1. from the editor
Familiar
Faces
Several years ago while visiting they also spend a big part of their lives
my brother in Los Angeles, I asked on the national—and in some cases,
where all the famous people were. His international—stage. Yet when their
response: “Everyone thinks that famous hometown magazine came knocking,
people are falling from the trees in L.A. they made time for us, albeit in-between
They’re not.” world business summits, celeb weddings,
Turns out that they may not be falling major league baseball games and pitch
from the trees but they do wait in the meetings.
valet line just like the rest of us. After We are happy to introduce you to
a lunch at Shutters in Santa Monica Peter Grauer, chairman of Bloomberg;
we found ourselves standing next to Lara Spencer, coanchor of Good Morning
Sean Penn, Meryl Streep, Nicolas Cage, America; Mark Teixeira, Yankees first
Spike Lee and Kevin Spacey, to name baseman; and Alex Moazed, twenty-
a few. (There happened to be a lunch three-year-old founder of Applico,
for Academy Awards contenders going a hot new mobile applications company.
on that same day.) I just looked at my These powerhouses take us inside their
brother and smirked. Power Lunch individual worlds and open up about
took on a whole new meaning. how they do what they do and just what
It’s always fun to see big personalities makes them so damn good at it.
in day-to-day life, no matter how So the next time you’re waiting for
accustomed to them ‘we may be. Chances your car, be sure to take a look around.
are you’ve seen the four power players You never know who may be standing
featured on this month’s cover strolling behind you.
down the Avenue, grabbing a cup of
coffee or, perhaps, waiting in a valet
line. They all call Greenwich home but
bob capazzo
14 MOFFLYMEDIA.COM