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...never completed. Another sheet shows tiny first thoughts for the dying slaves which formed part of that scheme. One poem starts: "Alas, alas, I have been betrayed by my fleeting days ? " and concludes: "There is no harm equal to that of wasted time." The rest of the page is covered with odd figures by himself and pupils: a giraffe, a crab, a grasshopper, a skull. As the show travels through the artist's long life, the drawings, always impressive for their sheer brilliance, become increasingly personal: less part of a process and more meditations on profound themes. Studies...
Seen schmoozing in a pricey Tribeca loft: supermarket magnate Ron Burkle, whom the New York Post's gossip column Page Six has called a "party-boy billionaire," and Page Six contributor Jared Paul Stern. Also present, but unknown to Stern: an FBI agent and a video camera. They were there to record what Burkle--who had chafed at uncomplimentary and, he thought, untrue items about him in the column--believed was a $220,000 shakedown for kid-glove coverage. The FBI believed it too: the agency has launched a probe into extortion allegations...
...Daily News, locked for decades in a fratricidal tabloid war with the Post. The scoop gave News owner Mort Zuckerman delicious revenge against Post owner Rupert Murdoch. The Post, which is cooperating with the FBI, has suspended Stern, meanwhile noting that he was only a part-time underling of Page Six editor Richard Johnson...
...Page Six, a column so attentive to veracity that it usually runs on page 12, is the Brangelina of the tattle trade. For gossipists, journalistic ethics can be an oxymoron. Many have accepted meals, jewelry and plane trips from folks hoping for a kind word. And the items they run are not always the truth, not even truthiness. More like speculative fiction--Proust for the prurient...
Burkle spokesman Michael Sitrick insists that "the tapes show that Mr. Burkle made it very clear he had no interest" in any business deal with Stern. Stern's lawyer, Edward Hayes, says Burkle has "gotten some pretty good revenge on Page Six. Hopefully it will just be dropped there...