• Queen Elizabeth throws a shitshow temper tantrum and storms off set after photog Annie Leibovitz asks her to pose for some tawdry pics without her crown. Reportedly, Leibovitz's attempts to cajole QEII into cooperating included telling her "all the royals were doing it" and reassuring her that it would be "tasteful, for the sake of art."
• BBC apologizes for accidentally airing footage of the Queen storming off; explains away royal temper tantrum as "a documentary clip [that] had been edited incorrectly."
• "I don't want to be remembered as the guy who killed David Halberstam," worries the Guy Who Killed David Halberstam.
• You know what sucks about working at Bauer? Everything!
• The NYT has the non-exclusive on a magazine that already folded three days ago.
• When asked to clarify his feelings on Dow Jones, Ron Burkle winked and said, "Yeah, you know I'd like to get a piece of that," before reaching up for a high-five.
• Ivanka Trump has zero interest in joining morning trainwreck otherwise known as The View.
• Impossibly, the Conrad Black jury claims they're utterly incapable of unanimously reaching a (guilty) verdict.
• Michael Moore "live-chats" with HuffPo about healthcare, politics and, of course, how much he hates Dr. Sanjay Gupta.
• Amy Jacobson 'devastated' over termination. "I thought they would suspend me and then support me," she tells the Chicago Sun-Times.
• Reputed rivalry between Tina Brown and Graydon Carter gets exponentially more heated boring.
Yesterday, we told you that comely Chicago reporter Amy Jacobson was caught on videotape wearing a swimming top that may or may not have revealed a hint of side-cleavage. Which normally wouldn't be a problem, except (a) Jacobson was with her kids, who really never need to see Mom in a bikini, (b) she was captured on film 'creepily leering in the doorway,' (c) she was attending a party she shouldn't have been at in the first place, and (d) this wasn't the first time something like this [Ed: inappropriate swimming??] had happened.
And while we simply cannot over-stress the importance of the initial infraction (especially for those of you who are not of the hot, trophy-wife persuasion) the latter charges were, apparently, what did poor Amy in.
• Busted! Chicago reporter Amy Jacobson fingered for showing up at a friend of a friend's poolside BBQ wearing a "swimming top."
• Dan Patrick is leaving SportsCenter! Related: MediaWeek capitalizes on opportunity to use outdated colloquialisms "scuttlebut" and "scotched."
• Graydon Carter may have inadvertently made a big mistake in choosing Shia Laboeuf over that far more lucrative dead horse.
• Katie Couric is a not a woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown. She's simply a woman who likes to bitch and moan about her $60 million contract.
