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about fame, power and money.
THE British Society of Magazine Editors invites members to:
Monday 13 October
BSME DAVID CAMERON RECEPTION
Member-only event hosted by David Cameron at his offices.
How very grand. What’s it about, then?
THE BIG DEBATE
THE WEB NEEDS MAGAZINES MORE THAN MAGAINES NEED THE WEB
Yeah, who needs the wbe..? Nor thsoe magaines. Beyond parody…
THE cover of Elle magazine. Nicole Kidman’s face has the texture and finish of a fresh-laid egg. Is this her? What has Nicole Kidman been dipped in? And she was once married to Tom Cruise…
Is she pulling back her hair or her head?
IT’S close to Mahatma Gandhi’s 139th birthday. Im Amritsa, the boys are playing at reincarnation; although some may not be as they claim.
And in the UK:
IT was Gandhi who said, ‘There are people in the world so hungry that God cannot appear to them expect in the form of bread.’ That is unlikely to apply to Robert Schofield, boss of the UK’s biggest food manufacturer, Premier Foods” – The Grocer
To remember in our prayers…
READING this week’s OK! is to venture into the A to Z of Celebrity Diseases.
Victoria Beckham would like OK! readers to know: “I HATE LOOKING AT MYSELF IN THE MIRROR.”
For such reasons does Her Poshness appear in magazines and thereby gets to see herself in glossy print.
Natasha Hamilton, a singer, tells us about “MY DEVASTATING MISCARRIAGE”. Although she pulled herself together to watch Disney’s On Ice Finding Nemo, which the kids “loved”.
And Girl Aloud singer Nadine Coyle tells us:
“I kept getting ill, coming out in cold sores with the stress. Then a found a lump in my breast.”
And? And it wasn’t cancer. But it could have been. It could have been a piece of gristle. But it could have been cancer. And Nemo could have died.
READING this week’s OK! is to venture into the A to Z of Celebrity Diseases.
Victoria Beckham would like OK! readers to know: “I HATE LOOKING AT MYSELF IN THE MIRROR.”
For such reasons does Her Poshness appear in magazines and thereby gets to see herself in glossy print.
Natasha Hamilton, a singer, tells us about “MY DEVASTATING MISCARRIAGE”. Although she pulled herself together to watch Disney’s On Ice Finding Nemo, which the kids “loved”.
And Girl Aloud singer Nadine Coyle tells us:
“I kept getting ill, coming out in cold sores with the stress. Then a found a lump in my breast.”
And? And it wasn’t cancer. But it could have been. It could have been a piece of gristle. But it could have been cancer. And Nemo could have died.
KERRY Katona uses her OK! Diary to tell us that’s she has a perfume coming out in October.
Parfumiers are right not harvesting the contents of Kerry’s knickers, sheets and husband for an essence that can be boiled, distilled and poured into a styrofoam burger box.
KERRY Katona uses her OK! Diary to tell us that’s she has a perfume coming out in October.
Parfumiers are right not harvesting the contents of Kerry’s knickers, sheets and husband for an essence that can be boiled, distilled and poured into a styrofoam burger box.
CALLS are coming in thick and fast to Anorak’s BOAST hotline. All orders are final, but Cheryl Cole and Amanda Holden are unsure…
Says Cheryl of her time before husband Ashley was accused of vomiting on their marriage vows:
“I was really broody. I’d see children and think that’s me. I’m ready” - Sun
The call to BOAST was made. But then cancelled. Sadly the children are sat in our storeroom awaiting despatch. No refunds but they can be exchanged…
Amanda Holden is on line 2:
MAHMOUD Ahmadinejad is Senator Larry’s Craig toilet toe-tapper.
It’s the 2008 magazine cover of the year. Here’s our winner:
Senator Larry Craig Wants To Engage You
Mitt Romney Supporter Senator Larry Craig’s Toilet Two-Step
CHERYL COLE wants you to know that “I CAN’T CRY ANY MORE THAN I’VE CRIED.”
Cheryl Cole has suffered, although not from water retention.
“I WAS CLINICALLY DEPRESSED AND UNDER SIX STONE,” says the headline.
Moving inside OK!, past “CHERYL WALKS AND TALKS” to Cheryl weeps and wails.
It’s not all about Cheryl, and this is a feature on she and her Girls Aloud bandmates. And we will get to whatsherface, the skinny one, the very skinny one and the one with the red-hair soon enough.
CHERYL COLE wants you to know that “I CAN’T CRY ANY MORE THAN I’VE CRIED.”
Cheryl Cole has suffered, although not from water retention.
“I WAS CLINICALLY DEPRESSED AND UNDER SIX STONE,” says the headline.
Moving inside OK!, past “CHERYL WALKS AND TALKS” to Cheryl weeps and wails.
It’s not all about Cheryl, and this is a feature on she and her Girls Aloud bandmates. And we will get to whatsherface, the skinny one, the very skinny one and the one with the red-hair soon enough.
FLICKING through Old Mr Anorak’s Cosmopolitan research magazine, we find: “Sex Tips from Guys - Their all-time favorite mattress moves, revealed.”
The talk turns to – and look away now – penetration.
As he says:
“For really exciting penetration have your man thrust his arm directly through your torso and kind of blend into your back.”
