Mr. Pinup

At first gossip is shameful, then it becomes linkbait. Media gadfly Michael Wolff starts his daily jotting for Newser.com today: “What do men in their fifties and sixties know about girls in their twenties?”

Haha, he’s actually talking about Republican blogger-heiress Meghan McCain, not Victoria Floethe, the 28-year-old and blonde writer with whom the Vanity Fair columnist has been carrying on an affair, reportedly at the cost of his marriage. Wolff continues:

Are these young women looking for purpose, for a job, or just publicity (will the publicity provide a purpose and a job?)? Middle-aged men, so flummoxed by the desires and ambitions of young women, seem especially easy prey to girls with blogs. What do you do with a girl who won’t shut up?

via Gawker – Michael Wolff’s Blonde Problem – Victoria Floethe.

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This month’s Vanity Fair cover story is about Tina Fey maybe you ve heard of her. The profile written by Maureen Dowd — maybe you ve heard of her — features such headline grabbers as the backstory behind Fey’s mysterious chin scar — according to her husband she was cut in her front yard by a stranger when she was five — and the fact that she was a virgin till she was 25.

More interesting than those details however is Fey’s development from writer’s room puritan with a “chord of anger running through her comedy ” as her one-time colleague Adam McKay put it into a va-va-voom leading lady. “You’re a very attractive woman ” Alec Baldwin told her at one point. “You’ve got to pop one more button on that blouse.” Much like Virginia Heffernan’s 2003 New Yorker profile, Dowd’s piece depicts Fey as a sober hard-driven deeply principled woman who is a galaxy removed from the pill-popping icons who came before her on “Saturday Night Live.” When Dowd asks Fey what s the wildest thing she s ever done she replies “Nothing.” This is after all the woman Colin Quinn nicknamed “Herman the German.” Lorne Michaels compares her to Nazi propagandist Leni Riefenstahl.

Fey’s husband discloses the story of the worst trouble he ever got into with her He went to a strip club. “I feel like we all need to be better than that ” Fey says of the incident. “That industry needs to die by all of us being a little bit better than that.”

The sexing up of Tina Fey – Broadsheet – Salon.com.