For the third day running, the NYT's Most-Emailed List — what we like to refer to as "MEL" — has been topped by an article on sleeping together, which, unlike another NYT top-ranked article which wondered if people were sleeping together, is about all of the aspects of bed-sharing and how it impacts the lives of said bed-sharers. We could point out that, for the Paper of Record, MEL is inveitably topped by stories of a non-newsy, non-urgent nature (two words: Shamu); we feel qualified to opine on this as we spend our entire day looking at Eat The Press, as you now are, which offers its readers the service of showing the most popular headlines on CNN, HuffPo, MSNBC, NYT, USA Today and Yahoo. Invetably, words like "Ahmadinejad" don't show up under the NYT.
But today, that's not the point; the point, my friends, is verisimilitude. We mentioned it yesterday and it's just as important today. And are hats are off to the New York Times as a result. We have learned, through intrepid reporting,* that the couple in the photo illustrating the piece is, in fact, married and do, in fact, sleep together on a regular basis. Nice tough, NYT. God is in the details!
Here are those details: The people in the photo are the wildly talented Sam Turich and Gab Cody, both very funny actor/comedians (as seen here, for example - plug!) and clearly excellent at feigning sleep. Photographer Rafael Fuchs called on Sam and Gab because he knew that, and also because he knew it wouldn't take much to get Sam to show a little skin to the folks at home.Here is what Sam says about being photographed sharing a bed:
It was one of the more relaxing shoots I've ever done (lying in bed for two hours) and we got to meet our landlord's wife (we shot it in her loft) who just had her third baby in 5 years and was VERY happy to have some adults to talk to.So, maybe not total verisimilitude, but pretty darn close. Said Sam: "That's not our real bed, or our real dog, but those are my pajamas." Oh, NYT, you think of everything.
In other news, there may never be a more opportune time to make a Phish reference.
*Disclosure: ETP's intrepid reporting consisted of being on Sam's email list sending the article around.
