By: E&P Staff Late Wednesday, the Village Voice weekly in New York suspended one of its editors and removed a story from its Web site after learning that one scene in the cover story, published this week, had been fabricated.
The article was entitled "Do You Wanna Kiss Me?" by senior associate editor Nick Sylvester. He had claimed he met at a local bar with three TV writers who had flown in from Los Angeles to test their version of pickup techniques from Neil Strauss's book, "The Game." Strauss is the ex-New York Times music writer and biographer of porn star Jenna Jameson.
Sylvester filed this note to readers at the paper's Web site:
"I did not meet Steve Lookner in New York at Bar 151. The trip and my encounter with him, DC, and Vali did not happen as I reported, or at all. The scene was a composite of specific anecdotes shared to me primarily by the two other parties, DC and Vali; Lookner did not share or take part in these anecdotes either. I deeply regret this misinformation, and I apologize to Lookner for his distress, which I certainly never intended."
The cover story, taken off the Web site but still found around the streets of New York, introduced its final section this way:
"At 151, a Lower East Side bar that's seen The Game manifest itself in all too many ways, from plastic firemen's hats to amateur hypnosis, I met Steve Lucien, DC, and Vic, three TV writers who had flown in from L.A. for the weekend. Under the pretense of visiting friends on the East Coast, the three really had come into the city because, as Strauss writes at the end of The Game, L.A. is completely sarged out. They want to investigate New York."
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