All of our celebrities have roles to play — bad boy, sex symbol, party gal — and Jessica Simpson has been saddled with "dumb blonde." To be sure, she had a hand in the script for this part — no matter what she does or where she goes, years later, "Chicken Of The Sea" is mentioned. And although New York magazine's…
It doesn't matter that there have already been 800 profiles of and interviews with Arianna Huffington. New ones are still endlessly entertaining.
Celebrity midwife Cara Muhlhahn—made famous by Ricki Lake's documentary The Business Of Being Born—is suing New York magazine for $1 million for libel, we've learned. This comes as Muhlhahn fields her own malpractice lawsuit, after a stillborn birth.
Ilona Smithkin is fast becoming a fashion influencer: the 90-year-old has recently featured on Advanced Style and in New York magazine. We love her handmade eyelashes, but even better: "I feel beautiful inside and that's beautiful enough for me." [AdvacnedStyle]
Wondering what happened at the photo shoot for Betty White and Tracy Morgan's New York Magazine cover? According to behind-the-scenes video, Tracy took off his shirt and Betty White fondled him. Which is pretty much what you were imagining, no?
Gabriel Sherman's New York Magazine cover story takes an in-depth look at the "singular national industry" that is Sarah Palin. But what's most interesting about his piece is how much Palin comes to resemble her nemesis, Levi Johnston.
Much of the Lady Gaga cover story in the new New York magazine is familiar territory: A New York childhood; a band that went nowhere. But buried in the piece are some weird, un-Gaga facts:
Unsurprisingly, the just-released trailed for Sex And The City 2 doesn't give up much in the way of plot points. But it seems clear the movie offers both the familiar indulgences and a few attempts at mixing it up.
Vogue contributor and children's author Lesley M. M. Blume wrote us today to distance herself from some of her reported comments about 13-year-old writer Tavi Gevinson, whom she thrice called "a novelty."
"Some guy came up to me at a screening that I was at recently and he told me that he, um, was sexually abusing his 14-year-old daughter...And he was crying. To me, that is the award." -Precious' Lee Daniels. [NYMag]
Today, David Edelstein at New York Magazine has some choice words for me and the Jezebel "posse" and Vogue's Andre Leon Talley reveals why he passed on a Precious cameo. [New York, Movieline]
"Back then, there was a tendency for women to minimize what you could bring to the table in intellect and strategic thinking. But men don't have any secret sauce." Profiled in New York Magazine, Nancy Pelosi doesn't pull any punches.
Writer Wesley Yang spent three weeks poring over the entire compendium of New York's popular Sex Diaries feature: 800 pages of printed out Diaries and their associated user-generated assholia. New Yorkers, it turns out, are a smug bunch of wankers.
In the summer of 1981, a young British stylist who'd worked at Harper's Bazaar and Savvy landed at New York Magazine. Her job was fashion editor; her name was Anna Wintour. Peep that staff portrait!
Madonna, her Brazilian lover Jesus Luz, and Marc Jacobs certainly kicked up quite the international media storm last week, as competing allegations about Luz's immigration and work status ate up column inches in every tabloid.
In a video for New York, Somali models Iman and Ubah Hassan — face of Ralph Lauren — talk about diversity on the runway, and why SI should feature a 32A girl some day. [NYMag]
For a refreshing, balanced look at the allegedly glamorous world of male modeling, read this story about a (really, really ridiculously good-looking) kid from Tennessee named Petey. [New York Magazine]
One of New York magazine's "Reasons To Love New York" is "Because Our Pregnant Women Kick Ass." The mag makes an example of Amy Poehler, noting that she's inspiring:
