John Travolta Sued By Masseur For Assault And Sexual Battery
John Travolta has battled rumors about his sexuality for years, but the actor is now facing more serious allegations from an anonymous male masseur who is suing him for assault and sexual battery. As TMZ is reporting, the unnamed masseur is reportedly seeking $2 million plus punitive damages after Travolta is said to have “began rubbing the masseur’s leg, touched his scrotum and the shaft of his penis” after having stripped naked during an appointment.
Oprah Winfrey Network Losses Approach $330 Million: Report
Oprah is reportedly facing some steep financial headwinds as she tries to turn her struggling cable network around. The woes that have befallen the Oprah Winfrey Network are by now the stuff of legend: the low ratings. The staff losses. The high-profile bombs like “The Rosie Show.”
Meet The Women Of Fox Business Network
Since we’ve already ran through the lovely ladies at CNBC and Bloomberg TV, we couldn’t leave Fox Business Network behind. The fledgling network, which is an offshoot of Fox NewsChannel, only began broadcasting in 2007, so it’s the youngest of the financial news networks, but there’s no short of powerhouse anchors and reporters on staff.
Dania Londono Suarez, Alleged Secret Service Escort, Calls Agents “Stupid Brutes”
Add insult to infamy: the alleged escort at the center of the Secret Service scandal in Cartagena, Colombia, gave an exclusive interview to Today on NBC, describing the accused agents, among other things, as “stupid,” “idiots” and as having left “their duty behind.” The 24-year-old Dania Londono Suarez told NBC that the Secret Service agents seemed accustomed to soliciting women, saying the three men who approached her were not shy, drinking vodka “like it was water” and as having showed off their bodies while they danced.
Floyd Mayweather Jr.’s Girlfriend: Miss Shantel Jackson Wears Revealing Dress To Fight (VIDEO) Mayweather was flanked by pop star Justin Bieber, rapper 50 Cent and professional wrestler Triple H. But no one may have been quite as glamorous as the young woman sitting to Bieber’s right during the bout: Ms. Shantel Jackson. In between the 7th and 8th rounds, Jackson drew the attention of Lampley and fellow analyst Emanuel Steward. As HBO showed the model and aspiring actress in a quite revealing dress.
50 People You Wish You Knew In Real Life
Life would be SO MUCH better with these people around all the time.
1. Whoever managed to get this giant bag of Lucky Charms marshmallows
Paulina Gretzky Instagram Photos Cause Stir
Paulina Gretzky hasn’t met a social networking site she can’t scandalize. It wasn’t so long ago that the daughter of hockey legend Wayne Gretzky was getting all kinds of flak for photos she had posted to Twitter – not the least of it may have been from dear old dad. The Twitter tempest still hasn’t cooled completely — in fact, tributes to her now-deleted photo blast are still going strong. But the 23-year-old is already off to racier things, this time stirring up all kinds of scandal on Instagram.
Hackers Turn MIT Building Into giant Tetris Game [CNet] Hackers overrode the tallest building in Cambridge, Mass., last week, turning the 21-story Green Building at MIT into a giant Tetris puzzle game controllable from a nearby joystick attached to a podium. The successful attempt comes after a glitch-filled try to run Tetris on the same building in September of last year. Hackers used 153 wirelessly controlled color-changing LED lights for the giant game on a building that hosts MIT’s Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Science facilities.
Frans Hofmeester, Filmmaker, Films Daughter For 12 Years, Makes Time- Lapse Video [Huffington Post] Seize every single moment. Parents hear it all the time, but HuffPost blogger Glennon Melton turned the Carpe Diem order on its head when she said its not possible to do with little kids. Now, filmmaker Frans Hofmeester has found a loophole. By shooting footage of his kids every day, as Gawker points out most dads are wont to do, and then stringing them together in two remarkable time-lapse videos, he has (quite literally)
Al Franken Gets Emotional; Jimmy Fallon Does a Mean Jerry Seinfeld – Entertainment [The Atlantic Wire] Sen. Al Franken choked up on the Senate floor while giving a speech in favor of the Violence Against Women act. It’s a nice moment when he talks about Sen. Paul Wellstone and his wife Sheila, who died in a plane crash, and advocated defending women from domestic violence. Franken’s probably smiling again by now, as the bill passed the Senate shortly afterward.
