scary sadshaws

Can You Tell That A Woman Is Single And Unlaid Just From Her Apartment?

So our—well, not 'our,' but you know, 'everyone's'—Julia Allison has finally found a name for her Time Out New York dating column! No, it's not "Dumb Slut Adventures" or whatever your suggestion was. It's The Single File. What an ugly word that is, "single." What is it, exactly, that makes the word itself, and its connotations, so inadvertent-shudder-inducing? Maybe it's less about actually being single and more about the telltale signs of being uncoupled, hmm? You know ... singlefiers. more »

5:45 PM ON WED JUL 25 2007
BY EMILY
71,829 views, 176 comments

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scary sadshaws

Is Carrie Gross The Absolute Worst Of All The Scary Sadshaw Lady Bloggers?

Carrie Gross is everything that's wrong with women in New York. She's materialistic, status- and wedding-obsessed, and of course, she's got a blog where she writes like a brain-damaged Carrie Bradshaw ("in my naivety") about her upcoming nuptials, knockoff designer handbags, man-purses, and other topics that made the SaTC writer's room groan "Nah, that's so played out!" six years ago. The Times Real Estate section did a thing back in September about her search for a $6,000/month rental that would accommodate the obnoxiously large dog that she and her fiance treat like a child. "What we want to purchase in a couple of years is not what we want to purchase now," she explained to Joyce Cohen, regarding her decision to rent and not buy. "The suburbs will be an option, or buying something much bigger." more »

4:44 PM ON THU APR 19 2007
BY EMILY
6,773 views, 65 comments

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Dining

"Pinkberry People" To Look Into Flavor Swirling!

Breaking! Important! Pinkberry! Our Pinkberry Correspondent, who earlier today complained of not being allowed to mingle froyo flavors, thereby establishing the supremacy of Tasti-D, reports she received a response from "someone at Pinkberry"! more »

5:25 PM ON TUE FEB 20 2007
BY EMILY
7,889 views, 34 comments

Dining

Pinkberry "Will Never Conquer Tasti-D," Claims Lady

Pinkberry! Ever since we first heard that the West Coast haute froyo chain would soon be colonizing Manhattan, Jamba Juice-steez, we've been waiting with bated breath to see how our town's Tasti gals would handle the transition. Would the ladyfolk cotton to the new lo-cal dessert on the block? Well, word on the street (or at least, in our inbox) is that Pinkberry is some Pink Bullshit. more »

10:30 AM ON TUE FEB 20 2007
BY EMILY
5,616 views, 25 comments

Clips

New AP Video Blog Aims For The Scary Sadshaw Demographic

When you read the words "young, single, and living in the city" on a computer screen, don't you just want to gouge your eyes out (a little)? Well, you must not be the kind of under-35 year old the AP is going for with its new youth-targeted ASAP service, which brings us the videoblog Reel City Tales. Our heroine, one Donna Arazie, is going to "vlog" (ugh!) about "men, careers, money, [and] big decisions" -- like whether or not to booty-call. Giving credit/blame where it's due, Arazie admits in her intro post,"Sure, there was "Sex and the City," but that's so 2003." Omg, you guys, let's totally all watch this vlog on our portable handheld devices! Shoot. us. now.

Associated Press Starts A Sexy Videoblog [NewTeeVee]

12:10 PM ON FRI JAN 26 2007
BY EMILY
182 views, 15 comments

Latest by scotchola: Sorry "vlog". My vlucking apologies. more »

Publishing

Candace Bushnell Wasn't Paid Much For 'Sex'

In news that will excite all the thirtysomething ladies who desperately need TV role models to justify their one night stands, shoe-splurges, and bloggy confessions about same, it seems that a miniseries version of Candace Bushnell's latest novel, Lipstick Jungle, will be coming soon to a small screen near you. Yawn, we know. But in Nikki Finke's writeup of the deal, we did find this detail intriguing:

As for Bushnell, everyone thinks she made a mint off Sex And The City at HBO and in syndication. But lore has it [ed: we love 'lore' as a source ] that Bushnell sold the rights to Sex And The City producer Darren Star for a mere $60,000 way back in 1996. Asked about her payday from the deal, Bushnell back in 2005 confirmed to Radar that she'd taken the opportunity to cash out long before Sex And The City took off and said it was "highly unlikely" that she'd ever see a dime from its syndication (though her subsequent books and other projects have reportedly earned her millions). Interesting that, at one point, Darren Star tried to buy the TV rights to Lipstick Jungle, too, but the deal went south. No doubt, a kiss-off.

Oh, Candy. We know you're doing well now, but that must have stung for years -- even though we're sure the 85 pairs of Manolos you bought in 1996 seemed totally worth it at the time. more »

10:20 AM ON TUE JAN 9 2007
BY EMILY
412 views, 12 comments

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Weddings

New Williams-Sonoma Ads Reliant on Women Continuing to be Total Patsies

Just in case you thought those evil women's libbers had ruined romance forever, Williams-Sonoma is here to tell you that no, they didn't, and by the way, how about that Le Creuset casserole for your registry? December, it turns out, is the most popular time of year for engagements (15 percent of engagements happen in December, according to the crack research team at Conde Nast Bridal Media), and Williams-Sonoma is launching a new ad campaign (pictured at right) to get all those new fiancees to sign up with their gift registry--that is, if their boyfriends were quick enough to pick up on all the signals they've been sending:

In addition to being a romantic time of year, it is when everyone's together, so they can start to make plans," said Millie Martini Bratten, editor in chief of Brides. "And the ring is the ultimate gift."

