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| Thy Neighbor's Wife, and Thy Own |
| Published: August 6, 2007, 11:30 am |
| Tags: Gossipmonger, Brett Ratner, Charlie Sheen, Denise Richards, Fox, Gay Talese, Gwyneth Paltrow, Hairspray, Hillary Clinton, John Travolta, Jon Bon Jovi, Lance Bass, Meryl Streep, Nan Talese, Oscar De La Renta, Park Avenue, Sumner Redstone, Ted Koppel, Yale, Ziegfeld Theater |
| and Gay Talese are at work on his and her memoirs about their allegedly open marriage. Jon Bon Jovi is not pleased an energy drink named Mijovi is selling well near his New Jersey residence. Ted Koppel dropped the asking price for his Potomac, Maryland, residence from $4.1 million to $2.3 million. Hillary Clinton complained about the traffic |
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| Gossip Roundup: Quick, Don't Think Of Gay And Nan Talese's Sex Life |
| Published: August 6, 2007, 10:30 am |
| Tags: Britney Spears, Gay Talese, Gossip Roundup, Kevin Federline, Nan Talese |
| Will Gay Talese's memoir of his four-decade open marriage to Doubleday publisher Nan Talese be Oprah's next book club pick? Maybe not! [R&M] Vanessa Williams is still bitching about her dog getting... |
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| Angelina Jolie Has A Bowel Movement: Has The World Changed Or Has 'Esquire' Changed? |
| Published: October 9, 2007, 12:20 pm |
| Tags: Angelina Jolie Has Bowel Movement, Esquire, Frank Sinatra Has Cold, Gay Talese, New York Observer |
| I recently started receiving Esquire magazine! (There were air miles to be disposed of, so why not?) And so one came the other week and I sat down and read it. Not sure which issue it was, I think... |
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| Good Riddance, Norman Mailer Is Dead' |
| Published: November 12, 2007, 4:55 pm |
| Tags: Obits, Gay Talese, Norman Mailer |
| New York Post tribute by Gay Talese: He was a man who never said no. He never said no to anything. I saw him quoted in some hardcore porno magazine 20 years ago and I thought, ‘God, there’s nobody he won’t talk to’ - there’s Norman Mailer in Hustler magazine, Penthouse magazine, as well as the Paris Review. |
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| Gay Talese Shames Us at the Launch of ‘Lapham's Quarterly’ |
| Published: November 16, 2007, 10:00 am |
| Tags: Ink Stained Wretches, Gay Talese, Harper S, Lapham S Quarterly, Lewis Lapham, Mark Twain |
| Talese: Not so gay at the Lapham's Quarterly soirée. Photo: Getty Images As expected, reproofs of modern American journalism were flying Wednesday night at the launch of Harper’s editor emeritus Lewis Lapham's new magazine, Lapham’s Quarterly, the first issue of which contains essays and correspondence on the topic of war from |
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| Gay Talese Misses Norman Mailer, Journalism |
| Published: November 16, 2007, 11:36 am |
| Tags: The City, Gay Talese, Norman Mailer |
| author Gay Talese has reportedly figured out what has fucked up journalism. At the launch party on Wednesday night for a new magazine called Lapham's Quarterly, which is under the control of erstwhile Harper's editor Lewis Lapham, a New York reporter got an earful from the dapper scribe. Musing on the media's apparent decline, Mr. |
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| Stuff Happening To Magazines, Say Magazine People Again And Again [Media] |
| Published: April 2, 2008, 11:14 am |
| Tags: Bloggers, Freelancers, Gay Talese, Journalismism, Magazines, Media, Same As It Ever Was, This Changing World, Writers |
| Be forwarned, youngsters: the magazine industry has no room for you any more. Also, it can't find you! You're all out there working on the blogs and not learning how to do real journalism. Which... |
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| Is the Traditional Magazine Writer Doomed? We Say No. |
| Published: April 2, 2008, 1:00 pm |
| Tags: Ink Stained Wretches, Doree Shafrir, Gay Talese, Magazines, Observer, Writers |
| Who wouldn't want to be this guy?Photo: Getty ImagesThe thesis of Doree Shafrir's Observer article today about magazine writers is that the occupation is no longer as enticing a career path with young journalists. It's filled with anecdotal evidence that nobody wants to write for Vanity Fair or The New Republic anymore because they're too busy |
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| Mag as Hell! |
| Published: April 1, 2008, 10:51 pm |
| Tags: Media, Anna Wintour, Annie Leibovitz, Bonnie Fuller, Chris Anderson, David Remnick, Gay Talese, Graydon Carter, Si Newhouse |
| Freelance Fizzle! The Decline and Fall of the WriterBY DOREE SHAFRIR There's not one path anymore, David Hirshey, executive editor of HarperCollins and former longtime deputy editor of Esquire magazine, said the other day. Thirty years ago, you worked at a newspaper, you moved to a magazine, and then you wrote books or screenplays. Today |
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| Elaine Kaufman Death Scare at the ‘Post’ — All Col's Fault? |
| Published: April 15, 2008, 7:00 pm |
| Tags: Ink Stained Wretches, Col Allan, Elaine Kaufman, Elaine S, Gay Talese, Media, New York Post, Pete Hamill |
| Elaine's, like Pete Hamill, Gay Talese, and even Kaufman's maître d' of 30 years. What a terrible loss! Quotes (and sometimes tears) began flowing in from some of the city's best-known ink-stained types, who became truly wretched at the news. Then, the city desk got a call from a reporter in the shack, the Post's police bureau. "Has anybody |
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| Elaine's The Blogger Bar Of Its Time [Patterns] |
| Published: April 21, 2008, 2:09 pm |
| Tags: Bubbles, Elaine S, Gay Talese, Last Call At Elaine S, Last Call At Elaine S Ii Last Call At The Magician, Patterns, Sloane Crosley, The Magician |
| If Gay Talese had a blog, he'd be all about promoting Last Call at Elaine's, Brian McDonald's memoir of bartending at the legendary old-school New York intellectual hang-out. Elaine's was to the '60s... |
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| Be Prepared to Learn More About the Taleses Than You Ever Wanted to Know |
| Published: April 29, 2008, 11:05 am |
| Tags: Gossipmonger, Barbara Walters, Christine Baranksi, Christopher Hitchens, Coachella, Donald Trump, Eurovision Song Contest, France, Gay Talese, Jason Segal, Julia Roberts, Katie Couric, Keri Russell, Kristen Bell, Ludacris, Mariah Carey, Marriage, Models, Nan Talese, Pamela |
| Getty ImagesGay Talese says the secret to marriage (he's a 50-year veteran) is to treat it like a friendship you can't live without, not about sex. He's writing a book about his own marriage to Nan Talese. Mariah Carey refused to have her photo taken at the premiere of her Tennessee without wearing sunglasses. Steve Guttenberg partied with |
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| "The Snarky Summary On Gawker" [] |
| Published: May 21, 2008, 6:09 pm |
| Tags: David Blum, Gay Talese, Lamentations, Media, The Internets |
| David Blum laments the internet and romanticizes Gay Talese in a story too long for anyone to read in this fast-paced modern world. [NY Press] |
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