By Jonah Wolf 4/23 7:05pm

Higher Education

The soon-to-be-former home of Collegiate School.

Kickin’ Out Old School: Puffed Up Prepsters Warily Eye Collegiate’s Modern Move

Collegiate School is defined on Urban Dictionary as “a haughty, arrogant school.” When the Upper West Side boys’ academy is trailing in a basketball game and rivals start chanting “score board,” the Collegiate heckling squad has been known to chant “college board” in response.

The academy regularly lands toward the top of various publications’ rankings of secondary schools by college matriculation, and it boasts a distinguished alumni list including Cesar Romero, Peter Bogdanovich, Edgar Bronfman Jr. and John F. Kennedy Jr.

Significantly less distinguished has been its campus, a clumsy architectural hodepodge of three buildings around the intersection of Broadway and 78th Street, patched together by time and improvisation.  Read More

By Drew Grant 4/03/12 6:14pm

movies

Carrie-MacLemore, Greta-Gerwig, and Megalyn-Echikunwoke in 'Damsels in Distress'

Knights-Errant Steer Clear in Damsels in Distress

It would be easy to compare Whit Stillman’s latest feature, Damsels in Distress, to other flicks about the dangers of female friendship: It’s Heathers without high school, or Mean Girls at college. After all, the movie begins with young, brunette ingénue Lily (Analeigh Tipton) during her first day at Seven Oaks College, being swooped in on by a pack of three severely affected juniors who immediately offer her friendship. Greta Gerwig is the blonde queen bee, Violet, and her two cohorts include the British Rose (Megalyn Echikunwoke) and the ditzy Heather (Carrie MacLemore). These three are seemingly on a mission of good: they run the school’s suicide-prevention center and spend most of their time “helping” the brothers of D.U., one of the school’s Roman (not Greek) fraternity houses. Read More

By Jennifer Wright 8/02/11 7:51pm

Three to Tango

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Triple Play! Swinging for a 3-Way

Whenever I see Bebe, which I do for lunch every few months, I am always relieved to find that she is still wearing a headband. For a while, there were a lot of women wearing them, in some misguided ode to Blair Waldorf on Gossip Girl. They all bailed around the time Blake Lively’s cleavage Read More

By Hillary Frey 10/16/07 4:54pm

’90s Boy Grows Up

The actor Chris Eigeman is having a baby. “It’s a boy flavor,” said Mr. Eigeman, 42, sipping a cup of tea in the backyard of his Brooklyn Heights apartment on yet another weirdly warm October day. “Did you see my very pregnant wife when you came down the street?”

Best known for his clean-shaven, Read More

By Michael Calderone 3/06/06 12:00am

Where Are You, Whit? Criterion Does Metropolitan

Midway through Metropolitan, the preppy cast riffs on Luis Buñuel’s unflattering portrayal of the upper class, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie. Based on the title alone, Charlie, a pessimistic know-it-all, feels that he went to see the film under false pretenses. He simply can’t “imagine a less fair or convincing portrait.” Nick, the group’s Read More

By Michael Calderone 3/06/06 12:00am

Where Are You, Whit? Criterion Does Metropolitan

Midway through Metropolitan, the preppy cast riffs on Luis Buñuel’s unflattering portrayal of the upper class, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie. Based on the title alone, Charlie, a pessimistic know-it-all, feels that he went to see the film under false pretenses. He simply can’t “imagine a less fair or convincing portrait.” Nick, the group’s Read More

By Andrew Sarris 6/01/98 12:00am

The Vodka Tonic Crowd Could Get Down, Even Sober

Whit Stillman’s The Last Days of Disco is the promised final installment of the director’s trilogy dealing with the dating and mating habits of the Ivy League not-so-smart set. Most of the characters have come from the right families and gone to the right schools. Having grown up in the 40′s as a nerdy wallflower Read More