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
It was the magazine debut of the year. Rodney Rothman, a 26-year-old former head writer for The Late Show with David Letterman , became an overnight darling of the print world after The New Yorker published “My Fake Job,” his ode to his brief, aimless stint posing as an employee at an anonymous dot-com company Read More
The 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 Read More
Jay 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., Read More
Dick 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 Read More
Manny Streisand’s Other Girl
These days, not a whole lot happens to Esther Grodin, who is 92 years old and lives alone on the Upper West Side. Maybe she takes a little sojourn to Barnes and Noble. Maybe she goes to exercise class at the senior center. One day last week, however, Ms. Grodin Read More
The New Life of Brian
For the first time since he opened Odeon with his brother Keith in 1980, Brian McNally doesn’t have a New York restaurant to call his own. Eight months ago, Mr. McNally quietly signed over the lease of 44 at the Royalton Hotel–once the power-lunch spot for the publishing set–to the Read More
