The people over at Entertainment Weekly seem to have wised up, twofold. First, they give Project Runway the cover story and, and!, put Heidi AND TIM GUNN on the cover. I saw it while loitering around the Philadelphia airport and got pretty giddy. It's too bad the rest of the issue had more filler than an American Idol season finale.
Secondly, as my subscription ran out back in the spring, EW and I have been estranged for quite some time now. And because I'm a masochist, while waiting for the plane I flipped right away to the Style page and...no Jessica Shaw? Just a tired feature on the red carpet at the Video Music Awards? Whuh? So I flip around frantically until, lo and behold, there's The Shaw Report on the News + Notes page. But now, instead of the usual three-by-three matrix of irrelevance, Shaw has been downsized to a tiny spot in the bottom-left corner and only one category instead of three. (Celebrity Offspring, no less. Girl, please. That's so two months ago.)
Did the editors realize how inane the feature is, and how it offers nothing whatsoever to the advancement of popular culture? I certainly hope so. Because if I wanted to read tired filler features about which citrus fruit is "in" right now, I would pick up an Us Weekly or, if I was feeling particularly shameless, an In Touch. EW gets its share of criticism, but I have yet to find another weekly mag that keeps me as unpatronizingly informed about what's going on. So, thank you, EW, but can't we just get rid of The Shaw Report altogether?
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-laughs- I saw the cover and definitely thought of you. :) I still have never seen that show.
What?? You HAVE to see it. Bravo runs marathons of it all the time.
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