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NY Times Smacked for Not Questioning Pentagon Story
By CLARK HOYT -- NY Times Public Editor When the Times brought Hoyt on, it described him as 'readers' representative', to respond to complaints and comments from the public and monitors the paper's journalistic practices. This is his op-ed on the latest 'detainees returning to battlefield' claims. ------------------------------------------------------- WHEN former Vice President Dick Cheney assailed President Obama’s plan to close the prison at Guantánamo last month, he used ammunition plucked right from that morning’s Times.Did Katie Holmes fake the NY Marathon and have someone else run it for her?
There have been rumblings for some time that Katie Holmes couldn’t possibly have run the full NY Marathon during the day and gone out with heels on that night. Katie drew some skeptics when she was seen at her husband’s side that very night wearing heels at the premiere of his film Lions for Lambs. She could easily obtain custom made sneakers as well as those insanely expensive Louboutins that are made from a mold of your foot, so maybe her feet were immune to the wear and tear that plague average runners.Batman: The Dark Knight NY Magazine’s terrible review causes outrage
New York magazine film critic David Edelstein is public enemy number one after publishing the first negative review of the much-anticipated and lauded The Dark Knight. Batman fans and fellow critics are firing back, saying he just didn’t “get” the film. Edelstein gave the film a negative review due to violence and “morbid” factors that seem related to Ledger’s untimely death: The momentum doesn’t carry through, though.EXCLUSIVE: NY Yankee Making Late-Night Visits to Madonna's Apartment
Us Weekly reports in its new issue, on newsstands tomorrow, that Madonna's seven-year marriage to Guy Ritchie has stalled out – and the singer has been hosting late-night visits from New York Yankee Alex Rodriguez at her Central Park West apartment in New York City. A ringless and grim-faced Ritchie, 39, arrived in New York City from London yesterday after several weeks apart from his family. A source tells Us that the $28-million-a-year Rodriguez, 32, has made numerous solo nighttime visits to Madonna, 49, at her spacious home and would sneak out "as late as midnight."NY Magazine lashes out at Katherine Heigl
New York Magazine TV writer Emma Rosenblum has, in her words, “surprisingly strong feelings” about the recent Katherine Heigl Emmy brouhaha. We offered her space to give Heigl a little bit of career advice. Dear Katherine (Kate?NY Governor Paterson pardons Slick Rick
Still newish New York Governor David Paterson, who was called in to replace professional john Eliot Spitzer, has given influential old-school hip-hop artist Slick Rick a full and unconditional pardon on his conviction of attempted murder back in 1990. The circumstances of the shootings and the trial that convicted Slick Rick, aka Ricky Walters, have always been suspect. Rick served his time in prison for the shooting, but as he was born in London he is still subject to deportation under tougher laws enforced after September 11.Michelle Williams May Be Forced To Leave NY
Michelle Williams is considering leaving New York with her daughter Matilda. In the aftermath of Heath Ledger's death, Michelle gets hounded everywhere she goes by paparazzi. She made a public statement pleading with them to leave her alone and grieve privately, but the paps are relentless.NY Governor To Resign?
NY Governor Eliot Spitzer is expected to resign. He admitted to officials that he has been involved in a high-end prostitution ring called The Emperors Club VIP. The call-girl ring rented out prostitutes at rates up to $5,500 per hour.Charlize Theron Talks With The NY Times
Charlize Theron recently sat down with the NY Times. The 32-year-old actress was asked how it felt to be a sudden star and if she got stalked by paparazzi. Charlize answered, “There was less then than now.Website of the Day: NY Girl of My Dreams
Thanks to steen for sharing the cutest website we've seen in a while. Earlier this week a New York City man saw the woman of his dreams on the subway and went home and created the aptly named NY Girl of My Dreams webpage.
The site like a creative Craigslist Missed Connections post — he drew a squiggly drawing of the woman, described her as having "fancy braided hair," "rosy cheeks" and "blue gym shorts" and said she was writing in a journal while on the train.
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