September 20, 2004 Issue
Cover Story
Fallout
When police detective John Walcott collapsed while carrying groceries up his stairs, he didn’t suspect he had leukemia—and he certainly didn’t link his condition with time spent on the World Trade Center pile. But three years after September 11, he and at least 600 others are filing lawsuits against the EPA, the City of New York, and Larry Silverstein, among others, claiming that 9/11 made them sick, adding to the panic among rescue workers and downtown residents that the terror attacks’ health effects are dire. Is there real cause for alarm?
Features
How Much Is That In Rubles?
Her Russian aluminum-tycoon dad is worth $350 million, she’s paid $550,000 to rent Denise Rich’s Southampton house for the season, and she has two “agents” parading her before the paparazzi like a mail-order bride. Meet Anna Anisimova, the Russian-American Paris Hilton.
Don Hewitt's 59th Minute
60 Minutes chief Don Hewitt’s corporate paymasters decided it was time for the network news legend to retire. He thought that was a bad idea. To put it mildly.
Jim McGreevey and His Main Man
In New Jersey governor Jim McGreevey’s strange unraveling, the most interesting character may not be Golan Cipel, or even McGreevey himself, but Charles Kushner, the Dapper Don of New Jersey developers—whose career was intertwined with the governor’s and who fell to earth in an even stranger sex scandal of his own. A tour through the Garden State’s political swamp.
Departments
Letters to the Editor
Readers sound off on Republican Delegates, GOP views of New York, Rudy Giuliani and more.
Smart City
The Devil Is Her Only Friend
How to cope when you hate your 5-year-old’s best friend
Best Bets
Helmut Lang’s Chewbacca-like horsehair boots
New York Shops
Pearl brooches from $38 to $125,000
Shop Talk
Reinvigorating Moroccan style in Brooklyn.
Sales & Bargains
Plus: sales at Auto, Move Lab, and Rm Designs/Reva Mivasagar, The Conran Shop, Kwigy-Bo And Ella Dish, and Chelsea Wine Vault
Intelligencer
Intelligencer Gossip
Sean Doyle Boycotts Conde Nast - Bill Sticks With South Beach - De Niro's New Downtown Digs
Help Me, Howard
Kerry’s Clinton connection
Paper Cut
What would you do if your photo got on a Hallmark card?
The Five Tenors
A preview of this season’s Met roster.
Star System
For chefs, a perfect review can be a pain.
Faith-Based Initiative
Kerry’s Jewish strategy
Up in the Air
A new TWA flight 800 theory
Columnists
The City Politic
In netting and arresting protesters during the RNC, was Police Commissioner Ray Kelly keeping the peace or quashing free speech?
Beauty
The archetypal eighties fitness class returns to New York gyms.
Critics
Books
Marjane Satrapi’s illustrated memoir of growing up in and out of Iran brings a startling new perspective to the graphic novel
Movies
John Sayles’s thinly veiled dramatic indictment of Bush proves a weak substitute for the sucker punch of reality
Pop Music
Sonic adventure and vocal virtuosity from Dizzee Rascal and Björk
Television
The WB’s smart and emotionally rich Jack & Bobby narrates the life of a future president. Plus, is Joey the season’s best new sitcom?
Restaurants
Alain Ducasse at the Essex House gets a new chef, Christian Delouvrier of Lespinasse, but keeps the price-gouging
The Week
New on DVD
Movies new on DVD this week include: Man on Fire, THX 1138, Coffee and Cigarettes, Björk: Inner Part Of An Animal Or Plant Structure (Snapper), Everybody Loves Raymond: The Complete First Season, Baadasssss!
Restaurant Openings & Buzz
Gael Greene cuts carbs at The Sea Grill, big salads return to Coco Pazzo, and Vietnamese sandwiches in the East Village.
Top Five Films At Lincoln Center’s LatinBeat Festival
Dozens of films from way down south screen at the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s LatinBeat Festival.
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