Image via WikipediaTwo volumes of posts from Eye on The Record are now available at the Johnson Public Library in Hackensack, complete with comments from readers, anonymous or otherwise.
The first volume contains posts from the inception of the blog on Oct. 23, 2009, with "Abandoning River City," through March 25, 2010, "Another wasted front page." The second volume, which the library received on Tuesday, adds posts and comments through July 1, 2010, "When will the editors tell readers the real story?"
The books are available for reading at the library, and cannot be borrowed. In a delicious twist, they have been placed on a shelf next to the official history of The Record, in the library's Local History section.
Unfortunately, both books are crude productions of a publisher called Shared Book. The first volume (Eye on The Record, By Victor E. Sasson) contains many of the photos that appeared online, but the second (Victor E. Sasson's Eye on The Record, Volume 2) has only black squares where the photos appeared.
The second volume is dedicated to veteran newsroom employees who were mistreated by the editors and owners of The Record.
(Photo: Hackensack's former Fairmount Avenue train station is now a gift shop.)
Coming soon Eye on the Record, the movie
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Victor Sasson ....... Larry David
Stephen Borg .... Corey Feldman
Malcolm Borg ... Ed Asner
Jennifer Borg ... Jennifer Anniston
Frank Scandale... Stanley Tucci
Deirdre Sykes... Kathy Bates
Dan Sforza .... Vince Vaughn
Tim Nostrand .... Philip Seymour Hoffman
Barbara Jaeger... Sigourney Weaver
Liz Houlton .... Glenn Close
Bill Pitcher .... Oliver Platt
Jerry DeMarco ... Steve Buscemi
Bill Ervolino .... Himself
Larry David is in a lot better shape than me, and, believe it or not, I'm less argumentative. And I think you're being too kind to Barbara Jaeger and Liz Houlton, especially the latter, a homely woman who wears rags. Your comment made my day. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteEven on his best day, Bob Woodward never bore even a pale resemblance to Robert Redford. That bing said, Philip Seymour Hoffman is too short to play the hulking Tim Nostrand and Sigourney Weaver too tall to play Barbara Jaeger. As for Scandale, maybe they ought to cast Chris Elliot, whose journeyman talents as and actor more closely mirror Frank's mediocrity. And Kathryn (spelling?) Manheim more closely resembles Sykes than Kathy Bates. As for Houlton, try Google Images for a photo of Mare Winningham.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Mr. Casting Agent. Seriously, you have some good suggestions here.
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