November 2007
Your Bangalore-Based P.A. Will Give You A Wake-Up... →
Who Is The Whitest Kid You Know? [Contests] →
Still struggling to make sense of the Broadway... →
Norman Mailer Predicted His Own Death And Life... →
Simon Doonan Hates Les Moonves' Kid [Scions] →
Reading-born necklace eater Simon Doonan is passive-aggressively grumbly this morning in the Observer about how all the city’s media internships have been swarmed by “fancy-pants progeny” like CBS CEO Les Moonves’ daughter Sara (a Vogueand former Teen Vogue intern, beside whom Doonan was seated at a recent industry event, poor man) and Evgenia Peretz, daughter of longtime...
Simon Doonan Hates Les Moonves' Kid [Scions] →
Val Kilmer May Be Fatman Forever [Stalk Of The... →
The date: November 10th The time: 12:30 p.m. The place: Subway Platform, Canal Street Sighted: “Waiting for the R train at Canal Street, when I notice that the two guys standing behind me are being loud and obnoxious…well, one of these clowns turns out to be a fat and disheveled Val “Ice” Kilmer wearing some weird weatherproof jumpsuit. He and his friend were going over...
Val Kilmer May Be Fatman Forever [Stalk Of The... →
On The 'Gossip Girl' Set, Spence Girls Call... →
On The 'Gossip Girl' Set, Spence Girls Call... →
newVideoPlayer("ues_girls.flv", 475, 376);Video boy Alex Goldberg and I headed up to the Upper East Side yesterday just as school was getting out and guess what: a bunch of kilted maidens were thronged on the corner of 86th and Fifth, watching the actress who plays Serena Van Der Woodsen repeatedly exit a building and disrupting the shoot with their camerphones’ flashes! We asked them what...
Times restaurant critic Frank Bruni really ...... →
Times restaurant critic Frank Bruni really ...... →
Times restaurant critic Frank Bruni really really really really didn’t like Harry Cipriani, the mainstay of the Cipriani restaurant empire. He gave it no stars and used words like “robbery,” “generic,” and “confused” in his review. He also used phrases like “sexual harrassment” “highway robbery” and “bizarre mix of indulgence...
Jeff Koons' sculpture, "Diamond (Blue)," ...... →
Jeff Koons’ sculpture, “Diamond (Blue),” a huge-ass, seven foot wide fake diamond made of stainless steel, sold for only $11.8 mil at Christie’s Post-War And Contemporary Art Evening Sale last night. Sadly, its sale fell short of expectations—they were hoping for $12 to $20 million. (Thank God for Rothko. He always fetches a high price!) [NYT]
Jeff Koons' sculpture, "Diamond (Blue)," ...... →
huffpo Says It May Pay Writers, Maybe.* - Silicon... →
huffpo Says It May Pay Writers, Maybe.* Silicon Alley Insider, NY - 1 hour ago Meanwhile Gawker’s Choire Sicha and Nick Denton say there has been turnover on the site’s business side since the arrival of new CEO Betsy Morgan, …
huffpo Says It May Pay Writers, Maybe.* - Silicon... →
huffpo Says It May Pay Writers, Maybe.* Silicon Alley Insider, NY - 44 minutes ago Meanwhile Gawker’s Choire Sicha and Nick Denton say there has been turnover on the site’s business side since the arrival of new CEO Betsy Morgan, …
In These Web 3.1 End Days, Is Jimmy Kimmel The... →
Today's most popular headlines are Val Kilmer ...... →
The Strokes Really Speak To Graydon Carter's Emo... →
The Strokes Really Speak To Graydon Carter's Emo... →
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Several things to consider about Graydon Carter’s son, Charles “Spike” Carter:
His name is Spike
His name is Spike…and he has a lisp
He is obsessed with superheroes and wrote his college applications on ‘The Green Lantern’
He has an ex-girlfriend named Raffi
He made this movie.
Other fun things to...
