Category: michael wolff

Gossip Roundup: Looking High and Low

• Reliable Source: Rachel Dratch preparing to play Miers on "Saturday Night Life". . . Jason Binn criticized for putting minor contributors on masthead of Capitol File magazine. . . Mick Jagger tells MCI Center audience: "[Miers] looked high. She looked low. In the morning, she looked in the mirror and said, 'Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the fairest judge of all?'" [WP]
• Rush & Molloy: Fox News flack doesn't know if anchor and Condi-fan Lauren Green is gay. [NYDN]
• Inside the Beltway: Hillary, Landrieu, Hughes to roast Barbara Walters tonight. [WT]
• Liz Smith: Michael Wolff speculates about Cheney in '08. [NYP]

READ MORE: 2008 , Personalities , barbara walters , capitol file , condoleeza rice , dick cheney , fox news , harriet miers , hillary clinton , jason binn , karen hughes , lauren green , mary landrieu , michael wolff , mick jagger , rachel dratch , saturday night live

Inside the Bubble: Media on Media Violence

• Everyone loves a Jew with a big. . . nose. [Gawker]
• The press in Crawford are way into Atkins: "a lot of them are sitting around there, eating barbecue three times a day, feeling a little resentful that the president has dragged them down there." [CNN]
• And while they eat barbecue, the President plays Marco Polo with Lance: "Trent Duffy confirms that the president, Armstrong and the group did indeed swim in the pool after the bike ride." [Blogs for Bush]
• The only line you need to know from Wired's Jon Stewart interview: "I'm surprised people don't have cables coming out of their asses." [Lost Remote]
• If you haven't yet read Murray Waas bitch-slapping Michael Wolff, you really should: "When you say the media didn't report this, let's look at the track record of Vanity Fair. Vanity Fair is coming into this ballgame pretty late, aren't they? I mean, how long has this story been around, and when did Vanity Fair come to it?" [Media Channel]

READ MORE: gawker , jon stewart , michael wolff , murray waas , pool reports , vanity fair , white house press corps , wired

Michael Wolff's Rucksack of Dross

We were so distracted by Michael Wolff's use of the word "fucking" to describe the Plame/CIA leak investigation story that we forgot to try to figure out what he meant by it being a "fucking big story." Like, has he seen the size of Cheney's schlong? Anyway, we asked Fred Becker to explain.

Dear Wonkenutter,
 
I heard that at one of those fancy media lunches yesterday, Michael Wolff was heard to declare that the Valerie Plame outing was “one of the biggest stories of our age.” This is undoubtedly true. I say this because I presume by “our” he means the men’s room sect of idea-free media writers consumed by mogul envy. And by “age” he means the timelines of planet Zog.

Here on earth we’ve had a couple of wars in our age. An election was contested here and the Supreme Court had to decide the outcome. A President was impeached. Oh, and they flew some planes into buildings very near where Mr. Wolff spends frantic time stitching new gallant robes of flowing pedantry.

I understand that Mr. Wolff writes for Vanity Fair—I never get past those dreamy celebrity one-handed reads so I wouldn’t know. But I am very anxious to buy the next issue in the hopes that he might give us some clues about which wardrobe to enter to emerge into the world in which he lives. I have no late summer vacation plans and apparently all that’s necessary to make the trip is a rucksack of dross.

Until my next postcard (from planet Zog!) I remain,
 
Your faithful servant,
 
Fred Becker

RELATED: Breakfast at Michael’s, Abridged [Gawker]

READ MORE: fred becker , gawker , michael wolff , plame investigation , vanity fair

Gossip Roundup: A F-ing Big Story

Daily Briefing is on vacation. Relax, it's good for you.

• Salt historian knows very old jokes; told Bush is reading his tome, "Salt: A World History," Mark Kurlansky told Newsday "My first reaction was, 'Oh, he reads books?'". . . . Washingtonians not funny . . . . Universal to make film of 9/11's "Flight 93." [WP]
• Hollywood crowd applauds Reagan's on-screen death, cheers his being "threatened at gunpoint and pushed out of a speeding car," boos the words "Also Starring Ronald Reagan." [WT]
• Michael Wolff tells offends delicate sensibilities of Michael's crowd, says CIA leak investigation a "fucking big deal;" WP's Cohen points out that VF wankathons not the same as reporting: "You guess, and then you write!" [NYDN]
• More Pirro bloopers: Campaign website misspells names, forgets to note some pictured are dead. "It's another example of the screw-ups that have now come to define the Pirro campaign," a disgusted GOP activist says . . . . Producers of "The Great American Trailer Park Musical" dedicating production to Bill Clinton. . . . Overflow crowd for funeral of slain war journalist Steven Vincent. [Page Six, Page Six, Page Six]
• Robert Redford producing sequel to "The Candidate". . . . BREAKING: Dems not enthused about second Kerry nom. [Cindy Adams]
• Possible tell-all by Peter Jennings's ex dividing chattering class. [Liz Smith]

READ MORE: bill clinton , george w. bush , jeanine pirro , mark kurlansky , michael wolff , peter jennings , plame investigation , richard cohen , robert redford , ronald reagan , vanity fair

Gossip Roundup: Smooth Jazz

The Daily Briefing is on vacation.

•"The Bill Clinton Collection: Selections From the Clinton Music Room" to contain both real and light jazz, Judy Collins. No word on poetry compilation. [WP]
• Panel on free speech at Michael's restaurant in NYC to be a gilded cage match between Time Inc.'s Norman Pearlstine and Vanity Fair's Michael Wolff; Wolff pounded Pearlstine's argument about turning over Matt Cooper's notes re: Valerie Plame in latest issue of VF. . . . Hobbit-pal Viggo Mortensen continues to champion the little people, visited Cindy Sheehan in Crawford. [NYDN]
• Coldplay's Chris Martin nixes invite from Tony Blair because "Martin frets it would damage his image," doesn't like idea of becoming UK's Toby Keith. [The Scoop]

READ MORE: bill clinton , chris martin , cindy sheehan , coldplay , gossip roundup , judy collins , matthew cooper , michael wolff , norman pearlstine , tony blair , valerie plame , viggo mortensen

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