Kathy Bolkovac had an even-keeled reaction when The Observer told her Rachel Weisz had called her a hero. “I really reject that title” she said matter-of-factly. Nevertheless, last Wednesday evening, scores of socialites and celebrities descended upon Tribeca for the premiere of Ms. Weisz’s new film, The Read More
The Transom ran into former New York Daily News gossip and Daily Beast editor Lloyd Grove at the Ghetto Film School benefit at the Standard Hotel. We’d assumed he was inside the party to report—though he’d laughed in the face of a publicist who asked if he would like to stand on the red carpet Read More
Former gossip columnist and current Daily Beast editor-at-large Lloyd Grove was just outside strolling past the practice courts, and we asked him who his favorite player was.
“I kinda like the Williams girls,” he said. “I also like all the Russian women. I think they’re very striking looking. And I like their nut-brown skin.”
He Read More
Michael Wolff invited fifty people from News Corp to his book party last night celebrating his biography of Rupert Murdoch, The Man Who Owns the News, at Milk Studios in West Chelsea, but none of them showed.
"None of them RSVP’d, none of them said yes or no," he said last night, while speaking Read More
Tabloid Wars–debuting July 24! On Bravo!–provides at least one important lesson about the New York media scene: Someone should keep a camera and microphone on ex-Lloyd Grove stringer Hudson Morgan 24 hours a day. The dapper, world-weary Morgan runs away with the series whenever the lens turns his way, delivering a reality-TV-ideal blend of astute Read More
The carrot-and-stick game played by Kevin Sheekey and Michael Bloomberg when it comes to the mayor’s presidential ambitions continues in the Daily News today. Lloyd Grove notes that Bloomberg has publicly dismissed any Presidential dreams, but then asks Sheekey why such Internet domain names as Bloomberg2008.com. and MikeforPresident.com have been registered to anonymous owners Read More
According to Lloyd Grove in today’s News Giuliani said at the American Jewish Committee’s gala at the Waldorf Wednesday night that “Both military actions were successful in achieving their objectives…Both governments in both places are in better condition today than they were five or six years ago.”
He was referring to Afghanistan and Read More
Lizzie Grubman, the publicist who once told New York magazine that “I’m totally in bed with the Post,” did in fact do everything short of taking employees of the Post—and numerous other gossip purveyors—along on her honeymoon after her wedding on March 18th.
It’s not clear if the groom, Chris Stern, had any friends of Read More
“We believe that insurgents, or whoever these people are, read Web sites,” New York Times foreign editor Susan Chira said.
It was Sept. 20, the day after The Times had confirmed that reporter Fakher Haider, one of its Iraqi stringers, had been abducted and killed in Basra. It was the second murder of a journalist Read More
“We believe that insurgents, or whoever these people are, read Web sites,” New York Times foreign editor Susan Chira said.
It was Sept. 20, the day after The Times had confirmed that reporter Fakher Haider, one of its Iraqi stringers, had been abducted and killed in Basra. It was the second murder of a Read More
