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May 11, 1998 Issue
"It’s considered radical to send someone to a modified Ornish program. But to crack their chest open to do a bypass, that’s considered conservative."
-- Stephen Josephson, "Medicine Goes Mental"
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| FEATURES Medicine Goes Mental BY HENRY DREHER Meditation can help cure cancer? Don’t laugh. Studies show that mind-body techniques can help, and even New York’s medical Establishment is seeing the light. This week, Beth Israel hosts a conference where top doctors will talk with the Dalai Lama. But does the New Age belong in the OR? Hollywood Joe Joey Buttafuoco wants you to know that he’s doin’ great. That Mary Jo is, too. That his public-access show in Hollywood is just the beginning -- feature-film roles, celebrity appearances. In the meantime, he’s working at an auto-body shop in L.A. The perpetual punch line speaks. Killer App A murder confesses in an Internet mailing to 200 people. One, a New York writer, calls the cops. The alleged killer is arrested. And the group is horrified -- much more about the snitch than about the death. Every Inch a Star Drag-as-drama is so 1993. But John Cameron Mitchell -- author and star of Hedwig and the Angry Inch -- has, against the mainstream tide, carved out a cult following. And he’s as big with East Side matrons as with punks. Eat to Your Heart’s Content Scared just thinking of the dietary disasters looming in your takeout dinner? You should be -- unless you’re ordering from these great services. GOTHAM | DEPARTMENTS The Image BY BARBARA LIPPERT Spike Lee condemns marketing that preys on inner-city kids; he also makes ads aimed at inner-city kids. Does he see a conflict? Nah. Media Steve Brill says he’s going to be the tough new cop patrolling the precincts of American journalism. But will anybody obey? The Insatiable Critic Peking-duck pizza? At One3, it’s not blasphemy, it’s just a great meal MARKETPLACE Geomancy’s seating; a prefab pareo; a self-absorbing tote Sales & Bargains Mother country: Delights for her day, from spa treatments to Hermès’s unheard-of sale THE ARTS Basketball diaries: He Got Game jumps between easy slickness and powerful intensity
| Theater BY JOHN SIMON The Judas Kiss is hardly Oscar-worthy; High Society has feet of clay Art Chaim Soutine’s haunted paintings at the Jewish Museum Classical Music Russian to judgment: Do Valery Gergiev and the Kirov live up to the international hype? Television Life on the street: Witness to the Mob’s homicidal rats break down the old code Pop Music Run out the strings: A clutch of aging guitar gods comes back, with mixed results CUE Intelligencer |