Meet The Wall Streeter Arrested After That Brawl At The New York Athletic Club[Business Insider] Everyone is still talking about the massive brawl that happened earlier this month at the New York Athletic Club resulting in three arrests and two people being sent to the hospital. The fight, which broke out on April 12th in the NYAC’s Tap Room, and was reportedly started over a girl, made it to the mainstream media this week. The three men who were arrested were Peter Doran, 28; Colin Drowica, 30; and Matt O’Grady, 31, according to the New York Times’ City Room blog.
Bloomberg Presents the Dietary Habits That Kill Wall Street Traders [Business Insider] This morning Bloomberg aired an adorable segment on what Wall Street traders eat reported by Stephanie Ruhle. As we here at Business Insider watched, we could only think one thing — if segment is true, you’re all getting gout. Ruhle took viewers on a journey of high cholesterol consumption that would make Paula Deen reach for a pair of running shoes and a protein shake.
Check Out These Sick Running Shoes That Feature Warren Buffett’s Image [Business Insider] Athletic shoe maker Brooks Sports is planning a very exclusive item to be on sale at Berkshire Hathaway’s annual shareholders meeting in Omaha next month—a special edition running shoe stamped with Warren Buffett’s cartoon image, according to DealBook. This year will be the first time that Bothell, Wash.-based Brooks Sports is attending Berkshire’s annual meeting, and the special-edition shoe was made to honor the occasion The Company has been a subsidiary of Berkshire since 2006.
Royals Hit Into Baseball’s Second Triple Play This Week
Earlier this week, the Los Angeles Dodgers turned a one-of-kind triple play against the San Diego Padres. Tonight it was the Toronto Blue Jays turn, with a more conventional triple play against the Kansas City Royals. And by conventional, we really mean, extremely unlucky. Because there is nothing conventional about triple plays.
7 Examples Of Silly Things That Got Bank Employees In Very Hot Water At Work
OK, ordering a novely grenade and sending it to work ain’t too clever, but the Nomura staffer who did so (who’s currently on administrative leave) isn’t the only banker to get in trouble for doing something pretty stupid…..
The 25 Cutest Pictures Of Newt Gingrich With Zoo Animals
Newt Gingrich has always been an animal lover. As House Speaker-elect, he gave one of his first interviews from the Atlanta Zoo. Following his resignation as Speaker he took a safari throughout Africa. Gingrich says he’s visited more than 100 zoos in his lifetime.
Virginia Woman Wins $1 Million Lottery Twice in the Same Day
Winning the lottery once in a lifetime is pretty lucky.Winning the lottery twice in the same day? Virginia Fike is one of the few people that can describe that feeling.
The Berryville, Va., resident had two tickets that matched five of the six Powerball numbers in an April 7 drawing so that each ticket was worth $1 million.
Three Drunk Brits Steal Penguin from Sea World During Hangover-Style Night of Hijinks
According to police, the three young men from Wales, who are currently residing on Queensland’s Gold Coast, unlawfully entered the marine park last Saturday night, and proceeded take a semi-nude dip inside the dolphin tank. They then moved on to the penguin enclosure, where they helped themselves to a 7-year-old Fairy Penguin named Dirk.
Upon awaking the next day and discovering an aquatic bird roaming around their rented room in Surfers Paradise, the men struggled to piece together the events of the night before.
Woman Who Received 9.5 Grade Defends Romance Spreadsheet
One of the women rated by a Manhattan investment banker who tallied his dates on a spreadsheet isn’t mad at him — but she’s furious at the woman who made the meticulously detailed list public.
“Why would she send it to the whole world?” fumed Liliana Beidaut, a 26-year-old makeup artist who got the highest rating, a 9.5, on the infamous Excel dating scorecard of finance whiz David Merkur, 28.
“It was a really stupid move,” Beidaut told ABCnews.com.
The Majority Of Women Won’t Marry Someone Who’s Unemployed
A generation ago, the old nursery rhyme of a relationship’s timeline: “love, then marriage, and then babies in baby carriages,” rang true for many. Today, a more pragmatic version might be needed — career comes first, followed by moving in together, then joint checking accounts, and maybe a marriage license.
With declining marriage rates, more women in the workplace, and careers preceding, superseding and serving as important criteria for marriage, the intersection of personal and professional life has never been more muddled. The supposed work-life balance seems more like a messy jumble of work, love and life that are all intertwined.
Gentleman Groper in Private Equity Protests Innocence
The arrest was shocking.
