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1. WWD
Memo Pad: OBAMA PRESS TOUR
By Stephanie D. Smith and Irin Carmon
8/5/08
http://www.wwd.com/media-news/fashion-memopad/obama-press-tour-more-appointment-hogans-heroes-1703225

Barack Obama and family will be making the rounds on even more covers once the September issues of the monthlies hit newsstands. First, the entire family will appear on the cover of Essence for an upbeat story by PBS newswoman Gwen Ifill. The magazine nailed the exclusive interview and photo shoot with sister Time Inc. title People that took place in Butte, Mont., during the Fourth of July and at the Obamas’ home in Chicago in mid-June (People’s Obama interview and photo shoot ran in its Aug. 4 issue).

Among the highlights in the Essence story, Ifill reports from the campaign bus as the family travels to Montana, and how they interact with supporters and with each other. “The Obamas pride themselves on creating a family picture that is authentically black with shades of Norman Rockwell,” she summarizes.

Michelle Obama also discusses her family’s relationship to its neighborhood on the south side of Chicago: “For all of this wonderful madness that comes along with our lives — the Secret Service, the cars — there are kids on Forty-seventh and King Drive who can walk two blocks and be that close for the first time to somebody who can be the president of the United States. I love that,” she says.

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Genevieve Monsma is More’s new beauty director — a reunion of sorts, since she worked for More’s newish editor in chief, Lesley Jane Seymour, at Marie Claire. She was most recently beauty director at Shape. Another Marie Claire alum already can be found in the pages of the September issue: former fashion director Lucy Sykes, who is mysteriously credited as Lucy S. in a well shoot.

Sykes is a contributing editor at Cookie, but a spokeswoman for that magazine said that, since More was not a direct competitor in the parenting field, Sykes was free to style there. Meanwhile, More is raising its rate base to 1.3 million next year. The title’s redesign debuts in October.

3. MIN online
Playboy Adds New SVP, Digital Media
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8/5/08
http://www.minonline.com/news/8355.html

Playboy Enterprises, Inc. has hired Jimmy Jellinek as division SVP of digital content, digital media. Jellinek will lead the digital team and direct content efforts for Playboy’s online, mobile, and international digital businesses.

Most recently, Jellinek was VP, entertainment and programming, for Heavy.com where he oversaw all original content and programming and managed the site’s programmers, production, and content creators.


Jellinek left Maxim last October following the acquisition by the Kent Brownridge-led Quadrangle Partners. James Kaminsky, a past Playboy editor (2002-2004), succeeded him. Jellinek is the past editor-in-chief of Stuff and Maxim (both under Felix Dennis). He succeeded Mike Hammer at Stuff in May 2005.

4. New York Mag
We Call Photoshop on the ‘People’ Pics of the Brangelina Twins
By Chris Rovzar and Jessica Pressler
8/4/08
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2008/08/we_call_photoshop_on_the_peopl.html

Did you hear? People magazine paid $14 million for the rights to shoot and publish photos of Vivienne Marcheline and Knox Leon, the twin babies of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt. That's twice the amount that a celebrity weekly has ever paid for infant snaps because, you know, there are two of them. And they're the most important babies to ever be born in the world, after Jesus and JonBenet Ramsey.

And this cover of People is adorable, right? In that cover photo, it looks like Vivienne Marcheline — clearly the Ashley half of this Olsen-like combo — is sporting a giant grin. She may even be laughing. Hold on. These babies are purported to be a mere 3 weeks old!

Parenting magazine says that babies don't smile from exterior stimulation until two to four months — even if said exterior stimulation is the most beautiful pair of humans in the entire world. Conspiracy! Photoshop! Something! There could be a perfectly logical explanation, of course.

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5. Fashion Week Daily Dispatch
Men’s Mag Moves? Nah!
By Ashley Baker & Nola Weinstein
8/4/08
http://www.fashionweekdaily.com/news/fullstory.sps?inewsid=6615349

Did Hearst really buy revered Cond? Nast title GQ? Upon reading about the alleged purchase, The Daily checked in with GQ's publicity department. Sounds like another wacky rumor, right? "Very much so," the magazine's spokesperson affirmed. "Where did you hear that?"

Given that Hearst isn't buying much these days, The Daily suspected that original reports may have switched up the players in question. Could Cond? Nast have perhaps purchased Esquire, a jewel in rival Hearst's crown? "No, it's not true at all," the Cond? Nast corporate spokesperson laughed. "Ha! What, like no money changed hands--we just swapped titles?"

Or was it that Hearst bought Details? Calls to Hearst spokespeople have not yet been returned, but we have a sneaking suspicion that all is quiet on the men's mag front--today, anyway. A few questions remain: Will anyone ever buy out Jann Wenner? Or will Men's Health put all those gent books out of business? Someone get a quote from Dave Zinczenko.

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