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Beautiful Stockholm at night, looking west towards Gamla Stan
We applaud TheWrap's Sharon Waxman for adroitly performing a LIVE autopsy on curious recent Washington Post and N.Y. Times moves -WaPo booting Ombudsman position while NYT's "T" Mag curiously goes into a Time Machine and then bows and genuflects to NY society grande dame Lee Radziwill
TheWrap WaxWord blog Washington Post May Cut Ombudsman; New York Times Shills for Lee Radziwill By Sharon Waxman Published: February 17, 2013 @ 3:52 pm
The Washington Post is about to cut its ombudsman, according to its ombudsman.
In the latest, lamentable sign of the diminishing of America’s great daily newspapers, Patrick Pexton wrote this weekend that he is likely to be the last reader representative for the paper when his two-year term ends on Feb. 28.
Yes, Amber's smile above at 0:44 is pure perfection! A friendly series of email flares sent up from both Park Slope and West End Avenue this morning alerted us to the exciting news:"Must-see Amber Heard photo essay in today's N.Y. Times "T" Magazine." ("T" being their Style magazine for those of you who are uninitiated.) Immediately, we got to work and relayed the message via our 24/7 communication network... This blog and its network of friends around the world thank our New York City friends who wish to remain anonymous for the thoughtful head's-up, and now have a must-buy Sunday Times print edition situation for the first time in quite awhile. No promises, but we might have some photos here later in the day, after a coffee run later this afternoon from you-know-where. Here's the basics:
The last time I saw such a beautiful woman with a cute pet in a photo was... oh, that's right, this morning.
It came when I was checking my email and saw that well-grounded fave of the blog, LA-based blogger -LA Life- singer andWilhemina NY model Jennifer Åkerman had just written about her latest magazine interview, withUniprice Sweden, which she did while she's back in Sweden for a few weeks on vacation, and was photographed with her journalist sister's cat.
This title is a reference to a very popular Swedish song by singer Lill-Babs in 1961, a song title that over the past 50 years has also gotten a life of its own as a saying or metaphor, usually as a positive. It helps, of course, that the word "brud" can also be used in Swedish for bride as well as babe and -wait for it- chick.
PontiacGrandPrix63 video: Lill-Babs - Tuff Brud I Lyxförpackning (1961)
What's old becomes new again in 2010 as Petter keeps it real with Lill-Babs watching from the dinner table. You don't have to know any Swedish to see why this is both clever and funny, so watch the whole thing!
YetAnotherStranger1 video: Petter Alexis Askergren sings "Tuff brud i lyxförpackning" on TV4 Sweden's "Så mycket bättre" (So much better) Full song! Uploaded November 14, 2010. http://youtu.be/dwWAR0-dfP8
Hon är en tuff brud i lyxförpackning. En tuff brud i snyggt fodral... (She is one tough chick in luxury packaging. A tough chick in the attractive case...) The best American pop culture comparison might be Ann-Marget in Kitten with a Whip, where the title of that 1964 film, co-starring John Forsyth, has been appropriated hundreds and hundreds of times for other purposes, especially as the title of an article in popular magazines of nearly every subject you can think of.
tonypatti video: Kitten With a Whip -Famous Someday -Ann-Marget and John Forsyth (1964). http://youtu.be/B9xrcZKvUUg
Here's the video for her newest solo single, from this summer, Silent Killer... , bellsoto video: "Silent Killer" - Jennifer Akerman, directed by Bell Soto, Uploaded June 2, 2012. http://youtu.be/iYtmjKodsUM
By the way, with the demise of the LA Times Magazine due to budget cuts at parent Tribune Company, one of the few places where yours truly could oftentimes find that delicious nugget of pop culture information that confirmed his intuition and sense of things in the entertainment universe while living in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. and South Florida, I now have one less dependable, albeit-celeb-heavy, source of information. The news about this forced me to shed a tear of sadness.
Regular readers of the blog might recall they ran that excellent piece in their April issue that I linked to here in my post of April 11, 2012 titled, After Stieg Larsson, whom? April 2012 LA Times Magazine features stories on amazing Stockholm and some prominent Swedish crime novelists -and explains why you should be reading them!
