Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake And Thou: Priorities For 2003

Laurel Wellman of the San Francisco Chronicle weighed in on the new year in gossip, which was bolstered by the recent addition of In Touch magazine. Wellman said, “The brand-new In Touch, whose premiere issue joins Us and People in the race to keep the public abreast of the latest interactions between allegedly feuding exes Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake, is already at a newsstand near you with its list of the previous year’s ‘winners’ and ‘losers’ — although if you think about it, anyone who’s not included is, by definition, a loser. But that’s OK. Celebrity gossip has never interested me much. For a long time I flattered myself that this was because I was thinking about weightier issues, like the deteriorating situation in Chechnya.” Read more.