Last Saturday, July 17, at 6 A.M. of the penultimate morning of a 1,700-mile weeklong Proustian ramble through the Western plains, I awoke in the Best Western Inn in Jackson, Wyo. The morning lay before me; ABC was scheduled to broadcast five hours of the British Open from Carnoustie, Scotland. All in all, an inviting Read More
Joyce Purnick announced the end of her two-year run as editor of The Metro Section of The New York Times to her staff on July 20 at about 5 P.M. She’ll return to writing a column–”Metro Matters, probably,” she said–the same space she used to fill before ascending to the editing job.
The new metro Read More
The renaissance of Alfonse D’Amato should inspire every politician who senses the approach of the last hurrah. Unlike his pal Ed Koch, who spent years honing the razor repartee and comic timing of a Vegas headliner, Mr. D’Amato never seemed likely to achieve postpolitical celebrity. His voice was too shrill, his style too suburban, his Read More
After the first three ad-larded and buzz-inflamed issues, David Pecker, the chief executive of Hachette Filipacchi Magazines, was expecting great things from George magazine. Which is to say, things that make money. “If everything is going the way it goes now, we are looking to break even in year three,” he told The New York Read More
This Year’s Position, Last Year’s Position, Name, Total Mentions
1 1 President Bill Clinton 358
2 2 Madonna, singer 308
3 10 Diana, Princess of Wales 259
4 5 Mayor Rudolph Giuliani 234
5 4 O.J. Simpson, retired football player 195
6 16 Donald Trump, real estate developer 182
John F. Kennedy Jr. looked like a man with an Uzi when he aimed his video camera at the paparazzi outside his TriBeCa home on Nov. 16. “Hey, guy with the green jacket,” he reportedly yelled at one of the photographers. “You’re here every weekend. You’re looking for a harassment lawsuit.” From Mr. Kennedy’s perspective, Read More
