Media-Whore's D'Oevres



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"Crain's reporter Matthew Flamm reports that this summer's biggest book auction is for Rolling Stones founding member Keith Richards' autobiography. HarperCollins and Little, Brown are battling for the book and the current marker is at $7.1 million, sources tell Crain's. 'This is Bill Clinton money,' one non-bidding publishing executive told Mr. Flamm .." (Observer)

"Britney Spears has spilled her story to OK! magazine. In a statement to celebrity news Web site TMZ, OK! Editor-in-Chief Sarah Ivens said the magazine had 'spent a heartbreaking day with Britney Spears and witnessed first-hand an emotional cry for help that will leave you shocked and sad.' 'This week, on newsstands Friday, the truth will be told,' Ivens said." (HuffingtonPost)

"Barack Obama's offer to meet without precondition with leaders of renegade nations such as Cuba, North Korea and Iran touched off a war of words, with rival Hillary Rodham Clinton calling him naive and Obama linking her to President Bush's diplomacy. Older politicians in both parties questioned the wisdom of such a course, while Obama's supporters characterized it as a repudiation of Bush policies of refusing to engage with certain adversaries. It triggered a round of competing memos and statements Tuesday between the chief Democratic presidential rivals. Obama's team portrayed it as a bold stroke; Clinton supporters saw it as a gaffe that underscored the freshman senator's lack of foreign policy experience. 'I thought that was irresponsible and frankly naive,' Clinton was quoted in an interview with the Quad-City Times that was posted on the Iowa newspaper's Web site on Tuesday. In response, Obama told the newspaper that her stand puts her in line with the Bush administration." (APNews via Drudgie Poo)

"The wider he casts his net, the more Prince tells us about Prince. More, in the sense of telling again what we sort of already knew about his obsessions with God and sex, and his overwhelming need to be the master. The holographic cover of Planet Earth shows him hovering godlike over the earth in a red disco shirt and black corset, his hands and features stiff with self-consciousness. Tip the cover a little, and both star and globe vanish into that glyph-thing he used during the nineties instead of a name. A perfect fusion of self and cosmos. Or something." (GlobeandMail)

"The New Yorker film critic David Denby is usually such a doom-sayer about the state of contemporary cinema that, on those rare occasions when he hints that the entire art form may not be going to hell in a hand basket, I sit up and take notice. So it is with his essay this week on the state of the romantic comedy genre, something he thinks is looking up because of Knocked Up, which he believes has put the genre on a new path, towards greater psychological insight, humorous sexual candor, and appeal to male viewers. Of course, he still has grumbling reservations about the movie: to him, it represents the latest in a recent trend of romantic comedies in which schlubby, slacker-y guys get the girl, and in which the girl doesn't really get any funny lines." (Popwatch)