Hah, adorable Congressman Barney Frank was on NPR's Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me. They quizzed him on Bill O'Reilly's amazingly titled new memoir, A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity. If you like being a smug liberal, you'll love this link to a public radio broadcast. [NPR]
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Rep. Barney Frank Continues Grumpy, Hilarious Media Tour [Barney Frank]
Posted: November 11th, 2008, 1:15pm CST by Pareene
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The Lamas Gals -- Plastic Makes Perfect
Posted: October 13th, 2008, 4:41pm CDT by TMZ Staff
Tags: wackyandweird dr. Frank Ryan
Filed under: Wacky & Weird
When it comes to plastic surgeons, the Lamas girls like to keep it in the family.Shayne Lamas, Lorenzo's daughter and "Bachelor" wannabeen, was out this weekend with Dr. Frank Ryan -- the same doc who's giving her ex-stepmother Shauna Sand a new boob...
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Graziano Bro to Hulk: We're Coming For You
Posted: June 16th, 2008, 3:58am CDT by TMZ Staff
Tags: thehogans Frank Graziano
Filed under: The Hogans
TMZ.com: The voicemail threats made against Hulk Hogan and his family -- calling them "whores" and threatening to "piss on you and your family's grave" -- have been released ... and, man, are they disturbing. CLICK THE GRAPHIC ABOVE TO LISTEN TO THE UNEDITED... Read more
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Frank Rich Gives Journos False Sense of Hope [Media]
Posted: May 28th, 2008, 10:24am CDT by Pareene
Tags: Frank rich
So. Times columnist and former theater critic Frank Rich has a sweet creative consulting deal with HBO. They give him a paycheck, and he will sometimes call them up if he has a great idea (and Frank Rich has thousands of great ideas every day). He will maybe read some scripts and give notes. Did we mention he gets a paycheck? We don't begrudge him this cushy gig, but he should BEWARE. Another respected cultural thinker once went down this road, Frank!
Back when Kurt Andersen was inventing satire in Spy he was also producing TV pilots. Years later he was hired as a creative consultant for USA Networks. But things did not go well for Kurt (sigh).But his is a cautionary tale. Over a two-year period, Mr. Andersen sat in on countless meetings with channel execs and tossed in his opinion on pilots and programming. He helped found the culture channel Trio (which was later bought and eventually shuttered by NBC). And he suggested a number of shows, none of which, according to Mr. Andersen, ever got produced.
Oh, god. Trio? Ouch. Recalling his television ventures, Andersen delivers a succinct summary of his post-Spy career: "'I was moderately useful in that role,' said Mr. Andersen. 'I couldn't fail because I didn't have any real job description.'"
Watch out, Frank! You may be giving up more than just your second cubicle in the Times culture department! And, worse, you may be leading your fellow high-profile smarty-pants cultural critics astray! Your deal may encourage false expectations that easy consulting money awaits smarty-pants scribes!
Slate founder Michael Kinsley said he thought his friend Mr. Rich would excel in the role, and may even help breathe some new life into the sputtering journalist-consultant industry even as he breathes some into HBO. "HBO has a pretty good track record of being the first to try things," said Mr. Kinsley.
See, now everyone will want to play make-believe TV exec.
The Hire [NYO]
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Frank Rich Gets Vague Title at HBO [Hbo]
Posted: May 21st, 2008, 2:16pm CDT by Pareene
Tags: Frank rich
Avuncular Times columnist and former theater critic Frank Rich just signed a deal making him HBO's "creative consultant." Which means, according to Nikki Finke, "a consulting fee combined with payments for projects that get made." What it also means is that now he can get all his kids jobs on television too. (Zing!) [Deadline Hollywood Daily]
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Eva Mendes Headlines New York Comic-Con
Posted: April 20th, 2008, 2:38pm CDT
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In a night in which the geeks got the girls, sci-fi fans poured out in the droves to see the Eva Mendes headlined Comic-Con in New York City on Saturday night (April 19).
Mendes was among the celebrities on hand for the “rapidly growing sci-fi and comics convention that is drawing tens of thousands of rabid fans to the Javits Center - many dressed for the part in spandex, capes and cowls.”
