MCN Curated Headlines Archive for June, 2012

“We are satisfied that the animals won’t now end up in an abattoir and that much more attention is now being paid to their welfare.”
Danny Boyle Assures PETA The Olympics Opener Will Be Kind To The Animals

“Mr. Baldwin possesses what you might call the salutary egotism of avid living, as opposed to the rotten narcissism of amoral grasping and mistreatment of other people.”
Lee Siegel Elucidates His Alec Baldwin Issues For The Fashion Section
“Back to business as usual, which means being crabby about Cannes and printing long articles about filmmakers nobody has heard of.”
A Genial Editor’s Letter From Cinema Scope’s Mark Peranson

WSJ’s Anna Russell Will Blog Her Way Through The Criterion Collection
Yes – Just Like Matthew Dessem
Who – Ebert Wrote About In 2009
Esquire Goes Ephron
Junod: “If you are a magazine writer, you are always worried about the afterlife.”
And – Chiarella: “I never wanted to be a journalist. What I wanted, and I knew this by the time I was 30, was to be Nora Ephron.”
With – Taddeo: “I met Nora Ephron at one of those parties where women like her will be accosted by people trying to slip their Chardonnay into her circle, where women like me will get her eyes for four anonymous minutes, and go home grateful.”
And – Marche: “‘Having a baby is like throwing a hand grenade into a marriage.'”
“I loved whoever was making these actresses comfortable enough to express the minutiae of being a human woman onscreen.”
Lena Dunham Remembers Nora Ephron

“I don’t give a —- about that,” he said.”
NewsCorp’s WSJ Gets Behind-The-Scenes At Murdoch Choice To Spin Off NewsCorp Newspapers
“It’s all about the truth. It’s really about how important searching for the truth is, and how digging for the truth then is different than it is today.”
Redford Talks Watergate To Sean Means

“She could get a little wry about the more self-obsessed aspects of the movement at its height, like the meetings where everyone was required to bring mirrors and examine their private parts.”
Times Adds Gail Collins To Its Many Cooks In Nora Ephron’s Kitchen