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Toby Young Hit by Car
Vaguely annoying Brit writer and Top Chef judge Toby Young was hit by a car while riding his bike in London last week, but he's going to be okay. Here, his busted head. [Toby's blog]
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Comment by katekate is squared: In his honor, I will spend my day trying to think of a stupid one-liner for this situation. 12 Responses | Other threads
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Imbecile Americans Intimidated By Proper English, Says Toby Young
Professional annoying person Toby Young has an oh-so-self-serving theory as to why he is detested as a Top Chef judge: Americans cannot handle a person who speaks in complete, correct sentences. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by registered: He's using rather in the incorrect sense. Also, sounds like a brit-centric noodle dick. 8 Responses | Other threads
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Mean British Bully Toby Young Is Overwrought and Underseasoned
Hello. My name is Joshua David Stein. I'm an avid Top Chef fan and am here to discuss with you that show. More »
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By Joshua SteinComment by SixThirty: Young sucked. Bring back Bourdain! 21 Responses | Other threads
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Tom Cruise's Bomb-Proof Car Also Repels Thetans
Tom Cruise bought a special car to ward off anti-Scientology protesters and other agents of Xenu; Britney Spears can ward off the blues with the sari from her new boyfriend. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by dontmindme: First of all, the galaxy is only 4.3 trillion years old, so this '82 trillion years' is just out of... 3 Responses | Other threads
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White Brit Schools America On 'Barak Oboma's' Race
Pasty British expat writer Toby Young has news for you, America: your new president isn't "black," so stop acting all excited. "[Am] I the only person in the world who's noticed that Barak [sic] Obama isn't black?" he wonders. "Slaves were black. Barak [sic] Oboma [sic] isn't descended from slaves. He was born in Hawaii and raised by two white people." Can you school us any more on the intricacies of the blacks, Mr. Nilla?
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Comment by PhiCancri: I somewhat agree with this. His father was Kenyan, but mother was Cherokee, English and Irish. So why isn't there... 23 Responses | Other threads
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Toby Young Cheerfully Admits to Sort-of Plagiarism
It took years and years and the attention of a new movie, but someone finally uncovered a smidge of plagiarism in the fired Vanity Fair Brit's How to Lose Friends and Alienate People. Daily Intel found near-identical passages from the book and a New York Times article by John Tierney. Young was unruffled, saying it wasn't plagiarism but loose English journalistic standards at work: More »
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By SheilaComment by TheHonJudgeSmails: Journalism in the UK, much like dentistry, is kind of an amateur pursuit. 7 Responses | Other threads
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How to Lose Friends and Alienate People Film Launch
Brit outsider Toby Young has made a career out of getting fired from Vanity Fair, among other things. How to Lose Friends and Alienate People is now a movie—take that, Graydon Carter. A gathering was held at Soho House to celebrate, and to give people the chance to pretend to be friends with some while alienating others. What advice would Young give to the young creative underclass trying to make it? "Don't get too comfortable," he said, after clambering off the table on which he had been speechifying about feeling "like a hobbit in the kingdom of ill" and getting heckled by Kirsten Dunst. In today's media jungle, "you could get fired within the next 48 hours." Click for photos by Nikola Tamindzic and gossip. More »
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By SheilaComment by Princess Sparkle Pony: Can somebody please bring me Simon Pegg? 6 Responses | Other threads
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The Gum That Wouldn't Scrape Off
Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter sounds positively exasperated that Toby Young is still stuck—gum-like—to his shoe. A decade after the British hack's disastrous six-month stint at the Conde Nast magazine, Young's account of epic failure to take New York by storm comes to screens later this week. "I can only compare it with a brief one-night stand that results in octuplets," says Carter, who is played by Jeff Bridges in the movie version of How To Lose Friends And Alienate People. But the Vanity Fair poo-bah ought to show more respect for noble failure. After all, Carter's own reputation was made by Spy, a magazine that won plaudits but lost money in all but one year of its existence. Disclosure: despite a history of mutual abuse, Gawker is co-hosting a party for Toby Young on Wednesday.
