the Times set the agenda for the national press. Though the slow death of newspapers across the nation has been beneficial to the Times in one important way: they're the only national paper, effectively. A Times investigation reaches more of the country than a Washington Post investigation. So one would expect a story of this size and seeming heft would make a big splash.
But it didn't! Drudge didn't play it up—though as we move closer to the election, he regresses even more to his natural Republican hackdom, so they shouldn't have expected a push from him. And the liberals have no one coherent answer to Drudge, just a million sites trying desperately to push their own often competing agendas. Kos, Talking Points Memo, and the Huffington Post all share an elitist coastal liberal bias and huge audiences, but very different methods of achieving their goals and working the media refs.
But on the other hand... the way the Times dropped the story seems self-defeating. Front page of the Sunday edition, sure. But it went online Saturday night. So by the time Monday morning rolls around, it seems ancient, even though no one actually talked about it over the weekend. Furthermore, it came right after a presidential debate, right before a hugely anticipated vice presidential debate, and right in the midst of a gigantic economic crisis and a desperate attempt by Congress to prevent another Great Depression.
The Times should've had the story go live online on Thursday night (in time for it to be an issue in the debates!), they should've leaked salient details to Drudge beforehand, or they should've waited until the bailout negotiations collapsed or succeeded. The fact that they did none of those things indicates to us that they didn't actually want this story to blow up.
Maybe there's nothing actually to it (though the bit where McCain helped take down Jack Abramoff because he was the competition to McCain's preferred lobbyists seems a bit juicy, right?) or maybe they've actually been cowed by the McCain campaigns attacks on their credibility, or maybe they just don't know what the hell they're doing.
Now, for your edification, some interesting bits from the 100-page Times piece on John McCain's gambling addiction:
Update: Two more points we missed! The McCain camp began attacking the Times for no real reason last week. They, uh, probably saw this story coming. Did their preemptive attacks cause the paper to bury this piece or cause people to assume the story was biased and discount it? Well, the McCain campaign's media strategy has been desperate and stupid for a month now, so we don't think they have enough muscle to bury this themselves.
But point two, from a reader:
or maybe it was just a lousy lede. Five paragraphs in and facing the decision on whether to continue on to page A4 (or whatever page it was continued on) all the reader knew was that John McCain liked to gamble and did exactly that back in 2001. Not exactly compelling stuff and certainly not compelling enough to follow the story into the bowels of section A1.
Yes. The "McCain gambling at 3 a.m." story was a great atmospheric lede, but it had nothing to do with the news in the story. A wiser editing decision might've been to play up the Abramoff stuff, way more, up top, in easy-to-understand language. "John McCain's lead role in the Abramoff investigations may have been driven by personal animus and the influence of other lobbyists, documents and emails show." You know, like that, but better.
Enjoying a lazy weekend morning stroll, Cameron Diaz and her British model beau Paul Sculfor were spotted out and about New York City on Saturday (September 27).
According to a paparazzo on the scene, the love-birds were “constantly giggling and adoring each other in a way that is to be admired” - with Paul making Cameron laugh until “she was red in the face.”
Late-night host David Letterman—who dropped his usual Midwestern bonhomie to drub John McCain yesterday evening—is not the only national institution to be overtaken by partisanship this election season. If only in jest, the New York Times crossword makers are being accused of favoring McCain's Democratic rival. While "Obama" has appeared as an answer several times, the Republican candidate hasn't been honored once. What's the Times' excuse? "It is because ‘Obama’ is a five-letter name that alternates vowels and consonants," a spokeswoman tells Politico. "It’s got three vowels out of five letters, starting and ending in vowels. So it is much more crossword-friendly than ‘McCain,’ which is a harder word to put in a crossword." And that explanation will do precisely nothing to mitigate conservative suspicions of a newspaper so rooted in New York that even the crosswords are liberal.
Though she's often seen dancing at nightclubs and stealing fur coats around the city, actress Lindsay Lohan doesn't actually live in New York. Yet. She and probable girlfriend deejay Samantha Ronson are rumored to be looking to relocate from Los Angeles to the big rotten apple, possibly in the Dakota building (Yoko!) of all places. So what might their reasons be?
