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nymag.com - 4/1/2008

It Wasn’t Harvey Weinstein: On Anthony Minghella’s Legacy, Again -- The Projectionist -- David Edelstein's Movie Blog -- New York Magazine

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After Lee Siegel was exposed and suspended for confronting nasty commenters on his New Republic blog under a pseudonym ( sock puppet ), I e-mailed him a condolence note to the effect that blogging is a pipeline to the id, and that some of us the exhibitionist, the paranoid, the batshit-crazy should approach such unmediated self-expression warily, if at all. It s too bad that in his recent ...

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