It Happens This Week
Tuesday, February 15: at the Central
Park Boathouse, from 4
to 6:30 P.M., Christo and Jeanne-Claude will sign a drawing from the January 24–31 issue of New York (copies of the issue will
be available).
Pitchers and catchers report to spring training, while Bloomberg hosts reelection kickoff at B.B. King’s.
Congressional testimony from Alan Greenspan may send markets into a frenzy; rereleases of old R.E.M. albums may do the same for nostalgic rock critics.
International types (Richard Holbrooke, Christiane Amanpour) gather for “Seeds of Peace” celeb charity auction.
And Grand Central becomes an unlikely venue for elite athletes as “Tournament
of Champions” squash competition begins.
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Damon Dash Goes Harvey-Hunting
Claims to steal Weinstein’s lady-friend at Cannes.
Even if Harvey Weinstein produced Gangs of New York, he’s not exactly a gangsta.
But that doesn’t mean Damon Dash won’t treat him that way. In the new issue of the highly street-credible magazine Don Diva (tagline: “Parental Advisory: Gangsta Content”), Dash, Jay-Z’s former partner in Roc-
A-Fella Records, who made Paid in Full with Dimension Films (run by Harvey’s brother Bob), talks about inflicting street justice when the brothers wouldn’t give him a meeting.
He began hunting Harvey. “I saw him
in Cannes and I snatched his bitch—
he had a girl and
I knew her, so I said ‘Give me her.’ He was pissed,” Dash says. While admitting that Harvey’s a “guy that everyone was afraid of” . . . “I was like, ‘He’s a bitch.’ ” Apparently, as a result,
Bob wouldn’t meet with him—unless his pal Russell Simmons was present.
“I respect Russell,” Dash says, “but if I was going to do something, he’s not going to stop me.” When asked about it, Harvey refused to reheat the beef. “Damon’s a first-class talent, and I thoroughly
enjoy our good-natured trash-talking,” he said through
his publicist.
—Ethan Brown