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September 28, 1998 Issue
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Treasure Island BY CORKY POLLAN The lushest flora? The sleekest tuxedo? The subtlest stereo? You know it's all out there, but where? Luckily for you, Corky Pollan has spent seventeen years as the personal shopper for every New York reader. In our first annual "Ask Corky" issue, she tells you where to go for the hard-to-find.
Little Leelee Onscreen, 16-year-old Leelee Sobieski, the star of Merchant-Ivory's A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries, has romanced Elijah Wood, befriended Drew Barrymore, and held her own with Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman. Offscreen, she has to call her mother every hour. An Upper West Side star-in-the-making.
Old Dog Does Hunt What with "Coraje," cardigans, and the Connie fiasco -- not to mention the frequency, Kenneth -- Dan Rather has suffered more than his share of predictions of his demise. These days, however, the veteran CBS News anchor is winning over a new generation with his unreconstructed straight-shooting style -- and finally emerging from the shadows of Murrow and Cronkite. GOTHAM
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DEPARTMENTS Media BY MICHAEL WOLFF Why oral sex doesn't titillate
Hollywood Mike Ovitz threatens a comeback
The Underground Gourmet Culinary peace at the Place
MARKETPLACE Wedding sampler; cheap caffeine
THE ARTS Without Limits runs long
Books Jay McInerneys uninspired satire |
Theater BY JOHN SIMON Wit has wisdom to spare
Art New work from a new China
Classical Music Partenope brilliantly debuts
Television Homicide brilliantly recasts
Pop Music Hole's Celebrity Skin tries, inconclusively, to make Love over
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