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    Image of Edward Lionheart Edward Lionheart
    10/16/09

    In reply to New York Magazine Seeks Money-Losing Rich Kid
    If I had more money than any human being would reasonably need, I think it would be fun to publish a good magazine even if it loses a relatively little money. A lot of good media properties lose money. As for "vanity," I think it's more complicated than that. You keep something you care about alive and try to do good by the world in which you live. Thank God for the "vanity" of rich people or Mozart and Beethoven wouldn't have written half of what they did. (Not that NY Mag is Mozart and Beethoven, but c'mon, it does more good for the world than, uh, a ton of magazines and gossipy websites I can think of.) (Not this one.) (Necessarily.) #newyorkmagazine
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    Image of Poodle_Heart Poodle_Heart
    10/16/09

    In reply to New York Magazine Seeks Money-Losing Rich Kid
    i actually still read ny mag, but i don't know why
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    Image of Motoko Kusanagi Motoko Kusanagi
    10/16/09

    In reply to New York Magazine Seeks Money-Losing Rich Kid
    That cover is some kind of recursive Spy mag wormhole effect. #newyorkmagazine
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    Image of Poodle_Heart Poodle_Heart
    10/16/09

    In reply to New York Magazine Seeks Money-Losing Rich Kid
    they could run ny mag as a nonprofit #newyorkmagazine
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    Image of Phyllis Nefler Phyllis Nefler
    10/15/09

    In reply to What Next For New York Magazine?
    Contact information for this author is not available.

    How sinister! Did Harvey's people get a hold of you? Or is Ronn (sic) Torossian finally having his way? #newyorkmagazine
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    10/15/09

    In reply to What Next For New York Magazine?
    What, no Peter Brant? #newyorkmagazine
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    Image of Monte Wooley Monte Wooley
    10/15/09

    In reply to What Next For New York Magazine?
    Clueless is us: "Financiers and insiders from Wasserstein's personal empire, who'd have both the money and the knowledge to take over..." Oh lawdy, Nicky, where do you find these wunderkinder? #newyorkmagazine
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    Image of Hamilton Nolan Hamilton Nolan
    10/15/09

    @Monte Wooley: i.e.,
    "Insiders such as Anup Bagaria, the former vice chairman of Wasserstein & Co., who runs the magazine's publisher, New York Media Holdings, might also put together a bid."

    [www.nypost.com] #newyorkmagazine
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    Image of Monte Wooley Monte Wooley
    10/15/09

    @Hamilton Nolan: Many thanks for the clarification, kind sir. #newyorkmagazine
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    Image of Poodle_Heart Poodle_Heart
    10/15/09

    In reply to What Next For New York Magazine?
    Nick Denton, Gawker overlord: 50-1. You never know with this guy!

    that would be teh awesomez #newyorkmagazine
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    Image of FormerEnglishMajor FormerEnglishMajor
    10/15/09

    In reply to What Next For New York Magazine?
    MIchael Wolff, Harvey Weinstein, and Jeffrey Epstein - now there's a triumvirate any mother of a teenage girl would be proud to know. #newyorkmagazine
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    Image of GotlandMilk GotlandMilk
    10/14/09

    In reply to Bruce Wasserstein, 61
    Didn't Bruce's ex-wife, Claude, also adopt his late sister's Wendy's child? So maybe Lucy Jane has a home, and isn't so alone.
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    SarahHeartburn promoted this comment Edited by GotlandMilk at 10/14/09 10:38 PM GotlandMilk was starred GotlandMilk was unstarred
    Image of SarahHeartburn SarahHeartburn
    10/15/09

    @GotlandMilk: Wendy had originally stipulated that she wanted a female cousin to raise Lucy Jane and somehow Bruce wrangled custody of the kid, if I recall right. Maybe now she'll end up with the person her mother wanted her to be with?
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    Image of Lucia Toledo Lucia Toledo
    10/14/09

    In reply to Bruce Wasserstein, 61
    He was bred for an socio-ecological niche that no longer exists, that has morphed into something else. Dying was a form of intelligence, evolution. I am sad, yet... it works. Collaborate with your next self, or forget becoming myth.
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    Image of TheSometimesWhy TheSometimesWhy
    10/15/09

    @Lucia Toledo: "Collaborate with yourself, or forget becoming myth." I just read that on a fortune cookie fortune--morphic resonance or metaphysical plagiarism?

    Regardless, Lucia, a lovely turn of phrase...
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    Image of Seeräuber Jenny Seeräuber Jenny
    10/14/09

    In reply to Bruce Wasserstein, 61
    Did Gawker do anything on the death of Nan Robertson?
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    Image of PinkPundit PinkPundit
    10/14/09

    In reply to Bruce Wasserstein, 61
    Ah, I'm old enough to remember when he was known as "Bid 'em Up Bruce." A quick Google shows that the Brit papers are reporting this in their obits, but the Americans are too tasteful.
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    Image of adiam7 adiam7
    10/14/09

    In reply to Bruce Wasserstein, 61
    I loooved his sister's writing and he was guardian to her daughter. I wonder what will happen to that little girl.
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    10/14/09

    In reply to Bruce Wasserstein, 61
    Certainly an uber-aggressive i-banker. I don't see the tragedy here. He was obscenely rich and his latest trophy wife was quite a bit younger than he. Meh. The world will survive.
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    Image of Atilla the Bun Atilla the Bun
    10/14/09

    @registered: I don't think the article called it a tragedy. It's just the somewhat surprising, youngish death of a very wealthy man that will likely have some effect on his businesses. I'm sure it's a tragedy to those that loved him, though. And even some rich people are loved.
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    TheBusinessGuy promoted this comment Atilla the Bun was starred Atilla the Bun was unstarred
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    10/14/09

    @Atilla the Bun: This rich guy was not loved, not by me or many who worked for him. He believed he was a genius and that just about everyone he ever encountered was decidedly inferior. He was incredibly arrogant and egotistic and had quite the cruel streak.

    I suppose you could say that of most successful men. And now he's dead.
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    Image of Atilla the Bun Atilla the Bun
    10/14/09

    @registered: I wasn't talking about you or the people that worked for him. I was referring to his niece and perhaps some of his other family members.

    And one day you will be dead, too. Kind of works that way for all of us.
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    10/14/09

    @Atilla the Bun: So, he's famous for his niece? Is that what you're saying? Because if so, you are full of it. Sorry!
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    Image of Atilla the Bun Atilla the Bun
    10/14/09

    @registered: Huh? Where did you get that? All I'm saying is I'm sure somebody out there somewhere loved the guy and is sad he is dead. Being a rich asshole on the job doesn't necessarily mean his death is "meh" to everybody. And I'm sure there are some NY Mag employees that care very much about his death though for very different reasons. That is all.
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