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Puppies
Puppycam Shiba Inus Are Leaving the Nest
You know what happens when puppies reach eight weeks old, don't you? That's when they're able to leave their family and join a human family. (That's when our family always purchased our pups: at eight weeks old.) "Now, 8 weeks, they are ready to venture out into the real world (and off line). Some of the puppies will be leaving this weekend," reports the Sun Sentinel, who has a heartwarming slideshow of their growth, complete with treacly music. They're looking more and more like dogs. They're barking like crazy right now for their food. Dry food! Awww. I suppose we always knew this day was coming. Farewell, dear hearts. -
meltdowns
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Women's Wear Daily Horns In On Our Dirty Headlines
"Hey, why should Gawker be the only ones to use inappropriate and suggestive headlines? We can do it, too!" [WWD]
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on beauty
Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes Done Up In Noir
Otherworldly celebrity power couple Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise, who fashioned a baby out of stardust and moonbeams one windy night up in their attic, are on two different covers of T magazine, the New York Times' fashion and fancy stuff publication, this month. They're lovely photos, but... isn't there something oddly menacing about them? Maybe it's the harsh black and white or the vaguely Germanic face pose (is that a thing?) struck by Mr. Cruise. Or maybe it's just that I know so much (or think I know so much) about their wild and woolly lives. What do you think? [via Us] Click through for larger. -
Books
Random House CEO Pats Traumatized Publishing House on the Back
New Random House CEO Markus Dohle, who put forth a program of massive changes at the publisher yesterday, is now totally excited that his house's books made the most prestigious end-of-the-year books list at the New York Times Book Review. Dohle "delighted in the fact that fully nine of the ten books on the NYTBR list had been published by Random House." So he sent another memo, which the New York Observer duly captured. Instead of the last, ominous one ("a plan for our future that aligns existing strengths and publishing affinities and fosters teamwork throughout the company") which translated into "we killed two of our divisions and shuffled a lot of imprints around; maybe people will lose their jobs also," this memo is more of an OMG! type affair. More » -
oh no
Michael Medved Becomes Sentient, Self-Aware, Will Soon Turn Against Creators
"Increasingly," the right-wing radio host writes, "interests of commercial talk radio in a fractured market diverge from the needs of a viable national movement. A radio show (locally or nationally) that draws just 5% of the available audience can achieve notable success in ratings and revenue, but a conservatism that connects with only a disgruntled, paranoid 5% of the public will wither and die." [HuffPo] -
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Jesse Metcalfe Is Not As Think As You Drunk He Is
[Supposedly rehabbed actor Jesse Metcalfe leaving a Los Angeles bar last night; image via INF] -
Pop Culture
Real World Brooklyn Kids Don't Plan on Leaving New York Ever
Oh, God, three of the cast members of the Real World Brooklyn plan on staying in New York after the show is over, reports the Daily Intel via Gothamist, who were granted a tour of the house. No, wait: the NY Press says that four "of the eight cast members who were so charmed that they decided to stick around." More » -
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Alex Wek
E 7th St
Saw model Alek Wek and her gorgeous loooong legs striding down 1st ave near 7th Street. Hawt! -
Ted Danson
5th Ave
Ted Danson, chuckling when we passed paths on 57th and 5th as I was whistling the theme to Cheers. -
Liev Schreiber
Park Ave S
Liev Schreiber out and about this morning at 8:45AM at 23rd & Park Avenue South -
Al Sharpton
59 Grand St
At lucky strike's in manhattan tonight at a party for sunshine and sachs!