'Jewish Living': It's A God Thing! [News Jews Can... →
“Spa-lom Aleichem!” Yes, that is a real headline in ‘Jewish Living,’ the new magazine that’s set to ameliorate the “shortage of information specifically for Jewish women in the popular homemaking magazines.” This magazine sort of rules! From the front of the book section “kvell” alone, we learned: That Sandra Bernhard attends shul every...
'Jewish Living': It's A God Thing! [News Jews Can... →
So Atoosa, Laurel Touby, and Joanne Lipman Are... →
Media reporter switcheroo! The New York Times ...... →
Media reporter switcheroo! The New York Times ...... →
Media reporter switcheroo! The New York Times has snagged Fortune’s Tim Arango as their newest media reporter. Arango replaces Richard Siklos, who left the Times for Fortune. “I always wondered if I could make it [at The Times]” says Arango. Turns out he almost didn’t! Arango wasn’t the first, second, or third person the Times approached but he was the sixth and...
Clap Your Hands And Say Meh! [Gawker Calendar] →
Clap Your Hands And Say Meh! [Gawker Calendar] →
Click through for our Community Calendar. Send events to calendar@gawker.com and we’ll list it extremely quickly and incredibly whatever.
Oprah has selected British author Ken Follett's... →
In These Web 3.1 End Days, Is Jimmy Kimmel The... →
Lee Gomes’s “Portals” column in the Wall Street Journal, usually addresses the question concerning technology with a boomer-friendly sort of phenomenology—as in, “gee whiz, look at this phenomenon!”—and little else. Today’s edition seems at first no exception: Gomes has discovered a YouTube “bulging” with all sorts of talentless novelty...
Scabby TV Writers Outed By Fake Craigslist Ad!... →
Scabby TV Writers Outed By Fake Craigslist Ad!... →
Matt Elzweig, the New York Press reporter who recently took Deborah Solomon to task for unsavory journalistic methods placed a fake ad on Craigslist in which he posed as a network executive seeking non-WGA humor writers to work on a weekly series during the strike. The Press rationalized the experiment, which received more than 80 responses, by agreeing amongst themselves that the ad...
Today's most popular headlines are Val Kilmer ...... →
Today’s most popular headlines are Val Kilmer May Be Fatman Forever (3,928 views today), On The ‘Gossip Girl’ Set, Spence Girls Call Williamsburg “Artsy” (3,361) and Who Is The Whitest Kid You Know? (3,014). Today’s most discussed stories are Jeffrey Chodorow Plans World Domination, One Gimmicky Restaurant At A Time (37 comments), Britney Spears May Yet Still...
So Atoosa, Laurel Touby, and Joanne Lipman Are... →
Yesterday for three barren hours we sat in the back of a dining room at Tavern on the Green and watched media people accept essentially pointless awards from Min magazine. Portfolio won hottest launch. Atoosa Rubenstein shared nuggets of wisdom. Laurel Touby, one of the web’s most “intriguing” people (if a poorly spelled sign is to be believed) embarrassed herself. Photographer...
The WGA Strike Is Endangering Elijah Pollack's... →
Alternadad Neal Pollack has joined the Writer’s Guild of America strike, which is just a politically advantageous way of saying he’s still unemployed. IMDb lists Pollack’s only screen credit as playing “Himself” on a 2003 episode of the Daily Show. At any rate, it’s bad news for his son Elijah Pollack, who is stuck at home with his silly dad. In this grainy...
