Three cheers for Tina Brown! In her column in The Daily Beast this past week, she nailed the media business’s problem on the head: “The carnage in media jobs accelerated last week with hundreds getting whacked at Viacom, NBC, Time Inc., and my own esteemed publisher Doubleday. . . . We’re in the middle of …
I know, I know, I’m way behind on this, but I just heard about the report in The New York Post‘s Page Six in late November that Ann Coulter has broken her jaw, and has had it wired shut. Is no one afraid that we risk the creation of a black hole when she implodes?
The website iwantmedia.com is conducting a poll for Media Person of the Year, and it turns out that among the nominees, along with Tina Fey, Arianna Huffington, Mel Karmazin, Jason Kilar, Rachel Maddow, Rupert Murdoch, Eric Schmidt, th Twitter Trio and Sam Zell is– me! Or at me, in the guise of The Laid-Off Journalist. Says …
My friend Gina Duclayan (center picture, foreground, in front of Kurt Andersen and her future husband Daniel Radosh) posted an album of photos from the Spy days on her facebook page. Fun to see the kids. (I wonder who got custody of the flag?) Shown in the enlargement-resistent photo at right (you’ll have to take …
My pal Bob Love bought me sushi yesterday at a nice place near 46th and Park whose name has already galloped out of my head. He had good news that the yoga book on which he has been working for so long has been making good progress through the editing stages. It was great to …
The New York Times, November 5, 2008
The writer Lynn Phillips, who a few days ago requested a copy of the article “When Disney Ruled America” that I wrote for Spy, has written with her comments: “The article does indeed live up. Particularly once Eisner gets into power.The writing has an antic energy – a feeling of rushing faster and faster down …
“No editor or publisher ever wakes up in the morning, looks out his window, and scans the landscape for a brilliant writer who’s just too shy to put himself or herself forward. It’s a put yourself forward business, at every level.” Hey–that’s me talking, in an interview with Derek Alger in pif magazine, a very …
Lunch yesterday was provided by my pal Ryan D’Agostino, one of the stalwarts at Esquire. We ate in the Hearst employees’ cafeteria, which is located in the very cool atrium of the newish Hearst Building on Eighth Avenue. An excellent amenity. Ryan is excited about his new book, Rich Like Them, which will be published …
At the very charming Cafe Cafe on Broome Street yesterday, I had the pleasure of interviewing the very smart and cooperative actor Billy Crudup for a cover story in an upcoming issue of Best Life. Crudup talked a lot of about acting and the actor’s life. “I like complexity,” he says. My kind of guy.