Rewriting Jackie Susann
It’s too early to predict the worst movie of the year 2000, but it’s safe to bet things won’t get any dumber or trashier than Isn’t She Great . This blatantly vulgar and completely fictional travesty on the lives of novelist Jacqueline Susann and her husband, Irving Mansfield, is a disaster from Read More
Nutcracker ticketholders are undoubtedly relieved that the New York City Ballet reached a settlement with its orchestra. But the musicians’ two-week strike seems to have had little effect on the morale of the cast’s mice and bunnies and tin soldiers. “It’s still Lincoln Center,” observed 11-year-old Isabel Magowen, one of the Polichenelles who pop out Read More
Live Music Returns to City Ballet
The two-week New York City Ballet orchestra strike ended Tuesday afternoon, Dec. 7, in time for the musicians to be back that night where they belong–in the pit of the New York State Theater, playing Tchaikovsky’s great score for The Nutcracker . The dispute ended in confused anticlimax: Read More
The Hour Is Nye
An Ultra Brite smile broke through the dark mass of Rolling Stone owner Jann Wenner’s perfect facial stubble. “It’s really low-key,” Mr. Wenner said to the performer Bette Midler as he stood on what was about to become the runway of his 33-year-old beau Matt Nye’s first fashion show, held in Read More
