'I heard you went a little higher than the old broad's knees.' Florio joked, that 'he learned fashion at the knees of Coco Chanel.'

Florio said, 'and I guess Liz should know.' Liz Smith said of 'Further Lane' that no one does it with as much 'panache' as Mr. 'You might get a juicy Liz quote on the cover of your book if you squeeze the gossip columnist between its covers enough times,' Mr. 'He's managed to stroke so many, in fact,' said Steven Florio, the president of Conde Nast, 'that his book should be called 'Stick It in Further Lane,' which is so much more appropriate.' Brady a 'simple, unpretentious, and straight-shooting guy,' a 'Will Rogers of the '90s' who 'never met a celebrity he didn't like.' His typical subject, confided Walter Anderson, its editor-in-chief, is 'a wildly successful TV or film star who possesses one breast or one testicle.'

Brady writes celebrity profiles for Parade magazine. 'I'm more famous, and in the end that's all that counts,' Mr. The man he was speaking of, he said, is a 'shameless name-dropper' who, having written seven books, now 'has the nerve to call himself an author,' a man who not only lunches at the Four Seasons but has Mortimer Zuckerman stopping on his way out to say hello. He was there to talk about 'a man of little talent,' he said, who had 'somehow mysteriously managed' to become one of the biggest names in the industry. Della Femina got his own punches in soon after. Brady's weekly column in Advertising Age - Martha Stewart and Jerry Della Femina prominent among them. To the tune of 'These Are a Few of My Favorite Things,' she recited some of the targets that turn up most often in 'Brady's Bunch,' Mr. The jesting began with a serenade of sorts, sung by Pamela Fiore, the editor-in-chief of Town & Country. The roast, at the Supper Club on Manhattan's West Side, easily rated NC-17 at times. 'It takes a rare breed of individual' to stand up to the roasting dished out last Thursday night to James Brady, said Nora McAniff, publisher of People magazine and president of Advertising Women of New York, the evening's sponsor.īut hey, what else would you expect from a name-dropping, three-martini-lunching, stogie-puffing yarn- spinner like the author of 'Further Lane'?

Further Lane by James Brady