A citywide manhunt ensued after four Manhattan women were fondled in tony neighborhoods in a 35-day stretch. On April 13, authorities paraded their main suspect past snapping cameras.
He defied the conventional image of a creepy perv. He was young, handsome, well-dressed, affluent, educated, a churchgoer.
A gentleman groper.
Husband Of Accused Millionaire Madam Doesn’t Understand Why George Zimmerman Can Post Bail But His Wife Can’t
The so-called “Millionaire Madam” Anna Gristina has been held at Rikers Island on $2 million bond since being arrested in February on a single count of promoting prostitution at an Upper East Side brothel.
The soccer mom’s attempts to lower her bail so she could return to her four children and husband have been denied.
Italian Ex-PM Silvio Berlusconi “Hosted Nun Strippers”
A witness at the trial of Silvio Berlusconi has said strippers dressed as nuns performed for the former Italian prime minister at a party.
Model Imane Fadil said she had been given 2,000 euros (£1,650; $2,614) by Mr Berlusconi the first time she attended a “bunga bunga” party.
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RAW VIDEO: Retired NYPD Lt. Guns Down Armed Robber
A retired NYPD lieutenant blew away a drugstore bandit yesterday as the suspect tried to gun down three police officers during a foot pursuit, sources said.
Thomas Barnes, 48, was filling his tank at the BP station on East 119th Street and First Avenue at around 11 a.m. when he saw gunman Wyatt Rudolph running from the store, and sprang into action.
94-Year-Old Billionaire To Marry For The 5th Time, Jokes That He Wants More Kids
Even the wealthiest people in the world can be hopeless romantics.
Austrian billionaire Karl Wlaschekplans to get married in the next few days, according to the Vienna Times. Ordinarily, this news might not be such a surprise, but Wlaschek is an amazing 94 years old, and this will be his fifth marriage.
Hillary Clinton Thanks ‘Texts From Hillary’ Guys For The ‘LOLZ’
In less than a week, the blog “Texts from Hillary” has become an online sensation, boosting Clinton’s public image in the process. As Benjy Sarlin of TPM wrote, “When she was running for the Democratic presidential nomination, Hillary Clinton was parodied as drab and calculated, especially compared with young and vigorous Barack Obama and winking and fresh-faced Sarah Palin. Now, she’s fueling Internet jokes based on her own brand of badass cool.”
Why Won’t Miley Cyrus Just Wear Underwear Like the Rest Of Us??
Super-Rich Plan To Survive Apocalypse In Underground Luxury Condos (PHOTOS)
Four buyers have already spent about $7 million on luxurious doomsday-safe condos built in a Cold War-era missile shaft below a Kansas prairie, according to the AFP. The cylindrical underground building not only includes condo space, but its developer is also adding an indoor farm, pool, movie theater, a stockpile of five years worth of dry food, and space for a medical center and school, the AFP reports.
Mayor Saves Neighbor From Burning Home
Newark Mayor Cory Booker called it his “come to Jesus moment” when he ran into a burning building to save a neighbor’s life.
Booker arrived home last night to discover his next-door neighbor’s house on fire, and rescued a young woman trapped upstairs by carrying here through the flames, suffering second-degree burns in the process.
Magazine Blatantly Photoshops Giant Tattoo From Megan Fox’s Back
The funny thing is the mag removed one of her back tattoos (a Nietzsche quote) but left the other one (a quote from Shakespeare’s “King Lear”). Uh, okay
The Ten Internet Plagues
Here’s The Real Reason Why There Are So Many Teen Moms In The US
The U.S. has more teen moms than any other industrialized nation due to limited economic opportunities, according to a recent study.
If teenagers are on a “low economic trajectory,” even increased access to birth control doesn’t improve their chances of making it to 20 without getting pregnant, according to the NBER study, in which researchers analyzed national surveys on teen behavior.
The Crazy Shot That Won Bubba Watson The Masters Was Even More Ridiculous Than You Realized
Bubba Watson won The Masters with one of the most memorable shots in tournament history — a stone-cold hook with a wedge out of the trees and onto the center of the green on the second playoff hole.
On TV (video below), the shot looked like any old spectacular shot out of a precarious lie.
Animals With Jobs That Are More Important Than Yours
Do your friends tell you all the time they’d give anything to do what you do? Well, your employment doesn’t hold a candle to the gigs of some dolphins, hogs, and ponies, but it especially pales in comparison to the job of the Wendy’s Motivational Chicken.
