John Dean doesn’t recall the exact date more than 50 years ago when he first met Martha Mitchell, but he remembers his impressions.
“The Attorney General [John Mitchell] used to have lunches every Wednesday for the senior staff, which I was a part of. He’d have them in his large conference room at the Department of Justice. And often Martha would attend those,” recalls Dean, the former White House Counsel under President Nixon, and a key figure in the Watergate coverup. “She was always a bright light in any room she walked into. She was vivacious, she was smart.”
There was a time, even before she became a kind of Watergate whistleblower, when seemingly all of America knew Martha Mitchell. The Arkansas charmer with the bulletproof beehive hairdo captivated the public with her remarkably outspoken manner. But that very quality, refusing to hold her tongue, would bring severe consequences,...
“The Attorney General [John Mitchell] used to have lunches every Wednesday for the senior staff, which I was a part of. He’d have them in his large conference room at the Department of Justice. And often Martha would attend those,” recalls Dean, the former White House Counsel under President Nixon, and a key figure in the Watergate coverup. “She was always a bright light in any room she walked into. She was vivacious, she was smart.”
There was a time, even before she became a kind of Watergate whistleblower, when seemingly all of America knew Martha Mitchell. The Arkansas charmer with the bulletproof beehive hairdo captivated the public with her remarkably outspoken manner. But that very quality, refusing to hold her tongue, would bring severe consequences,...
- 3/2/2023
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
Emmy-winning newswoman and celebrity interviewer Barbara Walters, the doyenne of television news, has died, her publicist confirmed to Variety. She was 93.
Having blazed a trail for women in TV news, Walters was the highest-paid television journalist at one time, earning as much as 12 million per year at ABC, where she worked from 1976 until her retirement from ABC News and from her show “The View” in May 2014. She put in 12 years at NBC’s “Today” show prior to that.
Walters received multiple Daytime Emmy nominations for best talk show host for her work on “The View,” winning in 2003 and 2009, and she also received multiple Primetime Emmy nominations for her specials, winning in 1983. She also won a Daytime Emmy in 1975 for “Today” and shared a News and Documentary Emmy for her work at ABC on coverage of the turn of the millennium.
As Variety wrote in an article on her retirement, “Walters...
Having blazed a trail for women in TV news, Walters was the highest-paid television journalist at one time, earning as much as 12 million per year at ABC, where she worked from 1976 until her retirement from ABC News and from her show “The View” in May 2014. She put in 12 years at NBC’s “Today” show prior to that.
Walters received multiple Daytime Emmy nominations for best talk show host for her work on “The View,” winning in 2003 and 2009, and she also received multiple Primetime Emmy nominations for her specials, winning in 1983. She also won a Daytime Emmy in 1975 for “Today” and shared a News and Documentary Emmy for her work at ABC on coverage of the turn of the millennium.
As Variety wrote in an article on her retirement, “Walters...
- 12/31/2022
- by Carmel Dagan
- Variety Film + TV
At the beginning of the Netflix documentary The Martha Mitchell Effect, Richard Nixon, deflated in his ex-presidential phase, sits for an interview with David Frost. A somber Nixon tells his natty interlocutor, “I’m convinced if it hadn’t been for Martha, there’d have been no Watergate.”
What he really meant, one can imagine, is that were it not for Martha Mitchell, Watergate wouldn’t have become the scandal that ended his presidency.
But as the documentary illustrates, blaming Martha Mitchell, obsessing over her, ridiculing and besmirching her had long and troubling antecedents to that Nixon interview. Generations born after Watergate don’t realize how much the mere mention of Attorney General John Mitchell’s wife set tongues wagging in Washington and across the country. The film directed by Anne Alvergue and Debra McClutchy is an Oscar contender for Best Documentary Short.
Martha Mitchell
The directors didn’t know...
What he really meant, one can imagine, is that were it not for Martha Mitchell, Watergate wouldn’t have become the scandal that ended his presidency.
But as the documentary illustrates, blaming Martha Mitchell, obsessing over her, ridiculing and besmirching her had long and troubling antecedents to that Nixon interview. Generations born after Watergate don’t realize how much the mere mention of Attorney General John Mitchell’s wife set tongues wagging in Washington and across the country. The film directed by Anne Alvergue and Debra McClutchy is an Oscar contender for Best Documentary Short.
Martha Mitchell
The directors didn’t know...
