billy-mays
Stop, Jennifer Aniston, We Can't Keep Up!
Andrew Belonsky · 10/16/09 04:30AMMays Lives On — In Sticker Form
Andrew Belonsky · 08/27/09 02:40AMCocaine Implicated in Billy Mays' Death
Ryan Tate · 08/07/09 04:32PMPotter Debuts, Fortune Revamps, Twitter Gets Hacked
cityfile · 07/15/09 01:07PM• The Harry Potter frenzy kicked off last night when the latest installment debuted at midnight last night and raked in $22.2 million in the process. [THR]
• Jared Kushner's struggling Observer is still hunting for a new editor. [DF]
• Time Inc. has "assembled a high-level SWAT team" to revamp Fortune. [NYP]
• The most successful magazine at the moment? Fitness. Obviously! [Folio]
• Ukraine's Culture Ministry has banned Brüno because "it's immoral." [THR]
• A hacker accessed the computers of several Twitter employees, made off with a big bunch of documents, and is now leaking the info online. Technology! [TC]
• Is NBC's wacky, new terrorist-hunting reality show going to put war correspondents in danger's way? Guess we'll find out shortly, right? [NYO]
Dead Man Sells Adhesives
Hamilton Nolan · 07/10/09 09:06AMA View From The Sludge
Foster Kamer · 07/05/09 04:57PMToday in Autopsies
John Cook · 06/29/09 12:22PMThe Jackson Saga Rolls On
cityfile · 06/29/09 05:55AM
• A second autopsy was performed on Michael Jackson over the weekend just as details from the first were revealed: Jackson was just 112 pounds when he died and his "emaciated body was riddled with needle marks and scars, and his head was virtually bald." In the meantime, his doctor, Conrad Murray, has denied giving Jackson any drugs right before his death and says he found a faint pulse when he first discovered him. Jackson's parents say they plan to fight for custody of Jackson's kids and for control of his estate. And plenty of people came out to celebrate Jackson's life at a couple of BET parties this weekend. And now you're all caught up. [NYP, LAT, WP, NYDN]
• Poor Jen Aniston. One minute she's happy and relaxed and supposedly dating Bradley Cooper and now Cooper says they're just "friends." [P6, NYDN]
Billy Mays: Mr. As-Seen-On-TV, Dead At 50
Foster Kamer · 06/28/09 11:30AMBilly Mays Hates Kids
Hamilton Nolan · 06/17/09 03:14PMThe King Of Television
Hamilton Nolan · 08/19/08 09:54AMWho's on TV more than anybody else? Oprah? Jay Leno? Ha, you fools. The Washington Post estimates that Billy Mays, the bearded, dangerously hyper Oxi Clean pitchman, "could already be the single most ubiquitous figure on television today, measured purely in face time." Despite that, he's getting a reality show this fall, about making ads. Disturbing? Yes. Is there any stopping him? There is not. [WP]