At the very charming Cafe Cafe on Broome Street yesterday, I had the pleasure of interviewing the very smart and cooperative actor Billy Crudup for a cover story in an upcoming issue of Best Life. Crudup talked a lot of about acting and the actor’s life. “I like complexity,” he says. My kind of guy.
Around noon on a brilliantly sunny Monday (the 27th) in Union Square Park, a robust and multidimentional, if all-black image of the first president overlooks a flat, multicolored image of the first black, 44th overall president.
In the early hours of Sunday morning (the 26th), in the murky riding shed at Chickory Meadow Farm, Cara won her first blue ribbon, finishing first in equitation among her classmates. She also competed in jumping events. Good job, Cara–congratulations!
If you’ve never received a note that begins “You have never stopped being brilliant,” let me tell you, I recommend it. The other day, the writer Lynn Phillips sent me note saying “You have never stopped being brilliant, but I’m still haunted by your June 91 Spy piece, `When Disney Ran America,’ and keep wanting …
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 …
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 …