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Friday, March 30, 2007
Memo Pad: Cutting Ties... There Is A Future... Sex And Other Things...
Published: Friday, March 30, 2007
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PROMOTION TIME: Eric Pooley has found another home within a Time Inc. title after being shifted from his managing editor's gig at Fortune last fall. Time managing editor Richard Stengel named Pooley editor at large at the newsweekly, working on investigative stories. Time Inc. editor in chief John Huey uprooted Pooley from his position in November, replacing him with Fortune columnist and former CNN anchor Andy Serwer.

Stengel unveiled several other promotions on Wednesday, including Bill Saporito to assistant managing editor, editing Time's business, Global Business sections and sports stories, and Rebecca Winters Keegan as Hollywood correspondent. Keegan, already based in Los Angeles, has been a laptop correspondent for Time and produced the celebrity-filled People page for three years. — S.D.S.

NEW GIG: As outgoing New York Times public editor Byron Calame contemplates life after the Times, he may want to head to the multiplex next week and check out his predecessor on-screen. Dan Okrent, a magazine and book editor who was the Times' first ombudsman from 2003 to 2005, has a small but visible role in "The Hoax," which stars Richard Gere as a fraudulent writer. Okrent said he became a SAG member after appearing in Woody Allen's "Sweet and Lowdown," and thus fit the bill when director Lasse Hallström wanted to cast "Real Publisher #1."

"What I especially loved about it was appearing as an executive of a publishing house that was engaged in a fraud," he wrote in an e-mail. "Nicely ironic, given my former gig at the Times." — I.C.

A Memo Pad item on page, 7, Wednesday, misstated the date of Byron Calame's last column as public editor of The New York Times. The correct date is May 6.