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Enthuses Reuters CEO of Sir Harry's Memoir: 'It Reads Like Fiction!'

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:32:07 -0500

Elegantly bow-legged with a navy knit tie, Sir Harold Evans politely but emphatically set the record straight when the Transom asked if his latest book, My Paper Chase, was an industry overview. “Oh no, by no means, that’s the last thing it is!” said the octogenarian editor emeritus at the party celebrating its publication. “It’s an autobiography about a kid growing up in a working-class district of Britain leaving school at 15, then how...

Quail for the Beasties: Weber Wistful as Tina and Harry Fete Donatella

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:51:18 -0400

Tina Brown was up to her old tricks on Tuesday, Oct. 21, hosting a luncheon for 50 with hubby Harold Evans, honoring fashion dowager Donatella Versace, at the couple’s maisonette near the East River.

Model Christie Brinkley arrived promptly, wearing a pale gray pencil skirt and matching motorcycle jacket. “We just drove in from the Hamptons right now, but it turns out everyone from out there is here!” she told the Transom. Outside on...

Tina's Giving vs. Arianna's Impact: A Philanthropy Vertical Smackdown!

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:54:44 -0400

Looks like Tina Brown's Daily Beast may be riding on Arianna Huffington's charitable coat tails with the launch of Giving Beast, a new vertical that encourages users to read blog posts and stories about cause-related news and opinion, then click on links and widgets to find out how to get involved. Global Philanthropy Group, a consulting service that has worked with Bono, Bill Gates, Bill Clinton and Sir Richard Branson, among others,...

Daily Beast Wishes Daily Beast a Happy Birthday

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:15:41 -0400

To commemorate The Daily Beast's first birthday, The Daily Beast interviews Daily Beast founder Tina Brown. You will be pleased to hear that Brown has "finally found a medium commensurate to [her] peculiar metabolism," traffic is "beyond our wildest hopes when we started last October," and that she and Arianna Huffington are on perfectly friendly...

Brown's Beast Grows--Rrrowl!

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:10:04 -0400

Tina Brown's Daily Beast, noted for spending lots of Barry Diller's IAC dollars in the service of journalism, is entering another ailing industry. In conjunction with Perseus Books Group, Ms. Brown will be starting a Daily Beast book imprint.

Beast Books would produce titles by the site's writers on a short schedule--two to four months including writing and production--first as ebooks and later as paperbacks. The Times says that they'd be around 150 pages long,and...

Frank Rich and Tina Brown Continue to Consult for HBO

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:38:17 -0400

Recently we sat down with Sue Naegle, the president of entertainment for HBO, to talk about the state of scripted series at the premium cable network.

At one point, we asked Ms. Naegle about Frank Rich and Tina Brown's role at the network.

Last time we checked in with HBO, in the first half of 2008, both Ms. Brown, the founder and editor of the Daily Beast, and Mr. Rich,...

Where in the World Is Maer Roshan?

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:13:10 -0400

It hardly seems like a year ago, but remember last September? Just after Lehman declared bankruptcy, we dealt with a rapid wave of media closures here in the city: The Sun, 02138 and, for a third time, Radar.

But we didn’t expect that it would take long for Maer Roshan, Radar’s editor, to get up to a new trick. However many times he’d fallen before, he’d also proven, with dogged determination, that year after...

One Beast of a Contract!

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:13:25 -0400

"Look at what’s out there!” said Joe McGinniss, the veteran fiction and nonfiction writer, on the phone with The Observer from his home in Amherst, Mass., on Tuesday. “The magazine that paid well, Portfolio, is out of business! And here, at the other end of spectrum, you get paid $250 and you have to sign your life away.”

It’s the freelancer’s lament these days, and Mr. McGinniss was mad as hell and couldn’t take it...

Joe Scarborough Touts New Book, Knocks Rush Limbaugh

Thu, 28 May 2009 14:32:57 -0400

On Wednesday night, Joe Scarborough stood in the back room at Michael's restaurant, and publicly thanked his wife, Susan, who stood a few feet away, for inspiring the evolution of his political punditry at MSNBC.

"The first couple of weeks I was on MSNBC, every night I would come home and she would meet me at the door and stare at me and say, 'Stop acting like a jackass on national TV!'"...

