The Craigslist ad:
The clue:
Founding dates of various New York papers:
And where in all this, you might well wonder, was Hillary Clinton? In El Paso, Texas, imploring, in effect, “Hey! Remember me?”
The impact of Obama’s Maryland-Virginia-D.C. trifecta could hardly have been more damaging or deflating for Clinton and her team. For two weeks, the Clinton people had been laboring feverishly to lower expectations, telling any reporter in earshot that they expected to win none of the primaries that took place last night. But no amount of pre-spinning could soften the blow of losing a trio of contests by 23, 29, and 51 points (in MD, VA, and D.C., respectively) — especially coming on the back of a weekend in which Obama had soundly thrashed Clinton in four states plus the U.S. Virgin Islands. Even more distressing for Clinton's side were the signs that Obama had eaten into her bedrock of support. That he’d beaten her among white voters and folks earning less than $50,000 a year in Virginia. That he’d done the same among union households and white Catholics in Maryland.
By now, of course, you’re savvy enough to understand that what really matters is the delegate count. And you know that, because of the principle of proportionality that governs the Democratic race, it’s hard for either side to pull away — except, that is, in the case of an absolute shellacking. But a shellacking is precisely what Obama administered to Clinton on Tuesday and in the elections over the weekend. Indeed, for the first time since Iowa, BHO is ahead of HRC in terms of committed delegates. He’s even ahead, by most counts, after superdelegates are factored in. According to Chuck Todd, the political director at NBC, for Clinton to regain her lead will require her to win more than 55 percent of the delegates up for grabs in the 19 states that still remain to vote, which means carrying the states where she has a shot with roughly 60 percent of the vote.
That would be a tall order to fill under any circumstances — tall, but not impossible, in theory. The trouble is that the next two states on the calendar are Hawaii and Wisconsin on February 19. Hawaii is both a caucus state and Obama’s birthplace; so forget about that one. Wisconsin, by contrast, offers demographics that would seem to offer Clinton a chance: a big chunk of white working-class voters, a small population of African-Americans. Yet the Clinton squad appears, at the moment, to be writing Wisconsin off. While Obama is in the Badger State now, laying down his juju, HRC’s schedule for the next three days has her exclusively in Texas and Ohio, which vote on March 4.
The argument against the Clinton plan is easy enough to grasp: That with two more routs in Hawaii and Wisconsin, Obama’s already thunderous momentum may simply be unstoppable. The counterargument is that Texas and Ohio amount to the whole ball of wax: Unless Clinton wins both by substantial margins, she is toast. As a matter of fact, more than one Clinton campaign official said exactly this to me on the phone yesterday. My first reaction was, holy cow, talk about a bleak outlook — too bleak, I thought. But that was before the results rolled in from Maryland and Virginia. By the end of the night, staring hard at the delegate totals and working my slide rule, I realized the Clinton people weren’t being excessively grim. They were, for the first and maybe the last time, being completely realistic. —John Heilemann
For a complete guide to presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama — from First Love to Most Embarrassing Gaffe — read the 2008 Electopedia.
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 KATU | Hollywood writers strike ends Los Angeles Times - FAMILY MATTERS: Writer Greg Fields lets 3-year-old son Caelan cast his ballot at the Writers Guild of America Theater. After 100 days, WGA members vote overwhelmingly to go back to work. Hollywood writers to end strike Strike's End Starts TV Production Frenzy |
There will be one less hand on the clock when "24" resumes.
Executive producer and cocreator Joel Surnow is leaving the Emmy-winning drama to pursue other creative endeavors, according...The Monday email, via ShopDiary:
—–Original Message—–
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 1:36 AM
To: Bryanboy
Subject: Hey!
Just to let you know…we are going to name the Ostrich bag the BB, in your honor! I am back home in Paris, enjoying an afternoon at home with my dogs. I carry on with LV tomorrow……Kiss, Marc.
Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T
The Fashion Week picture, via Bryanboy:
The December Jason Preston voice mail, via Bryanboy: Bryanboy's November tribute video:
So let it be written.
As expected, members of the Writers Guild of America have voted to end the writers' strike that has been plaguing the entertainment industry for more than three..."A few years ago I got a call from a friend who said, "I just quit my job [as a magazine editor in New York], rented a car, and I am driving at 90 miles per hour towards Cincinnati. I am driving straight to a bar to meet a girl I met on Nerve personals. Tomorrow I am hitting Chicago for another date with another girl. I am f----ing my way across the country.""
I had been dating this guy for a couple of months and everything was going well- we had good fun, good sex and good conversation - except,he was a really annoying sloppy drunk. On his birthday we went out to a local bar with a bunch of his guy friends and he got particularly wasted and we got in a little argument that concluded with him running out of the bar in anger. Instead of going after him, I left with his best friend.
