March 9, 1998 Issue
"Business is incredible because of the stock market. When the market crashes, so will we."
-- Bar mitzvah planner Diane Beinstock Setchen, "Lucky Thirteen"
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FEATURES Lucky Thirteen BY RALPH GARDNER JR. One proud father rented Radio City Music Hall for the night, another the Intrepid (with Natalie Cole as headliner). Extravagant bar (and bas) mitzvah bashes are booming right along with the stock market. As rabbis struggle to focus on the religious event, party planners with quarter-million-dollar budgets compete to keep jaded teenagers engaged. (Note: the Grucci fireworks barge starts at $20,000.) Fête Accompli The Almost Perfect Couple In the past five years, Alison Spear and Carlos Gomez acquired million-dollar homes on Park Avenue and in the Hamptons, an extensive art collection, and a foothold in high society. Now Gomez is charged with embezzling more than $10 million from Citibank to support their fragile fantasy. GOTHAM | DEPARTMENTS The National Interest BY HANNA ROSIN Dueling sleuths: Clintons team and Starrs team compete for dirt Restaurants Rabat redux: LOrange Bleues food may not be purely Moroccan, but were not complaining MARKETPLACE Plates for dipping; a tiny shortwave; let your dog have a ball Sales & Bargains Save $100,000 on an apartment; orchids at carnation prices; bridalwear breaks THE ARTS Welcome to the jungle: The funny if coarse and unconvincing Krippendorfs Tribe | Books BY WALTER KIRN Mary Gordons Spending is at once trashy and clubby Theater Mizlansky/Zilinsky is perky if padded; The Maidens Prayer, simply a mess Art Ghosts in the machine: The inner workings of Léger and Close Classical Music The once-unique Concertgebouw becomes, of all things, bland CUE Intelligencer |