We don't think it's that old saw about how real New York celebrities are. You know that one about how they live boho lifestyles, free from the nagging press and prying eye (everyone pretends not to notice!). They're people like Keri Russell and the late Heath Ledger and, um, the Olsen twins? See therein lies the rub. The kind of celebrity that Lohan is, like the Olsens, isn't the kind who can just turn in a well-respected performance and then retreat, Julianne Moore-esque, back into civilian life. No, Lohan is a clubgoer and a partyer and—at this point it must be assumed—a huge fan of the paparazzi cameras. I mean, if she is coming to the city to live that whole quiet life thing, she's doin it rong.
The Dakota isn't exactly a secret enclave of the city. She'll be right smack dab in the middle of things, ready to mix it up with crazed celebrity hounds uptown and downtown. According to News of the World, Lohan "plans to make [the apartment] a hotbed for parties.” Ugh. Though, I guess it's almost respectable that she's not going in for that "I'm just going to live in Brooklyn and be a person" cliched lie. So yeah, we suspect that Lohan is moving here for that maybe-still-lingering "cool New York celebrity" factor (not the homey "cool", the Beatrice "cool") and because LA is probably sick of her and she of it. So there. She's going to flaunt it and we'll (maybe) have to deal with it and that will be that. I suppose the Upper West Side could use two more lesbians anyway.
Update: From an Observer article on the whole matter:
A resident of The Dakota has emailed the Daily Transom with the following missive, presented here unadulterated:
"The Dakota, a salud sanctorium that once was home to Boris Karloff, William Inge, Judy Holliday, Leonard Bernstein, Jo Mielziner, Hiro, Rudolf Nureyev, Judy Garland, Jose Ferrer and Rosemary Clooney, among others, is no longer a building that welcomes actors, directors, scenic designers, musicians, painters, sculptors, playwrights or any other practitioner of the creative arts. All they want today is hedge fund managers, money-grabbing Wall Street crooks, dubious CEOs and other corporate zombies with deep pockets. After turning away Antonio Banderas and Melanie Griffith, and after heading Harrison Ford off at the pass before he even made an offer, I can assure you beyond a reasonable doubt, that a snowball from Hell would have a better chance of getting into The Dakota than Lindsay Lohan."
Just moved out of her shared house with Lauren Conrad and Lauren Bosworth, “The Hills” star Audrina Patridge was busy moving into her new home with the help of family members on Saturday (September 20).
To go along with her new abode, the MTV reality starlet also picked up a brand new ride to accompany her Mercedes SLK - a third generation red Dodge Challenger complete with racing stripes.
She’s no stranger to hardship (her fiancé died in the 2004 tsunami in Thailand, and she was seriously injured) so it’s no wonder Petra Nemcova is empathetic to charitable causes.
The Czech chick was spotted last night heating up the red carpet at the New Dreams Charity Dinner to benefit the Somaly Mam Foundation.
No stranger to swanky parties, Beyonce Knowles and her rapper husband Jay-Z were all about checking out the New Yorkers for Children Fall Gala at Cipriani’s on 42nd in New York City last night (September 16).
The “Bootylicious” babe and her “99 Problems” stud meandered around the event, mingling with such stars as Blake Lively and Taylor Momsen from “Gossip Girl” as well as Julianne Moore and Mariska Hargitay.
They’ve been heating up the new season of “Gossip Girl” for the past few weeks, and last night Blake Lively and Taylor Momsen took some time out of their busy schedules to help out a charity.
The blonde beauties were spotted attending the 9th annual New Yorkers for Children Fall Gala, held at swanky Cipriani’s on 42nd street, lending their celebrity to a good cause.
This is Matthew DiPasquale. He scored fives on ten separate AP exams. "Five" may also quantify his penis somehow, you can decide for yourself because Matthew DiPasquale was born in the second half of the eighties and so he quite understandably just founded a Harvard porn magazine whose virgin issue contains naked pictures only of himself, an endeavor whose only conceivable purpose have been to solicit the snarky derision of people who have given up trying to understand the credit crisis. So here you go, just-safe-enough-for-work photos of your newest seeker of microfame after the jump. "Micro" may also quantify his penis somehow.
Even IvyGate seems to be having trouble mustering the right degree of contempt for this guy. They excerpt his interview with himself, which is so illiterate as to defy my appreciation of the absurd. Oh, some girl told him his "spooge tastes like unripe bananas." (I guess he means "splooge.")
