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 Read More
Peter Bogdanovich’s Movie of the Week
The most strangely poetic of crime thrillers, known chicly these days as films noir, also has one of the great movie titles, and features Robert Mitchum’s first (and probably most) defining role for his screen persona, Jacques Tourneur’s memorable 1947 romantic suspense classic Out of the Past [Monday, April Read More
It probably had to happen-the first $225 pair of Levi’s!-but why? Well, for that kind of money, you’re not getting a pair of pants, but a piece of Americana. That’s the idea, anyway, and so far people are going for it. At three different stores in Manhattan, the $225 jeans are walking off the shelves Read More
Wednesday, March 11
It’s telethon time at WNET, meaning they go with their best stuff and make you suffer through desperate pleas for money. Prime time starts with Molly O’Neill’s New York: A Taste of the City, in which the New York Times food columnist seeks out cool, out-of-the-way places where people are making and Read More
Peter Bogdanovich’s Movie of the Week
Among the most entertaining of non-”auteur” star vehicles-made at a time when stars often were not only good actors but unique personalities as well-is the first pairing of America’s innocent James Stewart (as he was always billed in pictures, never Jimmy) and Europe’s worldly Marlene Dietrich, out in Read More
Not since the rise to stardom of Frank Sinatra or the arrival of the Beatles have New York City teenagers found themselves so willing to surrender themselves en masse to a pop cultural sensation. Once again, the parents don’t quite know what to make of their children’s new passion. But this time, the subject of Read More
Peter Bogdanovich’s Movie of the Week
Multiple-Academy Award-winning director Leo McCarey, the man who teamed Stan Laurel with Oliver Hardy and supervised all their best silent work, also made perhaps the quintessential screen love story because he knew how to keep the humor in it; actually, he made the same story twice, with two different Read More
