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Who Is The "Least Attractive" SNL Castmember?

Which smoking-hot young TV actress started on her way in the industry by bedding one of the least attractive 'SNL' cast members while still in college?
Well, Ben Widdicombe, we have no idea which smoking-hot young TV actress ended up on the ol' casting couch—nor how it would help her career, unless it was Tina Fey doing the casting!—and frankly, we don't care. But who is "one of the least attractive 'SNL' cast members? You pick! (For purposes of not driving ourselves totally insane this early in the morning, we've decided that Ben's just talking about the current cast.) more »

11:20 AM ON WED MAY 2 2007
BY EMILY
14,081 views, 52 comments

Latest by oddballout: @ellagood About time someone mentioned that train wreck. more

New York Observer

The 'New York Observer' At The Four Seasons

jaredkushner2.jpgThe significance of holding last night's party to celebrate the New York Observer and its new website at the Four Seasons restaurant was intentional, obvious, and not at all lost on anyone. Despite its recent Frank Bruni demotion to two New York Times stars, the restaurant remains the symbolic and probably actual center of New York old-guard media power. After so many years of playing gadfly to the media, politics, and real estate elite of this city, the Observer and its boy-owner and his advisers chose to make a very specific sort of statement. more »

4:18 PM ON THU APR 19 2007
BY DOREE
4,240 views, 11 comments

Latest by dishalicious: @the cajun boy: Good one. But I am so crushing on the Kush. Yummy. more

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Mergers and Acquisitions: A Book Party

The author needed to meet some very important person from the world of publishing, and his tightly-wound editor let him know it by waving frantically and then physically dragging him over to the corner of the bar. Dana Vachon had been born wealthy and healthy and handsome and he was right to view himself as entirely blessed, especially considering that his first novel, Mergers & Acquisitions had already gone to a second printing that very day. No one wore costumes on the night of his book party at Felix, that Eurotrash magnet on West Broadway, but there was no need for costumes to have a masque ball. Everyone knew their role and played it. more »

4:43 PM ON WED APR 11 2007
BY BALK
6,531 views, 21 comments

Latest by k436pm: Well, I liked it. Good writing. more

440144_new_york_fire_escape.jpg Media

Media Bubble: MTV Viewers Smarter Than We Thought

  • Nobody watched "I'm From Rolling Stone." [WWD]
  • Google in a deal with CBS; don't get too excited, it's just radio for now. [MDN]
  • Fox News: Ted Kennedy is a "hostile enemy" of the United States. [ThinkProgress]
  • Some lady from the BBC named Managing Editor at HuffPo. No word on whether or not she's got a qualified rack. [Romenesko]
  • Doug Brod named editor at Spin. [WWD]
  • Judy Miller: fans in high places. [NYS]
  • Blind Item: What scribe from a media-centric weekly publication was gatecrashed while covering a gossip columnist's birthday fiesta? It's not really daily news that sometimes people have to wait in line for the bathroom, but we hear that this journalist was observed over the transom trying to avoid the line by urinating off of the fire escape. The none-too-pleased host was concerned for his neighbors down under, and chided the young reporter until he turned pink-sheeted with embarrassment. [NYO, second item, "Ben Widdicombe Loves Weiners, Especially the One I Whipped Out On His Fire Escape"]
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    10:00 AM ON THU JAN 11 2007
    BY BALK
    213 views, 5 comments

    Latest by The Real JR: Yes, but did he shit in the kitchen? Apples and oranges, I think. more

    sigerson.jpg Seventeen

    Judging The Shoes of the New 'Toos

    The newly installed editor of Seventeen magazine, Ann Shoket, was [at Ben Widdicombe's birthday party], flanked by her publicist. "Ben is the most charming, most dashing .... "
    Right, right, now what are you wearing?
    "What? Oh no, I don't want to tell you that," she gasped. She wore a tube top and jeans. "Now I'm starting to get into trouble with my publicity department. They're like, 'Don't talk to anybody.'"
    Her publicist, Scott Gorenstein, stepped in. "She's wearing an appropriate outfit for a humid evening in the East Village."
    Luckily, Scott was off refreshing his cocktail (or perhaps helping himself to a cocktail weenie!) when we accosted Ann Shoket and asked prying questions about her wardrobe choices that evening. Were her Sigerson Morrison flats ($393, pictured) truly "appropriate" for a humid Saturday night in the East Village? Far be it from us to judge; we've owned the holey boots we were wearing at the time for so long that they're now considered "vintage." So we put it to you bitches: is wearing flats on a Saturday a faux pas? Even if so, we still all should consider ourselves lucky that the reign of plaid terror is over, we suppose. more »

