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...matter. These ads seem more ripe for mocking than for making people buy newspapers. So that's what this group of mostly New York-based comedians and actors did under the direction of Michael Showalter of Wet Hot American Summer fame. The spoof even pokes hilarious fun at the paper and its advertising methods in a meta way! It's actually an ad for an arts and entertainment venue in New York City and it includes people like Paul Rudd, Mike Birbiglia, Andrea Rosen, Michael Ian Black and a bunch of people who probably roll in an insider comedian circle...
...Obama name is golden right now in book land. The President is leading the hit parade: Dreams from My Father and The Audacity of Hope are on both the New York Times' hardcover and paperback best-seller lists, no mean authorial feat. (Dreams is No. 1 on the paperback list after a staggering 133 weeks.) Books by more than a dozen other authors on the Times lists retell the tale of the Obama campaign, evaluate the man or set out his life story. There's no mystery as to why new Obama books keep popping up in the nation...
...Michelle book would be enormous," says Michael Coffey, executive managing editor of Publishers Weekly. "She's a figure of interest to political people, to women, to the African-American community, to the international community." Last March, before her husband had even won the Democratic Party's nomination, the New York Observer reported that Michelle Obama had been approached by "over a dozen" publishers to write a book. Calls were going through Washington superlawyer Bob Barnett, who represented the President for Audacity. Interest has only intensified since then, but the First Lady's office is in lockdown when it comes...
...absence of a book by the First Lady herself, publishers are relying on Michelle-themed tomes by other writers. Michelle, a biography of the First Lady by Washington Post staff writer Liza Mundy, was one of the first out of the gate; a New York Times best seller, the book has an impressive 170,000 copies in print after seven printings. The Mundy book proved Michelle Obama's international appeal; there are now 15 foreign-language editions of the book, including Arabic, Portuguese and Polish...
...know, the competition is so big and all the girls are so amazing and all the photographers are so good - I'm sure each and every picture is just incredible. I knew I was probably in the running, but I had no idea. (See fashion photos from New York City's International Center of Photography...