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Kate Bohner
Google CEO's unemployed girlfriend
FROM VALLEYWAG.COM: What's the use of dating a megabillionaire if he can't throw some bucks your way? Google CEO Eric Schmidt, who's been seeing video producer Kate Bohner since last fall, hasn't come through with funding for her documentary production firm, so she's out of a job. Bohner, a former journalist and TV per... More » -
Books
Publisher Offers Holiday Fire Sale to Its Own Authors
Oh, to be a fancy author these days! Palgrave MacMillan is an academic publisher, founded in 1843, that's published everyone from Keats to Thomas Hardy to Rudyard Kipling, John Maynard Keynes, and Margaret Mitchell. Yet even they are worried about the predicted holiday book-buying holocaust. So they're having a BIG SALE for and turning to the last reliable market for books: authors and their friends. Um, so: The Palgrave MacMillan authors should buy copies of books from Palgrave, at a 55% discount. Happy holidays! (25 copy minimum.) -
Graydon Carter
No Economic Downturn Can Stop Vanity Fair (Except the One That Did)
New York City was lucky enough today to play host to a fancy panel discussion featuring the world's three fanciest magazine editors: Vanity Fair's Graydon Carter, Vogue's Anna Wintour, and The New Yorker's David Remnick. And Joe Nocera of the Times uncouthly "lashed out at the editors and asked how each of the them could be so sanguine about the future." Pish posh! Graydon Carter is convinced his invincible publication will weather this economic storm as it always has: More » -
Crime
VC bust proves sports teams a better bet than startups
FROM VALLEYWAG.COM: The Securities and Exchange Commission has caught up with William "Boots" Del Biaggio, a venture capitalist once dubbed a "young financial god," on charges of defrauding clients and banks out of $65 million — More » -
Bias
Palin Won't Visit Noted Tough Interviewer Oprah
Back when we were all convinced for some reason that it mattered, it was big news that Oprah Winfrey, the most powerful woman on television, refused to let Sarah Palin, the governor of Culture Warkansas, on her popular television program. Because Oprah is a liberal elitist who supported Barack Obama, you see. Also because Oprah didn't have any candidates on her show after her endorsement of Barack Obama. "I would love to have her on after the campaign is over," Oprah said. Conservatives would surely have jumped all over her if she'd continued to refuse to invite Sarah Palin on, so we're happy to announce that Sarah Palin has herself refused to do Oprah. More » -
Flackery
A Literary Critique Of Layoff Memos
With so many layoffs going down today, it's a good time to take a look at how, exactly, a layoff memo should be written. Actually, any time you're critiquing a flood of layoff memos is by definition a bad time. But we'll disregard that for the moment. People need to be let down in the proper way, lest they get justifiably angry enough to put managers up against the wall. After the jump, we analyze five elements of today's memos that illustrate everything you corporate flacks need to know about firing people like us: More » -
Criticism
Ben Stein Wins Roger Ebert's Disdain
At least America's last remaining actually influential film critic is Roger Ebert, and not, like, David Denby. Because Ebert, who can no longer speak due to removal of his cancerous jaw, now just writes crazy mean blogs and reviews and columns, calling out everyone who bugs him. Like Ben Stein, and his stupid anti-evolution movie. More » -
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Arriving At A Bug's Funeral
[Victoria "Posh Spice" Beckham at the London airport today; image via Bauer-Griffin] More » -
Fake Trends
Laid-Off Bankers Will Teach You How To Flex
Concerned about the job prospects for the already-wealthy cads who made a pile in finance jobs? Sure, we all are. There's good news, though; corporate types who suddenly find themselves unemployed have all decided, en masse, to become personal trainers. These former office-bound A-type personalities are all lining up to sell their exercise services to, uh, you know, whoever may have some disposable income left. More » -
holidaze
New York Post Christmas Party as Drunk as Any Other Friday Night
Next Monday, Rupert Murdoch is planning a big bash for wife Wendi Deng Murdoch's 40th birthday on the Gramercy Park Hotel roof that has a six-figure budget and folks like Nicole Kidman and Barry Diller on the guest list. It's such a big deal that Murdoch made Michael Wolff (hey, did you hear he has a book coming out?) move his party for The Man Who Owns the News to Tuesday, according to Jeff Bercovici. They both sound like fabulous affairs. Especially compared to the staff Christmas party that the New York Post announced yesterday. News Corp. canceled its regular company-wide holiday bash last month. So, instead next Friday the staff are heading to their regular Midtown watering hole, Langan's. With a cash bar. Aside from the promised "sexy elves" and "special theme rooms," it'd be tough to tell this from any other Friday night at Langan's. Full invite after the jump. More » -
darryl siry
Electric carmaker's motormouth marketer
FROM VALLEYWAG.COM: Tesla Motors, once the best hope of Silicon Valley's nascent electric-car industry, is getting better known for manufacturing drama than vehicles. The company just saw its top marketer, Darryl Siry leave — More » -
Don't clap
Paris Hilton Wants To Be Tinkerbell
Because not quite enough of your childhood dreams have been throttled and trampled by culture's unending descent into l'inferno, Paris Hilton would like to be Tinkerbell in a new movie. Yes! She's heavily lobbying for the lead in a Disney project about what would happen if the Peter Pan fairy's life got flipped turned upside down and she ended up a real girl. It's a neat idea, mostly because it's never been done before. (This also seems somewhat related, but it's really not). Page Six seems to think that Disney is actually considering hiring Hilton—who got undeserved "she's a comedic actress!" praise for her stupid election-season internet video (can we please retire the phrase "bitches" from the Funny lexicon?). Now why on earth would Disney do that? More » -
shut up, college
Harvard Needs a Bailout!