- 12/15/2022
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
The Capote Tapes director Ebs Burnough: “When you go back and think of Truman interviewing Marlon Brando. Marlon Brando was like, I’ll never give another interview, as a result.”
Ebs Burnough’s The Capote Tapes, co-written with Holly Whiston, features the interviews recorded by George Plimpton of Lauren Bacall, Norman Mailer, Lee Radziwill, Slim Keith, and Gore Vidal, along with recent on-camera remembrances and interpretations of Truman Capote from Kate Harrington, Jay McInerney, Colm Tóibín, Dick Cavett, André Leon Talley, John Richardson, Dotson Rader, Lewis Lapham, Sally Quinn, and Sadie Stein.
Ebs Burnough with Anne-Katrin Titze on a Truman Capote Swan: “I have to say Slim Keith was the most gutsy, direct, honest of the group.”
Capote’s “Swans”, Babe Paley, Cz Guest, Gloria Guinness, Marella Agnelli, Lee Radziwill, and Slim Keith, the stylish socialites who used him more or less for their amusement and to alleviate their boredom,...
Ebs Burnough’s The Capote Tapes, co-written with Holly Whiston, features the interviews recorded by George Plimpton of Lauren Bacall, Norman Mailer, Lee Radziwill, Slim Keith, and Gore Vidal, along with recent on-camera remembrances and interpretations of Truman Capote from Kate Harrington, Jay McInerney, Colm Tóibín, Dick Cavett, André Leon Talley, John Richardson, Dotson Rader, Lewis Lapham, Sally Quinn, and Sadie Stein.
Ebs Burnough with Anne-Katrin Titze on a Truman Capote Swan: “I have to say Slim Keith was the most gutsy, direct, honest of the group.”
Capote’s “Swans”, Babe Paley, Cz Guest, Gloria Guinness, Marella Agnelli, Lee Radziwill, and Slim Keith, the stylish socialites who used him more or less for their amusement and to alleviate their boredom,...
- 9/5/2021
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
In this unprecedented time in global history, we’re all dealing with the stresses of the pandemic in different ways. Some of us are volunteering. Some of us are baking. Some of us are taking fistfuls of Klonopin and watching The Office in footy pajamas. And some of us are being filthily, unspeakably horny for Dr. Anthony Fauci.
The director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases (Niaid), Fauci has served as a plainspoken, sobering presence during Trump’s press briefings, providing a no-bullshit counterbalance to the extended...
The director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases (Niaid), Fauci has served as a plainspoken, sobering presence during Trump’s press briefings, providing a no-bullshit counterbalance to the extended...
- 5/15/2020
- by EJ Dickson
- Rollingstone.com
Q&A sessions with the stars of “Charmed” plus Chris Kattan (“Saturday Night Live,” A Night at the Roxbury), Sean Astin (The Lord of the Rings, “Stranger Things 2”), Alaina Huffman (“Smallville,” “Stargate” universe), David Alpay (“Vampire Diaries”) and workshops, cosplayer and comics creator sessions, adult and kids costume contests, feature film and trailer screening and more highlight the programming offerings at Wizard World St. Louis, April 5-7 at America’s Center. Most programming is included as part of the standard event admission and is in addition to the live entertainment options all weekend.
Some highlights of the more than 50 hours of panels scheduled to date include:
· Group session with the cast of “Charmed”
· Sessions with Astin, Kattan, Huffman, Alpay and voice actor Scott Innes (“Scooby Doo,” Saturday, 4 p.m.)
· Disney Trivia panel with Walt Before Mickey star Thomas Ian Nicholas (Rookie of the Year, American Pie) and Chris Owen (American Pie...
Some highlights of the more than 50 hours of panels scheduled to date include:
· Group session with the cast of “Charmed”
· Sessions with Astin, Kattan, Huffman, Alpay and voice actor Scott Innes (“Scooby Doo,” Saturday, 4 p.m.)
· Disney Trivia panel with Walt Before Mickey star Thomas Ian Nicholas (Rookie of the Year, American Pie) and Chris Owen (American Pie...
- 4/2/2019
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Washington — Betsy West and Julie Cohen, the directors of the Ruth Bader Ginsburg documentary, “Rbg,” listened to hours of recordings of oral arguments from Supreme Court hearings in the 1970s, and one moment of blatant sexism really surprised them.
