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Two Dreams That Changed Hollywood

Anne Hill | Posted 11.11.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Dreams, Jerry Weintraub, Movies, James Cameron, The New Yorker, Elvis Presley, Vanity Fair, Creativity, Entertainment, Entertainment News
Anne Hill

Big dreams still come when we are at the top of our game, but sometimes the most influential ones come to us on the way up.

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This Week In Magazines: Helping the Ill with Robots and an Academic Classic - Gays and Coastal Resorts

James Warren | Posted 10.26.2009 | Media

Read More: The Week, Goldman Sachs, Organic Gardening, The New Yorker, Time Magazine, Espn, Magazines, Media News
James Warren

Goldman Sachs, poster child for the double-edge sword of mega-success, now finds that even an act of charity brings rebuke.

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New Yorker Readers Dress Their Animals Up Like Characters From Literature

newyorker.com | Posted 10.24.2009 | Green

Read More: Costumes, Critterati, Animal Costumes, The New Yorker, Indognito, Green News

Is your pet a member of the Critterati? View the gallery of New Yorker readers' pets, dressed up as a literary character....

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New Yorker Festival Attracts Throngs Of Fans Despite Publishing Woes

AP | JOCELYN NOVECK | Posted 10.21.2009 | New York

Read More: Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker, John Turturro, Roger Angell New Yorker, Calvin Trillin, Stephen Colbert, New York, Ronger Angell, Msnbc, Calvin Trillin Food Tour, Manhattan, Stanley Tucci, Rachel Maddow, Elizabeth Edwards, The New Yorker Festival, Ariel Levy, Joan Cusak, New Yorker Festival Humor Revue, New York News

NEW YORK — The journalism industry may be in precarious shape, but you wouldn't have known it at the annual New Yorker Festival, where star wors...

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Predator Drone Strikes Increasing, Carrying Out Operations For Pakistan

Huffington Post | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Reaper-Drones, New America Foundation, Central Intelligence Agency, The New Yorker, Pakistan Taliban, Pakistan, Obama Administration, Predator, Zardari, New Yorker, Cia, Jane Mayer, Pakistani Government, Predator Drones, Politics News

The Obama Administration has increased the scope of the U.S. government's two drone programs, writes Jane Mayer in an article in the New Yorker. "Acc...

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Subject: Our Marketing Plan

The New Yorker | Ellis Weiner | Posted 10.20.2009 | Books

Read More: Interns, The New Yorker, Book Marketing, Book Publishing, Twitter, Shouts and Murmurs, Humor, Online Marketing, Publishing, New Yorker, Marketing, Book Promotion, Internet, Authors, Books, Promotion Department, Blogging, Google, Book Blogs, Blogs, Books News

If you already have a blog, make sure you spray-feed your URL in niblets open-face to the skein. We like Reddit bites (they're better than Delicious),...

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Is the New Yorker on S.I. Newhouse's DNR List?

Gerald Sindell | Posted 10.08.2009 | Media

Read More: Stakeholders, Shareholders, S.I. Newhouse Jr, The New Yorker, Conde Nast, Gourmet Magazine, Future of Journalism, Magazines, Media News
Gerald Sindell

Calling in those McKinsey folks to review your profit and loss numbers in the middle of the deepest recession since the 1930s is a little like having Dr. Kevorkian over to offer a second opinion.

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Mavis Gallant: Underrated Short Story Master Proves Herself Again

David Finkle | Posted 10.06.2009 | Books

Read More: Short Stories, Expatriates in Paris, Literary Fiction, The New Yorker, Mavis Gallant, The Cost of Living: Early and Uncollected Stories, Green Sky, A Fairly Good Time, The Collected Stories of Mavis Gallant, Canadian Authors, Random House, Alfred Dreyfus, Green Water, The New York Review of Books Publishing, Books News
David Finkle

Since none of the fiction lovers to whom I mention Mavis Gallant has more than the vaguest notion who she is -- this, despite her being singled out fo...

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Alert The TV News Media: Obamanomics Isn't Working

Diane Tucker | Posted 11.01.2009 | Media

Read More: John Cassidy, Job Losses, The New Yorker, Ronald Reagan, Unemployment Rate, New Deal, Fdr-New-Deal, Jobs, News Media, Media, Franklin Roosevelt, Diane Tucker, Barack Obama, Recession, Barack Obama Ronald Reagan, Cnn, Unemployed, Unemployment, Job Cuts, Fox News, Unemployment Benefits, Work Projects Administration, Charles Gibson, Banks, NBC News, Layoffs, Msnbc, Bank of America, Aig, Cnbc, Citibank, Bankruptcy, Timothy Geithner, Financial Crisis, The Recession, The Bailouts, Careers, Labor, CBS Evening News, ABC News, Small Business, Economy, Michelle Obama, Capitalism: A Love Story, Media News
Diane Tucker

Ronald Reagan governed over high unemployment numbers, and he was covered by a hyper-critical media. Yet today, most TV news outlets are giving President Obama a free pass on equally bleak statistics.

