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Seeräuber Jenny
12/06/08

In reply to The Times Brief Sunny von Bülow Byline Stumble
It's back!

[www.nytimes.com]
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Uncle_Billy_Slumming
12/06/08

In reply to The Times Brief Sunny von Bülow Byline Stumble
We should do a study of just how many obits are written and published for living persons.
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steveholtsmother
12/06/08

In reply to The Times Brief Sunny von Bülow Byline Stumble
But, did Enid Nemy get paid when the obit ran?
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VoxPopuli
12/06/08

@steveholtsmother: Ha. No way.

Also, wasn't it the Times that once ran an obit a few years ago with byline by someone who had themselves died? I can't remember whose obit it was nor what byline.
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steveholtsmother
12/06/08

@VoxPopuli: Holy shit, I do remember hearing about that! But, I'm in the same situation, I don't remember who it was on either end. It's funny--whenever I hear about obituary writers I always flash to Basket Case by Carl Hiaasen.
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VoxPopuli
12/06/08

@steveholtsmother: Ah, yes - Carl Hiaasen. So good at capturing the essence that is Florida Crazy.
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MisterHippity
12/06/08

In reply to The Times Brief Sunny von Bülow Byline Stumble
Don't forget to click this link: [gawker.com]

No, it's not Rick Astley. It's page-views for Sheila.
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Ogiri W Surie
12/06/08

@MisterHippity: I appreciate the efforts, truly I do, but you know she's gonna get stiffed.
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Frances Houseman
12/06/08

@Ogiri W Surie: Yeah, didn't Denton end pageview bonuses after Pareene's election coverage pageview windfall?
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MisterHippity
12/07/08

@Frances Houseman: No, page-view bonuses are in effect until the end of this month. And he can't stiff Sheila without breaking the law.
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Baroness
12/06/08

In reply to The Times Brief Sunny von Bülow Byline Stumble
So, NYT typos are now worthy Gawker items? As far as obituaries go, it's no "Beloved Cunt".
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BookishLookish
12/06/08

@Baroness: I teach our youth how to proofread and edit each fall and always use typos culled from the NYT. They are as hilarious as they are rampant!
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ian spiegelman
12/06/08

@Baroness: Listen to the wheezing in its chest. It's dying. It cut out its own heart last week. Let it rot.
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KirkLazarus
12/06/08

@ian spiegelman: Hey, didn't you spend years cashing checks from News Corp and using Page Six as your personal bully pulpit? Why should anyone give a shit about what you think about anything?
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ian spiegelman
12/06/08

@KirkLazarus: I used it as a bully pulpit to kick bad people. Meanwhile, if you want to attack me, why don't you use your real name, pussy? Is it because you're a little internet fucking sissy who has to hide behind a pseudonym, you lame little nothing? Give me your name, face me, and I'll take you on, you fucking nothing. Otherwise, shut your no one from nowhere face. When I call someone out, they goddamn know who's doing it. If you want to call me out, you'll tell me your fucking name, zero.
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Baroness
12/06/08

@ian spiegelman: Sigh.. a real man! See, that's what Caroline Kennedy's been dying, for Ian. Let me give you her number, PM me.

If you can, that is- the phone line seems to have been cut here at Gawker Haus. I feel like Ingrid in Gaslight.
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ian spiegelman
12/06/08

@Baroness: Oh Baroness, I'm always here for you and all my old friends. No matter how much things change around here. The core spirit of this place remains the same, I think. It's just hard to see most of the time.
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bess marvin, girl detective
12/06/08

@ian spiegelman: kind of disappointed with this response from you ian. pussy? challenging someone to a fight via internet? for shame.
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ian spiegelman
12/06/08

@bess marvin, girl detective: I didn't challenge him to a fight, I challenged him to attack me under his real name so that I could attack HIS work like he attacked mine. And I'm kind of disappointed in YOU. Like I can't challenge people using the term "pussy" when they were being pussies? I'm sorry, but I don't fight PC. A little jerk who is a pussy is a pussy.
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bess marvin, girl detective
12/06/08

@ian spiegelman: don't fight PC. nice. so if mr. lazarus was black would you used the term nigger or hispanic would you call him a spic? i mean, who cares if it's a racial slur, you don't fight PC cause your name is on the line. like marlo stanfield, your NAME is your NAME. right? RIGHT?

please.
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sunnyciegos
12/06/08

@ian spiegelman: Not exactly very enlightened language for a guy whose writing I valued here on Gawker.

What is it about this place that makes its writers eventually go bonkers?
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Colonel Mustard
12/07/08

@ian spiegelman: Leave us also bear in mind that our friend has no idea what a bully pulpit actually is.
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LilyBlue
12/07/08

@ian spiegelman: Despite the un-PC nature of your post, I'm on Team Spiegelman all the way on this one. Because in my view, why the hell should anyone give a shit about what @KirkLazarus has to say about anything at all?
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BookishLookish
12/07/08

@sunnyciegos: Aw, sunnyC, lighten up, hon.

Didn't you ever call anyone a "dickless motherfucker"? I know I can barely let a week go by without that phrase?

