New York Daily News, Dec. 20, 2004.

Everyone thinks we're miserable, cynical misanthropes, but we have a confession to make: We have a raging case of wedding fever! And if there's a cure, we don't want it.

Whoa, bra. We were totally gonna post this photo from The New York Daily News website of some lady smoking a huge fatty promoting—get this, dude—'Health Central.'

Today marks the beginning of, perhaps, a new era: the NY Daily News has set up Rush and Molloy's bitchy Australian gossip-boy Ben Widdicombe with his own weekend column. And just a few weeks ago, the NY Post launched their own weekend gossip column, hostessed by the even-younger-than-Ben Elisa Lipsky-Karasz.

Jim Nelson has been promoted to the position of Editor-in-Chief at GQ, and he promises he won't turn it into Maxim. "I'm super-psyched," he tells the Daily News. (I don't think GQ has to worry about anyone who uses the phrase "super-psyched" turning anything into Maxim.)
GQ names new Editor in Chief [NY Daily News]

The NY Daily News has a short glossary of the people behind notable New York restaurants: the Pete behind Pete's Tavern, the Barney Greengrass behind Barney Greengrass, and the Delmonico behind Delmonico's.What's in a name? [NY Daily News]

Chic Happenswhere the "weekly" bit of "updated weekly" is some nebulous subjective reality meaning "quarterly" or "annually" or "ohhhh, whenever the fuck we feel like it"reports that Michael Gross's recent interview with the NY Post isn't running. Gross, the author of the NY Daily News' weekly gossip column "The Word," recently authored the not-so-flattering book about Ralph Lauren, Genuine Authentic, which is being published by Harper Collins. Rupert Murdoch owns both the Post and Harper Collins, which means that run-the-interview or don't-run-the-interview, he's shooting himself in the foot. Which is sort of entertaining.
Short attention span [Chic Happens]

Michael Gross speculates that Roman Polanksi's lawsuit against Vanity Fair may be a hot press item because other stakeholders are pushing itpeople who have an interest in making sure The Pianist doesn't get an Oscar. In other news, Gross reports that realtor Deborah Grubman has jumped to Corcoran; flak Bobby Zarem is still working; and a new book about independent NY producer Sam Spiegel reveals the darker side of Spiegel's successes.
The Word [NY Daily News]

The NY Daily News profile Columbia student and actress Julia Stiles who says she has "never embraced the Hollywood scene." "I'm not in the gossip columns," she brags. (Until now.) Director Chris Koch speculates that staying in New York may have something to do with it. "New York teaches you not to believe your own press." (Unless your name is Steve Case.)
Stiles gets seriously silly [NY Daily News]