Part pooh-bah, part pontiff, for some 50 years Leo Lerman ruled Manhattan’s cultural roost from a host of journalistic redoubts, including Mademoiselle, Vogue and Vanity Fair, ending his career as an über-editorial advisor at Condé Nast Publications. He died at 80 on Aug. 22, 1994. The ultimate first-nighter, he apparently never missed the opening of Read More
Tim Burton and Mike Johnson’s Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride, from a screenplay by John August, Pamela Pettler and Caroline Thompson, with original music by Danny Elfman, marks the 20th year of Mr. Burton’s consistently eccentric endeavors with films that have found favor with young audiences, and with admirers of all ages for the strange, morbid Read More
John Singleton’s Baby Boy , from his own screenplay, is more Chris Rock than Bill Cosby as it plunges deeply into the womb-like world of the allegedly infantile black male of “inner-city” South Central Los Angeles. The proof? Mr. Singleton’s protagonist addresses his girlfriend as “Mama” and refers to his apartment as his “crib.” Jody Read More
If, by chance, you wished to compose a musical about the Civil War, your talent would have to be kissed by God. Here we have the most horrifying war in American history, with 620,000 dead. Turned into a Broadway musical? You’d have to be a genius-or a fool-even to contemplate it.
I don’t say Frank Read More
Upper East Side
993 Park Avenue
Two-bed, two-bath, 1,600-square-foot prewar co-op.
Asking: $625,000. Selling: $615,000.
Maintenance: $2,129; 31 percent tax-deductible.
Time on the market: five months.
DARLING, WE BELONG TOGETHER. The fact that this was Marlene Dietrich’s New York apartment, which she bought in 1959 and abandoned for Paris in the late 1970′s, Read More
Peter Bogdanovich’s Movie of the Week
Among the most entertaining of non-”auteur” star vehicles-made at a time when stars often were not only good actors but unique personalities as well-is the first pairing of America’s innocent James Stewart (as he was always billed in pictures, never Jimmy) and Europe’s worldly Marlene Dietrich, out in Read More
Francesco Scavullo sat one recent morning on a tobacco-colored leather sofa in the East Side town house where he has lived and worked since 1948, silk-screens of his flower pictures and famous portraits punctuating an expanse of white walls and marble floors. When asked about fashion’s recent entanglement with grunge and heroin chic, the polar Read More
