• Good luck getting another author booked on Oprah, Random House!

• Had we joined Cindi Leive and James Brady for lunch, we wouldn've fallen asleep in our soup.

• Redbook fattens up to attract middle-aged heavyset women.

• Surprise! Dean Baquet is job hunting 'round these parts.

• Anna Wintour maintains straight face while telling Barbara Walters the pulse of the nation can be felt in the pages of Vogue.

• WaPo brings the holiday cheer. Err, the holiday jeer.