"Since shopping for swimwear can be an incredibly daunting task, I'll be answering any and all of your swimwear-related questions today," blogs Glamour fashion ed Suze Schwartz. "Whether your problem is fit, style, or finding the most flattering suit for your shape, I'm here to help. I've done more than 2,000 swim makeovers in my time here at I and there's no problem I haven't seen. Don't be shy - ask away!"

Not a single bathing suit problem you haven't seen? Something tells us that working at a magazine like Glamour, you've never had to deal with this problem.

Exclusive:

In our previous coverage of professional busybody Jeff Bercovici, we discovered that he's both humble and surprised by his adoring public, multitude of stalkers and confirmed status as cult figure.

Now, however, Bercovici appears to have embraced his popularity, popping up in the current issue of Glamour, to confess his deepest, darkest longings in "The Secret Things Men Do When Women Aren't Around."

And just what exactly is Bercovici up to when his wife isn't looking? We'll give you a hint, it's either:

(a): Catching Hepatitis A from Wolfgang Puck
(b): Wondering whether or not he is, in fact, the father of baby Dannielynn
(c): Having his credit card rejected at the supermarket checkout line.

Answer after the jump!

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• With just a three-day schedule, the American Magazine Conference is forcing attendees to consolidate their "getting sauced" time if they want to attend any of the panels. Which means fewer people attending panels. [WWD]

• MSNBC talent Kristine Johnson was smart enough to defect to WCBS before Jeff Zucker took her job away. [IC]

• Now-former Reuters markets editor Joe Maguire confirms he was fired over his Ann Coulter book. First Amendment, Schmirst Amendment. [PFAW]

• President Bush's tactic of hiring a a media insider as his talking head has worked: The major papers are said to have been going too lightly on Tony Snow. [NJ]

• Page Six should stay out of the business of reporting DUIs. Especially those of Daily News employees. [P6]

• Glamour sort of admits it screwed up when launching its "Don'tspotting" fashion feature, where readers got to trash the fashion sense of others. Now EIC Cindi Leive is reaching out to critical bloggers. And, it seems, to crazies: She's asked for Coutorture's Julie Frederickson to weigh in. [WWD]

• Seattle's Stranger apologizes for a staffer writing music reviews while selling music ads. Bad, bad! [The Stranger]

Irin Carmon over at Women's Wear Daily reports today on Glamour's new Don'tspotted site. Specifically, the can of worms Glamour opens up when they ask readers to contribute photos which "mock fashion choices" without any editorial oversight. As Jossip reported on Friday, Conde's second in fashion command wants everyone who catches a pedestrian looking "truly awful or truly chic" to snap a photo. Yet, with no black bars to protect anonymity of the fashion faux-paux victim, along with Glamour's struggles with the rule stating "uploaders must own photo rights," is rubbing some the wrong way.

Mainly, former Glamour intern turned Courtorture blogger/Melissa Lafsky stalker Julie Fredrickson.

… Julie Fredrickson logged on to find she had been Don'tspotted, with the help of four photos lifted from her own photo-sharing account. When she complained to Glamour that the anonymous poster didn't own the rights to the photos, they were taken down. "I wouldn't let the franchise be diluted this way by the public," Fredrickson said. "It's damaging to the Dos and Don'ts brand and makes Glamour look pretty bad."

We wonder if Fredrickson would have had the same reaction if she had been "Dospotted?" Anyways, since we have nothing else left to contribute to the conversation, we'll just give you Julie's full email to her former Glamour gals. After the jump.

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• Annie Leibovitz shows us a side of her we never actually wanted to see.

• Yes, Bill O'Reilly gets invited to parties. If not many, at least the Fox parties.

• We find out just how sneaky Diane Sawyer can really be.

• Glamour makes it really, really hard to leave the house.

• Despite her visit to Africa, Madonna did not actually go there to adopt a baby. You'd think she would ever follow a trend she didn't actually start?

• We've had many heroes in our lifetime: Maggie Gyllenhaal, Strawberry Shortcake, Matt Drudge … yet, none of them quite compare to Shanna Moakler. She is definitely our number one right now.

• Us Weekly breaks up Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn. Since nobody was really buying the whole engagement thing. Except Ken Baker of course. Yeah, literally.

• Who is this Little Miss Seventeen who thinks she has a chance in hell of both trying to sue Atoosa Rubenstein and getting a job in the media industry ever again.

• Jay McInerney officially retires Elaine's and Michael's.

• Betsy Burton jumps New York's ship for the new stellar start-up team of Time.

• The New York Times' Joe Sharkey goes through the hellish experience of being in a plane crash he may or may not have caused. And lives to tell us about it.

