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Ann Curry Wanted to Last 20 Years at Today

Well, this is awkward. Ann Curry’s on the cover of the August issue of Ladies’ Home Journal. It doesn’t hit newsstands til July 10 but today the magazine’s website published some quotes in which Ms. Curry—who is being moved out of the co-host chair at NBC’s Today—talks about how much she loves her job.

“I’ve been at Today for 15 years and I’d love to make it to 20. I think eventually I want to become a teacher, like my father wanted to be, and hopefully positively influence the next generation.” Read More

Can Todd Make a Mooseburger? Women’s Mags Scramble on Palin Coverage

Back in January, Off the Record polled members of the magazine world’s Seven Sisterhood, wondering if they felt compelled to apply editorial seals of approval to Hillary Clinton. Historic candidacy, first woman running for president … would they endorse? Family Circle, Good Housekeeping, Redbook, Ladies Home Journal and Woman’s Day—all said no.

Fast-forward to Read More

Ten Ways to Deck the Halls: A Little Martha and a Menora

You’re flummoxed, or gob-smacked, as the English say. Everyone

around you is being swept along by the nouveau sincerity-especially vis-à-vis

holiday preparations-leaving you high and dry. Having turned your back on

Yuletide sentimentality right about the time movie-star trannie Divine pushed

the Christmas tree on top of her mother in the 1975 John Waters movie Read More