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She’s quite the accomplished actress, and at the 2008 New York Film Critics’ Circle Awards last night (January 5), Penelope Cruz was looking hot.
The “Vanilla Sky” babe was turning heads everywhere she went with her sexy fringed-out black one-shoulder minidress and flirty cropped coif.
Enjoying some post-Christmas shopping, Amy Adams was spotted on her way out of Barneys New York in Los Angeles yesterday (December 29).
The “Charlie Wilson’s War” actress was joined by her new fiancé Darren Legallo as she made her way past the paparazzi and to her car.
Following a night of family fun the previous evening, Hugh Jackman was spotted toting a baby seat as he packed up his car and left New York City on Monday (December 29).
Accompanied by his wife Deborra-Lee Furness and their two kids, the “X-Men” hunk said his farewells before driving off - only to be spotted by paparazzi a short while later grabbing drinks at a New Jersey gas station with son Oscar by his side.
She’s one of the most recognizable ladies in the fashion industry and earlier today Kate Moss was spotted running errands in London, England.
The British beauty donned an animal print jacket with black trousers, black lace-up heels, and black sunglasses as she made her way to Anderson & Sheppard tailors.
Yankees general manager Brian Cashman readied his offer to free agent pitcher CC Sabathia over the past few days, and the proposal will sit in the $140-$150 million dollar range for the portly lefthander. How can the Yankees possibly afford such a luxury in these tough times? Well, unlike most companies, they have plenty of cash reserves between the lucrative YES television network, record attendance, and two insane brothers who hate each other running the whole thing. The lavish new Stadium won't open until it hosts one of Sabathia's former teams, the Cleveland Indians on April 16th, but here's a look at the glitzy excess of the $1.6 billion dollar new structure well in advance:
Designed by HOK Sports, the architects behind almost all the new stadiums of baseball's building craze over the last twenty years, new Yankee Stadium can't help but be a much-needed improvement on the own. Credit the Yankees for holding the experience of their fans and the lure of the almighty dollar over the pull of the old stadium's nostalgia. The new Yankee stadium has had plenty of breaks from the government, including a new Metro-North stop, but the result of the final structure is purely in the hands of the organization.
The facade is reminiscent of the first Yankee Stadium facade, before it was redesigned in advance of the 1976 season. The lovely coloring and view of the structure down its third base line makes for a pleasing enough exterior, and the original lines of the ballpark will remain the same.
The new Yankee Stadium will be over 63 percent larger, allowing for a far more pleasant fan experience than the concrete and trash milieu of the original. One of the main reasons that teams were so quick to bail on their old stadiums was the absence of luxury boxes, a lucrative cash cow. Despite corporations curbing their greater excesses, everyone from the City of New York to part owners Goldman Sachs will have their own unique vantage point from which to view the game.
On the stadium's ground floor, fans will be able to snack on better food at insane prices. The Hard Rock Café and new joint-venture steakhouse, NYY Steak will be open to fans with tickets and fans who just want to watch the game on TV...inside the stadium.
Backstage, the amenities for the players will be insane. As revealed yesterday, manager Joe Girardi has a three-room suite, and there's even — shock! — a bathroom for the news media. (The photo here is from Peter Abraham of the Journal News' detailed report.)
For the players, fans and the franchise, New Yankee Stadium will be a tremendous boon. If the economy impacts Major League Baseball, the downturn is sure to affect the fans before all else. That means high ticket prices and the same massive player salaries for the foreseeable future. Though the Yankees had more trouble moving memorabilia from the last Stadium then they thought — they even had to chance the Stadium's planned closing ceremony for this month — the appeal of the new ballpark will mean open wallets and busy cash registers. At least in the Bronx, we know that good times will come again.
More Photos of New Yankee Stadium [The Journal News]
The Anti-Advertising Agency's Steve Lambert, a co-conspirator in yesterday's Fake New York Times, tells us where the idea for this year-in-the-making work of agitprop got started: "like all great ideas, in a bar."
It's true, as we reported this morning, that the the liberal prank group The Yes Men was behind today's spoof left-utopian Times. But there were so many more commie pinkos involved in the plot! The cabal sent out a press release tonight, revealing that their ranks include the Yes Men, protest group Code Pink (which disrupted the Republican National Convention and fought Marine Corps recruiting), Improv Everywhere (they did that tear-jerking little league thing), Anti Advertising Agency (the ad-sticker people) and a few others we're less familiar with. They want to make the headlines come true! So cute. After the jump, read the press release and find out which of their claims is being disputed by the Times.
The Times is covering the prank on page C7 of tomorrow's paper. The newspaper seems to be taking the spoof issue in reasonably good humor, but does note that the pranksters' stated 1.2 million circulation is higher than that of the real Times and is otherwise " suspect, if only because of the printing costs that would be involved."
We bet the paper is going to look eerily prescient in July — for accurately predicting a 14-page Times print edition.
The commie pinkos behind today's liberal fantasy spoof of the New York Times have released a video communiqué! It's basically a rundown of the printing and distribution and fabulous wonderment of the stunned populace as they considered a world free of bloodshed. The best part comes half way through: Actual NYT employee: "I don't understand what statement they're trying to make. We've been all over the Bush administration since day one. We set the standard for coverage of the Iraq war!" The faceless response: "Like Judith Miller?" NYT Guy: (turns around and leaves). Ha, they're both right! The video is below:
New York Times Special Edition Video News Release - Nov. 12, 2008 from H Schweppes on Vimeo.
[A more generous response from Alex S. Jones, a former Times reporter and author and Harvard professor: "I’m just glad someone thinks The New York Times print edition is worthy of an elaborate hoax." That is correct.]
There’s no doubt that her move from southern California to New York City has brought its share of adjustments. And earlier this morning, Whitney Port was spotted doing her best to put up with the inclement weather.
