Jamie Malanowski

Month: September 2008

A LEONINE LUNCH

I had lunch today at Ammos Estiatorio on Vanderbilt Avenue with my friend John Leo. John, who had a long and distinguished career as a columnist at US News & World Report, is a resident scholar at the Manhattan Institute, from whose parapets he wags a stern and scornful finger at the soggy ignorance of …

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VISIT FROM A MASTER

We got a visit at the office yesterday from the great James Ellroy, the author of L.A. Confidential, American Tabloid and other classic too numerous to mention. The classy Ellroy brought champagne for the staff, regaled us with memories of his favorite Playboy jokes and cartoons, talked about recording pornographic grunts for Velvet magazine in …

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I DON’T KNOW IF IT’S ART. . .

. . . but some artist-like bloke named Peter Tunney is displaying a dozen or so of his paintings n empty retail space at Fifth and 52nd. Most of them seem entirely too derivative and entirely too calculated to shock, not excepting the one above. But I like it.

IN THE FAMILY

The New York premiere of the documentary In the Family was held at the Paley Center in Manhattan the other night. Underwrtten by the Playboy Foundation, the film examines the emotions and issues that arise when a woman learns that she has a genetic predisposition to breast or ovarian cancer. With intelligence, anger, sadness and …

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PLUGGED IN

Thanks to Nick Thompson of Wired , another of the famous Washington Monthly editorial finishing school, for a tasty Brazilian lunch at Ipanema on West 46th Street. Hopefully we’ll be able to work together sometime soon.