- June
- 26
Suburbarazzi blew out the candles Saturday in honor of the 40th anniversary of Jimmy Fink’s graduation from Eastchester High School.
Yesterday, Jimmy e-mailed me with a follow-up about his the yearbook group photo for the graduating class of 1967:
In the big graduation picture, where we all posed on the bleachers at EHS, I am the only one wearing sunglasses!!
The Scarsdale resident and deejay at the White Plains-based The Peak provided Suburbarazzi with an additional exclusive: He said he had dinner Friday with his best friend from his high school days and today alike, Donald Levy.
In the yearbook, under his name, it said, ‘Found with Fink.’ I guess it’s still true.
Posted by Chris Serico on Tuesday, June 26th, 2007 at 12:53 pm |
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- June
- 18

Dobbs Ferry homeowner Stone Phillips was one of many celebrities to appear at today’s Winged Foot Golf Club outing in Mamaroneck to fundraise for the Autism Speaks charity.
Just before heading to the links, Phillips chatted exclusively with Suburbarazzi about the prospect of providing piano accompaniment for event no-show Taylor Hicks; the similarities between football and golf; and his plans after his employer opted not to renew his “Dateline NBC” contract, which expires at the end of the month.
Suburbarazzi: You played piano and serenaded Katie Couric on her “Today” show finale, and “American Idol” champ Taylor Hicks was expected to be here today, but didn’t show. Would you have accompanied him on a song had he shown up?
Stone Phillips: I would not. Because I wouldn’t have embarrassed him or me by trying to do that.
Suburbarazzi: You were the starting quarterback on Yale’s 1976 Ivy League Champion football team. Do any of those skills translate to anything on the golf course?
Stone Phillips: Yeah, I think some of them do. To me, it’s visualization. You have to visualize the point of junction between and the receiver and the ball you throw. And in golf it’s a lot of visualization, too. Other than that, I just try to have fun. I enjoy playing football and I enjoy playing golf.
Suburbarazzi: What are your plans, post-“Dateline�?
Stone Phillips: Nothing immediately. Nothing for a while. You know, I’m going to take some time off and do some traveling with my wife and take it from there. It’s gonna be a nice long period of rest and relaxation, and then taking on some independent projects.
Posted by Chris Serico on Monday, June 18th, 2007 at 4:05 pm |
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- May
- 30
Last week, Suburbarazzi published an item about Jimmy Fink, a deejay for the White Plains-based radio station The Peak. While working for another radio station and boss years ago, Fink was “fired” immediately after working an unwanted New Year’s Day morning shift that the boss “begged” him to do, according to a recent story told on air by Howard Stern’s producer Gary Dell’Abate.
Reached by phone last week, Fink confirmed Dell’Abate’s story, but said it warranted a couple of clarifications.
First, Fink said that after he worked the 6 a.m. to noon shift at WPLJ on the first day of 1980, his boss summoned him to his office to tell him he was fired. Dell’Abate had said that the boss “called” Fink to fire him, but Fink said that action happened in person.
Second, Fink said his boss mistakenly thought he was cutting him at the end of a pay period, but because Fink started another 13-week pay period Jan. 1, he had to be paid for that duration regardless. Fink not only was rehired, but also wound up staying with WPLJ—and his boss—until the station changed formats three years later, he said.
Even though Fink, an Eastchester High School alumnus, had been “fired” after 10 years at the station, he said he didn’t take it personally.
“He wasn’t firing me for something that I did or anything,” he told Suburbarazzi. “You know, that’s the way it is in the radio business. You usually will find out, ‘Hey, you just did your last show,’ for whatever reason it happens to be.”
(Photo courtesy of Jimmy Fink.)
Posted by Chris Serico on Wednesday, May 30th, 2007 at 10:58 am |
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- May
- 24
The second auction to sell John Schneider’s car from TV’s “The Dukes of Hazzard” appears to have ended prematurely “because of an error in the listing,” according to eBay.
I’ve seen no other reports in the mainstream media on this development, so for now you can consider this a Suburbarazzi Exclusive! (Insert fancy news music here.)
The saga just won’t end for the Mount Kisco native, who played Bo Duke on the show that featured the “General Lee”—the series’ iconic, bright-orange 1969 Dodge Charger.
The first time Schneider tried to sell the car on eBay, he planned to collect $1 million to fund a sequel to his movie “Collier & Co.” But the plan stalled when the top bid of just under $10 million was deemed a hoax.
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Posted by Chris Serico on Thursday, May 24th, 2007 at 6:40 pm |
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- March
- 2
Isaac Mizrahi was in Eastchester on Saturday, in case you hadn’t heard.
And as I predicted, my final question of the interview was the one I was most afraid to ask: “If you happen to like the outfit of anyone who comes up to you on line today, will they get the (Scarlett) Johansson Treatment?“
Mizrahi was taken aback for a moment, then played it off like a pro.
Oh! Well, that was about the bra. That was a big misunderstanding. It was like, “Oh, what’s your bra?� And three minutes later, it was like the end of the world. (Johansson)’s adorable.
Well there you have it. If you missed any of the interview, click the link below to view the entire transcript.
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Posted by Chris Serico on Friday, March 2nd, 2007 at 12:37 pm |
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- December
- 6
Quick, what’s worse: blackmailing a married Pepsi executive for $125,000 or threatening the career of your ex-husband of 4-years, an Air Force veteran who you already stole $30,000 from?
Tough call, but after talking to Kyle Strait, the former hubby of 22-year-old grifter extraordinaire Jessica Wolcott, one thing’s clear: this girl is a seriously screwed up scam artist. As Strait explained over the phone, Wolcott emailed him yesterday (possibly violating a court order that she not use computers) and said that if Strait didn’t stop talking, his superiors at the Air Force would be asked to comment on the situation. What’s more, she claimed that reporters are “getting ‘her side’ of the story and that everyone will really know the truth when it hits TV in a couple months.”
We here at Suburbarazzi are sort of impatient, though, so we asked Strait to tell more of his side first. All the sordid details after the jump.
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Posted by Ted Mann on Wednesday, December 6th, 2006 at 4:23 pm |
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