The WGA Strike Is Endangering Elijah Pollack's... →
Nick Denton - New York Observer →
Nick Denton New York Observer, NY - 20 minutes ago Lockhart Steele and Nick Denton were sitting at the bar as the free drinks came to an end around 8:30. Asked about the lack of familiar media faces, …
Lawrence Burstein - New York Observer →
Lawrence Burstein New York Observer, NY - 20 minutes ago Lockhart Steele and Nick Denton were sitting at the bar as the free drinks came to an end around 8:30. Asked about the lack of familiar media faces, …
Ally Hilfiger - New York Observer →
Ally Hilfiger New York Observer, NY - 20 minutes ago Lockhart Steele and Nick Denton were sitting at the bar as the free drinks came to an end around 8:30. Asked about the lack of familiar media faces, …
Oprah has selected British author Ken Follett's... →
Oprah has selected British author Ken Follett’s cathedral-building and hott medieval sex themed 1989 bestseller ‘The Pillars Of The Earth’ as her next book club pick! Guess she likes the word “cunny” too. [Galleycat]
Your Bangalore-Based P.A. Will Give You A Wake-Up... →
Finally. As people keep noticing, now people who don’t really need personal assistants can act like they do, thanks to South Asia. New offshore personal-assistant services in Bangalore are available to cater to your rinky-dink small-business needs, the Times reiterates today.
You can have them do things like “conduct research, monitor the Web, make appointments and even give [you]...
The Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy To Take Down Judith... →
Judith Regan’s not an anti-semite: She’s an Italophobe! As the full 70-page text of her $100 million lawsuit against HarperCollins and News Corp. reveals, Judy herself is the victim of a “smear campaign.” Remember those awful claims that Ms. Regan, upon her post-If I Did It dismissal, made mention of a “Jewish cabal” and “Of all people…the Jews...
Who Is The Whitest Kid You Know? [Contests] →
Periodically an advertiser gives us (well, someone here!) a lot of money to run a contest. This time around, the advertiser is the sketch comedy show, The Whitest Kids U’Know. Since issues of race are interesting to us anyway, we were happy to create a contest. We’re asking you to send a photograph of (wait for it) the whitest kid you know. A couple of things: First, you must actually...
Britney Spears May Yet Still Lose Those Kids!... →
Kevin Federline is dragging Britney Spears back into court because of her erratic driving—she recently ran a red light with the kids in the backseat. [Us Weekly]
It’s okay with retired Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O’Connor that her husband is having an affair, because he has Alzheimer’s and his nursing home hand-holding has given him a new lease on life. Aw/ew. [NYP]
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Still struggling to make sense of the Broadway... →
Still struggling to make sense of the Broadway stagehand strike that’s ruining tourists’ ‘Beauty and The Beast’ theme weekends? Maybe this interview with a striking stagehand will help! “You can’t get drunk and do this job anymore,” he reveals. “Music stand lights, extension cords, bulbs, what kind of bulbs? You’re the one.” Okay,...
Norman Mailer Predicted His Own Death And Life... →
A lot of people have been trying to write encomiums about Norman Mailer, but it turns out that the lovable, hateable old coot actually saved everyone the trouble by writing his own, in 1979. “At the author’s bedside were eleven of his fifteen ex-wives, twenty-two of his twenty-four children, and five of his seven grandchildren, of whom four are older than six of their uncles and...
When Star Editor at Large Julia Allison's ...... →
When Star Editor at Large Julia Allison’s dog Lilly was running amok in our office yesterday, she had a wardrobe malfunction! That’s right: vadgeflash.
Looking At 'New York' 'Look' [Look At That] →
At the Bowery Hotel last night, there was a fire in the fireplace and Fatboy Slim’s Brimful of Asha on the stereo. Adam Moss, editor of New York, was wearing a blazer. Models were scattered through the crowd. Ally Hilfiger was there wearing tartan and Daily News gossip-auntie named Ben Widdicombe talked to a cute boy near the bar. What could have occasioned such a convocation of minds? Why,...
Looking At 'New York' 'Look' [Look At That] →
Bad news for Jezebel Moe: New York Post publisher... →
Bad news for Jezebel Moe: New York Post publisher... →
Bad news for Jezebel Moe: New York Post publisher Paul Carlucci declares that the paper’s new Sunday glossy is “here to stay,” in spite of its dearth of ad pages. Also in spite of the fact that some of those pages are “full-page ads placed by the tourist bureau of Bucks County, Pa.” [NYO]