Magazine

November / December 2012

Articles

• Cover Story

  Questionable taste Ricky Gervais describes the pleasures and pitfalls of being interviewed

  By Cyndi Stivers

• Cover Story

  In cold type When Truman Capote set out to profile Marlon Brando for The New Yorker in 1957, he knew just how to set his traps

  By Douglas McCollam

• Cover Story

  Rules of the game The sometimes nauseating, often fun, and always absurd life of a movie publicist

  By Reid Rosefelt

• Cover Story

  Celeb-O-Matic Yes, it's your handy map of access to the stars!

  By Cyndi Stivers

• Cover Story

  Gross misunderstanding What journalists miss about the movie business

  By Edward Jay Epstein

• Cover StoryOn the Job

  Esprit de corpse What it's like to be embedded—on a movie set

  By Jay A. Fernandez

• Cover Story

  The red-carpet treatment Set the Wayback Machine to April 9, 1984. The stars are filing into the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles for the 56th Academy Awards . . .

  By Cyndi Stivers

• Cover Story

  Taking the seen-it route Why toil as an entry-level slave when you can watch a lot of TV, write it up, build a following—and perhaps even get paid?

  By Sara Morrison

• Cover Story

  Avoiding pilot error By tracking its users' intent to watch fall shows, TVGuide.com handicaps the new TV season

  By Cyndi Stivers

• Feature

  Lost and found In 1967, an ambitious young reporter broke a promise to a troubled source and inadvertently made her famous. Forty-three years later, he set out to find her and apologize.

  By Bruce Porter

• Feature

  Going to great lengths After two years as the hot new thing, the e-singles market is getting serious—and crowded

  By Michael Meyer

• Cover Story

  The fame game Just in time for Hollywood awards season, CJR shines a Klieg light on entertainment journalism—a sometimes deprecated but highly influential corner of the craft.

  By The Editors

Departments

• Opening Shot

  Opening Shot A picture is worth a thousand meanings

  By The Editors

• Currents

  Behind the news Give me a visual

  By Jessica Weisberg

• Currents

  Title Search Python developer

  By Jay Woodruff

• Currents

  A matter of time Pretty in Finke

  By The Editors

• Darts and Laurels

  Darts and Laurels Women's work

  By Sara Morrison

• Editorial

  Hard truths What is the future of political factchecking?

  By The Editors

• Currents

  Talk to the hand A long-running journalism inside joke gets new (after?)life

  By Sara Morrison

• CurrentsLanguage Corner

  Language Corner There, there

  By Merrill Perlman

• Currents

  Gifted 'Tis the season

  By The Editors

• Currents

  Open Bar The Anchor Bar

  By Tanveer Ali

• Currents

  Death becomes ... who? What the NY Times obits say about America

  By Stephen G. Bloom

• Letters to the editor Readers respond to our August/September issue

  By The Editors

• Currents

  Hard Numbers Election edition

  By Hazel Sheffield

• The Lower Case Headlines that editors probably wish they could take back

  By The Editors

• Currents

  DIY celebrity profile Fill in the blanks

  By The Editors

Ideas & Reviews

• Second Read

  Human capital In O Albany!, William Kennedy pays homage to the hard-to-love city that is his novels' greatest hero

  By Stefan Beck

• Essay

  Flag on the play Why a great sportswriter blew the story of a lifetime; the undoing of Joe Paterno

  By Tim Marchman

• Brief Encounters Short reviews of Out of the News, The Way the World Works: Essays, and The Stammering Century

  By James Boylan

• The future's so bright ... How to save the world while paying people with beer and hugs

  By Justin Peters

• Color blind When white men and three networks ruled the media, coverage of race was ... better? Damn you, Internet!

  By Amanda Hess

• The Research Report

  Innovator's lament Shouldn't trailblazers be allowed to establish new standards of success?

  By Michael Schudson and Katherine Fink

• Q and A

  'How to Get On With Your Life' Kate White talks life after Cosmo

  By Cyndi Stivers

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