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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
NEW YORK — Julie Powell's new book is not for the squeamish, in more ways than one. It opens with her in the back of a butcher shop, flecked with blood and reeking of meat. She's busy slicing a raw, slippery liver with a foot-long knife. By the end of the book, another internal organ – her heart – has been filleted: Powell dissects the pain caused by her two-year affair with an old...
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DVD Talk (Free subscription) | yesterday
Highly Recommended Julie & Julia was marketed as a "feel-good" movie - an automatic turn-off for me. I don't go to movies in order to feel good about myself or others; I go because I'm interested in the different, diverse ways that filmmakers see the world. One might not think of Nora Ephron as a writer/director famed for probing insight into the human condition; but in Julie & Julia...
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yumsugar (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
Whenever I'm traveling to a different city, I spend some time looking into the eateries I must visit. Sometimes, the most recently acclaimed restaurant is at the top of my list, but more often than not, I'm out to try the city's most famed food institutions. On a recent trip to Los Angeles, I knew I had to visit Langer's , the Jewish delicatessen known for, as Nora Ephron once put it , "the finest...
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Cele|bitchy (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
Sixty-year-old Meryl Streep is the “cover girl” for Vanity Fair’s January issue. My guess is that Meryl is promoting her two roles this year - It’s Complicated, with Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin, and Julie & Julia, in which Meryl will likely get her bajillionth Oscar nomination for playing Julia Child. I don’t [...]
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Time (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
The best-selling novelist and Philadelphia Inquirer columnist writes about the indignities of Spanx and the thrill of a well-executed iced green-tea latte
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Relevant History (Free subscription) | 29/11/2009
From James Parker's piece on Nora Ephron and Nancy Meyers in the December issue of The Atlantic: Sitting at the bar with his ex-wife, his round a little glass something or other, Baldwin... is florid, potent, gloatingly and inflatedly masculine,...
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Relevant History (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
A pretty good New York Times article on people who spend a lot of time working in coffeeshops. My favorite: a matchmaker who works out of a "Nora Ephron-ish coffee shop in the West Village" rather than an office because...
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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
Don't you love the off-the-charts contrast? I do. While we have tent cities going up around the U.S., the offerings of Neiman Marcus' 2009 Christmas Book were unveiled last week.
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A CUP OF JO (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Happy Thanksgiving, my lovelies! Where will you be spending the holiday? Alex and I will be going to our friends' house in Brooklyn, where we plan to eat lots of cheese, sit by the fire and play gin rummy. Alex has been working such long hours recently that I can't wait to have him in my clutches! Enjoy the long weekend, and, in the meantime, here are a few great posts from around the web... The style...
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Across the Great Divide (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
I saw this link to Nora Ephron's "Top 10 Thanksgiving Recipes You Didn't Cook Last Year That You're Cooking This Year" post at HuffPo, and figured it would be a parody of the GOP's Top 10 Things That Didn't Win...
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Sanctuary for the Abused (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
THE MYTHS OF INFIDELITY THE PEOPLE WHO ARE running from bed to bed creating disasters for themselves and everyone else don‘t seem to know what they are doing. They just don‘t get it . But why should they? There is a mythology about infidelity that shows up in the popular press and even in the mental health literature that is guaranteed to mislead people and make dangerous situations even...
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MRod says: (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
One of the gifts in this year’s Neiman Marcus Christmas catalog is the “Algonquin Round Table Experience” which is a private dinner party for the buyer and their guest with the following distinguished VIPs. Christopher Buckley Roz Chast Delia Ephron Nora Ephron Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Malcolm Gladwell Adam Gopnik Lewis H. Lapham John Lithgow Anna Deavere Smith George Stephanopoulos...
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God's Politics (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
In the first year of Gail Collins ’s survey of “the amazing journey of American women from 1960 to the present,” I turned 12. Not long after that, I told my father I was thinking of becoming a lawyer. “That’s not…
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kottke (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
For her latest GOOP newsletter, Gwynyth Paltrow asks a few friends -- Ferran Adria, Nora Ephron, Mario Batali -- to recount their most memorable meals . Tags: food gwynethpaltrow
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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
The extravagant offerings in Neiman Marcus' 83rd annual catalog do not disappoint. Restrictions and exclusions apply to Goldman Sachs employees and anyone named Madoff.
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