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contents STYLE flying colors | 37 These summer baubles are giving us the blues the bare necessities | 38 Some of fashion’s most coveted pieces are barely there. Lynn Yaeger uncovers the reason why swiss time | 40 Reporting back from Switzerland’s over-the-top watch shows the future is so bright | 44 See yourself in this summer’s reflective sunglasses style news | 46 Two-tone loafers, bodysuits and tie-dye everything are back in fashion; Halston and Warhol reunited

LIFE the new division | 54 For today’s richest couples, the cost of a divorce doesn’t always add up

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the temple of the sun | 57 A 1940s Palm Beach pool house gets a totally glamorous—and modern—overhaul becoming a southern gent | 60 Joshua David Stein discovers that the habits of a true Southern gentleman aren’t easy to learn travel | 62 The booming boutique hotel scene in Cartagena; five things to do in Hong Kong before you die inside the jet set | 64 A look inside the scandal that grounded the golden age of air travel

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BODY His and hers beach bags | 66 Get ready to hit the sand with everything you need for summer—and stylish new totes to haul it all

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club medicine | 68 Posh hospital options are the latest must-have upgrade for VIP patients Butt of course | 70 You’ll never believe who’s getting behind the latest craze in cosmetic surgery transforming the cycle | 72 A high-end, at-home bike lets this can’t-miss fitness craze come to you la coachÉ vita | 74 Personal coaches, the new must-have accessory

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pa g e 1 4 6 On her: Jacket, $790; Skirt, $460, CARVEN, 646-684-4368. Bag, $850, MIU MIU, miumiu.com. On him: Suit, $3,695; Long-sleeve polo shirt, $895, ISAIA, Saks Fifth Avenue, 877-551-7257.

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american hustle | 78 John Connolly deals us in to the high-stakes world of underground poker games the hot rod chills out | 80 Lamborghini’s latest is all grown up

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a sketchy guy | 82 Man-about-town Anthony Haden-Guest illustrates 24 hours in the city that never sleeps

CULTURE garden state of mind | 102 Getting to know Jersey Boys star Vincent Piazza curator’s keep | 104 Harold Koda runs the Metropolitan Museum’s Costume Institute. What’s inside of his own home?

Chicago | 168 The return of Maria Pinto; in the kitchen with Jared Van Camp; Chicago’s new favorite workout

rodman’s revelations | 108 Confessions of a controversial NBA superstar

Dallas | 170 Richard Phillips at Dallas Contemporary; inventive American cuisine

disco inferno | 84 Break out your leisure suit for L.A.’s most exclusive dance party

summer’s hottest fiction | 112 Five authors discuss what inspired their books

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diving into summer culture | 114 Jenny Slate talks romance; Liv Tyler survives the Rapture; a dozen summer entertainment musts

the man who fell for earth | 86 Meet the scientist who’s a rock star in the world of global warming

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look who’s talking | 88 Who’s behind the biggest names on the top-tier speakers circuit? You’ll be surprised that was men, this is now | 90 Four decades after All The President’s Men, a D.C. insider looks at how media has changed mobile manners | 92 Smartphone etiquette by the numbers shelf Involved | 95 Summer’s must-have bags and shoes shot on New York’s coolest shelves

On the sly | 120 After decades in Hollywood, Sylvester Stallone still feels like an outsider. Here, the legendary actor discusses his life and legacy. By Mickey Rapkin; photographed by Inez and Vinoodh iron maiden | 128 The refined—and sometimes rough—charm of this season’s high-shine, metallic fashion. Photographed

by Bjarne Jonasson pop shop | 136 A look inside the studio of the world’s most famous—and expensive—artist, Jeff Koons. By Adam Rathe; photographed by Jason Schmidt murder in the mountains | 140 In the posh Colorado ski town of Aspen, nothing was more shocking than how Nancy Pfister died. Except perhaps how she lived. By Jesse Hyde Ansel takes flight | 146 Rising actor Ansel Elgort discusses his swift rise, and is shot in a photo portfolio by his famous father. By Lindsay Silberman; photographed by Arthur Elgort

On the cover: Double Breasted blazer, price upon request, VERSACE, 888-721-7219. Shirt, $145, BOSS, hugoboss.com. Bow tie, $225, CHARVET, mrporter.com. RM 52-01 Tourbillon Skull Nano-Ceramic watch, $620,000, RICHARD MILLE, 310-285-9898. Photographed by Inez and Vinoodh; styled by Melanie Ward.

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La Nuit Du Cochon | 154 Why Epicurean eaters are going whole hog for largeformat dining. By Jolyon Helterman; photographed by Henry Hargreaves finding new mexico | 158 In Santa Fe, art and nature come together to create something spectacular. By Alyssa Giacobbe; photographed by Adrian Gaut

Houston | 172 Barbecue throwdown; rock out in Downtown’s newest club Las Vegas | 174 Outrageous villas; the return of Daniel Boulud Los Angeles | 178 Sandra Choi’s guide to L.A.; Hard Rock hits Palm Springs; a guide to the best ice cream in town Miami | 181 Where to eat—and drink—this summer in Miami New York | 184 Liz Rodbell’s fashion rules; Butter’s nightlife kings hamptons | 190 The latest private planes; art on the East End; Sag Harbor’s exciting culinary newcomer tri-state | 192 New England hospitality; sweet developments at the Borgata; upgrades at Americana Manhasset.

Orange County | 194 Alli Webb’s hot spots; reimagining Valentino San Francisco | 196 Gia Coppola joins the family business; SF design style; in-demand denim parties | 198 Binn around New York and DC; DuJour celebrates Arianna Huffington; keeping cool in Aspen with Malo cashmere

BACK PAGE Famous Last Words | 200 Perpetually tan movie star George Hamilton is always put together. But as his handwriting reveals, still waters run deep

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Although he was nominated for his fi rst Academy Award in 1977 and he’s comfortable on the big screen, Stallone’s always been sensitive about posing for photo shoots. On set with Inez and Vinoodh, though, I watched as he won over two of the world’s hottest and hardest working photographers—and I know he was fl attered when Inez admitted she even had a poster of him in her childhood bedroom. To give one of the most prestigious photographers the opportunity to shoot her childhood icon proved to me the timing of this cover was perfect, especially with everything going on with Sly and his recent attention for Rocky the musical.

And who knows what will come next. Sly is one of the most determined, dedicated people I know, and considering the forthcoming third installment of his The Expendables franchise—which has him neck and neck with the world’s best k nown action stars, past and present—we’re all poised to see a lot more of him in the coming months.

On another personal note, I’m thrilled that this is our third year in the Hamptons, where we’ll be handdeliver ing over 30,000 copies on doorsteps from Westhampton to Montauk. While this is a huge marketing and branding investment, there’s no doubt that the people spending their summer and early fall in the East End come from all over the country (mostly from our DuJour Cities, of course), and there’s nothing better than having DuJour front and center in a town my family calls home.

Re c e nt ly, o u r work’s been acknowle d ge d ye t a g a i n a s being among the best in the business. For t h e s e c o n d ye a r i n a r ow, D u Jo u r wa s nom i nated for t he Webby Awards—the Oscars of the Internet, chosen f rom 12,000 applicants from all 50 states and 60 countries worldwide— but this time for Best Web Magazine and People’s Voice Award. Additionally, we were named print medal fi nalist for photo-illustration and merit winner for fashion photography by the Society of Publication Designers (one of the most prominent in the world) and were awarded a gold medal for editorial illustration by the Society of Illustrators.

We’ve also been busy outside the off ice, as I’ve had the pleasure of hosting events for a variety of boldface names. We celebrated our spring issue cover star Jennifer Connelly at LAVO and hosted a luncheon at Scott Sartiano and Richie Akiva’s new Butter Midtown for DuJour’s winter cover star and Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o, with special thanks to Pepsi. In Miami, Bebe CEO Steve Birkhold and I fêted It Girl Nina Agda and Bebe’s new Lincoln Road store at Karim Masri and Nicola Siervo’s Wall, and the next stop was Aspen, where I threw a luncheon for Malo CEO John Wilson as well as dear friends and family in the private dining room at the Little Nell. There was the party for Arianna Huffington’s best seller Thrive at Jason Strauss and Noah Tepperberg’s TAO Downtown.

The party was co-hosted by my partners Lisa and James Cohen of Hudson News/Dufry, and we surprised LVMH Chairman of North America Pauline Brown with a custom birthday cake— decorated with LVMH brands—created by Sylvia Weinstock.

So, I wish you all a fantastic summer with friends and family and will see you when it’s back-to-school time.

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What’s your wallpaper on your phone?

I don’t think I have one.

When you walk into a bar, what do you typically order?

If I drink, I’m gonna drink tequila.

What’s the one phrase you are guilty of using too often?

I overuse the phrase “Oh, for f--k’s sake.”

New York or Los Angeles?

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My assistant, to tell me that you were here.

What was the last awkward situation you were in, and how did you handle it?

This is. These stupid questions. I handled it by being a complete gentleman.

Pick one: Kittens or puppies?

Dogs. I’m not a cat person.

When is the last time you went to a theater?

The last movie I saw in the theater was Gravity.

What TV show should everyone should be watching?

Real Time with Bill Maher. Or Cosmos.

Learn some science, people!

And what is your TV guilty pleasure?

It’s a toss up between Vikings and Banshee.

Bacon or Nutella?

Nutella? I’ve never heard of it. And I certainly would never eat bacon. I choose to starve.

What is the one food you can’t resist?

Food has never been a problem for me. I’ve had a much harder time with other vices.

