On the cover of this morning’s Observer, Felix Gillette writes about George Stephanopoulous’s uneasy transition to morning television–including this particularly awkward interview with pop royalty Cyndia Lauper and Lady Gaga last week.
The awkwardness starts around the six-minute mark when Lady Gaga starts talking about condoms, and Mr. Stephanopoulos starts looking for Robin Roberts Read More
“The building is—what’s the word I’m looking for? Infectious. I refer to it sometimes as Gilligan’s Island. Remember that show? Gilligan’s Island?” Jon Herbitter asked this Monday from the offices of Mann Realty, where he’s president. “You don’t get out.”
In 2007, his boss, Maurice Mann, then a midsize New York landlord, partnered with Read More
CONCERTS
Cyndi Lauper is bringing her True Colors to Radio City Music Hall on June 1 (and to Jones Beach on June 3), along with fellow new wavers the B-52s, Rosie O’Donnell, and the Indigo Girls, in a Logo channel-sponsored benefit for the LGBT lobbying organization the Human Rights Campaign. Icing on the Read More
Whites Trashed
On the evening of July 30 , Coyote Ugly , a Flashdance -like movie inspired by a bar in the East Village, premiered at the Ziegfeld Theater on West 54th Street. After the screening, the crowd departed the red-velvet palace between the zaps of flashbulbs and paraded slowly through the drizzle to Read More
As Boy George never sang but ably demonstrated, every chameleon runs the risk of shedding one skin too many. Performers skilled in image manipulation face an eternally uncertain future: What if the next phase is the one that causes the audience to run screaming for the hills? Michael Jackson and Prince are the most momentous Read More