Even though I'd been dating someone for 6 months, I'd forgotten to de-activate my Nerve profile. I was reminded of this when I got a message notification in my inbox. I felt so bad- I logged on, changed it to reflect that I was looking for platonic friends only, and then wrote the poor guy back. He was pretty good natured about the whole thing, and we ended up emailing each other several times, because we actually did like a lot of the same things. We started hanging out as friends- the guy I was dating know all about it and was okay with it. But I started noticing that I actually preferred to hang out with the Nerve guy than with my boyfriend of 1 year! That was pretty much the beginning of the end... and me and the Nerve guy have been officially together for 2 years now."
Keeping these rules in mind, when Kay walked in and she was an easy eighty pounds heavier than the picture she had sent, I knew the date was a going nowhere. Her face, which had been so attractive in the photos was bloated and her eyes puffy, still the additional pounds made her head look small when compared with her girth. Her whole body rolled when she walked...So I stood up to meet her. When she was about ten feet from me I was overcome by the strangest aroma; an odor that I can only describe as being the result of a chemical accident in an apple orchard. It was coming from her. The smell was simply so overpowering that I immediately thought about attempting to escape, but the only way out was either past her or through a fire-door with an alarm on it.
"I have a boyfriend but I keep my nerve personal profile, secretly. Just to see who messages me. I've gone so far as to have brief, flirtatious exchanges but nothing serious,"
Sure, Sacco can count on visiting Americans: movie producer, Harvey Weinstein, threw a party there after the Bafta award gala on Sunday, drawing director Ridley Scott, cross-dressing comedian Eddie Izzard and actress Kate Hudson, among others. But most nights the place is empty. The commenters on View, a local London site, are harsh: "Anyone who has been to Bungalow 8 in London knows what it is really like - an enlarged Manolo Blahnik shoe box, empty, I might add except for a few squat stools. Dull." Sacco had better, as she promised, start dancing on the table tops.
Related: Roger & Him [NYM]
Donna Karan's crazy lady coatPhoto: imaxtree
You know what it's like when you're at dinner with a bunch of people who work together and they start talking about that "report" or that "weird new girl" and you have no idea what they're talking about? In fact, they may as well be speaking another language? Well, fashion critics are the same way. Their reviews come out in a special breed of flowery, pretentious prose that — though fun to read because only they could come up with it — makes very little sense to fashion outsiders.
So we've selected some of our favorite New York Fashion Week excerpts from our favorite critics and translated them into language we hope you understand.
Cathy Horyn on Narciso Rodriguez:
Design is a long process for people of Mr. Rodriguez’s age and experience, and to an extent this collection expressed the dangers of that inanely hopeful phrase “staying true to oneself.” He seemed locked in a tug of war between creating shapes that reflected his tailoring and sexy, minimalist aesthetic and his desire to challenge himself with other proportions and moods. The upshot was a collection that felt imaginatively constrained — not isolated exactly, but not as expansive as it should be for a designer of his stature.
This collection, playing off military dress uniforms remade in immoderate fabrics, proved that Mr. Neville and Mr. Wainwright have the ability to make some seriously daffy ideas in men’s wear look commercially sane. Several models wore rings or necklaces made of what appeared to be gold-plated barbed wire, and their formal suits, in royal blue or gray (the Civil War in cashmere?) were shown with pants that were described as jodhpurs. This was evidently a reference to a slight elongation of the fly and a stylist’s trick of cinching the legs around the models’ ankles with bands of fabric — fairly safe stuff, even for the Citadel.
The juxtaposition of such sober clothes with the grunge rock of Sonic Youth provided a metaphor of sorts for the struggle to blend Jacobs's rebellious past with the present, for how a slacker fits into corporate life. Dissertation topic: How does the fall 2008 Marc Jacobs show represent the shift in popular culture and the corporate structure to reflect a post-boomer world?
It's all about illusion," said Karan to describe the layers of semi-sheer, gauzy fabrics. She then threw out "decadent" and "naughty" to encompass the languorous, iridescent silks and velvets with a hint of Art Nouveau in their saffron and ruby colors. Where a hefty rag-rug coat fitted into the scenario was un-clear. But Karan's "soft wear" looked fresh.
Stemp is an accomplished mistress of 3-D surface texture, incorporating pleated, dyeing, ruffles and rosettes on top of the silk-screened prints which have already been re-embroidered for added touch-and-feel effect on the pretty, girly dresses with an urban edge.
