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the rich
Graydon Carter Wields a Pink Pencil When Filling Out His Seating Chart
Caricature-coiffed Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter co-owns two restaurants where Manhattan's most insufferable douchebags go to get their "look at me" on. Each day these establishments field "thousands" of table requests and Graydon alone decides where the arses will park. More »
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Comment by BookishLookish: My dinner date with an ex-boyfriend who became a famous actor is coming up. We share the same July birthday,... 5 Responses | Other threads
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summer
Vanity Fair Can Offer You Nothing
Ha, Vanity Fair just put out their NYC summer guide, but hey—don't ask them for a reservation at Monkey Bar! Owned by Vanity Fair's Graydon Carter! Because they can't get you one! Eh? Their guide also features errors: More »
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Comment by MrInBetween: It's as if the tiny boozy gremlin living inside Graydon Carter's chins can suddenly write! 1 Responses | Other threads
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print is dead
Graydon Carter's Fool-Proof Plan to Save Newspapers
Newspapers have been having problems, and whatnot. Why have they not asked Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter's advice sooner? Despite this error, Carter has deigned to stop having amazing sex for a few minutes to tell you how to save newspapers: More »
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Comment by Vic_Damocles: Sounds like GC has been spending a little too much time in the Conde bunker. The Times, like a lot... 3 Responses | Other threads
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Requiem For An Editor
New York Mag's Peter Kaplan Tribute: "Perfect"
Longtime New York Observer editor-in-chief Peter Kaplan's 15-year tenure ended yesterday; last night, Jesse Oxfeld compiled a great, 2,000 word piece of quotes and anecdotes on Kaplan, which Daily Intel ran. It is, as one commenter noted, perfect. My three favorite quotes, after the jump: More »
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By Foster KamerComment by adster: Does he not look like Carl Fredrickson from Pixar's "Up"? [www.getthebigpicture.net] more » | Other threads
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high society
The Only Person Who Could Get Away With Forgetting Graydon Carter's Name
So, the trial of the dastardly family member accused of swindling old NYC high society queen Brooke Astor is underway, and guess who took the stand yesterday? Our old friend, Vanity Fair's Graydon Carter! He had a sad tale to tell (with a silver lining!): More »
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Comment by Tattertotter: Healthy people joking about Alzheimer's among themselves is really not OK, but hey in the world of snark, nothing is... 7 Responses | Other threads
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how we eat
Waverly Inn Basically a Drive-Thru At This Point
While the other Inn, the Beatrice, faces an uncertain future, and Graydon Carter is getting ready to open his approachable Monkey Bar, his Waverly Inn restaurant sounds easier to get into than Marc Jacobs' pants. More »
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Comment by SarahHeartburn: I'm waiting for The Waverly to go total irony and serve Stouffer's Mac n' Cheese and Meatloaf. And they'll pack... 4 Responses | Other threads
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corrections
Graydon Carter Denies Report He's 'An Amazing Fuck'
A more cocksure man might have played along, but Graydon Carter's tenure atop Vanity Fair has apparently taught him the danger of hype and high expectations, so he's denied a flattering sex story. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by Muscato: It's not really germane to anything, I know, but until this moment and this photograph, I had never realize how... 6 Responses | Other threads
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Fucks
Graydon Carter: 'An Amazing Fuck'
What sort of fucker is Vanity Fair's George Washingtonesque editor Graydon Carter? An amazing one, according to a man who once stayed in a hotel room directly under his, listening: More »
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Comment by markscottmusic: That isn't fun. I was in Nashville recording a few years back. The folks in the hotel room next to... 14 Responses | Other threads
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Bohemian Grove
The Piss-Poor Secrets of the Bohemian Grove
Is there any mystique left to Bohemian Grove, the industrialists' clubhouse among the redwoods north of San Francisco? A 61-year-old Vanity Fair writer snuck in, joining a tradition almost as old as the Grove. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by skahammer: Am I the only person in history to have seen Harry Shearer's BG satire, Teddy Bears' Picnic? It's a movie with... 2 Responses | Other threads
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society
Who's In the Monkey Bar Mural?
