E-mails I Sent the Day of the ‘Miracle on the Hudson’
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The good thing about the new Depression is that I’ve been in one for the past five years, so I’m used to it. Nice to have company.
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Boom times are the Read More
George Gurley
My Survival Kit for When the Evildoers Strike Next
So the evildoers are gonna get us again. I can feel it; they’re getting ready. Leon Panetta for C.I.A. head? Were Warren Christopher and Richard Simmons both unavailable? Not to worry, I’m sure the incoming secretary of state will have the terrorists quaking in their boots, postponing plans to make kaboomies. I’ve been watching the Read More
Sex and Food Face Off at Le Cirque
Last week, I was at a party at the sophisticated Le Cirque restaurant on East 58th Street street for the HBO documentary Le Cirque: A Table in Heaven. I asked fabled Le Cirque owner Sirio Maccioni, a very elegant man who smelled great, what happens when his beautiful wife of 38 years, Egidiana, sees hot Read More
How to Be Broke and Not Be a Sucker
So I’m broke. I have a negative balance. Minus $9.44.
Nothing to do, nowhere to go, imprisoned here on Roosevelt Island. Back in ’99 I bought a $400 bottle of wine at Raoul’s to impress what I thought was my girlfriend. Turned out I was merely one of three dudes she Read More
Boss Jim Downey
Q: For years now, shows like Meet the Press have been broadcasting clips of an SNL sketch, a spoof of political reality, to have a conversation with their audience about the actual political reality. How are you getting to the core ingredients of what’s going on in a way that Read More
How a Welsh Vixen Tamed Derek Smalls’ Wild Heart
Judith Owen, the Welsh singer-songwriter, actress and wife of comic actor Harry Shearer, was waiting for me inside the Paramount Hotel on a recent dreary Saturday afternoon.
She was on her second coffee and I was running late. My bad!
Had I been meeting, say, Natalie Merchant, Read More
Let Me Tell You About My BFF DFW
So everyone’s claiming to have been real tight with David Foster Wallace because they played tennis with him, had a class with him, got a book signed by him, did the naughty with him. Seems thousands of people were “pretty tight” with him and they want to make sure you know it.
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Who Needs Wall Street? Socialites Take Cover at Newly Renovated Hideaway Doubles
Doubles, the exclusive private club in the basement of the Sherry-Netherland Hotel at Fifth Avenue and 59th Street, reopened all spruced up on the evening of Wednesday, Sept. 17. The carpet was new, as were the wall coverings and the crocodile banquettes. Everything was in a rose salmon color. “You glow,” said Doubles chairwoman Wendy Read More
Signs of the Apocalypse? Grumpy James Lipton Harumphs As Greg Kinnear Bays at Moon
The new warmhearted comedy Ghost Town, starring Ricky Gervais and Téa Leoni, has all kinds of comforting messages about life and death. Turns out if you get hit by a bus but still have unfinished business on Earth, you get to resolve all your issues with loved ones before a beam of light appears and Read More
My Vice President
My very first thought about Sarah Palin? That would be: “I want to have sex with her.” Want to lick that face and drool on it like a dog.
I found an old clip of her on Charlie Rose. Wow, she can sure keep up with Charlie, no problem! Dodged that Read More