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THOUGHTS DUJOUR

La Nuit du Cochon

jewelry and statement boots, big coats and bigger furs—summer is the season of simplic-

Pfister, an heir to the Buttermilk Mountain

on. We shed layers of clothes. In the best cases,

fortune and victim of the first such crime

we shed layers of attitude. We loosen up, and

Aspen has seen in decades. Much of the media

come into ourselves. Maybe it’s the heat, or the

storm surrounding Pfister’s February death

slower pace of life we’re more often able (or

has clouded over some of the realities—this is,

willing) to make time for in the summer months,

after all, a glamorous resort town that prides

but things start to feel a little more real.

itself on projecting a certain image—but as

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Hyde finds out, there are two, and often more,

emerged again and again as we were putting

sides to every story. And, of course, Dennis

together this summer issue, starting with our

Rodman gets (sort of) real with Lindsay Silber-

cover, because let me say: There is no one out

man in his first extended interview since his

there more true to himself than Sylvester Stal-

trips to North Korea and declares loyalty to a

lone. He had us from the very beginning, even

dictator who may or may not have executed his

before he showed writer Mickey Rapkin his

own uncle. It’s hard to say whether Rodman is

many sides (not to mention his personal col-

being sincere, but he’s certainly being Rodman,

lection of “celebrity” photos). You often hear

as provocative as ever.

that a certain celebrity is “down to earth” and

But don’t worry: We have some fun with

you question if it’s genuine, or just an act. Stal-

fantasy and excess, too—butt lifts are the new

lone’s charm is no act. From the moment he

nose jobs, a Hollywood lounge brings back

wrapped “his massive hand—like a giant slab

clubbing for adults and grand, large-format

of concrete” around Rapkin’s own, he revealed

dinners let you and 11 of your closest friends

himself as a sensitive, tough, funny, humble

see and be seen feasting on an entire animal

and fiercely smart guy who surprised us again

at a top restaurant’s most in-demand table.

and again with his genuine likability.

Lynn Yaeger gets to the heart of what’s with

Meanwhile, you might have heard that a

On the Sly

Things also get real in Aspen, where writer Jesse Hyde investigates the murder of Nancy

ity. Something happens when the days stretch

The theme of authenticity and realness

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which, I’d say, feels liberating.

all the naked models parading down fashion

certain Hollywood–London power couple is

runways. And in “Shelf Involved,” we highlight

“consciously uncoupling,” the new phrase

the season’s most-wanted shoes and bags,

to describe an attempt at a kinder, simpler

photographed in homage to social media’s

path to divorce (and it’s amazing how quickly

biggest trend (at least today): a portrait of

those two words worked

your bookshelf called the “shelfie.” Not every-

their way into the current

thing is a practice in authenticity, but, then,

vernacular; I heard it used

how real would that be? Here’s to a summer

last night on an episode

of genuine fun.

of The Good Wife). But there’s another breakup trend afoot, and it involves not divorcing at all. Lydia Dallett reports on the rising trend of couples forgoing divorce entirely—dividing assets, living separately, dating other people, but never quite signing on the dotted line. Breaking up is

Garden State of Mind

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no longer one size fits all— in our hyperpersonalized society, people are customfitting even their divorces,

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In New York, where hot spots come and go in a heartbeat, it’s hard to keep track of the latest boîtes. So when we tasked man-about-town Anthony Haden-Guest with illustrating his favorite haunts, he proposed “a mixture of places that have been there forever and new ones.”

Any one in particular that he wishes had stuck around? “Elaine’s,” says the Vanity Fair and Paris Review contributor, “because it made you feel like what was going on in New York was happening right there—and you were a part of it.”

Inez van Lamsweerde and VINOODH MATADIN

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Soup duJour: butternut squash

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The Swiss know how to throw a party.

Just ask DuJour’s resident watch expert Rhonda Riche, who recently attended chichi conventions in Basel and Geneva to get the scoop on the latest horological happenings. “The Swiss take their watches very seriously, but for all the flash and splendor, at the end of the day it still comes down to this tiny mechanism,” she says. “It’s great for a watch nerd like me.”

Writer, “Swiss Time,” p. 40

Even renowned shutterbugs Inez and Vinoodh, who’ve shot some of the world’s leading talent, occasionally get starstruck. “I’ve been waiting to photograph Sylvester Stallone ever since I saw Rocky when I was 12,” says van Lamsweerde. Stallone got along famously with the photographers and even took part in a group hug at the end of the day; van Lamsweerde was impressed: “It’s always great when the people you’ve admired are actually way cooler than you pictured them to be.”

melanie ward Stylist, “On the Sly,” p. 120 Soup duJour: fresh vegetable

“I tend to be more impressed by who somebody is than what they do,” says Melanie Ward, whose work has appeared in V and Vogue China as well as on runways the world over. “Having said that, Sylvester Stallone ticked all of the right boxes.

He’s one of the most grounded, personable subjects I have had the pleasure to work with.”

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When William Norwich visited Harold Koda’s Upper East Side apartment, one piece of furniture stuck out: the dining room table. “There is a debate among dinner-party hosts on whether it is better to have a round or rectangular table, and Harold has an oval one, which I think is brilliant,” the scribe, who’s worked for Town & Country and Vogue, says.

It’s this attention to detail that makes Koda a great subject. “Harold is a true connoisseur but he also has a brilliant sense of humor. It isn’t often that one finds these two qualities together.”

*du jour [doo zhoor] adjective [from French: of the day] Example: What is your soup du jour?

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n July, the jewelry designer Aurélie Bidermann will open her first U.S. store, on the border of SoHo and NoLIta. What this means, in practical terms—besides the obvious fact that fans of her colorful, quirky pieces will finally have a place to shop the entire collection—is that the Parisienne has been spending a lot of time in New York. “I am living between the two cities,” she explains. “I love being downtown; I love the vibrations and the atmosphere.” In advance of her American flagship’s debut, she agreed to reveal a few of her (other) favorite places in the city.

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The Sant Ambroeus on Lafayette is like my second office—I’m there almost every day! The people are nice, and they make the best caffe latte in the world.

I also love Il Buco Alimentari e Vineria. It’s Italian food with an American touch—my favorite. The gnocchi is to die for.

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BLK DNM is very New York, and they have great jeans and t-shirts.

But I also like Barneys—I go crazy when I get there—and Kirna Zabete, both of which have lots of brands that I can’t find in Paris.

From top: Dots ring with blue sapphires, $1,625; $2,600; $4,225, DELFINA DELETTREZ, openingceremony.us. Lollipop bangle in 18-karat yellow gold with lapis, $3,895, IPPOLITA, ippolita.com. Renaissance bracelet in 14-karat yellow gold and silver with lapis and turqoise, $1,950, DAVID YURMAN, davidyurman.com. Bracelet in 18-karat yellow gold and platinum with lapis and diamond, $88,000, DAVID WEBB, 310-8588006. Serpenti Contraire bracelet, $485, BULGARI, bulgari.com. Jean Schlumberger Cones bracelet in 18-karat gold with enamel, $36,000, TIFFANY & CO., 800-843-3269. ID bracelet with lapis, price upon request, ANN DEXTER-JONES, anndexterjones.com. Jean Schlumberger Cones bracelet with lapis and diamonds, $170,000, TIFFANY & CO.. On nails: Shutter polish, $20, 3.1 PHILLIP LIM FOR NARS, narscosmetics.com.

I go to the Marlborough Chelsea gallery on Broome Street every weekend, to discover new artists.

Last time I was there, I bought a piece by Lucas Ajemian, who takes paintings by other artists and then soaks them in a washing machine; it’s very much about the process.

And, this might surprise people, but I love to go to the Barclays Center in Brooklyn to see the Nets. That stadium is amazing, perfection!

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eople always say—well OK, not just people, but the kind of fashion-industry types one discusses these matters with—that the reason you see so much nudity on runways is that when an ensemble skims over a bare naked lady, it is easier to observe the wonderful clothing. That its extraordinary construction, its exquisite seaming, the way it flows and drapes, is undefiled by anything so plebeian and gross as underwear.

This may or may not be the case. (Would you be shocked, shocked to fi nd out that the attention that invariably attends nubile flesh may not have much to do with how well it shows off a swath of silk?) Whatever the reason, the compulsion to bare a belle poitrine, to flash a frisky cheek, has with each passing season grown more audacious—and it is not restricted to spring/ summer collections, where it might make a tiny bit of sense. Nor is this practice confi ned to obscure avant-garde artistes: a pulchritudinous game of peek-a-boo informs Alexander McQueen’s f limsy chiffon naughtiness, Valentino’s glitter mesh, Gareth Pugh’s venetian blinds, Anthony Vaccarello’s tantalizing slash-and-burn, Marc Jacobs’ sheer glory (sported by Kendall Jenner, whose brief fashion moment was swept away by her half-sister’s cover-girl turn) and, believe it or not, even staid old Akris, who recently brandished a maxi that appeared to be woven of fi shing net. (Though none of these, despite their fearlessness, comes close to the British renegade createur Pam Hogg, who sent out her shivering, quivering subjects sans even the protection of pasties and G-strings.)

Well, so what? I can hear you snort now. What’s new?

Didn’t Jerry Hall and a zillion other Studio 54 inebriates rock sheer bodysuits decades ago? Wasn’t every schoolboy’s dorm room at one time adorned with the perky nipples of Farrah Fawcett? And you have a point—in our deeply ir rev-

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What could be the purpose of all that nudity on the runway? Lynn Yaeger uncovers the naked truth

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Gareth Pugh, Fall 2014.

erent 21st-century world, where people turn up at business offices with their stinky toes wriggling in rubber thongs, the sight of an errant secondary-sex characteristic should not provoke even a raised eyebrow. But the truth is, we may not have traveled very far from poor Janet Jackson’s wardrobe malfunction after all: To wit, in the last several months the priggish folks at Instagram have removed pictures of the luscious half-clad model Anja Rubik, deeming her ensembles too scandalous for innocent eyes.

