If anyone missed it over the weekend, the more notorious half of the Olsen Twins was given the opportunity to write about her favorite handbag. But this little ditty wasn't for a woman's magazine, or for a gossip rag like InTouch. Nope, Mary-Kate Olsen wrote 185 words on her favorite Chanel bag for T:Style, a quarterly magazine insert in the Sunday New York Times (Bob mentioned this in his "Out of the Blogosphere" report earlier in the week).Wow. I know the Times has gone after celebrities to provide bylines in the past, but the names you see are along the lines of Steve Martin, Woody Allen, and Larry David. You know, people who know how to write. I don't think any had the rudimentary ninth-grade writing skills that Mary-Kate demonstrated in her little blurb. More after the jump.
Here's my favorite passage from the blurb, just because of it's "See Spot Run" simplicity:
"I'm not quite sure how many bags I have, but let's just say I have a few. When I find a bag I like, I tend to wear it to death until I become obsessed with another one. This probably happens three to five times a year. But I always come back to the Chanel."
I'm not sure whether she spoke these lines to a reporter or wrote them herself. Either way, it makes it hard for me to believe that she and Ashley are the presidents of a multi-million dollar entertainment conglomerate. Anyway, knowing what the Times pays its freelancers, I'd imagine the check she got for this little blurb was enough to tip her doorman. And that's if you double the fee because she's a "celebrity."
[via Gawker]
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