    10:00 AM ON WED JAN 10 2007
    BY EMILY
    650 views, 5 comments

    Latest by appletini: Wait. Is this seriously about Ann Shoket wearing flats? She's tall, people. Real tall. Of course she's going to wear more

    beware.jpg Remainders

    Remainders: Room With a View

  • Soon, the Daily News will be all Widdicombe, all the time. Anyone know what ever happened to that Grove guy?
  • Alex Kuczynski, fake writer? Or just lazy? [The Shophound]
  • Ladies and gentlemen, presenting the new Star Jones. [Jossip]
  • Malcolm Gladwell, defender of newspaper journalism. [Gladwell.com]
  • The Times gets out of the TV biz. [AdAge]
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    6:05 PM ON THU JAN 4 2007
    BY DOREE
    37 views, 3 comments

    Media

    Media Bubble: Everyone We Know

    SP32-20060817-124247.jpg• Sports writers vs. sports bloggers: Whose sublimated homosexual desire for strong, sweaty men will prove dominant in the long run? [92nd St Y]
    • Will Ben Widdicombe take over Lloyd Grove's empty chair once the sad-faced gossip is kicked to the curb? Jossip.com says "unequivocally," which doesn't sound at all like an attempt to force a decision that hasn't yet been made. [Jossip]
    • With rare exceptions, we're reluctant to reprint every crazy-ass letter from obvious nuts that comes across our inbox. We don't have a problem linking to people who do, though. [FishbowlNY] more »

    1:51 PM ON THU AUG 17 2006
    BY BALK
    71 views, 4 comments

    Latest by AcilletaM: writes like an ape that has just discovered a bone will suffice as a murder weapon That is just beautiful! That more

    Mario Batali

    What Has Two Thumbs and a Boatload of New STD's?

    moltomolto.jpgSeems like every paper in town is trying to ruin our morning: We're fairly inured to disgust at this point, but there still is a list of things that we'd prefer not to read about over our cornflakes. Very high on that list are: rumors about Courtney Love's sex life; anything with the byline "Michael Wolff"; and rumors about Mario Batali's sex life. Today Ben Widdicombe goes two-for-three in one item: more »

    10:37 AM ON THU AUG 17 2006
    BY BALK
    1,322 views, 17 comments

    Star Jones

    Remainders: Star Jones Calls It a Day

    starjonesmelting.jpg• Jesus lives and saves us all: Star Jones is reportedly announcing her departure from The View, preferring instead to continue her rapid shrinking in the privacy of her own home. If we're lucky, her on-air farewell will be the exact opposite of Katie Couric's: hilarious and laced with blood. [Access Hollywood]
    • Producer Dallas Austin has now been in a Dubai prison for one month for trying to bring drugs into the country for Naomi Campbell's birthday party; Campbell has yet to forgive him for ruining her big day. [MTV]
    • A sneak peek at a former Playboy Bunny's tell-all, plus her requisite cleavage. [Hollywood Interrupted]
    • Best Week Ever comedian Sherrod Small slams the John Mayer report, insists that the musician's use of the n-word was funny. [BWE]
    • Extremely loud and incredibly derivative. [The Velvet Blog]
    • One block of 103rd Street is renamed Humphrey Bogart Place in honor of the actor's childhood home. Not that it makes the locale any more appealing. [Cinematical]
    • Unintentional hilarity: Laura Ingraham as the next Jon Stewart? It's a pilot we'd gleefully kill to get our hands on. [TV Newser]
    • Overheard in NY gets its own stalker map. [Overplot]
    • Kudos to the generous Daily News editors who allowed Ben Widdicombe to out both Anderson Cooper and Shep Smith in one fell swoop. [Gatecrasher]
    • Hipster Swiss Army knives, crafted especially for Bedford Avenue stabbings. [Consumerist]
    • Does Us Weekly have a problem with Britney Spears? Is People coddling her? And at what point will we all collectively agree to just look the fuck away? [Media Orchard]

    7:31 PM ON MON JUN 26 2006
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    97 views, 2 comments

    Latest by DaveJ: Which part of Katie Couric's farewell wasn't hilarious? more

    Australia

    Do You Come From a Land Down Under?

