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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Love on the right: Conservative radio host Laura Ingraham, 40, is getting hitched to Washington businessman James V. Reyes, 42. They got engaged April 2 and plan a Catholic wedding in late May or early June. We hear the happy couple was introduced last year by their mutual friend Dave Pollin, nephew of developer Abe Pollin.
Except, of course, when it's Hillary herself who's mouthing support for that radical, reactionary right-wing agenda (the one that's patriotic and pro-life) in her neverending "look at me, I'm really a moderate and not the Marxist Saul Alinsky disciple I seem to be!" campaign.
Speaking of the vacuous:
Infamous intern Monica Lewinsky almost had a run-in with political daughter Alexandra Kerry, unbeknownst to her. Both showed to pay their respects to Page Six's Paula Froelich, who was feting her book "It!" .... (Elisa Lipsky-Karasz, NY Post)
WHICH recently separated celebrity couple were destined for splitsville almost from the start? The actress wife walked in on her actor hubby six weeks into their marriage and found him fooling around with his pretty assistant. The actor insisted, "We were just kissing!" But our sources say he cheated throughout the entire marriage . . .[Could it be Charlie Sheen/Denise Richards?]
WHICH attractive Washington TV correspondent is having a torrid affair with another TV type? Her husband seems unaware even though he works for the same network and toils in the same building as she does . . .
Memo to all you Washington power couples who've been secretly videotaping their nannies: They've been watching you, too.
Barbara Kline is the founder of White House Nannies, one of D.C.'s foremost child-care agencies. MSNBC's Chris Matthews, ABC News' Claire Shipman and Clinton attack dog James Carville and his wife, Bush aide Mary Matalin, are among the overburdened parents who sing the praises of the lady who likes to think of herself as "the other Chief of Homeland Security."
But woe to you brusque Cabinet secretaries and media stars who've crossed her.
Kline, who obviously took note of the best-selling "Nanny Diaries," says she spent three days with Penguin Publishing's lawyers disguising the identities of some clients in her book, also called "White House Nannies," due out next month.
One high-profile White House staffer with a previous administration needed her own pacifier at the end of the day. One of Kline's nannies would find her employer and her child curled up in bed together - the baby sucking on a bottle of formula, Mom nursing a bottle of Jack Daniel's.
The sleeping wife of a candidate, annoyed by her son's screaming for candy at breakfast, dumped a bag of M&M's in his cereal and snarled, "Just give him the chocolate!"
Kline admits some of her nannies weren't always up to snuff.
One caregiver locked her 2-year-old charge in the home of a high-ranking Defense official - then the toddler crawled to freedom through a doggie door.
Another couple let their nanny live in their elegant pool house - which she turned into a brothel.
A Bush 41 administration member loved the nanny who'd taken care of her four kids for a year. But then, while removing the Christmas tree one day, the lady experienced chest pains. After calling paramedics, her employer discovered that her Mary Poppins was really Mrs. Doubtfire - a man in drag.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/gossip/story/298693p-255743c.html
From the same source:
The White House can relax. You may have heard about the videotape that allegedly showed thong-baring Jenna Bush down on all fours and doing Da Butt dance at club NerveAna. We're told that the tape, which every print and electronic tabloid wanted, has mysteriously disappeared...
Didn't someone just post that Camilla had a chicken running loose in her house? She maybe has a feather fetish which will make the honeymoon interesting...hee hee...
Brad Pitt is such a jerk...Jolie won't have his babies either-doesn't want to mess up that bod of hers-plus she will dump him for the co-star of her next movie...
Prince Charles and his new wife Camilla in Aberdeenshire 10 April 2005.
Supposedly Angleina has got her sights set on a Chech baby this summer.
Soccer? Has anyone seen it? Airport baseball and football, maybe, but no injury reports there.
As for hockey, there are a few photos of him on skates, looking even more dorky than his usual bad self, but still no mention of him ever messing up his knee. Gee, I hope he didn't suffer a "Clinton at Greg Norman's house" type of knee injury, the one you get when you've had too much to drink and trip over your own feet.
