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Question 1 What do the toaster companies have against rye bread? Attempt 1 Attempt 2 Question 2: How does The Times Magazine's in-house interviewer Deborah Solomon continue to land interviews with the newsworthy and notable? Case in point: An excerpt from this week's Q&A with the creator of HBO's Entourage. DS: I assume your milieu was less flashy than the one in "Entourage." Doug Ellin: My father is an accountant. Growing up on Long Island, I'd have one basketball for seven years. There was no grip left on this basketball. I don't want to sound like I had a cheap father. He was not…