Man Casually Eating Bag Of Chips Breaks Up Fight On Subway
Once again, junk food saves the day and makes everyone’s lives a little better. Snackman is the not the hero our city needs, he’s the hero our city deserves.
Mega Millions “winner” Mirlande Wilson’s lawyer: “I cannot say with any certainty this ticket exists”
The flaky McDonald’s worker who claims she has a $218 million-winning Mega Millions ticket called a huge press conference Wednesday – and then arrived late only to tell the press to leave.
Her lawyer announced to the mystified journalists packed into his Baltimore law office that the purpose of the press conference was “to ask you all to go home.”
This Building’s Balconies Are Actually Swimming Pools
Witness this architectural nightmare and deadly accident waiting to happen: a 37-story, twin tower apartment building that has apartments with swimming pools instead of balconies. Or balconies that are really swimming pools enclosed in glass. Or… whatever. No matter what you want to call this, I would call it crazy.
25 Athletes Who Have Absolutely Lost Their Minds
Being a professional athlete in a number of sports today comes with a certain level of fame and fortune that is difficult for us mortals to even imagine. There’s the pressure to win, to perform at a high level, to get that lucrative, long-term deal. Most athletes won’t make the Hall of Fame or break records, but manage to avoid having the kind of train wreck of career and personal life that lands them into the “Hall of Infamy.” How a professional handles adversity often defines their career long after leaving the field of play. As much as the world loves a winner, it loves the comeback story, the rally, even more.
Billionaire Busts: The Year’s Biggest Losers
Though this year was certainly not the worst in terms of drop offs and decliners, there are a fair amount of individuals who would like to forget the last 12 months. At least 441 people, to be exact. In total, that’s how many people on this year’s list lost money. While global recovery efforts bolstered the fortunes of some listees, tumultuous public markets and adverse economic conditions proved disastrous for others. The range of loss was quite large, varying from $100 million to $10.4 billion at the most. Of these, 81 individuals saw their fortunes drop by at least $1 billion. On average each of the 441 lost $747 million.
Out of One Frying Pan, and Into Another
ONE afternoon in February, Ahmass Fakahany, a financier by training, was contemplating the economics of forks.
Baguette forks, to be precise — two silver ones on a table at Osteria Morini, a redoubt of one of New York’s pasta gods, the chef Michael White.
To the untrained eye, the forks looked identical. “The difference,” Mr. Fakahany said, reaching for one, “is this one costs $4.50 less.”
19 Hot Shot Athletes On Wall Street
Competition is pretty much ubiquitous with the high-flying world of finance.
So it shouldn’t come as a surprise that many stellar athletes either work, or have worked, on Wall Street.
We’ve compiled a list of top athletes ranging from professional football players to Olympians working in positions from sales trader to hedge fund manager.
Who Got Rich This Week: Chief Yelper Levchin, An Ohio Barrel Heiress And More
Each week at Forbes we scan our database of corporate insiders to see who got richer from the action in the stock market. Overall the past week wasn’t a record breaker — the Dow ended up 1% compared with Friday March 23 — but several insiders bested that performance by a long shot. Here, some of the week’s winners:
Baseball’s Highest-Paid Players
Alex Rodriguez, the game’s biggest star, arrived on its biggest stage in 2004 through a trade from the Texas Rangers to the New York Yankees. Playing under the bright lights of the New York media and near Madison Avenue, A-Rod was expected to become a marketing superstar. He had already inked deals with the likes of PepsiCo, Kraft FoodsandColgate-Palmolive, but his endorsement portfolio was hardly robust.
Mega Millions: What Sports Teams Could You Buy With $400 Million?
The Mega Millions jackpot is up to an estimated total $640 million, an all-time record high. After taxes, the total value of the winning ticket will still be roughly $400 million. It’s enough to buy a massive house, a fleet of cars or even several private jets. But think bigger: what about buying your favorite sports team?
N.Y. Preschool Starts DNA Testing For Admission
For years, New York parents have been applying to preschools even before their youngsters are born. That’s not new, but the approach one prestigious pre-school on the Upper West Side is.
At the Porsafillo Preschool Academy, all applicants must now submit a DNA analysis of their children.
