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******* It's the holiday season for movies ??” small-budget beauties, that is. Despite all the Oscar buzz and holiday film hoopla, Entertainment Weekly isn't going googly-eyed about Hollywood. The mag takes a dim view on the industry's ballooning movie budgets, even for blockbusters helmed by big-name directors such as Peter Jackson and Wolfgang Petersen. But it's full of praise for films that boast smaller budgets and greater creative risk ??” namely, gay cowboy flick "Brokeback Mountain" and the gender-swapping "Transamerica." The rest of the mag is chock-full of television, music and book reviews, many of them quick and easy hits. Premiere is for true film buffs. It's not just about the stories on screen but the twists and turns leading to their creation, and their afterlife. Sometimes this obsession makes for great copy, such as a story on the thousands who make the pilgrimage to an Iowa baseball field hoping to find the magic in Kevin Costner's "Field of Dreams." On the other hand, how many people really care that the Toronto Film Festival is going through an "identity crisis"? However, its inside-Hollywood focus is put to good use in a holiday movie preview that is hard to beat for its thoroughness and behind-the-scenes access. MORE ONLINE
2. NY Post
Jim Brady's final column in Advertising Age will appear today, ending a 28-year run at the weekly. "I had a great run with the Crains. We're walking away with a handshake," said Brady, the best-selling author and veteran chronicler of high society and the media elite, reached at his East Hampton home Friday. Crain Communications President Rance Crain had asked Brady to stay on board as an editor at large to write longer pieces, but Brady, who is 75, said he declined. He's still writing books and a column for Parade, and will begin writing a media column for Forbes.com in January. MORE ONLINE
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It was in the midst of another Washington scandal, almost a decade ago, that I got to know Bob Luskin. He represented Mark Middleton, a minor figure in the Democratic campaign-finance scandals of 1996. Luskin kept Middleton out of the spotlight and never told me much. Still, there is the occasional source with whom one becomes friendly, and eventually Luskin was in that group. We'd occasionally meet for a drink--he didn't like having lunch--at Cafe Deluxe on Wisconsin Avenue, near the National Cathedral and on my route home. In October 2003, as we each made our way through a glass of wine, he asked me what I was working on. I told him I was trying to get a handle on the Valerie Plame leak investigation. "Well," he said, "you're sitting next to Karl Rove's lawyer." I was genuinely surprised, since Luskin's liberal sympathies were no secret, and here he was representing the man known to many Democrats as the other side's Evil Genius. I began spending a little more time than usual with Luskin as I tried to keep track of the investigation. But how it all bought me a ticket to testify under oath to special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald still floors me. The week of Oct. 24, 2005, was Indictment Week--that Friday, the grand jury's term would expire, and it was expected that Fitzgerald would finish up his probe by then so he wouldn't have to start working with a new grand jury. It seemed clear that Scooter Libby, chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, was in deep trouble, but Rove's status was uncertain. Sometime during that week, Luskin, who was talking at length with Fitzgerald, phoned me and said he had disclosed to Fitzgerald the content of a conversation he and I had had at Caf?© Deluxe more than a year earlier and that Fitzgerald might want to talk to me. MORE ONLINE
4. Mediaweek
When Christina Kelly was promoted in August to editor in chief of Elle Girl, she inherited a magazine that had been enjoying solid growth since its launch in 2001. Paid circulation for the Hachette Filipacchi Media monthly rose 1.4 percent to 513,689 for the first half of 2005, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Newsstand sales soared 23.3 percent for the period. Ad pages grew 48 percent through 2005, to 759, according to the Mediaweek Monitor. Kelly, a veteran editor of defunct teen titles YM and Sassy, joined Elle Girl in August 2004 to help then-editor in chief Brandon Holley (now at Fairchild Publications??™ Jane) sharpen the cover lines. Now the job falls to Kelly to keep the title humming. Effective with the February issue, Kelly will unveil some new features while retaining the magazine??™s ???dare to be different??? mission. MORE ONLINE
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AND JUSTICE FOR SMALL: TV Guide recently tried to give its sagging circulation a shot in the arm by going from digest size to full size. Now a new magazine is hoping to juice its own sales by making the opposite switch ??” and moving into the very checkout pockets TV Guide vacated. Justice will be taking over close to 100,000 new front-end racks at 7-11, Albertsons, Kroger and other stores over the next few months, according to editor in chief Randall Lane. The increased exposure will allow the magazine, which covers legal matters from celebrity mug shots to avoiding identity theft, to raise its 2006 rate base to 350,000. According to Lane, Justice was already contemplating a changeover to the smaller format as a means of differentiating itself from the many celebrity weeklies on the newsstand.
