Fred Ebb And Martin Scorsese Have Blood On Their Hands
Sometimes it seems there are only two types of people in New York — shell-shocked Fairway customers who bruise your shins with their granny carts and the overly aggressive Type-A carpetbaggers who suck all the oxygen out of the city’s political and media spheres:
Posted: January 14th, 2009 | Filed under: Things That Make You Go "Oy"In November 2007, Mr. Sorgatz chucked his comfy six-figure-salary perch as executive producer at msnbc.com in Seattle; packed up his three computers and massive book, CD and magazine collections; and moved to New York City. The idea was to start a small media company that would turn into something big, put him in line to be the next media big shot, like NBC Universal honcho Jeff Zucker. Not to mention the blogger scene in Seattle was as sterile as the Microsoft campus where his office had been for two years.
“What really sort of cracks me up about it is, he was really sort of pompous about why he wanted to move here,” said Mr. Steele, who was one of the few friends Mr. Sorgatz had in New York before he got here. “His reasoning was, and he said this to a lot of people, ‘I need to move to New York to fix New York.'”