Carrie Fisher, RIP
Half a lifetime ago, I profiled a thirty-year-old Carrie Fisher. The story is as good a celebration of her life force as I can share. Click the link to read my profile, the photo to see how it appeared in the paper.
Resolved to read Focus–Thanks Mitchell Kaplan!
Look above his right bicep!
RIP China Machado
China Machado, the pioneering multiracial model, fashion editor and muse to photographer Richard Avedon, has died at age 87. Ivan Bart, her agent at IMG Models confirmed the news. Machado plays roles in both Model and Focus, though to my great regret, I never interviewed her at length. But I was happy to call her […]
Focus for the holidays
Looking for a holiday present? Focus is “smart, well researched and written with an insider’s eye… engaging and on point….canny,” (Kim France, New York Times Book Review), “delicious, sweeping, thoughtful” (The Daily Beast), “thoroughly absorbing…enthralling and riveting,” (Tim Gunn), “amazing… big, intelligent, exhaustively researched, lovingly written,” (Liz Smith, Chicago Tribune), “deep-diving …groundbreaking,” (DuJour), “sizzling…relentless,” (Hamptons […]
740 Park: The Comeback Begins
After an annus horribilus full of troubles, is 740 Park, subject of my 2005 book, once again New York’s Tower of Power? Consider this: Though his primary residence is California, Secretary of the Treasure-designate Steven Mnuchin remains the owner of a duplex there. And ten floors above him in a triplex penthouse lives the cooperative’s […]