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    More recent--2004--when the unauth. biography was being worked on. Is that out yet? Could be a good read--I loved the Martha Stewart one! I've been trying to avoid the business articles that keep popping up, but apparently he's not quite a multi-billionaire as his telecom company had some problems....

    Copyright 2004 CanWest Interactive, a division ofCanWest Global Communications Corp.All Rights Reserved  Ottawa CitizenMay 8, 2004 Saturday Final EditionSECTION: The Citizen's Weekly: Entertainment; Pg. L12LENGTH: 675 wordsHEADLINE: The Lion in wintour: Hot bio will get icy reception: American Vogue editor Anna Wintour, famously known as Nuclear Wintour, is fuming about an unauthorized biography that reveals her wild younger lifeSOURCE: The Sunday Times, LondonBYLINE: Sarah BaxterDATELINE: NEW YORKBODY:NEW YORK - The dark shades that symbolized Anna Wintour's desire for privacy have been coming off lately and her trademark brunette bob has been lightened.But the icy British editor of American Vogue is none too delighted at the prospect of an unauthorized biography that delves into her private life.Wintour, 54, has told friends not to co-operate with author Jerry Oppenheimer, but he has been spotted in Britain and the United States talking to her family, old friends and acquaintances after St. Martin's Press paid him a $500,000 U.S. advance.He has also sought out associates of Shelby Bryan, her millionaire boyfriend, in his home state of Texas. The book, Front Row: The Cool Life and Hot Times of Anna Wintour, will be published in September. Oppenheimer contends that Wintour's relationship with her father, Charles "Chilly Charlie" Wintour, the former Evening Standard editor, led her to seek drinkers, gamblers and older men as dates.At 16, when she was still at school, Wintour was taken to the Playboy club by Nigel Dempster, the Daily Mail gossip columnist, and shook hands with Hugh Hefner, its pyjama-wearing owner.Dempster dated her for seven years, beginning in 1966. "When I first met her, she was a big girl with a large bosom, quite delectable," he said.Other early Wintour beaux were the novelist Piers Paul Read; impresario Michael White, who put Oh! Calcutta! on the stage; polemicist Christopher Hitchens; and Palm Beach backgammon player Claude Beer.By the late 1970s, she was working as fashion editor for Viva, part of a stable of magazines run by Bob Guccione, the publisher of Penthouse. A publishing source says the book will reveal she hated it. "She felt like it was working in the gutter."She acquired her frosty nickname, Nuclear Wintour, while editing British Vogue. She does, however, have many devotees, particularly among fashion designers she has championed, such as John Galliano and Alexander McQueen. Si Newhouse, the chairman of Conde Nast, describes Wintour as "the greatest Vogue editor of them all." When she joined the magazine, she told the editor, Grace Mirabella, that she wanted her job -- and went on to elbow her out in 1988.The ascetic Wintour rises daily at 5:45 a.m. for a game of tennis, followed by a visit from her hairdresser. She rarely spends more than 10 minutes at parties so she can be in bed by 10 p.m.Keith Kelly, media editor of the New York Post, said: "She's not going to like the book, but Jerry Oppenheimer is not a slapdash writer. He does hundreds of interviews and gets things right. The book will be embarrassing, annoying and potentially humiliating, but she will get through it." Oppenheimer has written biographies of style guru Martha Stewart, Jerry Seinfeld and Bill and Hillary Clinton.Wintour survived tough scrutiny when she began an affair with Bryan, a telecom magnate, which broke up both their marriages. Her husband, David Shaffer, a child psychiatrist and the father of her two children, phoned Bryan's wife to ask her if she knew of their goings-on. Bryan and Wintour are still together, but he is no longer so fabulously wealthy after his company, ICG, ran into trouble.There was speculation that negative publicity was taking its toll and Wintour would be stepping down after her long reign at Vogue. An editor who worked with her said: "She seems to have very little patience left for what she is doing." But rumours of her retirement have died away. "She is not going to be able to settle down with Shelby's millions any more," said Kelly. "When she was in the glare of publicity about their affair she felt shellshocked and didn't want to be written about in that way, but she has come through to the other side now."Wintour was able to shrug off her caricature in the bestselling chick-lit novel The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger, a former Vogue assistant, in which she was lampooned as a tyrant.And regardless of the slings and arrows of biography, Wintour will continue to be perfectly groomed.