The “Hills” hottie braved the elements as she made her way through the Big Apple amidst a massive wind and drizzle. And she still managed to look hot, sporting a black longsleeve top, slim-fit jeans, and black leather boots.
Officially, the New York Times Company isn't commenting on tech executive Jason Calacanis' claim that it is shopping reference site About.com in an effort to shore up its financial position and perhaps go private. But two anonymous sources poured cold water on his statements, according to Peter Kafka of All Things Digital, denying that the profitable property is on the block. Perhaps a rogue banker is trying to drum up interest in a (hypothetical) deal before taking it to the Times, hoping to score some business. Or maybe Calacanis just got his wires crossed. But lack of any dealmaking will hardly tamp down speculation over how the Times Company will pay down its junk-rated debt. If anything, it makes the situation an even more tricky puzzle.
Continuing along with her tour in the midst of a divorce from Guy Ritchie, Madonna took to Canada over the weekend for a few performances in Toronto.
As for her recent separation announcement, the Material Girl is reportedly planning on keeping Lourdes, 12, Rocco, 8, and David, 3, with her - raising them in New York City.
Hey, the New York Sun is dead. Sad! It was a newspaper, and we all love newspapers. Their editorial stance was despicable, but they had a great sports section. We've been through all this already. No point in dredging up old fights. But! There are still stories about Sun founder and editor Seth Lipsky that are maybe worth your attention. Like did you know he stole everyone's lunch?
As the newspaper industry had transformed — with formerly working-class, hardboiled "reporters" becoming professional-class, college-educated "journalists" — Lipsky is defiantly old-school, an oddball character with an almost Dickensian quality. Normal office etiquette did not apply to him. "He has a tendency to call you at all hours of the day, to email you at all hours of the day," Lake says. One former editorial page staffer recalled how Lipsky rigged the office fire bell to ring whenever he dialed a certain number from his home — he didn't think people were answering his calls quickly enough before. At one point, he was widely suspected as the culprit responsible for stealing staff lunches from the office refrigerator.
Ha ha it's funny because Lipsky was also famous for supposedly expensing his lavish lunches to the struggling paper. Lunch brought down the Sun! Spread the word!
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.
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”.
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.
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.
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."
“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.
"[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.
"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.
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.
Lauren Conrad was out in Beverly Hills today shopping at Barney’s. She dragged out her latest haul and drove off into the sunset.
By the looks of this iconic photograph, she totally forgot about the new Cell Phone Law that went into effect earlier this week. Lauren, the law applies to everyone!
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Up and about following a night of clubbing the previous evening, Lauren Conrad looked city chic as she headed over to Barneys of New York in Beverly Hills on Thursday (July 3).
The Hills hottie stopped in for a bit of shopping to kick-start the holiday weekend, wearing a colorful tanktop/pant combo with matching shades, a big ring with her name on it and a Chanel bag in tow.
Ryan McGinnis's sweeping panorama of Manhattan is available for licensing at a definition as high as 25162 x 3830, enough detail to wallpaper an entire room. The image is stitched together from 20 separate photos taken from Jersey City. One suggestion: snap the photos from a boat going up the Hudson so that the Midtown skyscrapers (to the left) don't look quite so pathetic.
In the New York Times Magazine, Peggy Orenstein argues that stress has less to do with physical ailments than we think. She says it’s just another way of blaming people, primarily women, for their illnesses. This seems like a perfectly good reason to avoid going to yoga.[NYT Magazine]
We were sent this tear-jerking tale of the going-away party for a New York Times employee who got the best gift ever. "The story: Merrill Perlman, the director of copy desks at The Times, who has 'chosen' to leave the paper (read: got pushed out) received a send-off today in the same spot where the Pulitzers were given out earlier this year. (This, after the farewell had originally been scheduled for the Page One conference room — never mind that the copy editors constitute the biggest staff in the New York office.)" Read on!
So anyway, the first gift presented – and the best – was scavenged from the 43rd Street building by Janet Higbie, an editor on the Foreign desk: a hardbound copy of The New York Times style manual, in PRISTINE condition, Janet emphasized. As in, NEVER used. So shiny. So pretty. And the name inscribed on the inside? (Drumroll…)
Jayson Blair.
Hah. That would explain so, so much. He never even read the part about how you're not supposed to lie and plagiarize! To be fair, it's way after the bit about the Oxford Comma, which is where most readers give up.
For Gawker commenter Karion, who has developed a crush on freebie-loving New York Post reporter, Justin Silverman: some beefcake shots.
Intimate look at the New York Times alert! The paper has launched a social networking feature called "TimesPeople," which is a little like Facebook for Times employees (and the public!). But without any of Facebook's drunk pictures or other interesting features. Pictured, what editor Bill Keller is up to: not a damn thing. The only useful aspect of TimesPeople is that newsroom brown-nosers can track the Times in-crowd by keeping tabs on Keller's list of friends. He only has seven now, but one of them is Batman:
She’s currently enjoying success with her first foray into country music (her new single is called Come on Over), and Jessica Simpson looks as happy as ever.
The former Newlywed was spotted leaving the Gramercy Hotel in New York City last night on her way to the chic Manhattan restaurant Nobu.
Following a night of partying with her celebrity pals at the CFDA Awards, a stylish Victoria Beckham was seen leaving her New York City hotel on Tuesday morning (June 3).
The Spice Girl-turned-designer was reportedly out bright and early to attend to some business obligations while staying in Big Apple.
Twice a year, the sun sets in line with the Manhattan grid, turning the streets red from one side of the island to the other. This evening is one of those occasions. For the best view, head to Greenpoint in Brooklyn or look down from Top of the Rock.
The star of Just Imagine was the thirties movie's elaborate miniature of the city imagined fift