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Why Doesn't Anyone Watch Gossip Girl?
Oh hey there! On the cover of this week's Entertainment Weekly Fall TV Preview is Gossip Girl, that much crowed-about teenage soap opera about horrendous idiots milling about the Upper East Side of that island across the river from me. You see, it's the buzziest show in a buzz-happy medium, people like gossips and the internet are writing about it and legions of squealing, sexually-awakening girls are flocking to its mop-topped (and bottomed) male leads as if they were sex magnets, and these young ladies mere paperclips. But there's just one little thing, one nagging flaw that the accompanying article has to attend to. If it's so damn popular, why isn't it... popular? More »
gossip roundup
Lindsay Lohan Turns Down Playboy
Lindsay Lohan is "not going the [New York] magazine road again," the star's rep reportedly told Playboy, by way of rejecting a $700,000 offer to be photographed topless. Because what's the fun in getting paid for it? [Post] Anna Wintour tried to indulge her crush on Roger Federer by heading to one of his tennis matches at 3 p.m. on Thursday — but ended up having to run back to the office within an hour. The end of summer can be so depressing. [Observer] Alec Baldwin told In Touch he contemplated suicide after the release of the voice mail in which he called his then-11-year-old daughter a "thoughtless little pig." [Showbiz Spy] Republicans don't like tell-all books about the seedy underbelly of political fundraising being hawked in the city where they're trying to do a lot of political fundraising. [R&M]
magazines
Time Out Boss Decries, Confirms Gossip
Time Out New York president Alison Tocci just sent out a memo to the magazine's staff addressing the "anonymous, typo-riddled post on Gossip, I mean, Gawker.com, which alludes to our imminent demise." She confirms TONY's money troubles, which were the subject of our rumormonger post yesterday, but says that the magazine's trusty investors are ponying up cash to ensure that everyone is paid! Within three months. The full zing-y memo: More »
money
On TV the Rich Get Richer, And We Keep Watching
In this time of economic woe, those of us stranded in the middle and lower classes aren't circling the wagons, trying to protect what little stake we've left. Instead we're looking at those people far across the income gap—the fantastic private jet-having super rich—congratulating and emulating them and waving them to greener shores while we stand dumbly on the docks. Or so argues Alessandra Stanley in a Times trend piece today, using the new hyper-moneyed 90210 as a springboard. More »
gossip roundup
Britney Spears's Mom Blames Herself
Britney Spears drank at 13, lost her virginity at 14 and started taking drugs at 15, her mom said in a tell-all memoir. By 16 the singer was caught with cocaine and pot on a private jet, and mom was feeling guilty about letting her sleep with Justin Timberlake and make "raunchy" music videos. But releasing a tell-all memoir about Spears six months after Spears's latest trip the psychiatric ward? No regrets! [Sun] Meanwhile, it turns out Spears is going to perform at the MTV Video Music Awards, contrary to prior reports. [Daily Star] Anderson Cooper pays just $15 for a barber shop haircut. The CNN anchor's adorability is so low maintenance! [P6] Oprah will maybe appear on 30 Rock. [ET] David Spade impregnated a Playboy Playmate during a fling and will "accept responsibility" for his new daughter. He'll even go visit, just as soon as he can take a break from shooting his movie. So sweet! [People] Paris Hilton collaborated with Tom Petty's daughter on a so-called documentary about her life and is curtailing film festival showings, because apparently this will allow her to harvest more money off the film. [P6] Sex addict David Duchovny used to hit on extras and went into treatment because his wife gave him an ultimatum. [R&M] Fellow American Idol judges Paula Abdul and Kara DioGuardi have supposedly made up. [P6]
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MSNBC's Rachel "Maddow tried to replace all the staffers who work on the 9 p.m. time slot, which she takes over on Monday, but management refused... 'She is Olbermann's protégé and is behaving like he does.'" [Post]
disasters
Lily Allen Caps Awful Year With Drunken Night Of Fights
At what point does empathy for elfin British pop singer Lily Allen begin to dry up? So far this year she's had a miscarriage, broke up with her lover and lost a contract to Agent Provocateur. Last night she got drunk at the GQ Men Of The Year awards, drunkenly told off her co-host Elton John, got in a big fight with her future sister in law and infuriated police by revealing details of a secret kidnapping. Fun to watch (click the video icon to do so), but telling Elton John "fuck off... I'm 40 years younger than you and have my whole life ahead of me: probably does not enhance Allen's chances of retaining her BBC Three show, which she still has not yet lost. Unfortunately, if Allen is on the typical cycle of starlet drunkenness, she has further to fall before the rehab and bounceback. [Daily Mail, Dan News]
gossip roundup
Heidi Montag's Sister's Awful Celebrity Boss
Joe Francis, the Girls Gone Wild scuzz, has for some reason hired as his personal assistant Holly Montag, sister of the actress Heidi Montag. He reports she is "probably the best assistant I have ever had," by which he means she waited for him to get out of prison and greatly increases the chances he will score some sort of reality television deal. [P6] Chace Crawford of Gossip Girl is supposedly trying to get into the pants — sorry, "cozy up" to — Amanda Hearst, the heiress. [P6] On 30 Rock, Jennifer Aniston will play a "free spirited stalker," a role that makes about as much sense as "John Mayer's wife forever." Her character will at least have the good taste to become obsessed with Jack Donaghy, like the rest of us. [Us] Lindsay Lohan posted "ILY" to "SR" on her MySpace page, and people specially trained in journalism used their investigative skills to determine this was an "I Love You" to "Samantha Ronson." Then they told the WORLD. [Sun] Britney Spears thanks her conservator: "My father saved my life." [Showbiz Spy]
Times Honchos' Bitchy Emails "[Sunday buainess editor Timothy] O'Brien ridicules [Publisher Arthur] Sulzberger... He thinks Sulzberger is a dummy." [Post]
"[Sunday buainess editor Timothy] O'Brien ridicules [Publisher Arthur] Sulzberger... He thinks Sulzberger is a dummy." [Post]
gossip girl
The Waldorf Family's Dark Criminal Past
Gossip Girl arch bitch Blair Waldorf isn't really the tony high society-born lioness she seems. In fact, she's the jail-born daughter of a convicted drug felon with a whole family's worth of shady criminal stories. Wait, that's actually a little too exciting and down-'n-dirty for the reasonably staid show ("I killed someone," confessed a bedraggled Serena last season; and by killed she meant sorta just didn't call 911). It's actually the kind of drahhhma that you can't make up. Leighton Meester, the actress who smartly plays Blair on the silly teen soap, was the one born in prison while her mother served time for her connections to a drug ring. Yikes. To add to the sad Texas pile, her father, aunt, and grandfather also spent time behind bars for various druggery. Wait a second. The season just started! This is far too early for such gangbusters reveals. Save it for sweeps, people! Sweeeeps. [Star] My second-favorite shocking GG reveal is after the jump. More »
Free Speech
Libel Tourists Go Home!
