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Slate's Ron Rosenbaum takes the words right out of our collective mouth with his reaction today to the rollover trick GQ's editor Jim Nelson performed for Team Clinton last week: "Any editor with a backbone would say, 'Thank you, your crude effort to kill this story will be included in the story. Goodbye.' Instead, the editor killed the story. Profiles in courage!" [Slate]
Slate's Tim Noah calls out Slate's Ron Rosenbaum for refusing to name Esquire's Tom Junod in that interminable "Worst Celebrity Profile Ever Written" essay. [Slate]
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Ron Rosenbaum Does Not Like Celebrity Profiles, 9/11
Taking aim at the celebrity profile in general—and Tom Junod's "cringe-inducing" Esquire story about Angelina Jolie in specific—Slate's Ron Rosenbaum unloads with both barrels.There are serious issues raised, there are profound questions about The Way We Live Now to be discussed. The result is a meretricious prose whose pretense at arch sophistication has become a schlock art form, the written equivalent of a Leroy Neiman nude.Or, say, a Ron Rosenbaum piece. There's plenty more, but you've pretty much got the idea. More »
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Shakespeare, Nabokov, Bob Dylan And My Adorable Kitty
Looks like that tainted pet food thing went further than we thought—a straight shot to the heart of The New Journalism.My own attitude almost reminds me of the epigraph to Nabokov's Pale Fire. The one from Boswell's Life of Johnson in which Dr. Johnson is ruminating about a crazed young man going around London shooting cats. And then reverting to thoughts of his own cat, Hodge, Johnson says (I'm doing this from memory: "But Hodge shan't be shot. No, no, Hodge shan't be shot."More »
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Ron Rosenbaum Legs It To 'Slate'
Those poor, stretched-thin kids at the Observer are going to have to stretch themselves a little thinner. "Edgy Enthusiast" columnist Ron Rosenbaum is ditching the pink paper to share his random meanderings on Shakespeare and Bob Dylan with Slate's more patient, equally geriatric, audience. Rosenbaum, a journalistic legend in this town since 1877, when he wrote an article about how you could make free calls on Alexander Graham Bell's new voice-carrying device, leaves a large acre of space for the Observer folks to fill. Presumably, we can expect more real estate coverage. Or ads, if they can sell them. More »
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Life during wartime: we Manhattanites defy Brooklyn Smirk [Observer]
The Brooklyn Smirk
The Observer's Ron Rosenbaum defines the "Brooklyn Smirk": "If you live in Manhattan, you too may have heard maybe one too many ostensibly solicitous, but inwardly smirking, remarks from people who live in Brooklyn. Remarks along the line of "Now I'm kinda glad I left [Manhattan]"—or, as one guy told me, 'Yeah, we moved to Brooklyn, but we're kind of glad of it now considering...' Yeah: considering that you pitiful Manhattanites will probably ALL DIE in some terror act once the war begins." Small comfort: "It's always a day-brightener to wake up and link to a detailed report...on the effect of a small nuclear weapon detonated in Grand Central, which happens to be 10 blocks away from my bedroom. Half a million immediately dead in Manhattan. Apparently, it might even affect Brooklyn."Life during wartime: we Manhattanites defy Brooklyn Smirk [Observer]
