Former Nightline anchor Ted Koppel turns 70 today. John Grisham is turning 55. Mary Steenburgen is 57. Nick Nolte is turning 69. Vince Neil of Motley Crüe turns 49. Seth Green is 36. Mary McCormack, the star of In Plain Sight, is turning 41. Comedian Robert Klein is 68. Times Magazine editor Gerry Marzorati is 57. And recently-jailed actor Gary Coleman turns 42 today.
New York City's unofficial first lady, Diana Taylor, is celebrating her 54th birthday today. Hope Mike got you something nice! Others celebrating: Tom Brokaw is turning 69. Former Daily News gossip columnist Lloyd Grove is 54. Henry Blodget is 43. Chef Marc Murphy is turning 40. Axl Rose is turning 47. Journalist/author Michael Pollan is 54. Natalie Cole is 59. Rich Astley is turning 43. And Zsa Zsa Gabor is 92. Weekend birthdays after the jump.
Gerry Marzorati, editor of the New York Times Magazine, was recently spotted on a plane headed to Milan for a T magazine party, swearing under his breath as if he had Tourette's Syndrome. It's understandable-he's been working too hard. The man has his own magazine to worry about, and here he is trekking across the globe to celebrate the new magazines his paper keeps adding, like the the fashion-centric T. That's because print, despite being on the way out, still has its bright spots. Chief among them for the miserable newspaper industry: Sunday magazines.
A memo just out from Bill Keller this afternoon announces that Gerry Marzorati, the editor of The New York Times Magazine since Adam Moss decamped for New York, will get a promotion to assistant managing editor and, with it, a spot on the paper's masthead. It seems as though he'll still be doing his same old job — producing the magazine each week, overseeing the various monthly and quarterly and biannual supplementary magazines. But with the great new title, it seems, comes great responsibility. "We want him to help identify and develop the next generation of editors for the magazines and magazine-like sections of the paper, particularly from within the paper," Keller writes. "We want him to be a bridge between the magazine and the newspaper on big enterprise, lending a hand (or the hands of his editing staff) to Glenn where appropriate on long narrative enterprise that can use a magazine touch, and making the magazine's pages more available as a showcase for projects that originate in the newsroom. We want him to work with the Web on developing a unique Times Magazine presence on our website, including an Internet luxury magazine."
