Vanessa, Where Are You?
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- December
- 27
I should’ve known.
Last week’s opening of the fancy-shmancy (and coldly antiseptic) Ritz-Carlton Hotel in White Plains attracted no celebrities whatsoever as it turns out. Oh, in less you consider Al Pirro to be a celebrity. I don’t think so!
In last Sunday’s column, I said that I had heard that actress and former Miss America Vanessa Williams was there, but I didn’t see her. Well, it turns out that she wasn’t there, though some of the press reports led me and others to believe she was.
Here’s an e-mail I got from the beautiful Vanessa’s mom, Helen.
“Dear Phil Reisman ,I read your account of the Ritz-Carlton opening and
the reference of not seeing Vanessa Williams . You didn’t see her
because she was not there. She was still on the west coast. How do I
know? I am her mom and was waiting for her arrival to celebrate
Christmas I enjoy your columns.. most of the time. Helen L.”
Too much.
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Phil Reisman is a veteran journalist and native of Westchester County. He began his career in 1977 as the head copy boy of a startup New York City newspaper that quickly went belly up. Reisman was not to blame for the newspaper's failure, or so he claims.
Trump’s usually good at announcing celebrities who rarely if ever show up. At the golf club he bought in Briarcliff, he had brass nameplates on various lockers, eg: Yogi Berra, Derek Jeter, etc. for prospective members to ogle in preparation for signing on. Problem was, the members who were still there made no such sightings. Ever.
Well, if you you’ve been a journalist since 1977, then you should know the word is spelled “unless” not “in less.” That’s just sloppy writing and bad editing.