{"id":45,"date":"2005-04-24T11:53:42","date_gmt":"2005-04-24T15:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/2005\/04\/24\/pre-coffee-thoughts-in-the-vein-of-ent"},"modified":"2005-04-24T11:53:42","modified_gmt":"2005-04-24T15:53:42","slug":"pre-coffee-thoughts-in-the-vein-of-entertainment-weekly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/2005\/04\/24\/pre-coffee-thoughts-in-the-vein-of-entertainment-weekly\/","title":{"rendered":"Pre-coffee thoughts in the vein of Entertainment Weekly"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The last episode of David Letterman that I can recall dates back to my
\nfinal days at JHU, when my ex-roommate (no, not Anna, but the one
\nbefore Anna), caught Gabriel Bryne’s appearance on the show.  Dave
\nacted bizarrely and harassed Bryne with questions<\/a>,
\nsuch as, “How do you feel now that your ex-wife [Ellen Barkin] is now
\nmarried to a billionaire?”  Dave said  and repeated this
\nquestion in such a way as to make Bryne feel small.<\/p>\n

This memory has resurfaced because I have never seen an Ellen Barkin
\nfilm, nor do I have an opinion of her as a person.  But she’s out
\npromoting her new film with Todd Solondz<\/a>, and it seems that every
\narticle is obsessed with showing how she’s normal, even though she’s
\nmarried to man who not only has a lot of money, but is very flashy
\nabout it.  Here’s the New Yorker’s take<\/a> on Ms. Barkin, and New York Magazine’s take<\/a>. 
\nNeither writer can restrain herself from name-dropping Ms. Barkin’s
\nshoes (Christian Louboutin) or cataloguing her jewelry:<\/p>\n

\nShe was also wearing big diamond earrings and two rings—a vintage Deco
\ndiamond on her right hand and a wedding band of diamonds set with a
\nrose-cut nineteenth-century jar<\/span> diamond on her ring finger—along with a briolette diamond pendant on a platinum-and-diamond chain.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Both articles are probably the result of some PR woman’s engineering,
\nbut they can’t prevent me from thinking that if I was Ms. Barkin, I’d rather have a simple “modest” life with Gabriel Bryne.<\/p>\n

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