March 3, 2003 Issue
Cover Story
The Face of Pain
When Lucy Grealy published her dazzling memoir about her childhood battle with cancer— and the devastating surgeries that followed it—she got the literary stardom she yearned for, and for a time she delighted in the life of a successful young writer in the city. But her quest to overcome her disfigurement still consumed—and finally destroyed—her, despite the best efforts of her devoted friends.
Features
By George!
Legendary adman George Lois’s personal style is about as subtle as a punch in the nose—perhaps no surprise from this street-fighting son of the Bronx. In a career spanning almost 50 years, Lois elected senators, pissed off presidents, stormed clients’ offices, and produced a decade’s worth of eye-grabbing covers for Esquire. As he publishes a new book, $ellebrity, he talks about the good old days, the bad new days, and just what Bobby Kennedy was doing in that back room at the Carlyle.
Tommy's Tune
For fourteen years, Tommy Mottola ruled Sony Music like an independent duchy and lived the life of a pasha, marrying pop tarts, surrounding himself with a small army of bodyguards, buying lavish properties like so many trinkets while earning as much as $20 million a year. But as the asteroid known as file-sharing cratered the music business, Mottola began to look more and more like a dinosaur. And it probably didn’t help that he got his boss crummy seats at Sony concerts.
Departments
Intelligencer
Madonna, Marty Richards, Howell Raines, Michael Jordan and much more!
Marketplace
Best Bets
Italia Rustica linens, doggy clutches, and a new line of watches by Leonard.
Sales & Bargains
Get ready to make the most of miniskirt season.
Gotham
Face the Nation
At a time of great national uncertainty, Michael Jackson has provided us with one thing we can all agree on: Whatta freak!
Hot Plate
66: Better zoom over to Jean-Georges’s latest restaurant—before he hits la route yet again.
Chasing Beauty
Radiance, the latest “facial filler,” lasts longer than collagen.
Columns
This Media Life
If everyone’s downloading free music, does that mean we’re all crooks?
The City Politic
As the protests revealed, impending war is turning soccer moms into peace moms.
Naked City
The case for porn.
Critics
Movies
David Cronenberg goes psycho in Spider; David Gale is a messy manifesto.
Theater
Dublin Carol’s a sleeping pill; Encores! stumbles with House of Flowers
Classical Music
Musically, the massive Les Troyens is a triumph at the Met.
Television
Six Feet Under’s third season is its best yet, but Queer As Folk is still a bore.
Pop Music
The Coral goes woozy for psychedelia; T.A.T.U.’s gambit is lesbian Russian chic.
Restaurants
At Sushi Seki, you’ll find the unexpected (jalapeño?)—and fourteen kinds of sake.
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