Did Toby Young Plagiarize Passages From the ‘Times’ For ‘How to Lose Friends & Alienate People’?

Opening in theaters today, the movie How to Lose Friends & Alienate People is based on Toby Young's lively memoir about a British journalist's cringingly disastrous stint at Vanity Fair. In a recent look back at the 2001 book, we noticed some passages that were strikingly similar to a June 16, 1996, New York Times story by John Tierney. In the story, called "Masochism Central," Tierney colorfully described the habits of the bitchy females and emasculated males at Condé Nast.

Here are some comparisons: Tierney: "350 Madison ... has been called, among other things, the Palace of Pulchritude; the two men's stores flanking the entrance, Brooks Brothers and Paul Stuart, have been compared to sentinels at the Temple of Aphrodite." Young: "There were so many beautiful girls at 350 it was sometimes named the 'Palace of Pulchritude.' I'd even heard the two men's clothing shops that flanked the building on either side — Brooks Brothers and Paul Stewart sic — referred to as 'sentinels at the ... more.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.