LOS ANGELES, May 30—Ira Silverberg had not seen his former client Laura Albert in almost a year. The last time was in a Manhattan courtroom, when Ms. Albert stood trial for pretending to be a young man with H.I.V. named JT Leroy. She wrote books under this name, and had Mr. Silverberg, a literary agent, Read More
Radical Chiclets
“It’s the time to do something right here and right now,” said the artist Robert Wilson. He was outside the Guggenheim sharing a cigarette with his friend, Winona Ryder, and talking about cracking the art scene wide open, again.
“His name should become an adjective, you know, like: That’s really Wilson,” said Ms. Read More
In the spring of 2000, when Nedra Rhone was still a bright-eyed graduate student at Columbia’s School of Journalism, she had the fortune of landing an interview with a recruiter for Gruner + Jahr’s glossy-covered Fitness magazine. The recruiter was white; Ms. Rhone was black. They chatted amiably for several minutes, small-talking their way through Read More
“This is Shakespearean,” said Ted Kavanau, one of the founders of Channel 5′s 10 o’clock news, as he surveyed the sea of taut, ruddy faces, piercing eyes and accessible smiles.
“It certainly isn’t Freudian,” replied agent Richard Liebner.
Actually, the term “Serlingesque”-as in Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling-came to mind. Gathered in the back Read More
The actress Winona Ryder stood onstage at the Public Theater on April 17, wringing her hands and squealing with adoration.
“The first time I met J.T. was during my first heartbreak,” she said of the author J.T. LeRoy, whose work had just been read by a group of performers including musicians Debbie Harry and Shirley Read More
To Rome, With Love
Courtney Love grinned and tugged on her chewed-up bangs as she lurched down the red carpet that led into Hugo Boss’ Fifth Avenue flagship store on June 18. A pair of nervous German reporters, a man and a woman, called out to her from behind the roped-off press area, and Ms. Read More
