The FT profiles Charlie Gasparino today, and while most of the anecdotes in the piece will be familiar to the Dealbreaker audience (the “What have you got” incident, this fight with Dennis Kneale, the time CG told Lance Armstrong to have a “shitty fucking dinner,” San Pietro, San Pietro, San Pietro, his dad was an iron worker, he and Felix Salmon aren’t on the best of terms, the biggest regret of his life was not participating in the Golden Gloves contest, and watching his sparring partner make it to the semi-finals was extremely painful) we do finally get an answer to a question that has plagued many of you. It hasn’t been an issue recently, but remember those (harrowing) occasions when CG would appear on-air with an extremely distracting glistening on his upper lip? Was it the residue of a glazed donut? Bad lighting? The combination of a few too many cocktails at Tropix and a busted AC unit? Now we know.
Gasparino did not take easily to the demands of television. He recalls one early appearance when he had been out drinking the night before and arrived at the New York studio on a summer morning with a hangover, to find that the air conditioning was not yet on. “I went on air and I did my hit and I thought I did it really well, but I noticed a pool of sweat here on my lip. I guess I was half detoxing and half reacting to the fact that there was no AC. Then my phone rings and it was Claudine, [CNBC president] Mark Hoffman’s secretary. She says: ‘Can you please hold for Mark?’ And I was, ‘Oh God, what did I do?’
“He says: ‘Hey Charlie, how are you doing? You’re doing a great job, but I need to ask you a question.’ I said: ‘What’s that?’ He said: ‘Have you ever seen the Nixon-Kennedy debates?’ I said: ‘Yeah.’ He says: ‘Well, you’re not Kennedy. Get some make-up! What are they doing over there? Don’t they have any powder?’”
Larry Summers is to Barrack Obama in public speaking as Greg Michaels is to Bess Levin in writing.
Weird. There is never perspiration on his lip when he is in the Equinox steam room. Maybe its because he walks around in nothing but a hand towel.
@1 dumbest comment on DB today. well done.
one more time: i love this fuckin jabroni
I hate felix salmon almost as much as i love cg
I am enjoying myself today, immensely.
so the FT article was a bunch of db posts made unfunny?
@7: nailed it in one! They did not, however, ask Bess for comment. Morons.
@8 “They did not, however, ask Bess for comment. Morons.”
how would you know that? is PM GM in drag?
So I says to Mark, I says, real men don’t wear make-up, what am I, a fag?
-CG
@10 very nice
@8: how do I know? It’s fucking obvious: there is no humanly possible way for Bess, once asked for a quote, to provide something that ISN’T juicy enough to run with.
The only exception would be if she supplies something too racy to print.
Bess, I thought you had an exclusive?
Bess has a crush on CG
“…whose best-known stars have been glossy female anchors such as Maria Bartiromo.”
Best line in the article. Oh and the picture at the top of CG is epic. Raw. Untamed. BEAST!!!!!
-Prez of CG’s fan club
@14 yes, routinely making him sound like an idiot it an obvious sing of a crush…
I have a crush on Guy Adami.
Bess, thank you for keeping up to speed on every utterance of Gasparino, the Sweat-drenched Italian Action Hero.
Personally, I find his perspectives on the market unique, entertaining, and very helpful, especially how he relates financial and economic news to his colorful childhood in Queens. I love it when he talks about his formerly violent neighbors, his father’s near breaking of a leg (or was it an arm??) while employed as an ironworker, and his numerous other stories.
I hope this story of lip-sweat has legs, too. There could be some good market perspective in that.
Pfluger
I love strip clubs
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/otl/news/story?id=4333957&campaign=rss&source=ESPNHeadlines
Is San Pietro even a good restaurant?
That silver-haired FOX!
at 6- Good for you. We don’t give a shit.
@22 – Do you live in Houston?
The fucker called Bess a nutcase on CNBC last night. Bess you should’ve let em have it.
