NYPost reported earlier this week that Rolling Stone boss and Perfect star Jann Wenner is looking to development an Apprentice knockoff for MTV.

Before you Almost Famous wannabes consider applying, check out Gawker’s collection of wild Wenner stories. Scary tales “of OCD, weight issues, and a notorious ban on magazines.”

 

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Comments (13)
  1. shaun  |   Posted on Jul 29th, 2005

    first post… do i get to be on the show now?

  2. memememe  |   Posted on Jul 29th, 2005

    “Scary tales ‘of OCD, weight issues, and a notorious ban on magazines.’”

    Not to mention his coming out as gay to his wife of 28 years, after his affair with a man was exposed.

  3. diz.from.mars  |   Posted on Jul 29th, 2005

    He probably had an irrational “first post” obsession as well. Loser.

  4. ChrisG  |   Posted on Jul 29th, 2005

    There’s an interesting story about Jim DeRogatis and his relationship with Wenner in his book Milk It! .

  5. shaun  |   Posted on Jul 29th, 2005

    thank you for putting me in my place, grizzled internet tough-guy “diz.from.mars”. i will never make a throwaway “first post” ever agin. in fact, i will never make a “first post” about a entertainment story, as linked on a blog, ever again.

    thank you for coming from mars and showing me the error of my ways.

    by the way, congrats on post #3.

    shaun

  6. diz.from.mars  |   Posted on Jul 29th, 2005

    Whatever, Shaun, I’ll be laughing at you when I get to be Jann’s apprentice. Trust me, I know how to suck a good one, and I ALWAYS swallow. I can’t be beat. Loser.

  7. blonde geek  |   Posted on Jul 30th, 2005

    diz.from.mars – I am now choking on my twizzler after reading that post… would be such a great metaphor, but I’m not that funny.

  8. wanna ready aboiut Jann in the closet dayz? It involves JFK Jr. and Andrew Shue???

    http://popmuse.typepad.com/my_weblog/2005/07/wenner_media.html

  9. Meeps  |   Posted on Jul 31st, 2005

    The posters on this site are getting dumber and dumber by the week. Scott, seriously….

  10. Fabian  |   Posted on Jul 31st, 2005

    Remember when rock ‘n roll was cool?

  11. Evan  |   Posted on Jul 31st, 2005

    Corporate magazines still suck.

    I had to say it.

  12. robb  |   Posted on Aug 1st, 2005

    It’s a pretty sad state of affairs when Rolling Stone has been reduced to a throwaway mag that gives Blender a run for it’s money. And to think that at one point, it was the voice of the counterculture. The

  13. pastdue  |   Posted on Aug 1st, 2005

    Home taping is killing music

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