In order to achieve their ultimate goal — having everyone from Battery Park to Central Park looking ab fab at all times — Glamour has taken their claim to fame Online. The Do's and Don'ts are a guide for every girl who would rather die than appear with a black line across her eyes … or who's dream in life it is to be a "Glamour Do."

And now Glamour gives you the chance to nominate that bitch in your office who always insists on wearing cropped tights and gold bangles for the former and yourself for the latter. It's called Don'tspotting — and you are the catty paparazzi, responsible for stopping the fashion faux-pauxs from taking over New York. Or, wherever.

Starting now, whenever you see someone looking truly awful—or truly chic—take a photo and show the world! Use your digital camera or camera phone and upload, or just browse, rate and comment on other people's photos. Remember, we're talking fashion commentary, not personal attacks. So play fair, and have fun!

To be honest, the set-up is a little confusing … there are so many categories, and the same cute girl in every picture. But if your vengeful heart gets revenge via taking photos of chubby girls in leotards (a.ka. "if you work at Conde Nast") now's your chance.

Why are you still sitting there mean girls? Stop taking MySpace photos of yourselves and go snap some fugs.

Welcome to Don'tspotting! [Glamour]

• Ellen Degeneres was involved in a six degrees of separation drunk driving accident. Maybe she'll joke less about downing whiskey and driving around the parking lot? [Access Hollywood]

• Jessica Simpson is plans to donate all those free VMA goodies to the kids with cleft lips. Well, maybe not all … but the Sidekick and the Manolos definitely. [Lowdown]

• Celebs go really glam with Glamour this Fashion Week season. Conde must really be sweetening up those celebs. [WWD]

• Cameron Diaz isn't bringing enough sexy back to get a diamond ring. [People]

• Now that everyone finally stopped associating her with a hooker, Julia Roberts launches her new perfume. [Page Six]

What is the Internet good for if not finding your perfect mate? And there are really no other people on this Earth we are more happy to see pair off than the girls of Conde Nast. Introducing Alyssa Shelasky, former Us Weekly reporter and current Glamour staffer. She will be the star of the latest blog dating adventure, Glamour's "See Alyssa Date."

Apparently the process of finding a date is not a problem for Shelasky (just look at that hair). The problem is, she hasn't quite figured out how to make some cash out of her dating life. Well, that's about to change. Glamour wants you as hooked on Alyssa as you were on Sarah Jessica or Mary Louise Parker, and they will pimp her out to as many guys as possible until you can't take the suspension anymore.

Taking this a step further than garden-variety comments, "See Alyssa Date" will specifically poll readers, inviting them to vote on what she should do next. Translation: Alyssa, honey, if they vote it, you date it.

Within reason, of course (obviously), but Glamour editor-in-chief Cindi Leive says that Shelasky will have to "take their counsel seriously," as though she were talking to her girlfriends. "There are so many young women out there who basically do this with their friends anyway — get updates on dates, find out how it went, etc. This is that phenomenon writ large."

Sounds like fun … sort of. Part of us always thought that whole "where did he take you for lunch? Did he pay for dinner? Did he let you swing first on the golf course?" crap was a prude prepster cover-up. Apparently there are actually talk about that stuff. We just don't happen to know any of them. We guess the rest of us will have to wait for Cosmopolitan's "they vote it, she fucks it" sex blog.

Liveblogging The Lovin': Glamour.com Unveils "See Alyssa Date" [Rachel Sklar, Eat the Press]

Remember last week when you brought you (what we thought was) the Banana Republic advertisement from the back of Glamour. You know, the one featuring former Observer eye candy and socialite Jessica Joffe? Well, as anyone who has picked up this month's fashion issue has surely realized, that was some type of promo ad or something. This, however, is the actual ad.

See, she's actually much more jaded than previously depicted. Oh, and as it turns out, there is also an advertisement in another Conde Nast publication — Vanity Fair. The above image is the first of a four page ad, which includes Jessica and all her well clad preppy friends looking bored and more important than you. Though, as far as we know, she hasn't written any of the cover stories for Graydon Carter yet. Check out a few pages from the second installment of her Conde Nast ad space take-over, after the jump.

*Also, please note, we did not say anything worthy of a Ryan Adams mental break-down. We are simply trying to bring fair and accurate information to our readers. Well, as accurate as possible, at least.

