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'New York Times' Web Crew Trashes IMDB

Heyworth — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 14:09:14 EST

The funny part of this is the NYT's assumption that Baseline's database is accurate. It's based on the old Cinebooks/Motion Picture Guide info and I can tell you from personal knowledge that not only is it rife with error, but that there are fake movie entries. I was one of the original writers on that project and we used to sit around making up titles and putting them in.I love the fact that over twenty years later those fake titles can be found on the NYT website.

Heyworth

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Goodbye, Commenters! — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 13:15:34 EST

@Conbon: It's okay if I'm not real. At least I'm getting some sleep.

Goodbye, Commenters!

'New York Times' Web Crew Trashes IMDB

IndianSlipper — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 13:10:32 EST

@Brian: Shit, I thought we were still calling them Gimps.

IndianSlipper

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Conbon — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 12:57:43 EST

@Cesare_the_Somnambulist: In his defense, you turn out not to be real. SPOILER ALERT IF YOU ARE READING THIS IN 1920!

Anyways, the $35 million that the Times paid for Studio System last year seems like money that could have been much better spent by keeping 35 nice families on the Upper West Side.

Conbon

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Goodbye, Commenters! — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 12:29:13 EST

@Conbon: I know, right? I think the Times sent a reporter out to cover the premiere. He was the one who kept tilting his head to the side to try and make sense of the expressionist sets.

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Conbon — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 12:23:38 EST

@Cesare_the_Somnambulist: There's nothing on your page about your work with Robert Wiene? I better go check my own...

...Yep, still blank.

Conbon

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Trackback — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 12:17:22 EST

Oh, the scandal! The PR opportunity for all involved (except maybe the waiter, who is certainly out of a job if he made it up)! The Donald says he didn't do it, wasn't even in California -- but why would someone make that up? Why would someone want to risk making Donald Trump look like a good guy?

Trackback

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Goodbye, Commenters! — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 12:11:54 EST

@nycheartbreaker: Actually, yes!
Please go on. Every time I have ever read a piece in the NYT that I knew about first hand (or about an industry I had worked in, and a situation I knew), it had serious errors.

NYT should start reviewing its stories and adding those green, red, yellow, and white dots that work so well on [www.snopes.com] .

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nycheartbreaker — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 12:06:22 EST

"...except that it's true"? Four words: Weapons of Mass Destruction. Two words: Judith Miller. One word: Chalabi. Shall I go on?

nycheartbreaker

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Goodbye, Commenters! — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 12:02:26 EST

@FuturaPerfect:
Ha!

But, to clarify:

- The Emily Gould who appears in silver lamé bikinis and does rooftop swimsuit shots and traces the outline of Joe Camel onto the bulge of an underwear model on a poster with her fingertip is not, I believe, the real Ms. Gould, but a character she plays. Maybe it's her way of dealing with the public attention that comes with her current job; that's her business. What has been, for a few months, my business, is that I find it fun. I respect her approach, I like her work, I don't take it all too seriously--and if she has ever even bothered to pay attention to my character's response to hers, she can't have taken it very seriously, either, or she would have "executed" my little persona long ago.

- I ALSO very much appreciate and respect the very different approach Maggie Shnayerson has taken to doing her job. She's all business--and when I compliment her, it's all about her work.

With Ms. Gould it's really all about the work, too, but also in playing what seems to me to be a game. As for "real life," that would be changing the subject. EWW!

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'New York Times' Web Crew Trashes IMDB

NinaHagen — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 11:51:10 EST

@magneticfields: You can find all of Bosley - it's called external reviews which always links to Rotten Tomatoes and the Bos man. @braak: Diagnosis by Dr. Nick.

NinaHagen

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PrincessKashmir — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 11:45:26 EST

@Cesare_the_Somnambulist: Sigh. You're right. Ever since he dropped me for that insipid monkey, I'm crazed when other beautiful women get the rabid attention I once commanded. Should have stayed with Dick Burton.

PrincessKashmir

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braak — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 11:44:10 EST

@Brian: To be picky, it's actually background artist.

There is an art to standing in the background of a shot, wearing the correct coat.

I don't think I can explain it to philistines like you guys.

braak

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Truculent — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 11:35:49 EST

Geez Viv. A little bitchy today. Is your friend visiting?

Truculent

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Goodbye, Commenters! — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 11:32:39 EST

@FuturaPerfect: Are you talking about a real person? If so, you're missing the point.

But then, you're best friends with Michael Jackson, so you're probably used to that.