Gawker Alumni Launch Web Site for 'Resonant, Weird, Important, Frightening' News

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:37:39 -0400

“People kept telling me that they were bored with the Internet,” said Choire Sicha, an “ancestor of ephemeral Gawker” and soon-to-be published book author (not to mention a former Observer editor and columnist), who was calling into The Observer from his “home office” in the East Village this afternoon.

“It’s sort of like, it’s so compartmentalized and pushed into little categories into what can be covered and...

Webby Award Nominees: From Daily Beast to Digg, NYTimes.com to Salon.com

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 12:25:15 -0400

The Webby Awards just announced their nominees for their 13th annual awards show. No surprise that NYTimes.com got 13 nominations, including the "Newspaper" category (The New York Observer was also nominated, along with the UK's The Guardian and The Independent). NBC.com and TheOnion.com also received multiple nods, along with The Daily Beast, which received two nominations in the "Best Practices" (maybe it was for the three-part advertorial about handbags?) and "News" categories. There...

Meghan McCain's Book Sold to Hyperion For High Six Figures

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 16:18:21 -0400

John McCain's 24-year-old daughter Meghan has a book deal! Sources say Hyperion has prevailed over at least three other publishers in an auction that began earlier this week, following a round of meetings during which the in-your-face young conservative and the literary agent she shares with her father, Sterling Lord Literistic president Flip Brophy, discussed a number of possible approaches to the book with editors around town.

Several sources said the advance Ms. McCain will...

Edward Felsenthal on Life at The Daily Beast: 'It's Exhausting'

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 16:43:14 -0400

"In my most exhausted moments, I think about the story on the front page of The New York Times about bloggers having heart attacks," said Edward Felsenthal, executive editor of the Daily Beast, said at at the PSFK Conference at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in Battery Park today. By way of explaining the frenetic pace of editing a Web site, he told the crowd one of the "office jokes" exchanged over IM among...

A Doctor, A Former Hottest Bachelor, And the Creator of 'Topic [A] With Tina Brown' Find Work in TV News

Wed, 01 Apr 2009 07:10:00 -0400

With advertising revenue in freefall and hiring freezes creeping through the TV news industry, it’s not everyday that we hear of a network actually adding a staffer. But on Tuesday, we heard of three new hires.

Three!

The hiring boomlet made for an unusually cheerful day in NYTV’s inbox.

To wit: Over at the Time Warner Center, CNN executives announced that they had hired...

Jim Kelly on Time Inc.'s Future (And His Own)

Tue, 17 Mar 2009 09:46:11 -0400

The Observer met up with outgoing Time Inc. managing editor Jim Kelly yesterday morning to talk about the future. We had breakfast in a second floor dining room in the Time Inc. building that overlooked Sixth Avenue. We put on our tape recorder and let Mr. Kelly, who spent 31 years at Time Inc, including five years as Time Magazine's managing editor and the last three as Time Inc.'s managing editor, for a bit...

Tina Brown Says Advertising is Coming to the Daily Beast By Spring, Darling; 'We're Getting A Lot of Overtures'

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 11:42:10 -0500

Last night, at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, Tina Brown told a few hundred young J-school students that the Daily Beast—which Barry Diller finances and said won't come close to turning a profit for two or three years, "if then"—that there is indeed a revenue model for the Web site.

"Our business model will be based on advertising," she said. "We believe, Barry Diller believes, that the advertising model is going to work...

Lineup for February 4th, 2009

Wed, 04 Feb 2009 07:59:15 -0500

How's the traffic for Tina Brown and Barry Diller's Daily Beast? According to John Koblin, "It seems the early curiosity and endless pitching on television that gave the site its big start aren’t enough to keep numbers up: they had fallen 17 percent by the end of December from their November heights, according to compete.com, a Web analytics research site..." Plus: Condé Nast Seeks New Nest.

Leon Neyfakh talks to former Publishers Weekly...

The Beast That Roared (for a While!)

Tue, 03 Feb 2009 19:19:12 -0500

One week after Tina Brown launched the Daily Beast back in October, Michael Wolff, the Vanity Fair columnist and the founder of Newser, gave a typically tart assessment of his new competitor.

