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    Tina Brown Eulogizes Her Party Planner, His Bombass Parties, And Herself

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    07/12/09

    In reply to Tina Brown Eulogizes Her Party Planner, His Bombass Parties, And Herself
    The enduring successes of Tina Brown just proves that an English accent in New York will excuse multiple sins and consistent mediocrity.
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    07/13/09

    @Sigerson: She was great once. That was before she became the monster in order to write about the monster.
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    07/12/09

    In reply to Tina Brown Eulogizes Her Party Planner, His Bombass Parties, And Herself
    I love how she puts the destruction of the Twin Towers next to the folding of her silly little magazine (not to mention poor Salman and Padma!), as if they hold equal weight in the annals of history.
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    07/12/09

    In reply to Tina Brown Eulogizes Her Party Planner, His Bombass Parties, And Herself
    When all's said and done, I will say: that picture of Brown is pretty great. And even though only, like, nine people are interested in this kind of thing, they enjoy it greatly. I did. I still think Brown's treatment of it was still a little self-involved, though.
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    07/12/09

    In reply to Tina Brown Eulogizes Her Party Planner, His Bombass Parties, And Herself
    After the "purple rain" reference, I read this in Prince's sad yowling mode. It really brought something extra to the parade of dead celebrities that Tina trots out here.
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    07/12/09

    @VoxPopuli: She could have actually interviewed his associates, other party planners, etc., to get an idea out there to the public about what RI was really like. But Tina Brown cannot see past her own flat tits these days. Jesus, she just sucks.
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    07/12/09

    In reply to Tina Brown Eulogizes Her Party Planner, His Bombass Parties, And Herself
    Well, this sucks big-time. Robert Isabell was a darling. He once gave me some work when I really needed it, and he did it with honor and grace. A gentleman. He was not just a party planner. He also created some amazing perfumes that the general population was too idiotic to appreciate, but which I treasure. Now every dumb celeb who can hire someone to make a perfume for them shoves tuberose and gardenia together without any subtlety or style. Ahead of his time, as usual. RIP.
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    07/12/09

    @BookishLookish: A very nice remembrance, Booky. Isabell seemed like a class act, a gent of the old school, someone whose taste and style and drive took him far- from modest beginnings in the provinces to the metropolitan glamour of his dreams.

    Wealthy society ladies and intensely creative gay men: an old story. I wonder if that will survive; they don't make them like Vreeland or Nan Kempner anymore. Nor discreet aesthetes quite like Isabell, gone too soon. (And yes, his perfumes were delightful.)
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    07/12/09

    @BookishLookish: jo malone, not so much



    i was somewhere the other day and some youngun was going on about vanilla scentz and i wound up teaching about how we put it on straight from the vanilla extract bottle back in the day god help me



    xxoo
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    07/13/09

    @BookishLookish: He was also far better looking than any of the people in the photo above.
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    07/12/09

    In reply to Tina Brown Eulogizes Her Party Planner, His Bombass Parties, And Herself
    This is just like the time my grandfather died and I got one less birthday present.
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    07/12/09

    In reply to Tina Brown Eulogizes Her Party Planner, His Bombass Parties, And Herself
    "I suddenly felt deep empathy with the late Princess of Wales, for the hundredth time. Here I was at my crowning moment, my coronation as queen of cafè society, and I understood her deep loneliness amid the glory. But like Diana, there were sinister forces amassing against me, unwashed masses at their PCs, sans-culottes preparing their digital tumbrils and had never considered the deep fascination of Bianca Jagger. (Did I say Diana? I meant Marie Antoinette as well. Watching Bernard-Henri Levy scarf a hot dog was a transcendent pop hi-low culture moment, the zeitgeist in action.) Where was I? Oh yes- little could I know that Robert's arrangements would become fleurs de mal, and this glorious temps would soon be perdu."
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    07/12/09

    @Baroness: pitch perfect on the diana stalking in particular and the name dropping in general



    she's not dumb, and she has a lot of drive, and she has somehow continued to fail up and spend more of other people's money for a long time now



    i was surprised that the daily beast is such a right reactionary fox style piece of crap; vanity fair is firmly center/rich and considers conservatism to mostly be boring ... the daily beast i think chewed off three of its own feet out the gate by trying to run with the fox crowd.
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    07/12/09

    @if_i_only_had_a_heart: Your last sentence prompted me to take a first-time-ever look at The Daily Beast.
    So. There are pieces about "The GOP's Young Hatemonger"; [Senator] "Ensign's Childish Affair"; and a schadenfreude wallow in Rupert Murdoch's wiretap scandal. The site also appears to be quite LGBT-friendly, with a guest editorial from Anderson Cooper and pieces about gay history after Stonewall and Don't Ask Don't Tell.
    I've been suspicious about Tina Brown's politics ever since the notorious Vanity Fair Ron & Nancy "We're Outta Here" cover, but this website doesn't appear to lean to the right. Tina is too much the front-runner to allow that.
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    07/12/09

    @Baroness: Poetry, Baroness, poetry.
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    07/12/09

    @Baroness: Yo, B: well played. I promoted your comment to the frontpage, and I'll be featuring more from the comments from here on out. This, folks, is how you earn your star. Nicely done.
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    07/12/09

    @Baroness: Brill, as always, 'Ness.
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    07/12/09

    @Foster Kamer: Humble thanks, Foster. Drinks at noon pay off, people! I left out a scene where Tina's in the Bastille and Barry Diller's the guard waggling the keys indecently near his crotch. I actually like Tina, she's a trip. Someone ought get to work on an operetta about her climb.
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    07/13/09

    @Baroness: That last line deserves another star. Have you read "Tina and Harry Come to America?" It's up there with "How to Lose Friends and Alienate People" but on a higher level. It's the VIP circle Toby Young was trying to crash, told from the inside.
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    07/12/09

    In reply to Tina Brown Eulogizes Her Party Planner, His Bombass Parties, And Herself
    She's like the Norma Desmond of magazines.
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    11/17/08

    In reply to Graydon Carter the Poor Casting Agent's Patrician Editor-Type
    That hair kills me every time.
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    11/17/08

    In reply to Graydon Carter the Poor Casting Agent's Patrician Editor-Type
    Any article that mentions Winnipeg gets an A for esoterica. If you really want to go for the gold though, drop the name Gimli.
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    11/17/08

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    I'm just a plebian commenter type.
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    11/17/08

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    [www.brainfleas.com]
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    11/17/08

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    Graydonus Carterus, Roman Senator.
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    11/17/08

    In reply to Graydon Carter the Poor Casting Agent's Patrician Editor-Type
    "Patrician editor-type" sounds intelligent and self-depreciatory, like something you would run across in the personals in the back of the London Review of Books.
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    11/17/08

    @i'm_a_bottle:


    But the London Review personals are so self-depreciatory that the "patrician editor-type" would actually describe himself as "beardy fop with red pen and regrettable tendency to interrupt others."

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    11/17/08

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    He probably can't even skate.
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