Wispily pompadoured Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter's new midtown venture Monkey Bar is a bar/restaurant for rich people. There's even a giant mural commemorating some of between-wars New York's bestest richies. So who's in it? More »
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Comment by thewiseking: this place will likely cannibalize whatever life remains at Waverly. the place is dying. walked in on a lovely sunday... more » | Other threads
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gossip roundup
Octo-Mom Allowed To Bring Home Two Babies
Making the best of it: LeAnn Rimes' husband wasn't there to get her through cold Orange County nights, so she strayed; Nadya Suleman had to settle for just two of her eight babies. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by BxgrlJeri: So OctoMom wound up getting everything she wanted even though every person on the great, green Earth said she was... 6 Responses | Other threads
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Media elites
Would You Rather Be Graydon Carter or Kurt Andersen?
Sara Nelson recently got laid off as the editor of Publishers Weekly, so she's blogging about her "Reinvention." So far she's decided she does not want to be reinvented as Graydon Carter. More »
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parties
This Year's Vanity Fair Party Is for Graydon Carter and His Closest 1,000 Friends
Despite editor Graydon Carter's earlier claims of a smaller Vanity Fair Oscar party on Sunday night, the event permit filed with the CIty of West Hollywood, which CityFile dug up, says they're expecting a thousand people. More » -
education
Graydon Carter's Golden High School a No Go!
The mediacentric Greenwich Village private high school backed by Graydon Carter and John Leguizamo—well, but it's having some problems. Have heartless celebrities given up on educating downtown's most elite teenagers? Someone save the youth! More »
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Comment by Kid Twist: See, kids, that's the thing about private schools: You take the goodYou take the bad ... 3 Responses | Other threads
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restaurants
New Waverly Inn Reservation Strategy: Walk In, Ask for a Table
Danger Graydon Carter, your oh-so-exclusive Waverly Inn brand is slipping. The West Village paparazzi-magnet restaurant just seated a blogger. Who walked in off the street. More »
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Comment by TedSez: Laura Rohrman is the granddaughter of Dale Messick, creator of the comic strip "Brenda Starr: Reporter." So I say that... 5 Responses | Other threads
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television
Graydon Carter Thinks 'Menstrual Cycle' Is a Dirty Word
Vanity Fair's Graydon Carter was on the Early Show today sharing insider Hollywood tales. Graydon, why did Cleopatra have to schedule shots around Liz Taylor's menstrual cycle? "Ah...umbittyhumbittydahbahdoowelllllll..." I see. Click to watch.
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Comment by Truculent: I LOST MY STAR! I'm compressed. The shame!! 20 Responses | Other threads
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columnists
Andrea Peyser Occasionally Hates Something Correctly
Repellent-to-a-humorous-degree Post columnist Andrea Peyser is an example of someone who, ironically, arrived at populism by way of xenophobia and overall distaste for mankind. Today she properly directs her venom at Graydon Carter's stupid school. More »
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waverly inn
Graydon Carter Controls His Neighbors Like So Many Puppets
SCANDAL: George Washington doppelganger Graydon Carter is reportedly wooing his West Village neighborhood critics by giving them reservations at his Waverly Inn and putting their pictures in his Vanity Fair. Yes, and? More »
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Comment by Nic Fit: Deni, who owned Save the Robots in the old days, famously bribed all the neighbors with free drinks until they... 10 Responses | Other threads
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gossip roundup
Lindsay Lohan's Date With Sean Penn
Sean Penn could woo Lindsay Lohan with an Oscar invite and Graydon Carter can woo a Waverly Inn neighbor with a spot in Vanity Fair and museums can. Seduction is everywhere. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate: Nobody washes their hands anymore. I'd say as a rough estimate of my public terlet experiences that 50% of people... 8 Responses | Other threads
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education
Celebrity-Backed Mediacentric High to Add New Dimension to Private School Snobbery
Just in time to solve America's education crisis, the exclusive private Greenwich Village High School backed by Graydon Carter and John Leguizamo is preparing to open its doors. It's worse than you think. More »
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Comment by Iceland Spar: With my resume, I should totally be able to get that spot for the token poor. This high school sounds... 9 Responses | Other threads
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gossip roundup
Does Tom Cruise Have Herpes?
