>I'm still no Tim Gunn, but . . .

by Roger Sutton
Jul 15, 2008 | Filed in Articles & Opinion
>Here is ALA Runway!

Roger Sutton
Roger Sutton

Editor Emeritus Roger Sutton was editor in chief of The Horn Book, Inc., from 1996-2021. He was previously editor of The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books and a children's and young adult librarian. He received his MA in library science from the University of Chicago in 1982 and a BA from Pitzer College in 1978.

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Roger Sutton

>Tim Gunn is a host of the TV show Project Runway, a reality game show for fashion designers. Tim, very silver-haired and gay and dapper, plays "mentor" to the competitors, telling them to "make it work!" and "don't bore Nina!" (Nina Garcia, one of the judges).

Posted : Aug 02, 2008 05:23

Anonymous

>stupid question - but WHO IS TIM GUNN? Some private joke here? One has to be a HB insider?

Posted : Aug 02, 2008 05:07

janeyolen

>Some people have zero funny bones. And Roger got the last laugh line there.

Sheesh.

Jane

Posted : Jul 16, 2008 05:48

Jim

>Yes. Yuyi looked SO good that Heidi felt threatened and auf'd her. So she has that feather to add to her cap. ++++ Believe it or not, we actually got our first piece of hate mail about the video. Having written a gentle bedtime book I'm not used to the getting the type of response a satirist must get all the time. Still, there it is... check it out at www.redcarpetinterviews.blogspot.com where you can also vote for "fan favorite." Roger- you may win yet!

Posted : Jul 16, 2008 05:13

Anonymous

>Linda Sue looked great, but I thought Yuyi Morales was robbed! Perhaps this was just because they didn't have audio of Heidi Klum saying "Yuyi -- congratulations!"

Posted : Jul 16, 2008 04:03

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