"Lloyd Bennett Grove" is editor at large for The Daily Beast, the Web site run by Tina Brown and backed by Barry Diller. He is also a frequent contributor to New York Magazine. He was a gossip columnist for New York Daily News before he left on October 9, 2006, and wrote a fortnightly column for Portfolio.com, the Web site of Conde Nast Portfolio Magazine, and was a contributing editor for Portfolio Magazine until it shut down in April 2009.

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Tried to declare the proceedings off the record.

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It's not worth worrying about. It wasn't pleasant, but both Martin and I are past it. We plan to have a wine-soaked dinner in the near future.

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I found the rules absurd, and I didn't attend the thing with those rules in mind, ... This was something Dick Parsons announced by fiat, ex post facto, and no one paid attention to it.

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It's my practice to pay as I go. If I go out to the Oscars, I have an expense account for legitimate business expenses.

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She wouldn't tell me what happened. I told her this is not credible, you're attacking the president of the United States. You've got to do a little better than this. This is really not a good way of getting your message out.

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