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June 1, 1998 Issue
"Even when I was a little kid, I would try to figure out the universe. There’s always been more to me than just the wanting to make people laugh."
-- Jim Carrey, "Jim Carrey Aces One"
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| FEATURES Jim Carrey Aces One BY CHRIS SMITH In his new movie, The Truman Show, Jim Carrey plays a man whose entire life is an elaborate construct for a TV show broadcast in real time to the world. A compulsive actor whose every offstage move has been tracked by the media, Carrey just may be the perfect man for the role. Death and Life of a Salesman Allan Schneider was the top Realtor in the Hamptons, selling houses to the likes of Steven Spielberg and Calvin Klein, gleefully driving up East End prices. But an excerpt from Steven Gaines’s new book, Philistines at the Hedgerow, reveals a Rabelaisian character who invented much of his past and most of his present. His Cross to Bear They say Evander Holyfield is no Ali; they go on about Tyson and that chewed-up ear. But the champ carries on -- in the name of God -- and next week he defends his title in a revival of the sweet science at the Garden. Lynda: A Loss Lynda Hong was beautiful, charismatic, a star at Columbia Law with a job offer at a top firm. Her ex-boyfriend, heir to a Korean fortune, is a troubled young man already implicated in one gruesome attack and now charged with Lynda’s murder -- which stunned the city’s insular Korean community. GOTHAM | DEPARTMENTS The City Politic BY MICHAEL TOMASKY Confusion, chaos, failed bossism -- expect the usual mess at Albany’s Democratic convention Hollywood Eye, peacock, mouse: The networks strut their prime-time stuff for Madison Avenue The Insatiable Critic Peacock Alley preens, though the strain shows; Jean Lafitte’s fits and starts of splendor MARKETPLACE Buy before you rent: From throw rugs to sconces, items to perk up your summer space Sales & Bargains The straight skinny: alligator bags, leather Filofaxes, and Lia Schorr’s facials THE ARTS Step on it: Godzilla manages to make a 200-foot lizard a bore | Books BY WALTER KIRN Plain song: Cormac McCarthy ropes his trilogy back into the fold for its final installment Theater Arthur Miller’s Connections crashes and burns Classical Music The New York Festival of Song finally flourishes after ten years Pop Music Sonic Youth reaffirms its anti-mainstream status CUE Intelligencer Classifieds |