Bucky Turco‘s Animal refuses to die. Err, “grovel like Radar.” Having “finally scraped enough money together” to print issue #7 — the “Wildlife” issue to be released this weekend — Animal depicts Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie on its cover as a bird and full-lipped rhino, respectively. Turco and co. also use the occasion to coin the term “celebimal,” with Paris Hilton, George Clooney and Lindsay Lohan reimagined as human-animal hybrids.

Turco, however, grovels in another way: “As part of what we hope to be a spin off gimmicky marketing angle, we are asking for a $1 donation via pay pal if people download the PDF version (and happen to like it).”

Turco’s e-mail announcement of the issue:

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“I have been interested in the media business for a long time … so I went after a big one first,” said Jackson, 35, a lawyer who is chief executive of River North Sales & Service, an Anheuser-Busch distributorship. “I learned a lot of lessons. I wish they had elected to sell it.”

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As Jossip notes, CNN is re-airing the interview at 11:00 AM today — opposite The View, which was previously recorded and features Star Jones.

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Editor’s note: The lovely and talented Jemima Kiss is our eyes and ears at the Media Giraffe conference in Amherst, Mass. Here’s her first report:

The conference has nothing to do with zoology and is all about media visionaries. I was beginning to wonder if the relentless 14-hour conference day had turned off the receptors in my brain, but apparently not: Paul Bass of local indy news site New Haven Independent kicked up a ruckus last night. Bass was the last of, count ‘em, seven speakers, a visionary on a panel of suits.

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The Devil Wears Prada catwalks into cineplexes today, and Diane Clehane weighs in over at LookOnline. The former Vogue underling-turned fashion freelancer also sheds new light on one of the magazine world’s most enduring urban myths—the dreaded Anna Wintour elevator encounter:

“On my second day, I found myself on the 12th floor waiting for an elevator with Anna. I have to laugh now at the memory. Feeling naively confident in my Loehmann’s-bought Armani, I stepped inside along with her when the doors opened, smiled brightly, and gave her the most enthusiastic, “Good morning!” I could muster. She didn’t flinch—she simply turned and faced the back corner and remained there for the long, silent ride to the lobby. By the time I got back to my desk, there was a message summoning me to my boss’ office.”

While it’s common media-world knowledge that one boards the same elevator as Wintour at her own peril, the fact that she went all Blair Witch on Clehane—literally turning to face a wall rather than simply ride in stony, forward-facing silence—is a new twist.

We recently heard this tale from Clehane in person, and can vouch for the fact that she’s not a walking hunk of stone, despite Wintour’s reverse Medusa. However, since their paths crossed back in the 80′s, we’d posit that Wintour had yet to reach the pinnacle of those peon-vaporizing powers she so deftly wields today.

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We caught the tail end of Al Roker‘s interview with Star Jones on Today today, and Jones — at least on the surface — appeared to be in hatchet-burying mode, saying she was grateful for the opportunity View co-host and executive producer Barbara Walters gave her, and that Walters would always be held close to “my heart.” Of course, this was not how she appeared yesterday.

Today producers — always suckers for synergy — followed up that segment with an expert on female relationships and backstabbing.

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Glam.com CEO Samir Arora — whose network of women’s lifestyle and fashion blogs is backed by over $11 million in private equity — says the site will become number one in the fashion category on the Web next month. Glam.com is already bigger than Style.com, he says.

“We will be bigger than anyone in July,” Arora told FishbowlNY over coffee. The always impeccably dressed Arora has some experience in building big Internet ventures — he built Tickle.com, which he sold in 2004 to Monster.com for a pretty penny, after developing a similar money-maker with a company called NetObjects earlier. He says he got into this because he sensed a business opportunity that wasn’t being exploited on the Web. And because he loves fashion.

Glam.com, which Arora launched eight months ago, has already attracted some big advertisers, like Gucci, Target and — surprisingly — Cosmopolitan, which would seem to be a competitor. The site brings together “affiliate” fashion blogs — which accounts for much of Arora’s traffic claim — sells ads across them and shares in the content and revenue.

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Yesterday, we reported the story of Isobella Jade, the 5’2″ homeless model who has been pitching — in third person — Almost 5’4″, her tragic-cum-triumphant memoir of her struggle as a height-challenged model, written entirely in heels at the SoHo Apple Store, around town.

We had but a pair of follow-up questions for her:

1. How were you saving your files?

2. Not to belittle your struggle in any way — seriously — but how are you “perhaps the most successful model in nyc under the height of 5’4″” and still living out of a suitcase?

Isobella’s e-mailed response, written, presumably, from the Apple Store in SoHo:

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