<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Tina Brown</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/style/columns/browntina?nav=rss_style/columns/browntina</link><description>Tina Brown</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Reverence Gone Up in Smoke]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6310-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_style/columns/browntina</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6310-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_style/columns/browntina</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 11:30:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA["Secular and the City" is a weird show to be in at the moment. For those of us who came to Manhattan precisely because you're guaranteed never to meet anyone who has read the "Left Behind" series, America's much-celebrated spiritual revival can have its trying moments. The papal marathon of the past three weeks, though, had the paradoxical effect of making the non-born-againers among us feel a little less left out.]]></description><author> Tina Brown</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grande Dames]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51782-2005Apr13.html?nav=rss_style/columns/browntina</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51782-2005Apr13.html?nav=rss_style/columns/browntina</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 11:30:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[At the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel luncheon celebrating the Matrix Awards for New York Women in Communications on Monday there was something so glorious about the confident roll of Oprah's behind in its tight couture suit as she powered up to the podium to present an award to Amy Gross, the editor in chief of O, the Oprah Magazine. "When I interviewed Amy," the queen of all media declared, "I knew right away she was a real woman, not an aging female." All the estrogen in the packed room seemed to answer with a collective hot flash of recognition.]]></description><author> Tina Brown</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[From Caterpillar  To Monarch Butterfly]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32900-2005Apr6.html?nav=rss_style/columns/browntina</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32900-2005Apr6.html?nav=rss_style/columns/browntina</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 11:30:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[LONDON<br> According  to the Daily Mirror, when Prince Charles learned that the pope's funeral had been scheduled for the same day as his wedding to Camilla Parker Bowles, he wailed, "Why me?"]]></description><author> Tina Brown</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[America's Endless News Loop]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14556-2005Mar30.html?nav=rss_style/columns/browntina</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14556-2005Mar30.html?nav=rss_style/columns/browntina</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 11:30:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Doesn't  it seem like a hundred years ago that the Ashley Smith/"Purpose Driven Life" hurricane hit? Actually, that pre-Easter salvation epiphany of Brian Nichols in Smith's Atlanta apartment had us by the throat only a couple of weeks ago. Then the Terri Schiavo opinion-train came thundering down the track.]]></description><author> Tina Brown</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hungry Media Fill Up on Rice]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42269-2005Mar16.html?nav=rss_style/columns/browntina</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42269-2005Mar16.html?nav=rss_style/columns/browntina</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 11:30:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[All the hype about Condi Rice's new rock-star persona is just because politics has lost its fizz. White House correspondents are bored. The newly self-infatuated bloggers are bored. There is no juice in the Social Security debate. Hence the sudden daft flurry of stories about a possible Hillary/Condi matchup in '08. In this Eros-deprived administration, it gives the Sunday morning news guys something to fantasize about: two girls going at it.]]></description><author> Tina Brown</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Michael Jackson's False Front?]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22015-2005Mar9.html?nav=rss_style/columns/browntina</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22015-2005Mar9.html?nav=rss_style/columns/browntina</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 11:30:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The strange thing about the Michael Jackson trial is that the supporting actors are more interesting than the star. The weirdness of the King of Pop is so overexposed that no new revelation can shock. Either Jackson is a complete lunatic who slept with young boys and didn't fondle them or he's a complete lunatic who slept with young boys and did.]]></description><author> Tina Brown</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Martha Stewart and the Pros of Being a Con]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2835-2005Mar2.html?nav=rss_style/columns/browntina</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2835-2005Mar2.html?nav=rss_style/columns/browntina</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 11:30:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   The Jail Thing is working so well for Martha Stewart it may become the PR strategy of choice for other public figures who have run afoul of the image police.]]></description><author> Tina Brown</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why Can't A Man Be More Like a Woman?]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48436-2005Feb23.html?nav=rss_style/columns/browntina</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48436-2005Feb23.html?nav=rss_style/columns/browntina</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 11:30:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Perhaps  in the wake of the Larry Summers debacle at Harvard it's time for a study of the missing social gene in men. It's amazing how many executive disasters are caused by the way otherwise smart males crash around in the thicket of interpersonal relations.]]></description><author> Tina Brown</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Camilla, Putting the Royal Family Back in Its Palace]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31083-2005Feb16.html?nav=rss_style/columns/browntina</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31083-2005Feb16.html?nav=rss_style/columns/browntina</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 11:30:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   Has the ghost of Princess Diana been banished at last? You could almost believe it last week in the touchingly dowdy engagement pictures of Charles and Camilla. Around Di the Dazzler, the hangdog prince never looked as he does now -- quietly confident, casually self-assured, displaying a serene, kingly brio before the cameras.]]></description><author> Tina Brown</author></item><item><title><![CDATA['Deep Throat': When Naughty Was Nice]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12637-2005Feb9.html?nav=rss_style/columns/browntina</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12637-2005Feb9.html?nav=rss_style/columns/browntina</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 11:30:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   It was probably appropriate that half the guests at a Manhattan screening of the new documentary "Inside Deep Throat" on Monday night thought they'd come to watch a movie about Watergate. The other half, of course, knew they were there to look back on the days when porn legend Linda Lovelace and her co-star Harry Reems were making oral history together.]]