Not everyone stuffed into MTV Networks chairman Tom Freston’s East 66th Street townhouse on April 12 wanted to say how they’d made a fool of themselves recently-even though the party was for Fanatics and Fools: The Game Plan for Winning Back America, Arianna Huffington’s 10th book.
Her publisher at Miramax Books, Harvey Weinstein, declined to Read More
It looks like there is at least one Hollywood star who thinks a political endorsement from a celebrity is as useless as one from Al Gore.
At a recent lunch at Michael’s in honor of Barbarian Invasions director Denys Arcand, actor Bob Balaban, wearing a black pinstripe suit and sporting a short platinum-blond hairdo, humbly Read More
New Old-World art dealer; gallery royalty; young fogey
“Leo is 26 going on 40,” said collector Norman Dubrow, 76, gesturing toward Leo Koenig, a tall, fresh-faced man dressed in a fogeyish brown corduroy suit. One of Mr. Koenig’s artists, Eric Parker, agreed. “He’s a gentleman’s art dealer,” he said. “He’s not trying to be Read More
Nightlife promoter, club owner, A.D.D. empire builder, beau to Carmen Kass
Richie Akiva likes to refer to himself as a “young hustler.” And like most young hustlers, he’s a man of extreme confidence, loud pronouncements and diminutive height. “I’m accomplishing every single dream that I have,” said the 5-foot-5 Mr. Akiva-”Little Richie” to his friends. Read More
Early in October, thousands of frat boys e-mailed what looked like a CNN.com Web page to thousands more of their brothers, buddies and buddies’ girlfriends. It was an article about a new study that “Fellatio may significantly decrease the risk of breast cancer in women.” The story, which carried an Associated Press byline, claimed that Read More
