Posts tagged as Gossip
The Rise Of The Blind Gossip Item
Scroll through the blog Crazy Days and Nights (CDAN) and you’ll find a number of innocuous items—red carpet photos of waving actors, well-worn bits of celebrity news. It seems as if the blog is made up of information you can find repeated elsewhere ad infinitum until you come across the nuggets of gossip gold: the blind items. READ MORE
The Cordial Enmity Of Joan Didion And Pauline Kael
A column that resurrects the highbrow gossip of yore. READ MORE
UK Press Struggling to be Free, One Affair at a Time
They're just ungagging the press right and left over there in Ye Olde England! Now? "Gordon Ramsay’s father-in-law has lost a legal battle to stop the press revealing he has two love children with his mistress." Oh golly! Love children! Children of love. Unlike all those other nasty children of hate.
The Way We New York Gossip Now
Is New York's Golden Age of gossip fading, or simply in a period of retrenchment? The Village Voice takes a good look.
Dreamcrasher, With Brady Hammock
Every night millions of us interact with the rich and famous-in our dreams. But why should those celebrity encounters remain off the record? Star columnist Brady Hammock is here to bring you all the dirt about your favorite personalities and how they really act when they think they're safe behind the scrim of your subconscious. READ MORE
A Handy Guide to Which Black People Gossip Sells White People Ads and Pageviews
"Gossip, like everything else in the media, is a business.... The reason why Page 6 doesn't care about Mashonda or Swizz Beatz's past is because Page 6 has no real clue who the hell those people are. Or if they do know who they are, they do not care because they know that Swizz Beatz and Mashonda don't sell ads." (via)
Gossip Is Intended To Undermine The Negative Consequences of Fame
"They abuse power as much as bankers do, and they make the average person feel insecure about themselves: ‘Why am I not Sarah Jessica Parker?' It gets very existential, because you first got into it because you were interested in these artists, but these folks are not artists, they're just famous." READ MORE
Owen Thomas Leaving Valleywag
Owen Thomas, the longtime writer of the Silicon Valley gossip website Valleywag, which was recently chopped back and folded into Gawker, is departing. From an email inside the Gawker mothership: READ MORE
