Page Six Magazine

Did you spend a dollar on The New York Post this Sunday so you could read the new issue of Page Six: The Magazine?

You could've saved that dollar for laundry by reading most of the magazine's features in other publications. Here's a guide to how the Serpentor of weekend supplements was made:

Cover Story: Kerry Washington, by Suzanna Zuckerman.

Read instead: Party Girl in T: The New York Times Style Magazine, January 6, 2008.

Hot Fuzz: Why Full Beards Are In, by Joshua David Stein.

Read instead: Paul Bunyan, Modern-Day Sex Symbol, by Eric Wilson, The New York Times, March 23, 2006.  read more »

Colin Hanks, son of Tinseltown bigwig Tom, moved here from L.A. last year. In Sunday’s Page Six Magazine, the 30-year-old actor answers a few New York-centric questions, shedding light on a few of his favorite things.

Mr. Hanks, who lives in a “small but quaint” West Village apartment, has to endure lots of late-night noise from the bar downstairs. Sleeping through the drunken din is apparently no Biggie for the Orange County actor, but snoozing with the smell of bacon wafting in from a neighboring deli is another story.  read more »

For those who may have missed yesterday’s Page Six Magazine, here follows a quick rundown of some of the issue’s highlights:

Just when it started to seem like fresh book ideas from eager-beaver magazine assistants had all been exhausted, Anna Godberson burst upon the literary scene. The 27-year-old writer from Berkeley, Calif., who was an assistant to a literary editor at Esquire for four years after graduating from Barnard, has landed her new teen novel, The Luxe, on the Times best-seller list. Ms. Godberson’s novel, about a teen socialite at the turn of the 20th Century, has allegedly attracted interest “from TV producers, leading to whispers that it could be the next Gossip Girl.”  read more »

Like a mighty rainstorm over the parched Sahara, yesterday’s Page Six Magazine profile of Byrdie Bell offered sweet promise to Manhattan’s socialite landscape, which has grown decidedly athirst for new blood. And though Ms. Bell’s been around, smiling for Patrick McMullan at glittery galas for a few years now, our understanding of her was just that—rather two dimensional. Not so anymore. In just three short pages, Gawker’s soon-to-depart Joshua David Stein gives us exactly what the social doctor ordered.

Leave it to the Post to title the piece “Byrdie of Paradise,” whose pictures of the 22-year-old are attended by—what else?—exotic birds. But beside the photos, readers learn not only that Ms. Bell understands that affection is often expressed with puke, but in the lyrical styling of her musical-social boyfriend, James “Bingo” Gubelmann, too: “Bella was bored to death at South Beach/Not one celebrity spotted in days/She was tired of her mood/Lunchin’ on vegan food.” The article even goes so far as to compare the “youngest in an almost Biblical line of society jewels” to Brooke Astor, Mona von Bismarck and Lauren Hutton.  read more »

Page Six Magazine has actively been searching for new talent around town and just nabbed a higher-education reporter at The New York Sun. Annie Karni emailed the Observer and said she'll become a new senior writer and news editor at Page Six Magazine beginning on January 2. She'll be writing primarily feature stories.

UPDATE: To clarify: Annie Karni did not email Media Mob first. She simply confirmed the news to the Observer.

More than eight weeks since Page Six Magazine went weekly, a portrait of the Sunday supplement’s prospects is beginning to emerge—and it’s decidedly mixed.  read more »

Looking through Lydia Hearst's column in Page Six Magazine this weekend might have brought on a case of deja vu. In an item titled "Craziness at Cavalli," the magazines model-heiress diarist writes:

Last week, [Ed.: emphasis added] I flew from New York to Florence with three other models—Jessica Stam, Theodora Richards and Erin Wasson—to shoot the Roberto Cavalli for H&M ad campaign. It was surreal.  read more »

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