The straight scoop on inner circles

I have been in show business for a long time, which means I have a permanently disfigured view of the human soul. Decades of watching producers and movie stars and studio executives operate at close range will do that to a person. At a certain point, you start to assume that everyone, everywhere, is doing everything for two reasons — money or sex —and that the second reason is just a more polite version of the first. 

So when I read something in the newspaper and my immediate reaction is of course, money, I try to be charitable. Maybe, I tell myself, there is something more going on here. Maybe I have lost the ability to see the world as a normal, healthy, non-show-business person sees it.

This is what I told myself when I saw the headline in the Wall Street Journal: “How Jeff Bezos Broke Into Fashion’s Inner Circle.”

At first, I laughed. What