Comments on: I Heard It Through the Grapevine…

By: LDA

LDA — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 21:29:18 +0000

“Maybe We Deserve to Be Ripped Off By Bush’s Billionaires”

http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/48278/

By: Steven Gould

Steven Gould — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 13:29:24 +0000

Between Ferguson’s comments and Pitts’, both come up with that point where people come to the realization that the abstract thing they’re making fun of is a human being.

Flawed. Falling apart in public. Human.

By: Bradley Denton

Bradley Denton — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 14:22:52 +0000

Leonard Pitts offers some relevant observations: http://www.miamiherald.com/285/story/35881.html

By: Kate

Kate — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 13:51:53 +0000

Many “journalists” are also quoting from blogs (sometimes unknowingly choosing satirical blogs without reading the fine print), and releasing the “information” on AP wires to travel around the world…

By: Caroline Spector

Caroline Spector — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 13:27:41 +0000

I’ve decided that we love gossip so much, we’ll even gossip about ourselves. Hence blogging.

And, Rory, you cost me a fortune in bets by not mentioning lesbians in your big boobs post. Sigh. What’s the world coming to?

By: Rory Harper

Rory Harper — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 05:04:17 +0000

Steven Gould Says:

And I’m shocked and surprised that Rory had no comment about the painting.

Hey. Even though I’m an insensitive oaf, that’s the kind of art that I understand on a deep emotional and intellectual level. We should have more of that sort of high culture here.

Only with bigger boobs.

By: Steven Gould

Steven Gould — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 04:23:46 +0000

So now George Takei and Craig Ferguson are my new heros.

By: Bud Simons

Bud Simons — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 03:59:20 +0000

Gossip magazines, many of which publish particularly unflattering photos of celebrities, fill an important role for their readership. They give the multitudes of have-nots the perception that, in spite of their fame and riches, the haves are just as miserable and messed-up as everyone else. I suppose there’s a degree of truth to that. Then again, the rest of us can’t go buy ourselves a Ferrari when we’re having a bad day.

By: Madeleine Robins

Madeleine Robins — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 03:50:39 +0000

Excellent post, Caroline. I'm not above gossip, God knows, but I'm generally more interested in gossip about people I know. I really loved Craig Ferguson's long, rambly comments on why he wasn't going to pick on Britney Spears.

By: LDA

LDA — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 02:53:48 +0000

Painted by James Carroll Beckwith:

http://www.artnet.com/Galleries/Artists_detail.asp?gid=263&aid=2205

By: Caroline Spector

Caroline Spector — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 00:16:24 +0000

Ken,

Yes, Stolley was, indeed a fine journalist when he was at “Life.” But things change, and he did make “People” what it became. I don’t think he’s a villian, just part of the way things changed.

And yes, that is Evelyn Nesbit — unless Google Images is lying — a distinct possibility. And, you know, made you look . . .

By: Ken Houghton

Ken Houghton — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 00:08:24 +0000

I’m still trying to figure out if it’s a picture of The Legendary E. Nesbit.

But Caroline may have forced me to write an answer-post defending Stolley, who was a fine journalist at Life long before he took on Pimple.

By: Steven Gould

Steven Gould — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 23:49:22 +0000

And I’m shocked and surprised that Rory had no comment about the painting.

By: Steven Gould

Steven Gould — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 23:46:23 +0000

Just remember, Caroline, next time you get out of a limo in a mini-skirt….

By: Morgan J. Locke

Morgan J. Locke — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 23:26:07 +0000

Good stuff, Spector. Sleaze sells. Thank ghu for the Tubes, so we can get our dose of other stuff too.