Kate Moss, the supermodel with a sordid history and a gold statue of herself on display in a British museum, has hit upon a novel idea and she wants to share it with the world. As it turns out, being a professional model is not the best diet plan in the world, "You go to a show and there's no food at all … I remember standing up in the bath one day and … I was so thin! I was never anorexic … I remember thinking, I don't want to be this skinny."
Not to knock the idea that fashion runways and the modeling industry create unrealistic body-image expectations for young women, but Kate is picking an interesting time (two weeks before New York's Fashion Week, which kicks off the global event) and place (Andy Warhol's magazine) to drop this truth bomb on the world.
Kate's clothing line Topshop is on the brink of a lucrative deal in China, and all of a sudden the formerly mum model gets all chatty with Vogue and Interview about eating disorders? If she really wanted to do something about the pressure models face about their body image, she'd put a sandwich where her mouth is and move up a cup size or two.
Eva Mendes 1, ‘Interview’ Reporter 0Recent rehab graduate Eva Mendes spoke to Interview magazine about substance abuse, but she wasn’t having any of the interviewer’s hilarious jokes. In response to the reporter saying, “They’re going to have to change the name of it to ‘Alcoholics Unanimous,’” Eva provided nothing but silence (and probably a death stare).
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• Seventeen launches a new online game called "Editor's Assistant," based on EIC Ann Shoket's real-life assistant. The game, unofficially dubbed "The Devil Wears Unlaced Converse Sneakers," is available here.
• Newspapers continue to slash classical music critics in favor of hiring multiple Paris Hilton vaginaphiles instead.
• YouTube continues to piss off greedy Hollywood types by airing copyrighted material on their site without having the decency to charge an overinflated premium.
• Interview lauded for being 1.5 decades behind the times.
• "If the internet is killing newspapers, why are they doing so well?" wonders the Guardian. Related: Crazy near-death Guardian reporters clearly in denial.
Peter Brant (of Brant Publications) has finally done it.
At his order, Andy Warhol's pretentious lovechild Interview magazine is to be put up for sale, and auctioned off to the highest bidder.
Which has just got to piss off the dead (but nonetheless temperamental) Andy Warhol, seeing as that's essentially like destroying the fundamental building blocks of Interview by embracing the greedy capitalist society Warhol so vehemently opposed—you know, when he wasn't coked out of his mind and creating eccentric soup-can inspired art or rendered borderline comatose on LSD.
And while, in recent years, the mag has dropped off in circulation from the realm of "hip, but obscure" to occupy the niche of "completely irrelevant," it's still hard to believe that Interview—in all its passé, antiquated glory—can be yours…if the price is right.
Although terms of the auction are not yet fully disclosed, word on the street has it that the winning bidder not only gets full publishing/editorial ownership, but also the once in a lifetime opportunity of giving homely EIC Ingrid Sischy an "extreme makeover."
This morning, Gawker blew the lid off of Interview's apparently fictitious letters to the editor, (a.k.a. "FakeLetterGate.")
And now, a well-placed tipster tells us that some of the mag's top scribes** have recently come down with a bad case of that "I just got fired" bug that's been going around.
Tattles our insider:
i was at an interview party last night and overheard some talk about trouble brewing. apparently some people have taken "sick leave" recently, which the employees guessed meant firing.
So, what the hell is going on there?
Has Ingrid let being the editor in chief go to her head, (or at least her luscious locks of curly hair?) Could it be that the "Crystal Ball of Pop" has disgruntled ex-staffers in its near future? Might it be that the Time Inc. pink slip epidemic is still contagious?
If anyone deep in the trenches at Brant Publications (or just nosy enough to known anything) has the real dirt, shoot us an email and let us know what went down.
**But wait, isn't it all written by celebs?
• Now we know how Paris Hilton ended up at Buddakan last week. She couldn't get into Bungalow 8, someone called her a human condom, and she cried. [Mollygood]
• For those of you who stalk the blog world as closely as we stalk New York's entire masthead, you'll be glad to know Blogebrity's back. Now stop looking through our windows. [Blogebrity]
• The Newsweek news we already knew — only now it's official. [FBNY]
• When Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie travel, they need to buy a house in whatever city they go to. Hey, if you had like 20 kids and that many millions, you'd do that same. [Star]
• Celeb stylist cum Interview fashion director, Annabel Tollman is being replaced by another stylist. With more famous clients. [FWD]
Because we have a slight obsession with the girl, we caught Lindsay Lohan on David Letterman last night. Anyone who saw can probably agree the girl looked more methed out than Pete Doherty, but that's not really where we come in.
We were more concerned with the part of the chat where Letterman held up the cover of Interview magazine with La Lo a la Liz Taylor on the cover and asked her about doing the interview.
"I'm really good friends with Ingrid Sischy," Lindsay confesses. "So, she just like taped our conversation … she didn't ask me anything specific." As a reporter, we're sure Sischy was none to pleased with that description of her skills. So, we are here to point out that yes, she did ask some specific (not to mention hard hitting) questions in the interview. (Special thanks to our Intern Calista for actually having the magazine and typing the whole thing out via email.)
Specific Question #1: When I say you're at a turning point, it's because it's clearly a period where people are going, 'Wait a minute. There's a real artist in there.' I'm just curious if you're aware of that.
Specific Question #2: But why were you changing so much? Because you promised all of these people you'd wear their clothes and it helps them when stars are photographed in their labels?
Specific Question #3: Why is your father in prison?
Specific Question #4: Tell me about this supposed fight. (With Jessica Simpson.)
Specific Question #5: So, I was going to ask you your thoughts about Marilyn Monroe. Here's this person the whole world has been riveted by for decades. Do you think there's something romantic about the tragedy? Is the tragedy part of what makes us lover her?
That last question in particular is riviting, mainly because we personally have always seen Lohan as possesing similar tragic qualaties to dear Norma Jean. For example, it's pretty tragic that while reporters manipulate her into thinking they are just having a friendly chat, Lindsay can't see that plenty of people's careers are being built on her frail back.
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