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Three's a charm for Cate Blanchett.
The Oscar-winning actress and playwright hubby Andrew Upton welcomed the arrival of a third child, son Ignatius Martin Upton, on Sunday in Sydney.
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"They didn't pay me enough to go Colombia,'' he said.
"I wrote the book in San Francisco. I got the information from a chick I was dating - an intern in the Colombian Consulate.
Another author wrote, in an email:
"Why did you (management) not understand that when you hire a constant stream of new, unvetted people, pay them poorly and set them loose, that someone, somehow was going to screw you?''
(via Doree, Drudge) (Photo via Daily Telegraph)
The surprisingly tasteful site is here if anyone wants to give a test drive. Do they air this sort of ad on Australian TV? And more importantly, can we get Jezebel to publish the results of the test drive?
[Editor William] Bastone said most people writing on the Web are most interested in its characteristics as a megaphone, as opposed to the toolbox it contains for practicing journalism.
“Name me a Web site that does original reporting. There aren’t many,” he said. Mr. Bastone is a low-key man who does not seem like the kind of guy who would be breaking big stories about Mafia figures, but he remains surprised that very little digital shoe leather is being expended, given the opportunities.
“It is beyond night and day from just 15 years ago in terms of reporting,” he said, shaking his head.” When I think about how many hours — hundreds of days, really — I spent in records offices looking for stuff I can just get on my desktop, it drives me crazy.”
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“He grabbed them all, said, ‘I need to buy all of these,’ ” Mr. Laurence said. “He had been going around to different stands, buying them.”
The Journal parody was created by former National Lampoon editor Tony Hendra, who has parodied the WSJ before, as well as comedian Richard Belzer, Monty Python member Terry Jones and humorist Andy Borowitz, according to the Times. Its website is wsjparody.com.
UPDATE: Not explicitly noted in the Times story is that the New York Press created the parody.
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(Parody image via New York Times)
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Author J.K. Rowling is eager to tell a judge this week that one of her biggest fans is in fantasyland if he believes a "Harry Potter" encyclopedia he plans to publish does not violate her copyrights.
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Hits car in front of her in stop-and-go freeway traffic, but causes no damage.
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