What popular Us Weekly gossip columnist has been found guilty of soliciting sex with minors? Our source, whose initials are “A.P.” says it’s Timothy McDarrah!
McDarrah, who had also worked at the ultra-swanky Las Vegas Sun:
…was charged with one count of using a computer and the Internet “to attempt to entice, induce, coerce and persuade a [...]

You know what real journalists do when they don’t have time to write? They quote press releases verbatim! (Hey give me a break - it’s the holidays and have to prepare for a big Vegas trip that we’re making to avoid them.)
New York, NY, December 20, 2006 – Several Nielsen media tracking businesses today released [...]

It’s not your imagination. Xmas-related advertising is starting ever-earlier. Advertising Age reports, glumly, that Lowes Hardware stores introduced it’s holiday ad campaign about a week before Halloween. Boycott Lowes!
“People are starting to shop earlier and they are tapping into that,” said Bill Bruce, chief creative officer at BBDO, New York, Lowe’s agency, which has a [...]

Did you know that there is a congressional ban on space advertising? Nor did I. But there is. You cannot buy a billboard large enough to be seen from earth and put it in geo-synchronious orbit, no matter how important it is to you that the Pizza Hut logo be visible in the night sky, [...]

Good news, cannibal fans: HANNIBAL RISING, a novel about Hannibal Lecter’s early years, is due out in December. Think of it as BATMAN BEGINS but much, much darker.
Thomas Harris first introduced the character of Hannibal Lecter in RED DRAGON, the novel which became MANHUNTER starring William Peterson and featuring Brian Cox as Lecter; but he [...]