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...carb craze may be affecting sales of Krispy Kremes, but the doughnut is finding new life as a high-end dessert. Pastry chefs are now filling their after-dinner menus with doughnuts and fritters fresh from the fryer, like the Drunken Doughnuts at New York City's Maloney and Porcelli, left, which come with three tiny jars of liquor-spiked jams. Also in Manhattan, at the Red Cat, pastry chef Rebecca Masson offers risotto fritters with gingered blueberries and wildflower honey semifreddo, while diners at Riingo are treated to doughnut holes filled with green tea jam. At Grace restaurant...
Hang on to your pillbox: Halston may be back. Under the guidance of designer Randolph Duke and managing director Carmine Porcelli, the Halston label is getting hotter than a mink stole in August. Geena Davis and Minnie Driver triggered a volley of flashbulbs when they wore Halston to the Oscars in March. Exclusive department stores are stocking Halston again. After three well-received fashion shows, naysayers who clucked that the label was best consigned to history are beginning to hold their tongue. Just as folks are fondly looking back on the old Halston haunt Studio 54, with two movies...
...capital, and the company vows that all current orders will be filled. But it is unclear whether the private venture-capitalist outfit will be able to meet the needs of a white-hot clothing line in the future. And if money gets tight again, who knows if Duke and Porcelli, the architects of Halston's current success, will want to stay around...
...also available in middle-class department stores, pulled the whole label off their racks. After that debacle Halston's empire collapsed, and he eventually lost control of his name. The label remained dormant until three years ago, when Tropic Tex decided to start it up again and recruited Porcelli, who hired Duke...
Such punishments can sometimes be draconian. Gas-pump owner Oscar Porcelli, for example, faces the prospect of losing his string of New York gas stations for a RICO conviction stemming from sales-tax evasion. "He made a mistake, but not a mistake that should warrant shooting him with a cannon," says his attorney, Vivian Shevitz...