[PJ-Comix]

We watched "Shattered Glass" on DVD the other night. It's a short film. It was about Stephen Glass, the young reporter at The New Republic magazine in the late nineties, who wrote fake stories --- I mean fake everything, incidents, names, he even made up company names and created fake websites.

Did Glass ever quote Ty the Bouncer with extremely lengthy word for word quotes done completely from memory?

[franksolich]

I always get Kevin Spacey confused with Howard Metzenbaum.

Anyway.

I'm curious as to why the Bostonian Drunkard hasn't been inviting the Leopudlian journalist to his digs; after all, they both work for the same organization, and at one time were close.

Something must have happened, maybe about eleven months ago?

I mean, the Bostonian Drunkard hasn't even posted any articles by the Leopudlian journalist in DUmmieland; someone else not the Bostonian Drunkard does that now.

I'm also curious as to how the Bostonian Drunkard is adapting to his demotion--remember, his title on his articles used to be "editor." Now it is simply "columnist."

I'm not in the journalism business, but I sort of kind of suspect that a "columnist" is lower-ranking than an "editor."

[Barset]

Glass put the words into all of his characters mouths much as Pitt does with his underlings.

Pitt doesn't "quote from memory" just as Glass did not write his quotes from his fake notes. They make things up.

I think there must be an emptiness in people like this, a sense that they are invisible, so they fill up the black hole with fakery and lies, and they are drawn to celebrities, even minor ones. To be noticed by a celebrity after thrusting yourself on him is nirvana.

The late Katherine Graham, prop. of the Washington Post, had a name for celebrity-hounds, not nice, but accurate.