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1. Mariah Carey, "Touch My Body"
Today, Mariah Carey revealed the details of her forthcoming album, the hilariously titled E=MC2, apparently inspired by Einstein's formula for mass-energy equivalence. Here's the first single, in which she asks to "rub my face all around your waist." [That Grape Juice]
2. The B-52's, "Funplex"
Not only are several B-52s still alive, they've recorded an album — and here's part of it! [Paper Thin Walls]
3. Q-Tip, "Fever"
Here's Q-Tip's new single, which starts off as a broadside against Oprah and Al Sharpton, then just sort of devolves into a bunch of nonsense. J. Dilla produced it, though. [Nah Right]
4. Against Me!, "The Ocean" (acoustic)
If you liked the album version of this song but wish it had rocked less, today may be your lucky day. [YouTube]
5. Amy Winehouse, "You Know I'm No Good" (live at the Grammys)
Here's the MP3 of the only good part of Sunday's Grammys. Now let's just forget the whole thing ever happened. [Deaf Indie Elephants]
It All Makes Sense: If you, like us, were baffled as to why Herbie Hancock deserved the Grammy for Album of the Year, perhaps you should let leading NBA scorer and noted musicologist Kareem Abdul-Jabbar explain it. [LAT]
Thom Yorke to Make Rare Offline Appearance: Radiohead today announced the first leg of their North American spring tour. In May, the band will visit Florida, Texas, and various other red states. [Billboard]
Face/Off: Nicolas Cage is suing Kathleen Turner for defamation over claims in her autobiography about the actor's behavior on the set of 1986's Peggy Sue Got Married. "I have never been arrested for anything in my life, nor have I stolen a dog," says Cage. [Daily Intel]
WGA Voting RIGHT NOW! At this very second, Writers Guild members are voting on whether to adjourn their 95-day weekend. [AP]
Denise Richards Gets Reality Show: Ryan Seacrest will produce a new reality show for E! starring Denise Richards about her life as a single mom, possibly to remind writers what will happen if they ever strike again. [Variety]
You can tell by his hair and his Jarvis-inspired suit. Photo: Getty Images
Apparently Mark was born in Britain, and he has a place in London where he sometimes lives. The papers there refer to him as British! Weird, right? Because doesn't it seem like he's always here? Apparently not. Apparently he is searching for his roots or something. According to Yahoo Music News, Ronson is "desperate to be accepted as British," and he's been running all over Old Blighty saying so. "Despite living in New York, I've always been British," he told the Daily Star, which takes note of his "dodgy transatlantic accent." We don't know about you, but we find this whole thing very eerie and uncomfortable. It's like finding out that the guy you've been seeing has a wife and children and goes by another name. Sort of. We imagine. Anyway, we can't imagine Ronson's Anglophile phase will last for long. As Lily Allen told New York last year, "He gets bored quite easily.”
Mark Ronson Gets U.S. Citizenship for Presidential Election [People]
Related: Life After Life [NYM]
Nobody told her there'd be days like these.
Little-known singer-songwriter Lennon Murphy, named after John Lennon, is at odds with Yoko Ono over who has legal rights to the famous moniker.
An...
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Richard Ford is leaving his longtime publisher Knopf for Daniel Halpern and Ecco. Knopf keeps a stiff upper lip about the move, sending publicity director Paul Bogaards out to say, "Richard is one of the most significant writers of our generation. He has a lot of friends here and everyone wishes him well. I think in a situation like this, he considered his options very carefully.'' No comment yet from Gary Fisketjon, Ford's longtime Knopf editor. How much HarperCollins money did agent Binky Urban get from Ecco to whisk Ford away? We'd be interested to know!
Richard Ford Is Switching Publishers [AP]
Michael Cerveris at the Women's Expressive
Theater Benefit last night.Photo: Patrick McMullan
Hamilton and Plimpton at last night's benefit.Photo: WireImage
Actors Martha Plimpton and Josh Hamilton have a long mutual history onstage, most recently in last year's epic Stoppard trilogy The Coast of Utopia. We caught up with the duo last night at the Angel Orensanz center on Norfolk Street after they went head-to-head in a mini-play during a benefit for Women's Expressive Theater. We asked Plimpton, who's about to start rehearsals for Manhattan Theatre Club's production of Top Girls, who was playing the time-traveling lead, Marlene, in Caryl Churchill's career-gal classic (which Vulture pledges to plug whenever possible). "Liz Marvel," Plimpton said in her sexy bray. "But we don't use words like lead in an ensemble cast." Hamilton added: "Not in an ensem-bluh!"
What was the wackiest thing each of these longtime downtowners ever had to do in a play? "In Suburbia with Josh, I had to whip a giant, two-foot-long dildo around and talk into it like it was a microphone," Plimpton said. "He asked for something unusual," Hamilton countered. "That's something you might do in your everyday life." Plimpton shrugged apologetically. "I know. Let me take that back. What about the plays where people had to think I was pretty? That was pretty unusual and wacky," she deadpanned. Oh, please, Martha, you're beautiful. Did she have any plans for Valentine's Day? "I'm showing a tremendous amount of love for my city and my country this Valentine's Day by showing up for jury duty at 8:45 in the morning," Plimpton scowled.
"Maybe you'll fall in love," Hamilton suggested. "I had grand jury duty every day for a month. The depressing thing is that I had a whole month free to do it."
We asked Plimpton what she'd be bringing to pass her time. "Probably my script."
"Not the dildo?" asked Hamilton.
"Not the dildo. Although it would get me out of having to serve." —Tim Murphy
Radiohead is chasing "Rainbows" with its first North American tour in two years.
The band announced Tuesday that it will kick off an eight-concert trek May 5 in West Palm Beach, Florida,...
No one can accuse Barron Hilton of failing to uphold the family name.