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PattyCake — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 11:29:22 EST

@FuturaPerfect: it was in his senior year, at Evanston Township HS. I know, as I am his demon spawn.

PattyCake

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PrincessKashmir — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 11:23:46 EST

Also, when did John Cusack become a middle-aged Japanese pedophile? That would have made Serendipity a lot more interesting.

PrincessKashmir

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PrincessKashmir — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 11:21:39 EST

@Cesare_the_Somnambulist: You scare me if you don't actually know Emily. I think 95 percent of your comments are 4th-grader-made-Valentines-meets... recently-released-from prison-serial rapist.

If you know her, than hey, it's just freaky friend stalking.

PrincessKashmir

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Goodbye, Commenters! — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 11:10:31 EST

According to my IMdB page, I am the hereditary king of Sardinia; played the lead in Andy Warhol's Dracula, a manservant in Murnau's Nosferatu, and the Good-Looking Customer in Barbershop 2: Back in Business; and am married to Emily Gould.

Life is good!

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Brian — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 11:07:35 EST

@IndianSlipper: It's not extra anymore, it's background actor. They changed it back when we started calling crippled people handi-capable.

Brian

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MisterHippity — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 11:00:15 EST

@magneticfields: Damn you! I should have refreshed. How do you read my mind like that? It's downright scary!

MisterHippity

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MisterHippity — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 10:57:27 EST

You mean, I can finally know what Bosley Crowther thought of the 1962 version of Billy Budd?

That question has kept me awake at night for years. Thank God — I can sleep peacefully at last!

MisterHippity

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dotorg greg — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 10:55:59 EST

argue with Ariel Kaminer? Are you kidding? She says jump, you estimate how high and let her cut it down later, end of discussion.

dotorg greg

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mattychicago — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 10:39:39 EST

are these comments for real?

mattychicago

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contradicto — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 10:37:42 EST

My IMDB page tastes like berries.

contradicto

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mcginstein — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 10:36:27 EST

@RosemarysBabyDaddy: Conbon accepts his gayness except he's not really gay.

mcginstein

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magneticfields — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 10:31:29 EST

It was only yesterday I was asking someone whether Bosley Crowther liked the 1962 version of Billy Budd. And why the f*** can't I find out from the IMDB?!

magneticfields

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Mackintosh-Typos — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 10:27:33 EST

From a users perspective (perish the thought of having a profile -- "video artist," obvs.), IMDB can be frustrating. That said, the Times blowing their own horn isn't exactly a winning gesture.

Mackintosh-Typos

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braak — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 10:19:42 EST

@NinaHagen: What...what does it mean "skin failure"? Your skin failed? That sounds really bad.

braak

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SemperBufo — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 10:14:34 EST

Well, my IMDB page fails to mention how, one night in 1962, I stole Marcello Mastroianni's Jaguar from teh lot at Cinecittà and shagged Monica Vitti in the Trevi Fountain. I mean, it's not true, but it would have been a nice gesture.

SemperBufo

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RosemarysBabyDaddy — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 10:12:20 EST

Does anyone know the difference between ACCEPT and EXCEPT ?? Cuz I may not.

RosemarysBabyDaddy

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collegecallgirl — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 09:59:45 EST

Once I threw a party on imdb's page and totally trashed it. We threw the TV out the window.

collegecallgirl

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Chief Wahoo — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 09:57:36 EST

The Times page for me doesn't even have all the credits my IMDB page has (correctly) listed. So, how is The Times page better?

Chief Wahoo

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NinaHagen — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 09:57:14 EST

@PandoraSpocks: But what about all that crack detail work IMDB did when I wrote to them like 5 times?

NinaHagen

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Sargasm — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 09:56:58 EST

Somebody else entirely is credited for production of my ex-bf's film. Sadly, he's dead and I can't get it corrected.

Sargasm

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PandoraSpocks — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 09:53:21 EST

Meh. IMDB had my uncle's correct date of death when he hadn't been a SAG member for 50 years and there were no funeral services. Hard to argue with that kind of detail work.

PandoraSpocks

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NinaHagen — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 09:51:56 EST

My IMDB page has me in some plastic-fantastic actress' epic (not Nicole Kidman however) - needless to say, I am not in it, have never met the woman, was not ever that successful as an actor and am not that old (even with my skin failure of yesterday). I have stopped trying to correct it as it'as become sort of funny & I use it to teach why you should double check all internets research.

NinaHagen

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IndianSlipper — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 09:46:42 EST

I knew the IMDB page for JFP was full of lies! He's a major star, not an extra!

IndianSlipper