Things are being stirred up in the stirrups these days. If you ask New York women, many will tell you that a trip to the gynecologist-never a walk in the park, even with the best doctor-has become more fraught with anxiety and unpleasantness, as the ob/gyns seem to be getting shorter in temper and longer Read More
When she was 13, Maggie, then an eighth grader living on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, convinced her parents to let her get a nose job. She told her friends she broke her nose playing softball. When Maggie was 17, she convinced her parents to let her liposuction the fat under her chin and Read More
Aside from its obvious physical manifestations, the eating disorder anorexia nervosa is a characteristically private and secretive disease. Girls suffer alone, fighting to control their body by obsessing about what they put into it. Even if parents and doctors struggle to empathize, they usually end up spending most of their time and energy worrying and Read More
Sophie and Anna were aware of one another-they were both sophomores at the same private school in Brooklyn-but had never actually met until a mutual friend invited them both to go snowboarding upstate at her country house last winter. They stayed up talking after everyone else went to sleep.
"We spent the whole entire night Read MoreKids on Clinton
Ever since the Presidential sex scandal became an unavoidable fact of life, some people have wondered if it has had a corrupting influence on children. To find out, the New York World interviewed kids in Central Park, Stuyvesant Square and Battery Park City, all with the permission of their parents. Judging by the Read MoreI was of three minds,
Like a tree In which there are three blackbirds. –Wallace Stevens, "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" Wednesday, Aug. 26 First, because it is August, and because it is America, there are the prime-time reruns. Drew's fridge breaks down. The Nanny doesn't want to sign the prenuptial agreement. Read MoreWednesday, Aug. 19
The people over at Comedy Central have something excellent lined up and ready to take over the comedy waves, which is a lucky thing because the last funny sketch show, The Kids in the Hall , is 10 years old, not to mention Canadian. The new hot property, the Upright Citizens Brigade , Read MoreWednesday, August 12
David Letterman's first choice to replace Tom Snyder on the Late Late Show , friendly, sweater-wearing Jon Stewart, didn't get it–Craig Kilborn did. So now Mr. Stewart replaces Mr. Kilborn as host of the Daily Show at Comedy Central in '99. But where does that leave poor Norm Macdonald? [Comedy Central, 45, 11 Read MoreWednesday, August 5
Patricia Fili-Krushel. Rarely has the name of a high-ranking television executive rolled so trippingly off the tongue. At Lifetime Television, she continued the life span of The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd ; as head of ABC daytime, she created the infotainment version of that claaaaassy sitcom, with The View . Now, Read MoreWednesday, July 29
Is the war over?… Legendary-ish TV impresario Aaron Spelling and Shannen Doherty were reunited at the Television Critics Association press tour in Pasadena, Calif., on July 25, seated next to each other during the WB Television Network's presentation of the Spelling-produced Charmed , a WB show scheduled for the fall about three good Read MoreWednesday, July 22
Don Imus sits down with Larry King Live . Two beautiful middle-aged men with oral fixations. [CNN, 10, 9 P.M.] Thursday, July 23 6 MTV's heavily revamped schedule (the "10 Spot") includes a funny, low-budget half-hour called Super Adventure Team , co-created by comedian Dana Gould (who just left the cast of Read MoreWednesday, July 15
Every week, a hidden camera in a second-floor window on a beautiful-people street in SoHo tapes women walking by for a cable-access show called Knit Bootie . It's compelling television. Somebody splices together the most attractive specimens, creating narrative from nothing. It's the purest form of TV; the creator simply brings outside Read MoreWednesday, July 8
Delta Burke talks about how she went from being the youngest Miss Florida ("It seems absurd to me now. There was nothing strange to me about the fact that I would zip around on the freeways with the big poofy hair and the makeup and a crown on my head and a Read MoreWednesday, June 24
Dennis Miller, fearless truth teller, is such a rebel (he just can't play by your rules, Daddy-O–he just ain't wired that way!) that he said "shit" on a recent edition of The Tonight Show With Jay Leno . He was responsible for another low TV moment when, on his HBO talk show, Read MorePeter Bogdanovich's Movie of the Week
In all the unprecedented outpouring of tributes to, reminiscences of and commentaries on Frank Sinatra after his recent death, everyone of course mentioned his Oscar-winning performance in the 1953 adaptation of James Jones' novel, From Here to Eternity , but only one or two singled out for special attention Read More
