Scott Raab Has a Few Things He'd Like to Get Off His Chest

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Al Gore: "How the fuck do you still walk the Earth after handing the keys to the White House to George W. Bush and Dick Cheney? I don’t want to hear about Nader and Florida. You lost Tennessee and West Virginia. How on earth do you not disembowel yourself? Take your fucking Nobel Prize and drop dead."
Ron Rosenbaum, who wrote an overblown and overreferenced essay for Slate last year on the death of the celebrity profile: "If you want to say it like some kind of cliché, the only thing more tired and worn out than the celebrity profile is guys writing about how worn out and tired celebrity profiles are."
Nic Cage: “When you were balling Lisa Marie, did you ever pretend to be Elvis?”
Scott Raab: How to Talk To Famous People [Esquire]

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