Forget the lamestream media, Kim Kardashian has made her presidential endorsement
Also in Tattle: Seven is Magnificent, Jane Pauley, Truman Capote
THE TATTLE column is dedicated to celebrity gossip.
Originally, when it was launched a few decades ago, it was meant to be a little respite from all the serious news-all the crime, corruption and violence that filled the paper's other pages.
The Internet was only science fiction back then.
But now that most of the news online and on TV is less serious and more like Tattle, we often wonder what the gossipification of news hath wrought.
We have a reality TV star running for president.
And the Washington Post, a newspaper that once brought down a presidency, dedicated actual space this weekend to whom Kim Kardashian is going to vote for in November.
The reason for this, if there could be a reason other than clickbaiting, is because Kim K had been a solid Hillary Clinton supporter until a quote attributed to her, which reportedly appeared in some editions of Wonderland magazine, said, "At first I thought, 'Oh my god, I'm so Hillary (Clinton),' but I had a long political call with Caitlyn (Jenner) last night about why she's voting Trump. I'm on the fence."
O.M.G.
Tattle, for one, can't wait for the episode of Keeping Up with the Kardashians in which Kim and Caitlyn debate tax policy, immigration and climate change.
The Post says Kim began getting phone calls from friends, relatives and the candidates' camps seeking clarification, so she used her website to explain.
"There was a point when I wasn't 100% sure I was even going to vote in this election; I didn't want to vote blindly," she wrote. "But I also thought about how not voting would mean that I wasn't making my voice heard, so I decided to talk to my closest friends and family who I love and trust, to have an open conversation about politics."
Caitlyn encouraged her "to do my research before making my decision and then vote for the candidate whose policies aligned with the things that matter most to me."
Kim cited "gun control and protecting women's rights to safe and legal abortion" as reasons she would stick with Clinton. But so as not to face too much pro-Trump trolling, Kim added that she believed both Clinton and Trump "have the intention of making the country a safer and stronger place for every American."
What Tattle wonders is this: Is there one person out there-just one-who will admit to voting for Hillary Clinton only because Kim Kardashian is or, for that matter, vote for Donald Trump because Caitlyn Jenner is?
Just one.
'Seven' is No. 1
Antoine Fuqua's remake of The Magnificent Seven rode the star power of Denzel Washington to an estimated $35 million debut, topping North American ticket sales over the weekend.
It was one of the biggest openings ever for a Western.
The estimate Sunday had the film far ahead of the week's other new release, Storks. The animated movie, starring Andy Samberg as a baby-delivering stork, opened with $21.8 million.
In third place was Clint Eastwood's Sully, which took in $13.8 million in its third weekend.
TATTBITS
* Jane Pauley is going to replace the retiring Charles Osgood as anchor of CBS Sunday Morning.
The announcement was made Sunday at the end of Osgood's final show.
Pauley, a longtime former host of Today and Dateline on NBC, will be the 37-year-old show's third anchor.
"On the Road" reporter Charles Kuralt anchored the show's first 15 years.
* EW.com reported that the ashes of Truman Capote (In Cold Blood, Breakfast at Tiffany's) were sold for $43,750 at Julien's Auctions in Los Angeles on Saturday.
The ashes originally belonged to Johnny Carson's second wife, Joanne, who died in 2015. She and Capote were friends.
As for his ashes, she urned them.
(Actually, they were in a wooden box.)
"With some celebrities, this wouldn't be tasteful, but I know 100 percent [Capote] would love it," Julien's Auctions president Darren Julien said prior to the sale. "He loved to create press opportunities and to read his name in the paper. I think he would love it that he's still grabbing headlines today."
Also auctioned off on Saturday were two locks of Marilyn Monroe's hair for $70,000.
Unless the winner is trying to clone Marilyn, that seems like a lot of money.
-Daily News wire services contributed to this report.
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