I'm Pissed...

ontheEdgeof17 · #1 12-10-2005, 01:41 AM

I dunno if this has been posted but HOW DARE SHE?!?!

New York Daily News - http://www.nydailynews.com
Not-so-Petty cash
to rock bat mitzvah

Tuesday, November 29th, 2005

History will forever record Elizabeth Brooks' bat mitzvah as "Mitzvahpalooza."

For his daughter's coming-of-age celebration last weekend, multimillionaire Long Island defense contractor David H. Brooks booked two floors of the Rainbow Room, hauled in concert-ready equipment, built a stage, installed special carpeting, outfitted the space with Jumbotrons and arranged command performances by everyone from 50 Cent to Tom Petty to Aerosmith.

I hear it was garish display of rock 'n' roll idol worship for which the famously irascible CEO of DHB Industries, a Westbury-based manufacturer of bulletproof vests, sent his company jet to retrieve Aerosmith's Steven Tyler and Joe Perry from their Saturday gig in Pittsburgh.

I'm also told that in honor of Aerosmith (and the $2 million fee I hear he paid for their appearance), the 50-year-old Brooks changed from a black-leather, metal-studded suit - accessorized with biker-chic necklace chains and diamonds from Chrome Hearts jewelers - into a hot-pink suede version of the same lovely outfit.

The party cost an estimated $10 million, including the price of corporate jets to ferry the performers to and from. Also on the bill were The Eagles' Don Henley and Joe Walsh performing with Fleetwood Mac's Stevie Nicks; DJ AM (Nicole Richie's fiance); rap diva Ciara and, sadly perhaps (except that he received an estimated $250,000 for the job), Kenny G blowing on his soprano sax as more than 300 guests strolled and chatted into their pre-dinner cocktails.

"Hey, that guy looks like Kenny G," a disbelieving grownup was overheard remarking - though the 150 kids in attendance seemed more impressed by their $1,000 gift bags, complete with digital cameras and the latest video iPod.

For his estimated $500,000, I hear that 50 Cent performed only four or five songs - and badly - though he did manage to work in the lyric, "Go shorty, it's your bat miztvah, we gonna party like it's your bat mitzvah."

At one point, I'm told, one of Fitty's beefy bodyguards blocked shots of his boss performing and batted down the kids' cameras, shouting "No pictures! No pictures!" - even preventing Brooks' personal videographers and photographers from capturing 50 Cent's bat-miztvah moment.

"Fitty and his posse smelled like an open bottle of Hennessy," a witness told told me, adding that when the departing rapper prepared to enter his limo in the loading dock, a naked woman was spotted inside.

I'm told that Petty's performance - on acoustic guitar - was fabulous, as was the 45-minute set by Perry and Tyler, who was virtuosic on drums when they took the stage at 2:45 a.m. Sunday.

Henley, I hear, was grumpy at the realization that he'd agreed to play a kids' party.

I'm told that at one point Brooks leapt on the stage with Tyler and Perry, who responded with good grace when their paymaster demanded that his teenage nephew be permitted to sit in on drums. At another point, I'm told, Tyler theatrically wiped sweat off Brooks' forehead - and then dried his hand with a flourish.

Yesterday, Brooks disputed many details provided to me by Lowdown spies at the affair and by other informed sources, scrawling on a fax to me: "All dollar figures vastly exaggerated."

He added: "This was a private event and we do not wish to comment on details of the party."

ontheEdgeof17 · #2 12-10-2005, 01:43 AM

Here are some pics that havent been posted yet:

http://tabloidbaby.blogspot.com/2005...ahpalooza.html

grrrr....she's a sellout.

ontheEdgeof17 · #3 12-10-2005, 01:45 AM

To add to this.....

VEGAS was a lie. Her interviews were not truthful. Are there any Vegas threads about this?

BombaySapphire3 · #4 12-10-2005, 01:48 AM

I have to admit this has me laughing so hard I can barely sit up.

ontheEdgeof17 · #5 12-10-2005, 01:51 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BombaySapphire3

I have to admit this has me laughing so hard I can barely sit up.

You better laugh cuz that black dress? Why no one mentions that thing is beyond me! Whoooooo.

catinthedark · #6 12-10-2005, 01:54 AM

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Originally Posted by BombaySapphire3

I have to admit this has me laughing so hard I can barely sit up.

K - more like this thread, and your posts on the other thread... BOTH got me laughing my tired-just-got-home-from-a-15-hour-work-day a$$ OFF!

catinthedark · #7 12-10-2005, 01:55 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ontheEdgeof17

You better laugh cuz that black dress? Why no one mentions that thing is beyond me! Whoooooo.

That dress? I'm so glad you brought up that dress. I think I'm going to start a new thread about it.

Johnny Stew · #8 12-10-2005, 02:02 AM

I'm outraged, too! Why isn't anyone talking about this!?

You're a stinker, Curtis!

ontheEdgeof17 · #9 12-10-2005, 02:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by catinthedark

That dress? I'm so glad you brought up that dress. I think I'm going to start a new thread about it.

While you are at it we need a:

-fav Stevie song thread
-a thread about homosexuals
-one about Andersoon Cooper
-throw in one about songs you are listening to at the moment.

PERFECT!

CreepingDeath · #10 12-10-2005, 02:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ontheEdgeof17

While you are at it we need a:

-fav Stevie song thread
-a thread about homosexuals
-one about Andersoon Cooper
-throw in one about songs you are listening to at the moment.

PERFECT!

priestofnothing · #11 12-10-2005, 07:29 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ontheEdgeof17

To add to this.....

VEGAS was a lie. Her interviews were not truthful. Are there any Vegas threads about this?

She did play a private show at the Mirage recently. It was for a cancer benefit I believe. There was an article about it in the Vegas newspaper.

[Edit]
Here, I found this online
http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_ho...g/4462733.html

SortaSavageLike · #12 12-10-2005, 07:48 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ontheEdgeof17

The Eagles' Don Henley and Joe Walsh performing with Fleetwood Mac's Stevie Nicks;

There are sooooo many wrong ways to interpret that sentence.

jannieC · #13 12-10-2005, 08:10 AM

Curtis. I fell for this. I really did. I thought, "Poor Curtis is just SO out of the loop". But then I remembered you saying somewhere how sick of the whole thing you were and then it all dawned on me. It's early in the morning, I guess I can cut myself some slack.

danax6 · #14 12-10-2005, 08:41 AM

OMG, she did *what*?!

I stopped reading the threads days ago. I am in denial.

Rickypt · #15 12-10-2005, 11:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ontheEdgeof17

-fav Stevie song

Sleeping Angel