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Recently, one of the co-authors of The Film Snob*s Dictionary, namely Lawrence “Looker” Levi, gave a rather unfavorable New York Times review to David Thomson’s book-length appreciation of Nicole Kidman. This prompted Thomson to write a peeved letter to the Times Book Review in response in which he actually makes a snide reference to The Film Snob*s Dictionary, a book Thomson admits he hasn’t read. Gentlemen, gentlemen! Please, why don’t you both drop this feud and focus on your common ground, namely that you, along with Levi’s co-author David Kamp, share a spirited enthusiasm for Douglas McGrath’s Truman Capote film Infamous, which at last is getting its U.S. release? October 12, 2006 More Film Snobbery »
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Zero manipulation. Righteous buzz-term increasingly in Snob circulation as the backlash grows against consultant-goosed wines that are less about TERROIR than about the winemaker’s ego and such advanced techniques as MICRO-OXYGENATION. Sonoma County’s Peterson Winery has gone so far as to formally name its inexpensive red table wine Zero Manipulation, the first bottling of which was billed “a good, honest wine produced in the style practiced by the Italian immigrants who originally settled the Dry Creek Valley.” Read more from the Wine Snob's Dictionary » 
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