    20060126australia.jpgThe very small type in our Filofax -- yes, we're that old-fashioned -- tells us that today is Australia Day. more »

    Gay

    Tonight: Musto and Widdicombe Get It On at the Gay Center

    20060118widdimusto.jpgAmong our many problems in life, two of the biggest are these: We are not very good interviewers, and we are not very good gays. Tonight, it seems, we shall have a chance to work on both problems -- and, even better, with drinks! more »

    3:36 PM ON WED JAN 18 2006
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    Jossip

    David Hauslaib Abandons His Jossip Hobby

    hauslaibnew.jpgIn nerdy blog news, David Hauslaib, the well-coiffed young thing behind gossip blog Jossip and gay spin-off Queerty, is stepping down after two years of nursing Jossip to maturity. He'll stick around in a management capacity (how very Denton!), but no more daily blogging. His replacement, Corynne Steindler, comes from the sketchy, non-descript environs of Star and Lloyd Grove's desk at the Daily News, though we've no idea what, specifically, any of that means. Not that it matters -- as we've found, professional qualifications tend to hinder one's blogging ability. more »

    11:47 AM ON MON DEC 12 2005
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    844 views, 7 comments

    Latest by brianvan: The last I heard, the gyms weren't explicitly barring hetero guys at the door. But word on the street is more

    Ben Widdicombe

    Colgategate: Ungated?

    20051101aphilalito.jpgA particularly intrepid reader decided to look at more of Colgate Alito's writing than just his jokey bio, and she presents a solid case that the boy is in fact our man. Take, for example, bits like: more »

    5:48 PM ON TUE NOV 1 2005
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    43 views, 2 comments

    Ben Widdicombe

    Colgategate: Another Burger Drops

    20051101aphilalito.jpgWonky sis considerately provided a link to a Google-cached version of young Alito's bio at the Colgate Forum, and we suspect we've discovered another clue that the collegian in question might not actually be the son of the Supreme Court nominee. Young Alito opens his bio thus: more »

    4:24 PM ON TUE NOV 1 2005
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    154 views, 14 comments

    Ben Widdicombe

    Colgategate: Does Gatecrasher Confuse His College Boys?

    20051101aphilalito.jpgGatecrashing Daily Newser Ben Widdicombe this morning provided some perhaps calming insight into SCOTUS nominee Samuel Alito by quoting the charmingly amusing musings of his son, Phil, on the website of the Colgate college newspaper. Writes Widdicombe: more »

    2:56 PM ON TUE NOV 1 2005
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    128 views, 4 comments

    Ben Widdicombe

    Ben Widdicombe Not a Ski Bunny

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    We're not posting this picture of Gawker Hottie and Daily News gossip-flower Ben Widdicombe to embarrass him. Rather, we want to point out what a fantastic example is being set by the Gatecrasher. Those nostrils couldn't get any cleaner if we picked 'em ourselves. more »

    1:45 PM ON MON SEP 19 2005
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    Gossip

    Gossip Columnists: The Next Generation

    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. more »

    1:31 PM ON MON MAY 24 2004
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    ChicHappens

    Sam Shahid

    Chic Happens is updating again. (Ben Widdicombe: "leave me alone, I was on vacation.") Fashion ad guru Sam Shahid is being sued by his former 23-year-old straight intern Mladen Djankovich for defamation, sexual harassment and false imprisonment. From the complaint: "Shahid tried to kiss Plaintiff. Plaintiff pushed away. Shahid became frustrated and irritated, saying 'What are you fucking worried for, you know you're gorgeous. I would die for you!'" Also: Shahid, apparently not one for subtlety, "stood directly behind Plaintiff and placed his crotch on the back of Plaintiff's head and moved back and forth in a sexual manner. He caressed the back of Plaintiff's neck and head with his crotch and then put his hands down both the front and back of the inside of Plaintiff's shirt, touching his bare skin."
    Intern affairs [Chic Happens]

    7:03 PM ON WED APR 16 2003
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