When TV Guide's pockets became available, the decision was easy. Lane noted that Justice's launch issue in June (the only one it has published so far) sold through at a much higher rate at the checkout, about 50 percent, than it did on mainline displays.
PEACH ON EARTH: It's a law of media nature: Where there are large numbers of rich people, there will be oversized, glossy magazines to publish pictures of their gatherings. The latest city to get the Gotham/Hamptons/Ocean Drive treatment is Atlanta. Ocean Drive Publishing Group, which already owns magazines in south Florida and Las Vegas, is starting a title called Atlanta Peach. The first issue, which will run 300 pages and have a circulation of 50,000 through a mix of paid and free distribution, will come out in April. Atlanta already has several city publications, including Atlanta Magazine, Seasons, Jezebel and PaperCity (whose founding editor, Elizabeth Schulte Roth, has been hired as editor in chief of Atlanta Peach). But Ocean Drive president Jerry Powers said he does not consider them
competition. "They all look like city magazines of the late Eighties, early Nineties," he said. "They have very little focus on fashion, on celebrity, on trends."
SHADOW CASTING: In addition to viewing U2 videos and episodes of "Desperate Housewives," you can now watch Linda Wells extolling the merits of lash-extending mascara on a video iPod. Allure's video podcast extension of its "Allure Backstage" Style channel TV show went live late last week on iTunes. Wells, the magazine's editor in chief, interviews beauty experts, designers and models and reports on beauty trends from the collections in New York, Milan and Paris.
************ ... that Cosmopolitan magazine (NYC) is looking for an accessories assistant/closet person. Send resumes to brosen@hearst.com. (OK to mention Ed) ... that The Licensing Book, a monthly trade magazine covering the marketing, branding and licensing of intellectual properties ranging from entertainment to corporate, is seeking an assistant editor. Ideal candidate will be a motivated self-starter with impeccable writing and editing skills, and the ability to meet deadlines and multi-task. Must be able to layout pages in Quark - Quark experience a MUST! Responsibilities include editing content, writing features, and some editorial production. Position entails interviewing high-level executives and attending trade shows. Bachelor??™s degree required, with English or journalism preferred. Salary under $25,000 - health and dental insurance included. Please send cover letter and resume in Word to mscheiner@licensingbook.com ATTN: Matt Scheiner. (Official Ed2010 posting) ... that Meetings & Conventions magazine, an award-winning monthly, is looking for an assistant editor. The office is in Secaucus, N.J., but the commute from NYC is for the most part painless. Candidates should have a bachelor's degree in English or Journalism, be very strong writers and have some journalism experience, at least from internships, college newspapers, etc. It's a position that requires a lot of writing, a good amount of relaxing travel and some clerical duties. Lots of opportunity for growth. Send cover letter with salary requirements (you'll probably start at $30-35K), resume and writing samples to: Ms. J. Bell, mceditorialresumes@ntmllc.com or by fax, to 201-902-1822. First, check out www.mcmag.com to read the magazine. No need to mention Ed. Internships ... that Cosmopolitan magazine is looking for college students to be spring semester interns in the Books Department. Responsibilities include: sorting through external manuscripts, updating an ongoing list of books that will be published in the upcoming months, answering the phone and fielding pitches from publicists, organizing the department, and staying on top of book requests from the staff. The internship is unpaid, but you'll receive college credit. A great opportunity for someone who's looking to gain experience in both women's magazines and the book publishing world. Send a resume and cover letter to sbodnar@hearst.com. The internship would be from January to May. OK to mention Ed. ... that Bridal Guide's Art Department is looking for an enthusiastic intern for winter 2006. Must have experience with Quark and Adobe Photoshop. Duties will include, but not limited to: cutting and assembling mini boards for art dept and creative director, scanning, and general art assistance. Depending on experience, possibility to work on pages. Please have student portfolio ready to show. Credit or non credit. Please send resumes to mjennings@bridalguide.com (OK to mention Ed)
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