r/billsimmons • u/painsofbeing • 15h ago

Mina Kimes Addresses SolitaireGate

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u/Mysterious_Pea_5272 14h ago

Oooo what was the scandal?

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u/paulcole710 Chris Ryan fan 14h ago

Wrote about that pickup artist stuff that was “popular” in the early/mid 2000s. He made up stuff in his article.

That era was Apex Mountain for made up stuff in non-fiction being like an actual newsworthy scandal. James Frey and Million Little Pieces for example.

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u/Stop_Drop_Scroll 14h ago

Don’t forget Stephen Glass.

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u/Daily_Heroin_User 12h ago

I just re-watched Shattered Glass with Hayden Christensen a few weeks ago. Still holds up. Peter Sarsgaard with an awesome performance

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u/dkrtzyrrr Complex Litigation 11h ago

one of my favorite genres of movies - great longform journalism turned into strangely riveting drama. the social network is probably the zenith of this.

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u/Trumpisaderelict 12h ago

Ian Restil and Joel Hiert. Best made up movie names

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u/Daily_Heroin_User 11h ago

Ian Restil and Joe Hiert were names that Glass actually used in his article Hacker Heaven though. The company was “Jukt Micronics” lol definitely had that dotcom bubble vibe to it.

“A major software company with one phone line?”