Rubik, who publishes a wildly frank magazine called 25 that is not exactly known for its shy pictorials, and whose unofficial personal motto is “Don’t Fear the Nipple” (she’s had it emblazoned on T-shirts), thinks the whole thing is ludicrous. “It’s quite frustrating, especially because, when you look through Instagram, there are so many crude, vulgar images, which are apparently fi ne,” she told an interviewer.

“What’s the worst thing that will happen? Even if it’s children flipping through, why should they be offended by a breast?”

Why indeed? Right about now you may be asking yourself, Where does Lynnie stand on all this? I actually have a unique perspective, as I am the kind of girl who wears a couple of smock dresses over a tutu at the beach.

(Not lying—ask the guys on Cherry Grove.) Having always been hideously modest myself, I am horrified and sad for those underfed birdies, recently arrived from tiny villages in Estonia or Siberia, now shlumphing down a runway practically in the altogether, at an age (Cont’d on p. 40)

Less than 3 percent of the artists in the modern-art section of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art are women, but 83 percent of the nudes are female.

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when I was afraid someone would catch a glimpse of me in my training bra in the Jones Beach locker room.

But I suspect that, like Instagram, I am frightfully behind the times. (In fact I am so retrograde I don’t even have Instagram—I use a BlackBerry, and go ahead and mock me, but don’t

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Amongst the to-die-for divers were the revival of Rolex’s GMT-Master II in white gold with a red and blue “Pepsi” bezel as well as a revived Omega Seamaster 300.

The International Watch Company launched a whole new collection of dive

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you miss that keyboard?) And I have to admit I have picked up some unintentional wisdom watching pounds of f lesh parade in front of me twice a year—and I don’t mean a lot of claptrap about fabric and seams. How else would I have learned how to distinguish a surgically enhanced booby from its authentic sister? Hint—it has to do with the way it curves when viewed in profile. If that is way more than you really wanted to know— well then, I suggest you avert your eyes from the next round of runway shows: Like it or not, the spring 2015 runway shows, set to unspool in September, will no doubt offer a veritable orgy of bodacious bobbing breasts and terrifically toned tushies.

One of the most talked about timepieces at Baselworld was Patek Phillipe’s reissued Nautilus Travel Time Chronograph Ref. 5990/1A. Introduced in 1976, this sexy sports watch slowly built a cult following amongst collectors. Long seen as a functional finish, stainless steel is now integral to the heavy metal timepieces many wear with more formal attire (think James Bond in an Omega, Breitling or Rolex and a dinner jacket). The Nautilus Travel Time can also pull off the jump from sporty to elegant because its brushed steel finish is neutral enough to work with almost everything in your wardrobe, and the chunky porthole-shaped case and gray ombré dial make a distinct statement. The 2014 model also boasts a Travel Time complication that displays two different zones. It’s a clever addition: highly practical but doesn’t clutter the Nautilus’ seminal design.

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watches, including the (extremely handsome) Aquatimer Chronograph Edition Expedition Darwin. The Expedition Darwin is a striking timepiece, with a minimalist black chrono dial and modern rubber strap. In a year that saw most watch manufacturers experimenting with new elements, IWC stood apart by using bronze as a case material. The metal evokes the memory of an old-fashioned diving bell, and because it is meant to take on a patina of use as it ages, it is also a thoughtful tip of the hat to its namesake, Charles Darwin, the father of the theory of evolution.

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Audemars Piguet launched six new models to the Royal Oak Offshore Chronograph family, one of the most popular watches in the world of haute horology. Most notably, rubber case accents such as the crown and pushers have been replaced with black ceramic. And the hands are now faceted for a cleaner read. These small changes have a big impact, making the Offshore’s design crisper and more refined.

For the gearhead, all are outfitted with a sapphire caseback so you can observe the beating heart of the AP caliber 3126/3840 movement.

There are high and low versions featuring cases in either rose gold or stainless steel and newly redesigned bracelets and straps in solid gold, alligator or rubber. We were particularly taken by the stainlesssteel model with blue and red tapisserie dial.

Royal Oak Offshore Chronograph in 18-karat rose gold, $69,200, AUDEMARS PIGUET, 888-214-6858.

Royal Oak Offshore Chronograph in stainless steel with rubber strap, $25,600, AUDEMARS PIGUET.

Royal Oak Offshore Chronograph in stainless steel with Hornback Alligator strap, $26,000, AUDEMARS PIGUET.

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Ninety years ago, Montblanc introduced the iconic Montblanc Meisterstück 149 pen. World leaders such as Winston Churchill and John F. Kennedy signed historic treaties with it. Men of letters like Ernest Hemingway and Franz Kafka are said to have favoured the stylish stylo. This year, attendees buzzed over Montblanc’s introducing the Meisterstück Heritage Collection of timepieces, which

harken back to dress watches of the 1960s and ’70s.

Like the Meisterstück pen, the four watches in the Heritage Collection were designed to look good and serve a practical function. For example, the limited edition Heritage Pulsograph (to be launched this fall), has a pulsometer scale to help medical professionals calculate pulse rate—and set watch aficionados’ hearts racing.

Meisterstück 90 Years LeGrand Fountain pen, $715, MONTBLANC, montblanc.com.

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Watch styling has been slowly de-blinging over the last couple of seasons. Most radically, some of the world’s priciest timepieces were presented at Baselworld on inexpensive nylon bands (a.k.a. NATO) or rugged leather straps instead of heavy metal bracelets. Many manufacturers went beyond bands, paying homage to the armed forces by reviving historic military watches.

The limited edition Zenith Pilot GMT 1903 is a tribute to the Wright Brothers and features an appropriately

aged, suede “Bund” strap. This más macho watch is powered by Zenith’s in-house automatic Elite Dual Time Calibre 693 housed in a 48mm titanium case.

No less manly is the updated Breitling Chronomat Airborne. Originally designed in collaboration with the Frecce Tricolori aerobatic demonstration team of the Italian Aeronautica Militaire, this edition celebrates the 30th anniversary of the classic chronograph. It is available on a military-style fabric strap (for the first time).

From left: Chronomat 44 Airborne, $8,030, BREITLING, breitling.com.

Pilot Type 20 GMT 1903, $8,900, ZENITH, zenithwatches.com.

BR 03-94 Carbon, $5,900, BELL & ROSS, bellross.com.

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On Nichelle Nichols in Star Trek: Magnetic frames, $186, LACOSTE, lacoste.com.

This summer, reflective sunglasses will be trending faster than the speed of light PHOTOGRAPHED BY CHRISTINE BLACKBURNE

On Jane Fonda in Barbarella: I-Sport 0114 frames, $167, ITALIA INDEPENDENT, italiaindependent.com.

On Anne Francis in Forbidden Planet: Sunglasses, $450, CÉLINE, 212-535-3703.

In 1968, Star Trek featured the first scripted interracial kiss on American network television, between Nichelle Nichols and William Shatner.

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On Daryl Hannah in Blade Runner: Jam Remix frames, $140, DRAGON, dragonalliance.com.

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A couple of new exhibits pay tribute to two storied dressmakers— Halston and Dior—and the visual artists that inspired them

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r tists and designers have long been d raw n to each other: Con side r Elsa Sch iapa rel l i’s f r uitf ul collaboration with Salvador Dalí. Andy Warhol and Halston had a similarly beneficial relationsh ip — t he pai r spent yea r s working together (and taking inspiration from each other).

Halston was, of course, an avid collector of the ar tist’s work, and Warhol frequently used the designer as a subject. They even worked together, as when Halston produced a si l k eve n i ng gow n (lef t) ba se d on one of Warhol’s paintings. That d ress, along with dozens of other pieces by the t wo f riends, is currently on display at the Andy Warhol

Museum in Pittsburgh, in an exhibit called “Halston and Warhol: Silver and Suede” that explores the impact the two men had on 20th-century art and fashion.

Christian Dior, too, was long a fan of the arts: He owned a gallery before he became a designer. This summer, the Christian Dior Museum in Normandy will host an exhibit that pays tribute to the great photographers who worked for the brand, entitled “The Legendary Images, Great Photographers, and Dior.” Visitors can view 200 images shot by 80 photographers, including Richard Avedon, Irving Penn and Patrick Demarchelier, alongside 60 of the designer’s couture gowns.—LINDSAY SILBERMAN

For well over a century, the Italian jewelry brand Bulgari has been creating one-of-a-kind pieces so stunning they seem to belong in a museum. Now, the company founded by Sotirio Bulgari back in 1884 is the subject of an exhibit at Houston’s Museum of Natural Science.

“Bulgari: 130 Years of Masterpieces”—on view through October 5— features gems from the Elizabeth Taylor collection (Liz was a devoted fan) as well as baubles on loan from a number of private collectors.

“The great thing about Bulgari’s jewels,” says actress Naomi Watts, who attended the exhibit’s May opening, “is that they make a statement, while remaining classic.”

High Jewelry necklace in 18-karat yellow gold with diamonds, turquoises, amethysts and emeralds, BULGARI HERITAGE COLLECTION.

Liz Taylor’s two-time husband Richard Burton showered her in gems, and once quipped, “The only word Elizabeth knows in Italian is Bulgari.”

