Sara Nelson recently got laid off as the editor of Publishers Weekly, so she's blogging about her "Reinvention." So far she's decided she does not want to be reinvented as Graydon Carter. For now, I take my cues from two guys I know (yes, they're guys, but I think their experience is relevant). In t...

Perhaps it was the announcement that NBC News is coming out with a DVD titled "Yes We Can: The Barack Obama Story." Or that ABC and USA Today are rushing out a book on the election. Or that HBO has snapped up a documentary on Obama's campaign....

Perhaps it was the announcement that NBC News is coming out with a DVD titled "Yes We Can: The Barack Obama Story." Or that ABC and USA Today are rushing out a book on the election. Or that HBO has snapped up a documentary on Obama's campaign....

Think of how easy it might have been to understand Arianna Huffington's bloggy animus toward Tim Russert if there were a book out chronicling all the sordid details of their decade-and-a-half-long secret feud. (There is.) Every gossip-mongering gadabout should know the full backstory on every spat, ...

Yesterday, New York magazine's film critic apologized for suggesting that former Miramax chief Harvey Weinstein artistically bullied a recently-deceased director, and the critic insisted he decided to "eat shit" independent of famously sharp-elbowed Weinstein. Gawker said the whole thing seemed a li...

Yesterday, New York magazine's film critic apologized for suggesting that former Miramax chief Harvey Weinstein artistically bullied a recently-deceased director, and the critic insisted he decided to "eat shit" independent of famously sharp-elbowed Weinstein. Gawker said the whole thing seemed a li...

Cabaret? Rock? Self-aware musical masturbation? We really didn’t know what to think of the johns when we first heard their debut, the johns WANNA Dance. “They sound like a movie band” was our first reaction, but we were quick to add, “And that’s not a bad thing”. ...