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    Bright Lights, Big City Gets Fancy New Cover For 25th Birthday

    Bright Lights, Big City, Old Ideas

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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    08/31/09

    In reply to Bright Lights, Big City Gets Fancy New Cover For 25th Birthday
    the book is so pre 9.11 it's a shame to lose the wtc from the cover
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    Image of Ephraim Gadsby Ephraim Gadsby
    08/31/09

    In reply to Bright Lights, Big City Gets Fancy New Cover For 25th Birthday
    I thought McInerney had it written into his contract that only Chip Kidd could do his covers... and this doesn't look like one of his to me.
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    Image of notsofresh notsofresh
    08/31/09

    In reply to Bright Lights, Big City Gets Fancy New Cover For 25th Birthday
    I can't wait to see how they re-work the cover of Ransom for its 25th anniversary.

    Oh, wait...
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    Image of aLostLady aLostLady
    08/31/09

    In reply to Bright Lights, Big City Gets Fancy New Cover For 25th Birthday
    The makeover is eye-pleasing, but I feel like I've seen it done this way at least 657th times. Huh. And I don't think I'm even counting all the SNL Saturdays, either.

    Also, I would hope they would keep that Raymond Carver blurb in some sort of prominence; that bit o' honey is something to cherish. Anyone ever read Cathedral? Ahh.
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    Image of MrInBetween MrInBetween
    08/31/09

    In reply to Bright Lights, Big City Gets Fancy New Cover For 25th Birthday
    Shrewd SNL observation. Also, the newly released BLBC audiobook is narrated by Don Pardo.
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    08/31/09

    In reply to Bright Lights, Big City Gets Fancy New Cover For 25th Birthday
    Oh, the 80s. Sniff (sarcastic sniff, not coke sniff).

    For my Gawker babies: Anyone who tries to back-in-the-day you with references to the glorious nights hanging out at the Odeon, you have my express permission to punch them in the head/balzac. That place was a Eurotrash/hangers-on dumping ground par ex, and all the cool kids were down the street at the Mudd Club, or even over on Leonard Street at the Clocktower.
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    Image of Dominant Glee Club Dominant Glee Club
    08/31/09

    @BookishLookish: Yeah, really, the Odeon of all places?
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    Image of City_Dater City_Dater
    08/31/09

    @BookishLookish:

    And nowadays the mere presence of Jay McInerney signals pretention without real style or compelling substance.
    The more things change...
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    Image of snugbug snugbug
    08/31/09

    @City_Dater: His presence might signal lack of compelling substance, but it eternally signals the abundance of at least one type of substance. I hugely enjoyed Jay McInerney's cameo in Bret Easton Ellis's Lunar Park. Bret is having a party at his house, and Jay shows up uninvited and starts distributing coke to everyone. HA!
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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    08/31/09

    @City_Dater:

    But what about his work on Iron Chef America?
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    Image of Inhaler Inhaler
    04/01/09

    In reply to Bright Lights, Big City, Old Ideas
    ..but The Simpsons stopped being funny about 10 years ago. Sheesh.
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    Image of iplaudius iplaudius
    04/01/09

    In reply to Bright Lights, Big City, Old Ideas
    If James Franco shaves his armpits in a hotel bathroom, but no one is there to photograph it ...
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    Image of GooberSaysHey GooberSaysHey
    04/01/09

    In reply to Bright Lights, Big City, Old Ideas
    Simpsons stamps? Exellent. I already have Simpsons checks and address labels, so all I need now is a vile of Matt Groening's spit to seal the envelopes and my bill-paying process will be complete.
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    Image of jackvinyl jackvinyl
    04/01/09

    @GooberSaysHey: vile indeed.
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    Image of Kid Twist Kid Twist
    04/01/09

    In reply to Bright Lights, Big City, Old Ideas
    Wow, every day lately, this feature seems to include at least one picture of a shirtless actor.
    Thank you, Richard.
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    Image of Richard Lawson Richard Lawson
    04/01/09

    @Kid Twist: I do my best.
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    Image of Spirit Fingers Spirit Fingers
    04/01/09

    In reply to Bright Lights, Big City, Old Ideas
    Um, does this mean this Brie person is no longer Pete's wife? 'Cause if it does this could mean interesting things for the show, and by interesting I mean, Peggy and the illegitimate child she denies/dreams of/wants to trap Pete with/not really. Yay?!
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    Image of Lizawithazee Lizawithazee
    04/01/09

    @Spirit Fingers: I hope not! That would be jumping the shark if they actually get together, especially after the Season Two finale.


    But if Matthew Weiner is like David Milch, when Brie's pilot fails, he won't take her back on the show.

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    Image of The New No. 2 The New No. 2
    04/01/09

    @Lizawithazee: I'm pretty sure Pete's wife was leaving him in the season finale when she went back to her parents' home.
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    Image of Lizawithazee Lizawithazee
    04/01/09

    @The New No. 2: I had forgotten about that after Peggy's glorious and devastating Pete smackdown. So I am comforting myself that they will never get together even if Pete's wife is out of the picture.
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    Image of Mediokra Mediokra
    04/01/09

    @Spirit Fingers: I don't think Pete's wife is good at acting. At all. She has projection-y theatre voice.
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    Image of bytememehard bytememehard
    04/01/09

    In reply to Bright Lights, Big City, Old Ideas
    Wanda Sykes can do no wrong in my book. Especially since she outed her sweet sassy self. I want to live with her.
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