Writer and recent juror Danielle Reed has a revelation to share for future white collar crime jurors: "White-collar crime even when it s accompanied by videos of carousing semi-clad models is boring" and some words of warning for New Yorkers:
What's former Spy and New York editor Kurt Andersen up to? Why, he's writing the book for a musical adaptation of the comic strip "Broom-Hilda." Swear to God — the one with the witch and her best friends, a troll and a buzzard. You know, right next to the evil self-hating 80's career woman strip "Cathy."
Recently-depressed monologist Spalding Gray was reported missing on Sunday. If you see a slightly deranged-looking older man ranting on the streets of Soho, please don't throw nickels at him; society wants this one back. So keep yer eyes peeled — we hope this finds Mr. Gray well.
Actor Spalding Gray Is Missing [NYT]
Evidently there's another publication called The New York Post that publishes on another strangely similar island, also called "Manhattan."
Kieran Culkin, star of TV's "The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns" and film's "Father of the Bride Part II," has an excellent Friendster testimonial:
Which famously dim-witted blonde singer and star of her own reality TV show said on January 7th that "I don't think I am going to get pregnant. I am trying not to," but quite possibly may know that she's already pregnant?
Great and utterly stupid news! The American Dialect Society has included "to zeta-jones" on the shortlist for the Least Likely To Succeed Word of 2003. Famously invented by Elizabeth Spiers of Gawker, to "zeta-jones" means "to eat ravenously, as if downing last bowl of Sally Struthers-provided rice in the midst of a famine."
There are two fascinating and similar emails going around today. One begins: "The AP Sports desk accidentally emailed out there sports rolodex today to other newsies. If you've been wanting to raise hell with Peter Ueberroth, talk to Hammering Hank, or see how much Pete Rose was actually wagering - give em a call. Before they change their numbers. Someone at the AP is in deep doo-doo."
Guess who might decide the fate of Martha Stewart? We heard this rumor yesterday, and he's confessed in print over at Slate: J. Hoberman, Village Voice, film critic. Scary. I mean, this is a man who called Shattered Glass "self-important yet insipid." What's he gonna say about Martha?
The Year in Movies [Slate]
Today Matt Drudge, the undisputed news king of the internet, reported (in his all-caps house style) that "DRUDGE PASSES MSNBC IN AMAZON INTERNET RANK."
Well, Britney Spears' annulment has yet to be signed by the judge, but the papers themselves are up on The Smoking Gun. So sad when true love is thwarted. I'm sure y'all are feeling down, but I tell ya: the flag of love is definitely flying at half mast in this romantic's heart.
Britney's annulment [TSG]
Minute by Minute with Jason and Britney! [ESPN]
Most New Yorkers only hit the Astor Place K-Mart when we're A) really drunk, B) NYU students, or C) drunk NYU students, so undoubtedly the life of the Manhattan K-Employee isn't that pleasant. Shaun, a K-Mart worker, hates you for shopping:
Music historian Dawn Eden runs into Paris Hilton while out at the Madison Square Garden theater with her mom; muted chaos ensues. Compare and contrast Paris and Dawn's mom:
Anthony Bourdain — executive chef at New York's Les Halles and "Kitchen Confidential" author — comes for chefs Rocco Dispirito and Rick Bayless with a really sharp boning knife:
Margaret Cho gets down on the serious business of last night's Michael Jackson interview on 60 Minutes:
· Paging Tia Carrere: you might actually work again thanks to the (sort of) new hotness: ethnic ambiguity. (Now with no political ambiguity!)
· Michael Jackson CBS interview: police locked him in bathroom covered in "doo doo, feces" for 45 minutes.
· Shocking investigative report indicates that Sex and the City's Carrie Bradshaw lived beyond her means. [via The Modern Age]
Jonathan Ames hits seven Christmas parties in eight days (lightweight!), and gives the full report, sort of:
