Are Construction Crews Out to Get Carter?
Oct. 27 2008, Published 7:07 a.m. ET
Tantrum-prone Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter may have gone berserk on a construction crew setting up scaffolding across the street from his West Village manse, but he's dealt with this kinda [expletive] before, okay? Today's New York Post reports that after enduring several hours of clanging, a shorts-clad Carter emerged from his lair and "snatched a 5-foot rail and flung it to the ground in exasperation."
No media naïf, the chastened-sounding editor used his famous Ottawan wit to diffuse the Post's scoop, saying that scaffold hurling is "a venerated Canadian sport, like curling." Of course, a decade ago, workmen outside his home were a lot more ominous.
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