The 18-year-old brother of Paris and Nicky has, like his eldest sister before him, been busted by Los Angeles' finest...You may think of Simple Plan as yelpy pop rock, but these guys are scarily good at embodying whatever kind of sound they like. On their new album, that would be … yelpy, bombastic pop rock. The guitars are huge, the choruses even huger, and the song “Generation” goes so far as to channel rap-rock on the way to a karaoke-ready chorus that makes that old Who refrain entirely their cheesy-fun own.
From left: Marios Schwab, Duro Olowu, Christopher Kane.Photo: ImaxTree
More runway galleries from London Fashion Week have arrived!
Topshop has just what you need for your ugly-sweater holiday party next fall.
Christopher Kane traded those Versace-esque neons for really big sequins.
Mexican rugs meet paratrooper at Louise Golden. Is it just us, or do some of these outfits look like car seats?
Osman Yousefzada showed mostly red, white, and blue and a furry skirt or two.
Amanda Waleley kept her models' shoulders warm with fur patches and showed a couple of great party dresses.
Carroll Gardens: Increasingly unpopular architect Robert Scarano is off yet another job, this time at controversial 360 Smith, which now features a more contextual, though still towering, façade. [Brownstoner]
Clinton: Adding to a string of crimps in big plans for the West Side, the redo of neoclassical Farley Post Office into a train station/moved Madison Square Garden is $1 billion short. Egad. [NYS]
Greenwich Village: Should NYU's I.M. Pei–designed Silver Towers be landmarked...or are they just, well, ugly? [Gothamist]
Kingsbridge: Last year, this Bronx hood had the most complaints about graffiti, with a boroughwide spike of 58 percent...but in Brooklyn complaints doubled! [NYDN]
Lower Manhattan: What is the sad little preserved façade of historic 211 Pearl Street going to look like when fully enveloped by the Rockrose development rising up around it? [Curbed]
Maspeth: Cause célèbre St. Saviour's may have found its savior. A cemetery in Middle Village has agreed to take the pretty, imperiled church, dating to 1847, onto its land as long as funds are raised for the move. [Queens Crap]
Williamsburg: "They work harder so you can live better." Does this ad for a steelworks factory turned luxury condo refer to the city's toiling service class of yesteryear...or today? [Gowanus Lounge]
Chris Ware's Building Stories (September 23, 2000), Introduction 3 (2005).Image courtesy of the artist and Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York.
In 2005, cartoon artist Chris Ware (think iconic New Yorker covers, Acme Novelty Library) launched The New York Times Magazine’s “Funny Pages” with 30 weekly drawings, each illustrating the evolving history of a Chicago apartment building. In them, meticulously recorded mundane facts (617 dead plants, 18 spilled ink bottles, 158,854 lit matches) meet sentimentality (28,224 hugs, 29 marriages, 11,627 lost childhood memories). Ware’s show of New Yorker covers, cartoons, and the rest of Building Stories is on display at the uptown Adam Baumgold gallery through March 15. —Rachel Wolff
Photo: Patrick McMullan
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THE RAGE OF THE CREATIVE UNDERCLASS
We need to put back the Gawkeresque angry-creative-underclass glint to our voice. Just one glint of nastiness per post. I loved Carlson's advice to Paultards on their irrelevance: "Don't just take my word for it. Go to the polls and find out for yourselves." Zing, and irrefutably true.
DENTON'S FORMULA: MIX A PLUS AND A MINUS
If someone screwed up in business, find something nice to say about them: "The charmingly incompetent CEO." If someone succeeded, find a way to slap them. "The wildly successful blowhard." Denton says this is a key to Gawker posts about people, and when he got lazy he slipped on it and readers noticed in a roundabout way that the site felt less brilliant.
PEOPLE, NOT COMPANIES OR PRODUCTS
Write about Steve Jobs or Jonathan Ives rather than "Apple" as an actor. Or find out who their VP of sales is if they've had a wildly succesful quarter and credit him/her, a nice detail. I don't want to read that the Zune is a flop, I want to read that Wink Twinkerton, head of the Zune division, has done for portable music players what Bill Gates did for CEO sex appeal.
BE INSULTING, BUT BE SURPRISING
Calling Ron Paul a loon isn't edgy.
Much better was "voting for Ron Paul sends a message. The message is you're crazy and hate the FDA." That's a nice setup and punch line, and a good non-cliche detail rather than an unspecific "loon."
DON'T LET YOUR ANGER GET TO YOU
If someone whose politics or opinions you disagree with says something you want to call out, don't do a straight-ahead criticism. Instead, take their argument further to a simple but ridiculous conclusion. When Hillary Clinton proposed a moratorium on home foreclosures and a freeze on loan rates, Jordan Golson asked, "Why not a moratorium on people paying their mortgages? That seems easier."
BEAT-DOWNS ARE BAD
You've wrung this out of them mostly, but I still see the young ones do the oldschool Ann Coulter / Molly Ivins thing of insulting someone three times in a paragraph when once would be better. Pick the one best dig and save the others for another time.
NO FISKING
If someone says several stupid things in one piece, just quote them and don't rebut each line separately. Do a 100-word version with only the dumbest parts. Readers will get it.
