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Actress Lynn Redgrave stars in a new play opening at the Lucille Lortel Theater in New York City. It’s called Grace, and according to the press release, it’s about:
“When noted scientist Grace Friedman learns that her son Tom has decided to become a Christian minister she is forced to confront the meaning of both [...]

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Coming off a perfect 16-game season for the New England Patriots, quarterback Tom Brady caught a little R&R with his girlfriend, Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bundchen in New York this evening. After spending the day inside, with Tom making one brief run to the grocery store for a noon time meal, the sexy couple [...]

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Fashion designer Carolina Herrera put in an appearance at Waverly Inn in New York looking glamorous and casual. There’s a certain set of manners that those of a certain generation possess that seems to have been lost on the younger generations. It has to do with a sense of graciousness and a dose [...]

Central Park now includes leaf rakers instead of leaf blowers…and the rakers, apparently, are older ladies with plenty of time on their hands, so to speak. New York Post’s Page Six describes them as dowagers. It’s all part of our country’s new foreign policy to wean ourselves off Mideast oil. Imagine a world where people [...]

Anthony Marshall is 83; Brooke Astor died at 105. Let’s say for argument’s sake Anthony help himself to some of her estate for whatever reasons. Does it matter? I guess only to the next generation who might stand to inherit some of that dough. Like Anthony’s son, Phillip, who cried foul. How it all pans [...]

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This woman was having fun after the opening party for the new Damien Hirst exhibition in the lobby of Lever House in New York. Remember when having fun meant staying out all night without anyone keeping track of your whereabouts.

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When you climb over the sixty barrier, a funny thing happens: people start to treat you like a trophy on the shelf and for some reason like to add to your collection. Vacheron Constantin, the maker of expensive watches, threw a little party last night for legendary record producer Clive Davis for his [...]

With New York real estate prices so insane, the thought of a developer investing in a continuing care community makes about as much sense as growing grapes in the Arctic. You can try, but it’s the wrong environment. Sure you could build a green house up there, but it would cost you a small fortune [...]

Fixed income retirement is about as pleasurable as having your wisdom teeth pulled by a student at a university teaching clinic. The cost of everything keeps rising but the cash flow off Social Security remains pretty much the same. Without any saved income, the thought of living in a city like New York seems absurd. [...]

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OK ladies, take a lesson from Ivana Trump, the ex-wife of real estate developer Donald Trump, and find yourself a younger man so you can be a sexy nanny instead of a nurse maid to a soiled old man who constantly forgets your name, unless, course, the old man has the bucks, in [...]

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Ivana Trump lent her support to Denise Rich for the 10th Angel Ball to benefit The G & P Foundation for Cancer Research held at The Marriott Marquee on October 29, 2007. I caught her as she was leaving the hotel with her young boyfriend, Rossano Rubicondi. More of him later…

“The secret I want to talk about is the geography of my first bedroom.”
So begins “Other People’s Houses” by Lore Siegal who will receive The 8th Annual Clifton Fadiman Medal for Excellence in Fiction at The Mercantile Library Center for Fiction’s 2007 Annual Benefit and Awards Dinner on October 29, 2007. It’s raining here…sit [...]

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Writer Salmon Rushdie turned up at the Whitney Museum of American Art the other night with this woman. Not sure of her name. He recently separated from his wife, Padma Lakshmi. Always fun to catch two people in conversation.

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Patricia Hearst was in New York for her daughter’s wedding at the Pierre Hotel on Saturday night. Gillian Hearst-Shaw married Christian Simonds; she works at Towne & Country magazine, he works as a corporate lawyer. I snapped her as she entered the Pierre for the evening’s activities.

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I spotted this woman on Fifth Avenue in New York City. She has the tiniest frail legs. She was jewelry shopping at Gilan, a high end jeweler known for its Turkish designs. I’m not too sure about the makeup on her. It looks a little garish, but bonus points to her for venturing [...]

Leonara Russo has been living in Williamsburg, New York for sixty years. When you live in a neighborhood that long it kind of gives you the right to have a say in something. Her cause: “I’m an activist for the People’s Firehouse. It’s here in Williamsburg, and it’s being turned into condominiums. We’ve been fighting [...]