Of vice and men
Taki lives the High Life
I was in Rome last year, at the Valentino goodbye extravaganza, and saw Steve Schwarzman among the beautiful people. He himself is not very beautiful; in fact, he looks like what he is, a bald and greedy little money-shuffler. What was amazing to me was how many people went up to him in order to kiss his Coriolanus.
Schwarzman is not unpleasant like Henry Kravis, another midget with a chip on his shoulder the size of a redwood. Kravis once had an altercation with a writer friend of mine, Billy Norwich, a peaceful soul born Billy Goldberg in Norwich Connecticut. Every time I see Billy, whom I love, I ask him why he changed his name and why he didn’t call for help that night. (I was on the premises.) Billy said that he did the former because he thought it improved his employment prospects in New York. On the latter question, he was not aware that I would loved to have taken on Kravis.
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John
March 28th, 2008 2:57pmFabulous stuff!! Please write more about these geo-political crimes and less about gossip. It is definitely time that someone wrote as bluntly as you about what is going on.
alkan kizildel
April 9th, 2008 8:38amIs there anything +ve anywhere in the world please?