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...work of art unless the things you behold respond to something within you...Thus the whole city is alive." Of course, the greatest Modernist work of art in New York was the city itself: its impaction, strangeness, clamorous variety and scary dynamism--and rising from these, its magic. No Manhattan tower expressed all that better than the Chrysler Building, 1929, designed by William van Alen and, at more than 1,000 ft., briefly the tallest structure on earth...
...week when The X-Files' DAVID DUCHOVNY (instantly recognizable despite the cheesy fake mustache) was spotted at New York City's marriage-license bureau. But the trail had gone cold by the next night, when the star wed actress TEA LEONI of NBC's The Naked Truth at lower Manhattan's Grace Church. Just a handful of family members attended the paparazzo-free ceremony. In January the two stars had begun a commuter romance between his show's set in Vancouver, B.C., and hers in Los Angeles. "We are thrilled," the sneaky groom told Daily News columnist Liz Smith...
David Blaine desperately wants to be famous. After spotting Al Pacino in a Manhattan restaurant, the 24-year-old magician goes right over to introduce himself and do a card trick--but before he can start, Pacino brushes him off. Undaunted, Blaine tries again a few minutes later, sliding a deck out of his jeans pocket. "Pick a card," he says, quickly persuading the actor not only to count out 10 other cards but to sit on them as well. When the chosen card somehow "jumps" to his stack, Pacino pounds his fist on the table. "That is a beautiful...
Tamagotchi, the latest toy craze in Japan, arrived last week in a Brink's truck at Manhattan's FAO Schwarz. The egg-shaped pet chick has a virtual life right on a key chain, where it's hatched, lives and dies--virtually. When it beeps, the owner is supposed to pet it by pressing its buttons. The chick even leaves virtual droppings to be cleaned up. It sells on Japan's black market for $500, but the suggested U.S. retail price is $15. The profits are real...
Indeed, Halmi, who runs his company out of Manhattan and divides his time between his town house there, his estate in Kenya and a home in Marbella, rarely even spends the night in Los Angeles when he has business in that city. "I don't want to have breakfast and everybody is talking about deals," he says...