Saturday night and the Andy Warhol Museum put its best foot forward at the Spike-a-delic Gala....Why shoes? After his meteoric first year as a shoe illustrator at Glamour magazine, Women's Wear Daily dubbed Andy "the Leonardo Da Vinci of the shoe trade." AWM director Tom Sokolowski (celebrating his b'day!) also allowed as how Pittsburgh's native son was a foot-fetishist at heart....Hurrah, ta-dah and tra-la-lah. There was a thunderous ovation for Teresa Heinz Kerry, the party's true star, who announced a $4 million gift to the Warhol by the Heinz Endowments.
Just shoe me: Model walks on table top at dinner's grande finale.
But I looked again and I swear she has had some nip/tucks. She looks, shall we say "rested" ? Even better, the more I looked at her, she looks like KELLY RIPPA.
Has anyone else seen that ?
She looks really good.
Chances are the Globe had the honeymoon story written and laid out long before the happy couple even said their vows!
Is Sen. Hillary Clinton bracing for a literary "Swift Boat" ambush in the form of a scandalous biography by Kennedy family nemesis Ed Klein? Klein's latest book, "The Truth About Hillary: What She Knew, When She Knew It, and How Far She'll Go to Become President," won't be out till August at the earliest.
But already, cybergossip Matt Drudge - a proud member of Clinton's vaunted "vast right-wing conspiracy" - is claiming that Klein's publisher, The Penguin Group, is enmeshed in a bitter internal dispute over the publication of the sensational volume by Penguin's conservative Sentinel imprint.
"The revelations in it should sink her [presidential] candidacy," Drudge quoted a so-called "source close to Klein."
Klein yesterday wouldn't shed any light on Drudge's account and uttered a noncommittal "uh-huh" when I noted that some might consider the report a ploy by Sentinel to generate prepublication buzz. Meanwhile, Clinton's press secretary, Philippe Reines, told me: "We don't comment on works of fiction."
But Sentinel associate publisher Will Weisser insisted: "We are very excited about publishing the Clinton book for September, but it's an embargoed book. I can't comment about any kind of internal discussions at Penguin." Lloyd Grove
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BARE-knuckled biographer Ed Klein has set his sights on Sen. Hillary Clinton and some of the left-leaning publishing poobahs at the Penguin Group are none too happy about it. Klein, the former editor of The New York Times' magazine, who has made a career writing books about the Kennedy family, is set to unleash "The Truth About Hillary" in time for her Senate reelection campaign next year.
As PAGE SIX first reported in December, the book will supposedly unearth tons of fresh dirt on the former first lady that legions of Hillary haters hope will also doom her all-but-announced run for the presidency in 2008. Yesterday, Will Weisser, a spokesman for Sentinel Books, an imprint of the Penguin stable specializing in conservative tomes, confirmed Matt Drudge's scoop that some Penguin higher-ups who published last year's official John Kerry biography had expressed concern about Klein's Hillary hit job.
"It's probably no secret that some people at Penguin are worried about it," Weisser told us. "But I really can't comment on who said what."
Klein's previous books have included the Kennedy-scourging titles "All Too Human: The Love Story of Jack and Jackie," "Just Jackie: Her Private Years," "Farewell Jackie: A Portrait of Her Final Days" and "The Kennedy Curse: Why Tragedy Has Haunted America's First Family for 150 Years."
He declined to comment. But Weisser said he hoped that "The Truth About Hillary" would do to Clinton what the Swift Boat Veterans best-seller did to Kerry. "That would be our fondest wish," he said, before adding, "We're just trying to sell books. It will be up to the voters to read the book and decide for themselves about Senator Clinton. We're not out to get anyone, per se."
Sentinel's previous releases include "Matter of Character," Ronald Kessler's pro-George W. Bush biography, and "Do Gooders," conservative pundit Mona Charen's attack on liberals. Page Six
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Page Six also discusses the Charles/Camilla nupts:
ELIZABETH Emanuel, the designer of Princess Diana's wedding dress, seemed to be trying too hard to find something positive to say about the wedding ensemble of Camilla Parker Bowles, now Duchess of Cornwall. "Camilla has quite chunky legs, so the hemline was particularly important," she told the London Sunday Mirror. "The scalloped detail around the bottom drew attention away from her calves." However, Emanuel added, "I think she was almost definitely wearing power knickers there is a big trend for foundation garments like that and a lot of people her age want to make sure there are no lumps and bumps."
I want to know where Joan Kennedy was found in the gutter after an alkie binge! Enquiring minds need to know...
Cracked me up for some reason. And I hope Hillary reads it, she sure could use some helpful hints.
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