The foundation combines investment principles and philanthropy to assist programs that target poverty in New York City. In 2006, the board of directors included such names as Jeffrey Immelt, Diane Sawyer, Harvey Weinstein, Marie-Josee Kravis, Lloyd Blankfein, of Goldman Sachs, Richard S. Fuld, Jr., formerly of Lehman Brothers, Glenn Dubin, of Highbridge Capital, Marian Wright Edelman and actress Gwyneth Paltrow.
Robin Hood would have stolen from these people. Not this type of person: these exact human beings.
Don’t get me wrong – they do good work. The nobles have always obliged us like that.
Yes, the Robin Hood Foundation does some good things but nothing nearly so noteworthy, at least for many of its status anxious donors, as its annual gala, which is among the most overblown of the year. This is the epitome of the “society” charity. And while a fête in the Javits Center may not feel like an evening at Versailles, the real action here is climbing one’s way up the pecking order. Here is a link to a Daily Mail for a piece about this year’s soirée with some swell photos. My favorite is the last: the quests entering through a portal designed to look like the lens of a giant camera. Perfect. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3079500/Michael-J-Fox-makes-rare-outing-wife-26-years-Tracy-Pollan.html
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The Sting-beard in that article is worth the price of admission.
Can’t touch the plastic surgery on smoochy Trudie, or nearly anyone else there for that matter.
I hate those type of events..
They just feel so fucking feudal.
Ah.. once a day the king invites his friends and they have a feast, and let the poor eat the leftovers, what a wonderful ruling class.
Our little town has a charity feast literally on main street, the donors can rub shoulders with other donors, and every can see how donor they are.
Can we get anonymous to hack the site and replace Robin Hood links with Rex Foundation links.
anonymous… are you listening ?
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Tor
This Robin Hood has a Little John (Mayer)
Please. These people are so rich, irony is irrelevant to them.
So true. Your right about Trudeau and her joker face…….scary
Trudy, auto correct trudead that one.
OMG…
I just realized who the other 12,000 people at the show will be…
God Help me.. am I really entered into a sweepstakes to go to a Dead show with the New York Society in attendance?
I think our Millionaire musicians have finally started acting like millionaires.
At least Seva and Rex are freaky foundations.
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Tor
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Tor, you nailed it. (Not the first time, spectators.)
Now I wish I hadn’t even entered the contest.
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What’s this about Brett Ratner again?
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Also there was a scary paragraph in the legalese with the entry form. Basically they’re allowed to broadcast you since you’re in the venue. Or audience. Or vicinity. Something like that, in perpetuity.
I wondered about that for 10 seconds before I hit submit.
I read that graf: if I win, then Amex legally owns the blog.
Rich people =bad ?
Well, certainly the ones who don’t read this blog.
I found some change in the couch. I’m happy
Not necessarily. Sometimes just vulnerable to folly without self awareness.
Googled “This day in November 7th History” just to gain some rank and file perspective on how this upcoming legendary day in GD history might fit in, and heres some flotsam and jetsam that came up.
1492 – The Ensisheim Meteorite, the oldest meteorite with a known date of impact, strikes the earth around noon in a wheat field outside the village of Ensisheim, Alsace, France.
1786 – The oldest musical organization in the United States is founded as the Stoughton Musical Society.
1907 – Dynamite explodes on locomotive kills engineer Jesus Garcia in Mexico
1914 – The first issue of The New Republic magazine is published
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1970 – Race riots in Daytona Beach Florida
1978 – Marion Barry Jr. elected as Washington, D.C.’s first black mayor
1990 – “Those Were The Days” opens at Edison Theater NYC for 126 performances
1995 – Howard Stern’s 2nd book “Miss America” released (fastest selling ever)
2000 – The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration discovers one of the country’s largest LSD labs inside a converted military missile silo in Wamego, Kansas.