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« Some Sick Stuff, Boy | Main | Mecha Streisand - Attack! » May 14, 2004
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Posted by Bill This influence-peddling scandal couldn't happen to a nicer guy. Graydon Carter, editor in chief of Vanity Fair, received a $100,000 payment from Universal Studios in 2003 for suggesting years earlier that the book "A Beautiful Mind'' be made into a film, executives involved with the film said. The payment was confirmed by a spokeswoman for the magazine. The film was produced by Imagine Entertainment, whose principals, Brian Grazer and Ron Howard, have made Vanity Fair's annual list of new establishment power brokers the last two years, and whose other projects have received attentive coverage in the magazine. The payback? A $100,000 payment Carter received as a finder's fee for recommending the book "A Beautiful Mind" to the producers who turned it into an Academy Award-winning movie. If Carter were just anyone, he would not be the subject of such stories. But as the editor of Vanity Fair, which routinely writes about the producers of that and other movies, the suggestion is of a serious breach of journalistic ethics. Among editors of newspapers and magazines, it's not considered kosher to carry on side deals with figures you cover in your publications. Perhaps if Carter goes, I won't have to endure cliche-ridden anti-Bush editor screeds and covers with a shirtless Brad Pitt in order to access some exceptionally good articles. It's hella embarassing to be holding a mag that resembles gay porn on the subway, let me tell ya ... Posted by Bill at May 14, 2004 01:13 PM | TrackBack (1) |
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