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08/02/09
Ms. Lebovitz, while guilty of many things, including gross personal profligacy, is not responsible for the fact that Greydon Carter approved the budgets she proposed. Furthermore, while these excesses occurred, Vanity Fair was (and truth be told, remains) a top earner for Conde.
Whether or not she digs herself out of this mess has almost nothing to do with the future health of the mag biz. Certainly Vanity Fair was one of her major patrons, but hardly her only one. The woman has many, many other clients, in many other sectors of the business.
What is telling, and what is the perhaps a more interesting aspect of this, is that almost none of her peers have stepped up to help her, or even defend her in the public sphere. That, to me, describes a woman with very little good will among her associates.
Remember, while she was out buying up West Village townhouses, she couldn't seem to pay her assistants on time (or sometimes at all). Not to mention that she was notoriously hard to work for, and rarely handed out the kind of routine gratuities (recommendations etc.) for her assistants that help them get a leg up in the business. These are not the things that make people want to reach back and help you when you have a late career implosion like this.
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08/01/09
Some teacher at the "advance high school" at a college I went to taught these snotty 16 year olds to yell out LY whenever someone forgot it.
Imagine lunch talking to your friends when you are overheard saying entire, and the children half of the dining room erupts in...
LYYYYYYY!!
Explains why I like to punch people don't it?
08/01/09
Actually, I don't really have violent reactions to typos, being a big purveyor of them meself.
08/01/09
*punch* *punch*
08/02/09
*ducks*
08/01/09
I will choose the one from Graydon Carter:
Severus Snape responds, "obviously."
08/01/09
OK, and some free publicity. Still, as you point out, Leibobitz isn't the only one throwing away money like they owned the printer.
Finally, with all that money you'd think she could shell out a few bucks for a decent cut and a bottle of conditioner.
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Moral: When you start fressing the nanny, it all goes downhill. Mark my words, children.
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08/02/09
There aren't any children around, but I always mark your words, Bookish.
For anyone reading this string in Iowa, "fress" means gobble in Yiddish and a "fresser" is a glutton. Having known two marriages where, yes, someone fressed the nanny, I can testify to the truth of BL's statement.
Smithhimself's attitude toward any sexual activity that might frighten small dogs and horses is: "I'll just watch."
08/02/09