The New York Observer observes that Citi has decided to cancel an upcoming keynote speech by the increasingly less lovable curmudgeon Ben Stein, Bloomberg reports, over a recent appearance where he cracked a few decades-old jokes said to come across as sexist.
Lynda Villarreal attended the event in question, a March 2 speech in Dallas, and when she learned of Mr. Stein's planned appearance at a Citibank conference fired off an email to Peter Orszag describing three of the jokes. Mr. Orszag, the former White House budget director and current Citi investment bank VP, heroically forwarded the email and the rest is history. Oh, sorry for the slightly misleading headline — Mr. Stein's representatives say he'll still be paid.
Bloomberg doesn't detail the knee slappers ("One joke was about a wealthy man, his wife and his mistress"), but you get the idea.
http://www.observer.com/2011/wall-street/peter-orszag-wins-ben-steins-money-heroic-citigroup-exec-drops-dull-speaker
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