September 29, 2003
LOOSE LIPS
The New York Times
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/28/nyregion/28LLOY.html?pagewanted
=1">profiles the new gossip reporter for
href="http://www.nydailynews.com">The Daily News, Lloyd Grove,
today. Grove wrote The
Washington Post gossip column,
href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-
dyn/style/columns/reliablesource/">Reliable Source, for years
before coming to NYC. I don't think this is going to work out.
There's a big difference between D.C. gossip and NYC gossip. Here's a
not-uncommon NYC-style gossip item that might appear in the
href="http://www.nypost.com">New York Post:
Coke-fueled and panty-less Paris Hilton fellated someHere's something that Grove might have
rock star in full view of the amused kitchen staff last night at
Bungalow 8.
written for The WaPo:
It was quite the scene at socialite GeorgetteNot quite the same thing. Also, while at
Mosbacher's 104th b-day party last night when Assistant Secretary of
the Interior Lloyd Braun dropped salmon pate all over his Brioni
necktie.
the Reliable Source, Grove initiated the Celebrity Tip Watch, in which
he would publish how much various celebrities visiting D.C. restaurants
left as a tip. This has to be one of the most intrusive and obnoxious
things I've ever heard of. I'm all for outing cheapskates, but the Tip
Watch just seemed sleazy. On the plus side, Grove once managed to goad
actor and famed blowhard Tim Robbins into threats of physical violence
if he ever wrote about him or his wife, Susan Sarandon, ever again.
WORSE THAN FEARED: I just read Grove's debut column [ href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/gossip/story/121623p-
109375c.html">The Lowdown] and it sucked as predicted. Lead-off
item: President Bush's uncle likes remote-controlled fart machine
gags. Please. Tagged:
Posted by Lexiphane at September 29, 2003 11:06 AM
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