Bonfire of the Vanity Affairs
WEB UPDATE: Graydon Carter targeted by Republican attack dogs . . . and other comedies
Sources tell L.A. Weekly that Myers has been urging Carter to hire a crisis manager. Makes sense, since Vanity Fair was in full-stage red alert beginning last Friday after the LAT informed the magazine that they were publishing their "Get Carter: The Sequel" over the weekend. (It didn’t run until Wednesday.) According to V.F.sources, staffers like senior articles editor Doug Stumpf, for one, wanted permission to go on the record with the LAT to defend their boss’ honor.
Yet we’re supposed to believe that, on Monday night, the dinner at Café Milano was merely a social occasion ("like old home week") since Dowd and Carter have known each other dating back to their Timemagazine days, Myers is a trusted confidante and Purdum her tag-along spouse. If Rove or Republicans were discussed, one insider claimed, "I couldn’t hear it. It was so noisy." Instead of the subject of politics punctuating a lot of glad-handing, a source painted an image of chitchat about the South Beach diet, the Cannes film festival "and the love life of Artie Shaw."
Nevertheless, just the subject of the get-together was touchy enough that when I phoned Purdum Tuesday to ask about his meeting with Carter, the NYT journalist heard only a few words of the first question, and shouted, "You’re just kind of a cunt," and hung up the phone.
A few minutes letter, Purdum sent an e-mail apologizing but still taking me to task for trying to ask questions about the evening.
Interestingly, that same day, in a sworn statement about alleged sexual harassment made public and carried by many media, University of Colorado’s president was quoted as defensively saying that the C word can be "used as a term of endearment" toward women.
Isn’t it nice to know so many people live such a rich fantasy life?
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