Steve Guttenberg

This week we published our second profile of the great actor Steve Guttenberg, a sequel – back by popular demand! – to the "The Goot Is Loose", which came out two weeks ago and set off a veritable firestorm. In case you haven't had your fill, without further ado, we present the Goot's own MySpace page.

Quick preview: "Who I'd Like to Meet: Pauly Shore and the divine Bernadette Peters... I always wanted to tap that ass straight 'Hightower' style." (For the uninitiated, that's a reference to the Police Academy movies.) General Interests: "Working out, chasing down perps, helping out the senior citizens in my community, oh ya and crushin' some ass." And of course, his favorite book: "Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret" got me through some really dark times."

Leon Neyfakh reads David Carr's The Night of the Gun and concludes that the book "turns the traditional memoir on its head, assuming as it does that its author knows nothing about his own life and must research it as though it were someone else’s. The book practically interrogates itself, questioning its own right to exist even as Mr. Carr vigilantly gathers string on the dark and druggy life he led into his 30s."

Josh Benson and Felix Gillette examine, "The McCain campaign’s response to the quantifiable imbalance in volume-of-coverage—a function, depending on whom you ask, of the fact that the press loves the Barack Obama story or that John McCain is the Republican nominee for president—has been a petulant cry of foul for the kind of infraction gentlemen are supposed to ignore.  read more »

My editors told me I was crazy. Nuts. As in meshugge. After writing a column two weeks ago about the actor Steve Guttenberg’s move to New York and his hopes for finding true love—a column which they’d O.K.’d under protest—I went back to them last week and announced that it was absolutely essential that I go back to the Goot, as Mr. Guttenberg sometimes calls himself, for more. The original column, I pointed out, had received more than 170 comments on our Web site; Drudge had linked to it; some TV suits had contacted Mr. Guttenberg about a reality show. Clearly, there was an untapped wellspring of American passion for this wonderful actor; in the decades since he first sprang into the national consciousness in the Police Academy movies, he’d remained a lightning rod.  read more »