Media-Whore D'Oevres



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"'It's Palm Beach on Park Avenue,' quipped Melania Trump as she and The Donald (that would be Donald Trump) arrived at the Park Avenue Plaza for a bash celebrating the launch of the 62-story Trump International Hotel and Tower in Dubai for Nakheel on the island of Palm Jumeirah ...Vanessa and Donald Trump Jr., Cynthia Rowley, Samantha Boardman and Aby Rosen, Andrew Saffir, Dennis Basso, David Koch, Amy Sacco, Pamela Fiori and Irina Dvorovenko and Maxim Belotserkovsky were among the intrigued invitees who turned out on Park Avenue (directly adjacent to the Four Seasons Restaurant). Nearly an entire side of the block was transformed by David Monn into a wonderland straight out of the United Arab Emirates." (Fashionweekdaily)



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"The Spring Women's Luncheon Benefit and silent auction was held at the Pierre Hotel. Over 300 guests listened to this year's special guest speaker, Ruth Arnoldi Kohn, in conversation with Dr. Marion A. Kaplan, Skirball Professor of Modern Jewish History at New York University .. They celebrated the release of Dr. Robert Schwalbe’s first book 'Sixty, Sexy and Successful: A Guide For Aging Male Baby Boomers' (Greenwood Press) with friends and family at an intimate invitation-only 'Breakfast at ’21’ event one Tuesday morning earlier this month. Jane Schwalbe, the doctor’s wife of 42 years, welcomed guests to the special, by-invitation-only lecture series at ‘21’ Club, which has featured a diverse group of high-profile presenters including Governor Mario Cuomo, Muriel Siebert, Dr. Henry Kissinger and Geraldo Rivera. Sharon Bush said to her table of avid listeners that she’d heard rumor from Texas that the Bushes had paid her $10 million to stop her from writing her own book about her life and marriage to Neil, the President’s brother. She laughed, saying she had only received $30K a year for four years, for a total of $120K, after three children and 23 years of marriage." (NYSocialDiary)

"Nigeria is king of the world of light sweet crude, the ambrosia of the American and Western economy: a former British colony, most populous state in Africa, divided into three major factions of Moslem, Christian and other (and dozens of smaller spiritual groupings), the entire crowd depends upon the revenue from the Niger Delta now being managed by oil giants such as Shell and Chevron. Extremely unstable. Mounds of garbage in the streets of the Houston of the country, Lagos. The American embassy like the Kremlin." (TheJohnBatchelorShow)



"At the Monday-night party celebrating the debut of his stunning new menswear emporium in Milan, Tom Ford was temporarily holding court on the third floor. The crush of admirers was accordingly intense, taxing the air-conditioning to the nth degree, and consequently not a good moment for the Milanese lady whose plus one was a Chinese shar-pei to head for the stairs. Big crowd, big dog, big heat…Everyone else came with somebody: Donatella Versace with daughter Allegra Versace Beck, Anna Wintour with Miuccia Prada, Dolce with Gabbana." (Style)

"How many photographs of downtown scenestress and musician Lydia Lunch can one person stand? Scholars in future generations will now be able to piece together pretty much every outfit the postpunk doyenne ever wore in her first five years in New York .. Swimming through the soupy, overheated confines were Moore and his wife, Kim Gordon, Coley, Lunch, the Contortions’ James Chance, one-time Sonic Youth drummer and Lunch cohort Jim Sclavunos, musician Alan Licht, and many of the photographers—Robert Sietsema, Julia Gorton—whose work hung on the walls." (ArtForum)