If this group puts their heads together they might be able to get across the street.
Posted on 03/29/2005 4:39:30 AM PST by BigWaveBetty
Spirits were high in the offices of The National Enquirer in Manhattan last week. A gaggle of British interlopers had taken custody of the tabloid, a SWAT team of Fleet Street meat-eaters brought in to revive the storied but now flagging checkout magazine. Not only was The Enquirer moving its main offices and production facilities to Manhattan from Florida - effectively taking the gossip magazine uptown and mainstream - but even more deliciously the paper also had a cover article suggesting that a Hollywood actor's Super Bowl celebration was a bit more super than most.
Paul Field, the Enquirer's editor and a former associate editor of The Sun, a popular British tabloid, was in particularly fine fettle, even though he was fighting a cold. A stripper and prostitute had told The Enquirer that she spent Super Bowl Sunday last month in the company of the star of a popular television show. The actor, through a representative, has denied the allegations. The Enquirer saved the naughtiest bit from the stripper's account - allegations of drug use - for the issue coming out today, the last one produced in Boca Raton, Fla.
In holding off, the editors took a tactical risk that they would not be scooped. "No, I'm not concerned," Mr. Field said, sitting at a table in his office. "No other publication would touch that story," he said, unlike in Britain, where "there would be other papers all over it."
In order to ensure a steady inventory of articles like the super Super Bowl one that will compel checkout readers to actually buy the paper, Mr. Field hired a slew of British tabloid veterans, including Paul Henderson, the former Mail on Sunday investigations editor, and Steve Dennis, the ex-Daily Mirror reporter who broke the stories about Paul Burrell, ...
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We miss you, come by when you can. I'll be posting some of HLL's Spring Break pics later (I'll ping ya).
I can hardly wait to see those pics. NOT
If this group puts their heads together they might be able to get across the street.
Am I supposed to be impressed with the lineup?
Prune is a dreadful name for a restaurant. I hope they have lots of restrooms.:)
Really, you just expect them to have nothing but high-fiber items on the menu. Reminds me of when I worked my way through college working for the food service company. Whenever we had groups of senior citizens coming to campus, we made sure to serve plenty of prunes for breakfast, and my job was to dish 'em up (three to a bowl) - the prunes, that is, not the oldsters.
With all the Prune talk I'm thinking De, Micky, Bill and Hill could be the poster "kids" for prunes on the blog site. They're going to need every scrap of advertising. Billionaire backers tend to tire of throwing good money after bad down a rat hole. I bet even Soros has a limit.
Ignore the way it looks warm. It's not. It's an optical illusion. Brrrrrr, it's cold! I'm wearing a sweater right now.
Really, HLL brought that frigid Michigan weather down with her, it was in the high 80's until she got here. :-)
I need to transfer the pics from one host to another. Back asap.
Morning at the pool.
Billy's
Tarpon Springs
Sponge Diver statue
---------- Ringling house ------------------------------- chandelier ----------------------------- Piano room
Fort Desoto Beach
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Sunsets
HLL's Dad and Donna Summer at a big annual party. Get details from HLL.
Enough for now... more later.
HLL, your father is a charming looking gentleman. Hope you had a fabulous visit.
Take care of yourelf. No housework for at least several months...have the Doc write out an Rx for a housecleaner just to be on the safe side.
Today's blather:
VIDEOTAPE of Jenna Bush in very high spirits at a bachelorette party is being sold and could end up on national TV by the end of the week. Luckily for Jenna, the cameraman missed "the high point . . . Jenna on all fours doing 'the butt dance' — and doing it very well — as guys were ogling her thong," said our source. Club patrons do the suggestive dance when the deejay plays the 1988 hit "Da Butt," by E.U. The president's blond daughter arrived at NerveAna, a '90s-themed lounge on Varick Street, at 10:30 p.m. last Friday with several other pretty young things in a battered old blue minivan. Sources said it was Jenna's third visit to the club, which features replicas of Monica Lewinsky's blue dress and O.J. Simpson's white Bronco. Jenna, who plans to teach school in D.C. next fall, wore jeans, moccasin boots and a midriff-baring, satiny blue top. She lit up a cigarette "and she was very polite when she was told she'd have to go outside to smoke," said our source. Before leaving at 3:30 a.m., Jenna and her pals gamely joined a conga line and danced around the club. ...
CHELSEA Clinton hasn't seen much of her boyfriend, Ian Klaus, lately — but the two haven't broken up. Klaus, probably trying to impress Chelsea's dad, Bill Clinton, is in Iraq, according to Us Weekly, "working with the Kurdistan regional government on developing university education." Klaus isn't likely earning much for his efforts — but that's OK. Chelsea, as a first year consultant with major connections pulls in over $100,000 a year — enough bacon for both of them.
"THE leadership of the Republican Party are a bunch of sociopathic maniacs who have their lips super-glued to the ass of the conservative right." — Alec Baldwin on "Real Time with Bill Maher" (Page Six)
That's such a sad story about the pregnant woman who was killed.
I am watching What's Eating Gilbert Grape. Leonardo DeCaprio did a fabulous job in this movie. It really was worth the Oscar.
It's raining in Michigan. I miss waking up to the ocean. All those sunset photos were taken from the balcony outside of my bedroom. Lying in bed watching the ocean and sandy beaches sure doesn't suck.
Slick is being fed turkey burgers on AF1-bet he just loves that!!!hee hee
Both former presidents said they were happy to be back on Air Force One. "They have turkey burgers, too, which they didn't have when I was here," Clinton quipped. "If they'd been serving me turkey burgers, I might not have had heart surgery."
Mostly when I read about Jenna and Chels's partying, I can relate because of my misspent youth and/or my offspring's antics, but this "butt dance" is a new one on me and I will admit that I am a bit "shocked"...guess this confirms, once again, that I really am "old and out of touch"....sigh....
don't feel bad. I know nothing of the "Butt Dance" either. I have a son who is 26 y.o.
I am going to ask him about this dance the first chance I get.
Har-de-har. I suppose he was being force fed hamburgers and bacon for the first 50-odd years of his life. (Knowing Hillary, he probably was!)
The "said our source" part leads me to wonder if this is a fabrication. They probably got a video of her doing the Conga line and started building the story from there. At least I hope that's the case.
IG, let us know what your 26 year old says about this. lol, just don't ask if he has pics.
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