In America (the Land of the Free) you can't win a libel suit unless you can prove not only that what was published was false, but also that it was published with actual malice—i.e., you must show that someone meant to hurt you on purpose with false information. But in the UK, the situation is the opposite; it's up to the publisher to prove what they wrote is true. So offended parties from across the world practice "libel tourism," filing suits in the UK against writers and media outlets who have only sold a few copies there, in order to take advantage of the crazy English laws. Luckily our (USA) legislators have now done something useful by protecting gossip sites like us from libel suits across the pond. Here's how one evil Saudi billionaire is helping Gawker write more freely: More »
Media wars
Chaunce Hayden's Imaginary Gossip Factory
We have some natural sympathy for anybody locked in a battle against Page Six. Although that sympathy recedes when the P6 opponent is Chaunce Hayden, the rad tat-sporting editor of Jersey gossip rag Steppin Out who was denounced by P6 boss Richard Johnson for feeding him bad tips. Because Chaunce's rage is now leading him to send out mass email blasts about "news" that he, uh, just kinda made up! Or maybe he's always done that? Either way, now he's pissed off the Post even more. Here's the full story of one errant shot in the gossip war: More »
recaps
Gossip Girl's Return: The Dogged Days of Summer
So how did the Gossip Girl kids spend their summer vacation? The wicked New York teen soapers spent it growing like weeds (Jenny! Erik! so big!) and meeting British lords and somehow boning older ladies and forgetting how to act (but not how to glower) and meandering their way right back to where we started. This was all evidenced by last night's kinda zippy, mostly fun, but slightly off-tone second season premiere, which reunited us with old and somewhat-changed friends (just like the ends of real summer vacations! oh that strange and ineffable sadness!) and introduced several new stories whose details I'm sure we'll skim, like tiny bugs over deep pools of water, for these first yawning and stretching new episodes. More »
gossip roundup
Kevin Spacey Gets Cheeky In The Balkans
It's not that Kevin Spacey wanted to pull down his friend's boxer shorts so much as that Croatian nightclub tradition basically required him to do so. [LA Rag Mag] Anti-Scientology group Anonymous plans to picket the Oct. 16 opening of Katie Holmes's Broadway Debut, All My Sons. [Scoop] Lindsay Lohan skipped the wake of her grandfather on her crazy dad's side to do some shopping. [Sun] Helen Mirren quit cocaine once she had a good reason to, and not a second before. [Guardian] Drunk John Mayer told an audience, "I had a conversation recently, and a lot of tears were exchanged." Then the Jennifer Aniston ex went to a club with a blonde cocktail waitress. [People] Hugh Grant has been squiring a new fashion designer girlfriend around the Hamptons. [OK!] Madonna's roadies don't like staying in seedy hotels and flying coach. Now they know how her brother felt! (Entitled.) [Fametastic]
journalismism
Post Pulls Punch On Prosty-Patronizing Poll
Dick Morris's political career ended when a British tabloid busted him sucking the toes of a prostitute and allowing her to listen in on his calls with then-President Bill Clinton. That was 12 years ago and would be of little consequence now except that Morris has reportedly just taken a job writing a weekly column called "Political Animal" for Playboy.com. One would expect a salacious gossip section like the Post's Page Six would make a fun little jab over the new gig and the way it recalls Morris' racy past. But then one would remember that Morris leans conservative, appears regularly on Post corporate sibling Fox News Channel and writes a weekly column for the Post itself. Then the tabloid's tame little item about the job makes perfect sense.
coverup
Sarah Palin's Wikipedia Whitewash
We now know that Sarah Palin probably isn't baby Trig's grandma (damn!) but someone on her team seemed to think her past needed a little bit of a touch up. On Friday, just 15 minutes before rumors started circulating that John McCain was going to pick her for his VP, someone made more than 30 favorable changes to her Wikipedia page. More »
Brenda Walsh
