The Anniversary Party

Jerry Stiller and Angela Lansbury. (Photo credit: Getty Images).

NY1 Turns 20

In a glossy media city that values professional polish, NY1, Time Warner’s no-frills news channel, enjoys a certain cult following, as evidenced by the high-profile fans who gathered at the New York Public Library last Thursday to celebrate two decades of “weather on the ones.”

The event reflected the unassuming charms of the station, where anchors style themselves and pan-away shots reveal a bullpen that is more Community than The Newsroom. Though there was an open bar, the wine glasses had thick stems, and the hors d’oeuvres, while tasty, might have arrived straight from Trader Joe’s. Read More

Anne Meara

“You can’t listen to other people,” said the actress Anne Meara, on the phone from the Chateau Marmont hotel in Hollywood. She may be the wife of TV-sitcom star Jerry Stiller, and the mother of high-grossing movie star Ben Stiller, but there was no mistaking her sandpapery, Brooklyn-inflected voice as she offered up that bit Read More