We interrupt our foray into an evening without you mensches to update you on one serious development, and a forgettable one.

First, MSNBC is dropping its Don Imus simulcast, reports TVNewser, validating the argument we made only to ourselves that even Steve Capus can't rationalize racist ad dollars.

And second, TeenPeople.com is folding, reports MediaWeek. It'll merge with papa People.com by the end of the month. Supposedly the brand is healthy – if it weren't, "we wouldn’t continue to use the brand" – so much so that Time Inc. can't support a print or online edition.

Despite the recent and tragic shuttering of Teen People, People magazine is getting ready to launch one of its current supplements as a year-long spin-off. Once a single issue newsstands seller, People Style Watch was sold kiosk-only style three times last year. But with Us Weekly and Life & Style expanding their fashion coverage online and in their mags, People figured they better step it up as well.

Each year we've taken a look at the frequency. We entered this year doing four issues; we added a fifth because of the demand we saw in the first half. After looking at the continued demand, we decided to increase the frequency next year to 10 issues."

That also means People Style Watch will offer subscriptions for the first time, seeking just under $20 for one year.

Well, we guess since their gossip coverage has been somewhat scrutinized of late they may be looking for other "options" (i.e. "distractions") for readers to cling to.

Roaring 'People' Expands the Franchise [Nat Ives, Ad Age]

Former Teen People chief Lori Majewski – out of a job when Time Inc. closed the mag in July – is not heading over to the executive editor slot at People, as many Time Inc. insiders (and us) suggested. Rather, we're told the former Us Weekly exec ed has just been named Entertainment Weekly's executive editor. Which means she's back from her European getaway and, true to form, lands stateside with a huge announcement.

Update: Time Inc. chief John Huey's memo, after the jump.

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Remember when Conde Nast secretly launched Lipstick.com? Yeah, well, we haven't really checked the site since we broke that news … but, we still remember that Conde is pushing forward with their Internet expansion. Their next project? Flip, an online haven for teenie boppers with dreams of being the next Paris Hilton. (Well, actually it's tentatively, secretly, called Flip, but there's a chance Conde will flop on the moniker.)

With Teen People and Elle Girl moving to a new place online, and Atoosa Rubenstein ruling as the queen of MySpace, CondeNet will have plenty of glaring peers to give them nasty looks in the hallway and spread rumors about them.

The only difference is, Flip's readers will be "business minded" bitches, instead of indy rocker chicks or celeb junkies.

CondeNet, the division developing Flip, declined to comment, but the plans reveal a strategy encompassing not just teen girls' social world, but their inner creative worlds and outer sources of inspiration.

The materials indicate the site is aimed at business-minded teens, citing a survey that found 53% of teens want to be celebrities; 54% want to "go into business or sell something"; and 37% would like to be a fashion designer. (Even better, apparently: "A mere 15% want to be in politics or activism.")

Which should really help when it comes to Conde Nast using Flip to recruit the next crop of Teen Vogue interns.

Sneak Peek Into Conde Site Flip That Turns Teens Into Executives [Nat Ives, Ad Age]

A few tips have started trickling in in regards to rumors that Lori Majewski is jumping from her post as managing editor of Teen People to executive editor at People. Nobody knows for sure (well, Time Inc. probably knows, but they're keepin' a lid on it) but a few clues from a Time Inc. insider seem to suggest she's getting ready for the big switch.

… she is going to Europe for a few weeks. Last time she did that, she came back and took over at Teen People. She is the hardest worker and never takes extended vacay like that — and wouldn't, unless she had something lined up …

If anyone knows anything, we're all ears. (Do we really need to say confidentiality and anonymity are always assured?) Come on! Send us your juice! This isn't even a scandal …

Earlier: Teen People's Lori Majewski (May Have) Jumped to People

This just in from someone who heard from someone who heard from someone:

Lori Majewski, former Managing Editor of Teen People, has been named executive editor at big People. Our tipster explains to those of us who will never actually be allowed inside a Time Inc. publication,

This is a big deal, since Exec Editors at People tend to be, you know, old.

