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Cindy Adams: Crazy Dog Lady
Hamilton Nolan · 08/31/09 10:15AMCindy Adams' New York Post columns appear to be produced by a random word-generator machine. Her visage appears to be produced by Botox and shellac. So it is unsurprising to find that she is a Helsmley-level ratdog nut.
Rebecca Mead infiltrated Cindy's aboveground lair in a Park Ave. penthouse and recorded these ramblings about the gossipeuse's Yorkies before being chased out by Cindy's bloodthirsty wolf-celeb hybrid bodyguards:
The Reinvention of Cindy Adams
cityfile · 08/31/09 08:22AMIt's certainly nice to see Cindy Adams finally embrace her Hispanic heritage, isn't it? Let's hope she shares a few more of these previously unreported tidbits when she opens up her Park Avenue apartment for "four nights only" at the end of September and gets attendees to pay $250 a ticket to hear her tell stories in her living room. [New Yorker]
Scientology Thwarted (For Now)
Andrew Belonsky · 08/31/09 05:15AMAdmittedly Bitchy Newspaper Man Gavin O'Reilly Can't Help Himself
Andrew Belonsky · 08/31/09 02:20AMSave The Airwaves!
Andrew Belonsky · 08/31/09 12:26AMSam Zell's Resiliency Boggles The Mind
Andrew Belonsky · 08/30/09 10:44PMDJ AM: The Aftermath, Tributes, and Legacy
Foster Kamer · 08/30/09 07:16PMThe '$400,000' Hurricane Katrina Story: Expensive, Epic
Foster Kamer · 08/30/09 06:45PMRolling Stone Finally Taking Late, Doomed Shot At RollingStone.com
Foster Kamer · 08/30/09 04:15PMHartford Courant Seeks Consumer Affairs Reporter To Kowtow To Advertisers
Foster Kamer · 08/30/09 11:45AMNew York Media Types Clearly Aren't Licensed To Talk About Cars
Foster Kamer · 08/30/09 10:50AMTed Kennedy's Funeral: Photos, Screengrabs, And Tweets
Foster Kamer · 08/29/09 11:45AMCable Ratings Go Up, Newspaper Ad Sales Go Down
cityfile · 08/28/09 01:04PM• The average person consumed 32.2 hours of TV each week this summer. It's a new record. And it's all thanks to the quality programming that cable channels have been putting on the air the last few months, obviously. [NYP]
• The bad news for newspapers is getting worse: Ad sales dropped by 29% during the second quarter, which means newspapers have $2.8 billion less in their (already empty) pockets than they had at this time last year. [AP]
• Related: Please take the time this weekend to read the massive story about Hurricane Katrina in the New York Times Sunday magazine. It cost the paper and ProPublica a record-setting $400,000 to produce. [CJR]
• Because Nightline feels left out of the war between Conan and Letterman, the show is launching a campaign to remind you that it still exists. [AdAge]