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Let’s delve into this, shall we? On today’s Letters page of Citypaper, the PR guy from Delilah’s chews out Paper Doll!
Right. I’m not sure what a sex columnist/editor could do to piss off the PR guy for a strip club, but apparently David Witz didn’t like her coverage of the Diamond G-String Award competition, which you may remember from the advertisement in the sidebar here.
His letter reads (the bolding, when you get to it, is most certainly ours):
When Ashlea Halpern volunteered to be a judge at “Delilah’s Diamond G-String Award 2006,” we were delighted to accommodate her. But we had no idea that she’d arrive with daggers hidden in her notebook. Her mean-spirited “Paper Doll” recap of the event ["Hustled," July 27, 2006] may have been a misfired attempt at humor, but the professional choreographers, dancers and stage technicians that worked their “rock-solid bods” off to put on a spectacular show deserved better than her insults, inaccuracies and accusations. At one point, she refers to the show as “Cirque du Soleil — but naked,” a lovely compliment that could cost the club its license (at Delilah’s, toplessness is legal, nudity is not).
Two journalistic tips for Ashlea: You can’t fact-check just by leaving a voicemail, and you can’t become a murderously funny writer just by sitting next to Jessica Pressler.
David Witz
Advertising/Promotions, Delilah’s, The Gentlemen’s Club and Steakhouse
Ed: Our columnist used the word “naked” as a figure of speech, not to imply that the dancers were nude.
Oh snap! I think my head just exploded.
Judge Dreaded [Citypaper]
Hustled [Citypaper]
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