Belvedere Lawsuit: Alicyn Packard, Actress In Controversial Vodka Ad, Sues Company
The woman featured in a controversial Belvedere Vodka ad showing what many believe to be date-rape imagery is suing the boozemaker for emotional distress and unlicensed use of her image, KTLA reports.
Alicyn Packard, a voiceover actress in Los Angeles, said in the suit that the image of her was stolen from an on-line video that her company, Strictly Viral Productions, produced, according to KTLA. Interpreted by many as depicting a rape in progress, the ad features a man grabbing and fondling Packard from behind, as panic overtakes her face. The tagline reads, “Unlike Some People, Belvedere Always Goes down smoothly
Households Earning Less Than $13,000 A Year Spend 9% Of Their Income On Lottery Tickets
It has often been said that lotteries are a tax on the poor.
And that’s a fair description.
Joe Weisenthal pointed out yesterday that poor people regularly buy lottery tickets, while rich people only buy them when the jackpots have gotten huge.
What’s less commonly realized is just how much money poor people spend on lottery tickets.
Access to pill boosts women’s earnings – study
A new study may add tinder to the debate over whether the federal government ought to require health insurance plans to pay for contraception. New research shows that access to birth control pills over the past 50 years has translated into higher pay and better careers for women.
Charlie Sheen apologizes for wacky, ‘cringeable’ behavior
Charlie Sheen has been off the radar for a while now, but it’s hard to forget just how memorable he made 2011 — his behavior put “Two and a Half Men” on hiatus, got him fired from the show (where he had become TV’s highest-paid actor), and ultimately he took to the road for a series of one-man shows that bombed. But now Sheen’s back with a new sitcom, the appropriately-titled “Anger Management” and he brought his slightly manic “winning” ways to TODAY on Thursday for a chat with Matt Lauer.
High-End Escorts In Spain Are Denying Services To Bankers Until They Start Giving Out More Loans
High-end escorts in Madrid are on strike—against the banking industry.
A Spanish trade group for high-end escorts has announced they will be denying services to bankers until they start extending loans to families and small to medium-sized companies, Russia Today reported last week.
Finally, Job Applications Acknowledged—But Not How You’d Hoped
Just when we were all getting pretty fed up with HR ignoring the thousands of responses they get to online job postings, one hiring manager took the higher ground and actually responded to every single one of the “900+” applications he received. After gloating that some of the applications only got a “few seconds” of his precious time, the hiring manager concluded, “ If your application email sucks, you are going to be left looking for work for a long time because you will get flushed out with the first filter every time you apply for a job. Some of your applications are that bad.” He went on to list 42 bullet points on how applicants can improve their chances, including the following gems: “Don’t ask me questions. Don’t apply using a Gmail profile picture of you making a pouty face. • Don’t use junky stats to make yourself look good. Don’t use the word “passionate”.”
Pic de Bugarach: French commune home to 20,000 ‘doomsday cultists’ awaiting alien salvation
An estimated 20,000 New Age believers who say the “upside down” mountain is home to aliens who will rescue them from an impending apocalypse have saturated a small French commune near the foot of the picturesque Pic de Bugarach.
The Independent reports the growing flock, whom locals refer to as “esoterics,” believe the world will come to an end on Dec. 21, 2012. They also reportedly believe that the unique mountain is in fact home to a race of alien beings that will emerge to rescue the gathered humans and transport them to a new civilization.
A JetBlue Pilot Went Berserk, Co-Pilot Locked Him Out of Cockpit
A JetBlue flight was forced to make an emergency landing Tuesday after the pilot went ‘nuts’ and was tackled by passengers. From Steven Slater’s epic meltdown to an 11-hour tarmac wait, the airline’s wildest incidents.
It’s not like the pilot was running down the aisles screaming about al Qaeda and terrorism. Oh wait, he was. A JetBlue flight captain went “nuts,” according to a passenger’s tweet, on a Tuesday flight from New York to Las Vegas, screaming exactly what you would not want to hear when flying. The pilot was booted from the cockpit by the copilot for his incoherent blabber (which included references to Iraq and that “we’re all going down”), had a panic attack, and then pounded the door. Luckily, the plane was full of burly passengers on their way to a security conference, and a retired NYPD sergeant and several others tackled and subdued the pilot. The flight made an emergency landing in Amarillo, Texas, and he was taken away on a stretcher in handcuffs.
