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Jan 02 2009 10:37am EDT

Extremely Idle Chatter: Time Warner v. Viacom, etc.

-While you were getting drunk on champagne in the early minutes of 2009, executives from Time Warner Cable and Viacom were hammering out a new carriage agreement, ending an ugly stand-off. [THR]

-Kathy Griffin brought a little extra salt to CNN's New Year's festivities. Anderson Cooper was simply scandalized. [NYP]

-New York Times fashion critic Cathy Horyn thinks Vogue has become "stale and predictable," not to mention out of touch and too obsessed with socialites. [NYT]. □


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