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August 9, 1999 Issue
"Someone bought this great oceanfront property for $6.8 million, and the thing they put up looks like it belongs on the Lido in Venice. It's just too much ego and money working in combination." 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.
-- Realtor Tina Fredericks, from "Land's End"
| FEATURES THE ULTIMATE HAMPTONS GUIDE Land's End With too much money chasing too little land, the Hamptons has become very Hong Kong. Plus: Living next door to Ira Rennert's super-manse. Jigga Who At his Fourth of July party, rapper Jay-Z made his society debut (as Busta Rhymes and Ivana Trump made small talk over Swedish meatballs). Trickle-Down Boom For every bond trader pouring money into an East End estate there's a Sheetrocker quietly climbing tax brackets. Just You Wait So you want that $4,000 bike, that Shoshanna strapless number, some Sen sushi, a seaplane ride? Get in line. Share and Share Alike The non-boldfaced go Club Med in a posh Bridgehampton rental. Best of the East End Nicole Miller's favorite farm stand, Pia Lindstrom's beach secret, Steven Gaines's ice-cream picks: Hamptons machers reveal all. Tama Gets Her Groove Back BY VANESSA GRIGORIADIS No longer a slave of Manhattan, eighties literary sensation Tama Janowitz is 42 now, living in Brooklyn, and the mother of a 3-year-old. After a dry spell, she's generating the old buzz again with a new book. | GOTHAM Boxing is back; Leonardo DiCaprioTM? GOTHAM STYLE Let your dog have his day; Jackie bag accessories; sleeper chic DEPARTMENTS Does Brown (Tina) go with Black (Cathleen)? MARKETPLACE Good old fixtures; new Kids Down the Block Sales & Bargains A used laptop to meet your needs and your budget THE ARTS Altared state: Julia Roberts clicks, but not with Richard Gere Books Channeling the Lost Generation Theater Ireland's waspish Catholics
| Classical Music BY PETER G. DAVIS In John Eliot Gardiner's period Schumann, few revelations Dance Cunningham's stunning beauty Television HBO's unblinking look at legendary foul-mouth Lenny Bruce Pop Music Believe: In Springsteen, rock lives The Underground Gourmet Locals Pat Pong and Saffron CUE Intelligencer Classifieds |