Why is The New Yorker awesome? Because Anthony Lane’s review of ‘Sex and The City’ says this of Sarah Jessica Parker’s dress montage:
Compare the quick-change sequence in “Funny Face,” with Audrey Hepburn robed in one Givenchy masterpiece after another, and you sense not merely the greater snap in Stanley Donen’s direction (with more than a hand from Richard Avedon), and the hotter bloom of the coloring, but the way in which Hepburn herself outglows the frocks, with her smile and her imperious shout—“Take the picture, take the picture!” No thoroughbred was ever just a clotheshorse.
Following up with: “All the film lacks is a subtitle: ‘The Lying, the Bitch, and the Wardrobe.’ ”
Anyway, here’s Martin Schneider with lines from The New Yorker’s 2008 Conference: Day 1, Day 2.
Examples:
“Miles per gallon is the new high score.” — Jane McGonigal
“Malcolm Gladwell has a new book coming out next year. It has already sold two and a half trillion copies.” — David Remnick
“Ninety-nine percent of what policemen do is relational—resolving disputes and so on. So why are all cops big beefy guys?” — Malcolm Gladwell
“I can tell a California cook from a New York cook any day of the week—they’re slower… I’m calling out all of California, pretty much.” — David Chang
“The poster child for that ‘no sellout’ thing was Bob Dylan, and he ends up in a Victoria’s Secret ad.” — Steve Stoute
“H&M is kind of like a gateway drug.” —Kal Raustiala
“Change is inevitable; progress is optional.” — Andy Stern
“Like in ‘06, you’ve got to go take it from [Republicans]. They don’t give up power easily.” — Rahm Emanuel
Also covered by Jason Kottke. Event videos are online.
