Time Warner Rumors, Condé Cuts & SNL
• Is Time Warner planning to shed its Time Inc. magazine division? [Crain's]
• Condé Nast is hunkering down for a big round of budget cuts, as you've probably heard. One Condé title that happens to be doing quite well: Vanity Fair's Italian edition, which having its best year ever, apparently.
• Saturday Night Live's Jenny Slate won't be punished for cursing on the air. But it's looking like Darrell Hammond may have been dropped from the show.
• Tina Brown's Daily Beast is planning to get into book publishing. [NYT]
• Former Times film critic (and Turner Classic Movies host) Elvis Mitchell is in financial trouble again: He reportedly owes $500,000 in back taxes. [P6]
• How much the cast of The Hills makes might make you nauseous. [TDB]
• Can Twitter ever earn enough in advertising revenue to justify its recent valuation of $1 billion? It's highly unlikely, say some observers. [AdAge]
• Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs was No. 1 again this weekend. [LAT]
• Another round of voluntary buyouts may be in the works at the Times. [NYP]
• HSN's latest plan to make even more money: Amid all the non-stop selling, product placements will be added to the mix, too. [WSJ]
• Everything you ever wanted to know about PBS host Charlie Rose, the "hardest-working man in TV news," supposedly. [Fortune]
• Everything you wanted to know about the early morning routine of Alisyn Camerota, the co-host of Fox & Friends. [NYT]
• Former New York Times columnist and Nixon speechwriter William Safire died yesterday of pancreatic cancer. He was 79. [NYT]