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All that Glitters is Not Ari Gold

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Ben Barna

All that Glitters is Not Ari Gold We miss Ari Gold. We miss his business school bite. We miss the sound of his cell phone snapping shut. And we miss his receding hairline. Mercifully, Ari and the Chasers are back on HBO this September (it would have been June were it not for that infernal strike). But if you’ve got the jitters and can’t wait until then, how about some real-life Hollywood drama (no relation to Johnny) featuring super-agent Ari Emanuel—the inspiration behind fiction-Ari—and NBC co-chairman Ben Silverman? There's been some high-powered bickering between the Hollywood svengalis, and Slate's got a rundown of it here. Lloyd not included.

Seven Minutes to Save the World

By

Ben Barna

Seven Minutes to Save the World We’ve managed to: get seven-minute abs, spend seven minutes in heaven, run a seven-minute half-mile, watch the first seven minutes of countless movies, count to 420, watch one segment of "24," read one page of Being and Nothingness, and write this post. But never did we think that in seven minutes we’d get a complete rundown of the neverending story that is the Democratic race for the Presidential nomination. Never, until now.