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The 80/20 rule of celebrity reviews

Tuesday, April 10th, 2007

The rule is that the celebrity will spend 80% of the article writing about themselves and 20% on what they are reviewing.

I just read a review in the Style section of the London Sunday Times of a chippie by A. A. Gill in which he spent all but two paragraphs talking about his dyslexia.