Batali shoots for the stars . . . Bill Telepan gets fresh . . . Andrew Carmellini enjoys life after Daniel . . . Cheap chow on the horizon . . . New restaurants from Zak Pelaccio, Geoffrey Zakarian, an ex-Knick and others
  A rock punk takes the lead in Sondheim’s most gruesome musical; Taye Diggs joins the Army; Mia Farrow is back; Elaine Stritch never left; and Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick are the new Odd Couple.
  Robert Smithson’s posthumous "Floating Island" is this season’s Gates; Elizabeth Murray on her MoMA show and women in art; Van Gogh’s drawings justify the huge crowds they’ll surely draw.
  Gwyneth Paltrow retires from stardom with a bang; Elijah Wood becomes a Chauncey Gardiner–ized Jonathan Safran Foer; Philip Seymour Hoffman plays a savage Capote; Meryl Streep gets hysterical.

 
         
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  Ralph Lauren makes a play for the A&Fers; an auction house for the auction-shy.

  Nada Surf crashed but never burned; Harlem’s hardest-working rappers actually keep it real; Fiona Apple teams up with Dr. Dre collaborator Mike Elizondo; Franz Ferdinand somehow equals the awesomeness of “Take Me Out.”
   
             
         
         
  Darren Star turns Anthony Bourdain into Carrie Bradshaw; scene-stealer Adam Goldberg gets his own show; the fertility-clinic comedy-drama Inconceivable is winningly Six Feet Under–ish.
  Zadie Smith on what’s wrong with her work; E. L. Doctorow takes on the Civil War; Bee Season’s Myla Goldberg stings again.   The operatic version of The Little Prince lands at City Opera; Marin Alsop on conducting an orchestra that didn’t want her.    
           
                 
 
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