Bonnie Fuller

Lunch: Happy Birthday, Cathie Black! - Posted April 29, 2009
— DIANE CLEHANE We missed Evander Holyfield by a day, but there was plenty of action to keep our attention in Michael's jam-packed dining room today. Between the surprise birthday party for Hearst Magazines president Cathie Black on Table One, a smattering of fashionistas, and the bumper crop of beauty industry bigwigs... [FishBowlNY]

Why I Followed Andrew Sullivan to the Financial District - Posted April 21, 2009
It's sort of fitting that my last FBNY post should be about The Atlantic dinner/conversation I attended earlier this evening, which featured Michael Hirschorn and Andrew Sullivan, since this post was actually my first foray into this whole blogging thing (and remains my top Google result). The talk — the... [FishBowlNY]

Lunch: Dishing With The Usual Suspects - Posted March 18, 2009
— DIANE CLEHANE The regulars were out in force today at Michael's as media mavens, moguls and social types were deep in conversation around the jam-packed dining room. Everyone, it seems, had plenty to talk about, including the terrible news of Natasha Richardson's skiing accident. "I can't believe it," one diner told... [FishBowlNY]

Lunch: Dishing With The Usual Suspects - Posted March 18, 2009
— DIANE CLEHANE The regulars were out in force today at Michael's as media mavens, moguls and social types were deep in conversation around the jam-packed dining room. Everyone, it seems, had plenty to talk about, including the terrible news of Natasha Richardson's skiing accident. "I can't believe it," one diner told... [FishBowlNY]

Lunch: Dishing With The Usual Suspects - Posted March 18, 2009
— DIANE CLEHANE The regulars were out in force today at Michael's as media mavens, moguls and social types were deep in conversation around the jam-packed dining room. Everyone, it seems, had plenty to talk about, including the terrible news of Natasha Richardson's skiing accident. "I can't believe it," one diner told... [FishBowlNY]

Taking Out the Trash - Posted March 9, 2009
What we almost missed today... Bloomberg's Al Hunt presented Sen. Ted Kennedy with the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award last night at the Senator's 77th birthday celebration at the Kennedy Center. DC journos in attendance included Wolf Blitzer, Cokie Roberts, Rita Braver, Ed Henry, Chris Matthews and Mark Shields. "Have... [FishBowlDC]

Taking Out the Trash - Posted March 9, 2009
What we almost missed today... Bloomberg's Al Hunt presented Sen. Ted Kennedy with the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award last night at the Senator's 77th birthday celebration at the Kennedy Center. DC journos in attendance included Wolf Blitzer, Cokie Roberts, Rita Braver, Ed Henry, Chris Matthews and Mark Shields. "Have... [FishBowlDC]

Lunch: Special Fashion Week Edition - Posted February 18, 2009
— DIANE CLEHANE These days, you just never know who you're going to meet on Wednesdays at Michael's. If we'd come yesterday, we would have been able to chat with Willem Dafoe. Oh well. This being New York Fashion Week, I was thrilled when Donna Karan came in. I was happy to... [FishBowlNY]

Lunch: Special Fashion Week Edition - Posted February 18, 2009
— DIANE CLEHANE These days, you just never know who you're going to meet on Wednesdays at Michael's. If we'd come yesterday, we would have been able to chat with Willem Dafoe. Oh well. This being New York Fashion Week, I was thrilled when Donna Karan came in. I was happy to... [FishBowlNY]

Lunch: Special Fashion Week Edition - Posted February 18, 2009
— DIANE CLEHANE These days, you just never know who you're going to meet on Wednesdays at Michael's. If we'd come yesterday, we would have been able to chat with Willem Dafoe. Oh well. This being New York Fashion Week, I was thrilled when Donna Karan came in. I was happy to... [FishBowlNY]

Velez-Mitchell on Octomom Coverage: "We're Doing it for Ratings" - Posted February 15, 2009
"Today during State of the Union with John King, CNN's Reliable Sources host Howard Kurtz" (this is how it's written in the CNN release) talked about octomom Nadya Suleman with Bonnie Fuller and HLN's Jane Velez-Mitchell. Velez-Mitchell was honest about the reason Suleman inundated news coverage this week. "This idea that we're... [TVNewser]