IF YOU WOULDN'T SAY IT IN A CONVERSATION, DON'T WRITE IT Avoid journalist-speak like "He takes umbrage with our statement." You never say umbrage in real life.
AVOID JOURNALIST MATH, USE SPECIFICS Some, many, few ... these are journalist numbers for when they want to imply a trend. Often they're used to overstate the number of people who do or don't do something. "Some feel that Obama ..." Cut that, and instead give me a specific quote from a linkable person that sums up the general mood you're talking about.
ONE JOKE PER POST We've slipped on that. Too many jokes comes across as not having enough to report. Keep the post short and move onto the next one.
BAIL EARLY Surprise readers by quitting on a review or report halfway through it, once you know you've hit the hight points already. Find some reason to explain your exit. Melissa Gira Grant started to summarize the SF Bay Guardian's annual sex guide, but when she got to a piece that was restaurant suggestions, she wrote, "I stopped reading here." It keeps posts short, and breaks the mold of the reviewer who takes 400 words to wind down.
SATIRE AND PARODY
Should be used to illustrate someone's foibles. E.g. President Steve Jobs issues the most expensive US budget ever, but it fits in a manila envelope.
JUST NEVER USE THESE WORDS Douche, douchebag, douchery, asshat. Techcrunch uses them, need I say more. (To which I'll add: "teh," "intarwebs," "lulz." -
Related: Everybody Sucks [NYM]
Toni Garrn Photo: imaxtree
The new Garrn campaign is already included in March publications like British Vogue, but you don't have to wait that long to see it. We've got a sneak peak at the images after the jump. And of course, you can browse lots of pretty photos of Garrn at her model profile page.
Toni GarrnPhoto: Courtesy of Calvin Klein
Toni GarrnPhoto: Courtesy of Calvin Klein
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The end of the strike means a whole passel of fresh industry deals are being announced … so many that one Industry post can't handle them all. Today we're presenting a special Afternoon Industry post to catch up.
Thompson, Sarsgaard, Molina Get Educated: Nick Hornby's screenplay adaptation of An Education, Lynn Barber's memoir, draws Emma Thompson, Peter Sarsgaard, and Alfred Molina. Set in Swinging London, the film will allow Sarsgaard to try on a British accent as a glamorous race-car driver, and Thompson to try on her priggish expressions as a school headmistress. [HR]
Tomei Wrestles With Aronofsky: Marisa Tomei joins the cast of Wrestler, Darren Aronofsky's drama, playing a stripper alongside Mickey Rourke. That is to say, playing someone who strips for a living, not just a person who happens to be naked all the time, as she did in Before the Devil Knows You're Dead. [Variety]
Zellweger the One and Only: Renée Zellweger will star in The One and Only, based on an anecdote George Hamilton told Merv Griffin one time. No, that's the logline. It will be followed by a film based on a joke Regis Philbin once cracked in the men's room. [Variety]
Nivola Plays Chess: Alessandro Nivola joins the cast of Chess, which sadly is not a film version of the musical but instead the second biopic being made right now about the founder of Chess Records. [HR]
Gibson Sued With Passion: Writer Benedict Fitzgerald has sued Mel Gibson, claiming he wasn't appropriately compensated for his work on The Passion of the Christ. In a measured response, Gibson damned Fitzgerald's everlasting soul to Hell. [Variety]
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Who's your favorite New Yorker, living or dead, real or fictional?
Teddy Roosevelt.
What's the best meal you've eaten in New York?
Anything from Ollie's Noodle Shop in Times Square.
In one sentence, what do you actually do all day in your job?
Same thing as you, except my cubicle is connected to radio and television networks.
Would you still live here on a $35,000 salary?
I couldn't afford the bug spray at 35k.
What's the last thing you saw on Broadway?
Young Frankenstein.
Do you give money to panhandlers?
Only when they are actually handling pans. It's a lost art.
What's your drink?
As a conservative, I guess it's what you'd expect: I drink the blood of small people who are different than me.
How often do you prepare your own meals?
If by "you" you mean "my people," then, yes, all the time.
What's your favorite medication?
I'm a recovering alcoholic, so…all of them.
What's hanging above your sofa?
Just to drive Central Park West crazy, I have furs. Lots and lots of furs.
How much is too much to spend on a haircut?
What they all charge in New York City.
When's bedtime?
Midnight. The better question would be, When is sleep time?
Which do you prefer, the old Times Square or the new Times Square?
Why not combine them? Introducing Disney's Crack Hooker and the Beast!
What do you think of Donald Trump?
Who is responsible for the hair? Does he admit to being "the stylist"?
What do you hate most about living in New York?
The cost.
Who is your mortal enemy?
Almost everyone between 63rd and 86th Streets.
When's the last time you drove a car?
Last weekend.
Who should be the next president?
Teddy Roosevelt.
Times, Post, or Daily News?
Unfortunately, all of them.
Where do you go to be alone?
The bathroom.
What makes someone a New Yorker?
Paying the never-ending city tax.
