In Sunday's Full Disclosure, Andy Roddick was promoted as the ultimate bachelor: "Hey, ladies, Andy Roddick is ripe for the picking. Seriously. The tennis star has that perfect combo of sex appeal and cluelessness that makes it a cinch to swoop in for the kill. His idea of a perfect date? 'One that doesn't end in getting slapped. I don't know if I've gone on too many dates. Just something simple. Maybe dinner. I went to a comedy club one time, which was pretty good because I'm not expected to be funny; someone else is doing it for me. And I figured two birds, one stone.'"
Now confirmed: Roddick is engaged to model Brooklyn Decker.
BREAKING Famous male athletes enjoy sleeping with attractive women: Andy Roddick is dating Sports Illustrated model, Brooklyn Decker. [The Big Lead]
Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible.
So begins Janet Malcolm’s case study of journalistic betrayal, The Journalist and The Murderer. Fortunately, we are too full of ourselves to notice. Besides most “real” journalists would say that what we do isn’t morally indefensible in that sense anyway.
Malcolm never wrote about art editors, but in the age of photoshop there’s definitely material for an Adobe expose.
Like journalists, their job is complicated by their conflicting desires to sell magazines and be honest. Sure a Q&A will read better with heavy editing and Glamour might sell more covers with a thinner America Ferrera, but that doesn’t mean doing those things is right. And does the public deserve some of the blame for subconsciously wanting an Andy Roddick with bigger arms?
Well, these issues are too weighty for a Friday, but one thing is for sure: if you’re going to do touch ups, there’s no point in lying about which direction you’re going in.
Self art director Petra Kobayashi claims, “We retouch to make the models look bigger, healthier.”
Wow, their touchups are so subtle we barely noticed how fat the model above looks.
Last night, we had a couple of fashion parties to attend and as a result, we missed another exhilarating night of primetime tennis. Thankfully, we'd programmed our DVR to record it, mostly because owing to our joint crush on Andy Roddick (Mandy Moore's ex) and Roger Federer (Anna Wintour's masturbatory fantasy) and eagerly flipped on the television this morning lest we inadvertently stumble across an article telling us who won.
Unfortunately, in order to get up to the Roddick/Federer match we first had to fast-forward through what seemed like a never-ending battle between Venus Williams and her quarter-finals opponent, Jelena Jankovic.
At one point we paused to yawn and check the score (Jankovic was up 6-4, 1-0) and that's when we stumbled upon what would prove to be the highlight of an unbelievable match, namely: a live interview with Jerry Seinfeld and the notoriously reclusive Larry David, who just happened to be watching from the stands.
• Paris Hilton launches a new children's clothing line, tentatively titled "A Pedophile's Dreams Come True."
• As far as Fat Joe is concerned, anything that adds another 15 pounds is never good.
• Britney Spears proves she's totally not desperate by sleeping with Cameron Diaz's creepy magician ex.
• Meanwhile, anyone who accused Mena Suvari of "Pulling a Britney" as of late has clearly not seen any recent photos of Spears in her bikini.
• Amy Winehouse may have epilepsy! Presumably, the kind of epilepsy that makes you vomit uncontrollably after one too many horse tranquilizer margaritas.
Remember last week when TMZ* blew the lid off of Andy Roddick's (superimposed) tree-trunk arms? Well apparently, AMI prez David Pecker was less than thrilled about all the negative publicity. And so, he did what any of us would do: publicly insinuated Bonnie Fuller was to blame, and tattled about her super long lunches crappy interview skills and her inability to copy-edit. Like, at all.
Sources told Page Six that AMI chief David Pecker "went crazy" on editorial director Bonnie Fuller Friday morning. The rant came after Pecker read Keith J. Kelly's Media Ink column in The Post, in which the magazine admitted its cover subject's body had been altered. The issue was put together under the watch of Boulton, who has since been replaced by new editor-in-chief Roy Johnson.
"Pecker is livid. He really thinks this is something Bonnie should have caught," said one source. "He's crazy about wanting everything in his magazines to be accurate and basically told her she was responsible."
Normally, we'd make a joke here about AMI's "crazy" obsession with accuracy, but instead we'll content ourselves by smugly pointing out that Page Six could use a copy-editor of their own.
Have you always dreamed about having giant man-arms? Not lean, wiry muscle, but the type of biceps that are practically made for ripping phone books in half, and never fail to elicit the steroid jokes in the vein of, 'My, what small testicles you have!'
Kinda like Andy Roddick's on this month's issue of Men's Fitness. Except, you know, real.
Thanks to the crack researching team over at Huffington Post, we've finally figured out what it is Neal Boulton does besides Jann Wenner make jokes about divorcing his wife and suffer from 7-day long stretches of food poisoning, namely, hire gorgeous athletes to grace the cover of his magazine and then Photoshop their body parts until they're damn near unrecognizable!
Roddick's reaction the gargantuan stunt-arms after the jump.
We thought we spotted Andy Roddick's mojo at the U.S. Open and then, uh, the first round happened.
Be sure to send us camera phone snaps of paid street walkers stripping these AmEx ads from the city.
Bonus really, really gay interpretation of mojo that somehow slipped passed Andy Roddick's publicist after the jump.
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• Not only has Grammy winning record producer Christian Julian Irwin gone missing, but as luck would have it, his disappearance might be tied to that Nigerian email scheme. Thank god we've got a spam filter.
• While tennis ace Maria Sharapova isn't fighting rumors she's seeing Maroon 5's Adam Levine, her wranglers were in a tizzy when another rumored flame, Andy Roddick, popped up at the launch party for her new fragrance. Publicists insisted they weren't to be photographed together.
• Larry King's "worthwhile" interview with Stacked's Pamela Anderson asked the hard questions, such as "What size are your breasts" and do "they expand on camera?"
• Robert Downey Jr. and fiance Susan Levin won't be marrying at Ron Perelman's East Hampton spread, thanks to people like us publicizing the event. Instead they'll be getting hitched at an undisclosed locale in Amagansett.
• Suburban fashionisto Marc Ecko is watching his Complex magazine masthead crumble, with executive editor Savas Abadsidis quitting just after EIC Jimmy Jellinek flew the coup along with other top staffers.
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