She's no Octogenarian — New York Post's Cindy Adam's little flair-up at Jimmy Wales over her Wikipedia page has finally been figured out! It's because the entry on her page listed her as 83, when in fact she's only 76.
Cindy Adams is so mad at Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales for not fixing her entry on his site, and she is taking her outrage to the pages of New York Post instead of oh, say, just changing the damn entry herself,
I told him my own personal listed information is factually incorrect and I can substantiate its inaccuracies with legal documentation.
Totally unfazed, he said, "People should use it for background - not as their primary source."
I explained the misinformation on my site is not only outrageous but hurtful.
Even more totally unfazed, he said, "Sometimes those sorts of things can be posted by someone who doesn't like you."
He ultimately agreed to a re-edit.
That was two months ago. He did nothing.
Cindy, have you not figured out how the Internet works yet? Take a cue from Julia Allison, who petitioned Wales herself to change her profile picture on the site: it's better to work from inside the system than it is to take your complaint to Whales. He'll only personally change entries if it involves his affairs.
Even more hilarious though is looking at Adam's page, as there is almost nothing on it. Maybe that's what she is complaining about? She has legal documentation to prove she is important!
Some of the scarce salient details on Cindy Adams, according to the Wiki, and whether they hold up:
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As is wont to happen when big NYC media types visit anywhere other than New York, Cindy Adams, who's been having trouble getting into parties, traveled to Denver to "cover" the DNC — and bash the city she was visiting. Though she compliments Denver's lack of light pollution that lets you see the night's stars (higher elevation also helps), Adams this week described Denver as "a cow town" that "recently plummeted to 100 degrees" where "there's not lots to see." This has pissed off the locals. CONTINUED »
Lukewarm book seller David Carr has assumed his secondary role at the New York Times this convention season. For the next few days, he's eschewing his business reporter role for his Carpetbagger mask. "What!" you exclaim, realizing it is not quite Oscar season and, thus, do not understand why Carpetbagger is getting bylined. It's because the Times has caught on to something about the DNC in Denver: It is actually not a news-making event, but one of glitz, glam, and endless parties. (It also explains why Carr has already told you how to spend your time at the RNC in St. Paul.) The DNC is just like the Oscars, so who better to throw into the mix but Carr. Especially when there's a Cindy Adams nugget to report: CONTINUED »
All that talk about Katie Couric leaving CBS? Cindy Adams had the story back in September, as she so artfully insists in today's column. Nevermind that everybody in the media industry has been predicting a scenario like this since her ratings began slipping after her first week on the job. And nevermind that the most recent chatter about her possible exit stems from a February meeting, and not anything from September.
Cindy Adams reported on Tuesday that Nicole Kidman, inseminated with Keith Urban's baby juice, ordered a white wine backstage at the Oscars. Cindy's five-sentence item (where one of the sentences was simply "Oscars.") was met with furor from Kidman's rep Catherine Olim at powerhouse firm PMK/HBH, who issued a denial to, where else, Perez Hilton, even though "unlike most of the rest of the world" she "[tries] to ignore [Perez]" "because it is so nasty": "But I have to tell you that Nicole Kidman most certainly did NOT drink white wine or any other alcoholic beverage backstage. She had water and lemon zinger tea. That’s it. I know, I was there with her I cannot remember that last time that Cindy Adams got anything right. She’s an idiot, and you can quote me." Quoted and noted!
CINDY ADAMS IS A CRAZY PERSON But you already knew that. [TSP]
• Turns out Cindy Adams was having another one of her senior moments. That whole thing about Nicole Richie chain-smoking wildly despite toting around a giant, protruding unborn baby? Never happened.
• The Arcade Fire to Sasha Frere-Jones: We steal shit from black people all the time!
• Check out the 20 most frightfully anti-gay Halloween costumes. Then imagine a calm, peaceful existence where rampant homophobia only exists but once a year.
• Coolio gets turned down by MTV; inks deal for upcoming reality show with Oxygen network instead.
• As it turns out, there are times when a Sam Adams isn't always a good decision.
Breaking: Cindy Adams has accused Nicole Richie of smoking while in her third trimester of pregnancy. And despite having a (long) history of being confused, borderline racist and on the brink of senility, Cindy's pretty adamant on this one, claiming Nicole lit up on two separate occasions.
