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Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Missing Nancy Franklin

Filed under: Letters & Challenges Tagged: Nancy Franklin, Tad Friend, TV

No answers yet to the query posed here recently: Where is Nancy Franklin, and why is Tad Friend (the excellent Tad Friend, but still) writing the TV reviews? I know someone reading this knows.

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We were wondering too.

And we were also wondering, in case one-who-knows IS reading this, if Tad Friend wrote an article in Details in the mid-nineties about growing up in Torrance.

zpSeptember 26, 2006

Hey, Emdashes, forget Franklin. She's no big loss. I notice Hertzberg isn't around either. Perhaps they ran off together. What I really think is that Remnick is clearing out the deadwood. Rebecca Mead will be next. Am I being too harsh? Not at all. It's a tough world. When you've got a guy in your line-up who can write about TV exactly the way Kael wrote about movies - intuitively, libidinously, avidly - you've got to go with him. Christ, after reading Friend's last review, I wanted to see "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip" even though I hate TV. Forget Franklin. One of the best writers in the world is now writng weekly for the magazine. Yeah, baby!

driedcharSeptember 26, 2006

Ditto his piece on James Woods's new show.

SmacaulayNovember 07, 2006

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