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January 25, 1999 Issue
"It'd be fun, man. Everybody would love it. If those two ran, the New York Senate race would be more interesting than the presidential race." GROUND RULES: Not everything in every issue appears on our website. If it is available online, the article title appears below as acolored, underlined "hot link," which you can click on to read the full text; ifthe article title below is black, the full text of the article is notavailable online. For more information on getting copies or reprints of articlesthat aren't on our web site, call New York Magazine's Information ServicesDepartment at 212-508-0755.
--James Carville, from "Something About Hillary"
| FEATURES Something About Hillary BY MICHAEL TOMASKY Senator Hillary Clinton: Some (notably the city's star-starved Democrats) think it has a nice ring to it. Speculation has quickly taken on a life of its own. Here, George Stephanopoulos, Charles Rangel, Harold Ickes, James Carville, and a host of others ponder the plausibility of (a) Hillary on the Hill and (b) HRC vs. Rudy. You Can Go Home Again Is it Scarsdale itself, or the siren song of a carefree boomer childhood, that calls the natives back after a stint in the city? Some swore they'd never go back; some couldn't wait to return, with their offspring, to the (exclusive) fold. Stomp This Aussie hoofer Dein Perry follows up his noisy Tap Dogs with a noisier and sexier extravaganza of tapping men (and women) of steel. Isn't She Rich? Even the Starr report couldn't keep Bill and Hill away from the soirée thrown by New York's favorite Grammy-nominated, funk-loving, Aspen-skiing socialite, Denise Rich. How a daughter's tragic death spurred Rich -- ex-wife of a fugitive, soul sister of Patti LaBelle -- to recast herself as philanthropist and life of the (Democratic) Party. | GOTHAM The Olympics, Big Apple–style; Serra's latest public feud GOTHAM STYLE Glamorama's fabulous guest list DEPARTMENTS Tina Brown talks the Talk -- as others take their shots Cityside The Nappy Hair affair merely disguised the real educational crime The Underground Gourmet Fare for flea-market hunters MARKETPLACE Rainbow pearls, Harlequin bowls, bookend menageries Smart City Pub crawl: hangouts that aren't about seeing or being seen Sales & Bargains A professional shows how you can really clean up
| THE ARTS Movies BY PETER RAINER Neil Jordan's latest American catastrophe; the heartbreak of success Books From Bret Easton Ellis, the disposable novel, perfected Theater Worthy Racine via the Almeida Art A first-rate retrospective of a second-rate Renaissance man Dance Balanchine steps, minus the vision CUE Intelligencer Classifieds |