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    Image of miss_msry miss_msry
    06:05 PM

    In reply to Scoring Sunday's Nuptials: In Which Will Ferrell Photobombs the NYT's Weddings
    Shiite, if you can't even claim a relation on the Mayflower, why bother to claim anyone?
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    Image of NigelAstydameia NigelAstydameia
    05:25 PM

    In reply to Scoring Sunday's Nuptials: In Which Will Ferrell Photobombs the NYT's Weddings
    Nothing against Kristen (well, except Dax Shepard, I mean really Kristen?), but here's another trailer that's way too long and interchangeable every other C-grade rom com (People fall down! Lots of things break! A wedding singing and dancing scene! Good looking guy has fat friend!...ugh--I do like you on SNL though, Bobby.) So I've actually got to sit through Avatar for some originality?
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    Image of MattGaymon MattGaymon
    04:23 PM

    In reply to Scoring Sunday's Nuptials: In Which Will Ferrell Photobombs the NYT's Weddings
    I was going to throw off a comment like 'She probably has two King Charles spaniels, one named Empress Duchess and the other Tart' but actually the truth is a lot better than that:

    [www.empressduchesstart.com]
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    Image of thatgirlinnewyork thatgirlinnewyork
    04:17 PM

    In reply to Scoring Sunday's Nuptials: In Which Will Ferrell Photobombs the NYT's Weddings
    not buying that fuller story. no one under 50 "loves" nancy meyers flicks.

    just got over the nausea induced by reading the meyers piece in the magazine, and now this? oy.
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    Image of Phyllis Nefler Phyllis Nefler
    04:32 PM

    @thatgirlinnewyork: Baby Boom is one of my favorite movies though!
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    Image of Lysergic Asset Lysergic Asset
    05:03 PM

    @thatgirlinnewyork: I was 35 when Something's Gotta Give came out in 2003, and I loved it - probably because the love of my life is 31 years older than me and he had quite a rep as a ladies' man before we met in 1994. I also love the movie because Keanu Reeves can do no wrong... even though he can't really act.

    But SGTG is also the only Nancy Meyers film I've ever seen, so... grain of salt and all.
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    Image of thatgirlinnewyork thatgirlinnewyork
    05:04 PM

    @Phyllis Nefler: yeah, yeah, but if i hear you say you're buying the retrospective box set, i'll be sending you the support package, containing two cats, a rabbit (the batter-powered sort), and a case of fat-free haagen-dazs.
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    Image of Lysergic Asset Lysergic Asset
    05:06 PM

    @thatgirlinnewyork: Ha! You're on a roll...
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    Image of thatgirlinnewyork thatgirlinnewyork
    05:09 PM

    @Lysergic Asset: unfortunately, i had a lot of work-related travel for a good chunk of meyers' career, so i've been unfortunate enough to endure the great lot of them. if you've see one...really, it's the boomer film equivalent of lite fm.
    true--reeves was as good a piece of arm candy as they could manage to cast in SGTG.
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    Edited by thatgirlinnewyork at 12/20/09 5:12 PM thatgirlinnewyork was starred thatgirlinnewyork was unstarred
    Image of Lysergic Asset Lysergic Asset
    05:15 PM

    @thatgirlinnewyork: Well, I've seen enough of the trailers to know forced humor when I see it. I won't bother delving further into her oeuvre...

    (although Meryl Streep and Alec Baldwin has got to be the most intriguing couples' casting ever.)
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    Image of thatgirlinnewyork thatgirlinnewyork
    05:23 PM

    @Lysergic Asset: streep/baldwin casting follows the foolproof formula that smart, organically good looking fifty-ish woman works magically with self-effacing, admitted womanizer. lady gets the upper hand, and, one assumes, the chutzpah to demand he serve her needs.
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    Image of Lysergic Asset Lysergic Asset
    06:14 PM

    @thatgirlinnewyork: Yes, but: when was the last time there was a female lead 10 years older than the male lead, if ever? (I know his character still has the 25-year-old girlfriend, I'm just thinking this might be some teeny progress.)
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    Image of thatgirlinnewyork thatgirlinnewyork
    06:35 PM

    @Lysergic Asset: where the female character lead is 10 years older than the male character lead, or are you referring to the actors' real ages? i think there have been plenty since sunset boulevard, but it would take some time to accurately list them. i don't really associate meyers' work with progress--it's simply female boomer wet dream fantasy stuff.
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    Image of Lysergic Asset Lysergic Asset
    06:54 PM

    @thatgirlinnewyork: I didn't realize that Streep & Baldwin were playing the same age.. and I think I'll wait for the DVD.
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    Image of thatgirlinnewyork thatgirlinnewyork
    07:04 PM

    @Lysergic Asset: one can only asssume they're close in age--they play a formerly married couple in the film. but yes--cable or DVD will probably make watching it smart a little less.

    no offense meant if you really like meyers' work (i suppose you'd have to see a lot more of that in order to form an opinion), but as someone who is not the target cohort of her work, i can only inveigh as a potential aspirant. as far as that goes, i kind of prefer patti smith's vision of what a 50+ woman's life can look like over meyers'. not everyone's yearns for a 500 sf stainless kitchen, a wealth of the right coffee table books, and a peripheral career that has no bearing on her day to day life. it's all a bit facile.
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    Image of Lysergic Asset Lysergic Asset
    07:17 PM

    @thatgirlinnewyork: Oh, I agree, esp. about Patti Smith. I've no plans to expand my knowledge of Meyers' work beyond SGTG.

