It's nearly four days since Gawker mascot and erstwhile Conde Nastie Andrew Krucoff left the Lower East Side for the far holier precincts of Jerusalem, and we were starting to get concerned. Not only is this the longest we've gone in many months without any hectoring email or IMs from him, but, most worrisome, his youngisraelite.com had not been updated since well before he left. Such shpelkis he was giving us!
The question has been showing up here and there recently: What ever happened to Andrew Krucoff?
We've no idea where it came from, when it was shot, or what it all means, but it's a video of supermodel Kate Moss, topless, performing some sort of glorious seizure-dance.
"Good one," President Bush said in an aside to Prime Minster Shinawatra. "Wish I'd thought of that first. Heh."
Yeah, so it's not about New York or media, but, still, we can't resist. Apparently the Internet is now good for rescue missions, too. CNN reports:
We'll go ahead and say it: We're absolutely in love with French Vogue editor Carine Roitfeld. And not in the strangely fascinated way in which we proclaim ironic "love" for her American Vogue counterpart, Anna Wintour. No, what we feel for Roitfeld is pure, unjaded, dewdrop-sincere love.
Stemware fans, meantime, prefer Maria Shriver.
Kate Moss continues her rise from the Bolivian ashes: Fashion house Burberry, home of the quintessential plaid favored by many a biddy and Diddy, has stepped forward to publically support supermodel Kate Moss, who lost millions in contracts after being featured on the cover of the UK's Daily Mirror banging rails of cocaine.
We realize we're going nowhere new here, but after four days of watching the Today show's Where in the World is Matt Lauer campaign, we can honestly say that the segment is, without question, the stupidest fucking waste of money and energy we've seen in at least two days (and we actually like Lauer, too). As if the banefully catchy jingle (Where in the world is [beat] Matt Lauer?!) weren't eye-rollingly intolerable enough, starting your day by watching Lauer show the Austrian and Chinese trinkets he's bringing back to his co-hosts just might incite violence.
Great news from Kate Moss's Post-Rehab Comeback Tour: After the UK's Daily Mirror featured the supermodel playing Scarface on its cover, Moss continues to rebound from losing face and millions in contracts. Her path to recovery includes the cover of Vanity Fair and an upcoming feature in haughty V magazine.
You have to love that the Drudge Report, that bellwether of breaking, right-leaning news and weather phenomena, has an exclusive report about last night's MTV Europe Music Awards. How, you might ask, does a report on a ho-hum Madonna performance for her masters at MTV fit into Matt Drudge's beat? Very easily:
We may have been so fortunate as to have Wenner Media abort an upcoming celebrity title, but it seems that there's little we can do to stop the international spread of mediocre magazines. Time Inc.'s Real Simple will be launching editions in Greece, Japan, and South Africa, and Dennis Publishing crown jewel Maxim is now launching its 30th monthly kegger in India, where it will be the country's first international men's lifestyle magazine (the venture, we presume, will also indulge Felix Dennis's colonial fantasies).
England's Prince Charles and his newish bride, Camilla the Duchess of Cornwall, have come to America to schmooze and, according to Chaz, "celebrate these longstanding and very special links between our two countries." Thus far, this has involved a visit to Ground Zero, meeting with relatives of the 67 Britons killed on 9/11, dedicating a stone, partying at the MoMA, and, according to Google News, 1,111 articles related to these fascinating events. Add to that the obligatory appearance of Page Six editor and royal commentator Richard Johnson on the Today show and Drudge's close attention to Camilla's dress count, and we have media delirium.
• Christian Slater, forced to give up his New York hobby of ass-groping, heads to West Hollywood, where he supplements his diet of misbehavior by falling off of Paris Hilton's roof. [People]
• Can we not take a tip from our friends across the pond and offer amnesty for those commuters caught reading embarrassing books? [Friday Project]
• Kate Moss grabs the December cover of Vanity Fair, making it all the more meta when you inevitably use your copy for cutting lines. [Jossip]
• Sex and the City's advertising campaign continues to skank all over Manhattan. [Gothamist]
• Justin Timberlake is being blamed for ruining Shrek 3. Funny: We thought Shrek 2 ruined the franchise. Aw, were we mean to the cute wittle cartoons? [Radar]
• Jesse Sheidlower literally cannot stand your incorrect usage of the word "literally." [Slate]
• For those of you poor spinsters so pathetic as to not land real engagement rings, Daily Candy suggests wearing a fake. [DailyCandy]
Our wish has been granted: Kate Moss, the supermodel whose rail-blowing image graced the cover of the UK's Daily Mirror, has reportedly decided to move to the United States. Just released from an Arizona rehab clinic last week, Moss is looking for a new home in New York, naturally (might we suggest a property in the Tribeca River Lofts? We hear alien model-types like the joint).
We'd call it the end of an era, but if it weren't for Henry the Intern, would you have even known that Harold Evans wasn't just Tina Brown's love slave but, in fact, a weekly radio host? For the past 13 weeks, BBC Radio 4 has hosted Evans's weekly "Letter from America," in which he rambles about the current American sentiment on current affairs (and usually those affairs least relevant to the issue of the week). For his final broadcast, Evans finally tackles the elephant in the room and talks of Iraq, if only in terms of its "elegant preamble." After the jump, Henry the Intern reports.
An emailer reminds of an unintentionally hilarious ad in last week's New Yorker:
It's not, sadly, as cool as you think.
