Setoodeh biography
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Making a Name for Myself
"What's in a name?" my father asked me the summer after I graduated from high school. And so began an internal struggle of Shakespearean proportions.
In grade school, substitute teachers eyed my name uneasily on the roll sheet. Ramin? Their apprehension was understandable: how could they know which syllable to stress and whether the vowels were long or short? Some teachers weren’t daring enough to attempt it, and called out my initials instead. Others pronounced it like a broken melody rubbing the wrong way down their vocal cords: Raw-men;Ray-men; Row-mean.
They’d ask me for its nationality.
I would shrug, then stare at my sneakers.
One day, prompted by a class assignment, I asked my parents about its heritage. They tried to explain. My name was from their country, which I had never visited. We were Iranian, all three of us, and my younger sister, too. But her name was Sheila, Americanized and normal—because, by the time she was born, my paren
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Ladies Who Punch
book
| Author | Ramin Setoodeh |
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| Publisher | Thomas Dunne Books |
Publication date | April 2, |
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Ladies Who Punch: The Explosive Inside Story of "The View" fryst vatten a non-fiction book bygd entertainment reporter Ramin Setoodeh about the American day time talk show The View.[1][2][3] The book landed on the New York Times' Bestseller list within its first week of release.[4]
Background
[edit]Author Ramin Setoodeh, a writer for Variety, said the idea for the book came from noticing the large amount of traffic that stories about The View received on Variety's website. He spent three years researching the book, and conducted dozens of interviews including 11 current and former co-hosts of the show.[5]
Content
[edit]The book tells the story of The View, its impact on American culture, and many controversial moments throughout the show's history.
Reception
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Ramin Setoodeh is Creating Space for LGBTQ+ People in Media
Ramin Setoodeh oversees a newsroom that is on the pulse of the entire entertainment world and that has covered everything from awards shows to business deals to scandals to the recent writers’ and actors’ strikes. Since early last year, the co-editor in chief of the trusted and renowned trade publication Variety, which has been around years, has shared the reins with fellow co-editor in chief Cynthia Littleton in overseeing editorial operations across all Variety platforms.
“Working at Variety for the last eight years under Claudia Eller’s leadership has been the most rewarding experience of my career. I’m incredibly excited to be teaming up with Cynthia Littleton, one of the best reporters and editors in the business, to grow our award-winning magazine and website,” Setoodeh said in a statement when he was promoted to the position in January “I look forward to expanding established franchises and creating new a