Have you picked up New York magazine this week? It's a pretty good read, with the exception of that article where Lloyd Grove offers his (unsolicited) advice to Barbara Walters.

Naturally, Walters, a highly successful veteran journalist, doesn't actually deign to speak with the illustrious (read: unemployed) Lloyd Groves for the piece, so his commentary is largely recycled and wholly uninteresting.

And though Grove claims he's been "doing business with Walters since the mid-eighties," below is the extent of their most recent collaboration:

I approached Walters at Michael’s, where she’s a regular at table 1. She gazed up from her plate of untouched gravlax and smiled a vague smile. “I’m not supposed to be speaking to you,” she said, looking pale and a tad weary in hardly any makeup but still marvelous for a woman of 77…She was wearing a black fur hat that had been shoved tightly over her head, as though to prevent stray thoughts from spilling out with her blonde highlights.

To recap: Lloyd Grove generously offers to "save" Barbara Walters' career by doling out his journalistic expertise in the form of an open letter/manifesto. Meanwhile, Barbara's omniscient blonde highlights advise her not to steer clear of the tall, lurking ex-reporter who's accosting her at lunch.

All of which raises a very obvious question, namely: just how many other people's careers will recently terminated gossip, Lloyd Groves, selflessly repair before attempting to salvage his own?