In early November, the television anchor Bryant Gumbel was standing in the middle of a sweaty crowd at the restaurant Michael’s, on West 55th Street. It was a little after 7 p.m., and Mr. Gumbel was shoulder-to-shoulder with other media luminaries, many of them household names for decades: Jann Wenner, Jay McInerney, Jeffrey Bewkes, Al Roker and Dr. Ruth Westheimer among them.
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