God, I hate this job sometimes. Like, I dropped out of college precisely so I could forget people like Matthew DiPasquale even existed and this is what I get. Fuck you, Matthew DiPasquale, just fuck you.
Related, what do you think are the odds US News added an "intenet buzz" category to its annual college rankings and kids like this guy and that other guy and Lena Chen are behind the recent restoration of its supremacy in that most venerable listicle? "Entirely too high" is the unfortunate answer to that question.
With films like “Atonement” and “Pride and Prejudice” on her resume, it’s clear that Keira Knightley loves period pieces. And last night she was hamming it up at New York City’s Public Theatre for the premiere of her latest historical film “The Duchess.”
The “Pirates of the Caribbean” babe looked elegant as she made her way down the red carpet sporting a black Chanel Haute Couture dress with leaf accents teamed with a pair of black peep-toe heels.
She’s one of the hottest models in the fashion industry these days, and Petra Nemcova was definitely in her element at the 2008 Mercedes Benz New York Fashion Week yesterday (September 8).
The Czech chick was spotted meandering around the tents at Bryant Park, checking out shows from such designers as Diesel and Luca Luca.
Following a late night out at the MTV Video Music Awards, Vanessa Hudgens was spotted being dropped off at her parent’s house by boyfriend Zac Efron on Monday morning (September 8).
After getting cleaned up, the “High School Musical” hottie and her family carried their bags as they left the house - getting dropped off at LAX Airport for a departing flight.
“I mean, just, the conservative elites ... it’s actually an intellectual blockage ... that keeps them from supporting this stuff." That is National Review editor Ramesh Ponnuru enlightening today's Observer as to why conservative lobbyists don't promote his "pro-growth pro-family" tax initiatives, but why don't we just get hacky and apply it to another sad development for thinking conservatives broken today by the Observer: the New York Sun, a conservative New York daily that secured its initial funding in 2001 from a hodgepodge of investors united most visibly by an abiding love for Israel, has announced it will close at the end of the month unless it secures new funding.
Many things have changed since the Sun was founded: lead investor and Chicago Sun-Times owner Conrad Black went to jail, oil went above $100 a barrel, Israel went to war with Lebanon, Bill Buckley died and someone named "Julia Allison" gave birth to something called "microcelebrity," and the embarrassing unbridled jingoism unleashed by the events of September 11 greased the proverbial wheels of a prodigious bounty of lousy deals that would result mainly in death and disillusionment, the latter of which would eventually, mercifully, find itself directed at the Republican Party and the conservative movement that, in addition to God, granted it so much power. But here is what has not changed: conservatives do not really read, which is to say, of course conservatives read but not things that are like, long*, and those who do tend to compartmentalize the pastime as something rather far removed from their ideology, and if that's not the case, well, they would seem to be sufficiently alarmed by the defilement of their once-optimistic "movement" to be directing their information demands at suppliers of cruder, less ideologically-refined sources than the Sun. Of course, this is all blather and speculation; I am merely stating what I believe to be the nature of business conditions in the niche. But it is not just the Rupert Murdochs of the conservative media ideologically softening these days; the nuttycon Washington Times would seem to be on a bid to "mainstream" itself, while the talking heads and bloggingheads running such outlets as the National Review seem primarily to be brokering in new cute phrases: Sam's Club Republicans! The Sourpuss Vote! We've been Palinized!
We think you'll agree, if there's anything the industry needs right now, it's de-Palinization.
*Yeah, case in point: NONE of those guys actually read the Bible.
Vanity Fair's annual new establishment rankings—a highly subjective guide to status within editor Graydon Carter's universe—has always been more interesting for the losers more than the winners. The magazine's arbiters are too tactful to dole out many down arrows to the moguls, financiers and stars on the list; but the rankings themselves can't be fudged. Here's a list of last year's and this year's contenders ordered by the number of places they've fallen. (Those who've been dropped entirely are assumed to have been relegated to 101st place.)
It should be no surprise that the lords of private equity like Stephen Schwarzman, Steven Cohen and Henry Kravis are among the biggest losers; they're dragged down by the credit crunch. Nor will Roger Ailes and Bill O'Reilly of Fox News be that surprised to have been marked down by Bush-hating Graydon Carter. But the Vanity Fair editor will have a harder time explaining why his irascible movie producer friend Harvey Weinstein, a regular at Carter's Waverly Inn, has been knocked back 46 places. Nor should he expect to get George Clooney (down 28 points) on the cover any time soon.