People in the Tank for 'Scary Smart' Brangelina? - Posted November 21, 2008
According to the New York Times People — one of the few magazines still doing well in this economy, by the way — agreed to give Angelina Jolie and family positive coverage (no using the term Brangelina!) as part of a package deal that included photos of her newborn twins and... [FishBowlNY]

The New Abrams Report? A Research Business - Posted November 19, 2008
Dan Abrams's next act: research. Over the past few months the former MSNBC anchor has been quietly setting up Abrams Research, a consultancy meant to help business executives handle PR challenges. TVNewser has learned Abrams had another year on his contract but asked to be released early to start the firm. "NBC... [TVNewser]

Morning Reading List, 10.07.08 - Posted October 7, 2008
Good morning Washington. Got a blind item, interesting link, funny note, comment, birthday, anniversary or anything of the sort for Morning Reading List? Drop us a line or let us know in the tips box below. We've got your morning mix of media Muesli after the jump...... [FishBowlDC]

The Veep Stakes Sweep: A Round Up - Posted September 2, 2008
Well, the Fall television schedule has yet to debut. The Olympics are over. The hurricane was a dud. The DNC is over. And well, now it's Republican week. And, Republicans are pretty boring unless their secret gay affairs become public. So, that's why the press is all aflutter with all things... [FishBowlLA]

The HuffPo Effect: Everyone Wants Their Own Online News Brand - Posted August 12, 2008
So, what to do if you are a former publishing doyenne who, after years of dominating the print world finds themselves thrust into the wilds of the online media scene? Obviously you follow Arianna Huffington's uber-successful example and start your own website/news aggregate. To that end we already know... [FishBowlNY]

The HuffPo Effect: Everyone Wants Their Own Online News Brand - Posted August 12, 2008
So, what to do if you are a former publishing doyenne who, after years of dominating the print world finds themselves thrust into the wilds of the online media scene? Obviously you follow Arianna Huffington's uber-successful example and start your own website/news aggregate. To that end we already know... [FishBowlNY]

Social Me This!: Social|Median Moves Toward Beta Phase With New Round of Investors - Posted July 15, 2008
Have you heard? Social networking is all the rave (along with tumblrs and twitters). The Times launched TimesPeople last month, and rumor has it that Wired's Chris Anderson has something in the works. But it doesn't end there! The Deal is reporting that Social|Median, the social news... [FishBowlNY]

Bonnie Fuller On Spitzer's Kids/Spitzer Spouse Gives Peek at Mansion - Posted March 12, 2008
Bonnie Fuller flaps her gums about Eliot Spitzer's daughters. Fuller, under the guise of "caring", names them, and gives some quotes from hack pop psych types. At least she doesn't give their Facebook pages. She's so far gone, she has no idea what a troll she is. And Sildal Spitzer must regret doing... [FishBowlLA]

Obligatory Britney Spears Post - Posted January 31, 2008
We don't want to but we have to. Britney Spears was rushed by ambulance to UCLA Medical Center, escorted by dozen motorcycle officers, two cruisers and two police helicopters. Tabloid Baby asks who pays for all this and suggests Harvey Levin should. And Bonnie Fuller takes time out of her busy day... [FishBowlLA]

Sundown on Sunset: Ring Out the Old - Posted December 28, 2007
Artist/filmmaker Melinda Hunt adds to the Theresa Duncan/Jeremy Blake saga and challenges Frank Morales' version. Anjelica Huston to play Benazir Bhutto in biopic? When Manuel Mollinedo ran the LA Zoo, animals managed to escape a number of times. Maybe he's a PETA mole? Or just an incompetent bureaucrat? Bonnie Fuller picks scandalicious celebs, but... [FishBowlLA]

Bonnie Fuller: Shoots For Pregnant Fish In A Barrel. Still Misses. - Posted December 19, 2007
In HuffPo, Bonnie Fuller takes on Lynne Spears, the mother of Britney Spears and the knocked-up Jamie Lynn, 16. Fuller demands to know if Lynne ever sat her girls down and had "The Talk." You know, a candid, responsible discussion about sex. But we want to know, Ms. Fuller, did you ever sit... [FishBowlLA]