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By Nick DentonComment by ian spiegelman: Enough about fucking Graydon Carter already. Spy was MAD magazine with photos and without the great sense of humor, and... 5 Responses | Other threads
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Toby Young Oddly Prescient on "Making It" in Media Today
Fired Vanity Fair writer Toby Young's How to Lose Friends and Alienate People (movie version forthcoming) chronicled the Manhattan media hellmouth of the 1990s. It would be much more difficult to make it in print journalism today, he admits to WWD. In fact, he says, if he were trying to start a media-career in the aughts, he'd probably be, like, working as a "slave" for this website in particular—and "sleeping on [Brit It Boy] Euan Rellie's floor": More »
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By SheilaComment by papa-galo: I love Simon Pegg! ever since that since that scene in Shaun of the Dead where they fight fight... 2 Responses | Other threads
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Toby Young Warns Of Writer-Less Hamptons
Toby Young, the British exile and former Vanity Fair writer whose mildly amusing book How To Lose Friends and Alienate People is now being turned into a (doubtless middling) movie, is concerned about how hard it is for even famous writers to make any serious money in America these days. Except for Toby Young himself, of course, who is getting paid to write cute little missives back to the UK about how hard it is for even famous writers to make any serious money in America these days. "I'm currently in the Hamptons," he starts off: More »
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It Was Ever Thus
The central section of Greenwich Village, near that haven for nostalgic expats called Tea & Sympathy, has always drawn the English. A 1902 New York Times guide to the 'British Quarter' describes rather unflatteringly the neighborhood's inhabitants: "ruddy, grizzled, thick-necked, opinionated and slangy." We owe this vignette to Toby Young, the famously unsuccessful Vanity Fair writer who parlayed his failure in New York into an amusing book, How To Lose Friends And Alienate People, the basis for an upcoming movie starring Simon Pegg and Jeff Bridges. More »
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By Nick DentonComment by raincoaster: @raincoaster: or a Turkey. Whatever. more » | Other threads
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Toby Young on Gawker
Toby Young became famous long, long ago, when he was fired from Vanity Fair and then wrote a book about being fired from Vanity Fair. The book was also about how VF editor Graydon Carter is a bit of a tool. No one liked the book that much [Update! Besides Nick Denton and most of the UK!] but it was kind of funny and the media stuff was fun back in the early days of Gawker. But now! Thanks to The Devil Wears Prada we're finally getting the film of the book about getting fired from Vanity Fair. Toby Young's publicity campaign begins with an interview with Young Manhattanite, in which he says this: "[Gawker] has turned New York into what the philosopher Jeremy Bentham called a Panopticon — a type of prison in which all the prisoners are capable of being observed 24/7." And then he says this: "Who's Nick Denton?" Hah. [YM]
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By PareeneComment by RollsRoyceRevenge: Do you want to know why I hate him? [www.guardian.co.uk] Quite frankly, the New York he describes in this filthy article is... more » | Other threads
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Media Bitchery: The Definitive Bibliography
Think of how easy it might have been to understand Arianna Huffington's bloggy animus toward Tim Russert if there were a book out chronicling all the sordid details of their decade-and-a-half-long secret feud. (There is.) Every gossip-mongering gadabout should know the full backstory on every spat, falling out, and long-running mutual antagonism in media. Below are the volumes no shelf should be without.
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"How To Lose Friends And Alienate People" Shoots Final Scene
The film crew for "How To Lose Friends And Alienate People" has been terrorizing New York this week. Last night, they shot what people were told were the final scenes of the movie adaptation of exiled former Vanity Fair journo Toby Young's book. Is it a spoiler if, you know, the film's based on a book? Sort of? More »
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By ChoireComment by HeatherNumber1: How the hell did they make a movie about this boring, trite crap? And how can it be anything other... more » | Other threads
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David Carr Edits Graydon Carter For Conciseness
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Team Party Crash: Toby Young's Book Party
So this photo may show Ian Spiegelman trying to maul Doug Dechert, but who's the chick on the left? And what the hell is she on?
