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No Fury: The Bowery’s Changed, But Richard Hell Doesn’t Mind

In January, I was on the Bowery with Richard Hell, who invented punk rock. We went into an art bookstore on Bond Street and he found a collection of pictures by Richard Prince. After a minute, he jabbed me on the shoulder.

“Check this out!” he rasped, surprised, pointing at the book. It was a Read More

The Transom

A Cookie Full of Arsenic

Tony Curtis has a message for the producers of Sweet Smell of Success , the $10 million musical gamble that begins previews on Feb. 23 at Broadway’s Martin Beck Theater.

“Tell them to go fuck themselves,” said the 76-year-old actor, whose performance as the overreaching press agent Sidney Read More