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Unlikely cash cow Juno has already spawned a best-selling soundtrack album and talk of a video-game adaptation — and now it might get its own TV spinoff! Well, an unlicensed ripoff about a pregnant 15-year-old produced by the team behind 7th Heaven, anyway. Heaven creator Brenda Hampton is reportedly shopping a series about a girl who becomes "pregnant after having one uncomfortable sexual encounter with the school's Don Juan, Ricky" and "tries to figure out a way to deal with her dilemma" while "being wooed by the sweet and possibly smitten Ben."
Provided Ben Silverman can find a band that sounds exactly like the Moldy Peaches to write the theme song and figure out a plausible way to have the protagonist re-impregnated at the beginning of every season, we can probably expect to see this on NBC shortly.
Scoop: 7th Heaven Creator Births Lil' Juno [TV Guide via /film]
Earlier: At Last, ‘Juno’ Is Getting Its Own Video Game
We all know you're not going to get your pretty knickers dry-cleaned by Valentine's Day on Thursday. And, really, what would Valentine's Day be without pretty knickers? (If you eat as much office junk food on V-Day as we do, you may need a better-fitting pair, anyway.) So dispose of that income, why don't you, and buy some classy new ones. Or send your boyfriend a link to the latest edition of Shop-A-Matic, which includes 120 different pieces. Below are four of our favorite looks for gals across all income brackets and tastes.
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Denise Richards' private life is about to go public.
The onetime Bond girl and ex-wife of actor Charlie Sheen is looking to transfer public interest from the headlines to prime time, signing...
Photo Illustration: Everett Bogue; Photos: iStockphoto, Courtesy of ABC
Vulture readers, please forgive us for bearing bad news; it is truly with a heavy heart that we type this post. Last night, ABC announced the renewals of nine shows for the 2008–09 TV season, and guess what? Cavemen wasn't one of them. If you're a regular reader of this blog, you'll probably understand just how much this pains us — for those two glorious months last year, when ABC was still airing it, Cavemen was the only TV series we could count on to fill our weekly quota of incisive Cro-Magnon humor, and, by the end of its short six-episode run, it had become, unequivocally, our favorite new show of the fall season. Sure, it had its critics and, yes, it may have stumbled in the ratings, but its potential cancellation is not something we're equipped to deal with today. In fact, one of the primary reasons we were excited for the resolution of the writers' strike was ABC's inevitable promise of a completed first season, along with an order for at least another 50 episodes. Tragically, this has not yet materialized. Fortunately, however, we have a plan.
Inspired by our friends at Best Week Ever, who are mailing lightbulbs to Ben Silverman to save Friday Night Lights, and the fans who won Jericho a stay of execution by shipping peanuts to CBS, Vulture is hereby encouraging our loyal readers to send your hair to ABC Entertainment president Stephen McPherson, along with a note reading, "Cavemen: Hair Today, Hair Tomorrow!," in the hopes that we, too, might rescue our favorite show.
What better way to pledge your support for TV's finest sitcom about furry Neanderthals than to completely shave your head (or just get a trim — it doesn't matter, just so long as you fill the box or envelope to the top) and mail the sweepings directly to the man in charge of ABC's prime-time lineup? Just imagine the delighted look on his face as he tears opens his mail — with bits of hair probably flying up directly into his smiling mouth — and sees your unmitigated love for Cavemen, unquestionably one of the Greatest Television Shows of Our Time. He will have no choice but to DEMAND another season!
Here's his address:
Stephen McPherson
ABC Studios
4151 Prospect Ave.
Hollywood, CA 90027
Come on, everybody — it'll grow back! Save Cavemen!
Earlier: Please, ABC, Don't Cancel ‘Cavemen’!
When Will ABC Bring Back ‘Cavemen’?
Photo courtesy New York City Department of Design & Construction
In guiding an American Institute of Architects–sponsored meeting through plans to move some 4,000 Rikers inmates around the five boroughs, Design and Construction Commissioner David Burney showed early drawings by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill of a “more vibrant shopping arcade” lining Atlantic and Smith — on the ground floor of an inactive men's house of detention revived at double its previous size. (The city closed the jail in 2003 and has been trying to win community support for its reopening since 2005.)
Can recent home buyers, who go knock-kneed at the prospect of Nets fans, handle the idea? Burney pointed to lower Manhattan, where a popular Vietnamese restaurant and tchotchke stores sit under a detention center, saying, “People walking by are oblivious.” But 718 hawkeyes smell trouble. Sandy Barboza, head of the 150-member Atlantic Avenue Betterment Association, calls any jail expansion a potential weed in downtown Brooklyn's growth. “It is not worth retail to have the jail double in size,” says Barboza, who is otherwise okay with the reopening. “I think it was just [Commissioner Horn] throwing out a bone.” Don't get too excited about that bone, in any case — that Trader Joe's you might have noticed in the image above is purely a placeholder. —Alec Appelbaum
At the end of every Fashion Week, New York fashion director Harriet Mays Powell and fashion writer Amy Larocca gather to discern the major trends and styles coming out of dozens of runway shows. “Long and lean is the new silhouette for fall,” says Harriet. What else to look for in store windows? Watch the video before you go shopping.
