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Woman About Town

Toxic relationship

ONE OF THE GREATEST SCENES IN CINEMA IS THE moment in Annie Hall when Woody Allen, irritated by a stranger’s pompous lecturing about media theorist Marshall McLuhan, summons the actual Marshall McLuhan to issue a correction in the flesh. “You know nothing of my work! You mean my whole fallacy is wrong,” chides McLuhan. “Boy, if life were only like this!” says Allen’s character, happily.

Well, sometimes it is. Shortly before Christmas last year, I was approached by 11:11, the production company of Paris Hilton, one of the subjects of my book . Not only had

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