Everyone is speculating wildly: The Post asks if Tom Cruise gave his wives cold sores; Hollywood reporters accuse their boss of naughty flights and Madonna thinks a new baby can maybe fix everything. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by Trixie from Toronto: The Tom Cruise item suggest both women must have blown him. I am doubting that's ever happened. 10 Responses | Other threads
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mo' problems
Annie Leibovitz Looking Like a Deadbeat
This past summer we asked if famed photographer Annie Leibovitz was a deadbeat. Now we have an answer. She owes hundreds of thousands of dollars in unpaid bills, two lawsuits claim. More »
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Comment by Bring It On: Annie Leibovitz hires unpaid interns from Harvard College each year and according to those interns is supposed to be a... 19 Responses | Other threads
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gossip roundup
Gwyneth Paltrow's Jailbait Boobs Mystify Fans
A day of new beginnings: Gwyneth Paltrow SOMEHOW restored her breasts to teenage perkiness, Paula Abdul is maybe leaving American Idol and Tommy Hilfiger uncanceled his wedding. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by forwardmotion: I wish I could afford to be anthropophobic. I have started looking longingly at those flyers that say, "8K a... 7 Responses | Other threads
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gossip roundup
Kate Moss, Mariah Carey To Welcome Children Into Wildly Different Homes
- Kate Moss and her boyfriend may be welcoming a child into their continuous boxing match/family.
- Mariah Carey may also be pregnant. She was clutching an apparent sonogram as she exited the office of the OB/GYN to the stars. [P6]
- Vanity Fair assembled an epic photo shoot to commemorate the Four Seasons restaurant's 50th anniversary, but there's no way editor and Waverly Inn proprietor Graydon Carter was going to show up for that picture. He had a terrible case of the flu, you see. [P6]
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By Ryan TateComment by Sarcastro: That is a very becoming photograph of a young Deborah Harry. 2 Responses | Other threads
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open caption
Nobody Buying the Pate de Faux Grup Stuffed With Half-Baked Bravado
Here's Vanity Fair editor and Waverly Inn/Monkey Bar owner Graydon Carter at Robin Hood Foundation breakfast at the Plaza Hotel this past Tuesday. At a panel yesterday, he said he wasn't worried about the sad state of the magazine industry: "All three of these magazines are, you know, a few years on either side, 100 years old and we've been through many ups and downs." We pointed out that while VF was founded in 1914, it had a "brief 48-year-long Great Depression-induced hiatus." [Photo via Melissa C. Morris] [Thanks for this caption, commenter TedSez!] More » -
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No Economic Downturn Can Stop Vanity Fair (Except the One That Did)
New York City was lucky enough today to play host to a fancy panel discussion featuring the world's three fanciest magazine editors: Vanity Fair's Graydon Carter, Vogue's Anna Wintour, and The New Yorker's David Remnick. And Joe Nocera of the Times uncouthly "lashed out at the editors and asked how each of the them could be so sanguine about the future." Pish posh! Graydon Carter is convinced his invincible publication will weather this economic storm as it always has: More »
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people's parties
Despite Worrisome Times, Vanity Fair To Teeter On With Ramshackle Oscar Party
Even though every magazine is dying and Christmas has officially been canceled, one brave publication is soldiering on with an expensive (non-Holiday) festivity anyway. It's Vanity Fair's legendary Oscar party (one year they had colored cigarettes in bowls! It's like the Governor's Ball, only cool!), which was sadly canceled last year because of the Communist writers' strike. Everyone assumed it would be nixed again this year, in light of everyone being broke, but bossman in charge Graydon Carter says it's on, baby: More » -
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Graydon Carter the Poor Casting Agent's Patrician Editor-Type
Vanity Fair editor and Spy founder Graydon Carter reviewed a biography of Paris Review editor George Plimpton in the New York Times Book Review this Sunday. ("I could have been a contender [to be a Great Male Author]," Plimpton once said, "If I hadn't done the Paris Review...) Carter revealed both his admiration for "George," as well as the fact that that when casting agents are scouting around for a "patrician type to play an editor ," Plimpton also had him beat—the secretly Canadian Carter was only the third choice for such a character: More »