After the Paul Smith show at Claridge’s hotel last night, two London fashion journalists from competing newspapers squared off in the ladies’ loo. One had the most fabulously coiffed tresses we’d seen thus far. (Which isn't saying much: Runway hair this week at shows has been exponentially frizzy.)
Flat-haired Fashion Writer: Oh, your hair looks so great!
Rapunzel: Thanks, Umberto Gianni offered to do it for me for free.
FFW [to herself]: Oh, they didn’t offer that to me…
R [ignoring her]: They came to my home! The service is called the “Anna Wintour.”
FFW: They’re using her name? Surely she’d sue!
R [whispers]: Oh, shh! It’s not publicized. She doesn’t know.
Until now. —Sarah Maslin Nir
LAW
• Now that he's dropped out of the White House race, Rudy Giuliani plans to decompress before he starts lawyering at Bracewell & Giuliani. [Texas Lawyer]
• Oh, snap! Skadden is so not pleased about the hottest-female-associate contest that took place on the Skadden Insider blog. [Law.com]
• Perhaps Covington & Burling should have consulted its client Major League Baseball before agreeing to represent pitcher Roger Clemens. [American Lawyer]
FINANCE
• Gambino Stadium? Gotti Field? If New York's mob families rework their business models, they could make a fortune from selling their naming rights. [NYT]
• Well played, Carl Icahn! Could the billionaire financier be just the kryptonite that Alliance Data Systems needs to get the billion-dollar Blackstone deal wrapped up? [WSJ]
• Harry Macklowe is facing foreclosure (he was just served notice for defaulting on a portion of over $7 billion in debt) on the seven Manhattan buildings he owns. [WSJ]
MEDIA
• Celebrity magazine circulation is down, but US Weekly's circulation is up 10 percent. OK! is doing just fine, too. Thanks, Britney. [NYT]
• Two CBS reporters are missing in Iraq after they were kidnapped from their hotel by 20 armed men in uniforms. [WP]
• O.J. Simpson's sports agent plans to publish a book called How I Helped O.J. Get Away With Murder. Seriously, will the O.J. books ever die? [NYO]
FASHION
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Sales:
Clothes
Through 2/15: Tee Party striped cotton dresses, Issa London butterfly-print halter dresses, and Orla Kiely laminate shoulder bags are normally $108 to $700 at Barneys and Saks, but at the Showroom Seven sale, they’re $41 to $308. 498 Seventh Ave., nr. 36th St., 24th fl. (212-643-4810); A.E., M.C., V.; (9–7).
Through 2/17: Spring Flowers’ sweet, European kids’ clothes (sizes 3 months to 12 years) are up to 70 percent off. 538 Madison Ave., nr. 54th St. (212-207-4606) and 1050 Third Ave., at 62nd St. (212-758-2669); Mon.–Sat. (10–6).
Through 2/20: Clothes and accessories from Marc by Marc Jacobs, Hanii Y, and Milly are $50 to $200 at Diane T; that’s 30 to 60 percent off. 174 Court St., nr. Bergen St., Cobble Hill, Brooklyn (718-923-5777); A.E., M.C., V.; Tues.–Fri. (11–7:30); Sat. (11–6:30); Sun. (1–5:30).
Shoes
Through 2/29; Chuckies drool-worthy shoes from Marni, Dolce & Gabbana, and Prada are 65 percent off. Christian Dior black stiletto booties with mink trim were $1,150 but are now just over $400. 1073 Third Ave., nr. 63rd St. (212-593-9898); A.E., M.C., V.; Mon.–Thurs. (10:45–7:45); Fri. (10–7); Sat. (10:45–7:30); Sun. (12:30–7).
Home
Through 2/24: Armani Casa’s sleek breakfast trays (the Susana is now $174), armchairs (the Rimbaud floor sample is now $3,480), and stools (the Oscar is now $1,000) are 20 to 65 percent off. 97 Greene St., nr. Prince St. (212-334-1271); Tues.–Sat. (11–7); Sun. (noon–6); Monday by appointment.
Through 2/24: ABC Carpet & Home’s Manhattan location is celebrating the Chinese New Year by reducing prices on vintage Chinese Art Deco (a green floral rug is now $4,999) and antique Peking rugs. 888 Broadway, at 19th St. (212-473-3000); A.E., M.C., V.; Mon.–Fri. (10–8); Sat. (10–7); Sun. (11–6:30).
Through 3/9: Mxyplyzyk’s cheery stock of home accessories from Chilewich, Umbra, and Lexon is 20 percent off; a hanging pendant lamp was $175 but is now $140. 125 Greenwich Ave., nr. 13th St. (212-989-4300); A.E., M.C., V.; (Mon.-Sat. 11-7; Sun. noon–5).
For more listings, read our Sales & Bargains page.
Events:
4 p.m. Sports Illustrated announces its 2008 swimsuit-edition cover model.
6–8 p.m. Roberta Armani hosts a cocktail reception for the publication of Inheriting Beauty, a book that documents the world's most stunning heiresses, excluding Paris Hilton.
