Wenner Queer for Homo Oater

The current Rolling Stone offers an image of Heath Ledger, barefoot, floating Jesus-like on water–and a cover line touting “Famous Failures Back in the Real World.” The magazine isn’t referring to Ledger’s Oscar loss for best actor or Brokeback Mountain‘s best-picture defeat, but to an inside piece on American Idol.

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Todd Purdum Is New Adam Clymer; Adam Nagourney Is New Todd Purdum

Hollywood movies and glossy magazines–they go together like peanut butter and chocolate in this town, but rarely do they resemble anything like Rolling Stone ‘s weirdly prominent role in the promotion of the teenybopper film A Knight’s Tale .

For years, of course, movie companies have lifted choice phrases (“A Wow-Pow, Rock ‘Em, Sock ‘Em Read More