October 21, 2003, here on slacktivist: The Good, The Bad, and the Hackneyed
Congratulations to David Brooks of The New York Times who Saturday became the 100,000th pundit to submit a column titled “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.”
Times staffers gathered for a special ceremony commemorating the event, at which Clint Eastwood presented Brooks with a plaque marking the occasion.
“When we were shooting this film, we knew we had something special,” Eastwood said. “A classic Western in the grand tradition. But we didn’t realize then that something else was happening, something magical. We had no way of knowing that our film would enter the lexicon as a last resort for deadline-desperate columnists, clamoring for an overused pop-culture reference on which to hang their otherwise disjointed observations.”
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