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Today Liz Smith reported ex-Daily News gossip Lloyd Grove landed within Graydon Carter's confines at Vanity Fair. We've already spoke to a number of insiders who are questioning the accuracy of the report, but most are wondering – if his VF placement is true – what ever happened to Lloyd's claims that he was starting a new gig "doing something that is multimedia, with components of Internet and television and print media"? Sure, VanityFair.com just relaunched as part of Conde Nast's effort to learn how to spell "I-n-t-e-r-n-e-t," but certainly his VF post isn't the well-rounded media outreach program he had hinted at, right?
Right.
We're told that Lloyd initially planned on heading to TMZ.com, the AOL-Telepictures joint venture that most Americans know as "that site with the Brandon Davis 'firecrotch' video." And, to scratch their scrotum, it's also that site that broke the Mel Gibson anti-Jew drunk driving tirade. It was as recently as a few weeks ago, we hear, that Lloyd was in talks with TMZ chief Harvey Levin about coming on board as the chief East Coaster. Confirms Harvey: "We talked to him and nothing materialized."
How come nothing materialized? Like most issues, it came down to money. One insider tells us Lloyd was looking for pay in the $350,000/year ballpark, and TMZ scoffed (though they wouldn't comment to us about why the talks broke down). Elsewhere, a source with knowledge of Lloyd's job hunting mentions the "spoiled goods" complex: A disappointment at the Daily News, other gossip outlets fear touching him. But not, apparently, the ultimate celebrity sheet that currently features a wet, unauthorized Brad Pitt on the cover.
Update: We hear Liz Smith got it wrong. (Not surprised? Us either.) Lloyd is not moving to a staff position at VF, but is merely writing an article for the rag.
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I actually miss Lloyd's columns and would like to see him land somewhere, soon.
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Go Lloyd!
I got the same tramadol attack… well, not the same, because it was only about 20 comments instead of 90, and i t have any filtering set up, and I just deleted them one at a time… hmm.. the only thing really in common was that it was about tramadol… what filter do you have set up that caught them all?
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Since one of the ideas is to split strings not into words, but hopefully into phrases more semantically informative than the words they are made of, doing that better should mean better suggestions, and avoiding what essentially are word n-tuples should make for smaller data and slightly faster querying.
Since one of the ideas is to split strings not into words, but hopefully into phrases more semantically informative than the words they are made of, doing that better should mean better suggestions, and avoiding what essentially are word n-tuples should make for smaller data and slightly faster querying.