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I must say, I’m a little sad to hear that ace NYT journalist David Carr has retired from his position as lead writer for the Times’ seasonal Carpetbagger blog. Site colleagues excepted, he was my favorite Oscar pundit bar none, striking the tricky balance of bringing jaded wit to the silliness of awards season without […]
David Carr rolls up the carpet
Posted by Guy Lodge · 2:56 pm · October 20th, 2009
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The Bagger’s take on Oscar’s shake-up
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 12:00 pm · June 29th, 2009
David Carr’s Media Equation column at The New York Times today is the most well-reasoned, knowledgeable take on the Academy’s recent Best Picture shake-up yet. He covers some of the same points I brought up in my Off the Carpet column this morning, but thankfully, he offers something of a rebuttal to the Nikki Finkes […]
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Burn!
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 11:21 am · February 19th, 2009
The Bagger can’t trade his Simms tuxedo for sackcloth just now, because he’s in the middle of things. But he’s always thought of his part-time Oscar gig as a way to crack wise and go all smarty pants without constantly making all those ugly phone calls that real reporting entails. Sort of like working at […]
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The Bagger finds the meaning
Posted by Guy Lodge · 5:05 am · January 30th, 2009
There are few journalists with as sharp an understanding of the tunnel vision that affects award-season coverage as David Carr. So it’s with a guard of irony that, in yesterday’s ruminative NYT piece, he describes this year’s race as “somehow less frivolous than it has (been) in recent years.” While he acknowledges the comparative slightness […]
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The Bagger gets it
Posted by Guy Lodge · 9:34 am · January 28th, 2009
As if we needed any more reasons to love David Carr, he has come out in full support of Matteo Garrone’s superb “Gomorrah,” citing its Oscar snub as “criminal”: (The Bagger) can’t get the movie out of his mind. There is a kind of moral certainty to the film – deeply corrupt, remarkably brutal – […]
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All hail the Bagger
Posted by Guy Lodge · 5:38 am · November 30th, 2008
As anyone who follows the ever-growing, ever-working and ever-sniping world of Oscar blogging knows, no one does it with more wit, insight or eloquence than the New York Times’ David Carr — or, as he chooses to be known for the next couple of insane months, The Carpetbagger. Unlike the witless Harold Robbins novel for […]
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Carr on the horror
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 2:05 pm · August 6th, 2008
Just caught this at Hollywood Elsewhere. Our good friend David Carr (a.k.a. The Carpetbagger) stopped by “Morning Joe” this morning to talk about his new tell-all “The Night of the Gun.” I’ve been dying to read this ever since I heard about David hoofing it to commit this stuff to paper — the concept behind […]
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