That was the way that she reacted in 1978 when, as she was arguing a gender bias case, Justice William Rehnquist asked her, “You won’t settle for putting Susan B. Anthony on the new dollar?”
West said that in their interview with Ginsburg, they asked her how she coped with those kind of remarks.
“She said, ‘Well, I didn’t get angry. That would be self defeating.’ She understood that the way to make her case was not to get angry but to be smarter than they were, and she was,” West says.
The movie, which opens on May 4, takes a look at Ginsburg’s life and career, telling great stories...
That was the way that she reacted in 1978 when, as she was arguing a gender bias case, Justice William Rehnquist asked her, “You won’t settle for putting Susan B. Anthony on the new dollar?”
West said that in their interview with Ginsburg, they asked her how she coped with those kind of remarks.
“She said, ‘Well, I didn’t get angry. That would be self defeating.’ She understood that the way to make her case was not to get angry but to be smarter than they were, and she was,” West says.
The movie, which opens on May 4, takes a look at Ginsburg’s life and career, telling great stories...
- 5/1/2018
- by Ted Johnson
- Variety Film + TV
The Notorious Rbg was in the house on Thursday when more than 250 of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s friends, fans and family crowded into the theater at the U.S. Naval Heritage Center in Washington for a private screening of the documentary biopic Rbg (due in theaters May 4). The event — hosted by Magnolia Pictures, Participant Media, CNN Films and AFI Docs — drew crowds of media elite, including Sally Quinn of The Washington Post and NPR’s Nina Totenberg, as well as politicians from both sides of the aisle.
The doc, which won over audiences when it premiered at Sundance...
The doc, which won over audiences when it premiered at Sundance...
- 4/28/2018
- by Adrienne Wichard-Edds
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Notorious Rbg was in the house on Thursday when more than 250 of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s friends, fans and family crowded into the theater at the U.S. Naval Heritage Center in Washington for a private screening of the documentary biopic <em>Rbg</em> (due in theaters May 4). The event — hosted by Magnolia Pictures, Participant Media, CNN Films and AFI Docs — drew crowds of media elite, including Sally Quinn of <em>The Washington Post</em> and NPR’s Nina Totenberg, as well as politicians from both sides of the aisle.
The doc, which won over audiences when it premiered at ...
The doc, which won over audiences when it premiered at ...
- 4/27/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Sally Quinn, the editor and widow of the late Ben Bradlee, met her future husband at a job interview for the Washington Post. That’s just one of the remarkable stories in the new HBO documentary The Newspaperman, which covers the life and work of Bradlee. “I had been hired to be the secretary for the editorial page […]
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- 12/5/2017
- by Hillary Luehring-Jones
- Uinterview
Award-winning journalist Maria Shriver and A+E Networks President & CEO Nancy Dubuc today announced that they will be joining forces on November 1, 2017, for an enlightening summit that will break new ground on the future of women’s brain health.
“A Women’s Health Summit: It Starts With the Brain” will convene leading scientists, thought-leaders and best-selling authors at Hearst Tower in New York City to discuss tackling one of the greatest health challenges of our time: protecting women’s minds from Alzheimer’s disease. Today, two-thirds of all Americans with Alzheimer’s are women, and no one has yet uncovered the answer why. Women also make up two-thirds of all of the caregivers in the U.S., which adds a significant physical, emotional and financial burden to their lives and affects the health and wellbeing of those around them.
Lifetime is the official media partner of The Women’s Alzheimer’s Movement,...
“A Women’s Health Summit: It Starts With the Brain” will convene leading scientists, thought-leaders and best-selling authors at Hearst Tower in New York City to discuss tackling one of the greatest health challenges of our time: protecting women’s minds from Alzheimer’s disease. Today, two-thirds of all Americans with Alzheimer’s are women, and no one has yet uncovered the answer why. Women also make up two-thirds of all of the caregivers in the U.S., which adds a significant physical, emotional and financial burden to their lives and affects the health and wellbeing of those around them.
Lifetime is the official media partner of The Women’s Alzheimer’s Movement,...
- 10/30/2017
- Look to the Stars
For celebrities, February was all about falling out of love with their real estate.
Selena Gomez
Texas native Selena Gomez is saying so long to the Lone Star State — at least her $3 million slice of it. The singer and actress, 24 put her Fort Worth mansion on the market for $3 million. Inside, the impressive stone estate hosts a great room with a fireplaces, two full kitchens and a game room. Outdoors, a saltwater pool, a combination basketball and tennis court, and a putting green fill the 1.5-acre spread.
