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Parody "Men in New York City now use women as fashion accessories. Celebrities like Bill Maher and rich playboys like Jonathan Farkas arrange for beautiful women to accompany them to highprofile...
...Go ahead, ask him about the Torah, the Talmud, the Kabbalah, anything...
...I thought it would be striking to have a black person with me because first of all it is very socially conscious and secondly her being black is a contrast to me being white...
...Very holy Lubavitcher fellow...
...Farkas said through his third martini, "you will notice that she is black...
...asked Hamptons magazine editor Jason Binn to no one in particular...
...So it's kind of a conceptual breakthrough...
...If you'll look closely at my date," Mr...
...She's a woman, yet amazingly I don't want to go to bed with her...
...Perhaps it was inevitable after the Arm Candy vogue of the past few years that the fashion wind would shift...
...Boys," Mr...
...Maher looked chaContinued on Page 4...
...Maher said of his escort...
...Maher was not the only man with an arresting escort at the party, which was hosted by the New York Review of Books to celebrate the 83rd birthday of its youngest contributor...
...She knows incredible stuff like which country Chinese food comes from...
...Now shallow men from across the upper echelons of society are appearing with thoughtful, intelligent dates at their side, to complement their narrow wire-framed glasses...
...I thought it would make me look good to have a Communist by my side, because they are so into serious philosophy and all that stuff, and communism is a very red movement, which brings out the highlights in my hair weave...
...Mr...
...She's really smart...
...Jonathan Farkas, the Alexander's Department Store heir, came to the event with an Arm Minority...
...But Theodore Draper caught my date by the hors d'oeuvres...
...The women, who are known as 'arm candy,' are simply expected to look good and attract attention...
...Trump announced to the gathered throng, "I'd like you to meet my Arm Rebbe...
...Have you seen my Arm Commie...
...New York Times, September 27, 1998 IMAGE ENHANCER: "ARM BRAN" FOR THE RICH AND STUPID By ALEX KUCZYNSKI Sept...
...Just a fabulous, fabulous messiah...
...They don't know the women beforehand, and there is no pretense they be friends or have a sexual relationship after...
...31, 1999—The other night at the New York Public Library, Bill Maher, the host of ABC's "Politically Incorrect," appeared resplendent in his Ralph Lauren tux with a squat, owlish woman on his arm...
...His colloquy was interrupted by the arrival of Donald Trump, beaming with the satisfaction of one who knows he has just bested every other man in the room...
...It's very cutting edge," Mr...
...It's my Arm Bran," he said, referring to the bookish lady at his side...
...Mr...
...Isn't she ugly...
...Total class...
...This one talks...
...Usually when I date supermodels, which I do a lot, I am shorter than my dates but now I am shorter and lighter...
...Celebrities like Bill Maher and rich playboys like Jonathan Farkas arrange for beautiful women to accompany them to highprofile events...
Vol. 4 • October 1998 • No. 5
