"The red carpet is filled with photographers
wondering who's worth the space on their memory cards."— Grace
Helbig, Grace and Style: The Art of Pretending You Have It (2016)
Slate Pears Game 415: Oct. 3, 2026
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A cultural "omniblog" covering matters literary as well as theatrical, musical, historical, cinematic(al), etc.
"The red carpet is filled with photographers
wondering who's worth the space on their memory cards."— Grace
Helbig, Grace and Style: The Art of Pretending You Have It (2016)
“Being the first in my family to graduate from
modeling school.”— "Derek Zoolander" (played
by Ben Stiller), when asked about his greatest achievement, quoted in “Derek Zoolander Answers Vanity Fair’s Proust Questionnaire,”
Vanity Fair, February 2016 issue
“We’d be invited to a fashionable club, and GiGi
would be introduced to a guy twice her age who would soon disappear. The guy
who dumped her this time didn’t even have the decency to call. This man was
known to date only models. In the years to come, I would watch ‘modelizers’
become part of the pop culture canon—Mr. Big, in an early episode of Sex and the City, was even suggested to
be a modelizer. They were sold as capricious fellows, just doing what fellows
do. They were promoted as heroes and conquerors for bedding those elusive
creatures called models. But that day, I was only a teenager comforting another
teen with a broken heart.” —Jennifer Sky, “On The Prowl: Models and The Men We Dated,” The New York Observer, February 24, 2014