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By The Editors 10/13/10 5:37pm

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In Other News..: BILBO 4 PREZ

- Bilbo Baggins got one write-in vote for Attorney General in the primaries. As did Eliot Spritzer and Ruch Limbaugh. Ruch and Spritz in 2010!

- Things you need: cheese that tastes like bacon.

- Guess which “celebrity” (we use this term loosely) said the following: “I want my dressing room to feel Read More

By Michael M. Thomas 8/30/99 12:00am

Michael Frayn Novel Cures Hamptons Disease

I received a curious “invitation” the other day, on proper cardboard, suitable for propping up on the chimney piece in the best Anglo-phony style. It bore a little drawing of a man, bearded and bespectacled, looking for all the world like the images of Bilbo Baggins one finds in cheap illustrated editions of J.R.R. Tolkien, Read More

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