
You guys know T.O.A.M. is hardly a shrinking flower ... but even we were a little taken aback to see Ad Age allow a columnist to call Tyra Banks, right there in black-and-white for all the world to see, "full of shit" (which should tell you something about how fed up we've all become with this intolerable toad). In his piece "An Oprah-lite Media Empire Built on Smugness," Larry Dobrow (who we just fell in love with) says what's needed to be said for so long, in uncensored language, about this self-important, should-have-been-killed-at-birth subhuman. As if the citizens of the world didn't have to suffer enough because of this detestable, overexposed pustule, she, as Dobrow reports, has now created her very own online magazine (which she, in her unparalleled, grating style, dubs a "maga-line"). It's called Tyra: Beauty Inside & Out. And all we have to say about that is, Tyra Banks is about as beautiful as a late-term abortion. Almost as intense as Dobrow's righteous indignation at this utterly worthless fragment of humanity is the reader commentary it inspired, about half in Dobrow's corner, the other half, inexplicably, in Tyra's (hey, Hitler had his defenders too). Personally, we cannot imagine anyone being moved to take up for this A-class narcissist. Tyra makes us wish Henri Paul were still available for chauffeuring limos through Paris tunnels.