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    Sam Zell's Resiliency Boggles The Mind

    Readers Not Flocking to Michael Wolff

    The End of Sam Zell, Tribune Gnome of Ruin?

    Unlovable Loser Sells Lovable Losers

    Sam Zell: Failure

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    Image of Jezebabe Jezebabe
    08/31/09

    In reply to Sam Zell's Resiliency Boggles The Mind
    I don't really do the Gawker late night thing so much...I'm actually up waiting for something too stupid to mention...but what happened to that Cajun Boy dude? Didn't he use to have this gig at some point? Is this the same person, sans the silly moniker?
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    08/31/09

    @Jezebabe: Yeah, I miss Cajun garcon too.. Maybe he's on vacation?
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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    08/31/09

    In reply to Sam Zell's Resiliency Boggles The Mind
    Something this evil can never really die.
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    Image of snugbug snugbug
    08/31/09

    In reply to Sam Zell's Resiliency Boggles The Mind
    This is truly the most grammatically and factually challenged piece on Sam Zell I have ever read in my life. Speaking as a former LAT-er, who experienced the a-hole in real life.
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    08/31/09

    @snugbug:

    Uh, snugbug? I know you, don't I.
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    Image of Swordfish Swordfish
    08/18/09

    In reply to The End of Sam Zell, Tribune Gnome of Ruin?
    Sharon Waxman....um, who?
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    08/18/09

    In reply to The End of Sam Zell, Tribune Gnome of Ruin?
    (Btw, Sharon, do you know Vivi Nevo?)
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    08/18/09

    In reply to The End of Sam Zell, Tribune Gnome of Ruin?
    Niall who?

    — F Huber

    [krugman.blogs.nytimes.com]
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    Image of Awesome X Awesome X
    08/18/09

    In reply to The End of Sam Zell, Tribune Gnome of Ruin?
    Gabriel Snyder is great in "Miller's Crossing."
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    Image of Mymoustache Mymoustache
    07/06/09

    In reply to Unlovable Loser Sells Lovable Losers
    Bilbo grew up to be an angry old Hobbit...
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    Image of blix blix
    07/06/09

    @Mymoustache: Who frequently touched his elf.
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    Image of shostakobitch shostakobitch
    07/06/09

    In reply to Unlovable Loser Sells Lovable Losers
    Willie Nelson had a shitload of debt a while ago and he figured it out, so why not look exactly like him?
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    Image of FormerEnglishMajor FormerEnglishMajor
    06/08/09

    In reply to Sam Zell: Failure
    You missed one aspect that makes the story worse - he only put in $300 mil of his own money, and loaded up Tribune with $13 billion of debt, which means at least $650 mil of interest payments a year - and then blamed the collapse on "the economy" rather than his own greedy over-leveraging.


    He's only out the $300 mil (and a ding to his reputation), and he made billions on selling his real estate business (Equity Office Properties) to Blackstone for $39 billion in 2007. yet he torpedoed the jobs and futures of hundreds, if not thousands.

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    Image of DennyCrane DennyCrane
    06/08/09

    In reply to Sam Zell: Failure
    Blibo! (Bilbo!) Blibo! (Bilbo!) The greatest little Hobbit of them all!
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    06/08/09

    In reply to Sam Zell: Failure
    I'd like to think no bored billionaires would make the same mistake again, but surely some filthy rich guy will snatch up a newspaper company in the near future.
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    Image of naugahydeinplainsight naugahydeinplainsight
    06/08/09

    In reply to Sam Zell: Failure
    Best TRB news I've heard in a while (there is a little justice, after all): Zell also holds a $250 million note representing a loan he made to the company as part of the going-private transaction. That note, however, is near the bottom of the hierarchy of claims in Tribune Co.'s Chapter 11 bankruptcy case, and the source said it is unlikely it would retain any value as the capital reorganization proceeds. LAT
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    Image of Mount_Prion Mount_Prion
    06/08/09

    In reply to Sam Zell: Failure
    I've said it before, and I'll say it again, this man is actually Darkseid. I've linked the damn picture too much, but look at his face! Darkseid!
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    Image of MangoKitten MangoKitten
    04/15/09

    In reply to Ben Affleck's Proprietary Media Revenue Models Were Mistaken, And He Is Shocked
    Does Ben maintain this body year round? Oucha-Magoucha!
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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    04/15/09

    @MangoKitten:


    So does Sam Zell. Shouldn't he get some props?

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    Image of Sproing Sproing
    04/15/09

    @MangoKitten: The cover is circa Good Will Hunting, so ...
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