Paul Krugman Taking This Whole "Rock Star" Thing a Little Too Far
Nobel prize-winning economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman has recently enjoyed his time in the sun for being (A) a 2008 Nobel prize-winner, (B) correct about a bunch of things, (C) smacking down flashy upstart Andrew Ross Sorkin. All of which are beside those times Loudon Wainwright wrote a song about him and a moderator during a discussion at the London School of Economics once introduced him a "rock star". But this thing might have gone too far, now. 
From Roger Ebert's review of the new Judd Apatow comedy - Get Him to the Greek, starring funny fat Jewish kid Jonah Hill and funny Limey sex-addict Russell Brand, about a lackee who has to get a rock star to LA's Greek Theater - this is your New York Times-related "WTF" parenthetical aside of the day:
In a movie jammed with celebrity cameos (New York Times columnist Paul Krugman?), we see...
P. Krugman is in a movie with P. Diddy? At this rate, dude's about to get pelted with a bunch of economist groupie-panties next time he walks in the Times building. Somewhere, Ross Douthat is on the phone, screaming at his agent while Charles Isherwood stews somewhere, feeling upstaged.
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