“Congratulations to the great John Cook on the new gig.”(via alexbalk)
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Call me trite, call me sanctimonious, call me cynical, it may be all true. Then again, so was this:
“I would like television to produce some itching pills rather than this endless outpouring of tranquilizers. It can be done. Maybe it won’t be, but it could.” —October 15, 1958, Chicago
But! Back to our regular programming:
MTV Networks is currently casting for new character walk-ons for returning game show in its 3rd Season. Must be willing to commute to NYC for Rehearsal and shoot day. LOOKING for an eccentric woman with long armpit hair for role where she is willing to remove it after months or possibly even years since shaving. [Via, naturally]
Cause? None in particular it seems, except for “the general weakness of the magazine’s newsstand sales and circulation figures.” Well, that would put Hodge in good company with the magazine’s previous editors. Hey, it’s hard to be a gangster. (Clockwise, from top right, Harper’s Magazine editors from 1941 through 2010.) Frederick L. Allen: 1941—1953 (died) John Fischer: 1954—1966 (retired, no pic.) Willie Morris: 1967—1971 (fired) Robert Shnayerson:* 1971—1976 (fired) Lewis Lapham: 1976—1981 (fired) Michael Kinsley: 1981—1983 (fired) Lewis Lapham: 1983—2006 (retired) Roger D. Hodge 2006—2010 (fired) *Yes, related.
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