New York kids don't play, we use all the words available. Don't be a pussy!
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Seeräuber Jenny
12/06/08

In reply to The Times Brief Sunny von Bülow Byline Stumble
Now that you've made me study the headline, um ... where's the umlaut?
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Seeräuber Jenny
12/06/08

In reply to The Times Brief Sunny von Bülow Byline Stumble
It was a good obit, so canning is still a good preservative.
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Seeräuber Jenny
12/06/08

In reply to The Times Brief Sunny von Bülow Byline Stumble
Someone in the other thread said, of Sunny von Bülow, "She's still alive?"

That was my thought when I saw the byline "Enid Nemy."
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phlox✔
12/06/08

In reply to Comatose Heiress Sunny von Bülow Dies
Jeez, memories... I watched the trial on teh tv every afternoon with my family. It was both mesmerizing and an early lesson on 'How The Law Works/Is Different For Rich Folks.'
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bess marvin, girl detective
12/06/08

In reply to The Times Brief Sunny von Bülow Byline Stumble
funny, i was just rereading "the filthy rich handbook" and sunny and her husband claus was mentioned in the section "marrying into money". weird
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belltolls
12/06/08

In reply to Comatose Heiress Sunny von Bülow Dies
I guess that means Santa Klaus Is Coming To Town.

According to the terms of Sunny von Bülow's will, the apartment will go to von Bülow when she dies. So will Clarendon Court, the fabulous mansion set on ten acres overlooking the sea in Newport, Rhode Island, where her two comas took place during successive Christmas holidays, in 1979 and 1980. So will $14 million of her $75 million fortune. In the meantime the maintenance on the apartment is paid for by Sunny's estate, so in effect von Bülow and his self-proclaimed mistress, Andrea Reynolds, have been largely supported by his comatose wife since his conviction in 1982 for her attempted murder. That verdict was overturned on appeal because certain materials had been withheld from the defense and others had been improperly admitted as evidence.-The DD VF article.
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skahammer
12/06/08

@belltolls: Jeez, that's thorough.

Remind me not to overdose you with insulin in an attempt to divert to myself the benefits of your extensive collection of vintage Mountain Dew containers. You've just convinced me it's not worth the risk.
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Seeräuber Jenny
12/06/08

@belltolls:

So I guess that if you're going to buy a book on How to Commit Uxoricide in Three Easy Steps, buy von Bulow's not OJ's.*

*How the hell do I know whether von Bulow did it?
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Baroness
12/06/08

@Seeräuber Jenny: Uxoricide. You are the Belle of the Word Ball today. Nice!
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rollergirl76
12/06/08

@belltolls: This is from CNN.com:

" Alexander von Auersperg and Ala von Auersperg Isham, who had sided with prosecutors against Claus von Bulow, filed a civil suit against their stepfather after his acquittal. The case was settled out of court in 1987, according to a 2007 article in the Providence Journal newspaper in Rhode Island.

Claus von Bulow had agreed to waive his claim to his wife's money and to a divorce in exchange for the suit being dropped."
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BookishLookish
12/06/08

@belltolls: Dominick Dunne is also on his last legs with, I think, bladder cancer.
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Baroness
12/06/08

@BookishLatkeish: Shoot, that's a damn shame.
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belltolls
12/06/08

@rollergirl76: Darn. I guess evil only triumphs a little.
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Baroness
12/06/08

In reply to Comatose Heiress Sunny von Bülow Dies
It's probably a mercy she's finally gone. Before the coma, she was intriguing, a dark-souled Grace Kelly. Living life at a supersonic level of luxury and hedonism to the point where the decadence is frightening- Sunny was familiar with hard drugs and the business end of a needle. In the 60's and 70's there were a lot of these sorts- impossibly rich, fabulous lives, yet flirting with death almost as a sport.

Not saying Claus is innocent. Just Sunny's drug history was well known, and perhaps that's why he thought he could get away with it. Glenn Close was great playing her, but that movie is ruined for me every time Ron Silver starts chewing the scenery, which is often.
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Seeräuber Jenny
12/06/08

@Baroness:

Sunny was familiar with hard drugs and the business end of a needle. In the 60's and 70's there were a lot of these sorts- impossibly rich, fabulous lives, yet flirting with death almost as a sport.

If I recall correctly, she used insulin as a weight-reduction method. The foolish rich. It's not like she didn't pay the price.

That was one of the best performance of Jeremy Irons's career: Such ghoulish elegance. My favorite scene was at the end when he asked the shop clerk for a pack of cigarettes and a vial of insulin.* Then he laughed in her shocked face.

*Or something like that. I couldn't find the exact quote.
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Baroness
12/06/08

@Seeräuber Jenny: Yes! He was..fantastic. Slithery!

"Ghoulish elegance" is right on. Even that hyperposh accent, like a mouth full of cotton.. just brilliant.
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Tammany_Fall
12/06/08

In reply to Comatose Heiress Sunny von Bülow Dies
First thing she'll do in the afterlife is stick out her tongue at Terry Schiavo.
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Seeräuber Jenny
12/06/08

@Tammany_Fall:

Wouldn't TS be too NOCD for SvB?

(Although I love the image.)
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naugahydeinplainsight
12/06/08

In reply to Comatose Heiress Sunny von Bülow Dies
Me: Oh look, Sunny von Bulow died.

She: Again?
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surlybastard
12/06/08

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This was an episode of Law & Order, right?
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noxiousbeast
12/06/08

@surlybastard: I thought the same thing! I believe it was.
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