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January 19, 1998 Issue
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| FEATURES The 1998 Finance Guide Wall Street just keeps flying, and people you’d think couldn’t balance a checkbook are talking like day traders. In this issue, New York offers predictions for the year and prescriptions for the Asian contagion. We explain why your millionaire neighbor is bragging about his hedge fund (even if he doesn’t know how it works), and report on some of the big boys’ buys. We take stock of the Internet research and trading sites that have freed us from infoserfdom (and put stockbrokers on the endangered-species list). Michael Bloomberg takes the pulse of the Bloomberg. Stock picks by everyone from Eli Zabar to Spalding Gray. And if you need truly stellar suggestions, check out the advice of astrologer Yvonne Morabito. Shining Pates Are the Pate twins, Jonas and Josh, the next (identical!) Coen brothers? The buzz began on their film Deceiver before they’d shot a frame. Trendy stars like Tim Roth followed. And even Disney returns their calls. Can We Get a Dealer’s Price They’re the least likely of employees for an international drug lord. But decorators Alexander Blarek and Frank Pellecchia had the Cali cartel’s biggest kingpin as a client. Now they’re on trial. A case of good taste following bad money. | GOTHAM The Post vs. Gerry Ferraro; New York's Sundance kids. GOTHAM STYLE Helmut Lang’s briefest briefs DEPARTMENTS Deconstructing Portnoy: Woody Allen, Philip Roth, and their eerily parallel lives Restaurants Retro active: La Lunchonette and the Odeon can still pull it off MARKETPLACE Kitchen time; a wastebasket that tips; flashlights with faces Sales & Bargains Change your sheets: Pratesi’s linens and Papivore’s stationery
| THE ARTS Movies BY DAVID DENBY Wag the Dog stretches credibility very thin, but with wicked fun Classical Music Yeomen duty: The very model of a modern G&S production Television Best of the West: A thoughtful documentary story of California CUE Intelligencer |