Joe Pesci: ‘Who’s Da Poet?’

Edit The Daily Beast 31 Oct 2015
Elaine’s was a legendary restaurant. Writers, artists, and celebrities—including Joe Pesci—ate under the eye of its feisty eponymous owner. Shop ▾ ... Perhaps it was his ... She always had a good table for me ... ... I started going there in the 1960s and early 1970s along with Norman Mailer and Nigel Dempster. When Clay Felker brought myself, Anthony Haden-Guest, and Nigel Dempster over from England, the place to meet up was Elaine’s ... 160 p ... ....

The Linkedin sexism saga is just the tip of the iceberg - as teenage rock ...

Edit The Independent 13 Sep 2015
The new girl power ... The rock group Kalliope Jones ... Kalliope Jones responded on their Facebook page ... In it, the late Nigel Dempster speculated about Prince Charles’s prospective partners and, in a snippet about Lady Sarah Spencer, said the following ... Could Dempster really have written that a full year before Charles and Diana had properly met each other? In full-on detective mode I hit Google and, don’t tell anyone, the Mail archives....

The Party Hard Gangsters of ‘60s London

Edit The Daily Beast 01 Aug 2015
It was in 1960 that Nigel Dempster got to witness a change in London’s social whirl up really, really close. Dempster, who would go on to become one of the UK’s leading gossip columnists, was in Esmeralda’s Barn, a night spot, which had only been remarkable for not being in Mayfair or Soho but on Wilton Place, Knightsbridge....

In a glass case with Norman Mailer

Edit Deccan Chronicle 27 May 2015
This is as good as it gets. A light rain is falling on a soft May evening and I’m walking north on a silent Park Avenue hoping to get into trouble ... (Puns unintended.) ... Hacks covered Elaine’s and Nicola’s like a rash, and even the late great Nigel Dempster would ring from London and chat to the proprietors when stuck for a story. Nigel posed in front of Elaine’s for a cover story whose title was The Scum Also Rises ... He then sat back down....

The quiet revolution: why Britain has more gay MPs than anywhere else

Edit The Guardian 13 May 2015
Once gay candidates were demonised – or forced to hide in the closet. Now Westminster boasts 32 LGB MPs, more than any other country. But, as gay politicians past and present confirm, the battle is not over yet. The rainbow parliament. among the 32 LGB MPs elected in 2015 are Angela Eagle, Wes Streeting and Chris Bryant. Photograph ... She had been outed by Nigel Dempster at the Daily Mail in very nasty circumstances, to mass ridicule ... ....

Inside Private Eye's Infamous, Drunken Lunches

Edit The Daily Beast 10 May 2015
Peter Cook, who came up with the notion of the cartoon speech-bubble on the cover, and owned the Eye, was not at any lunch I was at, as I recall, but other almost inevitable presences would be Nigel Dempster, Fleet Street’s quicksilver gossip columnist, usually referred to in Eye-Speak as “The Greatest Living Englishman."Alan Yentob, a ......

David Freeman obituary

Edit The Guardian 17 Mar 2015
Solicitor who set up his own law firm and represented high-profile clients including Harold Wilson. David Freeman, left, with a client, Harry Jasper, in Fleet Street, London, in the 1950s. Photograph. John Knoote/Associated Newspapers ... That year Freeman again acted for Wilson, this time in actions against the Daily Express and Daily Mail over comments made in a Nigel Dempster column regarding Wilson’s alleged property interests ... comments....

Penny Mordaunt's 'fowl' language might not fly with the British press, but does anyone else ...

Edit The Independent 30 Nov 2014
Or “c**k” as the MoS styles this “obscene word” ... Doing so “would be wrong ... This is indeed no time for levity ... In the 1980s, hacks on Nigel Dempster’s diary dared each other to get the term “moist gusset” into print, and eventually one of them invented the dashing Swiss playboy Moi St Gusset. Tales of Moi’s confused romantic life appeared sporadically in Nigel’s column, before his creator killed him off in a skiing accident ... React Now ... ....

Sex, tipsy Tories & Elizabeth David: Fifty years of the West End's infamous nightclub Annabel's

Edit The Independent 08 Nov 2014
You could almost walk past Annabel's without noticing it. Nothing about the handsome Georgian building at No 44 Berkeley Square suggests that it might have been a byword for decadent, zillionaire-superstar hedonism for 50 years ... John Wayne came in one evening ... Indeed there was ... Two fixtures at Annabel's were Nigel Dempster, the gossip columnist and the only journalist allowed on the premises, and Dai ('Dirty Dai') Llewellyn ... 'Annabel's ... ....

Richard Ingrams on his successor at The Oldie: 'He’s a bloody fool for taking the job’

Edit The Daily Telegraph 12 Jun 2014
Related Articles. Fargo writer. season two will have different cast 11 Jun 2014. Rik Mayall's lost World Cup anthem 11 Jun 2014. Music education. a middle-class preserve? 11 Jun 2014. Ingrams, former editor of Private Eye, founded The Oldie in 1992 as a magazine aimed at, well, the older reader. In doing so, he was ridiculed by many fellow journalists. Legendary columnist Nigel Dempster wrote ... I didn’t see the point ...  . Culture News....

Richard Ingrams: 'I have lots of enemies, some of them enduring'

Edit The Guardian 08 Jun 2014
Once, for instance, when he was editor of Private Eye, Ingrams took revenge on the gossip columnist Nigel Dempster for publishing marital misdemeanours alleged by his first wife, Mary. Ingrams sent an anonymous letter signed "Mail reader" to Dempster, saying that Ingrams had been seen walking arm-in-arm through Hastings with former Miss India Pamella Bordes ... "We always knew Dempster was stupid....

Princess Di's all-time favorite

Edit Sun Star 21 Apr 2014
LAST week I wrote about the favorite dishes of the King of Rock and Roll. This week, I'm featuring a rather different kind of Royal – none other than Princess Diana, known affectionally around the world as the People’s Princess ... As for food, he said her choices often were simple ... She once told Britain's Daily Mail royal columnist Nigel Dempster that “Darren makes the best bread and butter pudding in the world!" ... Ingredients ... 9 egg yolks....

Media Monkey's Diary: BBC jobs, London Live and Simon Heffer

Edit The Guardian 09 Feb 2014
✒ Although the launch of Evgeny Lebedev's local TV channel London Live is still nearly two months away, working patterns at Lebedev's Independent have already been altered by it ... ✒ When Sebastian Shakespeare replaced Richard Kay last week as editor of the Daily Mail diary originally penned by Nigel Dempster (he gets two pages to Kay's one, and far more pictures), the accompanying verbal fanfare was unusually tactless ... Age Gap Love ... Q ... Q....
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