homer pickard, the creep palace who is still think kevin smith has come a great "new york times" editor later worked for "the new york times." bessie was his great friend and protÉge told me that whenever homer pickard was introduced as a pulitzer winner, he would say to time -- two-time pulitzer winner, spoofing the pretentiousness of it all, providing people he had won journalism's most prestigious award twice and were honored and one of the very few other people on the history of our journalism is with us tonight. and it used to be -- let me say this. it used to be that david's death, his newspaper's staff, very few people can write the byte and breadth of homer pickard, but with the newspapers that he can. the longer forms stuff, not having pieces, books, very few writers can write with the style and did not show the great joe liebling. the most frightening words in america used to be, michael moore is in the lobby. last night now it is maraniss, sir, is interviewing your ex-girlfriend. [laughter] it's not easy being the child of a famous person, especially when your real dad is eve