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."
Posted by guest , Jun 22, 2009 11:33AM
Were Moz and Lewis having some brewskis at the US Open yesterday?
Posted by guest , Jun 22, 2009 11:34AM
I've been shedding tears for him all morning.
Posted by guest , Jun 22, 2009 11:35AM
Racism turns you orange?
Posted by Anal_yst , Jun 22, 2009 11:36AM
Seriously this "hidden comments" bullsh*t has got to stop, wtf
Posted by guest , Jun 22, 2009 11:36AM
Hey Bess shouldn't that be "more on huem?" My apologies if not I have trouble with that one.
Posted by guest , Jun 22, 2009 11:37AM
@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).
Posted by guest , Jun 22, 2009 11:37AM
i once mistook Maxine Waters for a black man
Posted by guest , Jun 22, 2009 11:37AM
@5- hue, as in the hue of Mozilo's skin.
Posted by Perkins Maxwell , Jun 22, 2009 11:38AM
"(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.
Posted by guest , Jun 22, 2009 11:38AM
where do I sign up for the circle jerk
Posted by guest , Jun 22, 2009 11:39AM
Who is Big Al?
Posted by guest , Jun 22, 2009 11:40AM
I know, I do great work.
--Ang Moz's orthodonist
Posted by guest , Jun 22, 2009 11:40AM
You all know that he's a Mobster but you won't admit it in public.
Posted by Perkins Maxwell , Jun 22, 2009 11:43AM
"(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.
Posted by guest , Jun 22, 2009 11:45AM
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.
Posted by guest , Jun 22, 2009 11:45AM
I think a mexican coke shark was giving me the stank eye on the subway this morning.
Posted by guest , Jun 22, 2009 11:48AM
How could you be so heartless?
Kanye
Posted by guest , Jun 22, 2009 11:49AM
The thing I love most about Bess is:
"She goes there..."
-- Snake Plissken
Posted by guest , Jun 22, 2009 11:51AM
@10: Charlie--go back to work.
Posted by guest , Jun 22, 2009 11:55AM
15's got it.
Posted by guest , Jun 22, 2009 11:56AM
So Moz and Nails were neighbors?
Posted by guest , Jun 22, 2009 11:57AM
Blue shirt with white collar and an accountant's yellow tie. Strike three.
Posted by guest , Jun 22, 2009 11:59AM
What a handsome gentleman he is. Not quite as dreamy as Mr. Ratigan and his smoldering good looks, but handsome nonetheless.
Posted by guest , Jun 22, 2009 12:00PM
He looks like the Godfather of all Oompa-Loompas.
Posted by guest , Jun 22, 2009 12:01PM
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.
Posted by guest , Jun 22, 2009 12:04PM
Any word on that photo of Moz with his cock out at Berlusconi's villa?
Posted by guest , Jun 22, 2009 12:42PM
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...
Posted by guest , Jun 22, 2009 1:55PM
Of course he still reads the FT - color of the paper is convenient when trying to hide in public.
Posted by guest , Jun 22, 2009 2:02PM
@11: Greenspan.
Do we have to spell everything out for you?