Lloyd Bennett Grove is editor at large for ''
The Daily Beast
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'', an American news reporting and opinion website focusing on politics and pop culture. He is also a frequent contributor to ''
New York
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* New York City, the most populous city in the United States, located in the state of New York
* New York (state), a state in the northeastern United States
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Film and television
* '' ...
''. He was a
gossip
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columnist
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for ''
New York Daily News
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'' before he left on October 9, 2006, and wrote a fortnightly column for ''Portfolio.com'', the web site of ''Conde Nast Portfolio Magazine'', and was a contributing editor for ''Portfolio Magazine'' until it shut down in April 2009.
Early life
Grove was born in
California
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and grew up in
Greenwich, Connecticut
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. He completed his
BA in English at
Yale University
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. While at Yale, Grove had a summer job as an assistant for a show business press agent and reported for the
Yale Daily News
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.
[Watters, Susan (September 2003]
''W'' article, ''Lloyd Almighty''
Retrieved on November 21, 2006.
Career
He has written for the ''
Washington Post
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'', ''New York Magazine'', ''
Vanity Fair'' and ''
Harper's Bazaar
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''.
Since September 2003, Grove has written a weekday column called ''Lloyd Grove's Lowdown'' for the ''New York Daily News''.
He has obtained notoriety for his articles on the following:
:*US President
George W. Bush's daughter's underage drinking
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:*Actors
Tim Robbins
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' and
Susan Sarandon
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's political influences
:*Businessman
Taki Theodoracopulos
Panagiotis "Taki" Theodoracopulos (; el, text=Παναγιώτης "Τάκης" Θεοδωρακόπουλος ; born 11 August 1936) is a Greek journalist and writer. He has lived in New York City, London, and Gstaad.
Early life and education ...
's
anti-Israel
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joke
:*Congressman
Jim Moran
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settling a fight between two girlfriends
:*Outgoing administration's vandalism of Bush White House
[Lauerman, Kerry and Montgomery, Alicia (May 23, 2001) Salon.co]
''The White House vandal scandal that wasn't''
. Retrieved on November 14, 2007.
:*
Olbermann's Worst Person of The World for March 13, 2006
References
External links
New York Daily News- Archives*
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Living people
American male journalists
Yale University alumni
New York Daily News people
IAC (company) people
People from Greenwich, Connecticut
Year of birth missing (living people)