"I have never experienced an author like this," huffed Elizabeth Sheinkman, the literary agent to Bergdorf Blondes author Plum Sykes-at least, she said, until she was fired recently via voicemail.
Ms. Sheinkman, who made two book deals for Ms. Sykes with Miramax Books totaling over $2 million, said it came as a shock when she received Read MoreTouré
and Rita Nakouzi Met: Sept. 28, 2000 Engaged: Sept. 18, 2003 Projected Wedding Date: May 21, 2005 Touré, the 33-year-old host of MTV2's Spoke 'N' Heard and a writer for Rolling Stone who prefers to keep his last name private, is marrying Rita Nakouzi, 28, a fashion consultant at Promostyl, at a yet-to-be determined venue Read MoreSitting in his white minimalist corner office in his company's 30th floor headquarters on East 57th Street, Eric Villency, the president of Maurice Villency, a home-furnishings business started by his grandfather, looked like a man who had recently had a manicure. Mr. Villency, a former Abercrombie and Fitch model, was wearing a blue-striped dress shirt, Read More
From Le Bernardin to Le Cirque, Morrells to Masa, the city's chefs, restaurant owners and the many, many others who consider themselves food-world insiders are getting antsy. In the three months since New York Times restaurant critic William (Biff) Grimes left the position, the paper's Dining Section and its interim critics, Amanda Hesser and Marian Read More
On a recent Friday afternoon, Manhattan society hostess and art collector Beth de Woody was sitting in Terminal 6 at John F. Kennedy International Airport, awaiting her JetBlue flight to Palm Beach, when she ran into Caroline Hirsch, owner of Caroline's Comedy Club, and her boyfriend, attorney Andrew Fox. "We were all hanging out in Read More
It looks like there is at least one Hollywood star who thinks a political endorsement from a celebrity is as useless as one from Al Gore.
At a recent lunch at Michael's in honor of Barbarian Invasions director Denys Arcand, actor Bob Balaban, wearing a black pinstripe suit and sporting a short platinum-blond hairdo, humbly replied: Read MoreOne week ago, Alexandra Polier was just another anonymous 27-year-old New York transplant with a master's degree in journalism, some Associated Press clips and a network of ambitious friends. But on Feb. 17, when the Daily News and God knows how many other newspapers, television newscasts and Web sites plastered her black-and-white picture, with its Read More
As the droplets ran down his face, American Idol 's resident rapier, Simon Cowell, looked incredulous. After a window-shattering rendition of Shakira's "Underneath Your Clothes," a rejected contestant, 18-year-old Jonathan Rea of Houston, had walked over to the judges' table as if to shake Mr. Cowell's hand, and instead hurled a cup of water at Read More
The next time Paris Hilton walks down a runway, seductively hurling one bronzed leg in front of the other, her hair extensions and barely clad hips swishing to the beat of the music, the guys salivating in the audience should know something: Ms. Hilton learned to walk like that from a gay black man living Read More
When the question was put to Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry on Boston talk radio station WRKO AM 860 on Jan. 28, speculation had been percolating for a week:
"Can you categorically deny the reports that you have used Botox or other kind[s] of cosmetic surgery or cosmetic enhancements to your appearance," one of the hosts of Read More"I think a lot of people are obsessed with this word 'socialite,'" said 25-year-old Fabian Basabe at the Upper East Side restaurant Mediterraneo in late December. "What does it mean? One who is social? I don't understand it.
"I like this whole 'It Kids' concept better than I do 'socialite,'" he said. Mr. Basabe leaned back Read MoreQueen of the Queer Eyes; the blond; Bravo!
On July 14, five nattily dressed fellows walked down the steps to the Chelsea Hotel's subterranean bar, Serena, where they were being fêted for the premiere of their new show, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy , on the Bravo cable network. Clad in black suits with brightly Read MoreGeneral manager for AOL Music; former BMG mailroom boy, now go-to guy for Britney, Avril Lavigne
On Dec. 1, Evan Harrison was pacing up and down the balcony at Webster Hall. Wearing a tan trucker hat over his chin-length red head of hair and clad in an orange button-down shirt and brown sweater, he surveyed Read MoreChristie's sunny expert hauls in $62 million, cultivates Gagosians of tomorrow
Seven years ago, Alicia Bona was an intern at the Marian Goodman Gallery, one of the self-replenishing army of polished private-school girls who answer phones at galleries and auction houses, then land wealthy husbands and begin a life of buying what they once cataloged. But Read MoreEarly in October, thousands of frat boys e-mailed what looked like a CNN.com Web page to thousands more of their brothers, buddies and buddies' girlfriends. It was an article about a new study that "Fellatio may significantly decrease the risk of breast cancer in women." The story, which carried an Associated Press byline, claimed that Read More
