The Post reports today that Ron Galotti, the inspiration for Mr. Big, is in talks with McGraw-Hill, for a book deal. I had to wonder, how would Carrie Bradshaw react to the news? -raronauer
In a city like New York, opportunity is always around the corner. One minute, you???re walking through SoHo, unable to find a cab or Starbucks for your life, and by a stroke of luck, you uncover the best sample sale of your life.
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Clintons Close In On Absolute PowerRon Burkle, BFF of Hill and Bill, is set to acquire AMI, which owns Shape, Star, the National Enquirer and Men’s Fitness. GQ???s advice to the editors there: stay out of the Clintons’ way. [WWD]
Media Blitz: Village Voice-New Times nuptials a go• Jann Wenner already has his Us Weekly, but now he wants to out-People People with a celebrity weekly crossed with a “real stories” glossy. And what do you know, Bauer wants to out-Wenner Wenner with the same idea.
• The Village Voice–New Times merger is real! Like, more real than anything on Tara Reid! A May 27 merger agreement has surfaced with terms of the deal, which include handing over majority control to the New Times in shares and board members and VV CEO David Schneiderman receiving a $500k bonus for his “work on the merger.”
• After seeing its credibility crumble from the wrath of blogs, CBS News is getting a blog of its own. It’s enlisted former Hotline editor Vaughn Ververs to pen a “nonbudsman” column on CBSNews.com, debuting next month. He’ll be reporting to CBS digital media chief Larry Kramer, not news prez Andrew Heyward.
• As Diane Dimond tries cashing in (again) on Michael Jackson with a new book, Court TV decides it’s had enough of her outbursts. Diane signs off .. to her fan club (yes, that’s deserving of at least two “WTF’s”).
• Real life “Mr. Big” Ron Galotti is splitting his farm, but only so he can hunker down at his “other” farmhouse in Vermont to conduct rennovations.
• After eight years of letting New Yorkers forget it exists, Adam Moss‘ New York magazine would like to remind you: “This is New York.” (That doesn’t mean you, Philly.)
• It wasn’t quite Pat Robertson calling for the assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, but watching CNN meteorologist Chad Myers flip out at Daybreak’s Carol Costello was just as entertaining — without the death threats.
• It shouldn’t take a whole article on Slate to inform you that freelancers are paid less than the guy messengering over our enema equipment, but if that’s what it takes to alert the unions, so be it.
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