Holiday films roll out some heavy subjects Oct 30, 2009
Cast: Vera Farmiga, George Clooney Produced by: Jason Reitman, Ivan Reitman, Joe Medjuck, Daniel Dubiecki, Tom Pollock, Jeffrey Clifford Directed by: Jason Reitman Written by: Jason Reitman, Walter Kirn. Invictus. (Fresno Bee)
American Airlines Announces 'A Year in the Air Sweepstakes' to Celebrate the New Movie 'Up in the Air' From Paramount Pictures Oct 7, 2009
Based upon the novel by Walter Kirn. The producers are Ivan Reitman, Jason Reitman, Daniel Dubiecki and Jeffrey Clifford. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
A look at this fall’s movies Sep 13, 2009
Up in the Air After Thank You for Smoking and Juno, director Jason Reitman tries to go three for three with this adaptation of the 2001 Walter Kirn novel. George Clooney plays a corporate transition expert whose personal spiritual goal of 10 million frequent flyer miles is suddenly and mysteriously jeopardized. (Boston Globe)
Saving Face? Or Losing My Mind? Sep 9, 2009
I'm going to try to write a chick-lit novel in less than a month. - By Dahlia Lithwick - Slate Magazine. (Slate)
'Up in the Air' director Jason Reitman stays grounded Sep 1, 2009
He turned to Up in the Air, a screenplay he had been working on for six years that was inspired by a 2001 novel by Walter Kirn. It stars Clooney as Ryan Bingham, a charismatic ax man hopscotching the country downsizing companies and occasionally delivering motivational speeches about the virtue of a relationship-free life. (USA Today -- Life)
In ‘Lost in Meritocracy,’ Kirn recounts a youth spent devoted to ambitious gamesmanship Aug 16, 2009
When a grief-stricken Princeton roommate reported John Lennon s death, Walter Kirn, a hard-rock devotee and trendily disdainful, felt he ought at least to feign grief ... LOST IN THE MERITOCRACY By Walter Kirn Doubleday, 224 pp. (Boston Globe)
The Exhausted Aptocrat Jul 9, 2009
Like Walter Kirn, whose Sunday sparked this , I went to Princeton. Overall, it's a wonderful place. (Slate)
Trophy Kids and Aptocrats Jul 7, 2009
While you Gen Yers are bridling at your rep as trophy kids, overpraised for your potential, baby boomers got a less than flattering epithet from Walter Kirn this weekend: Aptocrats, he calls the strivers now at the pinnacles of success and influence. In his in Sundays Times, he makes a compelling case that its high time to revise Americas aptitude-test-obsessed meritocratic systembut Im not sure hes noticed how much its already changed. (Slate)
Hilton St. Louis at the Ballpark and Hilton St. Louis Airport Play Starring Role in George Clooney's Movie "Up in the Air" May 18, 2009
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Universal Language Of Lust Mar 21, 2009
BUTTONED-down New York Times Book Review critic Walter Kirn cuts loose about a steamy orgy in his upcoming memoir, "Lost in the Meritocracy." The Post's Kyle Smith reports that, as a college freshman, Kirn was invited home to his senior prom, where school brass had him escort two comely exchange students, one of them French. On the way to the afterparty, Kirn writes, "I recall specifically a big, sweet slug of syrupy fruit wine that passed from mouth to mouth and then was allowed to stream down... (New York Post -- Gossip)
