Clap Your Hands Say… Huh?
Adam Moss‘s New York magazine looks great, gives good service, and just won lots of magazine-world Oscar nominations, so why is Mediaweek looking askance at its declining newstand sales and advertising pages and asking how come “business-side achievements are not keeping pace with editorial plaudits”? Here’s a hint: Courtney Sale Ross, widow of Time-Warner founder […]
Off the Record — On the Money
“You’re naive if you think people are going to go on the record. We need more unnamed sources, because people who are on the record are lying.” Bob Woodward‘s blunt comment, quoted in today’s Daily Texan at the University of Texas, pretty much says it all.
Geckoration
Andrew Ross Sorkin keeps the pressure on private equity players like 740 Park’s Steve Schwarzman and Henry Kravis (who has left the building, but like Elvis, is not forgotten) in his latest Dealbook column in the New York Times. This time, Sorkin seconds the notion that closes 740 Park, namely that “for some inexplicable reason, […]
Zippy
Residents of 740 Park can breathe easy this ayem, as Sam Roberts of the New York Times singles them out as even more elite than they were a few days ago. They’ll get to hold onto their precious 10021 zip code status signifier when the Post Office slices the east side of the big apple […]
Trippy
Travel & Leisure, where I’m lucky enough to be a Contributing Writer, has just published a book, 100 Greatest Trips and I’ve written about three of them: Harbour Island (stay at the Landing) , the Mexican Riviera (Ikal del Mar) and Bermuda (9 Beaches).
Hot Boites
I’m quoted briefly in Spencer Morgan‘s cover story in the New York Observer this week, the latest of many reports from the open-but-not-really-open Waverly Inn, but as almost always happens here in Sound Bite City, a lot of what I said didn’t make the cut. For one thing, I noted that while Graydon Carter is […]
What Becomes a Legend Most (Often)?
Ralph Lauren, who has already won the Council of Fashion Designers of America Lifetime Achievement Award, is now being named a fashion legend by the same group, a move that surely wasn’t timed to his 40th business birthday. The CFDA often gives out consolation prizes like these when a big fashion advertiser designer isn’t winning […]
Avast Ye, Scurvy Buyout Boys!
Of all the bad press generated by Steve Schwarzman‘s recent 60th birthday party, the worst may be tucked within today’s Dealbook column in the New York Times in which Andrew Ross Sorkin takes on the highly-paid pirates of private equity. “It is a charade that private equity firms have claimed their 20 percent performance fees […]
The Write Stuff
Taki and Dominick Dunne are two of my favorite writers. I moderated a dishy conversation between them that’s just been published in the spring 2007 issue of Bergdorf Goodman Magazine — and it’s already been covered on Page Six and in WWD’s Memo Pad. Caveat lector: It’s a pdf and you’ll have to enlarge it […]
Box ‘o’ Billions
A dozen present and former residents of 740 Park made this year’s Forbes Magazine’s Billionaire’s List. Among current residents, David Koch (#49) ranks as the richest, followed by Colombian Julio Mario Santo Domingo (#132), the suddenly ubiquitous Steve Schwarzman (#249), Ronald Lauder (#287) and hedge fund honcho Israel Englander (#799). Past residents on the list […]