The latest issue of the New Yorker has a lengthy piece on the Tan Man (more on hue in a sec), who apparently is not doing so well of late. He has very few friends left (Big Al is of course still pulling for the guy and vice versa, along with Stan O’Neal and Jimmy Cayne AKA the Circle Jerk of Doom, which meets monthly to fuck the corpse of Ayn Rand). He’s received “numerous” death threats. He’s been forced to cut off the New York Times, the LA Times, and the Wall Street Journal, on account of what he believes is unfair coverage. (In what must be the greatest rousing endorsement of all time, Mozilo continues to read the Financial Times, which we’re thinking the Brits should incorporate into their tagline.) Most heartbreakingly, one former employee notes that Moz-y-boy rarely “flashes that $10,000 watt smile” anymore. Basically, all he really does these days is amble around his “large Spanish-style house in a guarded gated community at the Sherwood Country Club,” where he reflects on the past. Like being mistaken for a black man.
As his sister, Lori, told me, “Angelo said, ‘Nobody wants to work with you. Nobody wants to work with me. Let’s do it to-gether.’ He was always this Italian guy
people didn’t want to accept.” She went on, “When he tans he gets really dark. My mother told me that when he worked in Florida he was asked to sit in the back of the bus.”
Were Moz and Lewis having some brewskis at the US Open yesterday?
I’ve been shedding tears for him all morning.
Racism turns you orange?
Seriously this “hidden comments” bullsh*t has got to stop, wtf
Hey Bess shouldn’t that be “more on huem?” My apologies if not I have trouble with that one.
@3 the racist ones were the people who asked him to sit at the back of the bus, who mistakenly thought he was an african american, possibly on account of them being color blind (orange does not equal black/brown).
i once mistook Maxine Waters for a black man
@5- hue, as in the hue of Mozilo’s skin.
“(Big Al is of course still pulling for the guy and vice versa, along with Stan O’Neal and Jimmy Cayne AKA the Circle Jerk of Doom, which meets monthly to fuck the corpse [of] Ayn Rand).”
Oh god, thank you Bess. You just made my Monday. I had to wait to post this while I wiped off the coffee I spit out over my computer.. Bless you.
where do I sign up for the circle jerk
Who is Big Al?
I know, I do great work.
–Ang Moz’s orthodonist
You all know that he’s a Mobster but you won’t admit it in public.
“(Big Al is of course still pulling for the guy and vice versa, along with Stan O’Neal and Jimmy Cayne AKA the Circle Jerk of Doom, which meets monthly to fuck the corpse [of] Ayn Rand).”
Oh god, thank you Bess. You just made my Monday. I had to wait to post this while I wiped off the coffee I spit out over my computer.. Bless you.
It’s ok, the 10,000 watt smile will be back once Maria B swings out west for an interview, Jack-style.
He was asked to go to the back of the bus because the busdriver was long 6 condos in Arizona and blamed Countrywide for his predicament.
I think a mexican coke shark was giving me the stank eye on the subway this morning.
How could you be so heartless?
Kanye
The thing I love most about Bess is:
“She goes there…”
– Snake Plissken
@10: Charlie–go back to work.
15′s got it.
So Moz and Nails were neighbors?
Blue shirt with white collar and an accountant’s yellow tie. Strike three.
What a handsome gentleman he is. Not quite as dreamy as Mr. Ratigan and his smoldering good looks, but handsome nonetheless.
He looks like the Godfather of all Oompa-Loompas.
An Italian from the Bronx gets on a bus in Florida. A-haa haa ha, that’s good one… and gets mistaken for being black. That’s rich! Believe me white people in Miami or Tampa (the only two cities that could’ve conceivably had public transportation back then) knew the difference between a mouli and a wop. The story is a crock.
Any word on that photo of Moz with his cock out at Berlusconi’s villa?
little did I know the Tan Man and Andy Madoff both know what it’s like to be black in America. they should get together, have a few laughs…
Of course he still reads the FT – color of the paper is convenient when trying to hide in public.
@11: Greenspan.
Do we have to spell everything out for you?
[...] types of people in this world. Those who, when asked the question, what is Angelo Mozilo’s race, answer “African American,” and those who answer “Tanning bed-Orange.” Thanks to today’s hearing on the hill, and the [...]
[...] types of people in this world. Those who, when asked the question, what is Angelo Mozilo’s race, answer “African American,” and those who answer “Tanning bed-Orange.” Thanks to today’s hearing on the hill, and the [...]
[...] types of people in this world. Those who, when asked the question, what is Angelo Mozilo’s race, answer “African American,” and those who answer “Tanning bed-Orange.” Thanks to today’s hearing on the hill, and the [...]