Georgette Mosbacher

Last night at an The Atlantic Monthly’s 150th anniversary party, the Media Mob overheard socialite and Republican fundraiser Gerogette Mosbacher complaining to Christopher Buckley. During her rant, Ms. Mosbacher told him that her Fifth Avenue co-op board refused to let her throw bi-level Christmas and Hanukkah parties. There would be too many people, they allegedly told her.

She recalled telling the board that “they should go get a god-damn, fucking life.”

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Last night at a party for The Atlantic Monthly's 150th anniversary, held on the stage of the NYU student center auditorium, the aging cable-access porn star Robin Byrd was looking around the room. She saw Robert DeNiro, and locked in.

"Hello!" she said, touching his right arm.

"Hi" he replied.

"Hi," she said, curling a smile.

"Hi, hi," he replied, holding his look for an extra second and turned away.

"I guess he recognized me and doesn't wanna talk," Ms. Byrd concluded. "Look at him! He's got a clavicle problem, you know. A clavicle problem."

Mr. DeNiro's left arm and shoulder were in a sling.

"Because his arm is not in a cast, just a sling! He has a clavicle problem, poor guy."

"I don't really know what The Atlantic is," she continued. "Is it something political?"  read more »

It was another gorgeous day today in Washington. The White House Correspondents Association dinner weekend has been bathed in sunshine and warm but unoppressive weather. 

"I could use some whiskey," said Senator Craig Thomas of Wyoming in the elevator up to television host John McLaughlin's annual brunch on the Hay-Adams hotel rooftop, overlooking the White House.

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Not to be outdone by Al Gore's rousing performance yesterday, Hillary Clinton appeared at her husband's Clinton Global Initiative conference this morning for a "special session" on "Women and the Power of Economic Opportunity."

The room on the second floor of the Sheraton was packed for the wonkish panel discussion, (micro-financing, trade opportunities, efficiency in non-governmental charitable organizations) and a star-struck group of corporate grandees and NGO officials rushed up to meet her at its conclusion. She posed and chatted with most of them, but thoroughly ignored the reporters waiting outside the doors. After exiting with Chelsea, she briskly walked away inside a circle of aides and guards.

She next appeared seated in the main ballroom for Bill Clinton's lengthy closing session, and laughed when he talked about the difficulty of substituting all the light bulbs in his house with environmentally conscious alternatives when "his Senator" was away.

The former president also announced that $7.3 billion dollars had been pledged during the event, lending new meaning to something that the traditionally Republican fund-raiser Georgette Mosbacher told me in the same ballroom yesterday: "I think that if you write your name down here, you might as well write it in blood because they are going to come after you."

--Jason Horowitz

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