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Loafer, $630, FRATELLI ROSSETTI, fratellirossetti.com.

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SUIT UP Gird your loins: The bodysuit is back. Yes, the ’80s staple (with its much-maligned crotch snaps) has once again found favor with both designers and trendsetters, who prize the one-piece for its supreme layerability. Rihanna wore a white satin version under a sheer robe in April, but Zoe Saldana’s Met Gala take—a cashmere halter with a ball-gown skirt—better exemplifies the bodysuit’s benefits.

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The designer of Bonpoint, beloved worldwide for its multigenerational offerings, shares the secret to the brand’s success

T Right, from top: Ulyana Sergeenko Spring 2014 Couture, Well-Kept and new allbodysuit label Alix.

his spring, Bonpoint—the French company known for its adorably chic children’s wear—opened its fourth New York City location. But, as visitors to the new SoHo store can attest, the brand sells much more than just rompers and sailor suits. Since 1996, the baby and kid’s clothes have been supplemented by YAM, a line aimed at teenage girls, and in 2010, creative director Christine Innamorato debuted an eponymous women’s collection. Factor in the perfume and skin care, and, as Innamorato says, “Bonpoint is directed at the whole family.”

But how does she keep her impeccably stylish creations from coming off as a high-end version of Mommy and Me? “It’s alchemy,” she explains. “All of the children’s lines share the same inspirations”—this season, her influences included Twiggy (the model) and Bahia (the place)—“so the prints, the colors and the fabrics” connect them, even as the shapes vary. The women’s clothes, meanwhile, feature more “sophisticated silhouettes.”

“Trends,” I n namorato says, “a re adaptable.” (Style, of course, is forever.) —LAUREN WATERMAN

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Soft, indigo-washed dresses are the epitome of laid-back luxe

Bio Trainer 1, $425, FEIT, feitdirect.com.

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pieces of beach fence,” before hand-dipping the

of the beach-inspired brand LoveShackFancy, em-

bundles in indigo and leaving them to drip-dry

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in the sun. She was inspired, she explains, by

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glass, weather-worn American flags, woven

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chairs and the colors of a faded swimming pool.”

would be all but one of a kind, she secured

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them with “old hammocks, fishnets, twine and

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Step away from the flipflops: This summer Feit, the socially responsible footwear line from brothers Tull and Josh Price (Tull founded ’90s sneaker brand Royal Elastics), has added sporty kicks to its collection. The new men’s Bio Trainer 1 is hand-sewn and plasticfree; it’s made from a single piece of suede or leather, a buffalo-leather foot bed and a proprietary latex-rubber sole.

It’s a sleek sneaker with seriously green bona fides and style to spare (and a pronounced upgrade from those sandy thongs).

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Separate lives: The “cultural bed” designed by Ely Alexander is, for some couples, a step in the right direction. Photographed by Yale Joel, May 1957.

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igh-net-worth divorces are notoriously nasty.

They can destroy reputations and cost millions in legal fees. They also threaten company stock prices and upend promising political careers. Worst of all, they play out in the tabloids

like bad courtroom dramas, with no sordid detail too personal to be picked over on the morning talk shows.

But just as the recognition of gay partnerships has changed the way we think about marriage, so,

too, are spouses redefining what it means to break apart. Today’s couples, while they may sniff at the New Agey language, are becoming increasingly interested in “consciously uncoupling.” That’s the term Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin used to

Jocelyn Wildenstein might be the most well-compensated ex-spouse ever: Her 1999 divorce from Alec Wildenstein was reported to include a $2.5 billion settlement.

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Breaking up is even harder to do when there’s a couple (hundred) million at stake.

Lydia Dallett takes a look at the new way some married couples are splitting— permanently—without resorting to a divorce

years now and says there’s little chance of getting back together. But the couple had built a thriving med spa together over several decades of marriage, and the thought of going through a lengthy valuation and appraisal process in order to split up the business proved too daunting for the for mer high school sweethearts. When it finally came down to it, says the wife, it was just ‘easier’ to let things be. “He says he doesn’t want a divorce because dividing everything will be a big headache,” she says. “For me, a lot of the reason is I have been afraid of change. I was a stay-athome mother up until six years ago so the thought of working outside of home or our business is a little threatening.” Given their tangled finances, the business partners and co-parents of five are dating other people but neither plans on making their de facto divorce official any time soon, even though she admits that being married has affected her dating life. “Men typically do not want to date a married woman,” she says. “And I feel insecure about it, so it keeps me from entering a serious relationship too.”

Staying married because it’s easier is all well and good, of course, so long as you trust your spouse. When there’s been an emotional betrayal, couples who stay married purely for business purposes often go one step further and obtain a “legal separation,” just in case the relationship turns sour. In legal separations, the couple doesn’t actually go through a divorce but instead draws up a legal contract that speaks to issues like child support and a division of assets. Its flexibility makes legal separations an appealing option when dealing with complex joint asset structures. More importantly for top executives, legal separations can be kept entirely private.

“Once you file for divorce, that’s public information,” Mason states. “Whether or not you want your shareholders to know about it [doesn’t matter]. You don’t really have a choice.” And it turns out that information can have major consequences. A recent Stanford study found that a CEO’s divorce can negatively impact company performance, drive down the price of shares and even result in the CEO retiring prematurely. Given those figures, it’s no wonder Warren Buffett remained married to his wife for 27 years after separating. (In a nod to the fickleness of endur-

ing emotions, Buffett’s wife Susan introduced him to his next girlfriend when they separated in 1977; the threesome remained so close they even sent out joint Christmas cards until Susan’s death in 2004.) “[Breaking up] is no longer one size fits all,” says Susan Pease Gadoua, a licensed therapist and divorce expert in San Francisco, especially given the rise of prolonged cohabitation, children born out of wedlock and couples foregoing marriage altogether. “They’re basically person-

“Couples ask themselves, ‘Why should I get divorced?

Why go through that horrible process?’ ” —Laura Miolla alizing the system to meet their needs versus trying to fit into the system’s needs,” she says.

“And I think that’s a healthy trend.”

Granted, in many circumstances, remaining even financially tied to a hated spouse is easier said than done. While the number of couples eschewing divorce in favor of permanent separations is on the upswing, most people still prefer to renege on their vows the old fashioned way.

In that case, people seem to at least be trying to keep things as far from Paul McCartney–Heather Mills territory as possible—if not for the kids, then at least for the bank balance. “In my experience,” says Mason, “people who go through a less adversarial process are more open to being cooperative and creative in crafting a settlement, and so you end up with results that are more beneficial to both spouses.”

Few divorces better illustrate the hazards of scorched-earth litigation than that of real estate mog u ls Ja m ie Lu sk i n a nd Fr a n k McCou r t.

Theirs was a battle so vicious it was dubbed the “War of the Roses” by the media. With $1.2 billion and ownership of the L.A. Dodgers at stake, the McCourts duked it out for four years, with all of Los Angeles watching. By the time the dust had settled, the humiliated pair had become the scourge of Major League Baseball and had reportedly spent a collective $20 million in legal fees. It was one of the most expensive divorce cases in California history. Maybe “conscious uncoupling” isn’t such a bad idea, after all.

Another well-known couple who have decided to separate rather than divorce? Al and Tipper Gore, both of whom have dated other people since their 2010 split.

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describe their intention to divorce earlier this year, announced on the actress’ website, Goop, with a picture of the couple sitting cross-legged on the grass in a happier time. And in many cases, “conscious uncoupling” may mean not even divorcing at all.

Take, for example, the arrangements of two of the richest men on earth, Google co-founder Sergey Brin and his company’s executive chairman, Eric Schmidt. Both billionaires have been in the news recently for marital infidelity: Last winter, Brin made headlines over a repor ted affair with one of his Google employees; since the late 2000s, the gossips have trailed Schmidt as bombshells were photographed on his 195foot Oasis yacht. Both men are still married, yet they’re living, for all intents and purposes, separately from their wives. (Wendy Schmidt once remarked that she enjoys living with her husband only seven months out of the year. Anne Wojcicki, Brin’s wife, is less happily separated, though the two have attended parties as a family and have no reported plans to divorce.) Most recently, Shelley Sterling told Barbara Walters that she and Donald Sterling had been separated for the last year, but that her lawyer and accountant said “this is not the time” to move forward with a divorce.

It’s a calculation divorce coach Laura Miolla sees married couples making all the time.

“Couples maybe wait until the kids go away to college, one [partner] moves out, and then they say, ‘Why should I get divorced?’ ” she says. “ ‘Why should I go through that horrible process?’ ” When you can afford separate houses, separate nannies, separate vacation spots and separate friends, what else would you get that you don’t already have?

While statistics on the trend are hard to come by (neither state nor federal governments systematically track the different ways couples dissolve their unions), experts say they have “definitely” seen an increase in the number of couples foregoing divorce entirely. According to Ani Mason, a divorce attorney who specializes in settling high-net-worth divorces, more couples are realizing that they can better protect their assets (and their reputations) if they avoid litigated warfare. “A lot of people are wising up and saying, ‘That’s not what I want to go through,’ ” she says.

This is especially true in cases where a joint business is involved. One of Miolla’s clients has been living separately from her husband for six

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the temple of the sun All it took to give this 1940s Palm Beach pool house a face-lift was a little good taste and a splash of color

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C.Z. Guest’s Grecian temple–inspired pool, Villa Artemis, famously shot by Slim Aarons, is just two doors down.

