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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...
...Disabled Modern Dancers' Luncheon. But giving needn't be an ordeal. "The Playwright's the Thing" proved that when Broadway has a good cause, it can have a great effect. And it can inspire as it entertains. In the evening's most indelible turn, Debra Monk played a New Yorker crisscrossing the border of reason and madness. She takes comfort in the poet Thomas Gray's line: "laughing wild amidst severest woe." For those in the audience with AIDS or other diseases that have ravaged our world, the phrase not only defined this hilarious, touching evening and the canny dramatic...
...easily made her one of the most talked-about actresses in Manhattan. Among those who've visited her backstage are Steven Spielberg and Mr. and Mrs. Tom Cruise, who brought flowers ("to be that famous--and so nice," she remarks). Friel's stellar reviews include one from the New Yorker where she was described as the "powerhouse" of the play's cast and "a ravishing newcomer whose authenticity makes it impossible to take your eyes off her." Next week Friel will make her Hollywood debut in Michael Hoffman's movie version of Midsummer Night's Dream. She'll also...
...reality, however, may be less like a piano and more like something imagined by Rube Goldberg. Especially in back problems, doctors are increasingly faced with patients experiencing excrutiating pain that has no discernable physical origins. An October article in The New Yorker by Atul Gawande detailed the story of Rowland Scott Quinlan, an architect who experienced back pain so acute that he would vomit and for whom movement was so painful that he would often soil himself instead of getting up to go to the bathroom. But X-rays, C.T. scans and myriad other tests revealed nothing that could possibly...
Then the designer explained what she did. About one and a half sentences in, one girl asked, "Do you just put funny drawings on the page? You know, how the New Yorker has those?" These were not the kind of girls who needed to be exposed to a work environment...