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The Big Picture

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The Devil Wears Prada

The Devil Wears Prada is one of the great movies about how magazines work and specifically an era of Conde Nast that was just before the era when Sean and I worked there. It's like a steamrolling all of the employment organizations in this country. There's a whole book that they lay out, Emily Blunt does it in very condescending tones. The cult of personality style of running these magazines or newsrooms still basically does exist but was certainly pervasive for a very long time in magazines. And you need to put your big boy pants on and take good things seriously.

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