Article: Is the good life taming Imus?

Don Imus is trying to make fun of Monday's Talk magazine party, a gathering of Hollywood and New York swells to celebrate the launch of Tina Brown's chronicle of contemporary culture.

A bastion of the elitist establishment, Talk magazine is everything talk radio is supposed to hate. But Imus -- who is leaving his longtime Boston base at WEEI-AM, perhaps to resurface at WSJZ-FM -- can't feign much distaste. Even as he groans, "Geez . . . 30 years in New York, and I've never been to one of those things," he chats up a Talk reveler, White House aide turned kiss-and-tell pundit George Stephanopoulos. Here, even the veneer of disdain for Tina's big bash vanishes.

"What happens when you get the ...

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