Related: This Tiny 290-Square-Foot House in London Costs $750,000
Meg Ryan
In October, Meg Ryan...
Selena Gomez
Texas native Selena Gomez is saying so long to the Lone Star State — at least her $3 million slice of it. The singer and actress, 24 put her Fort Worth mansion on the market for $3 million. Inside, the impressive stone estate hosts a great room with a fireplaces, two full kitchens and a game room. Outdoors, a saltwater pool, a combination basketball and tennis court, and a putting green fill the 1.5-acre spread.
Related: This Tiny 290-Square-Foot House in London Costs $750,000
Meg Ryan
In October, Meg Ryan...
- 2/28/2017
- by Mackenzie Schmidt
- PEOPLE.com
This article originally appeared on realsimple.com.
Grey Gardens may have looked run-down and uninhabitable when it was featured in the eponymous 1975 documentary, but the East Hampton home has since been restored — and has just been put on the market for the first time in 40 years. The asking price? A cool $19.995 million.
For those unfamiliar with the famous documentary, Grey Gardens, the film followed the lives of mother and daughter Edith “Big Edie” Ewing Bouvier Beale and Edith “Little Edie” Bouvier Beale, relatives of former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Big Edie and Little Edie are shown living in isolation in the estate,...
Grey Gardens may have looked run-down and uninhabitable when it was featured in the eponymous 1975 documentary, but the East Hampton home has since been restored — and has just been put on the market for the first time in 40 years. The asking price? A cool $19.995 million.
For those unfamiliar with the famous documentary, Grey Gardens, the film followed the lives of mother and daughter Edith “Big Edie” Ewing Bouvier Beale and Edith “Little Edie” Bouvier Beale, relatives of former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Big Edie and Little Edie are shown living in isolation in the estate,...
- 2/9/2017
- by Sarah Yang
- PEOPLE.com
Grey Gardens might be the worst real-estate ad ever committed to film. Albert and David Maysles cult-favorite documentary shows its titular East Hampton mansion as exactly what it is: a dilapidated, animal-infested hovel in which two women—Jackie Kennedy Onassis relatives Big and Little Edie Beale—practiced their own private brand of sanity, one that had little to do with the outside world. Now you, too, can fashion your private universe to your own personal whims, with Rolling Stone reporting that Grey Gardens is back on the housing market.
The house last changed hands back in 1979, when Little Edie sold it to Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee. A few years ago (before his death in 2014) Bradlee and his wife, journalist Sally Quinn, began renting the home out. Now, it’s officially for sale, with an initial asking price of $19.995 million.
Built in 1897, and extensively renovated ...
The house last changed hands back in 1979, when Little Edie sold it to Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee. A few years ago (before his death in 2014) Bradlee and his wife, journalist Sally Quinn, began renting the home out. Now, it’s officially for sale, with an initial asking price of $19.995 million.
Built in 1897, and extensively renovated ...
- 2/9/2017
- by William Hughes
- avclub.com
Ben Bradlee movies: From 'All the President's Men' to 'Born Yesterday' (photo: Jason Robards as 'The Washington Post' executive editor Ben Bradlee in 'All the President's Men') Former Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee aka Benjamin C. Bradlee, best known for his key role in the Watergate scandal that destroyed the Richard Nixon presidency, and who was later played by Best Supporting Actor Oscar winner Jason Robards in Alan J. Pakula's film version of All the President's Men, died of "natural causes" last October 21, 2014, at his home in Washington, D.C. Bradlee, who had been suffering from Alzheimer's disease, was 93. The Washington Post of the 21st century may look increasingly like a more pedantic version of the Rupert Murdoch-owned tabloid New York Post, but things weren't always like that. Back in the days when the American media — at least some of the time — actually bothered reporting news...
- 11/7/2014
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Ben Bradlee, the renowned editor of the Washington Post, died on Oct. 21 at his home in Washington, D.C., after a battle with Alzheimer’s. He was 93.
Ben Bradlee Dies
The Washington Post, the paper at which Bradlee served as the executive editor for 26 years, confirmed his passing.