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Toby Young's Book Party: Best Fight Ever, Explained
As half-soberly reported in the wee hours of this morning, former Page Sixer Ian Spiegelman and hebrophobe writer/flack Doug Dechert came to blows last night at Soho House. What follows is a recap of what went down, complete with the requisite "he said, she said" accounts and an analysis of the "fucking pussy" factor. More » -
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Toby Young's Book Party: Best Fight Ever.
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Remainders: Pete Coors Loves That Refreshing Rocky Mountain Taste
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Remainders: Gannon-Guckert Flits Into Town
• Everyone's favorite gay escort-cum-White House reporter Jeff Gannon/James Guckert will be speaking this Thursday at the 3 West Club for the Log Cabin Republicans' monthly meeting. Hopefully, it'll be just like a Learning Annex session: how to transform your internet hobby into a viable prostitution endeavor. [Productshop NYC] More » -
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When Writers Turn to Self-Promotion, Nobody Wins
Memoirist Toby Young, eager to capitalize on that whole viral video thing, seems to have posted a "book signing gone wrong" video on YouTube to promote his second title, The Sound of No Hands Clapping. We're not poo-pooing the man's attempt to self-promote online; we're just a little disappointed that he wrote a fucking sketch (of the predictable "everyone hates me" theme, no less) and put it out there as if it were a video of an actual incident. And we're disappointed in ourselves for picking it up and sharing it. More »
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By JessicaComment by aztecprincess: This is why I do all my selfpromotion through the comments section at this here site. more » | Other threads
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Toby Young Continues Making the Same Friends
Because Toby Young isn't quite done milking his ill-fated tenure at Vanity Fair for every last drop of post-facto enrichment, he'll be back this summer with yet another memoir, containing yet more reminiscences of Graydon Carter. The Sound of No Hands Clapping is set for July publication, and a mole at The Book Standard today passes along some choice bits he found in an unedited copy of the (apparently long overdue) text:
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Toby Young: Bob's Your Monkey's Uncle
We'd mostly forgotten about Toby Young, the British writer who managed to turn his coffee break at Vanity Fair into a cottage industry replete with book, movie deal, and status as the go-to commentator whenever Graydon Carter so much as burps the wrong way. More » -
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Toby Young on New York
In How to Lose Friends & Alienate People, Toby Young recounts, charmingly, his naive pitches to Graydon Carter of Vanity Fair. The British journalist wrote: "These suggestons were hopelessly naive, the equivalent of an American pitching an article to a British editor about this fascinating new toy store he'd discovered called Hamley's." We'd thought the author was merely self-deprecating, until this article in London's Evening Standard, comparing the city with New York. According to Toby Young, New York's hot neighborhood is Park Slope, the nightclub is APT, and Nobu is the restaurant. TY should reread his book. "I'd have to come up with something a lot better than that if it was to stand a chance of getting into Vanity Fair." More » -
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Encounter with Anna
A Condé Nast mole writes, "After X months with this company, I finally had my first Anna Wintour encounter. Sadly, this isn't much in the way of gossip, as I ran into her pretty much where one would expect to run into her - in the elevator bank in the lobby of 4 Times Square. I was getting off the elevator, she was getting on. We made brief eye contact, and I was a little frightened. Despite her small stature (and yeah, she's TINY), she really does have an imposing presence. More » -
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How to Lose Friends and Alienate People: the play
British journalist Toby Young's Condé Nast exposé, How to Lose Friends & Alienate People, has been adapted for the stage and will be playing at the Soho Theatre in London beginning April 29. Condé Nast chiefs can take small comfort in the fact that it's not a musical and they won't have to worry about staffers absent-mindedly humming the tune to "The Evil Cafeteria of Darkness." More » -
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Advice from Toby Young
Conde Nast exile Toby Young's advice to young aspiring journalists trying to get started in New York: More » -
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For the next few days or weeks or as long as I feel so inclined, I will be answering "Frequently Asked Questions" for those of you who may be new to Gawker. The first five are below. Submit new questions to editorial@gawker.com. More »
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