Jay McInerney
Jay McInerney to Make an Appearance On Gossip Girl
Last night at an after-party for a private screening of Step Brothers on the roof of the Empire Hotel, 38-year-old Matthew Settle, who plays the young Brooklyn Dad on Gossip Girl, wanted to bum a cigarette. (He was obliged.)
"Well, Rufus is probably going to run into some trouble with his daughter," he said when The Daily Transom asked him about the future of his character. "The show is about kids finding their identities, and she begins to find hers through her designing. She's going to have to choose between her trade and her schooling, for which Rufus has sacrificed so much." read more »
Ooh, interesting.
Lost Jay McInerney Story to be Published on Fiction Web Site
A long-lost short story by Jay McInerney, stolen from the author’s apartment about twenty years ago and recently returned, will be published next week on the Web site FiveChapters.com. The story, entitled "If Wishes Were Porsches," will be serialized over the course of the work week, starting next Monday October 22, with a new installment appearing every morning.
Mr. McInerney could not be reached for comment this afternoon, but according to the site's editor, David Daley, the story was written after the publication of Mr. McInerney’s geisty 1984 debut novel Bright Lights, Big City and before his substantially less geisty follow-up Ransom. read more »
Hobbled Jay McInerney Turns Out for Townhouse Showing
"Welcome to our home," a woman joked as partygoers sauntered around the 4,000-square-foot property.
Four floors above the midtown after-work happy hour scene, brokers and media types munched on figs with blue cheese and downed wine as they waited for the evening's main attraction, gad-about-town Jay McInerney. read more »
Breakfast at Balthazar
The Afternoon Wrap: Thursday
- The booming home-security market now offers "super-luxe security" [above]. For example: It costs $5,000 to "monitor 20 video cameras in your Manhattan home--via PDA--from a beach in Cote d'Azur." It's a wonderful world. [Forbes]
- Gotham Bar and Grill has everything anyone could want from a Village eatery: Maine lobster, artichokes, and Jay McInerney's new wife repeatedly assaulting Ed Koch. [House & Garden]
- It's a bad time for New York music: Tonic, "one of the city's most popular small clubs," is closing on Friday the 13th. Plus, the hip Mercury Lounge may or may not be doomed, and the essential Irving Plaza is being reborn (or, at least renamed). [Time Out New York]
- The 'UWS Asian-Food Crisis' is tragically spreading, claiming three of the five Ollie's restaurants. Maybe the restaurant deserves their problems: Workers claim they were being paid $1.40 an hour. [NY Mag, D.I.] - Max Abelson
Gawker Self-Awareness Watch, Part II
A column continuing to run long after it's lost any shred of coherence or even entertainment value? Only in New York, kids.
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Gawker Approaches Self-Awareness
Just out of curiosity, when one becomes a parody of oneself does it happen immediately, or is it a gradual process that occurs so slowly that one fails to notice until it's too late, at which point one neither cares nor remembers what having even the vaguest affiliation with anything remotely good or worthy felt like in the first place? Also, what wine goes with intolerable self-smugness?
Unfortunately, it is asking the question about Jay McInerney.
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The Afternoon Wrap: Monday
- Supporting an anti-gay amendment was a bad idea for Sue Kelly, who incurred the wrath of big-time developer Adam Rose. Manhattan real estate is very political. [Daily News]
- Why else is New York different than the rest of the universe? Outside, $2.5 million will buy you boxer Oscar De La Hoya's gated "mountain retreat and training facility," with a guest house and four-car garage and footbridge and putting green. Here $2,500,000 will get you approximately 2.5 beds. [WSJ]
- Only Jay McInerney begins articles with "So I was at a party on Fifth Avenue..." And only Mr. McInerney would name-drop Jacqui Safra and Jean Doumanian without remembering their recent ($53 million) sale. [NY Mag]
- Queens' Ozone Park is getting a "massive" and "muscular" School for Construction Trades, Engineering and Architecture. The 150,000-square-foot building was once a brush factory, but now it artfully channels "the restless energy of adolescence." [Architectural Record News]
- Apparently Heath Ledger and girlfriend Michelle Williams are "a picture-perfect family when wheeling their 1-year-old daughter Matilda around the streets of Boerum Hill." Oh, Brooklyn! Luckily, Mr. Perfect is staying in the borough: "I adore it. I love my neighbors and the coffee shop down the road." (Also, he's playing the Joker in the new Batman.) [Go Brooklyn] - Max Abelson read more »
Monday: More Murdoch Graffiti, More P&G, More Water in Yonkers
- The New York Times ventures outside NYC, documenting the spread of Trump-ish luxury in New Jersey. Plus, there are some mammoth plans for Yonkers: $3.6 billion will buy 1,900 feet of the Saw Mill River, and a development nearly the size of the Atlantic Yards. (NYT)
- Keeping with his colorful history of hatefulness, Jay McInerney brags about getting into the Spotted Pig, talks parenthetically about his hangovers, and then puts down Corner Bistro. (House + Garden)
- A new Architect Magazine website has been launched! Party time. Our multi-month wait has been rewarded with three new blogs, included a doozy named "A Day in the Life of an Architect." (Architect Online)
- Remember the mysterious mansion at 11 Spring Street? It seems Lachlan Murdoch's old 14,000-square-foot digs is about to get a makeover from Soho's coolest street-art group. (Click for more pictures). (Wooster Collective, via Gothamist)
- Speaking of memories, today's Times piece on the Upper West Side's doomed P&G bar is quite reminiscent of a piece written by our very own Chris Shott. Oh well. (NYT) - Max Abelson read more »
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