Sir Ivan, Rock Star
On an otherwise usual
Thursday in October, Ivan Wilzig-the 45-year-old banking heir, indefatigable
partygoer and proprietor of a small castle in the Hamptons-had an announcement.
Imagine , a maxi-single he’d recorded
(let’s face it) on a lark and that his producer’s lawyer had passed on to Tom
Silverman, the Read More
From the pulpit of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, ABC news anchor Peter Jennings surveyed the hushed crowd that had gathered at the May 8 memorial service for public-relations man John Scanlon. “Take a look around you this morning, and you will see the depth and the breadth of John’s connections.” Those who Read More
Wednesday, Jan. 27
Just three weeks after NBC inserted Al Franken’s Lateline sitcom into its Wednesday-night lineup, the show has been shelved for the February sweeps period. It will return on March 16, in a Tuesday, 8:30 P.M. time slot.
One of Lateline ‘s writers, Steve O’Donnell, who spent 13 years writing for David Read More
Three quintessential works in American film history this week, two by an Englishman, one by an Irishman: (1) Charlie Chaplin’s classic 1925 comedy The Gold Rush [Monday, Dec. 8, AMC, 46, 6 A.M.], the first full-length feature to star his internationally indelible creation, the Tramp. I was sort of weaned on this, seeing it first Read More
