Monday, August 11, 2008

Latest random notes--ROLLING STONE, John Edwards, etc.

1. Let's start out with a NEW YORK TIMES article from Richard Perez-Pena regarding ROLLING STONE changing to a sort of ESQUIRE/GQ average-size glued-binding format from the oversized one used for most of the mag's 41-year history:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/11/business/media/11mag.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin

Don't worry.  Mr. Wenner and his minions will ensure that future issues will contain half-naked cover photos of Katy Perry and other pop starlets--plus the obligatory Random Notes references to Billy Joel (whether or not anything interesting is happening to him--part of the apparent bargain made around 1982 when Joel's aspiring-to-seriousness album THE NYLON CURTAIN was released).

2. Time for a Larry King-esque random note: Do you think that anyone at Universal who may have seen the new version of BRIDESHEAD REVISITED has gazed upon Ben Whishaw's son-of-Anthony-Perkins appearance (in the role of Sebastian Flyte) without thinking "let's make a PSYCHO reboot"?

3. Does anyone think John Edwards can reboot his political career after the timing of Rielle Hunter's refusal to determine her child's exact father?  I don't think Edwards can put the genie back into the bottle and get the mainstream media to walk away; hell, I think the bottle has shattered into a million little pieces (sorry).

Here's a link to a NEW YORK OBSERVER roundup of articles about Edwards and the media coverage of the affair: http://www.observer.com/2008/media/monday-morning-john-edwards-rielle-hunter-round

Plus here's another OBSERVER piece by Steve Kornacki called "The End of John Edwards": http://www.observer.com/2008/politics/end-john-edwards

Update (8/15/08): Here's Elizabeth Edwards' attempt through surrogates to control her story (apparently political ambition has been airbrushed out for the PEOPLE audience): http://news.aol.com/article/edwards-affair-left-wife-difficult/132807?icid=200100397x1207720257x1200415474

4. Can anyone talk about the death of musician/actor Isaac Hayes without mentioning Scientology?

5. Can anyone talk about John McCain without denigrating the elderly in general and McCain's age in particular?

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