It takes flair and a certain amount of years in the media business to execute the following maneuver, during an informal job interview, with a billionaire:
Over lunch, Mr. Biglari asked [Glenn O’Brien] what he would want in order to consider the job [of Maxim editor]. “I said, ‘I’d like to have total authority and no responsibility,’” Mr. O’Brien recalled. “He laughed really hard for a minute. Then we started talking turkey.”
Ha ha. O’Brien, in the wake of being bounced as GQ’s Style Guy, chose in the NYT article by Alex Williams not to reveal his age.
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