Posts Tagged ‘Oprah’

Sex and the City

Jack Dorsey, the hometown inventor of Twitter and new resident of a trendy NYC nabe, left our town last week with a Key to the City, a bag full of Cardinal gear, and a nifty award from Webster U’s media savvy Dr. Benjamin Akande. Dorsey left behind a couple of gold nuggets: a tip-off to Mayor Slay, that Dorsey’s next business venture would be here in St. Louis and a “verified account” emblem for Slay’s personal Twitter page (@MayorSlay). The emblem protects Slay and other high-profile Twitters like Oprah (@Oprah) and Mayors Mike Bloomberg (@Mike Bloomberg) and Cory Booker (@CoryBooker) – from impersonators. . .The Big Apple was approaching gridlock as the columnist left it late last week. Streets were closed, claques of amateur photographers were blocking sidewalks, and some hotels were booked solid. A Joyce Meyer convention? Nope. Staging for near-simultaneous visits by Oprah, Libyan honcho Moammar Gadhafi and Prez Obama: local shootings for sequels to “Wall Street”, with Michael Douglas and Javier Bardem and “Sex in the City” with Kim Cattrall, Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon, and Kristin Davis were taxing even Manhattan’s aplomb. Not playing along: the posh Pierre Hotel, which nixed a stay by Gadhafi, and the mayor’s office, which politely discouraged an alternative plan for Gadhafi to pitch a tent. (Gadhafi will be staying at the Libyan mission while he preps for an address at the United Nations.)