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...five folks trying out the game at MTV headquarters were nervous too, though they had varied musical credentials. Christopher Porterfield, TIME writer and editor emeritus, had played jazz in college and, as a young TIME staffer in 1964, traveled with the Beatles on their first American tour. He played bass. On drums was Leo Sacks, a Grammy-nominated music producer of vintage R&B who is making a documentary on the New Orleans gospel icon Raymond Myles. TIME writer Gilbert Cruz, the only participant who knew his way around the Rock Band platform, took lead guitar. The vocals were shared...
...first talked to Robert Novak 25 years ago, when I was a newly hired staffer at the Republican National Committee. After introducing himself, he handed down Novak rule No. 1. "In my world, you have a choice," he said. "You can be either a source or a target." I gulped and wisely chose the former. Thus began a lengthy friendship. Novak, who died of brain cancer on Aug. 18 at age 78, loved to dish. But he also pushed me to look around corners at what was really happening. He was a factor in Washington for nearly 50 years, first...
...Wintour. She, too, no doubt wears Prada, but the chief impression we get of her is that of a beautiful elderly hippie in droopy black sacks who drifts through Vogue's corridors in a haze of either artistic irritation or inspiration. If Wintour is the Pope (as one Vogue staffer calls the boss), Coddington is Michelangelo, trying to paint a fresh version of the Sistine Chapel 12 times a year amid hurdles that include budgets (admittedly not much of a restraint, at least when this film was shot), the need to forecast and invent multiple trends (which here...
...what's the secret of Huh's success? Part of the charm of his sites is that they appear to be put together by rank amateurs. "It's on purpose," says Huh. Actually, they're carefully cultivated by 20 staffers, mostly Seattle-based, including a lapsed lawyer and a former investment banker. The company is hiring roughly one staffer a month and gets some 100 applications for every position. Applicants should not offend easily and must have held a job they hated, says Huh, to better appreciate the joys of spending their days perusing funny photos. Plus, he says...
Besides, if there's anything Ann Arbor won't lack for, it's news. There's already at least one profitable local-news site in town. Mary Morgan, 48, a former News staffer, and her husband Dave Askins, 44, started the Ann Arbor Chronicle last September. It specializes in long-form accounts of local council, school-board and other civic-association meetings. "I hand-tooled most of the HTML myself," says Askins. (He learned on his other site, Teeter Talk - word-for-word transcriptions of interviews with local figures on the couple's teeter-totter.) The Chronicle, says Morgan...