"[Sunday buainess editor Timothy] O'Brien ridicules [Publisher Arthur] Sulzberger... He thinks Sulzberger is a dummy." [Post]
If mayor Michael Bloomberg buys the New York Times, this may have been the genesis: a game of Telephone started by those two inveterate gossips, media mogul Rupert Murdoch and his biographer Michael Wolff.
Taking advantage of the Labor Day weekend sales in the States, Leona Lewis and a female friend were spotted out shopping in the midtown section of New York City on Monday (September 1).
While out, Leona and her shopping companion went to Starbucks for a coffee drink before combing the racks at the American Apparel store.
"Certain writers have a style that can be best likened to body odor: irresistible to some, obnoxious to many and apparently imperceptible to the writer himself." That is the overeducated overyoung* novelist Robert MacFarlane on the new book out by Paul Theroux. [Times]
*He is also overhot, but Nick thought his photo was taking up too much space. He is right about everything about Theroux except the parts about Turkmenistan and China. And also, I probably don't need to point this out but Naipaul is a huge twat.
Advertising revenues at New York Times newspapers were 18% down in the year to July, but that wasn't the most depressing statistic. Even online advertising—which is supposed to represent the Gray Lady's salvation—fell in real terms.
Oh yay, the trailer for New York, I Love You, the new movie about "Love in New York" (hah hah, actual monster sightings are more likely).* New York, I Love You features not only an ensemble cast — Ethan Hawke, Blake Lively, Orlando Bloom, Rachel Bilson, Olivia Thirlby of Juno/The Wackness fame, Christina Ricci and so many more indie movie people you felt manipulated into having liked in their first one or two movies before you realized they were narcissistic assholes (duh) and dumb (duh) — but also an ensemble bunch of directors, among them Scarlett Johansson and Natalie Portman! Here is the movie's most profound thought thus far leaked:
"This is what I've always loved about New York. Those little moments on the sidewalks, you can watch the buildings and feel the air and look at the people, and sometimes meet somebody you feel like you could talk to."
Which sort of highlights the problem, doesn't it! Like, hey, you can actually look at buildings and talk to strangers, technically, in any place that exists but in New York people have actually bought into the notion that their most mundane experiences and interactions are more special because someone might write a movie about them someday. When really the only decent movies about mundane experiences and quirky romantic interactions these days take place outside of New York (just ask Woody Allen!)**
*"Love in New York" is at best a problematic concept. I have already written about that here and here and here and let's be honest, probably a few thousand other places. My general take on this is that New Yorkers are conned—by their permalancer gigs and their sperm donors and their pretentious/prodigious collections of books written by misanthropic pervs and the commodity fetishism (not to mention the materialism!) and the constant distraction of mere survival when you have so many parties to attend and an overabundance of self-esteem—into thinking that they are actually "independent," and that the last thing they want to be is "codependent" when interdependence is the operating principle of human civilization. Just ask that Domino publisher who had to hire both an egg donor and a surrogate mother to make a baby!
Here is a New York, I Love You vignette: yesterday I hung out with an ex-boyfriend who was very sweetly comforting me about a recent breakup with another boyfriend about whom my favorite story goes:
Ex-boyfriend's Ex-Girlfriend, upon meeting me at a party: Oh my god, that time you wrote about how dating was like being waterboarded was just so true! I forwarded it to all my friends and they all agree that is exactly what dating in New York is like.
Me: How about some Jameson's?
Anyway said ex-boyfriend always used to seem confused that I was dating the more recent ex-boyfriend at all, since more recent ex-boyfriend was obviously not the most considerate dude in the world. "I will be your Yenta!" previous ex-boyfriend said, and proceeded to go through his phone. He scrolled through the whole alphabet with nary a suggestion, until he came to "X", where the more recent ex was listed. "Now I get it!" he said.
**Except for The Wackness because it was about 1. the nineties and 2. the actual love story was about a man and his pot dealer, so it was more realistic.
What? How is this possible?
Who paid him to date Rumer Willis? Was it Bruce, Demi or Ashton who paid this poor soul to date this girl? It’s just so shocking to me. Her boyfriend’s name is Micah Alberti.
