Charlie Rose, Player



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Don't hate the player, hate the game. Charlie Rose is a distinguished-looking gentleman who is not above using his looks to raise his social station. There was this odd little flirtation thing that Rose had with Brooke Astor a while back (which, of course, the ever-ambitious Rose did not discourage). And then there was his love affair with Amanda Burden, just as he was breaking on the New York scene in the 90s.

The Corsair was reading the Arthur Schlessinger's Memoirs -- gossip for media geeks -- and came across this little chestnut:

"Charlie Rose is an intelligent and upwardly mobile fellow from North Carlina who used to run a classy interview show in Channel 13 here in New York. The program was such a success locally that PBS made it national, where it seems somehow less effective. For a time Charlie was having a big affair with my dear friend Amanda Burden, Bill Paley's daughter; but one day, the story goes, a young woman appeared in Amanda's office with tapes of phone calls from Charlie Rose saying that he was rushing to see her as soon as he could elude Amanda. Thus ended the affair. Ba, who is so beautiful and smart, has bad luck with her men."