Carl Icahn Just Explained Why He Still Invests, And He Sounded Like Charlie Sheen
Famed activist investor Carl Icahn gave a candid interview to Reuters Breakingview about his continued investing activities, his views on CEOs and company management, and other musings on his life.
We were particularly amused by Icahn’s reflections on why he continues to invest so enthusiastically at such a age—he’s 76 this year.
Welcome to Wall Street: Prepare to Be Humiliated
Wall Street has a culture all its own — one of love and understanding. Brotherhood, if you will.
And like individuals in any fraternal relationships, Wall Streeters sometimes play little jokes on one another — some people call them pranks, others refer to them as hazing.
What Really Happens In the Goldman Sachs Boardroom
Are we still talking about Greg Smith?
Anyway, the fine folks over at Funny Or Die have finally put together a video addressing the Greg Smith debacle through the lens of a Goldman Sachs’ board room meeting.
Actors Neal McDonough and Kyle MacLachlan play bankers who are strategizing until their meeting is interrupted by members of the Anti-Muppet Defamation League.
Top 5 Reasons Lax Bros Make It On Wall Street
Attention, undergrads! Do you want to groom your resume and land a job on Wall Street? Pick up your lacrosse stick.
Bloomberg Businessweek reports that lacrosse is a breeding ground for bankers, funneling them from high school to college to junior positions at big banks. But why?
Dartmouth’s Prez Kim Debuts as a Rapping Spaceman
The Dartmouth Idol finals were a couple of weekends ago. And, while we were bracing ourselves for Hanover’s answer to Sam Tsui, we mostly just expected to see just another one of those Sister Act performances. That is, somewhat talented and sickeningly cheerful 20 year-olds singing in choir robes. And that’s what we got for about the first two minutes. Yet, precisely at the 2:05 mark, things got trippy. (And, well, a little bit disturbing.)
There you see Dartmouth President Jim Yong Kim — rapping, singing, and dancing, with a little help from auto-tune. Yup, that’s him, in a white, studded leather jacket and spaceman sunglasses, gloves cut-off at the fingertips. And he’s … doing the robot?
Ex-NBA Player Indicted on Ponzi Charges
A former National Basketball Association player, C. Tate George, was indicted Friday by a Newark grand jury for allegedly orchestrating a $2 million Ponzi scheme, the U.S Department of Justice said.
Mr. George, who played four seasons of professional basketball as a guard for the New Jersey Nets and the Milwaukee Bucks, was indicted on four counts of wire fraud. Mr. George was arrested in September.
How A Banker Who Left $5,000 In A Taxi Got It Back Even Though He Had No Receipt And Didn’t Have The License Number
Earlier this month, an investment bank exec accidentally forgot his briefcase containing $5,000 in cash, personal checks and confidential financial papers in a New York City taxi cab, according to the New York Post’s Page Six.
“Snow Globe” of Cash Scooped Up on Maryland Highway
About forty people got out of their cars along Interstate 270 in Maryland and helped themselves to $5,795 in cash that fell out of an unsecured armored truck. It was kind of like that one scene in The Town, eyewitnesses report.
Tim Tebow Might Spend $10,000 A Month To Be Mark Sanchez’s Neighbors In New Jersey
The Jets are apparently encouraging Tim Tebow to not live in New York City, and Tebow is listening.
The Jets’ newest quarterback is eying a house for $10,000 a month in the Trump National Golf Course community in New Jersey, the same place Sanchez lives, according to Fox Sports.
“You’re shooting me, you’re shooting your fat”: The New“Workout Taking Over Wall Street”
Random poll: is the guy or girl who sits next to you at work a) forgoing a chair and instead squatting in front of his/her computer b) doing lunges and push-ups behind you or c) breathing alarmingly heavily and sweating profusely post-desk side workout in which he or she shouted things like “Market’s going up! Heart rates going up!”? If you answered no to all of the above, your office is apparently miles behind the curve. According to a segment aired on Bloomberg TV earlier this morning, everyone on Wall Street is working out on the job.
Update those resumes; Queen Elizabeth is hiring
Are you courteous and friendly first thing in the morning? OK, well can you fake it? And can you balance a breakfast tray? Then get ready to work for the Queen of England, who is currently accepting applications for a ‘trainee butler.’ The position pays £15,000 — around $24,000 — for a 45-hour work week spent carrying out “a wide range of responsibilities, from messenger to food and beverage service.” The new hire will live at Buckingham Palace and “other royal residences.” Unfortunately for those of us on this side of the Atlantic, the position is limited to UK residents or singing candelabras and teapots, because we’re pretty sure all palaces have those.
