Posts Tagged New York Times
Posted on January 18, 2010

This is what a keen male eye has posited in a post for T Magazine (the New York Times‘ snooty luxury fashion pub.) Well, to be fair, she says “curvy”, not the f-word. But still… really? Let’s consult some photos!
Update: Andy Port is a woman! That is totally my dumb mistake.
Port says:
Maybe it’s just me, [...]
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Posted on January 7, 2010

The rumors of Jay Leno’s cancellation are greatly exaggerated, NBC said in a statement today. Everything’s fine, his talk show gets the ratings they’d expected, etc. Though, doesn’t their need to issue a statement imply the opposite? Or not: breathless update below!
As The Daily Beast points out, the tone of the memo wasn’t exactly sunny [...]
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Posted on December 14, 2009

“I usually maintain a fairly even temper about Hollywood because I couldn’t do my job otherwise,” Manohla Dargis told me today. But the formidable NY Times film critic has fighting words for Hollywood and how it treats women.
Dargis’ “fuck them” – the first of several – refers specifically to a fact she highlighted in her [...]
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Posted on August 24, 2009
The trailer’s up for Michael Lewis’ first book to be made into a movie, The Blind Side. After the embarassing Moneyball breakdown, it must be relieving for Lewis to finally have something hit the screen. Too bad it looks terrible.
Now: The Blind Side is a book that’s primarily about the evolution of football strategy and [...]
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Posted on August 13, 2009

Remember “aerobics,” that early 80s sartorial nightmare ushered in by Jane Fonda, Olivia Newton-John and Richard Simmons? Well, it’s making a comeback in LA’s Silver Lake neighborhood, where local hipsters are now sweating it out in spandex, leotards and leg-warmers.
Former Village Voice columnist Tricia Romano has a piece in Thursday’s New York Times profiling the [...]
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