Since my most recent post was profiling one of my favorite novelties, The Official Filthy Rich Handbook, I thought I should discuss the author of the book because he is just as sophisticated and chic as what he writes about.Christopher Tennant has a knack for observing people; he can look at a person and size them up immediately. This came in use when he decided to profile a group that has never been profiled before, the world's wealthy elite. He traveled to "all the Saints", including St. Moritz, St. Bart's, and St. Tropez. In the tropical locales, he was able to converse with high-networth individuals and interact with them, first hand. He even had the interesting conversation with a european on the benefits of swimming naked, and why the middle class just "didn't get it". Mr. Tennant moved to New York magazine where he worked at New York Post's Page Six. He cofounded Radar, where he is now a contributing editor.
When Emma Brown, of the Boston Globe turned the tables on him and asked what he would do if he suddenly had the means of his subjects, he stated, he'd buy a newspaper, to help rescue journalism from the death-grasp of the Internet. I respect his answer, because I fear for the print-journalism industry and how it's being crushed by the internet. There's nothing I love more than cracking open a newspaper on a weekend morning to read it with a latte and a bagel.
