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#pullquote
Martin Scorsese —Â
explaining why he doesn't read newspapers at the book party for Harry Evans' My Paper Chase: True Stories of Vanished Times, to Daily Intel. (For what it's worth, he doesn't like computers or BlackBerrys either.) More » -
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Publicist for Vladimir Restoin-Roitfeld —
explaining the job title of the 32-year-old son of French Vogue editor Carine Roitfeld at an art show he "tailored" for Nicolas Pol, to Vanity Fair. More » -
#bloggingfordollars
Dumenco: Nikki Finke offers Hollywood the thrill "of seeing a spun reporter do as told."
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#thegreatrecession
The official unemployment rate is now 10.2%, higher than analysts expected, according to Bloomberg.
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#cuteoverload
Jim Windolf skewers Cute Culture: "It privileges the inner child, who, necessarily, has awful taste."
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#crime
Bernard Kerik pleads guilty to fraud charges (including "the head shot"); faces 33-month sentence.
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#media
Auletta: Google feared buying the NYT would "sabotage their identity as a neutral search engine."
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#quoteoftheday
Tila Tequila —
reacting to high school teachers who (wisely) confiscated a student's copy of Hooking Up with Tila Tequila, in Steppin' Out. Also: "You want kids to read a fucking book, then let them read a fucking book, you fucking moron." More » -
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Devon Brady —
an 18-year-old college student demonstrating exactly who you'll meet if you give into the utterly befuddling hype and go see the allegedly so-bad-it's-good movie The Room, in the Los Angeles Times (which also has an enlightening photo). More » -
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Gore Vidal —Â
the provacateur doing his best to eradicate any remaining supporters of Roman Polanski's effort to get the world to overlook the fact that he raped a 13-year-old girl in 1978, in an interview with The Atlantic. More » -
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Dana Cowin —Â
Food & Wine editor describing the challenges of styling bird carcasses for magazine covers, in the New York Times via CJR's The Kicker. More » -
#newyorktimes
How Arthur Sulzberger discusses his paper's problems: "What was the critical flaw to the Titanic?"
