Today at Flavorpill, we sharked ourselves. We agreed with Lizzie Skurnick that Lisbeth Salander is the perfect foil to Elizabeth Gilbert in Eat, Pray, Love. We were happy to see that Lady Gaga made Vanity Fair‘s 2010 International Best Dressed List (as did Alec Baldwin!). We ranked the relative credibility of several suspicious celebrity couples. We got a kick out of Jennifer Belle’s viral marketing campaign for her latest book: hire actresses with good laughs to read it in public places! We wished that we’d had an early ’90s bat mitvah for Paul Rudd to DJ at. We downloaded Wale’s latest mixtape. We were kind of freaked out by how much this guy obviously loves Ghostbusters. We watched Joanna Newsom and Fleet Foxes cover Kid Rock and Sheryl Crow. And finally, we wondered if Christopher Nolan really did rip off a Scrooge McDuck comic with Inception. (We’re not upset if he did, as long as it helps us figure out the ending.)
A sassy title choice — “I Ponied Up for Sheryl Crow?” — would imply that even Maureen Dowd felt the gross offense of Sheryl Crow’s inclusion in Northern Trust of Chicago’s wild night of fun last week.
“Northern No Trust had a lavish dinner at the Ritz Carlton on Wednesday with a concert by Chicago (at a $100,000 fee); rented a private hangar at the Santa Monica Airport on Thursday for another big dinner with a gig by Earth, Wind & Fire, and closed down the House of Blues on Sunset Strip on Saturday (at a cost of $50,000) for a dinner and serenade by Sheryl Crow.”
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When the Financial Times reported that the number of workers claiming unemployment benefits in the United States reached a 26-year high last week, we knew that there was only one way to respond to the grim news — with a Flavorwire Playlist.
In case you’ve forgotten (we’ll admit, it has been a while), the idea is simple: we take a current event that has us feeling depressed, whip up a list of 10 tracks to help dull the pain, and ask you to best our creative genius in comments area. Bonus points if you quote lyrics.
Check out our playlist — which not surprisingly, is heavy on the oldies but goodies — after the jump.
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