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3:25 PM ON WED DEC 13 2006
BY DOREE
153 views, 6 comments

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julia allison

Julia Allison's Protg Revealed!

Overpaid free-newspaper sex columnist Julia Allison's hot, gaping opening has been filled, yo. That's right: her search for a new assistant has netted one "Sara," who has a freshly-minted pink blogspot blog entitled Gentlemen Prefer (New York) Blondes. She says she's "pretty sure" that her life is "one long docudrama-comedy-chick flick that hasn't made it to the box office quite yet." We're pretty sure that we love her, because honestly, we love anything that makes our job easier. more »

9:40 AM ON MON DEC 11 2006
BY EMILY
1,164 views, 29 comments

Latest by timtation: Sigh! more »

brooke parkhurst

DumbBelle: 'It' Runs In The Family

We sincerely hope you've forgotten all about 'It' Girl Brooke "Belle in the Big Apple" Parkhurst -- we wish we could -- but an alert reader sends news of Parkhurst-promotion that's just too douchey to ignore. Seems a fawning profile ran recently in Belle's hometown newsrag, Pensacola Bella Magazine, about Parkhurst's amazing transformation from "Southern Belle" to "New York Hostess Diva." She gives parties, people! Unforgettable parties, parties as grand in scale as her unforgettable fivehead. But perhaps the most memorable part of the article, which includes tons of highly objective praise from Parkhurst's boyfriend, mom and literary agent, is this excerpt:

All her life, she had planned to follow the journalism paths of her mother and sister, Sloane Stephens Cox; and that of her late grandfather, Braden Ball, 30-year publisher of the News Journal. "And then suddenly, I'm a temp, and I'd go home after an empty and fruitless day,'' she said. That career derailment steered her onto the promising book-writing track.

The byline on the article? Sloane Stephens Cox. Um, do you think it's the world's biggest coincidence?

From Southern Belle to Hostess Diva [Pensacola Bella Magazine]
Earlier: Gawker's Coverage of Brooke Parkhurst

8:10 AM ON MON NOV 20 2006
BY EMILY
348 views, 21 comments

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Books

Kim Cattrall's Vagina Has Some Tips For Teens

The pervier corners of the internet are abuzz this morning with the news that aging sexpot Kim "for all intents and purposes, Samantha" Cattrall flashed her bukiluki (NSFWork, men's heterosexuality) at a signing for her book Sexual Intelligence, which just came out in paperback. This reminded us of something we dimly knew at one time or another: Kim Cattrall is the author of another, more recently published book that we think is probably even more ridic than Sexual Intelligence (which is saying something). An excerpt from the Amazon description is after the jump. Trust us, you want to go there. more »

12:50 PM ON FRI NOV 10 2006
BY EMILY
1,740 views, 17 comments

Latest by raincoaster: I will forgive her alot because she was in Big Trouble in Little China. Her character was useless, it's true, but she was very good at it. more »

brooke parkhurst

Brooke Parkhurst: Self-"Annoited" Betty to Julia Allison's Veronica

We're tired, so we'll just let our favorite Big Apple DumbBelle speak for herself. It is big and beautiful, though, we'll say that much. more »

5:55 PM ON THU NOV 9 2006
BY EMILY
364 views, 17 comments

Bloggers

BREAKING: Self-Promoting Blogger Hit On By Ron Perelman

In a past life, we remember receiving blogger Brooke "Belle In The Big Apple" Parkhurst's book proposal and being more annoyed by it than by anything we'd seen in a while. Worse than the Scary Sadshawness of Brooke's nom de blog was the fact that, in the cover letter, her agent used the fact that she'd been "mentioned on Gawker" (Mentioned! on GAWKER!!!) to prop up his claim that she was "New York's new 'It' Girl." (We're paraphrasing here, not having a Cam Jansen memory, but you can rest assured that whatever the letter actually said was even more annoying). Anyway, cut to this morning: after having attended this ultra-exclusive Spy magazine party that you may have heard about a little bit, Brooke sent us a hot tip: she'd been spoken to by Revlon billionaire and serial monogamist Ron Perelman. Can you imagine? Well, you don't have to:

Within the next two minutes and with the aplomb of, well, Ronald Perelman, he informed me of his profession--"CEO and chairman of the board of 'Revlon'"--and his religion, "I'm Jewish, you?"
My Lord, this was the most straightforward Manhattan bar pick-up transaction that I had ever experienced! Was this how the media elite operated? I had just sipped a drink next to Anna Wintour, spoken with Kurt Andersen, admired the coiffes of Graydon Carter and Harvey Weinstein... Clearly I was way out of my league.

Yup, clearly. Also, Brooke, we think you dropped something.

12:10 PM ON THU NOV 9 2006
BY EMILY
538 views, 38 comments

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