JOE DALESSANDRO
(HEYDAY: Andy Warhol’s Flesh, 1968) “Little Joe never once gave it away … ” The beau of the Factory.
JIMMY FALLON
(this very instant) Can someone this cute actually be funny?
DAVE EGGERS
(1999–2001) Fonzie to a generation of editorial assistants.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT
(early eighties) Andy Warhol found him in a cardboard box and made him an art superstar!
DAVID JOHANSEN
(early seventies) The hottest straight boy who ever dressed like a girl.
KEITH HARING
(the eighties) Radiant nerd. Moby precursor.
JAY MCINERNEY and BRET EASTON ELLIS
(the eighties) Literary lords of the Palladium.
LEO DICAPRIO
(circa Titanic) Where would Moomba have been without his “pussy posse”?
JON VOIGHT
(circa Midnight Cowboy) “I’m no cowboy, really, but I’m a first-class stud.”
DAMIAN LOEB and MOBY
(1999) Shirtless art hustler and his hairless vegan best friend.
JIM CARROLL
(late seventies) When junkie poets were sexy.
MORGAN ENTREKIN
(early nineties) When publishing and Armani suits were sexy.
JOHN F. KENNEDY JR.
(mid-nineties) Rollerblading his way into our wet dreams.
D.J. MARK RONSON
(2000) Yo, yo, yo! Peter Duchin!
Q-TIP
(1999) Vivrant Thing.
HAOUI MONTAUG
(early eighties) The imperious gatekeeper of Danceteria.
CALVIN KLEIN
(in his Studio 54 days) Twenty-five years have come between you and this Calvin.
JULIAN CASABLANCAS
(2002) Is this “It”?
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