By Eliot Brown 8/26/08 6:46pm

Developer Durst Backs Out of Cocktail Party

DENVER—Looks like the Durst Organization will wait another day to pour cocktails for New York politicians.

The real estate development firm just sent out an email saying it will no longer co-host an event at a Denver pub this afternoon with political consulting firm Global Strategy Group.

The culprit? Lobbying laws.

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By Jason Gay 7/31/00 12:00am

Peter Vallone Pushes for Pickets … Hey, Philly! Here Comes Joe Piscopo! … George W. Bush Moves Dennis Miller

Already nastier than a Liz Hurley-Anna Kournikova slapfight, the three-month-old commercial actors’ strike keeps getting uglier by the day.

First it was the actors charging that the advertisers were all a bunch of Warbucksian greedheads, unwilling to share their accumulating millions during an era of unprecedented prosperity. Then it was the advertisers calling the actors Read More