At the
L.A. kickoff breakfast for the City of Hope's Spirit of Life campaign honoring
Republic founding bros
Monte and
Avery Lipman, the pair fixed their smiles gamely for a gauntlet of photo ops with fellow industry heavyweights. Here they brave the brutal rooftop sun with
Island Co-CEO
Imran Majid,
UMPG Chair
Jody Gerson and
UMe head
Bruce Resnikoff. Photographer
Lester Cohen deftly kept the
HITS loser in attendance out of all pics.
The Lipmans flank prior Spirit of Life honoree,
Sony Music Publishing boss and recent
Music Biz keynoter
Jon Platt, who predicted that the value of this shot would ultimately exceed 20x earnings.
Monte and Avery are joined by super-attorneys
Aaron Rosenberg and
Eric Greenspan, who jointly advised us to declare moral bankruptcy.
The Lipman sibs bookend Republic Co-President
Wendy Goldstein and EVP Film & TV
Dana Sano, who suggested a four-part documentary series on why
HITS sucks.
City of Hope's
Natalie Schnaitmann,
Steven Singer and
Loren Fishbein and UMPG Prez/COH mensch/event MC
Evan Lamberg all agree that when it comes to our involvement, sometimes the cure is worse than the disease.
