How excited is Robert Thomson to come to America to be the publisher of the Wall Street Journal? Possibly he has some mixed feelings! In a January, 2001 Business Week profile, Rupert Murdoch's boy actually savaged his new home. Thomson was at the FT then, and said that the Journal is best on cute little stories like ''midsize companies doing middling deals in the Midwest." Comparing the FT to the WSJ? "It's a Lexus-Taurus thing." We figure either he really does think the WSJ is a pile of crap—or he just likes to trash-talk because he's Australian, and therefore doesn't mean anything he says.

Oh noes! The gays are giving Lance Bass' memoir "Out of Synch" a bad review! Apparently the book is full of "ego-stroking and cattiness" and THEY DON'T LIKE THAT, the gays. (Um?) [After Elton]

Today's Sun highlights a trend among the rich of our fair isle: people buying second or third homes not in the country, but in the... city? Take must-be-crazy-rich Robert and Suzanne Cochran, who have lived at 1000 Park Ave. (pictured) for 17 years. They already have a country house, but now they've also bought a 5,200 square foot loft in Tribeca. The other day, Mrs. Cochran was "scouting out fabrics" for the home:

Rufus Wainwright tells Spin that Anderson Cooper goes to the gayest gym in New York—the Equinox in the Time Warner Center. Page Six retorts: "Actually, the David Barton Gym on West 23rd is the gayest in the city." Hmm. That may have been true in the 90s—is it still? What about Equinox on Greenwich? What about the New York Sports Club on 23th and 8th? Or even 23rd and Park? (They do call it the New York Sex Club, after all.) And the Crunch on Lafayette? How could B. D. Wong's favorite gym not be the gayest in town? Please to school us, gays and gay watchers.