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July 26, 1999 Issue
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-- Jareth Holub, ceramics restorer, from "Get Your Fix"
| FEATURES Get Your Fix BY RUTH J. KATZ We all do it: stash away the broken, stained, or chewed-up possessions that we cherish too much to toss but don't get around to fixing. Be it the ball gown your great-grandmother wore to the Winter Palace or a gilded frame that's lost its luster, don't let it sit and gather dust (or occupy precious closet space) -- not now that we've provided you with a guide to the city's finest artisans, technicians, and repairmen. Next time you drop your lucky coffee mug, call up the same guy Sotheby's uses. Dennis the Menace? The magazine world couldn't stop laughing at Maxim. Until it started outselling Esquire, Details, and GQ combined. Now Condé Nast editors are learning to channel their inner tenth-grader as advertisers drool over the prospect of millions of young men who have suddenly discovered the pleasures of reading. Meet Felix Dennis, a goofy sixties-era swinger from Britain who seems to know what boys (of all ages) like. Mob-Star Mario Puzo may have passed on to the great social club in the sky, but America's appetite for Mafia mythology is stronger than ever. New York, of course, is the capital of wiseguy character actors: They frequent Marylou's and Elaine's, shooting their cuffs, running their mouths and waiting for the next call from Chazz or Marty or Spike. Geno Durante, who's spent his life among wiseguys, has the act down pat. So why hasn't he been in more movies? "I don't want nothing from nobody," he says. GOTHAM | DEPARTMENTS Hollywood BY NIKKI FINKE That's all, folks! Warner Bros.' Semel and Daly call it quits MARKETPLACE Baccarat jewelry; tricky trivets Smart City Supersize it! A survey of the metro area's discount megamarts Sales & Bargains How to acquire the finest bedding without exhausting your budget THE ARTS Stanley Kubrick's male mea culpa is by turns gripping and quaint Theater Robert Wilson fools yet another audience Art Impressionist winter paintings in Brooklyn | Classical Music BY PETER G. DAVIS The Peony Pavilion: bigger, longer, and uncut Dance Kirov Ballet reawakens a classic Television A shameless Mafia fairy tale from Showtime Restaurants Snub-free dining at Roy Liebenthal's Pop CUE Intelligencer Classifieds |