Though, as Keith Kelly continuously reminds us, even if you're young, you're nothing at Time Inc. unless you're a managing editor. Nothing!

Anyways, it isn't confirmed yet (we guess we can try to email someone over there to confirm. Should the slight chance occur that they pick up the phone, we'll try to validate the rumor). Though we're pretty sure it's probably true. Like the folks over People would really let their highest profile editor get shluffed aside to some loser online gig.

Earlier: Teen People Moves in With Elle Girl

Actually, all of a sudden there seems to be quite a lot of risk involved in subscribing.

Teen People
Earlier: Breaking: Teen People Moves in With Elle Girl

Boo. Teen mags are just dropping like flies around here, and we are not pleased. Not pleased at all. And not just because everyone would like to blame us bloggers for the utter annihilation of print publications, but because we are really not all for teenagers spending every single second of their lives online where predators and stalkers lurk every corner.

Ok, really, it's just that we know there were some solid folk over at Teen People and we'd hate to see them kicked to the curb by Time Inc.'s much-scuffed boot. The teen tabloid has joined the likes of Elle Girl, and will be moving to an online only venue beginning with their September issue of 2006.

The mag claims that they are taking steps to place Teen Peep peeps on the mastheads of other Time Inc. publications — but really, what's the point? They're just going to fire everyone again at Christmas. Full press release after the jump.

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"It's like Jerry Springer for rich kids," Zena Burns explained to the New York Times. She was talking about the over the top extravaganza which is MTV's Super Sweet 16. And as the entertainment director at Teen People magazine, Burns knows that "her readers can't get enough of the show."

She also knows that not all teens have tons of money thrown at them, but something about the way exorbitant amounts of cash grip the hearts of high school sophomores is mesmerizing to its audience. Its audience being high schoolers who are allowed to stay up until 11 pm on Wednesdays to watch it.

"You're either the type of kid that aspires to have that over-the-top party, or you're the type of kid that finds that absolutely repellent, but you still can't stop watching," said Ms. Burns, a fan of the series. "And I have just as many adult friends who watch it and do the water cooler recap the next day."

She does? Really? Wow, not to sound elitist or anything (we love smut even more than the next guy). Then again we're not grown-ups and we haven't even seen a water cooler in like six months. So, we suggest that if you have ever admitted being friends with Teen People editor Zena Burns, you just call your take-backs now.

MTV's 'Super Sweet 16' Gives a Sour Pleasure [Lola Ogunnaike, New York Times]

• Calvin Klein wants Kate Moss to come back and model for them. Kate said she'd do it, but only if she can take off her shirt and jump around. [Page Six]

• Nick Lachey asks everyone to please stop calling him a loser. Making an infomercial means he's cool again, ok? [People]

• We used to think being something like a firefighter or a miner was the most dangerous profession a person could have. We have now realized that being a hip hop artist's bodyguard is the job with the highest associated death rate. [CNN]

• WWD is one of the Fairstepchild pubs to get screwed by Conde Nast. Case in point, the EIC Ed Nardoza's office, which currently houses the janitor and will be invested with mice any day now. [Page Six]

• Oh, Campbell Robertson. We know that New Yorkers are special, and many of your boldface socialites escape the commoners, but everyone knows who Wilmer Valderrama is. And not because he was on TV — because he dated Lindsay Lohan. [NYT]

• Because Cargo readers don't admit they're gay, shirtless Orlando Bloom covers won't sell. But, slap some shirts on Jeremy Piven and Rebecca Romijn and the metros come a runnin'. [WWD]

• By “long awaited” online mag, does Keith Kelly mean "unheard of" online mag? [NYP]

• Columbia J students, it's time to put your dreams of reporting in Mexico to rest, along with that margarita glass you've been clinging to for four years. Mexico is almost as dangerous as a country full of fake WMDs. [NYT]

• Real journalism and blogs are spawning faster than celebrities. So all those "reporter bitches" may still have a shot at working in the future. [OJR]

• Life & Style's executive editor gets fired for having an obnoxious British accent. [Gawker]

• The kids at Teen People welcome their new daddy, Greg Hano. [Media Week]

• Don't let the Oprah pregs with James Frey's baby thing throw you. Simon Dumenco just wants to re-classify Bonnie Fuller. [Ad Age]

• Lori Majewski would love to have Jessica and/or Ashlee Simpson, and/or Jessica Simpson, or/and Ashlee Simpson on the cover of Teen People.

