January 6, 2010
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But socialite Susan Gutfreund told Vanity Fair that Johnson was “not at all the way she appears in the press as just this party hound … there is a lot more to Casey than that.”
Johnson herself, recounting an incident when she and former-schoolmate Paris Hilton were pursued by the paparazzi, said: “I think Paris loves the attention, but I could not stand it.”
She described how a trip to Cambodia in 2006, including a visit to the killing fields museum, had changed her outlook on life.
“The poverty and devastation in Cambodia is so unreal … These people are getting three dollars a day, and I’m like, ‘Why can’t I get the latest Chanel bag? It’s sold out.’,” she told Vanity Fair.
“I have my health, you know. I have my family. I haven’t been sold into prostitution. I live in a free country. And I have so much more than I need.”
See the full article from “Sydney Morning Herald”
January 6, 2010
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Sensational as the “Pimp and Pro” ACORN story was, sexy as 20-year old Hannah Giles in her scantily-clad prostitute persona was and sly as videographer 25-year old James O’Keefe was, the inherent limitations of the sting and the stingers kept the story from blocking the implementation of ACORN’s radical political agenda (as distinguished from ACORN’s own funding and wish to participate in the next census).
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“The report also said that a sting-style effort to publicize the group’s allegedly illegal activities, may have broken state laws. Two conservative activists set off a firestorm in September when they posed as a pimp and a prostitute seeking financial advice and secretly videotaped Acorn employees offering advice on how the couple could hide their illicit activities and avoid paying taxes.”
Nothing about The New York Times itself killing an Obama/ACORN expose before Election Day 2008, focus on the surreptitious recording and video showing ACORN people facilitating prostitution, child prostitution, illegal immigration, bank fraud and tax fraud transformed into “advice on how the couple could hide their illicit activities and avoid paying taxes.” (Note: tax evasion, not tax avoidance, is illegal.)
See the full article from “RenewAmerica”
January 6, 2010
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5. Top Chef’s Field TripIs it just me, or did Top Chef start getting really good this year? It’s finally reached the threshold where true industry veterans know they won’t be humiliated or embarrassed by appearing on the show, so they’re all agreeing to make appearances. Take, for instance, one of our favorites: Dan Barber. For an episode that aired this January, Barber and his crew showed the contestants around the Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture, then challenged them to use Blue Hill’s kitchen to create a meal from ingredients they harvested, making Westchester the Eat Local ambassador to popular culture.
4. Sasha Grey’s Weekend Away
Indie director Steven Soderbergh raised some eyebrows this year when he cast Sasha Grey, a real-life porn star, in The Girlfriend Experience, his May movie about an upscale call girl. When “Chelsea,” the alias of Grey’s character, starts to fall for one of her clients, he promises to take her on a romantic weekend away in the Hudson Va …
See the full article from “Westchester Magazine (blog)”