Platinum card

Dizzyhead Ben in the NYT:

Rosenberg’s business model at Platinum, which he calls “full-circle commercialization,” complicates the very idea of adaptation.

I think this is one of our Ourobori? (And of course they talk about the Ouroboros in Adaptation!)

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Also in the Times, The Limster talks to Noah Baumbach and others about Margot at the Wedding:

“Margot is me at my worst, probably,” Mr. Baumbach said. “I try not to analyze the characters when I’m writing, but I’m very analytical in my life.” Still, he is more guarded than Margot about voicing his diagnoses: “I say them at home, quietly, to Jennifer, and she’ll say, ‘What are you talking about?’ ”