♥ Julian Casablancas just bought a car for $1,000: a ’92 Cutlass with a garish neon-green-and-gray paint job. He likes driving around and listening to the radio. He likes the sunshine. He is smitten. “It’s fun; I won’t lie,” he said on a recent visit back east. “L.A.’s kind of, like, seven really cool towns. It’s so laid-back. If you go in the right spot, you can walk around, and you don’t need a car. It’s a lot easier to eat healthy. And the weather!” ♥
Worth: You arrived at NBC with a glowing public image. That changed almost overnight.
Ben Silverman: I’m the only two-time comedy Emmy nominee as an exec producer, and I throw a party for it and all people talk about is that I threw a party.
Worth: You’re referring to the infamous “White Tiger Party,” featuring bikini-clad women dancing on floats and a white tiger in a cage.
Ben Silverman: Someone else threw the party for me. I didn’t know that there was going to be a tiger there. Once I was there, I went with it.
Worth: Another controversy came when you compared rival network heads to “D-Girls,” meaning powerless female executives. Would you take back that remark?
Ben Silverman: Yes. Totally. That I totally regret.
Can I tell you something? My feelings about Wes Anderson are like the feelings misogynists have about women. Where I hide it because I feel shame but my anger is so great. I read an article that described his apartment on Montparnasse in Paris and immediately I had to stop reading it because something about it made me so depressed.