OH AND TROPIX IS A SLUM OF BAR!
Is he Italian?
@24 the quote was “brilliant but deranged”
@ 23- No, NYC
-22
@26 deranged = insane.
I’m sure he meant in a good way, or he’d be sleeping with the fishes by now.
He didn’t say in a negative way. He was smiling when he said it, almost as if he was reliving a very pleasant memory ….
‘What are they doing over there? Don’t they have any powder?’
And that’s how I met Larry Kudlow.
–CG
…the biggest regret of his life was not participating in the Golden Gloves contest, and watching his sparring partner make it to the semi-finals was extremely painful)…
This would be the Pee-Wee category, 12 and under.
Most dangerous is fondue. Cans of sterno, molten cheese, it’s a disaster waiting to happen.
Murdoch’s not taking this lying down. FBN just hired a hungry, street-wise Pakistani kid whose biggest regret is that the belt didn’t detonate.
All you fucks get out! This is my comments board.
CG
smell the fucking glove you jerks
and here I always thought the stuff on his upper lip was grease from his meatball sandwich.
i want Gaspie’s magic sauce on my face
Moisture from tears… Tears from Dennis Kneale’s cheek. When hate and loathing become love.
Can we have some funny and/or intelligent comments about this?
Bess, please, please, PLEASE!!!! You must do Gasparoni to TWITTER. We need to be notified of his colorful anecdotes 24/7! I am outraged that I had to wait until this “FT” hagiographical piece came out.
I want to live, eat, drink, sleep Charlie Gasparino.
@39 sure, you go first. oh, wait, there have been some. merkin’s for one.
39 – good first start champ!
That wasn’t sweat. OB chose to drip dry.
@30 FTW
@40 you had to wait for what ’til this FT piece came out? it was a rehashing of DB posts.
@35 “Shit Sandwich”
@45– yeah but that was just the “kids at dealbreaker,” this is the “ft”…..
clearly he’s working himself up for transatlantic book sales.
49, yes, he would slut for a buck.
Bess links to C-Gassie on DB. C-Gassie mentions BL on CNBC. C-Gassie speaks to BL. BL writes a C-Gassie blurb on DB. C-Gassie mentions BL/DB on CNBC. BL links/blurbs C-Gassie on DB. Pull out, wipe off, repeat.
ps- you d-bags would have silly little shrines to Greg if his screen name was Giselle or Sloan. Suck some and try typing with 2 hands.
-not Greg Michaels
@51 yeah, except no. Bess is an excellent writer and extremely funny. plus, she routinely gets CG to make an ass of himself in print. when greg does any of that stuff, then I’ll build a shrine to him, d-bag.
@51- doesn’t free period begin @ 3:30? grab your imac and get back to the kiddie pool, twerp. it’s adult swim time.
-the guy who reverse-cowgirled your mommy
@51 the bottom line is that he’s not as good as her. that’s why we don’t worship at the altar that is GM. stop deluding yourself otherwise.
@54- listen, Bess gives me a sweet sweet boner too. My pants are happy just thinking about her. The issue is the C-Gas stuff is played. I know a bunch of u knobbers love clapping your hands and yellin ‘shoot, Bess pwn3d CG again!!’ while booking your flight to san diego for ComicCon 2009. I get it. I really do. The fact, as C-Gas see’s it, is that any pub/mention is a good pub/mention. So maybe the jokes on us?
Kill yourselves (with all due respect).
@55 who the fuck cares if you don’t like the CG stuff? read the other god damn posts then or do something even more proactive than that and kill YOURself.
@56- i said with all due respect, dipsh#t. jesus christ. it’s friday afternoon. your sister’s busy. wtf am i supposed to do?
@57 what are you talking about? you’re the one who came in here and started pissing and moaning like an impotent prick over 1) cg posts 2) what you believe is an unfair treatment of Greg. I’m just responding to you.
@57 – I hope the FriendlessHorseman gets you.
fight! fight! fight!