R.I.P. Chip Rachlin, Agent Extraordinary
Just learned with sadness of the death of Chip Rachlin, who headed contemporary music at ICM when I interviewed him for a story on rock music booking agents in Swank magazine circa 1976. Click to read a priceless period piece.
The Schwing of the WASP
Five years ago this month, at lunch with the publisher Morgan Entrekin, I told him of a book I’d long wanted to write about White Anglo Saxon Protestant families over the course of the then-398 years (or about 20 generations) since the Mayflower reached Massachusetts. That book, now titled Flight of the WASP, will be […]
Kate the Great: A Case Study in Celebrity Management
My second-ever story for Air Mail Weekly considers Kate Moss‘s new career as a supermodel mogul. Add millions of dollars to sex, drugs, and rock and roll celebrity spawn–and stir.
Brian Eno, Circa 1979. Different, Only the Same.
Today, Forever and EverNoMore, the musician, producer and polymath Brian Eno‘s 28th solo studio recording, is getting tremendous attention in serious media outlets. Back in July 1979, this profile of Eno, whom I’d first met in London six summers earlier, just days after he left Roxy Music, ran somewhere somewhat less serious. It appeared in […]
The Russians Are Leaving! The Russians Are Leaving!
The new Fall issue of Park Ave Magazine, out today, features an updated except from House of Outrageous Fortune about the Russian oligarch residents of New York’s Fifteen Central Park West–and what might become of them in the wake of their homeboy Putin’s misadventure in Ukraine. You can read it here.
A Shaded View of Me
I first wrote about Diane Pernet when she was a New York designer in the mid-1980s. Now, she’s a fashion critic, entrepreneur, film festival founder, critic and blogger. Wearing that last hat at A Shaded View Of Fashion, she’s just posted a lengthy interview with me, looking both backward (I recall some of my favorite […]
This Duplex is a Tangy Treat at $26 Million
Virginia Smith at the Wall Street Journal reports a 740 Park duplex has come on the market at $26 million. The C-line apartment, on the 10th and 11th floors, appears to be the one owned since 1994 by Hamburg Tang, a semiconductor tycoon, and his wife Miranda. In 2016, Tang, then 85, sued neighbor Howard […]
Duck! Another Doc!
And now comes Angels and Demons, Matt Tyrnauer‘s three-part documentary expose of Victoria’s Secret, its founder, Les Wexner, and his tight-as-a-tick buddy, the “financier” and underage massage aficionado Jeffrey Epstein, aka SuperCreep. It premieres July 14th on HULU, and word is, I’m all over it. I’m certainly all over the trailer. UPDATE: And the titillating […]
New Doc Pokes Fashion’s Blind Eye, Pt. 2
The trailer for Scouting For Girls, premiering on Sky in the UK on June 24, with international release to follow, has just been released. The three-part documentary includes, for the first time anywhere, audio excerpts from my interviews for Model: The Ugly Business of Beautiful Women, with the late John Casablancas and Jean-Luc Brunel, and […]
Diana and the Jackals: New Doc, Old Story
“Princess,” a new documentary on Diana, Princess of Wales, and her relationship with the media is about to be released in the United Kingdom, and a trailer for the film recently dropped. I wrote about the circus that surrounded Diana’s death twenty-five years ago in New York Magazine in the days immediately following her untimely […]