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Letter From Paris: What The French Don't Understand About Us (And I Don't Either)

Beth Arnold | Posted 09.25.2009 | World

Read More: Dominique De Villepin, Dominique De Villepin Trial, The New Yorker, France, Health Care Reform, Dominique De Villepin Sarkozy, Kelly Cuvar, Dominique De Villepin Smear Campaign, American Culture, Janet Flanner, Grazia-Magazine, Paris, Barack Obama, Nicolas Sarkozy, World News
Beth Arnold

There is no question that Obama is repairing the perception of the U.S. throughout the world, but the stark reality is this: He is up against those who still want to make us smaller than we ever were throughout history.

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The Return of the Great Herb Vandecker, Poet

Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 09.24.2009 | Comedy

Read More: National Poetry Month, The New Yorker, Satire, Comedy, Poetry, Comedy News
Robert J. Elisberg

Back in April, to honor National Poetry Month -- a sadly neglected holiday that sits somewhere between French Fry Week and Pick Up a Rock Day -- I introduced the brilliant Herb Vandecker.

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Letter from Paris: Josephine Baker Back in Paris (This Time as a Man)

Beth Arnold | Posted 11.11.2009 | World

Read More: Josephine-Baker, Gentry Lane, The New Yorker, France, Gentry De Paris, Casino De Paris, Burlesque, Brian Scott Bagley, Janet Flanner, Dita Von Teese, Paris, World News
Beth Arnold

It was a beautiful bang of an evening with swishy chorus girls covering luminous curvy skin with a parade of splendid costumes. Modern burlesque diva Dita Von Teese headlines this extraordinary show at the historic Casino de Paris.

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This Week in Magazines: An Electric-Fuel-Trade Acid Test and the South Rises Against the New Yorker

James Warren | Posted 10.23.2009 | Media

Read More: Oxford American, The New Yorker, Malcom Gladwell, Time, American Music, Forbes, The Economist, Magazines, Media News
James Warren

Those old, wicked animosities between New York City and Conway, Ark., are heating up.

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Innocent, but Executed

Barry Scheck | Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Death Sentence Texas, Death Row, The New Yorker, Death Sentence, Cameron Todd Willingham, Innocence Project, Barry Scheck, Cameron Todd Willingham Innocent, Innocent but Executed, Politics News
Barry Scheck

Whether our criminal justice system has executed an innocent man should no longer be an open question. Cameron Todd Willingham's case proves that.

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This Week in Magazines: Jenny Sanford Exacts Revenge, Newsweek Provides Helpful Alien Advice

James Warren | Posted 09.23.2009 | Media

Read More: Newsweek, Jenny Sanford, The New Yorker, Vogue, Martha Stewart Living, Magazines, Media News
James Warren

Some jilted lovers don't get mad, they get even. Jenny Sanford, wife of the South Carolina governor, decided to get Anna Wintour.

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Generation-Y Bloggers: How To Improve Your Writing Overnight

Diane Tucker | Posted 09.21.2009 | Media

Read More: Blackberry, The New Yorker, Vlog, The Elements of Style, Obama Blackberry Addiction, HuffPo Liveblog Series, Liveblogging, Huffington Post Complete Guide to Blogging, Diane Tucker, Text Messaging, Arianna Huffington, William Strunk Jr, E. B. White, Arianna Book, Blogging, Generation Y, How to Blog, Twitter, Careers, Huffpost Books, Books, Technology, Facebook, Iphone, Tucker Carlson, Dancing With the Stars, Media News
Diane Tucker

The Elements of Style is a masterpiece on the art of writing well, and it's a surprisingly quick read. Seriously, this rhetoric rulebook is so slim, it'll fit in the pocket of your hoodie.

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The SELF You Never Were

Joyce McFadden | Posted 09.17.2009 | Media

Read More: The Today Show, The New Yorker, Photo Retouching, Health, Sexism, Christy Turlington, Fashion, Kelly Clarkson, Airbrushing, Lauren Collins, Feminism, Self Magazine, Lucy Danziger, Photography, Magazine Retouching, Photo-Retouching, Emme, Photoshop, Media News
Joyce McFadden

SELF takes the focus off her talent by making us focus on what they see as the money shot... a version of Clarkson that doesn't exist.

