As the “Special Guest Host” at the Jackie Robinson Foundation Annual Awards Dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria on Monday night, Bill Cosby put the benefit’s guests through a gentle ribbing. “I would like all of the scholars to just say hello,” Mr. Cosby said to the packed ballroom. “And I would like the people responsible for Read More
At the stroke of midnight, The Dark Knight opened across the country this morning, to rave reviews, Oscar buzz and forecasts of a record-shattering box office performance. Most observers have chalked up the unprecedented anticipation for the film to its quality script and to the amazing and final performance of the late Heath Read More
The "Cosby Sweater," the kind of loud, patchy sweater worn by Bill Cosby on The Cosby Show in the late 1980′s that misled millions into adjusting their aerials, may not be the sort of "directional" fashion-do that Sarah Jessica Parker’s shoes and dresses from Sex and the City have become, but that doesn’t mean he Read More
Hath Not a Jew Ears? New Republic literary editor Leon Wieseltier attempts to answer to a question you’ve probably never asked yourself: Can A Jew Enjoy The Sound Of Church Bells? (Spoiler Alert: yes.)
Cos Célèbre: Ta-Nehisi Coates examines entertainer-turned-activist Bill Cosby’s brand of post-Civil Rights empowerment philosophy in The Atlantic. "From Birmingham Read More
People can’t leave Bill Clinton alone. In the Marriott Marquis hotel’s men’s lavatory the other night, at the 60th Anniversary Gala for Harlem’s Northside Center for Child Development, even the bathroom attendant couldn’t stop chatting with Mr. Clinton. Mr. President looked very happy about it. His Secret Service men did not.
“Hi, Bill,” a Read More
Today, Forbes’ Sara Clemence investigates why Bill Cosby has kept busy lately transferring the ownership of his East 71st townhouse. Ms. Clemence speculates about why the ownership was in Catherine C. Carter’s name, followed by Mr. Cosby alone, next Mr. Cosby and his wife Camille, and most recently, an LLC.
“The Read More
In one of the backstage hospitality rooms of the Theater at Madison Square Garden, Chris Rock sat on an ass-battered couch, arms folded tightly, and talked about the ambition in his “Black Ambition” tour.
“I want to have it so tight that it works in front of every audience: rich, poor, a strip club and Read More
I was scampering through midtown on my way to COOGI–yes, the Australian company responsible for those endearingly cheesy, Technicolor-vomit, Bill Cosby sweaters was having a fashion show–when I noticed a homeless person half a block away, clutching a cardboard sign. The scurrying fashionistas ahead of me were responding to this bedraggled unfortunate with alacrity–reading his Read More
When Bill Cosby took the podium that had been set up in the Plaza Hotel’s Grand Ballroom on April 28, the crowd below him was expecting an effusive, hyperbole-filled speech about John Marion, the former auctioneer and chairman of Sotheby’s North America, and his Texas millionaire wife, Anne Windfohr Marion. That is the ritual of Read More
