Brian Grazer No Longer Has 'Cultural Attaché'; Producer Bravely Makes Do With 'A Couple of My Assistants'In these bleak economic times, Americans are being forced to give up certain comforts in order to survive. In late November, The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times' Stephanie Rosenbloom introduced readers to Kristen Hunt, a Safety Harbor, Florida Safety Harbor is a city on the west shore of Tampa Bay in Pinellas County, Florida, United States. It was incorporated in 1917. The population was 17,203 at the 2000 census. As of 2004, the population recorded by the U.S. Census Bureau is 17,550. mom who went without new designer jeans Designer jeans are high-fashion jeans that are marketed as status symbols. The Nakash brothers (Joe, Ralph, and Avi) are generally credited with starting the trend when they launched their Jordache line of jeans in 1978. so her kids could have a Walk-In play kitchen. It was the kind of sad but hopeful O. Henry-like story readers have come to expect from the paper that dedicates itself to documenting The Neediest Cases. Now, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. an interview with the Huffington Post's Katherine Thomson Katherine Thomson (born 1955) is an Australian playwright and screenwriter. Katherine Thomsonwas born in Manly, New South Wales and began her theatrical involvement as a teenager with the Australian Theatre for Young People. , we learn that producer Brian Grazer has been forced to cut back as well: Do you still have a cultural attache? That was sort of a joke title. I've been out meeting different people, I have a record, for 24 years, of meeting someone every two weeks. It helps inform your filter and hopefully informs your taste. I don't have anyone that's doing that for me right now. I use a couple of my assistants and I just say 'hey, can I meet so-and-so' and then we work on it or I'll call them myself, but I don't have a person that does that any longer. He sounds so brave, but surely Mr. Grazer is feeling the loss of this very vital person in his life. According to a Talk of the Town story slugged 'Want Ad' from March 10th, 2008 by The New Yorker's Lizzie Widdicombe, Mr. Grazer has employed someone in that role "for twenty years TWENTY YEARS. The lapse of twenty years raises a presumption of certain facts, and after such a time, the party against whom the presumption has been raised, will be required to prove a negative to establish his rights. 2. , ever since he asked Jonas Salk's assistant to help him track down interesting people in science." Mr. Grazer told Ms. Widdicombe at the time, "I'm looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. a person who has that teacherlike quality. ... Also, it's good to have a person who is a connector"—paging Malcolm Gladwell!— "who is liked by people." Sad. It also begs the question: Is Mr. Grazer so hard up he can no longer pay $100,000 'finders fees' for movie ideas? Because then journalists everywhere might feel compelled to seriously nominate him one of the Neediest. 
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