    I love Lexis/Nexis :D

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    This 1999 affair-pre-divorce is more interesting than the stuff from today, when they're just "companions" who are always together ;)

    Copyright 1999 TEXAS MONTHLY, INC.  TEXAS MONTHLYOctober, 1999SECTION: LOW TALK; Pg. 19LENGTH: 697 wordsHEADLINE: IN VOGUE;Meet the Texan all of New York is buzzing aboutBYLINE: BY EVAN SMITHBODY:ONE OF CELEBRITY'S IMMUtable laws is that you're nobody until your private life has been picked apart by the predators of the New York media. By that standard, J. Shelby Bryan is well into his Warholian fifteen minutes. The Houston native has been a tabloid staple lately, and -- wouldn't you know? -- it's not because of his work as the CEO of Denver-based ICG Communications or his fundraising for the Democratic party. What makes him gossip grist is his relationship with Anna Wintour, the all-powerful editor of Vogue, whom he met last year at a charity ball chaired by Anne Bass and has been romantically involved with ever since -- even though both are married.Who is the urbane cowboy who's lassoed, Horse Whisperer -- style, a steely, stick-thin Brit? For one thing, he has undeniable Texas bona fides: He is the great-great-great-great-nephew of Stephen F. Austin and is also descended from William Joel Bryan, for whom the town of Bryan is named. His maternal grandfather, Even Shelby Smith, for whom he is named, was a land baron in Brazoria County. His father, James Perry Bryan, was a lawyer for Dow Chemical and a regent at the University of Texas. His brother, J. P., founded Torch Energy Advisors, a Houston oil and gas company, and owns the tony Gage Hotel in the West Texas town of Marathon.Bryan was born in Houston on March 21, 1946. He played football at Lamar High School -- "I was a Redskin," he says proudly today -- and also at UT-Austin, but only briefly. "I wasn't any good. When I started at Texas, there were three or four other guys who were as bad as I was. Within a few weeks they all got hurt, so I was the worst." In college he studied history and art, spending his last year in France at the University of Grenoble; after graduating he enrolled at UT's law school, where his classmates included Lloyd Doggett, now a U.S. congressman from Austin, and Fred Baron, a founding partner of the Dallas law firm Baron and Budd. "He was very intelligent, motivated, and hardworking," Baron says. "I used to call him The Great Gatsby -- you could tell he was going to be successful."Armed with a law degree, Bryan spent the first six months of 1971 working for Ralph Nader in Washington, D.C, then went on to Harvard Business School. After a few years in mergers and acquisitions at Morgan Stanley, he and a lawyer friend founded Millicom International Cellular, one of the nation's first cellular telephone companies. For fifteen years Bryan served on its board; in 1985, with global growth plans on the table, he moved to New York and assumed the titles of president and CEO. There he remained until 1995, when he retired -- but later that year he was enticed by an invitation to turn around ICG, a floundering company with designs on competing in the fiber-optic networking business. Today Bryan can boast annual revenues of $ 500 million, with $ 1 billion projected for 2000.Equally impressive is Bryan's record as a political rainmaker. A lifelong Democrat, he has given at least $ 350,000 to the party and its candidates since late 1995, according to the Austin-based campaign-finance watchdog group Texans for Public Justice, and he's raised his fair share too: In 1997 and 1998, when he served as its national finance chair, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee pocketed more than $ 54 million. And while he has no official role in the 2000 campaign, Bryan plans to actively support Al Gore for president and Hillary Clinton for U.S. senator in New York; both are friends.As for the first lady's appearance on the cover of last December's Vogue: Bryan insists it was a coincidence, and that's about all he'll say regarding his paramour or her magazine. "There's an old-fashioned view that your personal life should be kept private, and that's my view," he says. Still, he confirms that he and his second wife, Katherine, have separated. As of yet, while lawyers have been hired and back-channel settlement talks have commenced, no divorce paperwork has been filed. But chances are it will be soon, particularly if the predators are right about his desire to one day become Old Man Wintour.

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    OK, this is from 1999, just as they were both divorcing their spouses:

