Anybody who knows anything about Jerry Lewis knew the moment
would come. It was about a half hour into his sold-out motivational speech at Congregation Rodeph Shalom on West 81st Street, and Mr. Lewis-unaided by notes or the stricture of any discernible order in the things he talked about-swiveled his neck to hear the question being Read MoreThough he says he would never in a million years actually do it, let's say, for argument's sake, that over the July Fourth weekend, Miles Jaffe bungees a nuclear bomb to the ski rack of his Toyota 4-Runner and then, going at a pretty good clip, drives his truck smack into, say, Nick & Toni's Read More
Colin Tennant, who would prefer to be known as Lord Glenconner–a title that refers to Glen, his sprawling family seat in Scotland–sat in an elegant lime-green room on the ground floor of the 91st Street townhouse owned by his friends, fashion designer Carolina Herrera and her husband Reinaldo, who put him up whenever he comes Read More
Midday on Wednesday, May 2, hundreds of media heavyweights will trundle into the Grand Ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria for the presentation of the American Society of Magazine Editors' National Magazine Awards. After cocktails, lunch and a few speeches, a lucky few attendees will receive the coveted Ellie, an Alexander Calder-designed elephant statuette that entitles the Read More
It was one of the first beautiful spring days on the Columbia University campus, one of those glorious days when Columbia guys are known to gather on the steps of Low Memorial Library and act like guys– you know, shooting the breeze, catching rays, pausing occasionally to admire, perhaps a bit oafishly, shapely young things Read More
Walking into the Midtown Diner with Chuck Barris on Presidents' Day was like walking onto a television set for the kind of treacly special that Mr. Barris probably never would have produced in his television days: something called maybe Chuck Barris' Holiday Homecoming , or Chuck Barris' Triumphant Foray From His Apartment . Mr. Barris, Read More
Kenneth Lonergan's moment is making him itchy. Mr. Lonergan, who may well win an Oscar for writing the screenplay for his film You Can Count on Me , just got back from spending three months in a fancy hotel in Rome at the request of Martin Scorsese, who asked him to rewrite the script for Read More
For the last two weeks, members of the New York publishing and film worlds have put their many heads together to try to solve the dual-industry un-mystery of what happened to Jonathan Karp, the golden-boy Random House senior editor who quit publishing and went Hollywood, but did it the Manhattan way: as head of the Read More
High noon came early for plastic surgeon Daniel Baker. On the morning of Monday, Oct. 23, Dr. Baker, surgeon to the stars, strode right into the second-floor operating room of his Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat colleague, Alan Matarasso, wearing a scowl detectable through his surgical mask. His appearance came as something of an unwelcome Read More
Actress Melanie Griffith checked into a California drug treatment center for an addiction to prescription pain medication on Nov. 9. Shortly after, the message boards on her New Agey e-commerce site, OneWorldLive.com, were flooded with get-well wishes. Here are excerpts from a few:
Hi Melanie, I was saddened to read the news about your Read MoreThe first thing you see in Kalman Sporn's West 70th Street apartment is a picture of himself with the Pope. It's odd, since the gay sons of Orthodox Jewish rabbis don't normally hang with the Pope. But as a friend of Mr. Sporn's commented, "It's more about the Pope as celebrity, you know?" Because Mr. Read More
Maria Callas' Abortion Debate
None of the news in Greek Fire , Nicholas Gage's new book about the love affair between Aristotle Onassis and Maria Callas, made as much of a splash as the author's revelation about the couple's love child. Mr. Gage, a Greek-born former New York Times correspondent, wrote that contrary to all Read MoreJay McInerney's Latest Book Deal
Back in July, Nashville lawyer Larry Woods–who, with his wife, owns Book Man, the largest used bookstore in Tennessee–got an odd message that novelist Jay McInerney had called and wanted to sell a few books. Mr. Woods made an appointment to visit Mr. McInerney at his home in Franklin, Tenn., where Read MoreDick Cavett, slave to the moonwalk, just couldn't help himself. It was just past 1 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 12, and Mr. Cavett was sitting on a folding metal chair in the downstairs lobby of the Circle in the Square Theatre with a television camera trained on his face. He was finishing an interview with Read More
Requiem for a Scheme
If you went to see Requiem for a Dream when it opened over Columbus Day weekend and happened to be sitting next to a bleary-eyed film-school type who looked as though he'd already sat through the film a dozen times, chances are it was director Darren Aronofsky himself, doing his small part Read More
