All posts containing the tag: "stimulus"
Posted Jun 8th 2009 11:39AM by TMZ Staff
Vogue understands that the economy is hurting, and that's why the mag has decided to give back to the community ... with a fashion show.
Conde Nast, the magazine's publisher, just announced plans to host a "fashion celebration night" in thirteen cities on September 10. Editors for Vogue hope that the fashion shows will bring "enchantment and pleasure" to the public -- much more meaningful than some sort of monetary or food-based aid.
After the shows, luxury stores will stay open late with Vogue editors offering "lessons in style." Because there's nothing like going to an expensive fashion store to chase away the "my house just got repossessed" blues.
Finally, a corporation that understands what real people need.
Filed under: Fashion
Tags: conde nast, CondeNast, fashion show, FashionShow, magazine, stimulus, vogue
Posted Feb 18th 2009 9:20AM by TMZ Staff
The Reverend Al Sharpton is putting the smack down on the New York Post, suggesting racism could be a factor in a political cartoon featured in this morning's edition.
The cartoon (by Sean Delonas) comes in the wake of yesterday's national news story about the cop who shot and killed a rampaging chimp in Connecticut. But the controversy in the comic comes from the dialogue between the two officers -- which reads, "Now they will have to find someone else to write the stimulus bill."
Before most of you woke up, Sharpton already fired off a statement saying, "The cartoon in today's New York Post is troubling at best given the historic racist attacks of African-Americans as being synonymous with monkeys. One has to question whether the cartoonist is making a less than casual reference to this when in the cartoon they have police saying after shooting a chimpanzee that "Now they will have to find someone else to write the stimulus bill."
"Being that the stimulus bill has been the first legislative victory of President Barack Obama (the first African American president) and has become synonymous with him it is not a reach to wonder are they inferring that a monkey wrote the last bill?"
Calls to the Post have not been returned.
UPDATE: The editor-in-chief of the NY Post just released this statement: "The cartoon is a clear parody of a current news event, to wit the shooting of a violent chimpanzee in Connecticut. It broadly mocks Washington's efforts to revive the economy. Again, Al Sharpton reveals himself as nothing more than a publicity opportunist."
Filed under: Celebrity Feuds, Politix
Tags: al sharpton, AlSharpton, comic, comic strip, ComicStrip, monkey, new york post, NewYorkPost, racial, racist, stimulus
Posted Feb 18th 2009 8:45AM by TMZ Staff
Relax. The headline is just a Marie Antoinette thing, because last night Sean Young bragged she hadn't invested in the stock market, so ... "I'm so rich now and everybody is just like, just dying."
In her defense, she is clearly doing a lot to stimulate the liquor industry.
Filed under: The Rich Life
Tags: bailout, economy, sean young, SeanYoung, stimulus, stock market, StockMarket