In fact, we're almost inclined to believe her, even though it makes us surprisingly disappointed in Nicole. Shame on you, Nic. And more importantly, shame on us. To think, we had our money on "malnutrition" and "fetal alcohol syndrome" all along.
Although we can’t seem to shake the nasty habit of writing in the royal we, occasionally one of our editors decides to shake off the cloak of anonymity to write a short, pithy statement long, rambling diatribe about a topic of their choice. Today, Debbie Newman is that editor.
While curmudgeonly gossip Cindy Adams typically uses her column as a mouthpiece for lavishing praise on her yappy Yorkshire terriers, she occasionally likes to switch things up by delivering an impassioned old-person rant about the degeneration of society.
Take, for instance, Sunday's column, in which Granny Adams (bless her heart!) seemingly lumps foreigners, immigrants, diplomats and terrorists into the single all-encompassing category of "Them." She then criticizes them for failing to possess "Social Security cards…subscriptions to Reader's Digest and CDs of Kate Smith singing 'God Bless America'" (we're listening to it now, on repeat!) and launches into a perspicacious discourse xenophobic tirade on the indignities of waiting in line behind "some jerk in an ill-fitting suit…from some fourth-rate country so small it's standing in line to dare shake its fist at the United States."
And it turns out ol' Cindy's just getting warmed up.
Former WABC anchor Steve Bartelstein breaks his code of silence, tells gossip granny Cindy Adams he has a job offer from CBS and, oh yeah, testicular cancer, thereby making it damn near impossible for us to work in one measly sexual harassment joke.
Also, it turns out he's (sort of) funny! When the ever-sensitive Cindy asks him how he expects to anchor the news after losing his hair from chemo, Bartelstein replies:
"Hey, Mother Nature has already been doing that work for me. I'll tell you one thing, I won't go the hairpiece route. I'll be knowledgeable, charming - and bald."
Hey, it worked for Matt Lauer.
By now, we all know that Larry King (who, ironically, has never even heard of Paris Hilton) will be the one sitting down with her to get her post-penitentiary musings soon after her release. But why did Barbara Walters pass on the chance to interview the errant heiress, even after NBC pulled out and it was offered free of charge?
Shockingly, Cindy Adams has the dirt.
And Babs' answer may or may not surprise you.
While David Carr ushers in the third New York Times (one, two, three) piece dedicated to the Maria Bartiromo/CNBC/Citibank scandal, today we also hear from Post walkabout Cindy Adams on the matter:
SPEAKING of lots more, there's lots more on this long-going tete-a-tete 40,000 feet up twixt CNBC's married Maria Bartiromo and her good friend, very good friend, like very very good friend Todd Thomson. They've been gossip for 18 months. Thomson was just bounced from his Citigroup top job for, among other things, lending her his company's plane. On one flight from China where he told underlings to find their own way home, he told them to do it on the company's dime so he could fly high in the sky with his American pie.
"Lots more," like, oh, they were having an affair? Ya don't say, Cinds. About the only folks not reporting that "news" is CNBC. But it's nice to see your octogenarian audience clued in.
Veteran gossip Cindy Adams has always been known as somewhat of a dog-obsessed eccentric. But now, she's outdone even herself, penning an entire column extolling the virtues of her Yorkies, (Juicy and Jazzy Jr.'s) "snugability," which we've excerpted for your reading/snickering pleasure:
My Juicy is 4. My Jazzy Jr. is 3. Juicy, a girl, is 31/2 pounds. The boy, my huge, killer attack dog Jazzy, is 41/2 pounds. Trust me, Yorkies leave paw prints on your heart.
Why? What's so great about a Yorkie?
First of all, barring minor limitations, a pooch is the same as a husband. An animal is an animal. True, Rover can't go half on rent or fix a light bulb. Also certain accommodations are best handled by, let's say, a great Italian - forget a Great Dane. And your furry creature - the four-legged one - can't zip your dress up the back. So move into a doorman building, find a neighbor or buy two-piece outfits and this problem's solved.
Cindy then goes on to explain why a Yorkie is the best type of replacement-husband, noting that they are portable, snuggable, lovable and they never shed…coincidentally, all the qualities we're looking for in a canine boyfriend!
