Mayor Newsom’s inauguration Thursday noon will be low-key. There’ll be no evening gala, either. Austere times, you know – even though any fetes would have been privately financed. Anyway, Da Willie’s big do at City Hall Sunday Dec 14, ostensibly for Charlotte Shultz, served as an inaugural gala, introducing the Newsoms, Kamala Harris & the Gov. & Maria to anybody and everybody in town of the gala class. …
I had lunch New Year’s Eve with Kimberly Guilfoyle Newsom at – where else? -- Balboa. Gav stopped by; he was busy that afternoon trying to sign off all his private businesses before midnight on the 31st. … Transition’s going well, and he’s got things worked out with Angela. … Da Mayor-elect talks to Da Mayor many times each day … but not as many times per day as Da Mayor would like. …
Don’t believe any rumors that this relationship between Gavin & Kimberly is anything less than strong. There are a lot of jealous people in town, and the poison comes from them. …
The Newsom-Guilfoyle relationship is indeed an unusual relationship, but it’s no more unusual than that of other political couples. Does not Mr. Dianne Feinstein pursue his own busy career while the senator politics? And is not Paul Pelosi’s jolly face to be seen all over her ‘Frisco congressional district doing his own lucrative thing while Madame Leader is in the District of Columbia? … And while the Newsom-Guilfoyle marriage is not your typical suburban marriage, it’s merely unusual, not odd. There are plenty of odd marriages in S.F. and this is not one of them.
They manage to make things work in their own fashion, which is a tight one. And when it comes to politics, they go over EVERYTHING together. Together, got that? … And don’t ask me for their phone numbers. …
Kimberly was preparing for a New Year’s Eve night with the hubby, when the call came from “Good Morning America” to be ready to go on the air at 5 a.m. our time New Year’s Day. A late break in the Michael Jackson story. So she planned on pulling an all-nighter to prepare for the broadcast. The mayoral couple made up the together time later. Their domestic life is modeled on Cirque du Soleil. …
Anyway, strolling up the aisle at Balboa with Kimberly is enough to put a bounce in your step. She looks great in jeans, a Plumpjack sweater and a Prada raincoat, and a smile you can’t beat. Of course, everyone stops her to say hello. And to do more. The tables at Balboa New Year’s Eve lunch were filled with top cops, judges, connected lawyers, and the usual well turned out crowd of Pac Heights noshers. ...
Is Bill Walsh out at the Niners? That was the talk at Linda Corso and Warren Hinckle’s holiday levee. This is some party. Remember the Xmas party scene in the movie version of Dashiell Hammett’s “The Thin Man” with William Powell and Myrna Loy? Wrestlers and ex-cons? Con men and cute women? Somebody on the phone calling ma, long distance? Well, the Corso-Hinckle annual is a richer version.
In one corner you had Willie Brown. In another Terence Hallinan. … Kevin Starr talking the history of Geary Street with a Bohemian boulevardier … And Matt Gonzalez refusing to drink Plumpjack wine. I tried to find out who the blonde was with Matt. But he gave the kind of glare you get when ask Willie the same question. So maybe he’d make an okay mayor. …
Balboa is bouncing but Le Central is in no danger of becoming an outpost. On Xmas Eve lunch, you would have found Megan Levitan (she’ll be running for Dist. Two supervisor, even if GN doesn’t appoint her to the seat) …Shelley Bradford Bell … Claudine Cheng. … All the great political ladies make it there for a holiday lunch full of perky joy and Perrier Joet. … Rob Morse and Debbie Morse, back in town, were there. Talk of the Le Central tables were the stories from New York about the financial condition of the Chron (According to the NY Post, the Chron lost $70 million in 2003). … Charlie Walker was in Le Central looking for Santa, but all he found was some dapper guy in a fedora. …
Steve Kay, the sports lawyer, will be handling Willie’s TV deals. Da Mayor-till-Thursday is going to do some commentary and regular guest work on the tube. He ought to talk to Kimberly. William Morris is her agency. And Roger Ailes is her pal. … Willie will also open up his law practice, and start his institute of politics. … The press has him retiring, but he’s just morphing. Though today, Monday at 5 p.m. he’ll be immortalized at City Hall. A life size bust by sculptor Richard MacDonald will be unveiled. It's bronze. ... And you thought Willie just had brass …. That’s enough, pj. …
