The great Garry Shandling describing Rip Torn's audition for "The Larry Sanders Show": Rip came in for the first time, and his agent said he wouldn’t read. Weeks later it…
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A British hedge fund manager has cornered the market in cocoa: The British news media has christened Mr. Ward “Chocolate Finger,” a nod to the Bond villain Auric Goldfinger. And…
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A strange, awful and yet wonderful paragraph from a New York Times article on the death of an artist I had never heard of: A Hamster’s Nest is what it…
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Time to draw your attention to a couple of bits of media that I've enjoyed recently, namely an excellent article by William Langewiesche in Vanity Fair about Captain "Sully" Sullenberger…
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Aaron Sorkin imagines former President Jed Bartlet giving Candidate Obama a pep talk: BARTLET That was a hell of a convention. OBAMA Thank you, I was proud of it. BARTLET…
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