Bradlee got his first experience in a newsroom after serving in the Navy during World War II, helping to start the New Hampshire Sunday News. In 1948, he began reporting for the Washington Post. In 1954, after spending a few years as an assistant press attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Paris, he started working as a European correspondent for Newsweek magazine. When the Post bought Newsweek in 1961, Bradlee became the bureau chief.
By 1965, Bradlee had worked his way up to managing editor and just three years later, he’d become the Post’s executive editor – a position he held until 1991. During his...
Ben Bradlee Dies
The Washington Post, the paper at which Bradlee served as the executive editor for 26 years, confirmed his passing.
Bradlee got his first experience in a newsroom after serving in the Navy during World War II, helping to start the New Hampshire Sunday News. In 1948, he began reporting for the Washington Post. In 1954, after spending a few years as an assistant press attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Paris, he started working as a European correspondent for Newsweek magazine. When the Post bought Newsweek in 1961, Bradlee became the bureau chief.
By 1965, Bradlee had worked his way up to managing editor and just three years later, he’d become the Post’s executive editor – a position he held until 1991. During his...
- 10/22/2014
- Uinterview
Ben Bradlee, the hard-charging editor who guided The Washington Post through its Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the Watergate scandal and invigorated its newsroom for more than two decades, died Tuesday. He was 93. Bradlee died at his home of natural causes, The Post reported. As managing editor first and later as executive editor, the raspy-voiced Bradlee engineered the transformation of The Post from a sleepy hometown paper into a great national one. He brought in a cast of talented journalists and set editorial standards that brought the paper new respect. Bradlee got an early break as a journalist thanks to his friendship with one president,...
- 10/22/2014
- by Associated Press
- PEOPLE.com
Ben Bradlee, the hard-charging editor who guided The Washington Post through its Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the Watergate scandal and invigorated its newsroom for more than two decades, died Tuesday. He was 93. Bradlee died at his home of natural causes, The Post reported. As managing editor first and later as executive editor, the raspy-voiced Bradlee engineered the transformation of The Post from a sleepy hometown paper into a great national one. He brought in a cast of talented journalists and set editorial standards that brought the paper new respect. Bradlee got an early break as a journalist thanks to his friendship with one president,...
- 10/22/2014
- by Associated Press
- PEOPLE.com
Ben Bradlee, the trailblazing executive editor of The Washington Post who was immortalized in the 1976 classic film All the President’s Men, has died. He was 93. Bradlee, who suffered from Alzheimer’s disease for the past several years, died Tuesday at his home in Washington of natural causes. He began receiving hospice care at the home he shared with his wife, journalist Sally Quinn, in mid-September. The Washington Post announced the news Tuesday evening. Bradlee guided the Post as executive editor from 1968 until his retirement in September 1991. His decision to defy the Nixon administration and publish the Pentagon Papers,
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- 9/30/2014
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Former Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee, a 2013 Medal of Freedom recipient, is in hospice care due to continued deterioration of his health and dementia. “We actually called in hospice care this week,” wife Sally Quinn said during a Sept. 18 C-span interview broadcast on Sunday. “It's been the most horrible experience I ever had, up until recently.” Also read: Sally Quinn Slams Former WaPo's Howard Kurtz: ‘He Is an Old Geezer’ “A certain peace has come over me, and this feeling of serenity,” Quinn continued. “Because what I thought was going to be horrible, the care taking part of it,...
- 9/29/2014
- by Greg Gilman
- The Wrap
New York, Jan 7: Steven Seagal has expressed the desire to become the governor of Arizona, but his new dream may not come true after all thanks to the misogynist remarks he made on female journalists in an old interview.
In 1988, while giving an interview to Gallery magazine, the 'Above the Law' star used the c-word to describe a female reporter and also called Washington Post's Sally Quinn and other female journalists a "bunch of f***ing dirty whores," the New York Post reported.
Paul Barresi, a private investigator who worked for Seagal's producing partner, Jules Nasso, post their fall-out, told the publication that.
In 1988, while giving an interview to Gallery magazine, the 'Above the Law' star used the c-word to describe a female reporter and also called Washington Post's Sally Quinn and other female journalists a "bunch of f***ing dirty whores," the New York Post reported.
Paul Barresi, a private investigator who worked for Seagal's producing partner, Jules Nasso, post their fall-out, told the publication that.
