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So What Does Comedy Plus Time Equal?
Here's the cover of The Post New York Post, a 1984 parody about how the tabloid would cover a nuclear holocaust. It was edited by, I believe, Tony Hendra and Kurt Andersen. I remembered it today for obvious reasons. More »
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By Daniel RadoshComment by scroll_lock: Best part is "Find a fact inside and win $3 Billion." 5 Responses | Other threads
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Mark Sanford On Cheaters Past: "He Lied Under a Different Oath — The Oath to His Wife"
Soon-to-be-former South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford just admitted to cheating on his wife. He used to be a Congressman, back in... oh, look, the '90s. What did he think about Mr. Clinton? More »
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By PareeneComment by pepelicious: The difference between Sanford and Clinton was that, when Sanford was caught, he copped to it. Clinton looked us all... 6 Responses | Other threads
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The Spy Magazine 'Bunny Burgers' Pilot (And Two More Pranks!)
Spy Magazine staged an elaborate prank 15 years ago as a TV show pilot; it didn't work out. But the prank is finally on YouTube. Click to see the rise and fall of Bunny Burgers. UPDATE: Two more pranks below! More »
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Comment by Greasy Thumb Guzik: I still liked the one where they sent out 13¢ rebate checks to celebs & Cher hand signed it &... 1 Responses | Other threads
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Bill O'Reilly and Co. Investigate the Nintendo Craze
In 1988, a young Bill O'Reilly and his Inside Edition team tried to answer the question: "What the hey is this 'Mario Brothers' craze sweeping the nation?" They failed, of course. Entertainingly! More » -
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Historic Footage Of Blago Missing The Joke
Did you know that newsworthy corrupt politician ROD BLAGOJEVICH once appeared on the humorous Daily Show, in 2006, and was not sure if they were joking, or what? Clip below, because it's Saturday: More »
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Comment by Iceland Spar: At the risk of being in the next round of exectuions... This order is actually being challenged by a number of... 29 Responses | Other threads
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Obama's Knife-Wielding Political Killer
The Illinois Congresssman still hasn't accepted Barack Obama's offer to be his Chief of Staff, but it seems like he probably will. Would you like to learn more about Rahm Emanuel? You could start with this classic story:
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By PareeneComment by averyreade: "Emanuel was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1959. His father, the Jerusalem-born Benjamin M. Emanuel, is a pediatrician and was... 17 Responses | Other threads
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Carell, Colbert on Negative Campaigning
You know what is weird and fascinating and taking up a great deal of our time today? Watching old episodes of The Daily Show from Election 2000. Jon Stewart was so young! And marginally less outraged all the time! (Though it is quite clear that the 2000 election shifted him with surprising speed from the sarcastic MTV alt-comedian of the '90s to the sarcastic outraged cataloger of horrors that he is today.) (Also Stephen Colbert was an amazing performer even then.) So check up on the depressing third debate between Al Gore and George Bush! Or watch with us the prescient "negative campaigning" debate between Steve Carell and Stephen Colbert, after the jump. And weep for your lost youth! More »
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By PareeneComment by LongIslandSettee: God, what I wouldn't give to see Stephen Colbert and Steve Carell together again. In my bedroom. 4 Responses | Other threads
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Lying An Important Part Of News History
Lies! Today, they spread everywhere instantly thanks to the internet, that wondrous web of computers full of lies. That's how a fake rumor about Steve Jobs having a heart attack can momentarily cost Apple billions of dollars in market cap. But don't blame the internet—blame the inherently wicked hearts of mankind. Because people have been running these same types of media scams to manipulate financial markets for at least 144 years: More »
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Comment by Weegee's bored: There were only interns on duty when the story broke about some crucified rabbi coming back from the dead. 3 Responses | Other threads
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The Fall
America has ended before—in these eight visions of the country's collapse collected by io9. (But those times we woke up and it was a dream.)
