Word: manhattanization
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...would." To use a 2000 analogy, she'd rather be phantom front-runner George W. Bush than a sitting target like Al Gore -- especially since she doesn't even have an opponent yet. It also doesn't hurt that as long as she's undeclared, she can take Manhattan in Air Force One and do all her pre-campaign campaigning on the U.S. taxpayers' dime. Get ready for a long, coy summer...
Outside a Tower Records store in Manhattan, a chorus of screams is going up. Mostly sopranos, a few altos, no tenors and certainly no basses. "Riiiiiickyyyyyyyyyyyy! I love you!" The crowd of 5,000, mainly young women between the ages of Dawson's Creek and Felicity (with a few Rugrats and Ally McBeals mixed in), have gathered to catch a glimpse of the latest heartthrob, their corazon. The fans at the front of the line enter the store and stumble out with a signature scrawled across a CD or on a poster or even on their skin. Some leave crying...
...studio in Manhattan, Marc Anthony is working on his new English-language album. He is dressed simply in jeans and a white T shirt, and his voice is ringing out, pure and direct. Sony chief Mottola sits in the control booth, listening, looking, betting on a hit. These are good days for Anthony: he recently completed work on a featured role in Martin Scorsese's film Bringing Out the Dead, co-starring Nicolas Cage. In a few weeks he'll begin recording a duet with neo-soul singer Maxwell. And Anthony's duet with Lopez, No Me Ames, is already...
This, if you're wondering, is a compliment. Since his time at TIME, Andersen has been a founding editor of Spy, the editor in chief of New York, a producer of network specials, a staff writer for the New Yorker. He knows the three points of the buzz compass--Manhattan, Hollywood and the Microsoft campus in Redmond, Wash.--as well as anyone. Or at least as well as anyone who has so keen an appreciation for the pomposities, vapidities and idiocies that constitute the murmur of our times. As his chief characters--a former journalist edging into sleazy television infotainment...
FASHION: THE FINAL FRONTIER When Isabella Rossellini launched her makeup line last week, she used a model (1) with braces. Chase Manhattan Bank also braced itself in an ad (2), as have hot British lasses Shaznay Lewis of the band All Saints (3) and model Cordelia Oakes-Ash (4). It's all in how you wear them...