According to financially troubled magazine US News & World Report, the best college in the world is financially troubled Harvard, whose endowment has "suffered investment losses of at least 22% in the first four months of the school's fiscal year," according to the Wall Street Journal. Turns out all those colleges investing in real estate and private equity and commodities was only a brilliant idea for like ten years. This is a loss of $8 billion! So now the endowment is only like $29 billion. Is the Ivy League too big to fail? More » -
Meta
American Apparel Successfully Swallows Its Ad Spoofer
All subversive things in our culture must eventually be co-opted by the very things that they subvert. It's the American way. The American Apparel ad spoofer—who had a months-long run of fame for creating super-porny ripoffs of AA ad posters (which eventually turned out to be Photoshop fakes by the people at Stereohell)—has now become the subject of an actual American Apparel ad. In Vice magazine, naturally! Click through for photos of Dov Charney's victory over artistic mockery: More » -
Death of criticism
The Death of (Video Game) Criticism
FROM KOTAKU.COM: Famed movie critic Roger Ebert has a fascinating piece up on his Sun-Times website about the death of film criticism and rise of the “CelebCult”. In it he blames America’s (in particular America’s newspapers') fascination in the trivial and trite when it comes to pop culture and celebrity, ... More » -
Mistakes
Sad John Edwards Not Picked for Team of Rivals
A feisty young blogger named Matt points out that John Edwards has not yet been given a job in the Obama administration. Shocking! As Matt points out, in his link, Edwards totally endorsed Obama last May, four months after he dropped out of the race and a mere week after Tim Russert famously declared the Democratic primary race "over" for Hillary Clinton. Despite the lateness of the endorsement it was universally acknowledged that Edwards wanted a job—then he had a sex scandal and now he will be lucky to get a job blogging about the law for Slate. More » -
Rumormonger
John Norris A Victim Of MTV Layoffs?
The 850 layoffs at Viacom today—including hundreds at MTV—are claiming the livelihoods of tons of hardworking people who did their jobs well without ever receiving fame and fortune. And just like when a jumbo jet crashes with hundreds of souls aboard, the first question is: "Were any celebrities involved?" You know you were thinking that, you heartless swine. Well (according to an unconfirmed rumor from an inside tipster), your third-favorite MTV correspondent-for-life, John Norris, was laid off today. After the jump, we've got other reports from the Viacom scene. More » -
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And They're Off!
[Sarah Jessica Parker and her darling son running to school this morning; image via Bauer-Griffin]
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Baby mama drama
Pregnant Celebrities Either "Fat" Or Liars, Says Tabloid Media
FROM JEZEBEL.COM: As Moe so cannily pointed out last year, in the media narrative of celebrity pregnancy, baby weight has become just plain old fat. But what about those fertile women who do quickly and easily avoid those child rearing pounds? More » -
Disasters
Heidi Montag's Mom Damned If She's Not Gonna Get Famous Off This Whole Thing, Too
The whole sad story of Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt's marriage just gets worse and worse. First the Silly Puddy fake couple from The Hills filthily escaped to Mexico for a totes unplanned elopement beach wedding that Us Weekly was lucky enough to have happened to be there for. So that was like, serendipity and bliss and like cold, oily honeymoon sex and stuff! Now, with that matter of dually plastic and farty bologna-smelling espirit de corps behind them, the couple has soldiered on to new territory: More Us Weekly covers! Involving Heidi's devastatingly sad mom! More » -
Media
One Year Until The Newspapers Start Disappearing
More sunny economic news for the newspaper industry: yesterday the financial ratings firm Fitch put out a report predicting that "several cities could go without a daily print newspaper by 2010." Oh joy! You won't have to complain about your shitty local fish wrapper much longer, if you live in "some cities" (*NEWARK*, ahem). This would really be a serious change in American civic life, people. Crooked city councilmen and religious nut school board members are bound to run wild without any reporters telling people what they're up to. Well, buck up, doomed papers in "some cities"—every other newspaper will have a hellish year, too: More » -
recaps
This Week's 10 Second Stylista Review
Hey Stylista fans (how is the one of you?). I was busy watching Top Chef last night, so I didn't really get a chance to carefully eyeball last night's fashion editor competition mishmash. The last ep, about sad fat people who are sad and fat and the magazine editors who horribly abuse them, was such a gleaming trainwreck of an hour of television that, I gotta be honest, I was kind of relieved to not revisit it this week. But I will soldier on with recaps in seven days' time, I promz. After the jump is my brief, provisional recap of last night. More »
