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In The Eye Of The Levi Johnston Media Hurricane
5:27AM Brian Moylan | At this very moment, Levi Johnston is undressing for a Playgirl photo shoot. But last night he was at The Box accepting an award from Fleshbot while a scrum of reporters poked and probed the Wasilla boy for a story. More »
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Steve Jobs Driving Himself To Work Again, Apparently
10:51AM Ryan Tate | As recently as late June, Steve Jobs was repeatedly spotted being chauffeured away from Apple’s campus in a black car. Judging from this July 23 photo, the CEO has had enough of those vehicular ministrations. More »
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Time Magazine Staffing Assignments To People’s Sloppy Seconds
3:30AM Foster Kamer | There’re legions of uber-qualified writers who aren’t employed right now due to the Sad State of Media. Funny, then, that Time Inc. hired a once-shitcanned People bureau chief accused of bad staff practices (nepotism, intern bedding) at their flagship, Time. More »
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Jean-Claude Van Damme’s Liver Will See You in Hell
7:48AM Ryan Tate | Bulgarian publication Стандарт — and who doesn’t trust Стандарт? — ran this picture of Jean-Claude Van Damme at a “night party” in Sofia. Funny. A drunk Van Damme was once a terrifying prospect: More »
8:15AM Kyle Buchanan | Get Used To It: Just when we thought we were done with today’s People-led insurrection of the Claymates, this post from “NClayolina” pulls us back in: “I will never be able to listen to [Clay Aiken] sing, ‘O Holy Night,’ knowing he desires unholy nights.” [The Clayboard] More »
Inside Clay Aiken’s Unforeseen Revelation That He Is, In Fact, ‘A Gay’
2:30AM Kyle Buchanan | Now that America has had time to process yesterday’s shocking bombshell that Clay Aiken is gay (and now that Debbie from accounting has gotten her breathing under control), People magazine has released excerpts from their exclusive cover interview. In it, Aiken discusses coming out to his mother four years ago, a rocky experience that may have prepared him for the real hurdle: weathering reaction from millions of hysterical Claymates. More »
9:50AM Molly Friedman | There’s no shortage of sleazy surprises in the world of baby picture pimping. Today, TMZ reports that soon-to-be-dad Matthew McConaughey and his model girlfriend Camila Alves have hired an actual agent to auction off photos of their upcoming newborn’s visage to the major glossies. And the “brand agent” in question, Todd Shemarya, has quite a record — he’s the man behind Brangelina’s record-setting deal with People, and Christina Aguilera’s far less pricey cover with the same weekly. As disturbed as we are that such a man exists, we’re more saddened to learn that former nude bongo player and hairy beach hippie McConaughey would cash in on his first kid. We’re actually starting to miss the hobo doing push-ups outside a trailer we’d grown accustomed to. Then again, the $1MM that he’s reportedly been offered by three separate spawn-obsessed mags can buy a lot of t-shirts. [a href=”http://www.tmz.com/2008/05/15/mcconna-spawn-to-bring-in-big-bucks/”>TMZ More »
9:50AM Molly Friedman | There’s no shortage of sleazy surprises in the world of baby picture pimping. Today, TMZ reports that soon-to-be-dad Matthew McConaughey and his model girlfriend Camila Alves have hired an actual agent to auction off photos of their upcoming newborn’s visage to the major glossies. And the “brand agent” in question, Todd Shemarya, has quite a record — he’s the man behind Brangelina’s record-setting deal with People, and Christina Aguilera’s far less pricey cover with the same weekly. As disturbed as we are that such a man exists, we’re more saddened to learn that former nude bongo player and hairy beach hippie McConaughey would cash in on his first kid. We’re actually starting to miss the hobo doing push-ups outside a trailer we’d grown accustomed to. Then again, the $1MM that he’s reportedly been offered by three separate spawn-obsessed mags can buy a lot of t-shirts. [a href=”http://www.tmz.com/2008/05/15/mcconna-spawn-to-bring-in-big-bucks/”>TMZ More »
‘People’ Unveils Massive Cover Archive Online, All We See Are Fabio’s Pecs And John Travolta’s Quads
4:20AM Molly Friedman | It took them long enough, but People has finally seized the magical capabilities of the world wide web and uploaded each and every cover in its almost 45-year history online. And while we hand-picked a few of our favourites, from a very Dirk Diggler-looking John Travolta in 1983 to the sad black and white sight of Jennifer Aniston’s misty eyes looking up as Brad Pitt placed the wedding ring on her finger in 2000, we also featured a few after the jump that are slightly more disturbing. “Judge Judy Disrobed,” and Brooke Shields doing her whole kiddie porn thing back in the 70s, for example. Plus, a very special throwback to a time when the world wondered whether Britney was looking “too sexy too soon” … way back in 2000! More »
