Gail Sheehy Calls Rupert Murdoch "The Australian Killer Bee"



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Gail Sheehy, Pete Hamill, and New York magazine editor Adam Moss celebrated the 40th anniversary of the weekly on NPR's Leonard Lopate Show.

"Clay (Felker) was extremely happy when Adam took over the magazine," said Gail Sheehy during the course of the interview which frequently touched on the magazine's founder, who recently passed. The interview actually had the feel of an Irish wake without the tears. Pete Hamill at one point waxed nostalgically, "(Clay's) sense of trying to understand power and how it works in New York is one of the things that stamped the magazine .."

Sex and the Seasoned Woman author Gail Sheehy dismissively called Rupert Murdoch, who at one point owned the magazine, "The Australian killer bee" and, earlier in the interview "The Australian owner." Kind of snooty. What's the matter with Australia? Some other quotes from the show:

Adam Moss: "My main mission was to restore the magazine to the mission Clay (gave it)."

Sheehy: "If Clay were alive today he would be astonished (what's going on on Wall Street),"

Lopate: "It is interesting how many movies came out of New York Magazine."

Adam Moss: "(Current owner Bruce Wasserstein) really believed in the magazine Clay founded and he's let us play with it in that spirit"

Clay Felker, the magazine's legendary founding editor, is being feted at a memorial tribute tonight, Sep. 22, 6 to 8 pm at the New York Ethical Culture Society 2 West 64th Street at Central Park West.