Last July, when Christopher Ciccone published his gosspy memoir Life With My Sister Madonna, I paged through it to see if I would be mentioned. Not because of that torrid romance Madonna and I had when I was one of her back-up dancers–that was really just a big rumor–but because in the summer of 1993, …
Congratulations to my friend Paul Lindstrom. Paul is a SVP at Nielsen Strategic Research, and he was just ranked Number 23 on Mediaweek‘s list of the Fifty Most Indispensible Executives Shaping the Future of Media. Here’s what the magazine said: “A 30-year Nielsen vet responsible for its first services for measuring cable, Lindstrom has become …
Got the bad news that thanks to huge deficits, Playboy and I will be going our separate ways. Too bad. I enjoyed my job and the people I worked with. But onward and upward. (Above, I say goodbye to my friend Joseph DeAcetis, who lost his job as Fashion Director. Joseph and I first worked …
Thanks to my friend Derek Alger, I was able to have lunch on Wednesday with Thomas Fleming, the very distinguished historian and novelist. Tom is the author of The Illusion of Victory, Duel, Washington’s Secret War, The Secret Trial of Robert E. Lee, and the just published The Perils of Peace, about the struggles the …
Thanks to LinkedIn, I’ve heard from two more friends from LaSalle. My very first college roommate, Dennis O’Dowd, sent me a hilarious letter. “I was just using you as an example the other day. My mother sent me an email which detailed all of Obama‘s past foreign and/or suspicious associations and how this proved he …
Grim article about the state of book publishing by Leon Neyfakh in The New York Observer: “Think of it like a supply chain,” said one publishing executive who would not speak for attribution. “If the newspapers have fewer ads, they’re running fewer book reviews, so therefore, for those books that don’t have a pre-estab- lished …
Ginny and I had a splendid time on Sunday watching Cara compete in the Peekskill Rotary Horse Show. It was the first inter-stable competition for Cara (and only her second overall), and the first for her horse Cade. Both did very well. It was a great treat to spend a beautiful day in the sun, …
I got a note on the LinkedIn network from my colleage friend Ned White, who is currently the Regional Sales Manager at Midwest Media Group, which according to the company’s website “has emerged as the leading Digital New Media Reseller/Systems Integrator in the central United States.” Showing why he remains a great pal, Ned writes …
Writing about last night’s debate on newsweek.com, Richard Wolffe focused on John McCain‘s physical presentation: “He paced up and down in fits and starts as he spoke. He leapt from subject to subject, sound byte to sound byte. Between answers, he sat down and scribbled page after page of notes, then jumped up and paced …
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I am pretty thrilled to have won at auction on eBay copies of four prints by James Gillray, the great British satirical artist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Gillray had a sharp pen and a merciless and brilliantly comic sensibility that must have reduced the targets of satire to tears and rage. …