Elegantly bow-legged with a navy knit tie, Sir Harold Evans politely but emphatically set the record straight when the Transom asked if his latest book, My Paper Chase, was an industry overview. “Oh no, by no means, that’s the last thing it is!” said the octogenarian editor emeritus at the party celebrating its publication. “It’s Read More
Lincoln Center Theater, with its subscription audience of geriatric Jews, is not where you’d expect to find a small, well-crafted domestic drama about a working-class black family. And yet Broke-ology, about two brothers in Kansas City—one poised for big things back East and the other stuck with a dead-end job and a baby on the Read More
The unseasonable chill on the night of Thursday, Oct. 1, posed a sartorial challenge for those attending the premiere of Nora and Delia Ephron’s new play, Love, Loss and What I Wore, based on the book by Ilene Beckerman: a paean to sartorial challenges and the life lessons they inspire. “This was not the first Read More
Being “for humans only” didn’t really hurt District 9 at all. The Peter Jackson–produced film was the “surprise winner” at the box office this weekend—really, though, did anyone expect anything else?—grossing an estimated $37 million to lead a busy frame that saw three other new releases enter the top 10: The Time Traveler’s Wife Read More
Julie & Julia
Running time 123 minutes
Written and directed by Nora Ephron
Starring Meryl Streep, Amy Adams, Stanley Tucci and Chris Messina
Nora Ephron loves to cook. Nothing fancy, like pheasant stuffed with pate and truffles in Champagne brandy, but you can order her meat loaf at the Monkey Bar. She also loves Read More
Earlier this month, magazine editors around town received a phone call from somebody at Little, Brown about Julie Powell’s forthcoming memoir, Cleaving: A Story Of Marriage, Meat, and Obsession. Specifically, the person calling was concerned with galleys for the book: evidently a batch of them had been sent out, but now Little, Brown needed them Read More
The legendary Upper West Side apartment house, battered by scandal, slashes condo prices. Read More
The Oscars are like dividend statements from Bernie Madoff. You know they’re coming, you expect the worst, but you open the envelopes anyway, with your fingers crossed, hoping this year will be better. It never is, but despite rock-bottom ratings, and dwindling interest in too many nominees nobody ever heard of, too many categories nobody Read More
“The building is—what’s the word I’m looking for? Infectious. I refer to it sometimes as Gilligan’s Island. Remember that show? Gilligan’s Island?” Jon Herbitter asked this Monday from the offices of Mann Realty, where he’s president. “You don’t get out.”
In 2007, his boss, Maurice Mann, then a midsize New York landlord, partnered with Read More
From Curbed: "Legendary Upper West Side landmark, coveted luxury rental building, celebrity-filled hideaway—the Apthorp is/was all of these things, and now thanks to an epic and bitter condo conversion, the 19th-century beauty at Broadway and 79th Street is now on sale. And what timing! Five listings have hit the Elliman website, under its Read More
