Archives: October 2006

WHO: FishbowlNY Editor
WHAT YOU’LL NEED:

Ill-fitting American Apparel polos

chocolate lab

weakness for Vermont ales; laid back, “perma-stoned” persona

mid-80s baseball references

rage

FishbowlNY’s Last Minute Media Halloween Costume Ideas:

Borat, Clinton, Musto, Huffington, Jeff Zucker & More

New Media People

Cable Newsers

Magazine Editors

Spooky Authors

Network Anchors

Steve Irwin

Olbermann, O’Reilly, Letterman

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WHO: Hillary Clinton, Senator, New York
WHAT YOU’LL NEED:

short blond wig

unflatterring blue dress

little knowledge of husband’s whereabouts

WHO: Michael Musto, Village Voice columnist
WHAT YOU’LL NEED:

large, circular block glasses

shirt buttoned to top

barely functional Pee Wee Herman-style bike

WHO: Jared Paul Stern, disgraced former Page Six reporter
WHAT YOU’LL NEED:

seersucker suit

fedora

photographic memory of every Ron Burkle media mention ever

WHO: Jeff Zucker, NBC chief executive
WHAT YOU’LL NEED:

bald head

navy suit

700 pink slips

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WHO: Laurel Touby, mediabistro.com founder/CEO
WHAT YOU’LL NEED:

boa

red-framed glasses; funky, multicolored outfit

disturbingly thorough knowledge of mediabistro.com’s party database

WHO: David Hauslaib, Jossip
WHAT YOU’LL NEED:

fitted t-shirt

disturbingly soft hands

healthy disdain for Nick Denton

WHO: Nick Denton, Gawker Media founder
WHAT YOU’LL NEED:

jeans

tan

3-day stubble

glass of wine, preferably red

ability to leave party within 17 minutes for better party

FishbowlNY’s Last Minute Media Halloween Costume Ideas:

Cable Newsers

Magazine Editors

Spooky Authors

Network Anchors

Steve Irwin

Olbermann, O’Reilly, Letterman

WHO: Steven Colbert, host, Colbert Report
WHAT YOU’LL NEED:

conservative suit

extra-white face makeup, extra-white dance moves

“African-Amerifriend”

WHO: Jon Stewart, host, Daily Show
WHAT YOU’LL NEED:

gray streaks hair dye

pencil

look of befuddlement after running Bush clip

WHO: Maria Bartiromo, CNBC host
WHAT YOU’LL NEED:

lip gloss

women’s power business suit

“No, really, I’m a journalist” on-camera stare

WHO: Anderson Cooper, host, CNN’s 360
WHAT YOU’LL NEED:

extra-blonde hair dye

flak jacket

steely, concerned gaze; friend

FishbowlNY’s Last Minute Media Halloween Costume Ideas:

Magazine Editors

Spooky Authors

Network Anchors

Steve Irwin

Olbermann, O’Reilly, Letterman

Nothing says “It’s Halloween!” like morning show anchors going the awkwardly elaborate route in the name of candy.

Good Day New York‘s Jodi Applegate, naturally. Her “Genie” …

… easily beats Today‘s Cher, Bette Midler and Madonna …

… but not Matt Lauer‘s “Captain Jack.” Nothing ever beats that.

FishbowlNY’s Last Minute Media Halloween Costume Ideas:

Magazine Editors

Spooky Authors

Network Anchors

Steve Irwin

Olbermann, O’Reilly, Letterman

Pop!: Chick lit banned by Borders. [Book Standard | FishbowlLA | B&C]

Absolute: Magazine’s revival. [WWD]

Martha: Renewed, but a producer is out. [B&C]

NYO‘s Jared Kushner: I “run a newspaper while trying to buy buildings and catching up on missed classes.” [Daily Intel]

Oprah: Hands out $1,000 to audience members; audience members lose their minds. [Washington Post]

NYT‘s Thomas Friedman: Makes millions — but does that influence his op-ed columns? [HuffPo]

Redstone in front of the fish tank where he metaphorically sent Freston and Cruise to sleep this summer

Viacom chief Sumner Redstone is profiled in the December issue of Vanity Fair — a behemoth, 7,700-plus word profile mind you — in which Redstone talks candidly about his double Tom whacking — Freston and Cruise — the 83-year-old media icon carried out this sumner, er, summer.