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Fabric on both couches, CLARENCE HOUSE ‘Andros’ in Multi; custom pillows in MISSONI “Kirbet” fabric, STARK leather in turquoise and EDELMAN leather in yellow; Lucite coffee table, MAISON 24; Holly rug, AERIN FOR LEE JOFA; Moroccan leather poufs, SERENA & LILY; 19th-century Casbah crystal chandelier, $1,395, RESTORATION HARDWARE. Amanda duvet (on bed), $150, and pillows, $50 and up, ROBERTA ROLLER RABBIT.

“THE SUN HAD DAMAGED A LOT...I WANTED IT TO BRING IT BACK TO LIFE.” Nikki Beach love seat, $9,130, ottoman, $4,080, and Capri coffee table, $6,060, FENDI CASA. Tray, $600, and basket, $620, HIVE PALM BEACH. Printed towels, $490 and up, HERMÈS.

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hen light pours in here, it’s not a d r i z zle. T he o c e a n f ront c aba n a on the Cohen family’s Palm Beach estate is as sund renched a s t he shore steps away, a prime poolside haven for casual lunches and drinks after tennis—if it weren’t falling apart.

Years and years of the sun beaming down on anything will do that.

The palatial residence is nearly a century old, built originally for New York financier Otto Kahn by architect Maurice Fatio. Later, during the estate’s days as the GrahamEckes boarding prep school in the 1940s, a chapel was constructed on the property. It’s now used as the pool house, revitalized by owner and interior designer Lisa Cohen, along

The villa’s tennis courts have seen its share of talent: Singles champion Laura duPont will often swing by for a match.

with co-designer Susanna Maggard, just in time for summer.

“The space really had a lot of potential,” Cohen remembers about the buildi ng before renovations st a r ted. “It had all t he or ig i nal stained-glass windows, the pecky cypress walls, and the high cathedral ceiling was beautiful.”

Even some of the old family furniture that had accumulated inside wasn’t beyond saving. “The sun had damaged a lot of the fabrics; everything was really faded,” says Cohen. “I wanted to bring it back to life.”

She re-upholstered the vintage sofas in bright St. Tropez–inspired

prints—a theme that took over the rest of the space. Cohen and Maggard furnished the pool house with beachfront classics like coral lamps and a Chevron rug by Aerin Lauder and splashed it with Lilly Pulitzer– era colors and Roberta Roller Rabbit prints to freshen up the lively Palm Beach look and feel that had faded over the years. “It needed r ejuve n at ion ,” C ohe n s ays. “ It needed to be perked up, and we really did that.”

A g a i n s t t h e b a c k d r o p of i t s church-like architecture, the design t wosome added moder n touches with a Lucite double-tiered table

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chairs and one particular cheeky Alex Katz portraiture of a young girl in shades that caught Cohen’s eye. “W hen I saw it, I t houg ht, what a perfect image for a Florida pool house.”

Now that the renovation is complete, Cohen and her family are turning the cabana into the hottest spot on the estate once more, for everything from afternoon drinks poolside to al fresco dinners. The place lights up, just like the other piece Cohen hung here—a diamond-dust image of Jackie O by r isi ng a r t ist Ru ssel l You ng: “During the day it scintillates and shines. It’s beautiful.”

Chairs in STARK ‘Florida Leather’; color-block mason jar, $195, HIVE PALM BEACH; beach towels, $670 each, EMILIO PUCCI.

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Top: Lisa Cohen oversees a flower arrangement. Above: Alex Katz portrait; woven palm rope chairs, JOHN HIMMEL; cushions in MISSONI ‘Ormand’ fabric.

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nless I change my name f rom Joshua David Stein to something like Sterling, Blaine or Hunter— or maybe all three at once —there are limits to how close I can come to resembling a true Southern Gentleman. I’m not talking about R hett Butle r, but t he mo de r n ve r sion: Today’s Souther n Gentleman is a rarefied breed, half candy cane and half etiquette ninja. His skill set is a mysterious assemblage of charming diversions and arcane convention.

He speaks slowly but acts decisively.

He says “ma’am” and “sir.”

As a neu rotic New Yorker, the extent of my politesse consists of trying, often unsuccessfully, to determine whether or not it would be insulting to offer my seat to a woman who may or may not be pregnant on the subway. I talk the talk much more than I walk the walk. I dither. And when I call someone sir or ma’am, they usually recoil, saying, “Sorry, I don’t have any change.”

But the cha r m of the souther n bourgeoisie had always intrigued me. They seemed like valiant porters from an earlier time, who skated by on privilege and quiet confidence, open vowels and extraneous syllables. It wasn’t just the accent, it was the action. The body of knowledge held by a Southern Gentleman was, to me, dark matter. So I made my way to Sea Island, Georgia, both a proving ground and training center for newly minted—and thoroughly mint-juleped—southern gents.

Sea Island is a sprawling, 1,235-acre resort that opened in 1928 and currently occupies the entirety of a small coastal island in south Georgia.

The island, which sits 80 miles north of Jacksonville, Florida, is an elegant spread of private houses and guest villas, connected by lanes shaded by live oaks dripping Spanish moss. Most activity centers around the Cloister at Sea Island, an elegant, vaguely Spanish inn with 175 rooms, long Versailles-like hallways and a patio that looks out over the Black Banks River. On a recent evening, a sloop was moored on the pier. Its name, written across the bow, was Schmuck. Maybe I would fit in after all.

The first lesson I picked up in my crash course was that the Southern Gentleman must pack for his vacation an inordinate amount of cleanly pressed khaki pants and a gentle rainbow of pastel polo shirts. Skinny

jeans are def initely not in vogue.

Interestingly, the piqué cotton polo shir ts I saw spor ted at after noon tea or, later, in the cigar-smoking room—cigars being another thing a Southern Gentleman enjoys—were also the preferred workout gear in the fitness club. At Sea Island, they take the term undershirt literally.

My next tutorials came fast and furious, thanks to the island’s status as a grown-up playground. There are 36 holes of championship golf at the Lodge at Sea Island, which overlooks the St. Simons Sound, as well as th ree squash cour ts, a shooting club and sailboats back at the Cloister.

Over the next few days, I shot, squashed, swung and tacked with abandon. But much of the advice dole d out by i mp e c cably p ol it e men in light-colored slacks was the same. Jared Zak, my golf instructor, eyed me neutrally as I tried to drive a ball like it was a Mack truck. “Try to relax,” he said. “You don’t need to swing that hard.” As I clutched a Beretta semi-automatic shotgun, missing clay pigeon after clay pigeon, as they lof ted away before falling into the marsh, Jake Duncan, my teacher, amiably mentioned it might be a good idea to relax just a bit, at least while I was holding the gun.

But the best piece of advice that came my way was courtesy of a man in spotless white shorts. Steve Hall, an on-property squash pro, had just finished clobbering me on the courts—an episode that left me soaked in sweat and Hall not even short of breath.

“Joshua,” Hall said as I panted, red-faced and spent, “it’s not about force.

It’s about finesse.”

On the final night of my trip, sunburnt from my time on the golf course and exhausted from everything else, I donned khaki pants and a limegreen polo shirt I’d picked up in the gift shop and headed to dinner. At the threshold of the restaurant, I swung the door open, gently, and held it for an approaching southern lady. I waited, amiable. And as she approached, I smiled. “Good evening,” I said.

“Thank you, sir,” she said. And I, drawling out the vowels, replied, “My pleasure, ma’am.” I was well on my way.

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n Love in the Time of Cholera, the Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez describes “the very old and heroic city of Cartagena de Indias, the most beautiful in the world,” as seen from above by his protagonists around the turn of the last century, when it had become something of a ghost town. “They saw the wall still intact, the brambles in the st reets, the for tif ications devoured by heartsease, the marble palaces and the golden altars.…”

Suff ice it to say, there’s far less decay in evidence in today’s Cartagena, although the grandeu r Ga rcía Má rquez evoked re mai n s. Re st or at ion s of t he cit y’s most sig nif icant public structures (including the commanding Catedral) have been accompanied by a revival, one that has seen crumbling old mansions t ransfor med into st ylish boutique hotels and second homes.

With its tropical-fruit-colored buildings, the Centro Historico boasts arguably the finest collection of colonial architecture in this hemisphere—and its UNESCO World Heritage status bodes well for its preservation.

“Thankfully, there are very stringent rules and regulations when it comes to restoration and construction,” says Colombian designer Silvia Tcherassi.

Her seven-room hotel, the Tcherassi Hotel + Spa, has made a splash with its lush gardens and modern aesthetic. Like many of the city’s hangouts, it caters to both Northerners and the Latin American smart set; Cartagena was a safe haven of sorts for the Colombian elite during the country’s drug wars, giving it a substantial head start in these calmer times. It has long been renowned for its nightlife, much of which takes place on the Centro’s terraces and in Getsemani, a oncedangerous neighborhood that’s now home to a host of new cafes, wine bars and clubs, where bands bang out the danceable local genre of music known as champeta.

But, as nice as the world looks from the third-floor patio of the Armeria Real, it’s not necessarily the views that make the terraces so popular. It’s the pleasure of being

removed from the heat and bustle of the city’s cobblestone streets. That feeling can also be found in the courtyards of many of Cartagena’s small hotels—places like antiquesfurnished Agua or the 12-room Casablanca B&B, a 19th-

IT’S NO WONDER CARTAGENA IS EXPERIENCING A BOOM. century townhouse with handsome balconies.

With all that it has to offer, it’s no wonder Cartagena is experiencing a boom: It expects to add some 4,000 hotel rooms by 2016, and even if most of them will be outside the old walls, in the more modern environs of Bocagrande, the influx will surely raise the city’s international profile. Those in the know will want to head to Cartagena now, while it retains a bit of the city-ofghosts feeling that so stirred García Márquez.