• Did they really need to censor The Rolling Stones sexually explicit lyrics? Could anyone even understand what they were saying? [AP News]

• Brace yourself — HuffPo junior may be the next face of the blogosphere. [Fishbowl, NY]

• We're sure the NYU chapter of NOW is going to have some huge something in her honor. Until then, in honor of Betty Friedan, let's take this day not to not watch a Pink video. [NYT]

• Vogue's Anna Wintour is claiming responsibility for the death of Variety spin off V Life. When the "trade" publication put Gwyneth Paltrow on its cover at the same time she popped up on Vogue, the edtrix made more than one angry phone call over the actress' saturation. So when the title announced February would be it's last issue, Wintour's ego celebrated. [Radar]

• Tony Danza's daytime chat fest has been signed for the 2006-07 season, but WABC is dropping his obnoxious tone for another: Rachel Ray. [NYP]

• Teen People killed its story of Olsen twin look-a-like white supremecists Lamb and Lynx Gaede after a "junior employee" signed a deal not to use the words "Nazi," supremacist" and "hate" in the copy. [NYP]

• Katie Couric isn't the only one worried about rising babes in network news. Jill Rappaport is reportedly exiting, to be replaced by Matt Lauer's ex-squeeze and video game vixen Maria Menounos. [Page Six]

• In shocking news, magazine editors will be spending their Thanksgivings .. eating .. with family! [WWD]

• Jann Wenner's gift to his staffers: A chance to see U2 for $369. Too bad Jann is friends with the band and could just have easily scored free tix if he actually meant well this holiday. [R&M]

• Nick Denton threatens to shutter a blog — and the blogosphere cries. [Blog Herald]

• Judith Miller will be able to buy friends with her $3 million severance package, but she needn't spend a penny to get some loving from the Observer. [NYO]

Not only did Lori Majewski get Jessica and Ashlee Simpson together on the cover of Teen People before anyone else, but she's also the proud editor of a magazine that Jessica talked to that isn't OK!.

And talk she did. We're not sure how Richard Desmond is going to feel about Simpson revealing the fact that she went to a shrink outside the paid-for pages of OK!, but we know how we feel: disinterested, weary and sleepy.

Jessica Simpson says she's visited a therapist to help deal with the tumultuous year she's had.

"I respect knowledge of the psyche," she tells Teen People in its December-January issue, on newsstands Friday. "I would be a therapist if I weren't an entertainer."

And then you'd be on Tom Cruise's hit list, sweetheart, and we wouldn't wish that on anyone. Well, except maybe Ashlee Simpson.

Jessica: I've Been in Therapy [People]

Lori Majewski – whose name we enjoy repeating much more than we enjoy reading her magazine (Lori Majewski, Lori Majewski, Lori Majewski!) – has been at Teen People just a few months and already she's making her mark.

No longer will cover photos bleed over the magazine's name! No longer will the cover be taken over with copy! No longer will newsstand browsers be subjected to bright neon! Oh, and then there's the December/January issue:

… and, for the first time posing together for a magazine (according to a Teen People spokeswoman), Ashlee and Jessica Simpson.

This is industry bending journalism here, folks. We're making history, and we're glad to have you along for the ride. And let freedom ring!

People Chase [WWD]
Related: Media Blitz

Seventeen magazine has been rushing to put that little Nadine Haobsh "incident" behind them. You know the one: Where they extended the Ladies' Home Journal beauty editor the same position at the Heart magazine, the took it off the table once her anon-a-blog Jolie In NYC was exposed. Yep, that one.