We’ve read it, so you don’t have to:

Redstone’s Beverly Hills home is tucked into a cul-de-sac next to Sylvester Stallone‘s. Eddie Murphy, Barry Bonds, Reba McEntire, Rod Stewart, Martin Lawrence and Denzel Washington also live in his gated community.

“He looks frail and has a senior moment or three, losing his train of thought, repeating stories, and asking that a question or two be repeated.”

Everyone in Beverly Hills seems to have a Redstone walking into a wall story.

Redstone swims in the nude. And shaves — also in the nude — in his hot tub.

Redstone monitors Viacom’s stock price on CNBC.

Redstone: “The fact is, nothing really important can happen at either [Viacom or CBS] without me clearing it.”

Redstone’s doubts about Freston started when he offered Freston the job: “When I offered the job to Tom that night, he said, ‘Sumner, I’m not comfortable being C.E.O. of Viacom. I’d rather just be C.E.O. of MTV Networks.’”

Freston turned down the job. Redstone offered it to Les Moonves, who accepted. Freston changed his mind the next morning. Redstone ended up doing what any 8-year-old kid does in that situation — splits the company.

Redstone on Freston’s inability to buy MySpace: “We lost that deal because Tom was too slow.”

Paula Redstone, Sumner’s wife, may have had something to do with the firing of Cruise: “Paula, like women everywhere, had come to hate him … The truth of the matter is, I did listen to her, but I make business decisions myself.”

When did Sumner decide to fire Cruise? “I don’t know. When he was on the Today show? When he was jumping on a couch at Oprah? He changed his handler, you know, to his sister — not a good idea. His behavior was entirely unacceptable to Paula, and to the rest of the world. He didn’t just turn one [woman] off. He turned off all women, and a lot of men. He was embarrassing the studio.”

Sleeping with the fishes [Vanity Fair]

[photo: Don Flood]

WHO: Anna Wintour, editrix, Vogue
WHAT YOU’LL NEED:

cropped blonde wig

blood-stained fur coat

Devil’s horns (optional)

WHO: Brandon Holley, editor, Jane
WHAT YOU’LL NEED:

blonde wig

vintage mid-80s rock t-shirt (Echo & The Bunnymen preferred)

drum sticks

pizza

WHO: Dave Zinczenko, editor, Men’s Health
WHAT YOU’LL NEED:

abs

Nair chest-hair remover

carefully prepared Today Show soundbites: “Fit is the new rich,” etc.

WHO: David Remnick, editor, the New Yorker
WHAT YOU’LL NEED:

glasses

DVD collection of entire New Yorker archive

armfuls of Ellies

FishbowlNY’s Last Minute Media Halloween Costume Ideas:

Spooky Authors

Network Anchors

Steve Irwin

Olbermann, O’Reilly, Letterman

There’s nothing quite like a nasty, dirty war of words between a pair of New York’s finest tabloids. Especially when it involves … circulation.

Yesterday, the New York Post fired the latest shot across the bow. Today, the Daily News fought back:

The error-prone Post, which loses tens of millions of dollars annually, sells for a discounted 25 cents. … Martin Dunn, The News’ editor-in-chief and deputy publisher, took dead aim at his half-price competitor:

“If you’d lost $300 million over the past five years, spent $200 million on new presses, carpet-bombed neighborhoods with free copies and lost fortunes to sell a few thousand papers in Las Vegas and Los Angeles, you’d be desperate to celebrate creeping a few copies ahead of us. The Daily News is STILL unequivocally the No. 1 newspaper in the place that counts — New York.”

EARLIER:

History: Post Tops Daily News In Circ

WHO: Ann Coulter, controversial author
WHAT YOU’LL NEED:

long blonde wig

short, black cocktail dress

9/11 widows trailing you

WHO: “JT Leroy,” outed author
WHAT YOU’LL NEED:

blonde wig

sunglasses, black top hat

Winona Ryder

WHO: James Frey, disgraced author
WHAT YOU’LL NEED:

stubble

general “beaten-down” look

Oprah

FishbowlNY’s Last Minute Media Halloween Costume Ideas:

Network Anchors

Steve Irwin

Olbermann, O’Reilly, Letterman