></description><author> Tina Brown</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Difference Between Faint and Fainthearted]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59274-2005Feb3.html?nav=rss_style/columns/browntina</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59274-2005Feb3.html?nav=rss_style/columns/browntina</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 11:30:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   Don't faint, Hillary, you're all we've got! There was a tiny ripple of panic among Downstate Dems when the junior senator from New York uncharacteristically swooned on the road in Buffalo on Monday. After all, who else do New Yorkers have to make them feel a part of the action? It's probably more rewarding to be an out-of-power Sunni now than it is to have been a supporter of John Kerry in the last election. At least in Iraq they seem to mean it when they say they'll build a coalition in which a disenfranchised minority gets a share in government.]]></description><author> Tina Brown</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Donald Trump, Settling Down]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40186-2005Jan26.html?nav=rss_style/columns/browntina</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40186-2005Jan26.html?nav=rss_style/columns/browntina</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 11:30:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The  wedding of Donald Trump to the Slovenian bombshell Melania Knauss last Saturday in Palm Beach, Fla., raised some totally unexpected questions:]]></description><author> Tina Brown</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mothering the Old Boys]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22380-2005Jan19.html?nav=rss_style/columns/browntina</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22380-2005Jan19.html?nav=rss_style/columns/browntina</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 11:30:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   In Barbara Walters's "20/20" interview last Friday with President  and Laura Bush, the first lady remarked that in the second term she wants to focus on boys. "I feel like over the last several decades we've neglected boys a little bit," Mrs. Bush explained sweetly as she and Barbara toured the White House renovations (including the new look of the Lincoln Bedroom, where she paused to tell Barbara how much she empathized with Mary Todd Lincoln, who went quietly mad). "I just think it's time for Americans to sort of shift our gaze to boys and see what we can do to nurture boys."]]></description><author> Tina Brown</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Almighty Anchor]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5437-2005Jan12.html?nav=rss_style/columns/browntina</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5437-2005Jan12.html?nav=rss_style/columns/browntina</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 11:30:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Alot  of people at CBS News are mad that Dan Rather didn't get more blame in the independent panel's 224-page chronicle of decision disasters in the notorious "60 Minutes Wednesday" report on President Bush's Air National Guard service. It might have been better for Dan's reputation if he had. As it is, the network's star journalist, the craggy news guy with all those Emmys under his belt, comes off in the report as an empty trench coat.]]></description><author> Tina Brown</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[No Plans for a Sequel]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51951-2005Jan5.html?nav=rss_style/columns/browntina</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51951-2005Jan5.html?nav=rss_style/columns/browntina</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 11:30:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Is it really too late for a comeback for Mike Ovitz? James B. Stewart's article in this week's New Yorker, packed with piquant new details, and Dominick Dunne's flavorsome diary of the Disney trial in the soon-to-be-out February Vanity Fair actually managed to make me feel some sympathy for Ovitz.]]></description><author> Tina Brown</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Year of the Rats]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21100-2004Dec22.html?nav=rss_style/columns/browntina</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21100-2004Dec22.html?nav=rss_style/columns/browntina</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 11:30:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Two thousand and four was the year when malfeasance discovered niche marketing. There was something for everybody in the rap sheets. Sports fans had Kobe Bryant. Music fans had Michael Jackson. Park Avenue had Martha Stewart. Boardrooms had Conrad Black. Hollywood had Michael Eisner, Michael Ovitz and the shareholders of Disney facing off in Delaware over Ovitz's $140 million payoff.]]></description><author> Tina Brown</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Giuliani's Warped Reflection]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3339-2004Dec15.html?nav=rss_style/columns/browntina</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3339-2004Dec15.html?nav=rss_style/columns/browntina</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 11:30:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[It  turns out that all that Capitol Hill huffing and puffing for three weeks about how our mighty intelligence agencies should share information was irrelevant. They have no information to share, whether it's about Iran, Iraq -- or Bernie Kerik.]]></description><author> Tina Brown</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diana, Still Full Of Surprises]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26918-2004Dec1.html?nav=rss_style/columns/browntina</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26918-2004Dec1.html?nav=rss_style/columns/browntina</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 11:30:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Every  time Princess Diana's ghost returns for another haunting, as it did this week on NBC's "Dateline," our perceptions of her change. The only thing that stays the same is the revolving cast of clapped-out courtiers, posh lowlifes and fleabag turncoats who continue to cash in on her memory.]]></description><author> Tina Brown</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those Post-Election, Pitiful Yankees, Big Apple Blues]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58721-2004Nov17.html?nav=rss_style/columns/browntina</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58721-2004Nov17.html?nav=rss_style/columns/browntina</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 11:30:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[New Yorkers are feeling a severe case of heat withdrawal. They were used to being the red-hot center of American news and opinion. Suddenly they're flyover country, relics from a dying tribe, seedy and unloved. They are as forlorn as those fiery partisan books that once pulsed with an angry beat on the bestseller list and now linger on the remainder tables in Barnes & Noble.]]></description><author> Tina Brown</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Requiem In Blue]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23792-2004Nov3.html?nav=rss_style/columns/browntina</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23792-2004Nov3.html?nav=rss_style/columns/browntina</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 11:30:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   In the next four years Democrats will look back on the heady afternoon of Nov. 2, 2004, with the kind of nostalgia they used to reserve for their honeymoons. It was a buoyant, sunny afternoon of the new Kerry administration and it felt as light and airy as it must for the women of Afghanistan when they first throw off their <em>burqas</em>.]]></description><author> Tina Brown</author></item></channel></rss>