I wikipediaded his ass and found 4 sentences to his name. Not even one picture, what a shame. Well he’s 24..Rumer is 20..4 year difference- seems like hours of difference when in comparison to Ashton and Demi’s age difference. Micah looks pretty gay in my opinion.
Maybe that’s why he’s dating her…since she looks manly- I wonder whose dick is bigger.
After a few sold out shows at New York City’s Madison Square Garden and an uber-successful record launch yesterday, the Jonas Brothers are hard at work on a new music video.
Though their tour schedule shows them having a night off tonight (August 13), Nick, Kevin, and Joe are keeping themselves busy filming scenes at an outdoor Manhattan park setting.
Times chairman Arthur Sulzberger Jr. looks increasingly backed into a corner. Bloomberg yesterday marshaled a wide array of evidence, including quotes from analysts and the mounting cost to hedge against a Times Co. bond default, to establish that the company's bonds are close to falling to junk status. The already-bludgeoned stock quickly fell another 6 percent. Implicated in the credit deterioration: The company's decision last year to hike its dividend payout 23 percent, a move no doubt popular with Sulzberger's stockholdling relatives but one that is gobbling up nearly all the company's free cash flow. The family has already conceded board seats to the corporate marauders from Harbinger Capital Partners and an affiliated partnership, and Harbinger now controls nearly 20 percent of the company. Sulzberger faces some unsavory choices — cut the dividend, slash costs (probably via layoffs) or flirt with selling junk bonds — all of which carry the whiff of defeat. He is running out of room to maneuver.
The image associated with this post is best viewed using a browser.The penchant of America's greatest newspaper for self-flaggelation is no longer a harmless peccadillo; it's positively self-destructive. Vanity Fair's Bruce Feirstein accidentally stumbled upon a New York Times reader response survey they've been asking web users to take. Usually these things are done for advertisers, to gauge demographics in order to target readers more effectively. This one, though, is a bizarre paranoid list of every scandal, minor and major, the Times has been involved in over the last decade, followed by worried queries as to how much each one upset you, the reader. The questions are embarrassing—"What is the main reason your opinion of the New York Times has gotten worse?"—and specific—"The New York Times' Judith Miller reported about the probable existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Those stories turned out to be wrong. Has this made you feel better about The Times, has it not affected your opinion of The Times, or haven't you heard enough about these stories to say?" That's the most direct admission of error the Times has yet made on the subject, right? More of these terrible survey questions below.
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We don't know who's responsible for this. As Feirstein notes, if this is the publisher's doing, it's got to be pretty damn galling for everyone in editorial. It's all part of the constantly apologetic and self-flagellating Pinch Sulzberger Times. Let's all mention the moose, as often as possible, in public!
Considering that it is still the biggest and most influential newspaper in this nation, it'd be nice of the Times dropped the mealy-mouthed liberal defensiveness and just adopted the Fox house style of unapologetic halls-out can-do-no-wrong confidence. Man up, Times! No one cares about Judy Miller besides angry bloggers.
Ooh, symbolic. The New York Times website has been down for several minutes. And tonight's New York technology meetup has been cancelled because of power problems at the Gehry-designed headquarters of troubled internet conglomerate IAC.
They say you only get one shot on Broadway, and Katie Holmes looks to be taking things very seriously as she maintains a rigorous rehearsal schedule.
And the “Dawson’s Creek” darling was spotted arriving once again on Tuesday morning (August 5) for more work on her current stage gig, a Broadway production of “All My Sons.”
If David Cook was the raw sexy masculinity on this past season’s American Idol, then David Archuleta was the boy band barely-postpubescent cuteness.
And earlier this morning, the AI runner-up was all smiles as he exited the Z100 Studios in New York City after debuting his new single “Crush” to the whole world.
As she readies for her upcoming role as Regan in the new movie “King Lear”, Gwyneth Paltrow was spotted showing off a new haircut after a visit to a beauty salon in New York on Wednesday (July 23).
With her straight locks blowing in the wind, the Oscar-winning “Shakespeare In Love” actress gave a glance at the paparazzi before hopping into her ride with a few purchases in hand.
She has a massively popular network show and a budding film career, and now Hayden Panettiere has an address to call her very own.
The “Heroes” hottie has reportedly plunked down a cool $4 million for a luxurious Hollywood Hills mansion and she’s already well on her way to personalizing the pad inside and out.