“She’s not a news aggregator, although that is her pretense for doing something Web-like,” he said to The Observer at the time. “In fact, she’s just an old magazine hack.”

He was right, partly: In the 110 days...

How Do You Get Your Stories to Go Viral? Ask Tina Brown, Darling!

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:25:52 -0500

Tina Brown's Daily Beast, which has enjoyed very nice traffic numbers since its launch a thousand-plus hours ago, sends out a tip sheet to its writers on how to get their stories to go viral.

It's pretty simple: 1) Start a Web site; and 2) Link to your Facebook. Tips below:

Tips for Going Viral

Your Website

Include links on your website to The Daily Beast and/or your author page on The Daily Beast

Bill O'Reilly Names Names: Fox News Host Visibly Displeased to Say (Shudder) 'Hendrik'

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 12:52:52 -0500

Tina Brown and Barry Diller's Daily Beast (A thousand more hours, a thousand more hours!) has a video of Fox News' Bill O'Reilly dispatching a correspondent to ambush interview The New Yorker's Hendrik Hertzberg on the streets of New York. Apparently Mr. O'Reilly felt Mr. Hertzberg misquoted his interview with Newt Gringrich, and wanted him to apologize. (This comes via Michael Calderone's Politico blog.)

What's amusing about the video isn't the low-budget Michael...

Lineup for December 3rd, 2008

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 07:55:45 -0500

What are people saying about David Gregory, NBC News' heir presumptive for Tim Russert's job on Meet the Press? Felix Gillette talks to some who say things like, “He’s got great instincts when it comes to what area of stories to probe...I don’t think there’s much of a learning curve when it comes to politics. He knows that world as well as anyone. He gets great stuff out of people" and "He can be...

Laid Off Recently? Come to Tina, Darling!

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 19:33:11 -0500

On the day the perennially troubled Radar magazine folded, its editor Maer Roshan got an email from an old friend, Tina Brown, with whom he’d worked at her own sunken ship, Talk.

“Maer my darling, I’m grieving so terribly,” she wrote in her Masterpiece Theatre trill. “I’m running into a meeting, but do nothing either yourself or with your staff until you’ve spoken to us. I will call you as soon as...

The Web Guru

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:10:05 -0500

If you wanted to wipe out the American media establishment in one blow, you might have targeted the Grand Ballroom on the third floor of the Plaza hotel at around 9 a.m. on Nov. 12.

The Foursquare Conference was organized by media mogul Steve Rattner’s Quadrangle Partners, and had the kind of exclusive list Mr. Rattner is known for. Barry Diller attended the conference, as did Lachlan Murdoch, Arthur Sulzberger Jr., and Tribune...

Transom Week in Review: Narciso Rodriguez on Michelle Obama; National Book Awards Go Glam; Christian Siriano's Birthday Bash

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:40:49 -0500

The National Book Awards tried to glam things up, with mixed results.

Narciso Rodriguez told us about Michelle Obama's controversial Election Night dress at the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund Awards.

We caught up with the MisShapes at Christian Siriano's birthday party at Citrine.

At the re-dedication of the Bridge Formerly Known as Triborough, we discovered that Nancy Pelosi isn't one for frivolous questions (but Martha Stewart is!).

We faced the new media reality and took...

Zeitgeist, Up! Tina's 'Beast' Celebrates Launch at Meatpacking District Burger Joint

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 07:49:08 -0500

"We're having a lot more fun than we did on Liberty Island!" said Tina Brown, the czarina of The Daily Beast, at her Web site's launch party last night in the Meatpacking District.

No, it didn't quite have the extravagance, say, of that 1999 Talk launch party on Liberty Island, where more than 800 movie stars and celebrities—invites went out to everyone from Henry Kissinger to Madonna—mingled and got drunk in the shadow...

A Cranky Jay McCarroll Responds to the Tina Brown Snafu

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:29:16 -0500

When we ran into former Project Runway contestant Jay McCarroll at The Humane Society of the United States' Cool Vs. Cruel Ceremony at the Bowery Hotel last night, we had to ask him about the little miscommunication he--or rather his impostor--had with a reporter at Tina Brown's the Daily Beast.

