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more about #robertisabell more comments → Uncle_Billy_Slumming: Molly Ringwald is gorgeous! Molly, Sarah Silverman stood me up for breakfast this morning. Call me! more » Dr. Nick: First Robert Isabell. Then John Hughes. Anthony Michael Hall, now would be a good time to get your blood pressure checked. And if Molly Ringwald off... more » greengrey: Well. I'm not surprised. Party Planning is a very stressful job. more » FormerEnglishMajor: Yes, this is far more sad than the thousands upon thousands of people who had big plans, and the market had other thoughts. And who are now being evi... more » Foster Kamer: Five. Dollars. A Word. I mean, listen: I know it's semi-inexcusable for me to be shocked by that number, but it's like looking at what a one bedroom l... more » BlinkyMcChuck: Open bar is my idea of unconditional love. more » snugbug: Cajun garçon, you made my day with this post.. Cookie for you! That party sounds like major fun, actually, all Prince song puns and David Carr boo-... more » belltolls: Guess every generation must wax poetic about some great party but it wasn't The Black & White Ball now was it, and no great novelist thought to includ... more » Sigerson: The enduring successes of Tina Brown just proves that an English accent in New York will excuse multiple sins and consistent mediocrity. more » NigelAstydameia: 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... more » Foster Kamer: 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 th... more » VoxPopuli: 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 ... more » BookishLatkeish: 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 gent... more » contains_hot_liquid: This is just like the time my grandfather died and I got one less birthday present. more » Baroness: "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 caf... more » -
#sadthings
Was the Real Estate Bust to Blame for Robert Isabell's Death?
It came as a shock when the healthy-looking party planner Robert Isabell died of a heart attack in July. He survived wild nights at Studio 54 and working for Tina Brown, what was the cause? New York's suggestion: real estate. More » -
#printisdead
Media Still Talking About Partying in 1999
Recently Tina Brown eulogized party-planner Robert Isabell, fondly recalling her decadent Talk launch party he organized in 1999, a party she modestly labeled, "the last social celebration of the pre-9/11 celebrity decade." Now David Carr's offering a sad remembrance.
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#partypallbearing
Tina Brown Eulogizes Her Party Planner, His Bombass Parties, And Herself
When Tina Brown used to be faaaaaahbulous, she had legendary party planner Robert Isabell plan her parties for her unsuccessful magazine(s). Isabell died earlier this week, but that didn't stop Brown from eulogizing...the ragers he threw for her. More »