- 1/7/2014
- by Meeta Kabra
- RealBollywood.com
Howard Kurtz's bizarre obsession with female nudity has drawn the ire of writers at his former newspaper stomping grounds. Sally Quinn, wife of famed WaPo editor Ben Bradlee, said his blog post about her daughter-in-law, Pari Bradlee's, Facebook profile photos was appalling and hurtful. "I thought Howard was a decent guy, I thought he was my friend and I'm appalled and really heartbroken that he would do something like this," Quinn, a columnist for the paper, told MediaMatters. "Why would you want to hurt somebody?" Also read: Is Fox News' Howard Kurtz Obsessed...
- 8/27/2013
- by Sara Morrison
- The Wrap
Conservative televangelist Joel Osteen went on national television this morning and admitted that his own sexual orientation is not a choice -- despite maintaining consistently in previous interviews that being gay is a sin, albeit one that "God gives us the grace to change."
The bestselling author and Texas megachurch leader went on CNN's "Starting Point with Soledad O'Brien" as part of a segment featuring both Osteen and New Yorker writer and former Bill Clinton adviser Richard Socarides.
Osteen has repeatedly tried to tip toe around his stance on homosexuality, telling Piers Morgan in October of 2011 that he's not "mad at anybody" and doesn't "dislike anybody," while reiterating his belief that the scripture says homosexuality is a sin," and "two hundred years from now, the Scripture is still going to say that."
Citing that interview, Socarides, who has often campaigned for Lgbt rights, and host O'Brien pushed Osteen to clarify his stance on homosexuality,...
The bestselling author and Texas megachurch leader went on CNN's "Starting Point with Soledad O'Brien" as part of a segment featuring both Osteen and New Yorker writer and former Bill Clinton adviser Richard Socarides.
Osteen has repeatedly tried to tip toe around his stance on homosexuality, telling Piers Morgan in October of 2011 that he's not "mad at anybody" and doesn't "dislike anybody," while reiterating his belief that the scripture says homosexuality is a sin," and "two hundred years from now, the Scripture is still going to say that."
Citing that interview, Socarides, who has often campaigned for Lgbt rights, and host O'Brien pushed Osteen to clarify his stance on homosexuality,...
- 9/21/2012
- by The Hufffington Post
- Aol TV.
It's this simple. Newt Gingrich has not upheld family values by any reasonable definition of the term. This fact may not have been much of an issue except that Gingrich has tried to advance his career by questioning the values of others -- most notably those of Bill Clinton.
Sally Quinn has provided a run-down of Newt's hypocrisy in The Washington Post:
For those who haven't been following Gingrich's personal life, here is a capsule version: He married his first wife, Jacqueline, at 19 and had two daughters. His wife developed uterine cancer. He began having an affair with Marianne, who became his second wife, and when Jacqueline was in the hospital having a tumor removed he visited her to ask for a divorce. He then married Marianne. While they were married, he carried on a six-year affair with his current wife, Callista. During this period he was one of the...
Sally Quinn has provided a run-down of Newt's hypocrisy in The Washington Post:
For those who haven't been following Gingrich's personal life, here is a capsule version: He married his first wife, Jacqueline, at 19 and had two daughters. His wife developed uterine cancer. He began having an affair with Marianne, who became his second wife, and when Jacqueline was in the hospital having a tumor removed he visited her to ask for a divorce. He then married Marianne. While they were married, he carried on a six-year affair with his current wife, Callista. During this period he was one of the...
- 1/27/2012
- by Sophia A. McClennen
- Aol TV.
In one of the strangest confluences of talent I’ve ever heard of, Starz has greenlit Boss, a political drama starring Kelsey Gammer, written by Apocalypto’s Farhad Safinia, and the pilot will be directed by Gus Van Sant.
Good news – Calista Flockhart is taking at least three episodes off from Brothers & Sisters. Filling in for Kitty is Beau Bridges. Well, he’s going to be on the show. I doubt Beau can whine and have hair that bad.
The remake of Gambit, the 1966 comedy with Shirley MacLaine and Michael Caine has funding and a director. But will they use the same costumes?
For the first time, a Glee single has debuted at #1 on the digital charts. “Teenage Dream” by Darren Criss sold 214,000 copies. One of those is on my iPhone.
Bristol Palin says that she and her sister Willow “shouldn't have reacted to negative comments about our family. We apologize.
Good news – Calista Flockhart is taking at least three episodes off from Brothers & Sisters. Filling in for Kitty is Beau Bridges. Well, he’s going to be on the show. I doubt Beau can whine and have hair that bad.
