By Tom McGeveran 4/01/02 12:00am

The Steinbergs’ Fixer-Upper

In 1988, Saul and Gayfryd Steinberg filled the Metropolitan Museum’s Temple of Dendur to celebrate the wedding of Mr. Steinberg’s daughter, Laura, to Loews scion Jonathan Tisch. The affair, which featured a Brazilian band on stilts and snow blowers lofting hundreds of thousands of feathers into the air, ran them $3 million.

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By Frank DiGiacomo 12/06/99 12:00am

Steve Dunleavy and the Rise of Tabloid TV

Steve Dunleavy Snowplow Shocker!

In the opening pages of Tabloid Baby , television producer Burt Kearns’ memoir about the rise and fall of tabloid television, he writes that New York Post reporter Steve Dunleavy, “the ageless legend with his silver pompadour, eagle beak profile and rakish charisma, was the paragon of everything that made journalism Read More