But here's our favorite part:
Of course, like anything with the name "York," they're tough. A little demanding. I mean, Juicy is 31/2 pounds of pure selfish. She owns nine of my 10 rooms. But she's very New York. She loves The Post. Almost every night, I find her poring over my column.
Yep, just as we suspected. Cindy Adams has finally crossed over from quirky to just plain batshit insane. And in the process, her column has truly gone to the dogs.
• Jessica Biel replaces boyfriend Derek Jeter with a battery-operated pair underpants; Cameron Diaz jumps for joy.
• Bjork and Timbaland to make loud, strange music together:
• Playing video games makes you less fat and lazy? Consider our gym membership canceled!!
• Marilyn Manson proves he's an "even bigger freakshow' than previously imagined by fighting to deny ex Dita Von Deese a single cent of his giant, Goth empire.
• The Departed to be banned in China for including a minor plot line regarding a Chinese crime ring.
• When she's not busy jabbering on about her annoying, yappy dogs, Cindy Adams is reading (and plagiarizing from) Radar.
• Jared Kushner's dad bribed his safety schools, too? Now that's just good business savvy. [Ivy Leak]
• Cindy Adams has been writing her gossip column longer than we've been alive. That's kind of sad … but still worth a shout-out. Especially since she coined the phrase which headlines this daily round-up. [Cindy Adams]
bull; This is more "tri-state" but if Jim "McG" McGreevy's sultry tell-all is good enough for Oprah, it's good enough for us. Plus, we can't really imagine anything like this happening in Texas or Nebraska. [NYDN]
• Television news just discovered the Ghetto Film School, and they'll be talking about it for a whole two days. We know Black people are fascinating, but do yourself a favor and opt to check out the site before the nice White lady on TV gives you an inside look. [GFS]
• A new model called "Sweet 16" tells Animal NY it's her energy, not coke, that keeps her going. Yeah. Uh-huh. Energy. [Animal]
• Two little socialites driving to Marquee, the car stopped short, got hit by a taxi. Lydia Hearst bumped her head … should've gone to Bed instead. [Page Six]
• If Craft-y chef Tom Collichio had $15 Million, he'd resurrect CBGB. Even though nobody wants him to. [WWD]
• Paris Hilton knows everyone thinks she's a whore, but, really, she's only slept with a few of her 100 boyfriends. And only made videos with one of them. [Page Six]
• See, it is possible to write for Glamour, even if you're not also featured as a model on the back cover. [FBNY]
• Cindy Adams prefers her 9/11 movies to come a little later and go a little faster. [Cindy Adams]
We understand. It's tough running around those movie premiers. Great teamwork Liz Smith and Cindy Adams!
SCARLETT'S A SASSY BRIGHT STAR [Cindy Adams, New York Post]
The 'scoop' On The Screening [Liz Smith, New York Post]
• Anyone who thinks Conde Nast will tolerate fat people in their building obviously has no idea how this world actually works. [FBNY]
• Christie Brinkley’s husband says he’s sorry for being a dumbass … but somehow it all gets lost amongst the la, la, la going on in Cindy Adams' head. [Cindy Adams]
• Kids are not afforded the right of freedom of expression in NYC. As proven by the "no blogging" rules for students, which, more or less, protects teachers. [NYP]
• The depressing rumors are true: Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams are escaping back to Hollywood, where their sexy friends can come over and smoke weed out of apples. Sniff, sniff. [NYO]
David Blanks, a former editor at The Source, was sentenced to a term of six months in jail yesterday, on "charges that he clonked two strangers in the head with a red satchel filled with gravel." (We just couldn't say it better.)
The incident occurred in Harlem in January of this year at 125th Street near Third Avenue.
"… he started swinging his satchel for no apparent reason. He hit two men in the head, causing them "substantial pain," court documents alleged.
This is the same guy who thinks graffiti can be done with a black marker, and wrote on the door of a Jehovah's Witness church with it. He also used a quarter to scratch the word "DECEPTZ" into a bench. Whoa, bad ass.
We know you are just dying to hear the best part.
Asked last year why he vandalized the church, Blanks said of the Jehovah's Witnesses, "They mentally molested me."
Best crazy reason to do something ever. That is even better than Howie Mandel's excuse for loading up on swag. Ahhh, sigh. The Source will always be there to brighten up any day.
EDITOR SENT TO HOUSE OF CORRECTION [Laura Italiano, New York Post]
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