Peter Murmann

MAUREEN DOWD (NYT) ghostwrites George’s Bush “Mea culpa.” Don’t hold your breath. Nothing of the sort will ever come out of George Bush’s mouth. Who’s Sorry Now? There’s not much lately that we’d like to import from China. Certainly not the yummy steamed buns stuffed with shredded cardboard soaked in a caustic agent used to make soap. [Read More]

One of my guilty pleasures is to follow the act that Paris Hilton puts on for the world. I don’t know her. Nor do I claim to have figured out what drives this lady to seek the lime light. She is clearly one of the world’s most well-known brands. Being only twenty-six this is no [Read More]

In a recent interview, Justin Timberlake, who in January split with Cameron Diaz (his costar in Shrek pictured on the right, who also attended the press day), said being single has its ups and downs: “The advantages are that you don’t get in as many arguments, and the disadvantage is that you’re talking to yourself.” Apparantly, [Read More]

Britney seems to have discovered that motherhood and applepie is not as fun as singlehood and panty-less partying with Paris Hilton. The two girls are learning to upstage even Madonna, the mother of all self-promotion. It is fascinating to watch how newspapers all over the world are covering the two little Lolitas from the United [Read More]

When Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes failed to give the press a photo of their newborn child for six months, the tabloids started to accuse the couple of simply making up their baby story to create publicity. Here is a picture of their little girl, Suri, from yesterday’s TomKat star wedding in Italy, which [Read More]

  Here is a another good story. Fallen Pastor Seeks Aid to Pursue Studies COLORADO SPRINGS, Aug. 25, 2007 (AP) The Rev. Ted Haggard, who left the 10,000-member megachurch he founded after admitting to “sexual immorality,” has asked supporters for financial help while he and his wife pursue studies in counseling and psychology. Mr. Haggard, the former pastor [Read More]

Murdoch believes in family values. That’s why he married three times. In a recent profile in the New Yorker (October 16, 2006) he explained. “I am a radical in the sense of supporting change… I also believe in free markets and family values—in a low-key way. I am not one to preach about it, [Read More]

Older men and younger women – an age-old story. But an 89-year-old rolling into a strip club on a wheelchair and later marrying the stripper takes this idea to a whole new level. The Economist reports on what happened next. THE words “probate exception” do not titillate. And yet a saucy, decade-long legal battle over a [Read More]

As far as I am concerned Mark Singer won this pairing hands down. The story gets particularly funny at the end. Singer writes: Never having met Timothy O’Brien, the Times reporter who finds himself on the receiving end of a five-billion-dollar libel-and-defamation suit from Donald Trump, I don’t presume to know whether he’s having fun yet. [Read More]

The shooting was fertile ground for Jon Stewart, the host of “The Daily Show,” the popular fake news program on Comedy Central. On Monday night one of the show’s correspondents, Rob Corddry, introduced as a “vice-presidential firearms mishap analyst,” said that “according to the best intelligence available, there were quail hidden in the brush,” and [Read More]