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By Nick DentonComment by skahammer: I was looking for a nice seasonally-appropriate post to take my mind off the current unpleasantness. Maybe next time. more » | Other threads
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Being There
This isn't the first time that a complete unknown has come so close to the presidency—at least not if one includes Hollywood fantasies. The best of them is Being There, a movie made during the last period of national distress in which a mild-mannered and subnormal gardener played by Peter Sellers stumbles into the political spotlight. His bromides on the seasons are taken as reassuring economic wisdom; his television interviews test off the charts; and in the final scene the party establishment clutches at him as their savior much as the McCain campaign selected Sarah Palin. After the jump, a clip crosscut with moments from this year's campaign; but first, some dialogue. More » -
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When Dark-Haired Men Were Kings
"4 out of 5 men want Oxfords...in these new Van Heusen styles." And the fifth one is a god damn pipe-smoking blond homosexual who wears Brooks Brothers! Oh racist ad from 1952, you remind us how far we've come in our quest for equal rights for blond dudes. Click to enlarge. [Copyranter at Animal]
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Comment by scroll_lock: Green shirt dude's giving the glad eye to the crazed-eyed African gent. 3 Responses | Other threads
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VP Debate Preview: Patronizing Ladies Night!
The inclusion of a woman on a major party's presidential ticket is unprecedented... for the Republicans. The Democrats did it back in 1984, when Walter Mondale selected Geraldine Ferrarro for his suicide mission against Reagan. Ferraro was considered risky due to her inexperience, but her selection and her brash, confident campaigning bumped Mondale way up in the polls. The VP debate that year pit George H. W. Bush, who'd been in Washington for years in various positions of authority and who was considered something of a foreign policy expert, against Ferraro, who'd only been in the House of Representatives for a couple years. The result? See for yourself in the clip above, in which Ferraro fights back against condescension from Vice President Bush. Think of it as a preview of tonight's Biden/Palin debate, except for the fact that Ferraro is smart and can speak English. -
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Sarah Palin in Non-Photoshopped Swimsuit!
Ha ha what could possibly distract people from how terrible Sarah Palin was on CBS? How about a clip of Sarah Palin looking so... poised in a sexy swimsuit! Someone in Alaska claims this is a legit video of the Alaska governor in her Sarah Heath, Beauty Pageant Contestant days. Grainy old VHS digitized and uploaded to YouTube means this could very well be Dick Cheney in a swimsuit but, you know, it does look a bit like her. GAME CHANGER. Debate this, Old Boys Club! [Via Radar]
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By PareeneComment by Islandkiwi: Well, if that isn't Vice-Presidential material, what is? Especially if she brings that sax player with her...classy! 5 Responses | Other threads
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Obama Debate Flashback
This Friday marks the first presidential debate between John McCain and Barack Obama. Debate previews are available pretty much everywhere (this one's fine) but honestly you should probably just watch this clip. It's from the 2004 Illinois Senate race, when Barack Obama was up against Maryland talk show host and certified insane genius Alan Keyes. Keyes is talking about gay adoption, and how it leads inexorably to incest. Nothing on Friday will be this entertaining. More »
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By PareeneComment by lawyergay: I've always wondered what it would be like to become that hideous Uncle Tom/garrison Indian/Uncle Woman of gays and what... 4 Responses | Other threads
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"Men grow neglectful when wives grow careless"
There's an episode of Mad Men (I told you I must relentlessly mine this show to catch up with every other ad writer) in which Sterling Cooper has to come up with an ad campaign for a stimulating "weight loss" machine that actually owes its popularity with women to the fact that it's an undercover vibrator. Cue the euphemisms: "Rejuvenator," "youthful glow," etc. Today, of course, euphemism is dead. The agency would sell the product with "Turn it on and cum!" So it makes us wistful to look back on how they sold embarrassing things in the good old days. (With sexism!). After the jump, classic ads that gently persuaded your grandparents to choose the right brand when they were feeling... not so fresh: More »
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Comment by TheHonJudgeSmails: Bleeding out your pussy again? Put these motherfucking cotton sticks in your cunt! 13 Responses | Other threads
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1912 Campaign Analysis Was Awesome
"Prior to the reelection of General Grant in 1872, there was a superstition prevalent that no man possessed of a middle name could be elected President a second time. The notion was based upon the fact that every President so endowed, up to that time, had, for one reason or another, failed to be reelected: John Quincy Adams, Martin Van Buren—if his was a triple name,—William Henry Harrison, and James Knox Polk. Even since Grant, who may be said to have been exempt from all rules, the tradition has held good. Rutherford Birchard Hayes, James Abram Garfield, and Chester Allan Arthur, were not reelected; William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt were; also Grover Cleveland, after the lapse of an intermediate term,—who, it may be suggested, escaped the hoodoo by dropping his first name, Stephen, which his parents incautiously gave him." [The Atlantic via Andrew Sullivan]
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By PareeneComment by lawyergay: What are the implications of this for Cher/Falco 2012? 2 Responses | Other threads
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The Olympic Hookup Scene, Continued
We already told you about all the sex Olympians are having during the Games... this year. But we unearthed another variation of this delightful trend piece from the leadup to the 2000 Sydney Games. Published in Women's Sports & Fitness, it detailed the orgies of Olympics past. Not only were they handing out condoms, but from "one former Olympic swimmer who earned the nickname Plunge King, and not for his aquatic performance: 'There are the most beautiful women I've ever seen. I love the synchronized swimmers. Very, very flexible. They point their toes and the whole thing.'" More »
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By SheilaComment by shashin101: A SNCF porter once flirted with me on an overnighter from Barcelona to Madrid. He was being so covert about... more » | Other threads
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What's Up With Joe Biden?
