Love and Death on the Upper East Side“… The first wave of newspaper stories splashed happily over the ‘love triangle.’ Older-guy-loses-girl-to-younger-guy …”
MoMA and the MobIn a shed on the museum’s construction site, Carl Carrara painted a vivid, obscene picture of
mob life—and the Feds taped it all.
The Porn King in WinterBob Guccione pushed the soft-core envelope, building one of the most profitable porn empires in the world. Now he lives as a near-recluse in his […]
The Hunger ArtistA jailed Basquiat faker goes without food so that he can make (and sell) art.
Good-bye to All ThatNotorious tippler-about-town Anthony Haden-Guest is finally sobering up – if his friends will let him.
The Double DealerHigh-end gallery owners all over the world used Michel Cohen to sell
their Picassos and Chagalls – secretly – to each other. Then he disappea […]
Horror ShowmanHow Lloyd Kaufman of Troma Entertainment (Class of Nuke ‘Em High; The Toxic Avenger) became the city’s leading B-movie auteur.
