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Tuesday, October 12, 2004

Stephen Holden: Diva Among Mortals
By Stet at 4:49 PM / / / Link / Edit /

Disclaimer: This may not be Stephen Holden.

Lloyd Grove:

Ever wonder just how powerful The New York Times is?

Apparently powerful enough to abort a screening for two dozen movie reviewers from other outlets yesterday to accommodate the tight schedule of Times critic Stephen Holden.

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"There were about 25 to 30 people in the room, all of us equally bewildered," [NYDN critic Jack] Mathews told me [...]. "I said to the publicist, 'Whose fault is it?' [...] she said it was The New York Times' Stephen Holden."

Mathews continued: "I walked out and asked Holden, 'You can't wait 15 minutes?' He said, 'I can't, I have something at 2.' I said, 'Why can't you be inconvenienced instead of all these people?' He didn't answer, and I left."

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