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Cheap Shot
09/09/09

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I worked around him and can truly say that Gay was not his agenda. I literally saw breakdowns of audience targets and it was spread across so I do believe him.
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Choire
09/09/09

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The loafers, hmm. My jury's out on those. (Kind of want! Kind of hate!) But here's something one of his friends told me when I was writing about Cohen a while back: "His parents loved him." And that sounds ridiculous but actually it's sort of marvelously key to him. I think he believes the world is a good and kind place and that people are funny and nice, and dishiness and table-flipping is funny but not the sign that people are bad or actually badly deranged. I guess, in short, he is all Anne Frank about things. This is sort of refreshing in the age of the bitchy Internet commenter. It's a good thing!

Though I too wish he'd be a bit less executivey but, you know, whatever, he works for NBC Universal! I'd be uptight too.

Also I wish gay magazines were less gay, but that is asking too much.
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TRexstasy
09/09/09

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"but the can't get enough of him, even though he says his network isn't gay and that he doesn't want the spot light."

Me talk pretty one day.
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nicepony
09/09/09

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Andy Cohen is those two-tone loafers he's wearing. The worst.
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TRexstasy
09/09/09

@nicepony: Hideous! And you know that he considers himself a "tastemaker". In fact, there's probably a plaque that says that affixed to the bottom of his shaving mirror.
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Smitros
09/09/09

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Andy Cohen is not the boss of me, and his network is gay.
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MattGaymon
09/09/09

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'An enthusiastic, sophisticated, entertainment-based, aspirational view of' sucking dick is what makes me gay, in fact, Bravo.
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Beau Nerd
09/09/09

@MattGaymon: Bravo.
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RonMwangaguhunga
09/09/09

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The thing that annoys me most about Cohen -- and perhaps the reason why he should stay behind the camera -- is that he is wholly unforthcoming in interviews. He is so guarded, so TV executive-y, and so contrived, that every interview with him reads like a corporate press release from NBC Universal. He is incapable of revealing anything interesting and personal. In other words, he utterly lacks the quality that makes reality TV personalities so compelling.

Executive, reveal thyself!
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Baroness
09/09/09

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He gives off a former-fat-kid vibe. And, nothing wrong with that. Doesn't seem like a bad guy. Just clearly exulting in the attention, pretending he didn't engineer it himself.
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RonMwangaguhunga
09/09/09

@Baroness: TOTALLY.
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shostakobitch
10/31/08

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Don't tell Lauren but shofisticated, rich old career women all listen to a soundtrack of babies crying while they Precor the Trader Joe's spanakopita and Smoking Loon off their asses.
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gladys_kravitz
10/31/08

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Bravo is not hip and cutting edge. Fun? Yes. Guilty pleasure? Absolutely. Hip? Not so much.

Andy Cohen comes off as the biggest phony baloney pony ass kisser ever. His biggest coup is making the gays accessible to middle America through Tim G, Adler, Doonan, Siriano.
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kurtck
10/31/08

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Didn't the Times already run this story?

Bravo's Chief Reaches Out to the Prosperous Urban Woman
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BookishLookish
10/31/08

@kurtck: An "affluencer" sounds like someone who is going to smell up the joint, then charge you fifty dollars for the privilege.
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ClearAirTurbulence
10/31/08

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Hey, Robespierre (yes, Richard, that's you), aren't you being a bit hypocritical with all these executions? With most of the Open Captions run by the Gawker Committee of Public Safety, you are directly responsible for many similar acts.

I think Guadalupe would agree. Execute away, if you wish. I don't care.
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TerseNursePornstein
10/31/08

@ClearAirTurbulence: I'm a poster girl for the puerile, and even I felt the majority of early comments here damn near killed the thread. This was a good post by Ryan, one undeserving of such a fate, and a good move on Richard's part.
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ClearAirTurbulence
10/31/08

@SexyTerseNursePornstein: Maybe the Tiny Star standing by her daily judging committee should weigh in on this. Or Julia Allison's latest Halloween costume. Or Sarah Jessica Parker.

Like pornography, I know hypocricy when I see it.
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TerseNursePornstein
10/31/08

@ClearAirTurbulence: Tiny?
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valet_of_the_dolls
10/31/08

@ClearAirTurbulence: Like pornography, I know hypocricy when I see it.

Oh, Christ, that's great. A member of the Meese Commission.
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MsMuffinMcGuffin
10/31/08

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I read the NY Times article, and must say that I really like Lauren Zalaznick. I admire the way she works.

Sorry, guys.
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DorothyMantooth
10/31/08

@MsMuffinMcGuffin: I think she's badass, too. And I totally wanna be her when I grow up! Who doesn't wanna bitch slap Andy Cohen?
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Carol Gardens
10/31/08

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She's ok with me. Except for the product placement frenzy. She did head TRIO, after all.
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Aaron Altman
10/31/08

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I sincerely love this pic of here from the Times's site yesterday, showing Zalaznick in an office with not a single thing - TV, computer, printer or PDA - switched on.

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NinaHagen
10/31/08

@Aaron Altman: Her assistant was out thus nothing could be turned on.
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BookishLookish
10/31/08

@Aaron Altman: That superclean desk and minimalist decor tells me everything I need to know. Someone who wants everyone to do the dirty work for her.

Lauren, the world is interesting and messy--get out there and discover it, kid.
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Aaron Altman
10/31/08

@NinaHagen: @BookishLookish: Heh. I'm thinking, "Hey, why doesn't MY L-shaped desk in roughly the same windowed office configuration look a TENTH that clean?"
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Aaron Altman
10/31/08

@NinaHagen: And, HAH, maybe that's why she's turning around - wondering where her assistant is. "And where's my coffee already?" :-)
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BookishLookish
10/31/08

@Aaron Altman: Heh.

When I go to someone's house and all they have in lieu of objects is a bowl of water with a Zen pebble in it on their neo-modernist coffee table, I want to fuck shit up punk rock stylee.

Lauren, where is your stuff!
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Dickdogfood
10/31/08

@Aaron Altman: Actually, the computers may have been turned off (or digitally blanked out) for a not-unreasonable reason: privacy.
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Aaron Altman
10/31/08

@Dickdogfood: Yeah, I figured as much, but then again, she could've just had Bravo's site up on the comp, and, dunno, Bravo programming on the monitors? Or maybe it's a statement: "TURN OFF YOUR EVERYTHING."
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