    Nice chatting with you! :-)
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    04:14 PM

    In reply to Scoring Sunday's Nuptials: In Which Will Ferrell Photobombs the NYT's Weddings
    Quasha? You'd have to machete your way into deep congo to come across a name like that again. Or sled to the land of the little people in Northern Finland?
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    04:16 PM

    @Uncle_Billy_Slumming:

    Well of course it's african-american, and it means "tenacious"
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    Image of Foster Kamer Foster Kamer
    04:00 PM

    In reply to Scoring Sunday's Nuptials: In Which Will Ferrell Photobombs the NYT's Weddings
    ALSO NEF um hello Kristen Bell (who I've actually met! and kind of am in love with and no she didn't steal my coin from the Trevi Fountain or whatever fucking dumb Roman fountain that is) and Dax Shepard (who plays the model in the movie who used to be Ashton Koosher's brossistant on PUNK'D) are together. Maybe they met on the set?
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    Image of DahlELama DahlELama
    04:35 PM

    @Foster Kamer: Pretty sure this is so. Also, this movie is stupid because if everyone would just watch Veronica Mars like they're supposed to, then everyone would fall in love with Kristen Bell anyway. And then be forced to fight me to the death for her affections.
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    Image of Phyllis Nefler Phyllis Nefler
    05:07 PM

    @Foster Kamer: I saw Josh Duhamel at the Soho Equinox once. My feelings on Kristin Bell are best summed up by Lorrie Moore:

    "The problem with a beautiful woman is that she makes everyone around her feel hopelessly masculine, which if you're already male to begin with poses no particular problem."
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    Image of RandomLunatic RandomLunatic
    03:54 PM

    In reply to Scoring Sunday's Nuptials: In Which Will Ferrell Photobombs the NYT's Weddings
    I want there to be a site where you can create a Will Ferrell photobomb for any photo you choose. That should be the man's destiny. It's perfect.
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    Image of Lysergic Asset Lysergic Asset
    04:48 PM

    @RandomLunatic: Speaking of the brilliance of Will Ferrell, have you seen this interview with Jim Caviezel from "Anchorman"? While watching this, you have to remember than Caviezel is a very devout Christian... but he obviously has an amazing sense of humor, judging by this clip (below the pic).
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    Image of Lysergic Asset Lysergic Asset
    04:51 PM

    @RandomLunatic: Also: you might want an avatar at some point, so...
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    Image of Lysergic Asset Lysergic Asset
    04:52 PM

    @RandomLunatic: Trying again to embed the video clip...
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    Image of Phyllis Nefler Phyllis Nefler
    05:00 PM

    @Lysergic Asset: This was on the other day.
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    Image of Lysergic Asset Lysergic Asset
    05:11 PM

    @Phyllis Nefler: I'm not that well-versed in the Ferrell canon... perhaps a clue?
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    Image of Phyllis Nefler Phyllis Nefler
    05:47 PM

    @Lysergic Asset
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    Image of Lysergic Asset Lysergic Asset
    06:11 PM

    @Phyllis Nefler: What a great trip down memory lane. Thanks!
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    Image of Gabriel Snyder Gabriel Snyder
    12/18/09

    In reply to Bill Keller: 'No Further Newsroom Staff Cut Planned or Foreseen' at the New York Times
    How's Keller's optimism going over with the NYT's recently departed? As expected, not so well. One emails:

    this is the same full-of-shit memo that he sent out after the last round of cuts, as i'm sure everyone is well aware.

    nowhere does keller mention the Guild arbitration that the paper lost on Monday - over the severance conditions of the last round of layoffs - a decision that the paper finally allowed to happen, after a year and a half of dicking around legally, because they couldn't begin this year's layoffs without having settled last year's first.

    i'm so happy to hear he was cheered and saddened by the speeches made by employees made to walk the plank. apparently the masthead was very very unwelcome at those farewell parties in the newsroom. how many glasses were raised for the laidoff, do you imagine?

    and by the way - how's jill abramson's puppy?! that's what everyone really wants to know!
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    Image of drunkexpatwriter drunkexpatwriter
    12/18/09

    In reply to Bill Keller: 'No Further Newsroom Staff Cut Planned or Foreseen' at the New York Times
    Dear Bill Keller,

    Please tell your publisher to stop selling the entire front page of your sister publication, The International Herald Tribute, to Rolex.

    Love,

    Bart

    [bart-calendar.livejournal.com]
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    Image of Gabriel Snyder Gabriel Snyder
    12/18/09

    @drunkexpatwriter: That's amazing.
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    Gabriel Snyder was starred Gabriel Snyder was unstarred
    Image of drunkexpatwriter drunkexpatwriter
    12/18/09

    @Gabriel Snyder: I know. I had my girlfriend take a picture of it because i didn't think anyone would believe me otherwise.
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    Image of Richard Petty Bourgeoisie Richard Petty Bourgeoisie
    12/18/09

    In reply to Economix Survives
    I guess I was absent on the day my Econ professor taught the "when there's no demand, increase supply" lesson.
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    Image of Rozelle’s Bagman Rozelle’s Bagman
    12/18/09

    In reply to Economix Survives
    rats?
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    Image of Swifter Swifter
    12/18/09

    In reply to Economix Survives
    Economix actually makes a pretty good breakfast when you add a little milk and sugar.
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    Image of daveyjonesisdead daveyjonesisdead
    12/18/09

    In reply to WSJ Editor: 'Principle Is But a Bystander at The New York Times'
    Big words for a Murdochian.
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    Image of Poodle_Heart Poodle_Heart
    12/17/09

    In reply to Recipes for Disaster: The Whiskey Scramble
    lol 4 realz xxoo
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    Image of Poodle_Heart Poodle_Heart
    12/17/09

    In reply to The New York Times Layoff Victims: Allen Salkin(!) Is Among Them [Updated]
    pleasepleasepleaseplease let it be modo
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