REGRETS Dan Peres would've rather been at home with the wife and daughter in NYC than spending 24 hours in Los Angeles to host Details' Mavericks party, where there were more dudes than ladies. [WWD]

Happy birthday to Richard Johnson, the Page Six chieftan who turns a year older today. Oh, and on Monday Details editor Dan Peres and hottie actress wife Sarah Wynter welcomed Oscar Dallas Wynter Peres in the world at 6 pounds, 6 ounces. Tiny, unlike his soon-to-be ego. Happy bday to the wee one.

SEATING SHART For the second time in three years, the New York Post confuses Details EIC Dan Peres with actor Chris Klein. Um, at least it wasn't Calvin Klein? [Portfolio]

Details editor Dan Peres has put the kibosh on its back-page "Gay or …?" column with a final "Gay or Straight?" version. It might be part of his effort to butch up the magazine, which has for years been called a nelly bottom. And racist. [AdAge]

Details chief Dan Peres is about to field some angry phone calls from some very important people. The November Ben Affleck issue, which should be hitting your welcome mat about now, features the actor in an all-portrait spread inside the magazine. It's some quality work from famed photog Steven Klein — but you wouldn't know it, since there's no photo credit given. Also not appearing in the printed pages: a byline from Bart Blasengame, who's responsible for the words. Oops.

Though Details' Dan Peres insists it's not a gay men's publication, his circulation department might think otherwise. Rumors are swirling that the Conde Nast book purchased the subscriber list of Windows Media's Genre magazine.

Readers of that gay magazine have suddenly found themselves receiving comped issues of Details as well as come-ons to subscribe.

Dan Peres has signed photog Steven Klein to a year contract to shoot Details' covers, saying "Given the competitive landscape of magazines, they need to be commercial in order to sell. … Steven brings real three-dimensional quality to a cover shot and makes it beautiful, but the real aesthetic will come with the images inside the magazine. I wouldn't imagine you're going to see a thematic change in what our covers are like."

But here's one change you might see: No more "pick up" covers using licensed images.

• Elisabeth Hasselbeck begrudgingly admits that things aren't exactly "Rosie" with her former co-host.

• CNN precludes us from making fun of their model-hot (and dumb as a brick!) anchor people by doing something nice for everyone.

• Carl Bernstein's biography of Hillary Clinton is really about…Carl Bernstein.

• Overprotective parents (who have already censored their children from harmful television, internet and video game content) search for new and more inventive ways to ruin their kids' lives.

• Finally! Men's Health shows us how to resist our strongest temptations, like that "tremendous" food on Air Force One.

• Meanwhile, Details EIC Dan Peres to make like Dave Zinczenko. Or, in other words, "to become annoyingly ubiquitous and offer free blow jobs to anyone who will help promote his book."

What's so very, very upsetting about this?

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What do you get when you sit down for a chat with Details editor-in-chief Dan Peres? A man who defends his honor against Jack Bauer. And a man who isn't a fan of Graydon Carter's dining establishment, and isn't afraid to go public about it.

Ben Campbell from Merchantville, New Jersey, wrote into Details this month.

"Gay Or Details?"
With its fashion, pop culture, sophisication and pretty-boy models, Details has always been friendly to gay men, but every issue lately seems to get even gayer, what with all the articles on gay culture and the recurring "Gay Or" feature. Hey, I have no problem with gay people. I just want to know – as a straight man – is Details still for me too?

We'll forget, for a moment, that Ben thinks it's possible to be too straight for Details. (Technically, it is, but only if you read Field & Stream.) Or that, despite his assurances, in all likelihood he's a raging homophobe.

But let's rewind one hot second: Last month's issue, we pointed out, was perhaps the first issue under Dan Peres that didn't carry a single gay cover line and only hinted at the possibility there might be some homo hula between covers.

And then, remarkably, there was the May issue.

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• Dan Abrams says "great job" to all your MSNBC folk! You're doing a fantastic job maintaining third place.

• Fabian Basabe isn't content with just a DUI charge; he needs a 20/20 special to go into elaborate detail as to all the reasons he's not fit to hold down a real job.

• Stop. Everything. Simon Dumenco found a magazine he likes.

• Dan Peres turns his diary into an editor's letter.

• Former Budget Living doyenne Sarah Gray Miller too cheap for InStyle?

• Nick Lachey shows he's over Jessica and on to guys in cups.