Posted 09/17/08 in Daily Intel
Early and Awesome
Tina Fey’s Star Turn As Sarah Palin Almost Didn’t Happen
Lorne Michaels had to pressure Fey to return to ‘SNL’ for a night, and Oprah almost made her miss the show.
Posted 09/10/08 in Daily Intel
In Other News
Phil Griffin: Leave Olbermann Alone!
The MSNBC president’s chi is totally out of wack over all these unjust rumors circulating about his network.
Posted 09/08/08 in Daily Intel
That's the End of That
NBC Tells Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews to Go to Their Rooms and Think About What They’ve Done
Complaints about liberal bias and on-air squabbling caused MSNBC to remand the anchors back to their own shows.
Posted 08/14/08 in Daily Intel
Company Town
Michael Phelps Is Gold for NBC
Plus, lawyers make criminals sing (to 'Don Giovanni'), another spectacular apartment you can't afford hits the market, and more, in our daily industry roundup.
Posted 08/13/08 in Daily Intel
In Other News
Jeff Zucker Has a Throne in His Office
In a 'Portfolio' profile, we learn a little bit about Jeff Zucker's personal castle.
Posted 08/13/08 in Daily Intel
Company Town
The Upper East Side Completes Renée Zellweger
The actress smoothly buys into a hard-to-crack co-op, while JPMorgan and the New York 'Times' struggle, in our daily digest of real-estate, finance, media and law news.
Posted 08/12/08 in Daily Intel
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Plum Sykes to Write NBC Comedy ‘Mogulettes’
It will be about sexy, well-dressed twentysomething women who are already captains of industry, but still have rollicking social lives. You know, a farce.
Posted 08/08/08 in Daily Intel
Company Town
Liev Schreiber and Naomi Watts Expand Their Real-Estate Horizons
The Hollywood couple will be moving into bigger digs than originally planned at One Madison Park. Plus, the latest on Wall Street, in the Hamptons, and down at 30 Rock in our daily industry roundup.
Posted 07/17/08 in Daily Intel
Company Town
JPMorgan Chase Profits Fall 53 Percent
But they did better than analysts predicted. That, plus the latest on Hamptons real-estate prices, Condé Nast's upper echelons, and the "You go girl!" spinner, in our daily industry roundup.
Posted 07/10/08 in Daily Intel
In Other News
Tim Russert As Guardian Angel: Is the Media Going Too Far?
The endless memorials were one thing, but now he's saving people's lives from beyond the grave?
Posted 07/07/08 in Daily Intel
Company Town
Ashley Alexandra Dupré Drops Suit Against ‘Girls Gone Wild’
Technically, the famous call girl is forced to admit, she exploited herself. Plus! Boutique hotels in Brooklyn are fighting, NBC gets a bargain on the Weather Channel, and we all may all end up paying for the Fed bailout of Bear Stearns, in our daily roundup of law, real estate, media and finance news.
Posted 06/30/08 in Daily Intel
Intel
New York’s ‘Biggest Loser’ Hopefuls Want to Trade Muumuus for Prada
The hit NBC weight-loss show held auditions on Saturday at Rockefeller Center. We were there chubby-chasing.
Posted 06/26/08 in Daily Intel
Company Town
Advertisers Still Wary of Don Imus
Plus, the latest on what's going on at Citibank, JPMorgan, and on the Upper East Side, in our daily industry roundup.
Posted 06/06/08 in Daily Intel
Company Town
Richard Branson to Kick Off Virgin Hotel Chain in New York?
Bajillionaire Branson may be spending more time in Manhattan. Meanwhile, Cablevision lawyer Harvey L. Beneson mortgages his Hamptons house to pay off his lawsuit, UBS clients run scared as a federal investigation warms up, and another magazine catering to the rich appears on the horizon, in today's roundup of news from the worlds of real estate, law, finance, and media.
Posted 06/04/08 in Daily Intel
Company Town
Ana Marie Cox Comes Full Circle at ‘Radar’
The founding Wonkette editor signs on to do irreverent political coverage for Maer's magazine, another Charles Kushner associate goes down, and Andrew Cuomo noses around Dick Grasso's package, in our daily roundup of news from the worlds of media, real estate, law, and finance.
Posted 05/30/08 in Daily Intel
Party Lines
Al Roker Tells Us a Hamster Story About Brian Williams
The NBC personality uses Goldberg's Peanut Chews as lure.
Posted 05/30/08 in Daily Intel
Company Town
Bloomberg: Crane Collapse ‘Intolerable’
The mayor gives developers and union leaders a piece of his mind at a press conference on this morning's crane collapse, students and colleagues of a popular Wall Street figure are flabbergasted by the SEC charges filed against him, and CNN's Jessica Yellin gets into a war of words about the war.
Posted 05/27/08 in Daily Intel
Company Town
Tishman Speyer Is on the Warpath
Also, Lehman Brothers weighs its options, and 15 CPW breaks the $100 million barrier.
Posted 05/23/08 in Daily Intel
Company Town
Sandy Weill Pulls Golden Carpet From Underneath Charles Prince
In our daily industry roundup, the former Citigroup chairman second-guesses himself on the appointment of successor Charles Prince. And more!
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