The remake of Gambit, the 1966 comedy with Shirley MacLaine and Michael Caine has funding and a director. But will they use the same costumes?
For the first time, a Glee single has debuted at #1 on the digital charts. “Teenage Dream” by Darren Criss sold 214,000 copies. One of those is on my iPhone.
Bristol Palin says that she and her sister Willow “shouldn't have reacted to negative comments about our family. We apologize.
- 11/19/2010
- by Ed Kennedy
- The Backlot
Sally Quinn, self-made maestro of the D.C. social scene and wife of former Washington Post executive editor Ben Bradlee, is the subject of a profile by Evgenia Peretz in the July 2010 issue of Vanity Fair. To those more familiar with the Web than with Washington, Quinn is perhaps best-known as the co-moderator of the Post’s On Faith site and the former author of a column called “The Party,” the latter of which was discontinued following an incident in which Quinn diagrammed the reasons why the wedding date of her son, Quinn, coincided with that of her husband’s granddaughter from another marriage, Greta. The offending missive did not sit well with Internet commentators—“The column is like a particularly unhinged and confused letter to an advice columnist, only no advice columnist ever shows up to point out how self-deluded and wrong the letter-writer is,” wrote the Awl’s...
- 6/2/2010
- Vanity Fair
Last night Bill O'Reilly addressed the rumors that surround the sexuality of Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan with Washington Post columnist (and certified Beltway insider) Sally Quinn, who blamed the White House for initially insisting that Kagan is not gay. O'Reilly responded "Americans have a right to know if their Supreme Court Justice has an orientation that may or may not dictate which way she votes on a vital issue."...
- 5/13/2010
- by Colby Hall
- Mediaite - TV
Adieu, adieu Sally Quinn’s plaintive anthem fades! Last night, Washington Post executive editor Marcus Brauchli announced the print demise of “The Party,” Sally Quinn’s blog about how to suitably entertain friends of Sally Quinn and husband Ben Bradlee. The cancellation comes on the heels on last week’s missive about conflicting Bradlee clan wedding dates, which the entire Internet seemed to agree was of interest to few people other than Sally Quinn—including, evidently, Brauchli, who did not even read the column before it was printed. As the Awl’s Tom Scocca wrote: “I also had no idea that there was any controversy about wedding dates until Sally Quinn got into my morning newspaper and told me about it. I guess we, unlike Sally Quinn, don't have Google alerts for ‘Sally Quinn.’ But her column helps us make up for our failing.” Brauchli talked to Washington CityPaper about...
- 2/25/2010
- Vanity Fair
By Dylan Stableford
Quick update to the Sally Quinn saga over at the Washington Post: the paper has, indeed, pulled the plug on her "Party" column.
On Friday, Quinn used the column -- which the Post launched late last year as a guide to “entertaining and how to do it” -- to ostensibly rebuff criticism about a wedding scheduling snafu within her famous extended family. It drew quickly criticism from family members and bloggers.
Executive editor Marcus Brauchli conf...
Quick update to the Sally Quinn saga over at the Washington Post: the paper has, indeed, pulled the plug on her "Party" column.
On Friday, Quinn used the column -- which the Post launched late last year as a guide to “entertaining and how to do it” -- to ostensibly rebuff criticism about a wedding scheduling snafu within her famous extended family. It drew quickly criticism from family members and bloggers.
Executive editor Marcus Brauchli conf...
- 2/25/2010
- by Dylan Stableford
- The Wrap
By Dylan Stableford
The Washington Post is not commenting on a report by outgoing Washington City Paper columnist Eric Wemple that it is killing a column by socialite-ning-rod Sally Quinn after the D.C. doyenne used it to combat rumors about a wedding in her family.
The Post debuted Quinn's column -- called “The Party,” with the tagline “on entertaining and how to do it” -- late last year.
In Friday's entry, Quinn detailed “an unfolding family drama”...
The Washington Post is not commenting on a report by outgoing Washington City Paper columnist Eric Wemple that it is killing a column by socialite-ning-rod Sally Quinn after the D.C. doyenne used it to combat rumors about a wedding in her family.
The Post debuted Quinn's column -- called “The Party,” with the tagline “on entertaining and how to do it” -- late last year.
In Friday's entry, Quinn detailed “an unfolding family drama”...
