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About me

Gender	Male
Industry	Investment Banking
Location	New York, United States
Introduction	Saint Grottlesex/Ivy League somewhat-observant Episcopalian WASP living on Manhattan's UES during the week with a career in finance. Weekends I hightail it up to the Hudson River Valley where I'm ruinously restoring and furnishing a jewel of a Federal house with my spouse, Boy Fenwick, and our most-adored pug, Basil, who has decided views on these subjects.
Interests	Living an elegant and amusing life, pugs, dressing well, architecture and interior design, dining in and out, entertaining, cocktails, wine, social history, music, singing, gardening, museums, auction houses, antiques shows, historic houses and places of interest, reading and learning, travel, spiritual life, material culture, humor, antiques, collecting, the good life, manners, having fun!
Favorite Movies	To Catch A Thief, Mr. Blandings Builds His Dreamhouse, All About Eve, A Letter to Three Wives, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Rear Window, North By Northwest, Gosford Park, The Leopard, White Christmas, Flirting With Disaster, Get Shorty, The Usual Suspects, Casino, Good Fellas, Its A Wonderful Life, pretty much any comedy from the Ealing Studios circa 1940-60, I Know Where I'm Going
Favorite Music	The American Songbook as sung by Ella and Frank--the two greatest popular vocalists of the 20th century--also their spiritual fellow-travelers both contemporary and today, Hotel Costes and other assorted compilations when in the groove, Bossa Nova, Funk and R&B, Pet Shop Boys, Pink Martini, George Michael, Black Box
Favorite Books	Vanity Fair, Brideshead Revisited, most any Austen, most of the Mitfords, Cecil Beaton's diaries and scrapbooks, the Mapp and Lucia series, Father and Son, A Confederacy of Dunces, Little Me, Dominick Dunne, biographies of interesting and accomplished people, social histories, architectural and decoration monographs