Last week, the Daily Beast ran an article that was supposed to display concept drawings by former Project Runway contestants for Michelle Obama's inaugural...

Daily Beast Falls For Hoax; Tina Brown Duped By Sneaky Canadian Claiming to Be Project Runway Contestant

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:17:58 -0500

Barely a thousand hours old and The Daily Beast, already has its own mini scandal.

According to a Smoking Gun post headlined Tina Brown In Beastly Hoax, Tina Brown and Barry Diller's Web site ran an article that purported to show concept drawings for Michelle Obama's inaugural gown by Project Runway contestants last week.

The only problem: One of the drawings contributed was fake, a prank done by a Canadian musician named Jay...

Transom Week In Review: Mary-Kate Olsen at the Accompanied Literary Society; Election Night Madness; Dominick Dunne Toasted

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 14:56:53 -0500

We channeled the spirit of Edgar Allen Poe alongside Josh Lucas, David Schwimmer, Arden Wohl, and Mary-Kate Olsen at the Accompanied Literary Society Halloween party.

The art world remembered Robert Rauschenberg at a Coalition for the Homeless benefit.

We spent an anxious Election Eve with Graydon Carter, Tina Brown, Salman Rushdie, Regis Philbin, and Nora Ephron at the New York Public Library’s Library Lions benefit.

On November 4th, we saw many people and...

Joan Didion on Obama: 'We All Have High Hopes, But Who Knows?'

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 13:40:22 -0500

On Wednesday evening, a small and somewhat exhausted crowd gathered at the newly refurbished Oak Room to celebrate a screening of After the Party, Australian filmmakers Kirsty de Garis and Timothy Jolley's documentary about the life of the novelist, crime reporter, and Vanity Fair columnist Dominick Dunne. Mr. Dunne, who is currently battling cancer, was unable to make the screening because of a scheduled surgery. His presence was distinctly felt, however, with friends like...

What’s the Rushdie? Library Lions Prepare to Pounce on Polls

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 10:19:27 -0500

At the New York Public Library’s Library Lions benefit on Monday, Nov. 3, most guests were eager to get home at a reasonable hour—since polls around the city were scheduled to open at 6 a.m. the next day, and as several guests pointed out, open bars at benefits tend to make it difficult to get anywhere on time the following day.

“I’m going to vote early, probably right after my...

Writer Inveighs Against Lip Dub Videos; Makes Lip Dub Videos

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:59:09 -0400

Today on The Daily Beast, Tina Brown and Barry Diller's literally hundreds of hours old Web site, Randi Zuckerberg sallies forth a bold, truly shocking statement: It Must Be Stopped: Hipster Lip Dub Videos. (Insert your own exclamation points interspersed with number 1s here.)

This is perhaps the second most powerful statement by the site since last week when The Beast stood athwart tooth-whitening yelling Stop. But this critique, aimed at young people...

The Daily Beast Gets Sunned

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:04:04 -0400

If you worked at The New York Sun and now you're looking for some part-time work, send in your clips to Tina Brown!

The Sun has been closed for three weeks, and in that time, The Daily Beast has hit the 500-hour mark. It needs to be fed.

In recent weeks, ex-Sun staffers who have contributed include:

Ira Stoll Kate TaylorJulie SatowRoss GoldbergBenjamin SarlinRussell Berman

It's probably not a coincidence that a former editor at The Sun,...

Mainstream Media Finally Pay Attention To The Daily Beast

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 08:02:28 -0400

Sure, it's well past its buzzy first 100 hours, but that doesn't mean there can't be more coverage of Tina Brown and Barry Diller's three-week-old don't- call-it-a-news-aggregator site, The Daily Beast.

In today's New York Times, Tim Arango offers a dual (duel?) profile of Ms. Brown and her aggregating sister-in-arms, Arianna Huffington. (And yesterday's Times Magazine featured an interview with Christopher Buckley by Deborah Solomon, but that was simply to fill a...

The Sarah Palin Show? 'Americans Just Want to be Entertained,' Says Tina Brown

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 08:54:02 -0400

Last night, we learned that The View's token conservative hostess, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, will join Sarah Palin on the stump in Florida this weekend. The move promises to be beneficial for everyone involved--Ms. Hasselbeck will have the opportunity to stand alongside her idol in a semi-official capacity, Ms. Palin will pick up a few tips on how to weather liberal attacks, and the sight of the adorable pair frolicking down the campaign trail will surely...

