Laura Bennett
Staff Writer, The New Republic
- Arts and Entertainment, Opinion and Editorial
- Washington DC
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Culture staff writer at The New Republic. TV, books, &c.
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"He digitally replaced a cigarette in a character’s hand with a pretzel." So many good details in this piece:
nytimes.com/2013/05/26/mag…
When Hollywood Wants Good, Clean Fun, It Goes to Mormon Country
nytimes.com — Allen Ostergar stood at the front of the lecture hall with a stiff and bashful smile, or maybe it was just stage fright, and started his pitch. Open on a deadly pirate ship, he said- "the deadliest of all the pirate ships to, like, sail the seas."
@junethomas @tnr Got my eye on the Yoo-hoo, too
I just ate the fruit roll-up, which: delicious RT @tnr: Ah, to be a TV critic. Lucky @lbenn4. #swag #IFC #easycheese instagram.com/p/ZoHgfvB-ug/
@stevebaron @kfor Glad you enjoyed!
Let it be known that there is a talk show on Univision called "El Gordo y La Flaca," The Fat Man and the Skinny Woman
@jeridkurtz thanks jerid!
Oh to have been one of those scampering tuxedo-clad backup singers: buzzfeed.com/mckaycoppins/h…
Here's Anthony Weiner Singing "If I Only Had A Brain"
buzzfeed.com — In honor of his newly announced New York City mayoral campaign, we present you with this gem of a video from 2007. ..
(on pathos, real and phony, in local and national TV news)
“I can see into the small bathroom of this house." -John King, as proof of tornado devastation. Local TV was better: newrepublic.com/article/113270…
Oklahoma Tornado in 2013 Proves that Local TV News Still Has Power
newrepublic.com — Amid all the expensive camerawork and sharp matching windbreakers on the major TV networks' coverage of Monday's tornado in Moore, Oklahoma, the best dispatches largely came from local TV news. In the Times, Brian Stelter quoted John Welsh of KFOR, the NBC-affiliated TV station, eyeing the ruined landscape from his helicopter and repeating the word "gone" as he realized how many local landmarks had been leveled.Sign up to discover more journalists who cover Arts and Entertainment, Opinion and Editorial and more.
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