7–11 p.m. Gotham magazine hosts the Black and White Ball, its eighth annual gala.
6:30–8:30 p.m. Travel + Leisure celebrates its 2008 Design Awards winners.
7–9 p.m. Natalie Portman hosts the launch party for her vegan-footwear line for Te Casan.
Courtesy of Nonesuch
"People don't seem to realize when they're living in the golden age of things. I believe we're living in the golden age of the documentary. I don't think anyone over 12 would think we were in the golden age of popular music. We're living in a really difficult time for popular music. I guess we can't pick our golden ages, otherwise we'd always be in one." —Stephin Merritt [BlackBook]
“I know I want to do R&B, but at the same time, I want to be the kind of artist that can do a duet with a John Mayer and it makes sense." —Ne-Yo [MTV]
"The next thing that really stuck out to me was Beyoncé and Tina Turner. The whole time it was going all I could think was, 'How cool would it be to have Tina Turner as your grandma?'" —Pete Wentz [MTV]
"It's not dirty talk. We talk about sex, but the terminology is not dirty. The film is principally humorous, and if anything else it's informative." —Isabella Rossellini on her new film, Green Porno, in which she simulates insect sex [Reuters via Yahoo]
"Hey, you try wagging these puppies around a while and see if you don't have back problems." —Dolly Parton on postponing her upcoming North American tour [Reuters via Yahoo]
Photo: iStockphoto
On Monday Mr. Fishman, 47, sat in the paneled Princeton Club of New York, explaining what it was like to battle the markets—and lose.“It feels like someone has died,” Mr. Fishman told The New York Times, his eyes welling up. “We’ve disappointed people, and there is no one more disappointed than me.”
It's not that we don't feel sad for Fishman, who has clearly been humbled by his losses. “It’s that sad dawning when you realize the market is so much bigger than you are,” he told the Times. Also, we appreciate the fact that after working at SAC for seven years he remains human enough to cry actual tears. But, dude: Crying in front of a reporter is okay when you have a limb blown off or, yes, lose a loved one, and it does wonders when you are running for president. But you don't cry when you are rich and other rich people take some money away from you. Buck up! You still have your big old house in Westport, don't you?
Tough Times for Big-Name Funds [Dealbook/NYT]
Kelly Osbourne doesn't wear cocktail dresses early.Photo: WireImage
Today marks the third day of London Fashion Week, and we're already envious of the front rows there. The celebrities look like they came from the "They're just like us" section of Us Weekly rather than the centerfolds of Vogue. Somehow, it just felt awkward to see celebrities in full-on red-carpet attire at 11 a.m. in New York. (Think how you'd feel if your cubicle neighbor showed up dressed for Socialista rather than work.) But London is different, according to the Times:
It is such a diametrically different approach to the front-row attire usually required to attend New York fashion shows (full cocktail wear) which last week were graced by the usual mêlée of the preternaturally youthful (Demi Moore and Madonna) and the preternaturally groomed (Victoria Beckham). Tad Safran—who created a furore in this newspaper when he suggested that, compared with impeccably glossy Manhattanites, British women looked more like a fungal infection than a female—would have had a field day. But here creativity is expected to look grungy: it always has and always will.
That means Kelly Osbourne wearing heart-shaped sunglasses was at home on the front row of Topshop's Unique presentation Sunday morning. Joining her was Pixie Geldof, a London socialite party girl, and "any number of girls with a … brutal 1960s fringe." We're glad we're not the only ones who think 11 a.m. and dressing up just don't go together. We never thought we'd say this, but thank you, Kelly Osbourne.
Topshop kicks off London Fashion Week [Times Online]
• It's not just New York that's still buzzing about the dinner Madonna co-hosted with Gucci to raise money for UNICEF and Raising Malawi, a charity that helps orphans there. A Malawian minister said the country "owes her so much" and should allow her adoption of 2-year-old Malawian David Banda, which she has a final hearing on in April. [NYDN]
• Lily Allen looked sad in the front row of the PPQ show at London Fashion Week. Maybe it's because she recently suffered a miscarriage and broke up with her boyfriend. [FemaleFirst]
• Vivienne Westwood will show her Red Label Diffusion line on Valentine's Day in London, where she hasn't shown in years. The label's manager wants other British brands like Burberry and Alexander McQueen to follow suit and return. [British Vogue]
• Ossie Clark returned to the catwalk yesterday for the first time since the designer's 1996 death. But Clark's sons are threatening to sue because they "object to how their father's name is now being exploited in a way that he would not have wanted and without their consent." [First Post]
• The Spanish government spent a year using lasers to assess the body shapes of more than 10,000 women. It wants to use this data to overhaul the system that makes women's sizes consistent from one store to the next and "eliminate the skinny stereotype that it says encourages eating disorders." [IHT]
• How do designers decide which city to show in? London is the place to get noticed, New York is where to get financial backing, Milan is where those with backing go to get the best quality clothes made, and Paris is for those who've made it. [BBC]
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