Elisabeth Franck
Articles by Elisabeth Franck
Eat! It's Tubby Town
It was a balmy Sunday night at the Magnolia Bakery, and it seemed as if every New Yorker not home sn read more »
Eat! It's Tubby Town
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It was a balmy Sunday night at the Magnolia Bakery, and it seemed as if every New Yorker not home sn read more »
A Sale at Christie's, Shrouded in Twilight
Roger Prigent sat in the front room of his Upper East Side store, Malmaison, gently stroking the arm read more »
Kerrey Hatches a Memo to Train Political Elite
Bob Kerrey, the two-term former Senator and governor of Nebraska, is considering a proposal to start read more »
Eat! It's Tubby Town
It was a balmy Sunday night at the Magnolia Bakery, and it seemed as if every New Yorker not home sn read more »
Digital Love
A little more than a year ago, the 30-year-old New York artist Jeremy Blake-whose digital, slow-movi read more »
Eat! It's Tubby Town
It was a balmy Sunday night at the Magnolia Bakery, and it seemed as if every New Yorker not home sn read more »
J'me Suis Réveillé Ce Matin, et J'me Suis Acheté un Gun
France's Conservatoire-the country's state-funded, highly competitive theater school-is known for pr read more »
Angry Art Dealer Schachter Builds West Village 'Bilbao'
Forty-year-old art dealer Kenny Schachter took in the Spartan splendor of his new Greenwich Village read more »
Legendary Sex?
"When I was 16, I went out with a 35-year-old woman," said Miramax co-chairman Harvey Weinstein at t read more »
A Pointed Attack
It was easy for fans of Cuban-born writer Oscar Hijuelos to tell whom he was picking on when he was read more »
They Sacrebleu It! Why Do the French Freak Out in States?
"When you're named at the head of a business, small or large, you know you're expendable ad nutum -m read more »
Gorgeous Michel, Tribeca Doc
On a recent outing to the Belgian café Le Pain Quotidien, Christiane Celle, owner of the Nolita bou read more »
WWD Gets Its Bite Back
When James Fallon, then the London bureau chief of Fairchild publications, interviewed John Fairchil read more »
Americanization of Messier: Vivendi Boss Loses Billions
Three things to take away from Vivendi Universal's March 5 press conference: The company posted a hu read more »
Pepe Fanjul's Dog Is Missing!
It was the evening of Wednesday, Feb. 13 when retired NYPDlieutenant Tom Tierney got the call. read more »
Chef Matt Kenney On the Hot Plate With the I.R.S.
PellMel
It was nearing 7 p.m. on the evening of Feb. 6 when stately, read more »
Bel Canto Beauty Flórez Called 'Little Luciano'
On a gray afternoon on Feb. read more »
Why Did MoMA Send Norman Bates To Cold Storage in Hamlin, Pa.?
Since mid-January, phonecalls to the Museum of Modern Art's Film Stills Archive, one of the world's read more »
Gen X Embraces the Recession By Going to Plan B: Layoff Lust
For months, John McCarron dreamed about losing his job. read more »
Oliver Stone and Christopher Hitchens Spar Over Hollywood's Efforts to be Relevant
On the morning of Saturday, Oct.6, a group of filmmakers, Hollywood
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Why Gordon Davis Left the Big Task at Lincoln Center
Last October, onthe day it was announced that he would become the next president of Lincoln
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Worst French Import Since Brie: Bad Ambient Music in Chic Hotels
When the Bryant Park Hotel, its paint barely dry, opened on Feb. read more »
Cigarette Aficionados Go to War
The evening of Saturday, March 31, found a beautiful pack ofgallery crawlers huddled outside Mary Bo read more »
Levy Faces a Battle As His Edison Plan Meets Hostile Board
On the afternoon of March 16, at a hurriedly called meeting of the City Council's Education Committe read more »
Night of the Hunter: College in Chaos After Raab's Hire
On the afternoon of Feb. read more »
Crisis at Columbia: English Department Is in Receivership
Since the 1930's, when The Liberal Imagination author and well-known Anglophile Lionel Trilling walk read more »
Why Philharmonic Went With Maazel: Best Ears in Biz
So the New York Philharmonic will get an American conductor after all. read more »
Having Retired the Great Masur, Philharmonic Can't Find Maestro
When the New York Philharmonic decided in early 1998 that it would not renew musical director Kurt M read more »
MTV's Tom Freston Checks Out of Tribeca With $4.35 Million
HE'S GOING TO THE WARHOL MANSION, AFTER PAINTING IT FOR $100,000 On the sunny morning of Sept. read more »
Little, Brown's Little Wonder
On a recent Sunday morning, anyone who passed by the Starbucks on St. read more »
Wall Street's Top Fop: David Wolfe Explains the Right Fluff to Stock Analysts
Every June, David Wolfe, a 59-year-old fashion forecaster, spends three weeks in St. Tropez. read more »
Wall Street's Top Fop: David Wolfe Explains the Right Fluff to Stock Analysts
Every June, David Wolfe, a 59-year-old fashion forecaster, spends three weeks in St. Tropez. read more »
