Hasta La Creative!

I have basically one indelible memory from the April 17, 2000 launch party for O, The Oprah Magazine: the moment Diana Ross arrived. Everything else is a blur.

I was at the party because, during the preceding five months, I’d served as consulting executive editor at the magazine — I was a hands-on launch consultant, basically — and I needed a drink. Many drinks. (It was an exhausting launch.)

In addition to O mag staffers, Oprah’s famous friends and assorted media-world grandees packed the Metropolitan Pavilion in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood. I should state here that since I’m a longtime New Yorker, my default mode upon encountering celebrities is a certain blas stance.

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