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P L AY Igor Cassini and Charlene Wrightsman on the ground, in Southampton, New York, c. 1954.

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STANFORD WHITE In 1906, architect Stanford White, who built Manhattan’s Century Club, was shot dead by the millionaire Harry Thaw, who accused White of an affair with his wife, actress Evelyn Nesbit. The ensuing court case was dubbed “The Trial of the Century.”

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eginning in the 1950s, Igor Cassini was the world’s most powerful society columnist in a time when society mattered. Read by over 20 million people, Cassini not only coined the phrase “jet set,” but also embodied its glamour and mobility. He wasn’t some ink-stained outsider looking in; he was a titled European count looking down, and America ate up every word.

The grandson of the czar’s ambassador to Washington, Cassini’s own society credentials were impeccable.

He married Charlene Wrightsman, one of the country’s most eligible heiresses, and his brother Oleg served as Jackie Kennedy’s couturier, earning the unofficial Cabinet rank of “secretary of style.” So, when Igor became ensnared in a scandal that spread from the Bay of Pigs to Pennsylvania Avenue, society schadenfreude enjoyed its finest hour.

It went down like this: Cassini was betrayed by the journalist Peter Maas, who revealed in The Saturday Evening Post that the count was not only on Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo’s payroll—El Jefe hired him for Washington influence-peddling—but was also whispering in President Kennedy’s ear about a Communist plot in Santo Domingo. Cassini was exposed as a double agent and was forced to go through a costly, publicly

humiliating trial; not long after, the Hearst newspaper chain sent the once-formidable writer packing and his wife died of what has been called “a probable suicide.”

Using Cassini as the core of what would become my book about his dazzling crowd, I began trolling for witnesses. But while the scandal was already decades old, there was still a sense of omertà around it, as family members, including Igor and Charlene’s son Alexander, never responded to requests for interviews.

With doors closed on the West Coast, I went to Europe to see living legends like Lord Weidenfeld in London, Olivia de Havilland in Paris and Diana Vreeland’s son Freck in Rome. There were venerable concierges from Claridge’s, waiters from Annabel’s, doorkeepers from Castel. All these people remembered Igor Cassini and their mutually lost world. The story is highly complex—and fascinating. Part of it is how the mighty have fallen. But the best part is how far and how high characters like Cassini flew before the “friendly skies” became an oxymoron, the wings of man were clipped and the Icarus factor kicked in.

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Oleg Cassini died in 2006, but his designs are still alive: David’s Bridal carries a line bearing the Cassini name.

In 1979, the millionaire former vice president died of a heart attack, allegedly in the company of a young blond aide. Confusing explanations from his camp, mixing up how, when and where he died, gave his expiration an air of impropriety.

SYDNEY BIDDLE BARROWS Sydney Biddle Barrows was arrested in 1984 for running a Manhattan escort service. Her family’s ability to trace its roots back to Plymouth Rock earned her the nickname “The Mayflower Madam.”

BROOKE ASTOR In 2006, centenarian socialite Brooke Astor’s son was accused of mistreating his mother and squandering her fortune. A tabloid field day and trial followed, and Astor was placed in the care of her friend Annette de la Renta before dying, at 105, at her Westchester estate.

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i ke de at h a nd t a xe s , dismal hospital rooms se e m b ot h u n ive r s a l and unavoidable. But for those looking to escape the indignit y of disposable gowns and inedible meals, “amenities f loors” offering a decidedly more upscale experience—including gourmet entrées, fresh-cut f lowers, tastefully appointed furniture and luxur y toiletries— represent an of tenshrouded paradise within the healthcare system.

I n M a n h a t t a n , Ne w York-Presbyterian/Weill Cor nell’s Greenberg 14 South wing offers riverv iew room s k it t e d out with di ni ng t ables and Frette linens and marble bathrooms stocked with Molton Brown toiletries. Thirty blocks north, patients st aying in Mou nt Sinai’s Eleven We st ca n look out ont o Ce nt r al Park through damask drapes and enjoy on-demand movies and fully stocked minibars. In Los Angeles, celebr it y moms f lock to Ced a rs Sinai for its three-room, two-bath mater nit y suites, while Br igham and Women’s Hospital—the jewel in Boston’s healthcare crown—puts VIP guests up in the Shapiro Pavilion, where rooms boast dark wood fur niture and a daily tea service.

Room-ser vice-style menus allow patients to order dishes like lobster thermidor and prime rib to be delivered to their rooms. Menus are often only a suggestion, though, and chefs (with a doctor’s per mission) are known to go off-book to adhere to cultural customs or specific tastes.

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what insurance will cover. But for some patients, the draw of amenities floors is less about luxury than control. When 24-year-old New Yorker Kara Landsman had surgery to remove part of her intestine, she wanted a room large enough to allow her mother to bunk with her for the twoweek stay. Landsman’s gastroenterologist fully endorsed her decision to book a room on Eleven West—he had recently stayed there himself after an appendectomy. Landsman found the floor’s serene atmosphere alleviated much of the anxiety she had going into her procedure. “I had a fear of hospitals and this just felt really comfortable, like I was staying at a hotel,” she says.

Wendy Carduner, chair man of private club Doubles at the Sherry Netherland, is a stickler for fine service. After staying at Greenberg 14 South for an October surgery, she doesn’t see herself going back to a main f loor any time soon. “The room was beautiful and everyone on

the f loor was really attentive,” she explains. “You feel well cared for.”

Doctors are quick to maintain that while these floors offer a glossier experience, the baseline treatment is equivalent throughout a hospital. “I would have to say, it’s not about the medicine,” says Dr. Steven Harwin, chief of adult reconstructive surgery and total joint replacement at Beth Israel Medical Center.

“It’s not about getting better care. It is about getting more focused and dedicated care.” And while it’s a given that eating prime rib while resting on Italian linens can make the hospital experience much more enjoyable, medical studies also suggest that sunlit rooms and peaceful surroundings can in fact hasten the recovery process.

Of course these rooms provide more than just more space and good design: They also offer unparalleled privacy. For ailing public figures— like Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah, who booked the entirety of Green-

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berg 14 South for a 2010 su rger y—the secu r it y of a lo cke d f lo or ca n be more of a necessity than an indulgence, according to Dr. Elizabeth Comen, an oncologist at New York’s Memor ial Sloan Kettering Cancer C e n t e r. “ Pol it i c i a n s , royalty, celebrities—for their own safety a lot of those people need privacy you can’t have on a regular f loor,” she says.

Given the costs of upgrading and maintaining these facilities, it’s unclear whether hospitals are act ually t u r ning a prof it f rom this enterpr ise. W hat they are doing, however, is cultivating future donors by making happy customers out of those most able to pull out their checkbooks. “[The hospitals] are not st upid,” says Dr. Gerald Imber, a New York Presbyterian plastic surgeon. “They figure it out.” One guest at Eleven West was reportedly so impressed by the rapid response to his request for pajamas that he immediately donated $25,000.

Orchids and tea sandwiches aside, for many patients the phenomenon of the amenities f loor is simply a way to make the best of a bad situation. “We have end-of-life patients with young children and the s t a f f m a ke s t he m hot d og s a nd French fries,” says Christine Collins, executive director of Brigham and Women’s Hospital Connection.

“You see three or four generations in a room at the end. It’s a very sad thing, but yet it’s a joyous thing, too, that they’re able [to do that], where that could n’t happen i n a typical room.”

When Blue Ivy was born, Jay Z and Beyoncé booked an entire floor of Lenox Hill Hospital for $1.3 million. A-list visitors used the code name “Ingrid Jackson.”

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o o d n e w s fo r a l l yo u Sh a ke Shack devotees: After so many years in vogue, thin is no longer the preferred aesthetic—at least not when it comes to the backside. “It actually started about 10 years ago, when Jennifer Lopez showed up to the Grammys in that green dress,” says Miami plastic surgeon Constantino Mendieta. You know the one: Versace with a neckline that plunged far below her navel and a sheer skirt that revealed more than it covered. And ever yone wanted what she was selling. Af ter that, he says, “The butt was no longer neglected in the area of plastic surgery.” These days, Mendieta—who literally wrote the book on butt lifts, 2011’s The Art of Gluteal Sculpting—says augmenting and shaping backsides makes up a full 85 percent of his practice.

But what Mendieta says began as a way for, mainly, black and Latina women to enhance their existing curves is now about creating the ideal silhouette for every body type and ethnicity. Today’s clients, he says, want “perky, youthful” butts like Jessica Biel’s and Pippa Middleton’s, though the number-one question Mendieta f ields remains the unsurprising “Is Kim Kardashian’s real?” (“I’d have to see it in person,” he says.) Although the gym can help tone and even enlarge the butt by making gluteal muscles stronger, surgical contouring isn’t just about bypassing your barre routine for a quick fix. “Augmentation will give you a shape that dieting and exercise just can’t do,” says Manhattan plastic surgeon Steven Wallach.

T he proce du re it sel f is fai rly straightforward, with two predominant implant types: silicone and fat, in which fat is harvested from other parts of the body—the back or the middle—and injected into the butt.

Because your own fat “looks and

feels more natural,” says Wallach, it’s almost universally prefer red.

“The silicone implants used in the U.S. are very solid, so when you sit on them, it doesn’t always feel so good.” The catch, of course, with using fat is that you need enough to graft. Mendieta often sends patients away for what he calls “booty camp: a month of McDonald’s, pizza, Dairy Queen. I tell them to go crazy and then come back when they’ve got a nice layer of padding,” he says. “It’s the best diet you’ll ever be on.”

