Peter W. Kaplan
Articles by Peter W. Kaplan
Never Hold Your Best Stuff
When I think of Clay Felker, which is often, it’s at the Peacock Alley in the Waldorf Astoria. I had just come to The Observer in 1994 and I was scared and sweating. Clay offered to meet with me once a week and kick around story ideas. I used to bring a stack of napkins. They were, by the end of breakfast, black with scrawl: call David Garth, Milton Glaser, Mrs. Astor; water, Moynihan, women and money, Brooklyn as the new Paris, Columbia vs. N.Y.U., water mains, Murdoch, CBS News, power.
Clay would sit at the Waldorf and dictate. His Felkerian takes on the world, as many have said, added up to a nonfiction novel embodying Clay’s worldview: power was his subject, exuberance was his drive. read more »
Tony’s Blackout
Sopranos Auteur David Chase Left a Majestic Wrap-Up, But His Onion-Ring Existentialism Causes a Panic—Where’s Dr. Melfi? It’s a Media Anxiety Attack! read more »
See Ya, East 64th St.! 17 Giddy Years In Dotty Squalor
In 2000 Update, Clark Kent Comes to the Supermarket: Nominee Augurs the End of the Affair in Hollywood
Warren Beatty Shampoos the Sleazy 90's