- 2/24/2010
- by Dylan Stableford
- The Wrap
Game On. Will Ferrell. Who and what were up and down on last weekend's social circuit and why. → Society Movie Screenings: Hamptons regulars got a rare look at the gritty side of life on Friday when they headed to Goose Creek mansion for a screening of the wrenching Cannes-winning drama Precious. Afterward, director Lee Daniels and cast member Xosha Roquemore mingled with Kanye West and Amber Rose, Bob Balaban, Peggy Siegal, Tory Burch, Sally Quinn, and Ross Bleckner. ↓ Awkward Adult Entertainment: If incest and obesity weren't shocking enough (see above), Patrick and Dana Hammond Stubgen really stirred things up when they brought in rapper Mickey Avalon to energize their annual end-of-summer bash in Southampton. What ever happened to civilized parties? Let's hope Brooke Shields, George Soros, Jay McInerney, Anne Hearst, and Kathy Hilton could handle the music.
- 9/8/2009
- Vanity Fair
1. Tony Blair. 2. Orlando Bloom. 3. Lou Reed. From PatrickMcMullan.com. Vf Daily’s picks for the top three parties around the globe last night. British Invasion What: Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter interviews British prime minister Tony Blair. Where: The Museum of Modern Art, New York City. Who: Tony Blair; Graydon Carter and his wife, Anna Carter; Ben Bradlee and Sally Quinn; Vanity Fair writers Fran Lebowitz, Dominick Dunne, Bob Colacello, and Christopher Hitchens and V.F. photographer Mario Testino; Diane von Furstenberg, Matt Lauer, Oscar de la Renta, Barbara Walters, Stephen Schwartzman, Vernon Jordan, Maria Bartiromo, and David Lauren. Why: Because the conversation ran the gamut from the Iraq war to the Queen's sex appeal, while the diverse crowd ranged from Brian Williams to Vivienne Westwood. Talking Points: Lots.
- 6/24/2009
- Vanity Fair
Suzy Welch, the wife of retired Ge chief Jack Welch, drew a stellar crowd to Tuesday's launch of her self-help book, "10-10-10." Or maybe the turnout was due to the party's hosts, Tina Brown and Harry Evans, who opened up their East 57th Street maisonette, and Barry Diller, who backs Brown's Web site, The Daily Beast. Among those who raised a glass: Matt Lauer, who'd interviewed Welch on "Today" that morning; News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch; Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski; Tom and Meredith...
- 4/16/2009
- NYPost.com
Cipriani’s Bellinis. From PatrickMcMullan.com. It was like a bookworm class reunion last night at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York City, where the literati gathered for the Paris Review’s annual Spring Revel awards ceremony. The evening raised money for the publication, which actually functions as a nonprofit. Over free-flowing pre-dinner Bellinis, Zadie Smith enjoyed the chance to catch up with Gary Shteyngart in an animated conversation, while Sally Quinn and Ben Bradlee, who presented a toast later in the evening, held court. Were they regaling their well-wishers with anecdotes from the party they recently threw at Grey Gardens, the storied mansion that they now own? Their son, Quinn Bradlee, was also present, but in a new capacity, as his memoir was released earlier in the year. Quinn wasn’t the only member of the New Guard enjoying his recent success: Nick McDonnell, who spent time chatting with Smith,...
- 4/14/2009
- Vanity Fair
1. Christie Brinkley. 2. Paul Sevigny at the Beatrice Inn when the nightclub was still open. 3. Diddy. From PatrickMcMullan.com. Vf Daily’s picks for the top three parties around the globe last weekend. Garden Party What: A screening of H.B.O.’s dramatized version of the 1975 documentary Grey Gardens, and a celebratory dinner. Where: Grey Gardens and Goose Creek, the Hamptons, New York. Who: Ben Bradlee and Sally Quinn (current owners of the Grey Gardens property), newly minted memoirist Quinn Bradlee, Frances Hayward (who lives at the mansion during the off season), Lorraine Bracco and daughter Stella Keitel, Michael Suscy (the writer and director of the movie), Christie Brinkley, Bob Balaban with daughter Hazel, Martha Stewart, Euan Rellie and Lucy Sykes Rellie, Dick Cavett, Jay McInerney (who is busy promoting his new book), Anne Hearst McInerney, Richard Meier, Henry and Marie-Josee Kravis, Peggy Siegal, Henry Corra, and Celia Maysles (whose...
- 4/13/2009
- Vanity Fair
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