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Prestigious Paper Is Kind To Rich Family [Journalism]
Posted: February 3rd, 2008, 11:41am CST by Hamilton_Nolan
Tags: Frank rich
The Times' City section today gives its cover over to a long, knowing meditation by a lifelong New Yorker about all the changes the city has gone through since its darker, more edgy days. "I have vivid memories of 1980s Times Square (my parents worked in offices there), but I never got to experience the distinct pleasures of all-night grind-house double features or live sex shows," says the author. His name is Nathaniel Rich, and he's the 27 year-old son of Times columnist Frank Rich. Wow, those Rich kids sure are good at getting published! [NYT]
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New York Times restaurant critic Frank Bruni ... [The Way To A Man's Heart]
Posted: December 4th, 2007, 4:40pm CST
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New York Times restaurant critic Frank Bruni is "a sucker for overpriced candles," is currently obsessed with Travis' second album, The Man Who, and loves the New England Pats. Also! Sometimes he eats baguettes so hard that "I sometimes have to change my shirt afterward because of the jam stains." Mignon! [Refinery 29]
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Is Sean Wilsey Frank Bruni's Underminer? [Underdiners]
Posted: November 19th, 2007, 4:10pm CST
Tags: Frank Bruni
For those eight party people who read the Times Book Review this weekend, you might have seen Sean Wilsey, the creator of Oh Glory of It All and less gloriously ofohtheglory.com, wrote a review of Phoebe Damrosch's first book "Service Included. It's a memoir of Phoebe's stint at Per Se, Thomas Keller's triple-starred restaurant in the city. Wilsey quotes Orwell; he rambles on. And then there's a section about Times restaurant critic Frank Bruni that, if it were true, would be seriously underminery. The Bruni chapters are cliffhangers, drawn out for drama, written in clear and at times exhilarating prose. It's great entertainment watching professionals at the top of the field spare no eccentricity (rules for staff behavior read: "No cologne, scented lotions, scented soaps, aftershave or perfume are to be worn during service"; "No first names, no flirting, no hands on the chairs, no touching the guest") or expense (Per Se, with its cruise liner decor, apparently cost $12 million to open): all to impress a single critic (spotted almost immediately).
There's no real news broken here. In New York at least, every restaurant is like the uber-Cheers for Frank Bruni, a place where everyone knows not only your name but your face and your tastes. His picture adorns the kitchens of many top New York restaurants, like a high-end version of one of those shrines you see at Ghetto Chinese Take Out places.But the phraseology of Wilsey's sentence suggests that the rules for the staff's personal hygiene, their comportment and the $12 million dollars Keller sunk into Per Se were all for the benefit of Mr. Bruni. The sentence isn't really confusing in this regard as much as it is misleading. That mash of parenthesis, colons, colognes, and quotes imbue a causality that is, even in the most jaded of New York minds, a stretch. It's hard to believe Thomas Keller sunk $12 mil into the restaurant "all to impess a single critic." On the other hand, as Wilsey notes, Bruni did spend $10,000 of the Times' dollars there, so he is a good customer.
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Not Afraid To Be Flavorpilly: Times op-ed downer Frank Rich will spend ...
Posted: October 23rd, 2007, 9:50am CDT
Tags: Frank rich
Times op-ed downer Frank Rich will spend this evening with presidential candidate Stephen Colbert at the 92nd Street Y. A slew of tickets have just been released. The website promises, "Following the program, there will be a book signing and opportunity to meet someone Time magazine has named 'one of the 100 most influential people of 2006.' Whatever, we were the Person of the fucking YEAR once, man! [92nd Street Y] -
To Russia With Love: Remember when we wondered what sugardaddy ...
Posted: October 8th, 2007, 1:00pm CDT
Tags: Frank Bruni
Remember when we wondered what sugardaddy was flying Times restaurant critic Frank Bruni to Moscow first-class? Neither do we! But in case you were wondering, Bruni was on his way to write a piece for Men's Vogue about wanting to be an astronaut. [Men's Vogue]
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Scenes From The New York Times: Op-ed columnist Frank Rich's new office. ...
Posted: September 7th, 2007, 10:50am CDT
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Op-ed columnist Frank Rich's new office. Tidy! -
Still Crazy After All These Years: Jeffrey Chodorow To Donate Some Or Zero Dollars To Conservation International
Posted: August 15th, 2007, 4:55pm CDT
Tags: Frank Bruni
Today Jeffrey Chodorow, the priapic owner of many a poorly reviewed restaurant, placed another ad in the New York Times Dining section. (He had previously taken out a full pager impugning critic Frank Bruni's motives in panning Kobe Club.) Today's ad was in response to Bruni's one-star review of Wild Salmon. It was written on "letterhead" in a generic "handwriting" font.Dear Frank, The penguin has returned to the South Pole where it belongs. I'm contributing the money I would have spent on a larger ad to the fight against global warming. Really glad you loved the wild salmon at Wild Salmon. It is like no other salmon I've ever tasted. Regards, Jeff. P.s. Loved "your" cameo in Ratatouille."
We contacted Chodorow's people to learn to what charity exactly he would be contributing money and how much.On the first front, after some scrambling, they came back with an organization called Conservation International which, we guess, combats global warming. What are the chances some PR flak thought, "Doh, they're actually calling us out. Quick, somebody Google 'conservation'!"
But in response to how much dough Chodorow is throwing away, we got "We are not disclosing the amount at this time." This either means somewhere around $20K (the approximate difference between a full pager and a 2 column ad), or maybe nothing. A better formulation would have been "I'm contributing the money I'm going to lose at my business due to my continuing obsessive craziness to the fight against global warming." That way the environmentalists would be trillions of dollars richer!
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