The outpatient procedure lasts a few hours and commonly incorporates some liposuction around the midsection or upper legs: Removing excess fat above and beneath the glutes is what helps give the appearance of a “lift.” Recovery includes 10 days of at-home rest, a month “to feel nor mal,” two before you can work out, and th ree to six to see f inal results. An average of 60 to 70 percent of the fat sticks around per ma nently; on occasion, once “things settle down,” as Wallach puts it, patients may need a second lift to achieve optimal results. You will sit on a pillow for a good while.

With an average cost of $10,000 to $15,000, a butt lift might not run you all that much more than your annual bar re + more @ DuJour.com bill. The price tag may be one reason why, according to the A mer ica n Societ y for Aest het ic Plastic Surgery, buttock augmentation is one of the fastest growing plastic-surgery procedures, with an increase of nearly 60 percent over the last year alone. Mendieta says 10 percent of his buttocks patients are men, 80 percent of whom, he notes, are straight. They come from as far away as South Africa, Australia and Dubai. “I tell everybody,” he says, “the buttocks packed their bags and are on a world tour!”

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form where 1,000—or even 100,000 people—could be in that fantastic class at the exact same time?” The company’s Manhattan f lagship officially opened on May 1, complete

with a retail space, lounge, coffee bar and state-of-the-art spin studio.

There, classes are streamed with the help of four cameras, white and color LED lighting and a basement-

level control center where Peloton’s tech gurus produce a custom broadcast for riders at home. Bike owners can also choose from a growing library of on-demand classes, with the option to f ilter by class type, length, instr uctor and skill level.

The bikes—which cost $1,995 plus $39 a month for classes—became available for pre-order in last year, and quickly sold out. They’re now available to purchase, with slight delivery delays, but a recent $10.5 m i l l io n i nve s t m e n t w i l l l i kel y speed up production. Going forward, Foley intends to bring Peloton’s presence to the hospit alit y wo rld . By t he e nd of t h i s ye a r, Peloton bikes will be in all Standard Hotel gyms—and he has even loftier dreams for the company beyond that. Says Foley, “My goal is to create the most coveted consumer product in the world.”

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hire their teachers, others are open to an even more customized route: bringing your private instr uctor to class. “For those that can afford it, what better way to complement your custom workout than with a ‘personal wellness expert’ who can work out with you and dine out with you and choose what you should or shouldn’t do?” asks celebr it y t rainer David K irsch, who has built his business around this kind of service. And as Dana Santas, a private yoga coach who c om m a nd s $250 a n hou r, plu s travel fees, to accompany clients around the country, says, “I don’t want my clients going into yoga st udios alone and risking being touched by instructors who don’t know anything about the needs or issues of their bodies.”

Not o n ly d o we ob s e s sively seek advice on life matters that were once pr ivate —W hat’s my next ca reer move? W ho should I ma r r y? Vegan or Paleo? How should I raise my kid?—but now we wa nt coaches to literally wal k u s t h roug h t hat life. A nd they will. New York– and Palm Beach–based “concierge relationship specialist” Palika Tr udeau, a consultant for people in ever y

stage of coupling, began working with a client to help him get over a painful breakup, but stayed on to help vet future romances. After attending a first-date fund-raiser incognito—carefully noting eye cont act, facial expressions and body language between the client and his date—and the next few as well, she green-lit the romance.

The couple now introduces her to friends as their personal “relationship consultant” and calls upon her when problems arise. “Often I know what’s good for my clients better than they do themselves,” she says. “I expect to be a part of their life for the long run.”

A 24-7 personal support system is a key component of Joie Meal Support’s philosophy as well. The L.A.-based business launched two years ago, offering meal companions who come to your home, to you r off ice or on you r lu nch or din ner date to ensu re you stick with your diet. Though the company started with a focus on aiding those suffering f rom eating disorders, Joie’s therapists and dietitians are increasingly being hired to work with anyone who wants assistance cooking and eating. Co-founder Melissa Javahe-

ne-on-one yoga instruction is as old as yoga itself. But having to leave your house to get it is a modern kind of inconvenience, and one that New Yorkers no longer have to contend with. The new studio Provita lets Manhattan yogis set their intentions for class—and have all of them met—with

rian points to one client, an entertainment exec in her mid-forties, who “has problems with overeating and mindless grazing.” Meal companions come to her home to prep food and eat with her and accompany her to restaurants. “Being successf ul amid the stimuli

“I EXPECT TO BE A PART OF THEIR LIFE FOR THE LONG RUN.” —CONCIERGE RELATIONSHIP SPECIALIST a nd st re ssor s of l ife e n su re s a higher success rate than only being successful in a contained, safe e n v i r o n m e n t ,” s a y s Java he r ia n . “ H av i ng + more @ DuJour.com a companion prevents her from overeating in a non-judgmental and non-threatening way.”

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The class began, led by the studio teacher, who took the pair, stationed in the front row, in stride.

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A follow-up inquir y revealed that this is the thing: studio-sanctioned “private in-class” lessons that allow students to get the sort of individualized instruction formerly reserved for decidedly less public set tings. A nd while this particular studio requires that you

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more than a day ahead, and that time in Beverly Hills was no exception. My friend Jerry, a fellow jou r nalist and ser ious backgammon player, had been trying to get me into a hush-hush game of underground poker—high-class surroundings and real money on the table. Finally he succeeded.

On a beautiful September evening, the kind of balmy, ritzy atmosphere that only L.A. can deliver, I waited with Jerry in a parking lot in the shadow of Universal Studios. It was after 8 P. M . There was no one coming or going until a late-model van pulled up. This was our ride.

I’ve been playing poker since I was 18 and working for the Long

Island Rail Road. We warmed up in the rail-yard shacks, playing cards and drinking coffee. The bets were rarely more than a few bucks. I kept playing when I became a New York City police off icer—a lot of cops like poker. Once I started earning my living as an investigative reporter, I settled into a twice-a-month game, small stakes, at an athletic club in Manhattan.

I knew about the illegal, underground poker games. My buddies and I trade stories of fortunes won and lost at those tables, of crooks desperate enough to t r y to rob a mobbed-up game. Once in a while, it surfaces in the press—headlines erupt of major-league baseball stars and superhero-franchise actors getting their knuckles rapped for un-

derground games. You don’t need to have seen Rounders to know that it can get rough for those who can’t make good on the bets—not for the people who show up in “Page Six” but for the mere mortals. I was curious about the whole scene, but truth be told I was a little concerned, too, as the van wove its way up through Beverly Hills. Turns out, the night held a surprise or two.

The game took place in an unoccupied but lavishly f u r n ished mansion that a real estate broker had made available for the night, presumably for a cut of the action.

Jer r y introduced me to the game runner, the guy in charge. He told me no drinking too much, no drugs, no get ting out of order, or I’d be taken back to my car. I agreed. The

game r unner also said card playing usually lasts until 5 A.M. We exchanged cash for poker chips and were ready to go. First came dinner: salads, appetizers, carved turkey or roast beef, a table of sushi and seafood. Excellent wine. Pretty women in short skirts waited at the tables.

Then it was time to sit down for no-limit Texas Hold ’Em, which has become the most addictive for m of poker in America. Players were divided among five tables—mostly men, although there were a few young women, very well dressed.

I wasn’t at the high buy-in table, where players dropped five figures on bets. But even so, with the swings of a no-limit game, a player’s wins or losses can easily reach $20,000 for the night. Jerry had told me that this

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game runner had a separate, even more exclusive game going, where the minimum buy-in was $25,000.

In the end, I came out ahead by just a small amount and was back in my own car well before 5 A . M . For me, an aboveboard regular game was enough scratch for the gambling itch. But I could see how the risk, the adrenaline rush, of underground poker could hook a player, and if you add a seven- or eight-f ig ure bank account—whether it’s inherited wealth or accrued in Hollywood, in spor ts or on Wall Street—you have an incendiary combination.

news last year when the federal government took down a high-stakes game that had been r u n ning for three years in luxury townhouses and hotels in New York City, leading to 31 arrests, seven-figure forfeitures and jail time. According to the 84-page indictment, the group had been at the helm of “a high-stakes illegal gambling business run out of New York City and Los Angeles that catered primarily to multi-millionaire and billionaire clients.”

It’s pretty unusual to see people going to jail for underground gambling. In the state of New York it is legal to play poker for money but illegal for the organizers to profit.

That’s called a “rake”—when the people running the game take a percentage of the pot for themselves or charge the players an hourly fee.

Some game runners pull in a very f ine rake. But still, this is not a crime police spend a lot of time on.

My sources say that the reason the punishments were so severe was that card-playing got mixed up with illegal sports betting and much worse.

This past April federal prosecutors said the crime ring laundered more than $100 million. The number-one name on the indictment was Alimzhan Tokhtakhounov. To quote from the prosecutors’ description is to feel chills go up your spine: “Alimzhan Tokhtakhounov, a.k.a.

‘Taiwanchik,’ a.k.a. ‘Alik,’ the de-

fendant, who lived in the Russia Federation, was a vory v zakone, commonly refer red to as Vor —a Russian term translated as ‘Thiefin-Law’ and referring to a member of a group of the highest-level criminal figures from the former Soviet Union who receives tribute from other criminals... Tokhtakhounov used his status as a Vor to resolve disputes with clients of the highstakes illegal gambling operation with implicit and sometimes explicit threats of violence and economic harm.” To no one’s surprise, Tokhtakhounov remains outside the United States’ jurisdiction.