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• Looks like Jared Paul Stern left his mark on American Media Inc. Except the National Enquirer reporters ask to paid in gossip versus billions. [R&M]

• As you may have heard, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's lawyers sent around notifications that we shouldn't run these photos. Or these. [TMZ, Mollygood]

• Glamour magazine hires west coast editor Blaine Zuckerman … a.ka. L.C's future boss. [Page Six]

• Demi Moore claims that she is pro-plastic surgery. What, she thought we couldn't tell? [The Scoop]

• Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban's wedding was a really big deal to everyone … except us, apparently. [NYP, NYDN, Us]

• Natasha Lyonne is either drugged up and dying somewhere in New York, or making Oscar worthy movies in California. But since she's been spotted buying syringes, we're going to go with the first option. [Lowdown]

Remember how much fun it was to elect people for student council back in high school? No? Well, let the ASME board of directors refresh your memory with its fabulous reenactment.

If they're going to pick a girl to be president, 9 times out of 10, they'll choose the homecoming queen. This year, fittingly, ASME appointed Cynthia Leive , the editor-in-chief of Glamour. VP is usually someone a bit nerdier. Like the guy who's in all the AP classes, but noboby ever really remembers his name. Enter Evan Smith, editor at Texas Monthly. You have no idea who he is.

The cute foreign exchange student with classy sex tips always makes a great Secretary (Roberta Myers, EIC of Elle) and of course you need a spot for the popular party boy for treasurer — and we're sure Adam Moss is great with money. Just look at those ad pages!

Lieve fills Newsweek editor Mark Whitaker's spot as president, and the new club will begin its reign over all the land just as soon as those much awaited popularity awards … er, Ellies … are announced. Assembly dismissed, everyone please return to homeroom.

Cindi Leive Named ASME President [Dylan Stableford, Fishbowl New York]

Yesterday, we relayed the Ad Age story on former Glamour deputy editor Denise Brodey and her departure from Shape magazine. It was reported that she is leaving her executive editor spot to join More magazine as special projects editor — which we found rather strange, considering we know Brodey had been EIC shopping a mere six months ago.

And according to this latest tip, (which Keith Kelly apparently received as well) our hunch may have had some merit.

Denise Brodey is going to be EIC of FITNESS. But since she had a covenant not to compete clause in her Shape contract, she’s biding her time over at MORE until the time on the clause runs out. The folks at Meredith have it all worked out, you see. And don’t be thinking she won’t be running up and down the stairs between those two. The folks over at FITNESS know she’s coming. Just ask the Fitness staff.

The rumors are plausible — Fitness's last EIC Emily Listfield left the mag's top spot in February after six years at the helm. The mag has been "on a hunt" ever since. But getting into Fitness through the back door at More? How sneaky! Our tipster reveals Brodey even had a great "I'm leaving to write a book" response for her former Shape EIC Valerie Latona.

Brodey has been plotting her escape for about a month now. Seems everyone at Shape knew but Latona. Last week Latona cornered and confronted Brodey asking her, “Is it true that you’re going to Fitness?” and Brodey REFUSED TO RESPOND. Brodey exited Shape on Monday under dubious circumstances. Word has it she told Latona she was leaving to write a book. YEAH RIGHT!

We hope she developed an extra layer of skin under David Pecker and Cyndi Leive … editorial director Mike Lafavore is rumored to be quite a force to be reckoned with. We've placed calls to Fitness, but magazine people don't roll in until about 10:30, so … stay tuned for more "as the door revolves" when someone returns our messages.

Earlier: Denise Brodey's EIC Spot Just Another Hop, Skip, Jump Away

After a six month stint as executive editor at Shape magazine, Denise Brodey has left her American Media spot to join More as their special-projects editor.

Last October, Brodey left her deputy editor position at Glamour, to join Shape — right around the time she was shopping for the then open EIC spot at Budget Living. After David Pecker moved the Woodland Hills crew to New York, the staff revolving began: EIC Anne Russell resigned and Valerie Latona, Shape's beauty editor, took the spot.

Coincidentally, More magazine itself is now searching for a new executive editor, after Joanna Coles left to replace Leslie Jane Seymour at Hearst Magazines' Marie Claire. Peggy Northrop remains editor in chief at More.

"The executive-editor search is still going on," a Meredith spokesman said, adding that both internal and external candidates were being considered.

And while we're sure Brodey loves a special project just as much as the next edit staffer, we won't be surprised if she's scheduled for one of those exec editor interviews.

'Shape' Editor Bolts For 'More' [Ad Age]

• Mischa Barton wants out of The O.C. — and into leather and whips. [SF Gate]

• Laddy lit is back, yo! [NYT]

• Why do celebs choose baby names like Moses and Moxie CrimeFighter? Because they're narcissistic egomaniacs, that's why. [NYT]

• Kit Seelye didn't completely slack off today: She's on the trail of Daniel Pearl's widow Mariane writing items for Glamour that might not be listicles. [NYT]

• We call it Paid $ix, others call it Burkle Watch. Dot com. [Burkle Watch]

• Which celeb baby matters more: TomKat's or Brangelina's? USA Today, and probably about 118 million Americans, want to know. [USA Today]

Bonnie Fuller's PR machine is on overdrive, landing her two articles (there are possibly more we haven't seen yet) on the joys of the editors' new book, The Joys of Much Too Much.