Whitney Houston’s death was ‘complicated by chronic cocaine use and heart disease,’ coroner’s office says
Whitney Houston was a chronic cocaine user who had the drug in her system when she drowned in a Beverly Hills hotel bathtub, confirming that her long battle with drug addiction caused her demise, officials said Thursday.
An autopsy report on the superstar singer released by the Los Angeles County coroner’s office said she had mixed illegal and prescription drugs before she was found lifeless in the tub.
Former NYT Restaurant Critic Frank Bruni Has Gout.
A question that I’m constantly asked by people who know that I spent more than five years as The Times’s restaurant critic is what my most memorable meal was. It’s impossible to single one out.
Mad Cocktails For Sunday Night’s Mad Men Season 5 Premier
What would Don Draper Drink? Why, an Old Fashioned of course! This is no clear liquor man. He’s tall, dark and handsome and so is what’s in his glass.
Just When You Thought Linsanity Was Over Jeremy Lin Tosses A Nasty Half-Court Alley Oop To Landry Fields
The New York Knicks had an easy 106-87 victory over the Toronto Raptors Wednesday to extend their winning streak to four games.
Strange Store Promotion Says Buy A Pair Of Shoes, “Get A Free Man”
A Malaysian shoe store has launched a promotion that is too bizarre to make up: “Get a pair of shoes from Shoes Shoes Shoes and get a free man.”
Battle of The Billions
The rising stock market of recent weeks has propelled at least eight of the uber-rich into the charmed billionaires’ circle, according to Bloomberg LP.
The data and media company is now tracking billionaires on a daily basis.
Donald Trump…The Fragrance
What does success smell like? If you ask Donald Trump, he might say juniper, iced red currant and hints of coriander.
Trump is taking another crack at joining a long line of celebrities with their own fragrance brands.
Leonardo DiCaprio, Martin Scorsese Wall Street Flick Is A Go
After some stops and starts, it seems that Martin Scorsese’s “The Wolf of Wall Street” is in full “go” mode with his longtime leading man, Leonardo DiCaprio, locked in to star.
J.K. Rowling Lost Her Spot on Forbes’ Billionaire List
Last week, Forbes announced their list of the World’s Billionaires but one name was noticeably absent: the first female billionaire novelist, “Harry Potter” author, J.K. Rowling.
Rowling was one of 129 people to be booted from this year’s esteemed list and it appears the 45-year-old author’s departure is due to the extremely high British taxes she is forced to pay and her hefty donations to charity.
Occupy Wall Street: 6 Months Later, What Has Occupy Protest Movement Achieved?
As spring approaches, Occupy Wall Street protesters who mostly hibernated all winter are beginning to stir with plans for renewed demonstrations six months after the movement was born.
The global protests against corporate excess and economic inequality are generally thought to have begun Sept. 17 when tents sprang up in a small granite plaza in lower Manhattan. The movement has lost steam in recent months, with media attention and donations dropping off as Occupy encampments across the country were dismantled, some by force.
Financial Crisis, the Musical
Bankers are the stars of a new musical comedy that opened this month in the West End, the capital’s theater district.
The musical, called “Toxic Bankers,” offers a comedic version of the recent banking industry backlash, prompted by the financial crisis and large pay packages. “Toxic Bankers” is a “new musical comedy exploring the sordid world of London’s Square Mile, where fortunes are made and dreams are broken,” according to the musical’s Web site.
Andrew Ross Sorkin Will Eat Anything You Feed Him, Especially if it is Baked or Fried
Andrew Ross Sorkin, the columnist for the New York Times, founder and editor at large of DealBook, co-anchor of CNBC’s Squawk Box, and author of Too Big to Fail, has two ways of approaching food. The first is as sustenance — after all, his usual wake-up time is 4:30 a.m. and his work day involves more high-powered people and problems than most encounter in their entire lives. But Sorkin also eats in the name of indulgence. A self-proclaimed “human garbage disposal,” he can’t say no to food, from his 18-month-old twin boys’ chicken nuggets, to bread pudding off a billionaire’s plate. Read about that, his sentimental pita chips, and a certain glazed doughnut addiction in this week’s New York’s Diet.