From a 1993 Harper's, reprinting a lengthy missive from legendary author Terry Southern to the Village Voice. Southern, Dr. Strangelove screenwriter and New Journalism inventor, has some very important questions to ask about Joe Biden, then chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, now possible Vice President. Click through to see. More » -
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Christ, What?
Usually you think of cultural standards becoming more relaxed over time. Like, we tolerate media allusions to kinky sex better today than we would 30 years ago. But was there really ever a time when pedophilia was an acceptable advertising technique? Apparently yes, in 1970's cosmetics!: More »
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Comment by HaysiFantayzee: I am so old. In fifth grade had a bottle of Love's Baby Soft ... and a subscription to teen... more » | Other threads
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The Long Lost "Drunk Larry King" Tapes
The mysterious Young Manhattanite writes: For months now I have been looking for a classic clip of Larry King drunk on his radio show that I heard way back in the dawn of the public Internet when my friend downloaded it from a newsgroup. It's NOWHERE online now. My friend finally found the cassette tape he transfered it to back then (yes, a cassette tape!) and redigitized it. After some digging, it appears this recording was made between 1987 and 1994 when his radio and tv shows overlapped. This witching hour call-in segment was called Open Phone America. According to Wikipedia, the phones would open up at 3 a.m. for callers to discuss any topic they pleased with Larry. Give it a good listen. Really picks up halfway through. Update: Transcript below! More »
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By YoungManhattaniteComment by jordanbowen: a friend of mine once told me about how allen ginsberg went on Larry King Live and as larry was... more » | Other threads
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The Making Of Julia Allison
Wired magazine's special issue on micro-celebrity includes a cover profile of Julia Allison, the college dating columnist who's garnered such internet fame. (Well, actually, the cover of Wired is about as much attention as she's ever drawn, so the article is self-fulfiling.) Anyway, I didn't remember the reported anecdote of my "meeting" with the then-editor of Gawker to demand coverage of this protostar; a trawl through the archives was called for. Here—in email, blog posts and comments—are those fateful days in late 2006 that gave the web Julia Allison. More »
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By Nick DentonComment by tyralicious: I secretly want to beat JA in the head with a really huge sextoy w/o a condom on it...and video... more » | Other threads
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Roger Ailes' History Of Media Manipulation
Fox bossman Roger Ailes is the best teacher any media attack flack could have. He's been screwing with the media for decades. Ailes is the man who perfected the art of hammering the media with charges of bias in order to deflect negative coverage from oneself. Kerwin Swint's new biography of him, Dark Genius, has plenty of examples from throughout his entire career. And you have to hand it to Ailes: his clients—all the way up to the President—got the best media haranguing tactics money can buy: More »
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Comment by Mediahohoho: So comparing betraying out country to the Iranians to walking off a newscast is somehow brilliant tactics? If you're an... more » | Other threads
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Before Harvey's Greed, Resentment
Movie mogul Harvey Weinstein has always resented the fact that peers made more money than him with what he deemed to be inferior films. These days, he's obviously overcome this problem by milking reality shows for millions to prop up his more artsy products; but he couldn't always be so sanguine. Here we have a priceless and EXCLUSIVE classic from the archives: a recording of a phone call between Weinstein and Disney exec Joe Roth, taped shortly after Michael Ovitz—a spectacular failure as head of Disney—was paid more than $100 million to leave the company in 1996. Weinstein is galled beyond belief (and perhaps a bit envious). "Let's quit today!" he jokes. Why, he works his ass off and what does he get? A fucking lecture. "Joe, you're a success, so therefore you're a failure in this business," Weinstein complains. Then he insults his fellow moguls: "Between Peter Guber and Mike Ovitz and everybody who fucked up...Everybody got wealthy on failure." Weinstein just cares too much about the films, you see; "We have character flaws that must be overcome," he sighs. Thanks to Project Runway, he's done so. Click to listen to the titan of Hollywood in all his expletive-spitting glory. -
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Five Ways Camel Cigarettes Are Good For You
