George Gurley
George and Hilly: Prisoners of Roosevelt Island
GEORGE: This a new couch?
DR. SELMAN: So what brings you back?
GEORGE: Well, it’s been six months.
HILLY: Well—
GEORGE: I’m a little groggy, I have to admit, because I had to work last night. Went to this benefit at the Central Park Zoo. What animal did you like best?
HILLY: This huge porcupine and the little fox and an owl that was just gorgeous.
GEORGE: And Al Gore was there.
HILLY: Whatever.
DR. SELMAN: Personally, I’ll leave the petting of wild animals to other people, ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!
GEORGE: And then as usual, I started getting a little rambunctious, didn’t want to go home, so I put Hilly in a cab round midnight, and ended up in some apartment sitting around with kids half my age playing this game I invented. read more »
Coulter Culture
Ann Coulter's new book, If Democrats Had Any Brains They'd Be Republicans, hits bookshelves today, and as is his wont, George Gurley sat down with the self-proclaimed right-wing polemicist for a long chat [UPDATED: read the complete interview here].
George gave us a few bits of wit and wisdom from his interview, while the television is going wild about the beminiskirted babe. read more »
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The Observer's Queer and Sultry Summer Dress Code
In light of other publications' recent instructions about office dress code, we thought it was time for our own in-house reminder about appropriate attire.
Lady reporters, as per the recent slew of gossip-girl-about-town "novels," are required to wear 2.5+ inch bitch heels and a constant air of anxiety and lustiness mixed with exasperation. (Yoga mats are optional attire.) Male reporters are required to wear something horribly pleated up front, the scent of bourbon, and must also wear tidy sweater vests and "unusual" blazers, just this side of professorial.
Male and female editors both are permitted to bare midriffs, intentionally or otherwise. Male editors must shave at least once per month.
The web editor is instructed to wear a white belt at all times; also, a t-shirt promoting a band that is based in Brooklyn which was purchased at a concert in 2002 or 2003, New York's "irony is dead, no really, Graydon Carter said so" years.
White pants on Fridays are mandatory, with flesh-toned thongs or underwear beneath. Your amount of muffintop-overspill is at your discretion.George Gurley is required to wear human shoes in the office.
The editor-in-chief must wear khaki pants and should decorate his blue button-down with no fewer than two coffee stains each day.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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The Disturbingly Prescient Calendar of September 2001
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In The Observer
George Gurley's third couples therapy session turns self-reflexive and even a bit metaphysical. (Oh, who are we kidding, it's a fabulous car crash.)
David Bradley, the mega-rich owner of The Atlantic is scouring the country for additions to his merry band of word-fiends.
Real estate queen Barbara Corcoran is off for the world of TV—and she has three reality show pitches under consideration. Eep!
Phoebe Eaton does Mayoral candidate Gifford Miller.
Simon Doonan embraces lard and apologizes to Shelley Winters. read more »
The story of a woman and her first fur.
Also, The Transom has a confession to make: this edition of the paper is the late summer double issue, and therefore The Transom will be on vacation until Wednesday, August 31st. It intends to spend the week face down on a beach, attempting to read via osmosis with a book as a pillow. Until then, then!Letters
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Dawn Patrol Patrol
"Looks like the big news that I promised a while back is finally coming to pass. It has to do with something that'll be in this coming Sunday's New York Daily News."
Eden, as you'll recall, was a copy-editor fired by the New York Post (!) for surreptitiously putting some pro-life spin into a story. Our George Gurley fell in love with her, and the subsequent profile, according to Eden, got her a job on the copy-desk at the Daily News. Now, apparently, she's moving on up at the biggest-circulation paper in New York City.
This is such a perfect snapshot of the way in which the News constantly gets tangled over its own feet in trying to be, and yet not be, the Post. Hiring a woman banished from Murdoch-land for conservatism somehow crystallizes that. read more »
But it's also a classic News misstep. Eden's not a New York conservative like Ryan Sager or Robert George, the younger, libertarian generation on the Post's editorial page who represent, in some way, the way in which the movement has a future in New York. Her conservatism is more U.S. House of Representatives: Here she is cheerleading the Christian attack on Sponge-Bob, and here's her observation that "at the root of homosexuality is a desire to avoid true human intimacy."
And so the Daily News barrels into the future.A Major Announcement
Bank Stick-Ups on a Steep Rise in Manhattan
New York Fires Up The Decaf Marijuana
Is the Lady a Champ?
The Nail Biters; The Young Riders
Huge, Hidden Labels
The New Yorker 's lame attempt at P.O.W. chic.
