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This weekend I got sucker punched out by a sneaky yet potent case of March Miami Measles. It yanked me off the couch next to DJ AM on the stage at Mansion ...and dropped me wheezing

and sniffling glued to Criminal’s couch for 48 hours. In my absences from both Miami (in general) and also going out, Criminal has adopted a "Baby Chimp" that sleeps in the guest room. When I went down over this weekend, the understudy took over and stepped up big time.

Thanks to Crim and the crew for hosting him all over town during the simultaneous Music Conference/Fashion Week/Spring Break/Tennis Tourney/Spring Miami Homecoming. VH1 just called and I think it's official - "Baby CHIMP had The Best Week Ever".

We tried to call Miami's marquee photographer, Seth Browarnik, to grab worldwide exclusive images for the wires, but still recuperating himself from his bout with some form of microbes....

...please enjoy amateur photos of Baby Chimp's fun at Shore Club, Nocturnal, and Delano at the Kodak Gallery here.

UPDATE: PAGE SIX, NEW YORK POST, PICKS UP ON BABY CHIMP

March 29, 2006
SIGHTINGS . . . SIGHTINGS . . .
SIGHTINGS
VENUS Williams clutching what looked like a Curious George doll at
Prime 112 in South Beach as she greeted basketball's Alonzo Mourning and the
Giants' Plaxico Buress.

UPDATE: 7.9.06 BABY CHIMP HAS POSSE OF FRIENDS ON MYSPACE.COM

Equinox Now Flexing Its Muscles and Shaming Wimpy Gyms in Westwood Too

Los Angeles magazine dedicates one issue each year to nightlife and it just came out. They plaster 1 celebrity on the cover to personify, brand, and publicly celebrate their role in (or “as”) the current peak of LA nightlife. You know it’s a top shelf event when the embodiment himself lights up your event that night. Sadly I lost out on the cover this year (Jeremy Piven), but if I hire Spin Shoppe PR, I think I’m a lock for 2007.

Last night Spin Shoppe opened the Westwood branch of Equinox Fitness Club, dubbed as “the best fitness club in America” by Fitness Magazine. If Ian Schrager once accidentally built the hotel gym in the lobby, it would be awesome,and look like Equinox Westwood.

Shiny, marbly, tons of wide open space, gleaming, clean, and just plain huge… with a faint eucalyptis whiff of calm that envelopes you at day spas – it makes you want to get really healthy. Naturally, we got right in the mood by drinking, smoking, and eating everything in sight. And we felt great afterwards.

In a brilliant marriage of LA’s favorite icons and lifestyles, SSPR brought a red carpet to a fitness club, and extended their streak by racking up another impressive Hollywood event in the 310. Making the trip to the Westiside to pick up free memberships: Not just a Duff, but both Hilary and Haylie Duff, supermodel Amber Valetta, ex-fling of a Fear Factor receptionist Jamie Kennedy, some kid who stars in NBC’s “Surface” who bears a striking resemblance to Will Makar who sadly across town at CBS television city was simultaneously being booted from American Idol. Oh yeah, and just to make it officially an athletic event, skater Tara Lipinsky.


Spin Shoppe brought their Entourage – various Rappaports of the Peter variety, a Valins, a Venessa, a Dax, and a G. and a Leonard (now a SSPR event regular) – and I demand that our Entourage had more fun.


Now don't get me wrong. I am a CRUNCH person - and my gym boils over with wannabees and the “almost elite” – at the social level where promoters and hosts recognize and say "hi", but don’t comp. (Hey, sounds like me. I guess Piven was the right choice for this year). Anyways, Crunch people are people who try to get "network approved" by, "produced by", and "promoted by" Equinox people.

Last night there were even female bartenders set up in the male locker room slinging drinks. There was some version of a teen flick fantasy scene in there, but I’m not sure what it is. And they were wearing monogrammed towel dresses . So the secret message is: If you can afford Equinox, join it. Or just get famous and go to the next opening instead.

The BOXSCORE:
Companies suffering lost productivity this morning: MTV Networks, Trench Studios, Spin Shoppe, United Vision Financial, The Monkey Bunch/ESPN Deportes, ShopBop.com, Prive.


Do 10 reps of “checking out my photos” at the Kodak Gallery here.

Or step touch over to Wire Image to check out Red Carpet photos.

The New Poster Child for Rehab

Bucking the odds, I soon debut as that kid in a rehab poster- but for a type we never saw coming.

The last time that I starred in a photograph in, or around water, it wasn’t flattering.

I made a wincing first impression in the water during the 750K doggy paddle, 15 mile bike, and 5k sprint at the inaugural race for the Deerfield Tri Team – with Captain LT Thompson (DA ’94, Williams ’98, Dad ’02, ’04, ’06) and fellow west coast call-up John Hansel (DA’94, UPenn ’98, Berkeley ’06) at the well documented 2005 Lake Hickory Triathlon. You wouldn’t know it was a race by this photo though, as I tend to prefer a lot of “personal space” so no one steals my secret techniques.

The path to redemption takes curious turns as a few months later I tore my retinaculum – a key tendon in the right knee. I'm banned from exercise for at least 4 months. Ouch. Who knew that a trade off from the daily sweat at Crunch gym to an invalid “patient” status at Complete Physical Therapy in Culver City would turn me in to the personification of athletic prowess, fame, and fitness?? If it weren’t for hobbling around like a Gimp for 6 months, I would never have been asked to... model for the Physcial Therapy’s new advertisements and website.

Wouldnt this image embrace you in a warm secure feeling of a rehabilitated you in 5-7 months as you writhed in agony in the Emergency Room after a beach volleyball ACL tear?

For a lot more modeling photos, you can check out "my book".

Chris Harrick Beat My Mom

For 16 years, my mom Candy (Dana Hall '?, Mount Vernon ?, Mom '76) has honed a "google" ish eye that pinpoints any "Deerfield", in any media, at any time....and FIRST. Could be a score in the fine print of the local sports section, a shiny blonde "notable" in a Sunday Society page photo in the NY Times, or an alum's photo who hits the scandal sheets in any way ...usually before the sun even rises on the west coast. Today, Chris Harrick (Deerfield '94, BC '98, New Dad '05) and his New York Times reading "habit" were up early and "beat my mom" to the Deerfield email chian. (That sounds kind of gross). Anyways, check it out:

March 1, 2006
Jordan Plans to Start Its Own
New England-Style Prep School

DEERFIELD, Mass. — Deerfield Academy, with its brick buildings, blazing maples, jacket and tie requirements and powerful graduates, is the quintessential New England boarding school. Soon, it will see its reflection in an unlikely place, outside Madaba, Jordan .

Deerfield officials are helping to
establish King's Academy, the Middle East's first coeducational boarding school, at the request of King Abdullah II of Jordan, who graduated from Deerfield in 1980.

When we were at Deerfield, we once had a Model United Nations. Now Deerfield has a "Model Deerfield". Read the New York Times story here.

UPDATE: 11 Minutes after posting, this email came in:

From: Candy Glazer

TO: The CHIMP

Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 8:51 PM

I can't believe Chris beat me to it. I didn't read the NYT until tonight. [ most unusual]
MOM