Are you aware that Camels are made from finer, more expensive tobaccos than any other brand? And that they stimulate digestion, taste great, and will make you a better swimmer? Failing to teach your kids to smoke Camels is virtually child abuse! All true, according to the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. We've compiled five of the most outrageous claims from classic Camel ads of the 1930s-50s, from the peerless archive at the Gallery of Graphic Design. Read them and be educated. Do it for your "T-Zone!" More »
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Comment by Miss Pontificating: @Seeräuber Jenny: GAWKER HELPS MY DISPOSITION And jobs, guys, and friends come and go, but Camel Filters are forwevver. more » | Other threads
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Fighters As Humans: 10 Portraits Of The Boxers Of Old
Harry Winkler was an old-time boxing photographer who lived in California and spent most of the 1920s and 30s taking iconic photos of boxers. His collection is notable for capturing the humanity of professional fighters, picturing them less in the ring (though there is some of that) than in their everyday lives—on the rowing machine, at the ball game, shooting dice. For his full archive of thousands of photos, see here. We've selected ten of the best examples of his collection, which can be found after the jump. More » -
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Consumer Reports' Wondrous Tests Of The Past
I once wrote a story about Consumer Reports that involved a field trip to the timeless, servicey magazine's headquarters and labs. They're an amazing sight, and certainly the most fun place to visit in Yonkers. They take their work very seriously. Testing washing machines, for example, involves counting individual strands of frayed string off test items that have been washed hundreds of times. Their audio testing lab is a free-floating, echo-proof room that looks like a Star Trek set. This is my anecdotal way of introducing the fact that Consumer Reports has posted a selection of its classic testing photos, and after the jump you can find the five most amusing—one for each decade from the 1930s to the 1970s. Back to the future! More »
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Comment by FLConsumer: @SAugsburger: You've said most of everything I've got to say. I also find it interesting that two identical... more » | Other threads
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In Happier Times
Newspapers, now suffering a technological inferiority complex, weren't always so apologetic. The New York Public Library has a wonderful collection of confident posters, promoting newspapers such as the Sunday Herald and the New York Times, from the turn of the century. The issue of the Times here featured offers a selection of stories with a definite air of its current Sunday Styles section—except for a fascination with British aristocracy now superseded by Hamptons plutocrats. The pitch for a story about the market for heiresses in Britain—A Matrimonial Slave Mart—is more lascivious than the uptight Times would now allow. After the coverlines comes an awesomely cocky pitch: "Many Other Features Equally Good."
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By Nick DentonComment by SidAndFinancy: What Leading Germans Think: "Although we've abandoned the Russian Reinsurance Treaty, the Triple Alliance and the Austro-German-Romanian Alliance shall keep... more » | Other threads
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Dead Poets: Poetry Hazardous to Lifespan
Being a poet might mean you die young. In fact, writing in general is not good for your lifespan, James Kaufman writes in his study of 1,987 authors from different cultures. Published in 2003, it's titled, "The Cost of the Muse: Poets Die Young." It isn't the first study to make such claims! The More »
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By SheilaComment by forgetitjake: So the life of a lyric poet is 5.6 years shorter than that of "a non-fiction specialist," a phrase presumably... more » | Other threads
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Black Monday: A Brief History of Crisis Headlines
So this Bear Stearns thing is awkward. I know there's a bailout from the Feds and J.P. Morgan bought up all of Bear Stearns at $2 a share, which seems bad. But the way I really know it's bad is that the New York Times put it above the fold on A1 with an all-caps headline. But how bad is this crisis, in relative headline terms? I went to the archives to find out. More »
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By rebeccaComment by backseat_driver10023: Rebecca, nice work digging up archives. Have you thought of working in equities research? more » | Other threads
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Nothing Ever Changes
The Lower East Side, a Manhattan quarter now overrun by bars for hipsters and drunken yuppies from Murray Hill, was once an authentic working-class neighborhood. And it had even more lager dens and other drinking establishments than it does now, as demonstrated by this 1882 map of New York's "liquordom". So shut up already about the ruin of the Lower East Side. [via Time Out]
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By Nick DentonComment by Gwinny: I'm not surprised at the number of beer halls, considering that was back when the population density of the LES... more » | Other threads
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Who Is Bear?
