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Photos and story by Steve Govoni
With the worst economic malaise since the Great Depression entering its fifth year, 1,000 journalists, PR pros, and corporate executives occupied Broadway for a liquidity-driven stimulus program better known as the Financial Follies. This year's targets: rampant market volatility; crushing debt burdens; the News of the World hacking scandal; the caricaturish 2012 Presidential campaign; Internet IPOs and social networking; the Euro crisis; and the Fed's quantitative easing. Special thanks to producer Rich Wilner; director Laura Josepher; musical director Jill Brunelle; the book and lyrics committee (Josh Friedlander and Imogen Rose-Smith, co chairs; Peter Coy, Mark Fogarty, and Pierre Paulden) ; the video team (Myron Kandel, Peter Phelan, Simon Constable, Steve Gelsi, and Jake Novak); and last but by no means least, New York Financial Writers Association Executive Manager Jane Reilly.
69th Annual Dinner and Entertainment
Friday, the eighteenth of November
Two thousand eleven
At 7:30 PM
Cocktails at 6:30 PM
New York Marriott Marquis Hotel
Broadway Ballroom
Times Square, New York City
Tables: $3,500
Individual seats: $400
Contact: Jane Reilly 201-612-0100 nyfwa@aol.com
Photos and story by Steve Govoni
No matter how much things change, one constant is the Friday before Thanksgiving when the financial press and its many sources gather to celebrate the year's headlines in song and dance. This year's Financial Follies drew more  than 1,100 partiers to the sold-out Broadway Ballroom at the Marriott Marquis, fulfilling its long tradition as the solid rocket booster of the holiday season. Kudos to producer Imogen Rose-Smith, who also spearheaded the book and lyrics with co-chair Josh Friedlander; Myron Kandel and Peter Phelan on videos; director Laura Josepher; musical director Jill Brunelle; and of course NYFWA executive manager Jane Reilly, the linchpin of this gala event. Among those celebrated on stage were Goldman Sachs (“Bad Finance,” ala Lady Gaga), BP (“Never, Never Slick at Sea,” from Gilbert & Sullivan’s HMS Pinafore), unfunded pensions (Queen’s “Who Wants to Live Forever”) and the economies of Japan (“It’s Raining Yen”) and the U.S. (“Don’t Stop Deceiving”). CNN, Fortune, and the News Hub/Wall Street Journal Digital Network contributed videos. Weber Shandwick and Blumberg Capital Investments hosted after-parties where Follies attendees continued the party long into the night. Click here for a complete wrap-up in pictures.
Wall Street Journal article - November 21, 2010
CNBC.com
Photos from the Blumberg Capital Partners After-Party
More than 1,000 journalists, communicators, and corporate executives gathered in the Broadway Ballroom at the Marriott Marquis in Times Square to lampoon major newsmakers at the 67th Financial Follies on November 20, 2009. Considered by many to be the financial media's premier event, the Follies took aim at Ponzi King Bernie Madoff and his sexual shortcomings (as previewed by the New York Post in September); California's disastrous finances; Detroit automakers; Goldman Sachs; and the beleaguered Federal Reserve Bank. Other highlights of the evening included videos produced by CNBC, CNN, Forbes, Fox Business News and News Hub/Wall Street Journal Digital Network. The revelers partied late into the night, and like the Governator in "California Bills", left promising, "I'll be back."
Click here for photos by NYFWA board member Steve Govoni.
Talking News Biz
Highlights from 2008
Steve Gelsi/MarketWatch video
"The Winner Takes It All"
Click here for photos by NYFWA board member Steve Govoni.
Click here to see Mediabistro report and video.
See New York Times and Reuters.
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