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By SheilaComment by TheHonJudgeSmails: Maybe it's the fact that you're a doughy fop with a stupid fucking haircut? 8 Responses | Other threads
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michael lewis
Graydon Carter Sticks It To Portfolio Again
It was something of a coup when Vanity Fair, in May, did what its Condé Nast sibling Portfolio couldn't and poached Fortune's winsome star writer Bethany McLean. If Portfolio's uncertain editor Joanne Lipman was annoyed then, she must be really steaming now that rival Graydon Carter snagged his latest catch from her own magazine. Vanity Fair's editor just inked an exclusive deal, the Observer reports, with Michael Lewis, who had contracts at both Lipman's glossy and with the Times magazine. Carter lured Lewis even though the Liar's Poker author recently saw his pay upped at Portfolio and despite a grudge the financial writer harbored against Vanity Fair for 10 years over an an unflattering 1997 profile. How did Carter do it? More »
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By Ryan TateComment by Aaron Altman: Ryan, there's no such thing as a $55 plate of mac and cheese, stop lying! 3 Responses | Other threads
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toby young
The Gum That Wouldn't Scrape Off
Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter sounds positively exasperated that Toby Young is still stuck—gum-like—to his shoe. A decade after the British hack's disastrous six-month stint at the Conde Nast magazine, Young's account of epic failure to take New York by storm comes to screens later this week. "I can only compare it with a brief one-night stand that results in octuplets," says Carter, who is played by Jeff Bridges in the movie version of How To Lose Friends And Alienate People. But the Vanity Fair poo-bah ought to show more respect for noble failure. After all, Carter's own reputation was made by Spy, a magazine that won plaudits but lost money in all but one year of its existence. Disclosure: despite a history of mutual abuse, Gawker is co-hosting a party for Toby Young on Wednesday.
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By Nick DentonComment by ian spiegelman: Enough about fucking Graydon Carter already. Spy was MAD magazine with photos and without the great sense of humor, and... 5 Responses | Other threads
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graydon carter
Graydon Carter's New Investors
"Carter notes in his Vanity Fair editor's letter that... [Monkey Bar investors] 'include four people who are a part of this year's New Establishment: Ronald Perelman, Jerry Weintraub, Jean Pigozzi and Bryan Lourd.'" [Post]
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By Ryan TateComment by smithhimself: I get the "establishment" part of the title, but don't get the "new." Smithhimself has dealt with one of the... more » | Other threads
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aimee bell
Vanity Fair's New School More Exclusive Than Waverly Inn
It's one thing for Graydon Carter to deem you worthy of, say, a 7 pm reservation at his 70-seat Waverly Inn. But if you really want an emblem of the Vanity Fair editor's approval, try getting your child admitted to the 45-child freshman class of Carter's other exclusive West Village institution, the forthcoming Greenwich Village High. The school is the brainchild of Carter deputy editor Aimee Bell, as first reported in the Observer, and her neighbor Sara Goodman. But according to the Times it's becoming something so much posher than all that! More »
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By Ryan TateComment by Scarion: To set the record straight, you fools, Graydon's lending his name (and hopefully his money and connections) to launch a... 3 Responses | Other threads
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new establishment
The 50 Biggest Losers
Vanity Fair's annual new establishment rankings—a highly subjective guide to status within editor Graydon Carter's universe—has always been more interesting for the losers more than the winners. The magazine's arbiters are too tactful to dole out many down arrows to the moguls, financiers and stars on the list; but the rankings themselves can't be fudged. Here's a list of last year's and this year's contenders ordered by the number of places they've fallen. (Those who've been dropped entirely are assumed to have been relegated to 101st place.) More »
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By Nick DentonComment by PandoraSpocks: I'm still celebrating that the Coen Brothers made the top 100.And I hear Denton can get us all into the... 2 Responses | Other threads
