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December 7, 1998 Issue
"My girls are my conduit to the underground. They've got their fingers in the pulse of the popular-culture scene today."
-- Tommy Hilfiger, "Good Publicity"
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| FEATURES Good Publicity BY VANESSA GRIGORIADIS A younger, feistier (and, dare we say, perkier) set of publicists have the toniest designers, the trendiest bars, and the most tractable journalists at their beck and cell-phone call. Alternately best friends and bitter enemies, they've also made the city's nightlife look a lot like high school. Peggy Siegal, watch your back. No-Win Situation Jonathan Levin's mother wasn't the only one offended by Anthony Ricco's aggressive defense of her son's killer, Corey Arthur. But proving that the legal system isn't a popularity contest is Ricco's personal mission. The Toughest Call Your child's life is in danger, and the world-class specialists you've enlisted disagree on a course of action. The pressure is terrific, the outcome frighteningly uncertain. And you're the one who has to make the decision. Right now. An intimate look into the lives of parents -- and kids -- who've been there. Stern Bows Can Robert A.M. Stern, the flamboyant new dean of Yale's architecture school, win hearts and minds in academia with his Disney showmanship? Off the Block When the new just won't do, socialites, designers, and fanatics turn to the William Doyle Gallery's high-drama couture auctions. | GOTHAM B&N's aggressive astrology; the Harlem Boys Choir gets down GOTHAM STYLE A necklace that only looks like a million; the oldest overalls DEPARTMENTS Mort's pattern of highbrow hires for the middlebrow Daily News Cityside Even the PBA is no longer a closed shop The Insatiable Critic Regine's Rage is the place to be for buxom babes of a certain age MARKETPLACE Stop time: Watches for the wacky, well-bred, and winsome Smart City Face off: The newest facials, from soothing to sandblasting Sales & Bargains Don't despair -- these tailors can rework, reweave, and resurrect THE ARTS Insectopia: A Bug's Life is both amusing and technically amazing | Theater BY JOHN SIMON No death wish for On the Town Art Zen -- the real thing -- shines at an exhibit of modern monks' works Classical Music Luciano's musical sense, like his voice, has run dry Pop Music Beck's folk-pop stylings; R.E.M.'s electronic dabblings CUE Intelligencer |
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