The Inconvenient Truth About Leigh Haber?
We love Page Six's patented Random Reacharounds: those inexplicably crowing, glowing items that detail the achievements of someone readers have never heard of, typically introducing zero new information and blowing several lackluster achievements out of proportion. Today's item about Rodale's Leigh Haber is a classic example:
Last year, as an editor at Rodale, she published Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth," Bill Maher's "New Rules" and Noah Oppenheim and David Kidder's "The Intellectual Devotional." Now, Haber has been given her own imprint, Modern Times. She's already signed up O magazine columnist Martha Beck and Newsweek chief of correspondents Marcus Mabry. "Leigh Haber is recognized in the publishing industry as an accomplished editor and a champion of writers, with a keen eye for new ideas that will resonate with readers," said Rodale President and CEO Steve Murphy.
Zzzz . . . what? Sorry, we drifted off after the Al Gore part, somewhere in between the list of books we've never heard of and the fawning quote. But we did manage to pay attention to the confusing first sentence of the item:
FORGET Judith Regan - the new female publishing powerhouse in town is Leigh Haber.
Uh, we think that's what's known as a "backhanded compliment." As in, "perhaps she's backhanded a few assistants in her time"? You tell us.
