Toby Young, the British former assistant to the Vanity Fair editor who turned his six month gopher gig into a book and movie deal, stole passages for How to Lose Friends and Alienate People from a NYT story by John Tierney about the bitchy guys and gals at Conde Nast. Confronted with the accusation, Young is all: Yeah, so? [Intel]

With Simon Pegg as Sidney (Toby) Young and Jeff Bridges as Clayton (Graydon) Carter, How to Lose Alienate People will bring to life the author's mildly fictionalized account of working as the Vanity Fair editor's assistant in the Big Apple. Herewith, the movie's trailer, which is worth watching if only because Kirsten Dunst appears in it, and you do not immediately want to hit her.

In the movie version of Toby Young's How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, Graydon Carter isn't the pompous blowhard he's depicted as in media reports. He's the pompous blowhard who discards bad fashion. [P6]

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