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Yesterday marked the merger of two rising lieutenants in Manhattan's Media Mafia as The New York Observer's Spencer Morgan and Vanity Fair executive fashion editor Alexis Bryan were married in Houston. But just who are these two newlyweds, really?
Two things to know about Morgan: (1) His granddad is Harry "Colonel Sherman Potter" Morgan from MASH; (2) he awesomely slapped fruitini-sipping Men's Vogue writer Hudson Morgan in the face for talking shit. He is also known to haunt media happenings and quote indiscrete journos when they're horrifically drunk and should know better, which often makes for great copy.
Alexis "is a daughter of Lucia R. Brandt and Shelby Bryan, both of Houston. The bride’s father is a venture capitalist. From 1999 to 2001, he was a member of the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. Her mother retired as the editor of River Oaks Magazine in Houston. The bride is a stepdaughter of Louis K. Brandt." Mr. Bryan is also Vogue editrix Anna Wintour's boyfriend. And Alexis' brother, Jack, is a film student whose documentary on famed media watering hole Siberia is being screened at famed media watering hole Soho House later this month. (Your weekend editor is in it. And he's drunk!) [NYT]
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It's one thing when the NYT wedding anouncements are all about Goldman Sachs bankers. But when it reveals just how much of the corn-fed New York media stock is parachuted in with rich connections, it's just depressing. I long for the days when the creative underclass did not have to know any of this.
Sucks about the typo!
"were married on Saturday in at the..."
@fileunder: That's just how rich people communicate. We wouldn't understand.
and, she's pregnant. How did the Times miss that?
venture capitalist and robber barron always went together in my 7th grade social studies textbook.
@ian spiegelman: If they summon me, I will go over and Wite-Out the error.
@PRIsNotJournalism: No, no, no. Venture capitalists ENABLE future robber barons. Think of venture capitalists as the nannies of the bratty kids who grow up to be unbearable richies. (Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, etc.).
@cassandra: Rich and Ivy League connections. Walk down any cubicle-trail at the NYT and it's Harvard, Yale, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Dartmouth, Yale, Harvard...
And the bride has evidently had way too much Botox for someone that age. They get this weird, stary look, like they're about to tell you you're being cheated on and think they might get hit.
@MrInBetween: I know. I'm one of them. Which makes me hate them all the more.
@cassandra: {[Me too, and also self-hating!]
Too bad the wedding was upstaged by Jenna's lil' affair in Crawford.
@MrInBetween: High-five.
I want to know, was Anna there? What did she wear? Did she remove the sunglasses?
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