Bonnie Fuller's Blog? Blame it on Sklar - Posted November 20, 2007
Bonnie Fuller is still banging on the keys and produced another Huffington Post entry. How does this compute? Why is she doing this? We called around, spoke with Fuller's assistant, who didn't really say anything, but did confirm that Bonnie writes these posts herself (trust us, we didn't think she had... [FishBowlLA]

Bonnie Fuller Bites Bad Mommies/Still Cashes AMI's Checks - Posted November 14, 2007
Bonnie Fuller shows that she has bigger balls than Santa Claus, as well as no sense of irony and a truly awkward relationship with written English as she rips in to Britney Spears, Madonna, and Angelina Jolie for being bad, bad mommies. Fuller writes in the Huffington Post, figuring, no doubt,... [FishBowlLA]

Rosie On Trump @ Matrix: 'My Goal ... To Give A Bald Billionaire A Boner' - Posted April 24, 2007
The 'Boner' we wish Rosie'd been referring to at yesterday's Matrix Awards During a break in the pre-Matrix action yesterday, we poked our heads into the Waldorf Astoria ballroom where recipients of the New York Women in Communications Foundation Scholarship winners were lined up in ready to rehearse their introduction to the... [FishBowlNY]

Bonnie Fuller To TMZ? - Posted March 2, 2007
Really? RUMBLINGS inside American Media now say that Editorial Director Bonnie Fuller is reaching out to Hachette Filipacchi and to TMZ.com, the celebrity dirt-digging Web site, as she scrambles for an exit strategy. We just don't see it. BON (VOYAGE) FULLER [NYP]... [FishBowlNY]

Bonnie Fuller Seeking New Gig, Says NY Post - Posted March 2, 2007
Bonnie Fuller, editorial director of American Media, is sniffing around for a new job, according to Keith Kelly in the NY Post. Allegedly, she'd been talking to Hachette Filipacchi and TMZ, but all parties concerned are denying everything. TMZ is launching a TV show in the fall, and are looking for a... [FishBowlLA]

Newest Star Editor: Pecker Nabs Natty Enquirer's Trunzo - Posted February 13, 2007
------ Forwarded Message From: "Pecker, David" Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 17:33:05 -0500 To: HR - Everyone Conversation: Candace Trunzo Subject: Candace Trunzo I am pleased to announce the appointment of Candace Trunzo as editor-in-chief of Star Magazine, effective April 1. In her new role, Candace will report directly to Bonnie Fuller, Executive Vice President, Chief Editorial Director,... [FishBowlNY]

Mag Editors On Truth Serum: 'I Have So F*cked Up' - Posted January 30, 2007
All hail the editors-in-chief (from left): CosmoGIRL!'s Susan Schulz, Redbook's Stacy Morrison, mediabistro.com founder and CEO Laurel Touby, Men's Journal's Tom Foster, Slate's Jacob Weisberg; Jane's Brandon Holley, and Departures's Richard Story Photo by David Vanderheyden Slate's Jacob Weisberg called Slate a "cult." Jane's Brandon Holley advised to "kill them with kindness." ... [FishBowlNY]

James Brady Uses Occasion Of Dirt To Dish From His Own Sordid, Checkered Media Past - Posted January 12, 2007
Forbes.com media columnist James Brady has a few ideas culled from his glory days to improve FX's Dirt: Since I was the guy who created Page Six, wrote high-flown gossip for New York magazine and was the editor of what was then called The National Star, now directed by [Bonnie] Fuller, I... [FishBowlNY]

We'd Watch Love to Watch Dirt, but We Just Washed Our Hair - Posted January 2, 2007
The year's barely begun and yet the ick is already flowing. In Robin Abcarian's piece on Dirt in the LA Times, she confides that show creator Matthew Carnahan calls Helen Hunt his "baby mama". Home delivery should come with barf bags. Carnahan also gushed about the Sun's Rebekah Wade, but claims to... [FishBowlLA]

We'd Watch Love to Watch Dirt, but We Just Washed Our Hair - Posted January 2, 2007
The year's barely begun and yet the ick is already flowing. In Robin Abcarian's piece on Dirt in the LA Times, she confides that show creator Matthew Carnahan calls Helen Hunt his "baby mama". Home delivery should come with barf bags. Carnahan also gushed about the Sun's Rebekah Wade, but claims to... [FishBowlLA]