"As I have mentioned, the Bear and I were introduced through Sam, perhaps as a means to get me off his (Sam's) back, but I suspect more as a goodwill gesture toward Bear, whom even Sam kissed up to.
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By Nick DentonComment by mitchel_stevens: @BobGoulet: well, i'm sold. i'll meet you at the boulevard tavern. but watch it, the angry dead second owner's ghost... more » | Other threads
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Classier Than Flying In To JFK
From the Los Angeles Public Library's collection of 1920s and 1930s travel posters, newly released to the web: the ocean liner from Le Havre to New York. Note the awning to shelter rail passengers from Paris as they embark.
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By Nick DentonComment by sac: Hey Denton, we have this exact print hanging in our younger kids' room. We bought it at Target. I'm not... more » | Other threads
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Pat O'Brien's Dirty Messages
To mark The Insider host's return to rehab, we remember the man he once was: drunk, high, and horny. Here is one of the few remaining copies of the TV gossip monger's rambling voicemail, left for an unidentified woman, in which he suggests a threesome. (O'Brien had been linked romantically to Access Hollywood's Shaun Robinson.) O'Brien's latest story was, ironically, the death of Heath Ledger. The Insider, like many gossip shows, jumped to the conclusion that the Australian actor's death was connected to the use of illegal drugs; and was to have run video showing Ledger at a drugged-up Hollywood party, until other stars threatened to boycott the show. The sleazy Insider host, however, doesn't have such clout, or sympathy. -
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Speed Not As Novel As Believed
Why does Diane Keaton have to kill our trend story? Adderall was looking good as the pill of choice of a new creative generation. And then the 62-year-old actress, who made her name opposite Woody Allen in moves such as Manhattan, spoils it all. On the Letterman show, on CBS, on Friday, she was reminiscing about the debut of her acting career, as part of the original cast of the musical, Hair, in 1968. Keaton, who was supposed to be promoting her new movie, Mad Money, blurted out that forty years ago she and her fellow actors received injections of a methamphetamine drug, much like Adderall. And we so hoped there was something new in the creative pharmacopeia. (In another of Allen's movies in which Keaton starred, Sleeper, at least the future had some medical advances, such as the orgasmatron.) After the jump, the clip from the Letterman show. More »
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By Nick DentonComment by MyCubeHas3Sides: As they say: "what was old is new again." Yesterday's MethA = today's Adderal. more » | Other threads
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The lost art of flattery
The best nugget from Norman Mailer's personal correspondence: Tina Brown, the English editor of Vanity Fair and the New Yorker, asked him to provide a reference for her green card bid. (It couldn't have hurt to have an endorsement from America's best writer, or someone who considered himself that.) For someone with such a reputation for pugilism, Mailer's letters are masterpieces of flattery. The writer, who died last year, produced the requisitely over-the-top letter to include in Tina Brown's immigration application, and appended an even more cloying cover note: “Don’t believe a word of this. You are too attractive ever to let your head swell.”
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By Nick DentonComment by ElijahPollack: Here's a link to Tionna's latest, if anyone is interested. more » | Other threads
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evidence of things not seen
Talk about noticing things tardily—but look how gorgeous the Esquire page design and illustration was in 1960! Holy mackerel. I would buy the holy hell out of that magazine. (Except the Gawker 1960 version would probably be all like, "Oh my God, who is this tired James Baldwin, selling out Harlem to the gentrifiers? And what is with all this white space? OMG, 'white space,' get it?" Sigh.) [Esquire.com] -
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Sometime in the year 2050, you'll be able to explain to your gay husband's adopted children's adopted children that there once was a newspaper called the New York Times and also show them the documents that explain exactly how it went down the tubes. [NYT]
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