So, after "SHOCKER: That Whore Chick Was A Total Cokehead", and this totally unnecessary exposure of a college sophomore for allegedly doing gay porn,
I wonder how Ryan Tate would feel if there were an open call for any and all juicy stories about his life, the more creative and fucked-up the better, sheer gossip will do, to be posted on a site like Gawker.
I wonder how Ryan Tate would feel if there were an open call for any and all juicy stories about his life, the more creative and fucked-up the better, sheer gossip will do, to be posted on a site like Gawker.
"Panicked and dispirited" . This is worthy of ruthless mockery by Mr. Tate.
Even if the story were true, what of it? "Suicidal" might be a font of mirth too.
Don't care a damn if I'm executed here, this particular item exulting in a young person being destroyed by gossip, with tinges of homophobia, is pretty fucking dreadful. Even if he did gay porn, don't know what makes you think this is newsworthy, and the nastiness is contemptible.
People aren't responding because the poll presumed Kakutani and Crispin were the only book reviewers in America, competing with the very many scarcely-known Brits in this weirdly Londoncentric, misguided poll. I guess we're all just too uncool to know what posh book reviewers in Islington think. Yes, i'm a dick, and the ghost of Joe Orton agrees with me.
Hi GBrown,
What I meant was that I read Jessa Crispin's "Blog of a Bookslut" daily, and frankly no, I don't often venture into Bookslut proper to read her in-depth book reviews, because frankly life is too short, and her salty snark is only enjoyable to me in small bites. And in those, she makes clear that her tastes aren't mine. Why she was a lone option for an American reviewer in this misguided botch of a poll escapes me.
I'm not aware of her qualifications to tell me what I might like, and in taste and temperament I can barely stand her sarcastic capsules on her blog. I was curious as to why someone like Jessa Crispin was an option for book reviews while oh, say, John Updike wasn't, and the peculiar skew towards British print publications for book reviews is hugely questionable.
Yes, do pick away at me for not noting Anthony Lane's nationality. Because I was meant to research and think out every random reviewer's life history before noting that most of the supremely arbitrary choices wrote for British newspapers.
I stand by what I said; the poll was laughably limited, hugely and mysteriously foreign press, Jessa Crispin is talented but not in anyone's top 5, and you have my hearty and sincere fuck-you.
Sorry to say the poll sucked, was heavily skewed towards UK reviewers unfamiliar here. I read a lot of UK reviews but only if the book is interesting. I like Jessa Crispin but only read her blog, was barely aware she reviewed books. Michiko Kakutani winning is no surprise- this is a NYC- centric site.
Movie critics: none of the above, and no web-based reviewers, all print.
Movie critics: none of the above, and no web-based reviewers, all print.
Sorry to be harsh, but that poll was not very well-thought out.
Gretchen Mol. I've said enough.
Except that Carter joins Diller lately in the proprietor's pin-up pantheon of where he wants to be in 10 years, I think. Just mho. And fascinating, not at all wrong, not a bad thing to do.
Pareene, I've enjoyed your substantive and thoughtful posts, but mentioning Spy seals the deal- marry me.
Not really. But yeah, the Times plastering the girl on their front page today, above the fold iirc, and then declaring, "A Harsher Spotlight", as if there were any more harsh spotlight than the front of the Times- was mind-boggling.
Because the curious machinations behind this highly unusual Federal-level investigation , from the saintly Bush DOJ no less, is completely erased in the prurient, serious, absolutely serious need for all of us to see the girl who worried about being asked to do anal with Spitzer. The Times has done its civic duty today, getting to the bottom of the banal life of this girl who fretted about taking it in the ass. Well done, Pinch.
Meanwhile, the Wall St. firms who Spitzer was investigating, the ones who've effectively cratered the US economy with their subprime mortgage legerdemain, were literally popping the Champagne, celebrating his destruction.
Almost feel bad for Laliberte ("Lally"), he's like an awkward gay teen who's chosen to air his grandiose pretensions and fashion faux pas in public. (Mine are rueful memories and safely in the Vault.)
But he's not a teen, and his gobbling, puppyish seeking of media attention..
there I go feeling sorry for him again. I don't know why. Oh yeah, the laughter.
He seems prickishly confident in his friendships with the Tinsleys, and seems to think that's the universe. And that no press is bad press. Dreadfully wrong, there.
Would it be irretrievably creepy of me to suggest that Diller probably has far more sexual interest in Alex than he ever did for Diane?
@damiannyc: "In the interest of full disclosure, she also really fucked up her W. Village townhouse, so I kind of hate her for that."
It was widely reported at the time that she had been battling neighborhood boards because it was a landmarked building and she wanted drastic renovations. So she intentionally damaged the roof , let the elements in, to render it uninhabitable- destroyed.
She's kind of a creep.
Rocco seems to be trying to stand out by being a bit hard-ass. His clumsy, meanspirited quip about one contestant's "density" landed with a thud.
So the guy made a bad dish, but he's also an idiot, Rocco? Pretty unnecessary.
So the guy made a bad dish, but he's also an idiot, Rocco? Pretty unnecessary.
I'd still do 'im though.
I agree, Liebovitz flattens her subjects into glossy cartoons, a centimeter deep, the opposite of revealing; they appear exactly as their public perception, and wholly without irony.
Sontag's son David Rieff is furious about those photos by the way; he thinks them exploitative and is said to loathe Liebovitz for taking them.
Matthew Perry
Ronn (Sick (sic)) Torossian
Poor Jodie- when's she going to meet a nice man and settle down? Pity she's a spinster.
I just hope that Lourdes Lèon's inevitable memoir is wildly imaginative and embellished. Make up some wild shit, Lola.
As a nubile, barely-legal model (Baby Agyness, they call me) may I say I found Mr. Carter handsy and overeager to show me his private Waverly spaces. I managed to sneak out while he was still fumbling with his dorky madras pants.
@MattGaymon: I think he said "tranny" once, and appropriately to excellent comic effect. SNL went and beat it to death up in here.
At least they saved "Ferocia will spray your eyes out" til faux-Tim came along.
She's all tranny up in here. Fierce.
@maevemealone: Lol. I thought Diller simply because it was Denton wondering aloud. Everyone has a little Eve Harrington in them, it's charming.
MattGaymon, excellent job there.
The Fantastic Four are too busy bickering over their crippling mortgage on the Baxter Building to investigate this groovy celestial phenomenon.
I was feeling nostalgic for January 2008 ("yore"), so this is the magazine for me.
