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
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
@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."
@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?
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.
@Lucia Toledo: "Collaborate with yourself, or forget becoming myth." I just read that on a fortune cookie fortune--morphic resonance or metaphysical plagiarism?
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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@jorel845: Any reference to Cindy Adams requires the posting of this picture along with it. #gatecrasher
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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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"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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that would be teh awesomez #newyorkmagazine
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Regardless, Lucia, a lovely turn of phrase...
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