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barack obama
Obama Speech Media Hierarchy: Losers And Winners
Not all reporters are created equal at Invesco Field, where Barack Obama is about to close out the Democratic National Convention. John Koblin at the Observer printed a seating chart (left) and gave a rundown on the winners and losers. It looks like the Obama campaign continues to snub the New Yorker for its controversial parody cover, sitting the magazine's correspondents in worse seats than Jezebel/Glamour (team Megan!), the Nation and the New Republic. More delightfully, the campaign totally dissed those conssumate insiders at Vanity Fair, "which is stuck in the back row in Section J" behind basically everyone except the Gotham tabloids. Ha ha, I guess the entire free world is not actually obsessed with getting into the Waverly or your damned Oscar party, Graydon Carter! After the jump, early chatter among reporters, plus a list of seating winners. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by Mike Jahn: Well, that was damned impressive. I know it's an obscure point, but I thought it was pretty smart to play a... 19 Responses | Other threads
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brits in america
It Was Ever Thus
The central section of Greenwich Village, near that haven for nostalgic expats called Tea & Sympathy, has always drawn the English. A 1902 New York Times guide to the 'British Quarter' describes rather unflatteringly the neighborhood's inhabitants: "ruddy, grizzled, thick-necked, opinionated and slangy." We owe this vignette to Toby Young, the famously unsuccessful Vanity Fair writer who parlayed his failure in New York into an amusing book, How To Lose Friends And Alienate People, the basis for an upcoming movie starring Simon Pegg and Jeff Bridges. More »
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By Nick DentonComment by raincoaster: @raincoaster: or a Turkey. Whatever. more » | Other threads
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By Ryan TateComment by Wonderland: Danny Glover is calling racist on something that probably had way more to do with people not wanting their $... more » | Other threads
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restaurants
Rules Of The Waverly Inn
Leslie Kaufman's feature on Waverly Inn for the Times dining section reads too cutesy and is almost nakedly self-ingratiating. The writer couldn't find one angry chef or would-be patron to slag Graydon Carter's It-restaurant? But the piece is well-researched, on its own puffy terms, and thus useful to those strivers eager to be seen among the restaurant's celebrity diners, no matter how expensive the macaroni or rich the wine list. Here, then, is a quick list of the ways to lose friends and alienate people, and perhaps accomplish the opposite, at the Waverly:
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By Ryan TateComment by wholenuther: Am I right that this place is being disparaged because they don't cater to hedge-funders and attention craving reality TV... more » | Other threads
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graydon carter
Graydon Carter's New Bar Probably Already Booked
"The Vanity Fair editor, who already co-owns the Waverly Inn, has bought the lease of East 54th Street's famed Monkey Bar from the Glazier Group with two partners, hotelier Jeff Klein and London- based restaurateur Jeremy King." [Post]
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By Ryan TateComment by BookishLookish: Graydon Carter shall suck the solitary hoof of Satan for all eternity if he pulls down that gorgeous monkey wallpaper. more » | Other threads
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vanity fair
Vanity Fair Barely Celebrates New York
Are you excited that Vanity Fair and American Express' glamorous "Campaign New York" launches in a mere 40 days? The "dazzling two-week series of events," as far as we can tell, offers the following dazzling events: a discount hotel room, a book signing at Barneys, and a "cocktail and shopping night" during which you can swill booze and go spend money on Madison Avenue. That's it. Any AmEx card holder attempting to enter the Waverly Inn at any time during the course of the dazzling two-week series of events will be laughed off the premises by Graydon Carter himself, who disapproves of riff-raff. [Campaign NY via Jossip]
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Comment by Harvey Birdman: Damnit, he's adorable. Oh, and the gold will get you some decent chances at booked Broadway shows. But I'm not... more » | Other threads
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