LZ Sunday Paper Newsletter: The "#OscarSoWhat" Edition
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Readers,
Wow, I really struck a nerve! After writing for many weeks about serious political or social ills, it was good old fashioned address books that got people going.
I got an outsized response to sharing my grief for phone numbers lost and physical address books having given way to e-mail 'contact lists.' A certain kind of historical detritus turns out to be very dear to people.
Many people emailed to let me know their own Proustian Nombres de Temps Perdu--their phone numbers from childhood, many with the old 'exchanges' that used the first two letters of a word in place of numbers. Many thought about their addresses--especially--of first apartments after college. I liked related information I got, such as the smacking-his-head story of a reader whose parent told their landlord to go screw himself when the rental apartment they lived in on Gramercy Park went co-op. The 'inside price' for the 8-room apartment was… $25,000.
Best of all, this person sent me their Rolodex (literally) of my own namecard from his own analog stash. Thank you, Bernie K., and all other friends and readers!:
Seeing this card, though, I'm even more convinced that "analogue" was a very good system. Maybe I'm biased because I've been a "Z" all my life. It gives me immense pleasure when I look at the little XYZ tab on the lower right. So easy to flip to the back. There I am. Except in my family's address book where there were tons of other Zalaznicks, ha ha it went on for pages.
And also except in my high school where, due to the high % Jewish-name attendees, I was actually further from the back than you'd think! Thank you to the Zale, Zamsky, Zise, Zises, Zelman, Zelnick, Zucker, Zuckerbrod, Zuckerman, and many other Z-families in the Great Neck School District. And to Joann Yanover, Craig Yedvarb and especially bff Dindy Yokel for giving me such a solid alphabetical lead-in.
I did have a pang of revived resentment remembering how at one point (super-lame-o) AT&T refused to carry over my cel phone number from some other plan to the one I'm on now. Though the 646 was questionable as far as cool-factor was concerned, the "new" area code combined with the rest of the number was pretty much worth it.
Okay I'll get over it. I've heard there are other problems in the world to focus on…I'll try to find one or two.
Partially due to a continuation of yesterday's extreme Saturday daytime Bar Mitzvah fatigue I'm going to stop here and spend the day preparing to be simultaneously intrigued, bored, and frustrated by the Oscars. I hope you have more of a healthy mix, should you be viewing.
Thank you to the past several weeks' awesome contributors Julie, Lisa, Emily, Jenny, Elyse, Carla, Ann, Barbara, Diane, Karen, Melanie, Nancy, Sarah, Sara, and many others!
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Hope you win your Oscar pool!
LZ
THE PIC(K) OF THE WEEK:
Monica Lewinsky: Emerging From The House Of Gaslight via Vanity Fair
NEWS, POLITICS, BUSINESS:
"We All Wear Black Every Day:" Inside Wall Street's Complex, Shameful, and Often Confidential Battle With #MeToo via Vanity Fair
Why Do Female Physicians Keep Dying By Suicide At Mount Sinai-St. Luke's Hospital in NYC? via Refinery29
Stay-At-Home Moms Are Half As Likely To Get A Job Interview As Moms Who Got Laid Off via The Harvard Business Review
Black Is The New Black: 20 Black Women You Need To Know Right Now via Refinery29
CAMPUS CLIMATE:
She Left Harvard. He Got To Stay. via The Chronicle Of Higher Education
ARTS, SPORTS & POP CULTURE:
Is Ryan Seacrest Immune To #MeToo? via Variety
Oscars 2018: Female-Led Oscar Films 'More Profitable' via BBC
Despite Reckoning On Hollywood Diversity, TV Industry Has Gotten Worse via The Guardian
4 Decades Worth Of Meryl Streep's Oscars Style via Huffington Post
Michele Norris Thought 'Noone wanted to talk about race, and I was wrong' via The Aspen Institute
RIP Cynthia Heimel, OG Carrie Bradshaw via Salon
…AND WHAT'S NOT TO LOVE ABOUT…THE OLYMPICS:
Nuns snap photos in downtown Rome during rare snowfall this week via The Weather Channel via Instagram
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