Poor gullible Satchel:
Actually, my hyundais could probably use a good workout, too.
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, ...
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Joan Kennedy selling home over children's objections
"She's not happy with the fact we have sought guardianship," her son, Edward M. Kennedy Jr., said Monday. "She's basically trying to retaliate against her own children by taking one of the things we love the most, which is Cape Cod. It's very sad."
The article goes on to say that legally she can't sell the home, at least for three months, cause the kids have guardianship.
Joan Kennedy was hospitalized with a concussion and a broken shoulder after a passer-by found her lying on a Boston sidewalk on March 28.
Power knickers do sound a bit frightening, don't they?
A passerby found her sprawled on a sidewalk in Boston's Beacon Street. She was extremely inebriated. Friends say she had been on the wagon for 9 years but had recently started drinking again....her drink of choice is wine and she supposedly drinks alone at home except once in a while she disrupts dinner parties.
I don't think it matters what dirt comes out on Hillary, people will vote for her anyway. Actually, I can't think of one thing that would turn her voting core away from her.
Sad.
Poor gullible Satchel:
Actually, my hyundais could probably use a good workout, too.
Hey Rosegirl, I think that I lost most of my roses over the winter. If the branches are dead, it's a goner, isn't it?
You and me both, sister, and my mazdas are a flabby mess.
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.
Absolutely not! I would be VERY surprised if they're dead. Trim them as normal, feed, spray and water... and I bet they'll bloom.
Trim according to normal after-winter pattern.
And know we know the rest of the story!
Well I know that one did completely die last summer so I am ripping it out.
I had a bad thing happen to my roses last year. They got black spots, the leaves turned yellow and some bushes lost every leaf. I was able to save the stronger ones with some spray and they did really well.
I am not going to cry over my rose loss, I get them from the fruit market for $1.99 and can always replant, I am in a fit of tears over my 30 year old tree that has been my source of shade, it is also completely dead, I just got an estimate of $5000 to cut it down.
Ate dinner at Babbo last night (4/10), and as my husband and I were paying the check, in walks Slick Willy himself, complete with Hil and Chelsea in tow. (Chelsea had a guy with her too). [Ian still in Iraq - new bf, or just a bodyguard?] Bill looked surprisingly well for having just had surgery, and Hil and Chelsea looked much better than they have in the past. Chelsea must have been a friend of someone who worked in the kitchen — he came over to their table, kissed her hello, and she introduced him to her parents.
$5000! Yikes!
I lost a lil ole Carolina Bay tree in last year's hurricane...not much to look at. But it was the only shade on my driveway. Gets full west sun in the afternoon. I sure am going to miss it this summer. Not to mention all the shade plants in that bed that now have to be moved.
This tree is about 60' high with a 80' spread. It covered a huge area and kept my house, mostly my bedroom, so cool.
One of the big problems taking it down is that there are power and phone lines within a couple feet of it. I know it's something I can't do my myself. I have always cut down my own trees but I never thought I would lose this one. It's branches got too heavy and the tree has split down the middle. I don't have one leaf bud on it and I reached up for a branch and it just crumbled in my hand. It just makes me sick.
Although Finkelstein's gayness wasn't news, his nuptials were something of a man-bites-dog story, for he is a Republican, and Republicans generally oppose same-sex marriage, whereas Democrats oppose it only when they're sure that is the politically expedient position.LOL! Perfect.
What are the chances any homosexual Democrat (prominent or otherwise) will take offense at the Toon's "self loathing" comments? Sadly, probably slim.
I just think it's funny the way the Dems get to play it both ways. During the campaign the media dutifully reports that Kerry (and dems in general) "opposes same sex marriage". OTH, the minute the subject comes up, the same media automatically assigns pro-gay-marriage credentials to the them.
It must be very hard being a liberal and having to do all that "compartmentalizing".
Looks like Camila got in a tussle with a porcupine. And by the way Chuck is grimacing, looks like he sat on one.
That gnocchi will go right to your hips, Hilly!
Hollywood children don't really need fathers, do they:
Sharon Stone is set to adopt a new baby boy, Us Weekly reports. Stone, 47, already shares an adopted child, Roan, almost 5, with her ex, San Francisco Chronicle editor Phil Bronstein. "She absolutely would love to adopt another child," Stone's rep Cindi Berger told us. "As soon as this comes to fruition, I will announce it" ... (Rush and Molloy)
Finally, appropos of nothing:
Former reality star Rocco DiSpirito - remember him? - has suffered the ultimate indignity that can befall a celebrity chef: waiting for a table like the rest of us. Lowdown hears that DiSpirito showed up at Serendipity 3 the other day with his two nieces, only to be told the wait was an hour. Toward the end of his meal, DiSpirito was finally recognized by an autograph-seeking woman who asked where he's working these days. "I am currently unemployed; I am on welfare," he said. (Lloyd Grove)
But for the British royal family and its various shirttail relatives, the UK's hat industry would have died years ago.
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