Tasty Mystery Baskets of Clips

l guess l got him mixed up with another source.
You don`t wanna go to law school, remember?
l`m going to read to you a list of suspicious titles, one by one.
lt`ll have to remain between us till then. Would that be a problem?
GEORGETOWN UNlVERSlTY LAW CENTER
Are you at home, Steve?
Give him the number.
l know.
The tone of the magazine, l think it`s gotten too nasty.
Did l do something wrong? Are you mad at me?
Well, yeah, so there`s Serbia, hidden, unknown to the world at large...
Melanie, can l get some copies, please?
lf he were a stranger, a guy you were doing a piece about...
-How`s he doing? -Well, he`s a wreck, of course.
l don`t know, man, it seemed like a pretty good turnout to me.
-Oh, l`m sorry, Steve. -Shit.
But you can`t--
lt`s what editors do.
--called ``Loving Lewinsky`` that looks and works like a child`s doll....
On a story like that, your notes are crucial.
She says, ``l didn`t invite Vernon Jordan that evening...
Are we off the record?
l didn`t. That was added by the copy desk.
This doesn`t look like a real business card to me.
We`ve gotta start calling some other places.
-He needs help. -Just get him in here.
...from the Computer Security Center? Not too sure she exists either.
l just didn`t know what to do.
You have to know who you`re writing for.
...and l thought you might be able to help me out.
You`re fired. You`ve lost your job.
Thank you, Stephen. You`re going to make me look very, very smart.
-Night. -Night, Marty.
-How so? -Quite frankly, it doesn`t look real.
Look, if you were calling for a comment on your story...
l mean, lately, it`s everyone.
Just finished the piece on ethanol subsidies.
-How is it? -lt`s good.
...we`ll fact-check it again in the hope of removing it from the list.
Sims is so hands-on...
This is The New Republic, remember? Nothing slides here.
Fabricated pieces.
Really? Because l`ve e-mailed them about a million times each.
Sure, go ahead.
How could you make up characters...
But l`m being unfair.
...having horrid nightmares of Mrs. Duke and her infamous red pen.
What are you doing here?
-Let`s go. -All right.
And now l`m at The New Republic.
These are all my notes.
Because it was such a dumb place to squeeze into.
-He`s earned a lot of loyalty there. -Mostly by fighting with me.
lt`s good to stretch.
No. Absolutely not.
The way he laughs whenever Marty tells a joke in the meetings.
You`ll probably get a voice mail. l usually do.
...immunity deals between hackers and the companies they`ve torched.
Then it goes back on paper, back to the writer, back to the copy editor...
Think about the workload he`s been carrying.
You don`t have to talk to me if you don`t want to. lt`s fine.
He`s Restil`s agent.
After ``Jukt,`` was that an M as in ``Micronics``?
Disguised toast
Looks like we have the Jukt website up now.
He claims the Omni Shoreham doesn`t even have minibars.
How about the commas in dates? Are we supposed to circle those too?
And l`m like, ``Wait a minute, how`d this happen?``
He cooked a dozen of them, maybe more.
The youngest among them was Stephen Glass.
-Hi, Steve. -Hey, sorry to be calling so late.
But he could be very hurt by what you guys publish. His career.
l just thought that if l could get everybody off my back...
The only one was ``Hack Heaven.`` He told me that.
ls it pronounced ``juked`` or ``jukked``?
There really is a George Sims. l`ve spoken to him a million times.
Drugs, binge drinking, hookers.... Gets pretty ugly.
lf l were to throw a party...
So l called 411, every area code in the state.
They`re closed at 3 on Sundays.
They`re fine. l`m just buried.
To Wrap Around Your Slick Willy!
-Hey. -Hey.
And l was doing the exact same thing you guys are doing:
No, what?
...we`ll all have to answer for what we let happen here.
...to show us how we used them improperly.
Not in Highland Park.
Julie Farthwork, Frank Juliet and lan Restil`s agent, Joe Hiert.