Be Prepared to Learn More About the Taleses Than You Ever Wanted to Know

Mariah Carey doesn't want you to see her eyes, Pamela Anderson gets American, and Elite modeling agency goes to Utah!

Posted 04/29/08 in Daily Intel : Gossipmonger

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Elaine Kaufman Death Scare at the ‘Post’ — All Col's Fault?

For a short period of time last Thursday, the tabloid was thrown into a devastated tailspin at the news that the beloved restaurateur had died. Good thing it wasn't true.

Posted 04/15/08 in Daily Intel : Ink-Stained Wretches

Tags: col allan, elaine kaufman, elaine's, gay talese, ink-stained wretches, media, new york post, pete hamill

Is the Traditional Magazine Writer Doomed? We Say No.

The Observer thinks that no young writers want to work for magazines anymore; they only want to blog. We aggressively disagree.

Posted 04/02/08 in Daily Intel : Ink-Stained Wretches

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Gay Talese Shames Us at the Launch of ‘Lapham's Quarterly’

As expected, reproofs of modern American journalism were flying Wednesday night at the launch of Harper’s editor emeritus Lewis Lapham's new magazine, Lapham’s Quarterly, the first issue of which contains essays and correspondence on the topic of war from writers as diverse as Sun Tzu and Mark Twain. Needless to say, neither of them was at the party. But Gay Talese was!

Posted 11/16/07 in Daily Intel : Ink-Stained Wretches

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Thy Neighbor's Wife, and Thy Own

Nan and Gay Talese are at work on his and her memoirs about their allegedly open marriage. Jon Bon Jovi is not pleased an energy drink named Mijovi is selling well near his New Jersey residence. Ted Koppel dropped the asking price for his Potomac, Maryland, residence from $4.1 million to $2.3 million. Hillary Clinton complained about the traffic in the Hamptons during her fund-raising stint out east. Stand-up comic Phil Stellar entertained an audience at the Ziegfeld after a movie projector broke during a showing of Hairspray. Meryl Streep says she was kicked out of Yale Drama School for not working hard enough. Gwyneth Paltrow uses face cream that contains snake venom.

Posted 08/06/07 in Daily Intel : Gossipmonger

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