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In the New Yorker...
Front-Ranger:
The magazine has been doing a lot of profiles lately and some of them are kind of strange (Laura Loomer? Kash Patel?) but the one on Stephen Fry was just a delight. It was too long but I couldn't think of even a paragraph that should be deleted.
Jeff Wrangler:
I enjoyed the Stephen Fry profile, too. I saw the movie where he played Oscar Wilde to Jude Law's Lord Alfred Douglass. I didn't think it was too long.
The Laura Loomer profile I think was too long, but I read it all anyway because I wanted to know as much about her as possible. She's a dangerous person, kind of a witch behind the throne, or at least an eminence grise.*
I'm reading the Kash Patel profile right now. He is a person who is unqualified to run the F.B.I., so I want to know as much as possible about him, too.
*a person who exercises power or influence in a certain sphere without holding an official position:
Jeff Wrangler:
I wish I'd brought a second issue along with me to the house. I've finished the Dec. 15 issue, so now I'm out of things to read while I'm eating.
Jeff Wrangler:
Since she has now passed away, should I read Tatiana Schlossberg's personal account?
Her poor mother. What that woman has endured. Her father was assassinated, her uncle was assassinated, her brother died in a plane crash, and now her daughter has died, leaving two small children.
I know it's not nice to think it, but that string of tragedies is like what would happen to a main character in a soap opera, except this is real. :(
Front-Ranger:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on January 05, 2026, 12:55:10 pm ---Since she has now passed away, should I read Tatiana Schlossberg's personal account?
--- End quote ---
Yes.
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