Georgette Mosbacher

As regular people partied in the streets last night, the city's Hollywood imports gathered at the Public House in Midtown, where producer Harvey Weinstein, GQ editor Jim Nelson, Borghese CEO Georgette Mosbacher, and Glamour editor Cindi Leive hosted a bipartisan election night party. (On the bar was a bowl of Obama/Biden pins alongside a bowl of McCain/Palin pins.) 

Mr. Weinstein, originally a Hillary Clinton supporter, looked on giddily with wife, designer Georgina Chapman (clad in a glittery cocktail dress), as Barack Obama took the presidency. But Ms. Mosbacher, a well known Republican fundraiser, who served as the co-chairman of John McCain's 2000 campaign and is the co-chair of the Republican National Committee's Finance Committee, was not so thrilled.  read more »

At the Harvey Weinstein/GQ party at the Public House on East 41 St., Georgette Mosbacher, another one of the hosts, was putting on a brave face. “As a Republican I plan to have fun in spite of it all. I’ll make the best of it,” said Ms. Mosbacher, who is the CEO of the Borghese cosmetics company and the ex-wife of Robert Mosbacher, the U.S. Secretary of Commerce under George H.W. Bush.

But how upset was she really about the election? “I am so upset, you have no idea,” she said, though she was laughing as she said it. “But I will not show it. I will not give my other friends the satisfaction of seeing me melt down!”  read more »

At the Bipartisan Election Night Party hosted by Harvey Weinstein and Georgette Mosbacher, Mr. Weinstein was remembering to another party guest about things were going around 6pm in 2004 for John Kerry. Then Michael Moore called Mr. Weinstein to say that something was wrong in Ohio.

This year, "I'm gonna stay nervous ‘til Ohio and Florida," he said.

In case anyone questioned his loyalties, Mr. Weinstein was wearing an Obama/Biden pin

"I was gonna wear my other pin that says Vote Twice," he joked. Tonight, "we're just gonna sweat it out."

At the Harvey Weinstein/GQ party at the Public House on East 41 St., Georgette Mosbacher, another one of the hosts, was putting on a brave face. “As a Republican I plan to have fun in spite of it all. I’ll make the best of it,” said Ms. Mosbacher, who is the CEO of the Borghese cosmetics company and the ex-wife of Robert Mosbacher, the U.S. Secretary of Commerce under George H.W. Bush.

But how upset was she really about the election? “I am so upset, you have no idea,” she said, though she was laughing as she said it. “But I will not show it. I will not give my other friends the satisfaction of seeing me melt down!”  read more »

MINNEAPOLIS—Michael Bloomberg is sending mixed messages about whether he would support extending term limits for New York City lawmakers, and Republicans here at the convention are also divided about whether it would be a good idea for Bloomberg to run again.

Georgette Mosbacher, a major Republican fund-raiser, was at the New York delegation breakfast this morning, where she told me she supports term limits--but could make an except for Bloomberg.

“I personally--if it were anybody other than Mike Bloomberg, I would go with what the people had voted for twice, and that’s no third limit,” she said. “But Michael is a unique, extraordinary mayor, and a unique man.  read more »

Last night at an The Atlantic Monthly’s 150th anniversary party, the Media Mob overheard socialite and Republican fundraiser Gerogette Mosbacher complaining to Christopher Buckley. During her rant, Ms. Mosbacher told him that her Fifth Avenue co-op board refused to let her throw bi-level Christmas and Hanukkah parties. There would be too many people, they allegedly told her.

She recalled telling the board that “they should go get a god-damn, fucking life.”

At Atlantic Party, Haves and Have-Nots [Media Mob]  read more »

Last night at a party for The Atlantic Monthly's 150th anniversary, held on the stage of the NYU student center auditorium, the aging cable-access porn star Robin Byrd was looking around the room. She saw Robert DeNiro, and locked in.

"Hello!" she said, touching his right arm.

"Hi" he replied.

"Hi," she said, curling a smile.

"Hi, hi," he replied, holding his look for an extra second and turned away.

"I guess he recognized me and doesn't wanna talk," Ms. Byrd concluded. "Look at him! He's got a clavicle problem, you know. A clavicle problem."

Mr. DeNiro's left arm and shoulder were in a sling.

"Because his arm is not in a cast, just a sling! He has a clavicle problem, poor guy."

"I don't really know what The Atlantic is," she continued. "Is it something political?"  read more »

It was another gorgeous day today in Washington. The White House Correspondents Association dinner weekend has been bathed in sunshine and warm but unoppressive weather. 

"I could use some whiskey," said Senator Craig Thomas of Wyoming in the elevator up to television host John McLaughlin's annual brunch on the Hay-Adams hotel rooftop, overlooking the White House.

"Ewww," said his wife Susan.  read more »

Not to be outdone by Al Gore's rousing performance yesterday, Hillary Clinton appeared at her husband's Clinton Global Initiative conference this morning for a "special session" on "Women and the Power of Economic Opportunity."

The room on the second floor of the Sheraton was packed for the wonkish panel discussion, (micro-financing, trade opportunities, efficiency in non-governmental charitable organizations) and a star-struck group of corporate grandees and NGO officials rushed up to meet her at its conclusion. She posed and chatted with most of them, but thoroughly ignored the reporters waiting outside the doors. After exiting with Chelsea, she briskly walked away inside a circle of aides and guards.

She next appeared seated in the main ballroom for Bill Clinton's lengthy closing session, and laughed when he talked about the difficulty of substituting all the light bulbs in his house with environmentally conscious alternatives when "his Senator" was away.

The former president also announced that $7.3 billion dollars had been pledged during the event, lending new meaning to something that the traditionally Republican fund-raiser Georgette Mosbacher told me in the same ballroom yesterday: "I think that if you write your name down here, you might as well write it in blood because they are going to come after you."

--Jason Horowitz

Girls! They're on their way-the Republicans are coming!  read more »

According to the secret grumblings of top Albany insiders, the lastplace Gov.  read more »