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February 26, 2001 Issue
"I'd never go through that again, whether they paid me zero dollars -- or $52 million."
-- Christian Curry, "Currying Favor"
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FEATURES Boies Don't Cry BY CHRIS SMITH One of David Boies's key advantages used to be the element of surprise. How could a man in a Sears suit and sneakers be so sharp, so focused, so preternaturally well prepared? But that was before the election made him a national celebrity -- while handing him his most devastating loss. For the record, however, the superlawyer can't see how he would have argued the case differently. "There was a sense that five justices had already made up their minds," he says.
Currying Favor Once upon a time, Christian Curry was fired from Morgan Stanley after nude photos of him appeared in Playguy. The lawsuit he settled last fall paid him not a dime, the banking house claims strenuously. Nonetheless, he's been living like a guy with a master-of-the-universe bank account ever since: chauffeured Mercedes, TriBeCa apartment, a suite at the Plaza, and dinners at Le Cirque 2000. And he still looks good without his shirt on.
The Maddening Crowd Steve Madden, once a Long Island shoe salesman, built an empire out of his instinct for shoes that make teenage girls swoon -- at prices they can afford. But SEC investigators allege he participated in various schemes to make investors swoon, too. A look at the high life -- and possible hard time (as in jail time) -- of a shoe king.
GOTHAM
DEPARTMENTS
This Media Life How Rupert Murdoch's Fox News Channel created a media nation unto itself
The City Politic The race for a new mayor: Four candidates in search of an issue
MARKETPLACE
Smart City Face-off: The Delta Shuttle vs. the Acela Express
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Sales & Bargains BY TARA PEPPER Pretty prints to warm you this winter
Travel Golfing south of the border; touring the wine country in . . . Maui?
THE CRITICS
Chris Rock goes soft in Down to Earth
Theater Cellini: A not-so-spicy meatball
Classical Music Massenet's Manon works miracles at the Met; the (new) New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
Art The Brooklyn Museum's Committed to the Image: Little commitment but strong images
Restaurants Marvelous, messy excess at Mary's Fish Camp
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