The Rittenhouse Review

A Philadelphia Journal of Politics, Finance, Ethics, and Culture


Friday, February 13, 2004  

TINA BROWN THURSDAY (ON FRIDAY)
This Week: Name Dropping and the “Prancing Stockbroker”

Just a few quick comments on Tina Brown’s column in yesterday’s Washington Post (“Meanie Martha Made a Mess”).

Shoving a quick lead out of the way and jumping right in to self-parody, it took Brown a mere 40 words to get to the heart of the matter -- name dropping, in reference, of course, to a party: “At an early-evening gathering at Marlo Thomas’s Park Avenue apartment Monday night in aid of the White House Project . . . .”

Later in the same column we read this, a remark about how Martha Stewart is still making women’s lives difficult: “We wanted her to stand up in the courtroom and bawl her eyes out for the whole rotten, lousy mess, for the plum pudding and the frantic cell phone calls and the fancy, dishonest friends, and the prancing stockbroker . . .”

“Prancing stockbroker”?

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