Daily Variety’s Bart Wins Daily Hypocrisy Award

18 June 2007 | Media | Comments

Variety Editor in Chief Peter Bart’s columns — and the books based on them — are always charming, but in his latest he pokes fun at Procter & Gamble for communicating internally with their own, letter-heavy jargon.

THIS from the man who leads a publication that regularly speaks in its own esoteric idiom? Instead of “quit” Variety says “ankle.” “Helmer” subs for “director” and numberless others? Nobody in real life calls a “president” a “prexy,” and when you run across somebody in Los Angeles who DOES then it’s usually a sign that the person is a wannabe. Check out this list of Variety slang usages to get the picture.