But Atoosa Rubenstein & Co. have finally nailed down her fill in — and it's a boy! Hopping over from his gig as associate beauty editor at Teen People is the gender-ambiguously named Desi Gallegos, who arrives just in time to watch everyone but him appear on MTV's Miss Seventeen.

• If Paris Hilton hand-holds with a man other than her fiance Paris Latsis, does it make a headline? Fortunately that question needn't be answered, since everyone saw Hilton hand-in-hand with her music producer Scott Storch at the MTV VMAs.

• She may have remained calmer than usual at the VMAs, but on her flight back to New York, prison-bound Lil Kim nearly got booted off the plane after arguing with flight attendants over a first-class "mix-up." Though she's gotta stir some shit up before her stay in the clink.

• Lindsay Lohan got reigned in by mama Dina, who forced her skinny offspring to stay put until the storm passed before getting on a plane for the VMAs.

• Brad Pitt and George Clooney's Las Vegas hotel gimmick, which has been talked about for years, continues to make the gossip rounds. Now they've picked up Rande Gerber of Whiskey lounge fame — and they might finally start construction in January. That doesn't mean it's January '06, however.

• Teen People is covering new ground: strip clubs. At least that's what Chad Michael Murray chose to chat about, re: his adult outing that wife and co-star Sophia Bush supposedly knew about.

• Jenny McCarthy's divorce from John Asher isn't just affecting her personal life, but also her business decisions. The light-hearted jokes in her tying the knot manual Marriage Laughs, which just got picked up for $1 million, don't sound so funny anymore.

• Jennifer Aniston's Vanity Fair cover chimes in as the magazine's best-selling issue yet, with Graydon Carter jumping in jubilation with at least 650,000 copies sold so far, beating Carolyn Bessette Kennedy's posthumous September 1999 cover, which sold 640,816.

• Us Weekly defector Lori Majewski's arrival at Teen People to become its new managing editor was met with plenty of skepticism, but that hasn't kept a close friend (likely at Us) from starting an email campaign on her behalf.

• Time Inc. is cracking down on splurging at its magazines. No longer will meals or drinks be reimbursed when had with other staffers or media folk — story sources only. And it gets worse: No first-class airfare.

• Three years after Sports Illustrated attempted TV project with CNN bombed, they're once again on the small screen prowl. This time it's Comcast's Outdoor Life Network (famous for its Survivor reruns), which already licenses the name "Outdoor Life" from SI-owner Time Inc.

• Already, at least two communities are asking for EchoStar to name their towns Dish in exchange for free satellite TV service.

• Because we don't read HuffPo too often (too many ads, if you ask us), we're just clued in to Iraqi war mom Cindy Sheehan's blogging efforts over there.

• All it took for ABC's evening news to finally beat NBC? Peter Jennings' death, ya'll.

• Bob Woodward's insider look at Deep Throat is barely making ripples on the newsstand. The Secret Man's tales of Watergate moved only 61,000 units in its first five weeks, which makes us think the readily available Vanity Fair article – oh, and all that incessant cable news coverage – was more than enough for everyone.

• Mike Savage loves it when you throw your hate mongering in his direction, so don't stop now.

• Salon is cutting lose its 4,000 members of The Well, the online community founded in 1985 and bought by the indie online publisher in 1999. Those dwindling number of users who still debate politics and philosophy on The Well may soon be bashing Bush under another corporate umbrella, as Salon is opening it up to buyers.

• Once again we're reminded of the all-powerful New York Times. With the stroke of a keyboard, editorial page editor Gail Collins can make or break a local politico. She also looks great in black latex.

• Despised Us Weekly exec editor Lori Majewski is a goner, but by her own volition. She's jumped ship to her former home at Teen People, where celebrites are assaulted only slightly less.

• J-school prof Denny Wilkins isn't sure whether to lie to his students about the media industry and that it's all about the cash, not the journalism, these days. But these kids are bright folks, we're sure they'll quickly figure it out when they're trying to break through the $30,000 salary ceiling.