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Erin Arvedlund, who wrote a piece in 2001 claiming that Bernard Madoff's hedge fund empire was a scam:
'My article ran, with the headline "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," questioning why Madoff gave up hundreds of millions of dollars in fees (his firm didn't charge the typical two-and-20 hedge fund fees-2 percent of all money invested and 20 percent of ( Read more... )

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Trailer for the US remake of Life on Mars. I'm so excited by the fact that Stephanie Chaves-Jacobsen (Kendra Shaw in Battlestar Galactica: Razor) is going to be playing Maya. [imdb]

Fox has picked up Joss Whedon's Dollhouse (starring Eliza Dushki, Tahmoh Penikett, Amy Acker, Harry J. Lennix and Olivia Williams) and J. J. Abram's sci-fi/mystery ( Read more... )

Okay, I know Mick/Beth fans will probably want to throw socks and radishes and squishy things at me, but the Moonlight season finale (?) was a lot of things I loved about Vampire: The Masquerade (which some of you might know I have quite a long and important history with), and I on the whole really liked it:

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The TV Addict interview with Jason Dohring (includes spoilers for Moonlight):
'I would really like to see someone that could match [Josef], they fight, they get back together. I think it would be quite a passionate relationship'

*loves*

AND HE WATCHES DEADWOOD. WIN!

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( That's Spanish, by the way...for 'keep her out of my stuff'. )

I'm having terrible trouble finding Mick's voice, so I wrote Josef and Lola instead.

Edit: Hah! ( spoiler for future episode )

I find myself warming up to CBS's Moonlight - which I've resigned myself to being addicted to almost despite myself because of Jason Dohring's 400-year-old but 23-at-heart vampire Josef - most especially when the show is taking the piss out of Mick St. John (still think that's a ridiculously pulpish name) rather than trying to make him out to be ( Read more... )

...and a bonus if you also happen to watch Moonlight.

Could "Josef Konstantin" be the bastardised/abbreviated/anglicised version of a Slavic or Germanic name? Conceivably belonging to an Ashkenazi Jew?

(I add the last because I don't think "Josef" could be a particular common name among gentiles in the 17th century, even if it may be today.)

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