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Sulzberger Pal Denies Romantic Link with Times Publisher, George Clooney
Ryan Tate · 03/29/10 04:03PMMogul Who Lost $6 Billion Is Back to Winning the Ladies
Maureen O'Connor · 03/01/10 01:37AMWhoops! Complete Prick Isn't Related to Nice Lady
Pareene · 12/18/09 11:20AMYahoo Confirms: Holiday Blowout Cancelled
Ryan Tate · 12/04/09 12:47PMTwitter CEO No Longer Building a House
Ryan Tate · 10/20/09 03:28PMRyan Adams: I Took No Sex or Money from Courtney Love
Ryan Tate · 09/21/09 06:46PMPaul Krugman Addresses His Anti-Swiss Bias
Pareene · 08/24/09 09:32AMCorrection: Twitter Didn't Exact Suggested User List Revenge on TechCrunch
Ryan Tate · 07/16/09 01:09PMCorrection: This Is the Woman Who Says She Gave Bill Clinton a 'Baile Hot'
Pareene · 06/17/09 01:43PMImus Producer Was Actually First to Call Sotomayor 'J-Lo' For No Reason
Pareene · 06/05/09 09:40AMFallen Tech Messiah: I'm 30 Pounds Lighter, Not in Cannes
Ryan Tate · 05/21/09 12:40PMNPR: Please Keep Talking About How We Won't Talk About How Charlie Crist Is Gay
Pareene · 05/13/09 01:30PMSteve Bing Will Not Testify Against His Scummy Private Eye Friend
Pareene · 04/15/09 10:51AMAP Scandal: Top 10 Quotes List Quoted Krugman Quoting Others
Pareene · 12/23/08 09:24AMBritney Admits Her Marriage Was The Sort of Mistake Even Autotune Can't Fix
Kyle Buchanan · 11/19/08 01:15PMNow that a sober, nicely-weaved Britney Spears has had time to peruse her own Wikipedia entry, she's finally coming to grips with the things she barely remembers doing in a misty haze of Red Bull, Benzos, and Hot Pocket chicken fajitas. "What the hell was I thinking?" she once asked, and now, in a new clip from Britney: For the Record, she applies that question to her short-lived marriage to Kevin Federline. Sadly, in news that will surely dash hopes of a reconciliation, she admits that both Federline and his kick game were ridiculous. "I think I married for all the wrong reasons," she says. "I just did it because...for just, like, the idea of everything." Let this be a lesson: even though the fantasy of two souls exchanging vows in customized Juicy Couture "pimp" sweatpants is compelling, it's no reason to be hasty. Clip after the jump!
CNN Duped By Palin Photoshop
Ryan Tate · 09/08/08 08:55AMIt can be hard to sift truth from myth from conspiracy theory when it comes to Sarah Palin, even if that's what you're paid to do. But one would hope a professional journalist's natural skepticism would be piqued by the now-notorious Photoshop job at left of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin holding a rifle next to a swimming pool while wearing a bikini. Too good to be true! But Lola Ogunnaike, entertainment reporter for CNN's American Morning, seems to believe the image is authentic. Yesterday she told Reliable Sources host Howard Kurtz that Palin should maybe avoid posing with guns like this, because it might come back to bite her in the ass:
The Real Reason The Olympics Started On 08/08/08
Ryan Tate · 08/25/08 02:48AMThe number eight is considered lucky in China, and so everyone assumed that's why the Beijing Olympics opened on August 8, aka 08/08/08. This little chestnut gave the media a mildly exotic (but easy to understand!) piece of Chinese culture to talk about in their inevitable stories on the Olympic host country, and also something interesting to say about the opening ceremonies before they happened. But NBC Sports chief Dick Ebersol explodes the myth of 8-8-08 in the Times today, saying superstition is "not really why the Olympics started then." The real reason? Money. (Duh.)
Why The Times Stopped Taking Your Comments On Emily Gould
Ryan Tate · 05/27/08 05:17AMWhen the Times shut down comments on Emily Gould's still-physically-unpublished magazine cover story Friday, we — OK, I — speculated the newspaper "might be having second thoughts" about the value of generating online buzz, "barring some kind of technical concern." Well, there doesn't appear to have been any technical concern, but, based on information from one Times source, it sounds more likely comments were closed to shift staff to newer stories.
Update: Britney Spears Is Not Pregnant, Thank You Very Much!
ian spiegelman · 05/17/08 11:34AMDespite looking slightly, vaguely puffy in some recent photos, Britney Spears is not expecting a third kid. "U.S. pop singer Britney Spears says she is not pregnant for a third time despite recent photographs showing her with a bloated stomach. The 'Toxic' singer says a new medication she is taking was responsible for her recent weight gain and not a third pregnancy, the Daily Mail reported Saturday. 'I am not pregnant — it is just my medication that makes me bloated,' Spears said of recent pregnancy rumors. A source close to the 'Baby One More Time' star told the British newspaper Spears has struggled with her weight since the birth of her 20-month-old son Jayden James. Meanwhile, a friend of Spears said she is spending some time with actor Mel Gibson and his wife in Central America to help her gain some perspective in her life."