    Copyright 1999 Washington Magazine, Inc.  WashingtonianNovember, 1999SECTION: CAPITAL COMMENT; Pg. 9LENGTH: 750 wordsHEADLINE: Clinton Sympathetic to Spurned Wife in New York Love ScandalBYLINE: LESLIE MILK and COURTNEY RUBIN, Edited by CHUCK CONCONIBODY:Bill and Hillary Clinton may have breathed a sigh of relief when the scandal spotlight shifted to New York and the romantic quadrangle created by Vogue editor Anna Wintour, billionaire businessman J. Shelby Bryan, and their spouses.But the Clintons haven't been able to steer totally clear of it. Both Wintour and the Bryans have close ties to Bill and Hillary. Just as the lovebirds' messy divorces were making tabloid headlines in New York, Washington papers reported that Clinton was about to appoint Shelby Bryan to the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board.White House chief personnel director Bob J. Nash wanted to delay the appointment, but Bryan wouldn't hear of it. The Texas-born Bryan has raised millions -- and contributed an estimated $ 500,000 to the Democratic Party -- so the White House caved.Anna Wintour will be front and center in Washington this month as Vogue sponsors an exhibit of Annie Leibovitz photographs opening at the Corcoran Gallery October 27. Wintour is hosting a VIP reception for the opening, and the Clintons are expected.Hillary Clinton has invited Wintour, Leibovitz, and company to the White House. In December 1998, Wintour put Hillary on the cover of Vogue. The First Lady was gowned by Oscar de la Renta and photographed by Leibovitz with instructions to "make her look like British royalty." Wintour touted Hillary as "our woman of the year" and gushed that the cover story was "a vindication of her beauty and her success as a woman."The picture of Hillary is in the new Leibovitz book being published in tandem with the exhibit.Washington insiders predicted that Bryan and his wife, marriage counselor Katherine Bryan, were going to be major players when they bought the Georgetown house of Evangeline Bruce in 1996. But they didn't move in and sold the mansion for $ 4.2 million 14 months after buying it.Bryan probably realized that he didn't need a Washington base to be a Clinton insider. In 1997 -- 98, the dashing billionaire, who worked in DC for Ralph Nader between law school at the University of Texas and Harvard Business School, headed the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, and raised $ 54 million.Bryan made his fortune when he and a friend started Millicom International Cellular, one of the first cellular-telephone companies. He retired in 1995, then took over the helm at ICG, a Colorado fiber-optics firm, and saved it.Bryan was always interested in politics. He did a fundraiser in his swank New York digs in 1997, that pulled in $ 1.2 million. The President was the draw -- New York's business and social elite paid $ 2,500 to break bread with Bill.Nine days later, Bryan hosted a dinner with Vice President Al Gore and raised another $ 250,000 -- this time for New York Democrats.While Bryan was raising funds with Bill, Vogue editor Wintour was polishing Hillary's image. In 1993 Wintour criticized the First Lady's stodgy style and wrote to Hillary offering advice.Hillary did not accept the offer, but Wintour had a case of Potomac fever. Profiles of serious Washington women like Madeleine Albright began showing up in Vogue.In 1996, Wintour co-chaired a fashion benefit for the Nina Hyde Cancer Center here. While Washington focused on guest of honor Princess Diana, Wintour campaigned to win over the First Lady and Katharine Graham."She courts people," says a White House insider. It paid off. When the First Lady hosted an intimate breakfast for Diana and Graham, Wintour was at the table. When British Prime Minister Tony Blair was feted at the White House, Wintour got an invite.The Bryans are gearing up for a protracted divorce battle. Katherine has hired former Washington flack Ed Rollins to tell her story. Shelby's spinmeister is John Scanlon, who represented Monica Lewinsky. Wintour's divorce also may be messy.A hint of things to come was a reported phone call that Wintour's estranged husband, David Shaffer, made to Katharine Bryan. Shaffer is reported to have asked Katherine, "Do you know that your husband is f---ing my wife?"Shaffer's wasn't the only surprising call to Katherine Bryan. President Clinton called her from Air Force One to offer his condolences when her husband's affair became public knowledge. "Bill Clinton doesn't burn any bridges," says someone who worked with him. "Katherine is going to get a very big settlement, and Clinton is going to need contributors to his presidential library."

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    She divorced Shaffer (father of the kids) a couple years ago. Can't remember when she started dating Bryant. He's a doctor? Can't remember.....New York papers usually have little blurbs on them at charity events together or stuff like that....I'll go search and see if I can come up with anything juicy.....

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    Heigl pissed me off in the finale, so I'm Team Sandra Oh these days ;) I like the Nazi too, esp. when she was carrying the baby around in the sling....Oh wait, this is the Ellen Pompeo thread, not GA....She's too skinny.When Calista Flockhart comes back to TV next year, how many stories do you think there'll be comparing the two skeletons??

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    I'm torn on this, because I think Oprah and Gayle are together--THAT way--but at the same time, I sort of believe Oprah that if she were gay, she would tell people.....At least by now, after she's been on tv for 25 years and has so much money.....She'd be at the right point in her career for it not to hurt her too much....Posting at same time as Bobby--Her audience might drop but I don't know that she'd care--hasn't she said she's going to quit the talk show after 25 years? Isn't that, like, now?

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    Someone posted on the Vegas board I moderate that he's doing a big 3121 thing in Vegas--renaming the club in honor of the album, and charging $312.10 for tickets. Yikes, and I thought Madonna and the Stones were expensive.....

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    Why do men shave their heads when they start to lose their hair?  Do they think we like them better totally bald?  Speaking for myself, I do not (except in exceptional, hot-bald-guy circumstances). :D

    I prefer it! Of course, my husband shaves his head, so that could be why....Having seen pictures of him when he had hair, and now--he's hotter with it shaved :P

     

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    I know, I'm probably the only one bothered by it :D But it consumes me!!! Every time I watch the show.....He was on the Today Show this morning--totally adorable!! Getting ready to head to Louisville, Kentucky for the big benefit party they have before the Kentucky Derby--hope there are some good photos from that--I'll have to remember to look....ETA more complete info since I realize not all the europeans who read this would know that it's Derby weekend! Having a best friend/college roommate from Louisville, however, I was indoctrinated early into the pleasures of the mint julep and wearing large hats on the first Saturday in May :lol:

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    In Bull Durham, when he's telling Susan Sarandon he likes long slow deep wet kisses that last 3 days.....Oh yeah! I see the attraction!!! [that, however, is the only movie I've really liked him in, but GOD do I adore that movie!!! He could give me a pedicure whenever he wanted....Well, back then at least]

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