Michael Wolff on The Daily Beast: 'It's Preposterous'; Tina Brown 'Just an Old Magazine Hack'

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 12:21:51 -0400

While we had him on the phone talking about Rupert Murdoch, we thought we'd ask Michael Wolff what he thought of The Daily Beast, the new Web site from Tina Brown that is in plain competition with Newser.com, the news aggregator site that Mr. Wolff started last year.

Mr. Wolff first shared his thoughts on The Daily Beast back in April, when he told Gawker that he didn't expect much out of Ms. Brown...

Lowry to Buckley: You Canceled Your Own Goddamn Column

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:51:23 -0400

Rich Lowry, editor of The National Review, has responded to Christopher Buckley's announcement on Tina Brown and Barry Diller's Daily Beast that he was "fired," as the story's URL shows, or "sacked," as its headline read until it was recently changed to "Buckley Bows Out of National Review." (Buzz moves fast, and as The Times David Carr wrote roughly 300 hours ago, "Given Ms. Brown’s reputation for frantically changing everything in the final hours...

Philly to Brown: Drop Red

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:12:34 -0400

Jim Romenesko—and just about every media site possible—linked to a story by the Philadelphia Daily News' Dan Gross that says his paper's parent company has sent a cease-and-desist letter to Tina Brown and Barry Diller's nearly 200-hour-old Web site The Daily Beast, claiming that its logo is "potentially trademark-infringing" with that of the Daily News.

Mr. Gross quotes the letter (which an unnamed spokesperson for The Daily Beast says was not received) as...

A Look Back: The Daily Beast's First 100 Hours

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:23:17 -0400

On Monday, as you no doubt already know, Tina Brown and Barry Diller launched The Daily Beast, a Web site that promises to "sift" and "curate" the unruly Internet.

Ms. Brown noted in a launch Q&A that her site would not be a boring old news aggregator, since sifting and curating are very different verbs from aggregating. In that Q&A, Ms. Brown trumpeted her new staff, including, "Edward Felsenthal, our executive editor, came...

Nikki Finke on Tina Brown's Daily Beast

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:02:54 -0400

Deadline Hollywood Daily's Nikki Finke has weighed in on Tina Brown and Barry Diller's newly-launched Web site, The Daily Beast.

Ms. Finke's succinct summation of the site calls to mind the scene in This is Spinal Tap in which director Marty DeBergi recites a "merely a two-word review" of the band's album Shark Sandwich.

It should be noted Ms. Finke called The Huffington Post, "the sort of failure that is simply unsurvivable....

'Dinosaur' Brown Launches Daily Beast

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 08:06:40 -0400

Tina Brown and Barry Diller's new Web site, The Daily Beast, has launched. In a Q&A, Ms. Brown explains why her site is different from other news aggregators like The Drudge Report, The Huffington Post, Newser, Brijit, et al.:

The Daily Beast doesn't aggregate. It sifts, sorts, and curates. We're as much about what's not there as what is. And we freshen the stream with a good helping of our own original content from a...

Behold, The Mark of the Beast!

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:10:10 -0400

The Daily Beast, Tina Brown and Barry Diller's nascent Web venture, was supposed to launch yesterday, as Portfolio's Jeff Bercovici pointed out on his Mixed Media blog.

While Ms. Brown's much-anticipated entry into the news aggregation business continues to be fashionably late, the site does have a new landing page. And that landing page has a logo!

As one forward-looking pundit wrote, probably around the time Ms. Brown announced the project:

The darkness...

Tina Brown Catches Zeitgeist By Optioning Bush's Favorite Book From Four Years Ago for HBO

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 11:09:37 -0400

In May, The Observer's Felix Gillette looked at HBO's hiring of former Vanity Fair and New Yorker editor Tina Brown and The New York Times' Frank Rich as "creative consultants."

At the time, he wrote:

Ms. Brown said that since January, she’s pitched two projects—an idea for a series and an idea for a movie—that the HBO executives liked and are in the process of 'taking a little further.'... 'If I collide with...

