“My second favorite film of all time is Shawshank Redemption,” raved Star Jones, wearing a striped hat and cream dress to Monday’s Mandela Day luncheon at the Pool Room at the Four Seasons, “but I want you to know that I watched The Sum of All Fears for the 14th time last night.” Which is Read More
Rick Stengel had a piece in this week’s issue of Time, the magazine he edits, about Nelson Mandela. It was the cover story: "The Secrets of Leadership"; in the piece Mr. Stengel went through eight prescriptive slogans (example: "Keep your friends close – and your rivals even closer") and explained how they relate to Read More
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With all the local hype over The Real Housewives of New York City, we’d almost forgotten about their west coast predecessors and sister show, The Real Housewives of Orange County, which taught us everything we’d ever wanted to know about plastic surgery, Southern California Republicans and bad parenting. But now that summer’s Read More
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The new managing editor of Time magazine will be Richard Stengel, Time Inc. announced this morning. Stengel, currently the head of the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, previously held several editing posts at Time and Time.com. The full announcement comes after the jump:
RICHARD STENGEL NAMED MANAGING EDITOR OF Read More
Another weekend, another irrelevant Michael Jackson post. The last, I promise.
But if you enjoyed The Politicker’s link to Triumph the Insult Comic Dog’s frolics among the Jackson fans, which we posted last week, you should check out the animated intro to Jackson’s official fan site, MJJSource. A true, multi-media classic of contemporary Read More
Who Owns History?: Rethinking the Past in a Changing World , by Eric Foner. Hill & Wang, 233 pages, $24.
“We must forget the past,” Nelson Mandela once said, hoping that a new South Africa would emerge vengeance-free from its crippling history of apartheid. Eric Foner, a distinguished historian at Columbia University, hears that and Read More
George W. Bush and Richard Cheney made an unusual pair as they worked the rope line after Mr. Cheney’s anointment in Austin, Texas, last week. Mr. Bush was all motion, smiles and sex: Lee Atwater playing Chicago blues back in the old days. Mr. Cheney tagged along, bald and portly as the Soviet dignitaries that Read More
You’re Too Kind: A Brief History of Flattery , by Richard Stengel. Simon & Schuster, 315 pages, $25.
“TK,” to a journalist, means “to come.” It’s a placeholder in draft copy for something to be added later.
The first page of my review copy of Richard Stengel’s history of flattery says “Acknowledgments TK,” the Read More
Supermodels, particularly this one, are not famous for punctuality, but Ms. Campbell was ahead of schedule. Live television makes her nervous. “You’re supposed to say ‘Break a leg,’ not ‘Good luck,’” she cooed into the phone. On the dressing-room sofa sat the hairdresser, waiting his turn with Naomi at the mirror while, like a veteran Read More
