Vanity Fair editor and Spy founder Graydon Carter reviewed a biography of Paris Review editor George Plimpton in the New York Times Book Review this Sunday. ( I could have been a contender [to be a Great Male Author], Plimpton once said, If I hadn't done the Paris Review...) Carter revealed both his admiration for George, as well as the fact that that when casting agents are scouting around for a patrician type to play an editor , Plimpton also had him beat the secretly Canadian Carter was only the third choice for such a character: I remember getting a call some years ago from a telev...

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