Tina Brown Misses Hillary Clinton; Calls 2008 Convention a 'Much Bigger Deal' Than Last Time

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:53:53 -0400

DENVER--Last night, Denver mayor John Hickenlooper and his wife, New Yorker writer Helen Thorpe, hosted a party in honor of Slate’s just-released ObamaMania book, but there was another more infamous member of the New Yorker family in the room. Tina Brown was wearing an electric blue suit that certainly stood out against the wood molding and green wallpaper of downtown Denver’s Tattered Cover bookstore.

She stayed close to the exit, sipping white wine...

Lineup for May 28, 2008

Wed, 28 May 2008 07:58:08 -0400

Now that HBO has hired Tina Brown and Frank Rich for consulting gigs, Felix Gillette wonders, "So what’s next?" He also notes, "the truly free-range journalist-consultant—one with a broad editorial mandate to roam here and there gnawing lustfully on some projects while trampling others willy-nilly—remains a rare and exotic beast."

Speaking of television, Doree Shafrir meets Bravo's Flipping Out host Jeff Lewis, "a deeply neurotic man who treats his staff like a...

The Hire

Tue, 27 May 2008 20:07:42 -0400

Over the past few weeks, HBO has announced a series of moves to stem the tide of speculation that the network is faltering. After canceling 12 Miles of Bad Road, a series starring Lily Tomlin, HBO announced deals with Oscar winners Alexander Payne (of Sideways and Election fame) to develop a dark comedy called Hung, about a man who divines power from his generous equipment; and Alan Ball, the creator of Six Feet Under,...

Brijit, We Hardly Used Ye

Fri, 16 May 2008 12:11:03 -0400

It seems like just yesterday—well, late October, anyway—Brijit.com, the website that read and summarized magazines, was launched. At the time, The Washington Post's Frank Ahrens profiled Brijit's founder, Jeremy Brosowsky, and wrote, "[T]he Internet is littered with good ideas that turn out to be bad businesses, and online publishing can be especially tricky: Do you go mass-market or niche? Subscription-based, or free and ad-supported? Original content or aggregation of other content?"

Yesterday, the...

You Say DeLillo, I Say ... Writers' Claws Are Out at PEN Gala

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:02:25 -0400

At around 7:45 p.m. on Monday, April 28, writer Carl Bernstein was mingling at the cocktail hour before the PEN Literary Awards at the Museum of Natural History, Coca Cola in hand, looking very healthy. “I ride a bike and listen to a lot of music,” he said. “I mostly listen to classical but also rock. I just listened to the new R.E.M.” His younger son Max is a rock musician and blogs about...

Tina Brown and Barry Diller to Start an 'Aggregator Site'

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 17:34:33 -0400

Over at Radar, Neel Shah is reporting that Tina Brown is partnering with Barry Diller to develop what Ms. Brown called "a new take on an aggregator website."

Edward Felsenthal, a former editor of the Wall Street Journal, will be the editor. There aren't many other details—Brown didn't give a launch date, or really any specifics—but apparently there will be no "ideological stance."

So will it be more like the Huffington Post or Michael Woolf's aggregator...

Morning Memo: Lindsay Lohan's New 'Partying' Method; 'Gay Gay' Clooney Pops the Question?

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 09:57:49 -0400

Did George Clooney pop the question? [Marie Claire UK]

All this while he avows that he is "gay, gay" (and not "gay, gay, gay"): "That third 'gay' was pushing it."[People]

Matt Damon's rep confirms he and his wife Luciana are expecting. [People]

Tina Brown finds Hillary Clinton "resolutely effective" and "inspringly pedestrian" but not "magically delicious." [Newsweek]

Lindsay Lohan and her little sister, Ali, "partied" at the penthouse of her new apartment building, the Atelier, Thursday night—if...

Tina Brown Writing Book On the Clintons For Doubleday

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:29:01 -0500

Tina Brown, who edited The New Yorker during all but two of Bill Clinton's years in the White House, will write a book about the former President and his wife for Doubleday, it was announced today.

The book will be called The Clinton Chronicles--just like Ms.Brown's last one, which came out this summer, was called The Diana Chronicles. Maybe she is starting a franchise?

Phyllis Grann is the acquiring editor, just like she was on...