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Countless conversations I’ve had with Harvard students about Kaavya Viswanathan’s plagiarism controversy have followed a similar pattern. Someone opens the gossip-fest exclaiming, “Did you hear that the girl with the $500,000 book deal plagiarized 40 passages from someone else’s book?” Then someone else chimes in, “How could she think that she could get away with that?” There is usually some mention of, “What she did was so wrong. I mean, it?...
Rumors abounded last week that Tom Cruise wanted to hoover his newborn’s afterbirth. After our gossip sources ruefully reported the story was a “joke,” FM turned to a Harvard Medical School professor to determine whether Maverick was missing...
...beautiful Mitford sisters whose scandalous lives dominated British tabloids for decades, the author writes with an insider’s knowledge of society gossip...
...manager’s dire videophone warnings. The song is just as much a jab at stars who whine about how hard it is to be famous (and the ones who go to rehab clinics for “exhaustion”) as it is at the gossip rags. The video proclaims that he plans to keep making the wrong choices as long as he can, publicity be damned. As long as one of those choices isn’t to become self-serious, he’s welcome to them. —Elisabeth J. Bloomberg
Seen schmoozing in a pricey Tribeca loft: supermarket magnate Ron Burkle, whom the New York Post's gossip column Page Six has called a "party-boy billionaire," and Page Six contributor Jared Paul Stern. Also present, but unknown to Stern: an FBI agent and a video camera. They were there to record what Burkle--who had chafed at uncomplimentary and, he thought, untrue items about him in the column--believed was a $220,000 shakedown for kid-glove coverage. The FBI believed it too: the agency has launched a probe into extortion allegations...