And smile…
SCOTT Maslen’s wedding, and the stars have come out to shine, literally.
For just £2.00 HELLO! offers its readers a ready source of heat and light. One look at the sun-kissed faces of Scott’s EastEnders and The Bill co-stars and you feel as warm and snug as a jalapeno pepper up a camel’s bum.
“ALL the GUESTS,” says the cover page. “ALL THE GOSSIP.”
To Hertfordshire, where Scott is marrying Estelle Rubio, herself named after a star. They met nine years ago at 11 minutes past 11 on the 11 of August.
“They look as if they have stepped off the top of a wedding cake,” says Scott’s fellow EastEnders’ star Perry Fenwick.
We never do see the shoes and examine them for sings of frangipani, but our attention is moved by a sound from the toilets. The Sun takes up the tale:
“Scott’s pal was an usher but made a speech and it was filled with swear words. He called Scott a TV w****r and went on about their past.
SCOTT Maslen’s wedding, and the stars have come out to shine, literally.
For just £2.00 HELLO! offers its readers a ready source of heat and light. One look at the sun-kissed faces of Scott’s EastEnders and The Bill co-stars and you feel as warm and snug as a jalapeno pepper up a camel’s bum.
“ALL the GUESTS,” says the cover page. “ALL THE GOSSIP.”
To Hertfordshire, where Scott is marrying Estelle Rubio, herself named after a star. They met nine years ago at 11 minutes past 11 on the 11 of August.
“They look as if they have stepped off the top of a wedding cake,” says Scott’s fellow EastEnders’ star Perry Fenwick.
We never do see the shoes and examine them for sings of frangipani, but our attention is moved by a sound from the toilets. The Sun takes up the tale:
“Scott’s pal was an usher but made a speech and it was filled with swear words. He called Scott a TV w****r and went on about their past.
RUPERT Murdoch. Publishing genius. Here he tells Esquire readers about how journalism captivated him:
I finished college at twenty-two. I was going to do six months training on Fleet Street, which was the mecca of competitive journalism. I sat in on the Daily Express, and I enjoyed it so much, I thought, I gotta have a job here, just to learn. And I did that for four or five months. It was one of the happiest experiences of my life. I was living in a friend’s sitting room in London — which in those days was filthy from the pollution — and watching the editor and learning to be a journalist.
There was paper rationing in Britain in those days, and they couldn’t produce more than an eight-page broadsheet. And they treated every day like it was life-or-death competition. They would put up a one-page critique of the paper every day. “We had 156 stories today, and the Daily Mail had 164. Never let that happen again.” Everything was boiled down to two paragraphs or so. Brevity was important. Facts had to be right. And it was exciting. As a journalist, you felt as if you were right at the center of events.
Why does Anorak exist? To try to replicate some of that buzz in choosing stories that are not led by PR, spin and advertisers…
SHANE Richie is cradling his newborn daughter Lolita Belle.
She goes with his son who goes by the name Mackenzie Blue.
Why Shane Richie names his children after ranges Laura Ashley pelmet fabrics we never discover in the course of his interview in Hello!. But there is more to learn.
And matters quickly run to the issue of sex.
SHANE Richie is cradling his newborn daughter Lolita Belle.
She goes with his son who goes by the name Mackenzie Blue.
Why Shane Richie names his children after ranges Laura Ashley pelmet fabrics we never discover in the course of his interview in Hello!. But there is more to learn.
And matters quickly run to the issue of sex.
SAYS Liv Tyler (actress) within range of moose huntin’ Sarah Palin:
“I’m over six feet in heels and I feel like such a moose” – Liz Tyler, Bazaar magazine
It’s 3am and Sarah Palin is reading Bazaar magazine…
TABLOID Baby on Scott Richter, the man accused of having an affair with Sarah Palin has filed an emergency motion to have his divorce records sealed!
The McCain campaign threatened to sue the National Enquirer for reporting that Sarah got it on with Scott Richter, her husband’s former business partner. The religious right “family values” wing will probably give her a pass on this one, just like they gave her unwed daughter a pass on the teen pregnancy.
But imagine if this were the Obamas… or if Michell Obama had belonged to a political party that wanted to secede from the United States…
Why imagine- let’s make it up and stick it on the web…
TABLOID Baby on Scott Richter, the man accused of having an affair with Sarah Palin has filed an emergency motion to have his divorce records sealed!
The McCain campaign threatened to sue the National Enquirer for reporting that Sarah got it on with Scott Richter, her husband’s former business partner. The religious right “family values” wing will probably give her a pass on this one, just like they gave her unwed daughter a pass on the teen pregnancy.
But imagine if this were the Obamas… or if Michell Obama had belonged to a political party that wanted to secede from the United States…
Why imagine- let’s make it up and stick it on the web…
US Magazine treats Sarah Palin badly. and the readers repsond:
Us Weekly, which unlike People and OK!, chose a rather caustic cover line (“Babies, Lies and Scandal”) is said to have lost thousands of subscribers in just the first 24 hours following the printing of the issue.
“I’m hearing it’s 5,000, maybe more,” says one well-placed source in the industry. Another source claimed that as many as 10,000 readers have already cancelled their subscriptions…
Hype follows hype - 10,000?