Well played, The Edge Condominiums. The new Brooklyn highrise realized condom manufacturers aren't the only ones who can benefit from Sarah Palin's free publicity. Enter this dramatic signage plastered on the side of the in-construction building: "Sarah Palin / Live Here / See Wall St." You know, because Palin loves to tout the fact that she can see Russia from her homestate? This is what those in the industry call "clever." (Click to enlarge)
Worth nothing? The Edge's PR firm who orchestrated the stunt is none other than Rubenstein Associates, which is run by a one Howard Rubenstein, who not only is helping get Michael Bloomberg in the mayor's seat for a third term, but, with the exception of Rudy Giuliani's campaign, he's also quite the Democratic donation maker. And Rubenstein represents the hedge fund Avenue Capital Group, which just so happens to employ a woman named Chelsea Clinton. CONTINUED »
Supermayor Michael Bloomberg is going to poo-poo on such petty tyranny as "term limits," and run for the posish for a third time. Okay, weird, but not that weird, Ed Koch did it, and NY was just as scary in 1985 as it is now.
But while Bloomberg wants to abolish term limits all together, he's found an unlikely ally in Ronald Lauder, the guy who spent all of the 90's imposing those very same limits to begin with.
And of course, the puppet master behind it all will be the PR guy, Howard Rubenstein, who has an interest in keeping all his clients happy:
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Might Jeffrey Epstein's publicist Howard Rubenstein colluded with also-client The New York Post to plant scurrilous items about Epstein accuser Maximila Cordero? MAYBE! CONTINUED »
RAAB'S REBUTTAL Esquire has been accused of many things. Publishing shitty celebrity profiles among them. But its supposed-to-be-serious coverage of reconstructing Ground Zero has been attacked by the likes of the Columbia Journalism Review, which accused the magazine's Scott Raab – along with The Financial Times and the New York Post – of going too soft on developer Larry Silverstein. Herewith, the rebuttal, where Raab argues his 30,000 words on the subject did not include getting played "like a circus organ" by Silverstein's publicist Howard Rubenstein. (As for the Post? Given its publicist is also Rubenstein, well, then perhaps.)
• Barbara Walters would've loved to have the O.J. Simpson interview, but those damn ethics and ABC Standards & Practices keep getting in the way. The Juice, meanwhile, fesses up to his rationale behind the book: "blood money."
• Caitlin Flanagan learns to never say never, especially when it comes to The New Yorker.
• Who else but Howard Rubenstein can save Michael Richards? He's gonna need it, thanks to new accusations of – wait for it! – anti-Semitism.
• Yup, watching Katie Couric stand in front of rolling credits for nearly a minute and a half is definitely more painful than just reading about it.
• Tom and Katie nearly ruined MSNBC anchor Alison Stewart's honeymoon.
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