RUMORS ON THE INTERNET Beyonce and Jay-Z got married in Paris? What? Not true according to reps for both parties. The two have been battling marriage, fidelity and co-habitation rumors from the beginning, so until Beyonce and Jay-Z do a wedding spread for Vanity Fair, we’re not even going to speculate. [Stereohyped]
SHOCKED AND CHAGRINED Bonnie Fuller returns to HuffPo with a Jamie Lynn Spears rant update. This time, the Star editorial director is appalled the Spears family is acting so “shocked” over the bun in the oven. [HuffPo]
KEEP THAT JUNK IN YOUR TRUNK Watch out, serial subway flashers. The City Council just upped the penalty for committing lewd acts in public more than once in a three year period. Judges can now sentence you to a year in jail, three years probation and/or a $1G fine. So if you can, try to space those perversions out. [Gothamist]
NETWORK LOYALTY CNBC is said to be threatening guests who also appear on Fox Business Network, telling some that they won’t be welcome on the peacock’s financial network if their two-timing continues. [24/7WS]
MERE PENNIES Sam Zell, who just made himself chief executive of his newly purchased Tribune Co., on his $8.2 billion purchase: “I think it???s a very low-risk investment.” [NYT]
STEWART/COLBERT ‘08 Joining Conan, Leno, Letterman, Ferguson and trail blazer, Carson Daly, Jon Stewart and Steven Colbert will return with new shows, produced without writers, starting January 7. [NYT]
FABULOUS FABIEN From the mailbag: “Don’t know if anyone still cares about this guys, but [Fabian Basabe] was at The Abbey in West Hollywood on Tuesday night coming on VERY strong to straight bartender as his wife (Fabian’s) and mother-in-law watched! Later the bartender made the mistake of calling him ‘Fabio’ which didn’t go over well at all!”
DRUDGE RETORT It’s hard to tell whether Variety’s Brian Lowry is thanking or begrudging those times when he gets linked on Drudge Report. But either way, your hate mail might be better received if only you were polite when calling him an elitist media snob liberal. [Variety]
COST OF LIVING GOES UP IN D.C. The Washington Post will be an even 50 cents starting December 31, up from 35 cents, its cost since 2001. The New York Times is more than twice that, but as saying goes, it???s all about location, location, location. [WP]
STATURORY-RAPED UP? Fuzzy math is the least of Jamie Lynn Spears???s problems right now, but it seems like BF and soon to be baby-daddy Casey Aldridge might have been too old in some states to be impregnating a 16 year-old, even though it was consensual. We???re all for free love, but we might have to agree with Louisiana on this one. [Mollygood]
ANNA WINTOUR SYNDROME A correction in this month’s Vanity Fair: “In Bryan Burrough’s ’showdown at Fort Sumner’ (December), Nikki Finke’s column should have been called a ‘Hollywood business column and Web site’ and not a ‘gossip blog.” Just because she posts items in reverse chronological format, allows comments, and writes in a conversational tone does not make her website a blog. Oh, to have been able to sit in on the phone call exchange that prompted that wrangling. [LAO]
FAMILY VALUES Tonight, Katie Couric’s presidential candidate series asks the tough questions. Namely, questions about adultery. Awkward! For Hillary! [Drudge]
HASTILY INTO THE NIGHT When the Tribune Co. goes privately into the hands of Sam Zell tomorrow, his $8.2 billion buyout will also bring regime change: CEO Dennis FitzSimons is stepping down as chief and will have cleaned out his desk by the end of the year. [Romenesko]
Demands The White House declines to comment on the New York Times A1 story on CIA torture tapes, but is “formally requesting that NYT correct the sub-headline of this story,” which states that the “White House Role Was Wider Than It Said.” Isn’t requesting correction a passive aggressive comment? [MediaBistro]
OMG Someone Had A Baby CNN anchor Campbell Brown had her first kid, a boy, yesterday. See, even though she???s famous, she still experiences the same joys as regular people. That???s why this is news. [People]