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******* Britney Spears says the veil has been lifted on her honeymoon, and she's not happy. Photos of Spears and her new husband, Kevin Federline, are on the cover of Us Weekly magazine under the headline: "Britney's Private Album!" Other pictures of the couple's October honeymoon in the Fiji islands are displayed on five pages inside the magazine, on newsstands Friday.
Spears quickly issued a statement condemning the use of the photographs, which show the happy couple relaxing and enjoying breakfast on the beach.
2. EOnline
What do Britney Spears and Brad Pitt have in common? Besides the obvious--fame, fortune, obsessive fans, etc.--the stars share a strong distaste for Us Weekly.
Both A-listers have lashed out at the glossy in recent days over spreads awarding them unwanted attention.
3. Business 2.0
There are few audiences more captive, more bored, and more outlandishly upscale than a pack of fashionistas stuck waiting for a runway show. During Fall Fashion Week, for example, Vogue's Anna Wintour and the rest of the beautiful-and-damned crowd in New York broiled under hot lights for 90 minutes while waiting for the eagerly anticipated Marc Jacobs show to begin. Trapped by peer pressure and professionalism, the majority of the editors, merchants, and hangers-on in attendance were stuck passing the time glowering at each other. The more fortunate ones, however, uncrinkled their copies of that day's Daily. Two years old and already a front-row institution, the Daily is the glossy, attention-deficit-disorder-friendly house organ of New York Fashion Week. It's published daily for two weeks each year by the spectacle's owner, 7th on Sixth, which is, in turn, a division of the talent management giant IMG. The Daily has earned rave reviews from both its jaded readership and its corporate parent. In fact, the underlying idea appears to have launched a more enduring trend than next season's voluminous dresses: IMG is considering publishing daily magazines during the multiday sporting events it owns.
So what makes the Daily worth reading? It's essentially a candy-colored collection of fashion-crowd in-jokes. The magazine's army of freelancers is set loose in the tents, swarming designers, editors, and miscellaneous micro-celebrities with questions about how and when they take naps, what they had for lunch, and what's in their bags. Back at headquarters, this reportage is carefully stirred into the mix, along with stray bits of overheard conversation, frothy features (on subjects such as the results of the edit staff's mass Atkins diet), and semi-serious Q&As with publishing industry types like Helen Gurley Brown and Ron Galotti. The resulting confection has the sweetness and nutritional value of a chocolate croissant, and copies are gobbled and discarded just as quickly by readers.
4. NY Daily News
Don't mess with Jann Wenner. His company - Wenner Media, publisher of Us Weekly - has torpedoed plans by British publisher Richard Desmond to launch a competing celebrity weekly in the fall.
A federal judge granted Wenner's request for a temporary restraining order that blocks Nicola McCarthy, who quit last month as an executive editor of Us Weekly, from becoming editor in chief of the new mag, titled OK!
5. NY Post
Jacob Bernstein, the scrappy reporter son of Carl Bernstein and Nora Ephron, is giving New York Magazine editor Adam Moss the kiss-off after a year's toil. Bernstein is returning to Fairchild Publications starting Tuesday to be Associate Eye Editor, a new position where he'll do party coverage, culture reporting and feature stories for W magazine and WWD. Before joining New York, Bernstein worked on WWD's Memo Pad column, covering the media beat. "There's no ill will," Bernstein insists. "It just seemed like a fun job. I??™m excited.???
6. Gawker
Details looks at the ironic slogan T-shirt, a trend that probably should have ended around the time of Britney Spears??™ first marriage. And yet people are still walking around with shirts that say ???Everyone Loves a Jewish Girl??? (preferably worn by an African American male), or ???I??™m a Virgin (But this Shirt is Old)??? (preferably crumpled on the floor of some dude??™s SUV limo by Paris Hilton).
******* There are few audiences more captive, more bored, and more outlandishly upscale than a pack of fashionistas stuck waiting for a runway show. During Fall Fashion Week, for example, Vogue's Anna Wintour and the rest of the beautiful-and-damned crowd in New York broiled under hot lights for 90 minutes while waiting for the eagerly anticipated Marc Jacobs show to begin. Trapped by peer pressure and professionalism, the majority of the editors, merchants, and hangers-on in attendance were stuck passing the time glowering at each other. The more fortunate ones, however, uncrinkled their copies of that day's Daily.
Two years old and already a front-row institution, the Daily is the glossy, attention-deficit-disorder-friendly house organ of New York Fashion Week. It's published daily for two weeks each year by the spectacle's owner, 7th on Sixth, which is, in turn, a division of the talent management giant IMG.
2. LA Weekly
Vanity Fair Editor Graydon Carter, who famously used his show-biz friendships to benefit himself financially, has been calling his Hollywood pals ???scumbags??? behind their backs in these weeks leading up to his magazine??™s annual Oscar night party, L.A. Weekly has learned. Sources say Carter is even naming names, including his one-time mentor Jeffrey Katzenberg and his $100,000 benefactor Brian Grazer. Both men were unaware they??™d been badmouthed by the editor during a spate of sloppy emotional jags at cocktail parties, dinner engagements, in the office and on the phone: Katzenberg for supposedly dropping Carter from the mogul??™s A-list, and Grazer for supposedly ratting out Carter??™s role in that A Beautiful Mind payola scandal. Grazer??™s diss comes within days of his seeing Carter socially in New York and being invited to attend the editor??™s forthcoming wedding.
Since Oscars is a silly season anyway, let us speculate about more folly in the future. Hollywood is a malevolent enough town that the denizens, scumbags or not, don??™t just get mad, they get even. Any fallout from Carter??™s recent purgings (more details later) could sink V.F.??™s Academy Awards soiree February 27.
3. Slate
When you spot the supermodel Carolyn Murphy in repose on the cover of the new Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, the first unseemly thought that crosses your mind is: "What is Carolyn thinking?" OK, maybe not. But??”no groans, please??”that's the question we're here to answer today. In its 41 years on newsstands, the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue has been hailed as the arbiter of supermodel succession (Tiegs to Porizkova, Macpherson to Ireland) and as a commercial juggernaut ($35 million in ad sales this year). But it has yet to be celebrated as a magazine with the kind of sophisticated intellectual framework of, say, the Partisan Review. We plan on advancing that argument, just as soon as we finish ogling Carolyn Murphy. The editors of the swimsuit issue have perfected a genteel notion of female sexuality. You might call it Minivan Cheesecake. That is, the magazine is just tasteful enough to be enjoyed comfortably by a middle-aged man who operates a minivan. This year's crop of 18 supermodels would look right at home in a Subaru commercial. They never reveal anything more than a stray nipple??”and then it's tucked beneath a translucent swimsuit (Page 75) or body paint (Page 78). In return, the SI cameras maintain a discreet distance from the babes??”none of the too-close-up shots you find in Playboy or Penthouse. The models seem to smile a lot more than they do in the skin magazines, and they stop to pay tribute to inspirational heroes like Jane Goodall and Brett Favre. Why, there's even a special treat for
the kids: supermodel trading cards!
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