SPOILER ALERT! In a year-end finale so surprising it makes last season's O.C. cliffhanger look like Blue's Clues, we've gotten our sticky hands on the Times Book Review's Top 10 of 2004 and are shocked to report that the editors have included Philip Roth on their list JUST ONCE. We were certain he'd be simultaneously listed in three positions but, alas, the handjobs have ceased.
From "The Company You Keep" file comes this bit of 'Page Six' parent company pluggery:
At a whopping 88 pages long, Intern Alexis was weighed down both literally and figuratively by the behemoth that was this week's New York Times Book Review. And as usual, she went insane. Her guide to what you should pretend to be reading after the jump.
Yesterday, the Times' Sarah Richards treated us all to an examination of the gentile infidels who use online Jewish dating service JDate (she includes herself in this gang of online love insurgents). In her piece, Richards profiled several users, but failed to include her interview with official NYC ladies' man Chris London. Chris London will not stand for that, nuh-uh, and he'll use a mass email to tell us so:
The best part is Putin looking on in the background.
Sunday saw the debut of former EW/Time columnist/semipro VH1 1980s pundit Joel Stein's entertainment column in the LAT's Opinion section. Stein heroically expends his maiden column inches on a stunning exposé on reality television, which, much to our horror, does not always necessarily reflect reality at all! Had you ever clung to the crazy hope that Carson Kressley's lacerating wit was entirely his own, Stein's leak of a scripted outline for an episode of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy will send you scrambling for the refuge of a warm tub and a box of razor blades. But even these revelations aren't enough, as Stein's journalistic wrecking ball lays waste to so-called reality programs like The Osbournes, The Restaurant, and—No. He. Didn't.—The Simple Life:
Why doesn't anyone want to talk to us? Do we smell or something?
The New York Times finally confirms the existence of Seth Mnookin by assigning him a review of Ken Auletta's Media Man: Ted Turner's Improbable Empire in the Book Review this week.
Just when you thought Tina was permanently phoning it in, our favorite lady brought in the big guns last night to compete with C-SPAN's final episode of Booknotes. Viacom master Sumner Redstone, Vanity Fair scribe Dominick Dunne, and NY Times war-boy Dexter Filkins all made an appearance, leaving Henry the Intern to wonder if Tina might make a habit of featuring actual content.
Jesus' publicist hit the mother lode this week with dual news magazine covers. We've even heard that she's pulling some strings to get a holiday named after Him later this month. (Can a Walk of Fame star be next?)
