Media Christmas: Beware of Andre Leon Talley, Plus Tonight's Parties
• A few additions to the Big List, including Rodale tonight at Django. (Will Dave Zinczenko permit beer? So many carbs!) Full, updated list is after the jump.
• A delicious report from last night's Marc Jacobs party, which, while not technically Media Christmas, certainly featured a jolly, fat Media Santa Claus:
Was at the outrageous Marc Jacobs Holiday Hoedown last night. It was tough to tear my eyes away from the go-go cowboys in assless chaps, until the enormous Andr Leon Talley walked by. He was wearing what looked like a 10-foot-long wildebeest skin around his neck and had a bag over his shoulder in a matching pelt; it looked like a papoose. Between his height, the volumnious skins, and the huge bag, he must have taken up like 500 cubic feet. He was ushering Naomi Campbell (looking sort of lame in Pocahontas pigtails and headband) back and forth around the large space. They must have been looking for the VIP room but there wasn't one apparently (ha! ha!) since I later saw La Campbell sitting on a bale of hay, shoveling down creamed spinach from the buffet.
• And tonight's lineup:
The Daily Show, Movida
Gourmet (sales), The Hotel on Rivington
HBO, Marriott Marquis
Rodale, Django
Maybe someone can snag a pic of Jon Stewart in a Santa suit? We've still got that onion tart, you know.
The Big Media Christmas List is after the jump.
Monday, December 5
Daily News, Copacabana
Tuesday, December 6
Alfred A. Knopf, Punch
Lucky, Hotel QT
Playboy (editorial, etc.), Providence
SourceMedia (nee Thompson Media), Cipriani Wall Street
Teen Vogue (edit), La Esquina
Wednesday, December 7
Cookie, EIC Pilar Guzman's apartment
The New Yorker, Pastis
Village Voice, The Canal Room
Thursday, December 8
Bauer Publishing (all), Rockleigh Country Club, Rockleigh, N.J.
Cablevision, B.B. King's
CBS, the chairman's floor at Black Rock, the CBS Building
Disney/ABC, Roseland
Hearst Magazines (all), Tavern on the Green
LHJ, Avra
MTV Networks, Hammerstein Ballroom
Simon & Schuster, The Supper Club
Time Out New York, Stitch Bar & Lounge
Today show, Fresco by Scotto (brunch) then The Falls
Travel + Leisure (edit), 60 Thompson
Friday, December 9, 2005
CBS Evening News, Eugene
Fox News Channel, Rosie O'Grady's (in addition to next week's big News Corp. party)
Good Morning America, Rock Candy
Google, Skylight
Metro New York, Encore
Scripps Networks (Food Network, HGTV, etc.), SAPA (afternoon)
Monday, December 12
Departures (edit), Double Seven
Glamour (edit), Aspen
House & Garden, Fred's at Barneys
Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, The Waterfront
Mediabistro, Obvia
Slate, Bubble Lounge
Teen Vogue (business), Employees Only
Vice, Fat Baby
VNU Business Publications, Capitale
Vogue and Men's Vogue, La Esquina
Tuesday, December 13
Esquire, the Esquire apartment at The Sculpture for Living
Fast Company and Inc., Blondie's
Forbes (editorial), Arte's
Hearst Magazines(all EICs and publishers), Le Bernardin (lunch)
PR Week, Bed
USA Today (NYC staff), Osteria Stella
Wednesday, December 14
The Daily Show, Movida
Gourmet (sales), The Hotel on Rivington
HBO, Marriott Marquis
Rodale, Django
Thursday, December 15
Allure, Paladar
AMI (business), Rock Candy
Cargo, Centrico (lunch)
Court TV, Pressure
Forbes (business), Jazz Standard/Blue Smoke
Gourmet (edit), EIC Ruth Reichl's apartment
Glamour (sales), Roxy
GQ, La Esquina
The Nation, Pravda
New York, Encore
Wenner Media (all), N/A
Friday, December 16
Financial Times (New York staff), editor Lionel Barber's apartment
Lifetime Networks, Dodger Stages
News Corporation, Hilton New York
(plus New York Post afterparty at Siberia)
Monday, December 19
Dennis Publishing, Glo
FHM, Gypsey Tea
Meredith shelter books (all), Via
W, Astra
Tuesday, December 20
Jane, R&R
Wednesday, December 21
Harper’s, Pravda
The Forward, Mo Pitkin's
No dates known
Food & Wine (business), Club Pegu
Food & Wine (edit), Spotted Pig
Departures (business), The Modern
Fitness, Otto (lunch)
Modern Bride and Elegant Bride, EIC Antonia van der Meer's apartment
Travel + Leisure (business), publisher Ellen Asmodeo Giglio's apartment