May 2013
4 posts
April 2013
5 posts
“No!” Marni shouted. “I will not get stoned with my assistant!”
– I cannot recommend Triburbia enough
Anna Wintour on her political interests, and other...
Me: Let me ask you now a serious question, you’re staying at Conde but you’re clearly interested in politics - Wintour: Don’t go there, Erik. Me: Well, I’m just curious, what kind of political causes are you interested in advancing? Wintour: In terms of the causes I work with right now, I work very closely with the Met and the CFDA/Vogue Fund. Those are the two things...
“John Heilpern and Joan Juliet Buck were married at one point. Towards the end of...”
– (A supposedly apocryphal story) told by John Homans in the Observer book.
Instructions to recreate Stanford and Anthony's...
Meeting the one
“Mr. Bailey, 63, and Mr. Bleckmann, 46, met at the Chelsea Piers gym.”
“It wasn’t until he met his fiance Georgi Balinov at an Equinox gym in New York that he realized that he could fulfill his fantasy on his wedding night.”
Take your time to look around for something better
“They remember first noticing each other about 10 years ago, across...
Who's the biggest moneymaker at Conde Nast? It's... →
I realize between this and the Steve Swartz earlier this week, I’ve been writing a lot about media executives, so here’s a Justin Bieber story to balance things out.
March 2013
15 posts
Andrew Sullivan's Declaration of Independence
mmagazine:
For M’s spring issue, Erik Maza found the blogger no longer quite so randy, no longer quite so arrogant and in the midst of taking his act solo.
“Have you ever heard ‘Your Funny Uncle’ by the Pet Shop Boys?”
Andrew Sullivan is standing in a room no bigger than a walk-in closet in his Greenwich Village apartment. He’s a compact lumberjack of a guy with a prodigious beer gut and a...
“I’m down there three times a year, because I’m on the board, but I...”
– Eric Trump, New York’s most important young philanthropist, compassionately answers a question about how often he visits St. Jude’s Hospital, which he raises money for.
So how many copies did the New Republic's redesign...
Give or take 13,675 copies.
Chris Hughes passed over Steven Brill’s 25,000-word piece on healthcare costs in favor of an interview with Barack Obama that even Andrew Sullivan described as a “suck-up.” Brill’s story went to Time, where, on the strength of heavy promotion on corporate sibling CNN, and the ensuing controversy about Hughes’ snub, it sold well. It...
“You know, the male gay community seems to be very into female singers.”
– Liza Minnelli
How many ads are in the New Republic this week?...
It’s time for our favorite pastime - guess how many ads are in the New Republic this week? If you guessed five, you’d be wrong. There are four pages, and a house ad:
The Death of Corporate Reputation, book, from FTPress, is the big spender this week, getting the cover back page. Blurbs by Carl Icahn and Harvey Pitt, CEO of global business consultancy Kalorama Partners. So, you know...
Peggy Noonan or Cindy Adams???
I’m in Pittsburgh, making my way to the airport hotel. The people movers are broken and we pull our bags along the dingy carpet.
I walked over an upended container of popcorn and around a dog’s silent message. I heard sirens as a VIP convoy passed by. I watched a screaming firetruck. I made room for an ambulance in a hurry.
The hotel has entrances on two floors. I search for the lobby,...
Tip sheet for the Observer's 25th anniversary...
Jared Kushner Cory Booker Arthur Carter Georgina Chapman Katie Holmes Blake Lively Mariska Hargitay Lauren Santo Domingo Peter Kaplan Donald Trump Ivanka Trump Harvey Weinstein Ron Perelman Woody Johnson Stephen Schwarzman Larry Gagosian Terry Lundgren Steve Tisch Katie Couric Matt Lauer Cynthia McFadden Lara Spencer Sean Parker Carolina Herrera Ray Kelly Ken Kurson George C. Wolfe Cocktail attire...
February 2013
10 posts
Reykjavík or Miami Beach? It’s a tough choice but... →
How many ads are in the New Republic this week? A...
March 11 issue
Monsanto - cover back page Cornell University Press - full page Why Priests? A Failed Tradition, book from Viking - full page Stanley Kauffmann book,from Sheep Meadow Press - 1/4 page University of Nevada Press - full page Princeton University Press - back page Total number of full ad pages - 5
Why? Part of the problem is that Chris Hughes put together a major redesign but...
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“While most of our recent efforts have been on digital transformation,...”
– New New York Times ceo Mark Thompson, following the example first set by former ceo Janet Robinson, to plug the Times’ hugely lucrative, though recently less so, style magazine, T., during earnings calls. That’s how important this little magazine is to the Times’ bottom line, and...
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“We wanted to get luminaries in their field to talk about a topic that we sort of...”
– This is how magazine redesigns happen. Someone hears something at a dinner party. That’s Kristina O’Neill, Deborah Needleman’s replacement at WSJ. magazine.
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Seventen to Kesha: Growing up, did you have the... →
Just now catching up with this devastating interview with Kesha in the february issue of Seventeen. Seventeen: Do you identify as gay or straight? Kesha: “I don’t just love men. [Italics are Seventeen’s]. I love people. It’s not about a gender. It’s about the spirit that exudes from that other person you’re with.”
January 2013
7 posts
1 tag
Advertisers in the new issue of the New Republic
Back cover - Pfizer, sponsor of recent TNR panel Front cover back page - MSNBC Tested by Zion: The Bush Administration and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, book, full page Harvard University Press, full page Monsanto, full page The Great Courses: The Medieval World, full page Lord of Publishing: A Memoir, by Sterling Lord, book, full page Princeton University Press, full page New Republic...
“The press just blows things out of proportion”
– Mighty press baron Jared Kushner
"For God’s sake, Buzzfeed is now trying to assign... →
The new editor of The New York Observer reads the... →
December 2012
8 posts
“You know, if you’re not in the beauty Olympics, you can become a very...”
– 1995
“My problem was always that when I thought of something funny, if I called up a...”
– albert brooks in january’s vanity fair. Also awesome: “I sum up all of show business in three words: Frank Sinatra Junior.” Also, he says he likes katt williams. So, this man, he’s a great man. The whole thing is terrific, and together with the martin short piece,...
“Barbra also told me that her body is trained to wake up at 6:25 a.m. so she can...”
– (via)
November 2012
4 posts
'Unedited thoughts' are not welcome at the New... →