From her stint at Cosmopolitan to then being fired from Glamour to jumping ship at Us Weekly, Bonnie's taken the media world on one helluva ride. But she went through some pretty hellish times, too people. For example, her lack of fashion sense hindered herself esteem. She spills her pain to the New York Times:

Along the way, she was treated badly by the cool set and suffered from minimal fashion sense, even as she relentlessly pursued a career in fashion journalism — propelled, she said, by her insecurities.

Is it not a bit puzzling, then, that she would have turned to fashion as her fallback career?

"I started this book when I was unemployed," she said, alluding to a fallow period before her assignment with Us Weekly came through. "I didn't think that I'd be an editor again. I thought that maybe I'd go into fashion or retail."

Oh, the joys of dissecting much too much contradicting media coverage. Not to mention, we have all these articles on Bon, and not one single mention of the tampon dispenser in her purse.

Onetime Editor of Glamour Writes of Some Last Straws [Katharine Q. Seelye, New York Times]
Ambition - and Bossiness - Came Early to Bonnie Fuller [Praynay Gupte, New York Sun]

Oh, the magazine numbers game. Who doesn't need to know the 928 hottest lip shades for spring? Or 653 ways to lick your man? (We swear, try number 34 and he'll propose!)

We know you went out and bought all 563 pairs of shoes, which the last glossy promised would help you rule the world. Gals who grew up on mags know that the numbers game has been around since the days of Teen and YM. Sure, they help sell covers, and are needed to differentiate women's magazines from the celeb weekly. But they also serve the important purpose of differentiating themselves from each other.

Really, who's going to buy Glamour's 324 hair products that will make you so skinny Nicole Richie would be jealous, when Cosmo has 325 iPod tunes that are guaranteed to get you laid?

What we didn't realize, however, is that this numbers game has a dark underbelly. It seems as though things are getting so bad for our fathers' generation of 'zine readers, that even the outdoorsy hunter magazines need random numbers to sell their covers. (And no, we're not talking about Outside. Picking up guys at the climbing wall in Chelsea does not count as being "outdoorsy".)

Field & Stream gives guys "19 ways to get out alive." (Do you really need more than one?) and "50 ways to get your late-season deer."

Uh-Oh, we think PETA is going to have a new gripe for Janice Min. We just hope next time you all go to pick up your Us Weekly, you consider that deer are dying for your obsession with Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's sins.

Lurid Numbers on Glossy Pages! (Magazines Exploit What Sells) [Katharine Q. Seelye, New York Times]

Those crazy Brits area at it again, this time passing out awards like nose candy in a London club to British Glamour's favorite celebs.

Apparently, one requirement of dressing well in Britain is being British, and the other is not being fat anymore, putting Kate Moss at number one and Nicole Richie at number four. Kirsten Dunst, Natalie Portman and Ashlee Simpson make the top 50, but no Lindsay Lohan? That's just a travesty.

British Glamour's top 20 picks:

1 Kate Moss
2 Sienna Miller
3 Victoria Beckham
4 Nicole Richie
5 Halle Berry
6 Charlize Theron
7 Jennifer Aniston
8 Mischa Barton
9 Catherine Zeta-Jones
10 Nicole Kidman
11 Gwen Stefani
12 Angelina Jolie
13 Rachel Bilson
14 Sarah Jessica Parker
15 Beyonce Knowles
16 Jennifer Lopez
17 Gwyneth Paltrow
18 Kirsten Dunst
19 Rachel Stevens
20 Cate Blanchett

Normally, we wouldn't really care what British Glamour thinks, but when the March issue of Glamour here in the US has articles titled "The sneaky fat even skinny girls may have," and Sarah Jessica Parker's take on Botox, we had to read something.

Nicole's A Style Climber [Sky News]

If you were looking for a quicker way to get ousted from your lady's magazine gig than Nadine Haobsh's method, look no further than Ruth Davis Konigsberg.

The Glamour deputy editor is challenging employer Conde Nast and the publishing industry in general over its widescale favoring of male writers. Since she began counting the bylines of Harper's, The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair and The Atlantic Monthly in September, she's found 324 male bylines and to 99 female names.

Funny, because she's yet to reveal the skewed female-to-male ratio going on inside the pages of Glamour.

At Some Magazines, Men Appear to Rule the Word [NYT]
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