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People

Yoko: John Lennon Would Love Facebook And Lady Gaga

3:52AM jeff neumann | Yoko Ono, in an interview with the Daily Mail, said for the millionth time that no, she didn’t break up The Beatles. She also said John Lennon would “love” Facebook, Twitter and Lady Gaga. Oh, Yoko. More »
People

How Could Lindsay Lohan Have Racked Up $US600K In Debt?

5:29AM Richard Lawson | If the befreckled freeway accident is, in fact, in such serious debt, we wonder what she possibly could have spent all the money on. Let’s speculate, shall we? More »
Small Screen

What Will Happen On Sarah Palin’s Alaska-Themed Reality Show?

6:41AM Richard Lawson | Word came this morning that two networks, A&E and Discovery, are fighting over quitting governor Palin’s proposed reality series about her native homeland, the Alaska. Which she would host. If this thing actually goes to air, what’ll it be like? More »
Print

Graydon Carter: Not So Special Any More?

1:34AM Hamilton Nolan | Amid all of the carnage at Conde Nast this month, rumours were floating that Si Newhouse was sheltering his three most precious magazines: the New Yorker, Vogue and Vanity Fair. Well, the part about Vanity Fair, at least, was wrong. More »
Print

How Scared Should Businessweek‘s Staff Be?

1:54AM Hamilton Nolan | Most of the serious bidders for Businessweek have dropped away, leaving Bloomberg as the leading candidate. We know BW’s not exactly a fountain of profit these days. But would Bloomberg really gut the magazine’s entire staff? More »
People

Tom And Katie Moving To The West Village?

6:40AM Richard Lawson | As previously rumoured, Katie Holmes and her dashing space bride Tom Cruise might be moving to New York permanently. (As permanent as movie stars move, anyway). The Village Voice thinks they may have tracked down their new pad. More »
Online

New York Times Hiring ‘Social Media Editor’ To…Do Something

1:22AM Hamilton Nolan | The New York Times is charging face-first into the digital age! They’re appointing a “Social Media Editor.” It’s Jennifer Preston, former editor of the recently-folded Regional Sections! Could this be the beginning of the end of the Golden Age of Times Twittering? More »