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This Week in Magazines: The 10 Best Cities for Chablis-Loving Kayakers, New Rules for Cannibals

James Warren | Posted 09.16.2009 | Media

Read More: Cannibalism, The New Yorker, Time, Outside, Slate, Consumer Reports, Magazines, Media News
James Warren

America's last honest institution, Consumer Reports, decides to check out perhaps the greatest invention in modern history since liquid Prell, namely GPS systems.

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The New Yorker Raises A Toast To Birther Nut Michael Savage

Eric Boehlert | Posted 09.03.2009 | Media

Read More: Right-Wing Media, The New Yorker, Manchurian Candidate, Kelefa Sanneh, Michael Savage, Media News
Eric Boehlert

The New Yorker's soft-pedaling of Savage, as well as the larger unhinged right-wing movement to demonize and dehumanize Obama, is just embarrassing.

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For the Health of the Nation: Ensure a Public Option

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 08.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: The New Yorker, Public Option, President Barack Obama, Canada, United Steelworkers, Canadian Broadcasting Company, Kaiser Family Foundation, Republican, Tommy Douglas, Dr. Atul Gawande, Kiefer Sutherland, Single Payer, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Universal Health Care, American Medical Association, Pre-Existing Conditions, New England Journal of Medicine, World Health Organization, Life Expectancy, Health Care, National Health Care, Infant Mortality, Politics News
Leo W. Gerard

The last time the World Health Organization stacked up countries' health systems, the United States came in 37th, behind Chile, Morocco, Cyprus and even drug war-torn Colombia.

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Wimbledon Tennis: Sports Illustrated's Jon Wertheim Updates the Greatest Sports Book Ever Written

Matthew DeBord | Posted 08.01.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Wimbledon, Sports Illustrated, U.S. Open, The New Yorker, 2008, 1968, John McEnroe, Clark Graebner, Jon Wertheim. John McPhee, Roger Federer, Arthur Ashe, Tennis, Semifinal, Levels of the Game, Rafel Nadal, Entertainment News
Matthew DeBord

You wouldn't think it could be done, taking John McPhee's 1969 book Levels of the Game and using it to make something equally compelling. But Wertheim has, and that's his personal triumph.

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Getting Rich and the Marshmallow

Don McNay | Posted 07.25.2009 | Business

Read More: College Students, Predicting Wealth, Thomas Stanley, Stanford Department of Psychology, Defined Benefit Plans, Discipline, Marshmallow, Main Street, Waylon Jennings, Payday-Loans, Positive Psychology, Fox Business Network, Millionaire Next Door, Stress, Billy Joe Shaver, Small Business Owners, Nursery School, Positive Thinking, New Yorker, Billy-Joe-Shaver, Instant Gratification, Dna, Defined Benefit, 401k, Cincinnati, Stanford University, Lexington KY, Richmond, Fox Business CNBC, Personal Finance, Payday Lending, Msfs, The New Yorker, Dr. Thomas Stanley, Chfc, Cnbc, Millionaires, Pensions, Kentucky, Payday Loans, Don McNay, Ky, Walter Mischel, Credit Cards, Sub-Prime Mortgages, Bing Nursery School, Delayed Gratification, Clu, Structured Settlements, College Student Credit Cards, Adult ADD, Wall Street, Heredity, Sat, Million Dollar Round Table, Genetics, Certified Structured Settlement Consultant, Cssc, Chartered LIfe Underwriter, Tax-Anticipation-Loans, Defined-Contribution-Plans, Business News
Don McNay

We have a financial system that has played to people's weaknesses. We have allowed people who are prone to instant gratification to have as much credit as they could get their hands on.

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Doctors Rx at AMA: Eat Local, Organic

Samuel Fromartz | Posted 07.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Heathy Eating, American Medical Association, Doctors, The New Yorker, Organic Food, Food Inc., Health, Green News
Samuel Fromartz

Industrial food producers are already in a tizzy over the documentary Food Inc., but I bet they didn't expect to be facing the nation's doctors.

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My Multitasking Secrets Will Change Your Life

Andy Borowitz | Posted 06.05.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Borowitz Report, Multitasking, The New Yorker, Andy Borowitz, Disney, Robert Iger, Ceos, Comedy News
Andy Borowitz

Whoever said that the early bird gets the worm could have been talking about me, only I'm a person, not a bird, and I'm not interested in getting worms, more like getting things done.

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Friedman and Andrews Play the Clueless Defense

Yvette Kantrow | Posted 06.28.2009 | Media

Read More: Thomas Friedman, The New Yorker, Clark Hoyt, True/Slant, Lawrence Wright, New York Times, Edmund Andrews, Carlos Slim, Media, Felix Salmon, Michael Roston, Journalism, Media News
Yvette Kantrow

"I just wasn't paying attention." "It never even occurred to me to mention it." What do these two statements have in common? They were both uttered ...

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