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Eleanor Barkhorn - Eleanor Barkhorn is an associate editor at The Atlantic, where she edits the Entertainment channel.
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Eleanor Barkhorn is an associate editor at The Atlantic, where she edits the Entertainment channel. She is a former producer for the Food channel. Before coming to The Atlantic, she was a reporter at the Delta Democrat Times in Greenville, Mississippi. She graduated from Princeton University, where she majored in American literature and wrote her senior thesis about Oprah's Book Club. For her first two years out of college, she taught high school English with the Teach For America program.

Beach Boys Don't Like Katy Perry's 'California Gurls' After All

By Eleanor Barkhorn
Aug 5 2010, 11:30 AM ET Comment

Last month, Beach Boys lead singer Brian Wilson, who wrote the 1965 hit "California Girls", expressed his admiration for this summer's ubiquitous song of (almost) the same name, Katy Perry's "California Gurls." He seems to have changed his tune (heh):

Rondor Music has fired off a letter to Perry's label, Capitol Records, demanding Mike Love and Brian Wilson -- who penned the 1965 classic "California Girls" -- be given a writing credit on Perry's hit summer song, as well as royalties.

Read the full story at the New York Post.


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