I kinda like Caroline Kennedy. Not that she would care if I do or don’t. In any case, I haven’t seen her for a dozen years—and before that only fleetingly. We first met when she was an undergraduate at Harvard in the late ’70s. She was the belle (or maybe not …) of my brilliant Read More
“I’m not dressed like the Kazakh bride,” Sigourney Weaver told The Observer last week.
“I’m wearing Lanvin,” she said in an exaggerated French accent, perhaps a remnant of Fashion Week reverie. Indeed, Ms. Weaver was one of many gowned sophistiquées packed into the main atrium of the Public Library appraising a mannequin clad in traditional Read More
On a recent Thursday morning, Internal Revenue Service agents walked up to a shiny new building on East 74th Street. Bernie Madoff’s younger son has a $4.4 million condo on the fifth floor, but they were looking for his neighbor. “Tell them I’m not here,” the money manager Kenneth I. Starr said to Read More
When we caught up with comedian Zach Galifinakis at the American Ballet Theater’s spring gala on Monday, May 17, he seemed annoyed that he’d been noticed. And this wasn’t the overstated peevishness that’s helped him gain his newfound fame. It was the regular kind. “To be honest with you, I don’t really know a lot Read More
In Hollywood, they say, it can take a lifetime to become an overnight success. In Albany, it can take a lifetime to become an overnight failure.
Governor David Paterson has spent a lifetime in Albany.
Before his six-day-old campaign came to a halt last week—and long before he became Topic A for the New York Read More
The state ethics commission won’t ask David Paterson how Caroline Kennedy’s confidential records got out.
Norman Oder takes some questions on Atlantic Yards.
The Goldman Sachs p.r. offensive gets borderline offensive.
Would NBC Universal really go public?
Famous people will put on scrappy plays.
A female writer recalls the Read More
Caroline Kennedy will be a guest at a fund-raiser for Manhattan district attorney candidate Cy Vance on Tuesday, June 23, according to this invitation.
One bit of related trivia: The firm Kennedy hired when she was in the hunt for a Senate appointment, Knickerbocker SKD, is representing one of Vance’s rivals, Leslie Crocker Snyder.
Caroline Kennedy will be a guest at a fund-raiser for Manhattan district attorney candidate Cy Vance on Tuesday, June 23, according to this invitation.
One bit of related trivia: The firm Kennedy hired when she was in the hunt for a Senate appointment, Knickerbocker SKD, is representing one of Vance’s Read More
ALBANY—Senator Kirsten Gillibrand's campaign announced today she had been endorsed by the leaders of 52 of the 62 Democratic county leaders in New York. Among the holdouts: the chairmen of all five boroughs of New York City.
I found Assemblyman Vito Lopez, also chairman of the Brooklyn Democratic Party, on the floor Read More
ALBANY—Senator Kirsten Gillibrand’s campaign announced today she had been endorsed by the leaders of 52 of the 62 Democratic county leaders in New York. Among the holdouts: the chairmen of all five boroughs of New York City.
I found Assemblyman Vito Lopez, also chairman of the Brooklyn Democratic Party, on the floor of the Read More
