Media-Whore D'Oevres



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"Ever the self-aware fellow, Blair first assesses blame on himself and New Labor for 'courting, assuaging, and persuading' the press hounds in an effort to end what he calls its 'ferocious hostility.' Exactly how this courting damaged the news-gathering process, Blair doesn't disclose. He seems to be implying that he regarded the press as a pack of mad dogs when he became prime minister, taught it a few new tricks, and got it to behave for an interval, but now the institution has regressed to its snarling and foaming ways ... He much prefers the old order, in which information could be more easily managed by the government." (Slate)

"Producers take heart: It just got a little easier to put your hands on an Oscar. But just a little.The new rule was adopted by the film academy’s 43-member board of governors on Tuesday night, along with revisions that will permit two production designers to be nominated for their work on a given film, among other minor changes.
The agreement to consider exceptions to the three-producer rule, though a small change, was welcomed by some of those who had been slighted by the old limitation, which at this year’s Oscar ceremony excluded two producers, Albert Berger and Ron Yerxa, from awards consideration for the best-picture nominee 'Little Miss Sunshine.'
'My immediate thought would be that it’s a good move,' Mr. Yerxa said. 'Quotas are almost always inherently unfair.'" (NYTimes via Indiewire)

"Reebok has been going nuts lately, frantically churning out new and classic variations on the cushy hi-top. We don’t currently own any sneakers, but we were leaning towards the metallic hi-tops in our shopping imagination.Then we saw these – the new Basquiat Reeboks, inspired by the famous and doomed 80s artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. (Fashionista)


"Ryan Lizza's rough Richardson profile this week seems to have the campaign worried. MSNBC followed the story yesterday, and the Richardson campaign told MSNBC it wanted to put a top aide on to respond today, according to a source familiar with the conversation between the campaign and the network." (BenSmith)


We call them "Bitch Tits," Alex: "ON a recent afternoon, Dr. Michelle Copeland, a plastic surgeon whose offices face the Metropolitan Museum of Art, clicked her computer’s mouse as images of young men’s torsos flickered across the screen. Unlike the ancient Greek statues of Herakles or the bronze discus throwers in the newly renovated galleries across the street, the young men in Dr. Copeland’s digital images were a bit different: Rather than bearing the broad, flat chests of Greek athletes, their pectoral areas assumed a fuller, more feminine shape. Nathan Johnson, a model and actor, struggled with obesity as a child. The patients were found to have enlarged male breasts, a condition known as gynecomastia." (NYTimes via Gawker)