How could people with big, important jobs get mixed up with an operation linked to a Vor? I got a few answers after wading through the indictments of the busted crime ring. But high-stakes underground poker existed well before Tokhtakhounov’s gang got their hooks in, and the games definitely didn’t dry up after ward. I wanted to underst and what ma kes these players tick, and so I sought out two insiders for answers.

My f i rst sou rce, who I’ll call Gary, has made it to the final table of the World Series of Poker. He owns an apartment in an upscale zip code. Over lunch at Café Boulud, Gary explains: “A lot of people who have done well in life like to go to the opera or to the ballet. I like to play poker. But I like highstakes games in beautiful surroundings, where the food is excellent and the liquor is top-shelf. In some of these places there’s a massage room and even somewhere to take a quick nap. The dealers are professional.” It’s not just about the cushy surroundings. When it comes to the bottom line, the high-stakes games are particularly accommodating.

“At some of these really high-stakes games you don’t even need to bring

money,” Gary says. “Usually they’ll front you $10,000 and take a check if you prefer. If you’re a regular, you can get approved for credit and they’ll put you on ‘the sheet,’ which records how much they’ll lend you.”

For a long time it wasn’t all that hard to find an underground game.

The routine went a lot like how I got hooked up in Los Angeles. My second secret source, who I’ll call William, says, “If someone referred you, that was it. There was little if any real security. After a game runner met you and checked you out, you would be told the address and that would be that.”

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Ting, a key member of that r ing broug ht dow n by t he fed s. Last winter he was sentenced to f ive months and agreed to a forfeiture of $2 million. According to the indictment, Ting’s job was to set up the new breed of f lashy underground games. Prosecutors say Ting, 42, “ran what was likely the largest and most high-profi le illegal poker [game] in New York City for years.”

(As usual, no clients were identified.

Naming them ser ves no pur pose other than to embarrass them and, if the stakes are high enough, to expose them as people who walk into a game with a thick wad of cash.)

Ting’s first location was in the Wall Street area—makes sense!— before he moved his operation to a townhouse he owned in the East 30s. Some games took place at the Plaza Hotel. Because of fear of robbery, many clients played on credit.

There were stories that Eddie made more than $4 million a year.

“Most of the games lasted 8 to 12 hours,” says Gary. “Eddie Ting really catered to players. He often

had three or four games going. If you were known to him or had been vouched for by someone who was trusted, he would allow you credit of up to $100,000.”

Ac c ord i ng t o Wi l l ia m , t he se high-stakes games could be hard to break into. “They started using the Internet and cell phones,” he says.

Even after a fellow player vouched for you, and the game runners met you, “they would check you out on Facebook or one of the other sites, and your photo had better match your name. Finally you’d get a text message where the next game was being held.”

OK, so there are mob guys in the shadows and you may lose a whole lot of money. But it’s fun, right?

Um...not necessarily. At some of the high-stakes underground poker tables, bullying takes a real toll. I’m told the regulars always want to take down the “whale,” the newcomer with a lot of money who believes that he or she is as skilled as anyone else at the table, and is way wrong.

“The pros and regulars are out to separate the whale from his money as fast as possible,” says Jerry.

William agrees. People see the good behavior at the tables on television poker tournaments, but it’s not that way at all when the game is underground. “There are always quite a few players, especially younger ones, who constantly curse and abuse and make sport of other players,” he says.

“The experienced guys use the abuse as a tool so that the new ones make mistakes—they get steamed and don’t use their heads.”

It’s like what Matt Damon says at the beginning of Rounders: “Listen, here’s the thing. If you can’t spot the sucker in the first half hour at the table, then you are the sucker.” You know what? I think that my friendly twice a month game is the best one in town. Guys, I’m all in.

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Lamborghini’s newly unveiled Huracán LP 610- 4, however, is a signal of maturation, the power of decisiveness and simplicity. During a design presentation at the New York Inter national Auto Show, Filippo Perini, Lamborghini’s head of design, explained that, for him and his team, creating the Huracán started with a reassessment of what constitutes beauty. For inspiration, they turned to natural forms such as a nautilus shell, a sunflower and a hurricane—forms that do not exist without function. The Huracán’s profi le, he explains, is a study in the propor-

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The ultimate goal was to design a car that was “a little more politically correct but not common,” he says, “something that remains recognizable as a Lamborghini.” It’s a difficult maneuver—hoping to attract new clients without alienating their existing base, and judging by the 1500 pre-orders Lamborghini has already received on the $237,000 Huracán, it seems like Perini may have struck the right MORE PHOTOS nerve. As he walks + @ DuJour.com a rou nd h i s lovely mutant painted in a subdued gray, he slashes his hand through the air to trace how each line of the car flows into the next. He roguishly smiles, and says, “It’s a game. It works.”

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At the same time, since its fou ndi ng i n 1963, the brand has been known for bold celebrations of beauty and power— controlled chaos —that largely spite reason and rationale. Early models such as the voluptuous Miura of the late swinging ’60s and the seductively geometric Countach of the ’70s and ’80s were touchstones of the cultural ideals of wealth, beauty and desire at the time. The brand’s two most recent models, mea nwh ile — t he Aventador, the equivalent of a Great White with wheels, and its antagonistic little brother, the Gallardo—

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Coffee Shop, Union Square.

The waitresses are goddesses who stalk the earth, but I go for the coffee, OK?

Swifty’s, the Upper East Side clubhouse.

Here is Robert Caravaggi, who is co-owner with chef Stephen Attoe.

MeKong on King Street. A serious hang-out.

Regulars hang in the bar and on the walls.

Heartbreak on Hipster Highway, otherwise known as Ninth Avenue.

Coffee at a diner.

Why not the Hollywood on Sixth?

The Freedom Tower, seen from the Top of the Standard, or—as old-timers still call it—the Boom Boom Room.

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Bon vivant, reporter and man-about-town Anthony Haden-Guest is a veteran of New York City nightlife.

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Haircut at Paul Molé on Lexington.

Pietro takes charge.

Afternoon break at Trestle on Tenth.

Here’s paparazzi, bold-faced names, disco balls... Seems like time travel, but it’s a magazine party at Lavo.

Good lord! It’s DuJour!!!

Indochine will be 30 in the fall: the great dame & jungle cat of downtown.

Pebbles runs Sway on Spring.

Yes, there is still nightlife here.

And we’re in one of the city’s last great painted bars— Bemelmans in the Carlyle.

Employees Only on Hudson.

And you thought after hours was a myth?

Amaranth.

Arrange to have a good profile.

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Ye Olde Carlton Arms is a cheap hotel with rooms done up by artists. Here are two Carlton girls and one apparition.

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Come Saturday night at the Standard Hotel in Hollywood, 2014 takes a hiatus.

André Balazs’ Mmhmmm lounge transforms into Giorgio’s, a throwback to the decade of the ultimate dance party, complete with mirrored glitter balls dangling from the ceiling and sequin-clad clubgoers gyrating. The invite-only evening officially starts at 10, but it’s not until about 11:30 that devotees pour through the hotel’s kitchen to a black lacquered door that opens to a room lined with dark mirrors. “We’re basically an invisible, underground club on Sunset Boulevard,” says West Coast event producer Bryan Rabin.

Inside this secret space, Rabin’s partner, DJ Adam XII, perches atop a platform spinning classic ’70s tracks like Donna Summer’s “I Feel Love” and Gino Soccio’s “Dancer” while fog pours onto the f loor—making it even more difficult to determine exactly who is wearing which jewelembellished jumpsuit. There’s no doubt, though, that the industry-heavy crowd is one of the most fashionable in town. “We have our core group, which is mainly my address book and those who work in fashion and music, and then we have our guest stars: whoever’s in town from Paris, London and New York,” says Rabin. “It’s like casting a play every week.” With Olivier Rousteing, Jody Watley and Kate Beckinsale all in attendance by the time the clock struck midnight one Saturday this spring, Rabin seems to have succeeded. Filling out the dance floor are creative directors of clothing lines, couture buyers, Grammy winners and celebrity hairdressers.

“It’s not about sales and people buying tables, it’s about what each person can bring to the room,” he says. Between disco balls reflecting off the shiny surfaces and a house photographer snapping f lash photos of revelers (they’re for Rabin’s personal archives only), it becomes apparent that the black leather banquettes lining the perimeter of the club are empty—not because the space is below capacity, but because everyone is boogying. “The weird thing is that this is how it always was until bottle service took over,” says Rabin. “It’s pure fun every week: a playground for adults.”

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THE MAN WHO FELL FOR EARTH James Hansen is already a rock star in the world of science for his warnings on climate change. Isn’t it time the rest of us learned his name? Nina Burleigh reports

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hen it comes to climate change, Americans are a skeptical lot: According to Pew Research Institute surveys, just 40 percent of us believe that global warming is a major threat to the countr y (compared, for example, with 70 percent of the Japanese and around 55 percent in most of Europe). But suff ice it to say that the doubters do not include the attendees at the American Geophysical Union conference last December. Two weeks before Christmas, about 3,000 of them jammed into San Francisco’s Moscone Center to hear James Hansen, the world’s most prominent climate scientist and the indisputable rock star of the movement, deliver a keynote speech on an issue he’s devoted himself to for the past three decades—the “globalwarming time bomb.”

There was a bit of a setback. As the last audience members were getting seated, an event organizer came onstage to announce that Hansen had apparently mixed up his dates and had not yet arrived in the city. The organizer urged everyone to return tomorrow—same time, same place. Twenty-four hours later, those 3,000 people were back in their seats, and then rising out of them, to applaud as the 72-year-old grandfather and self-described “reticent Midwestern scientist” took the stage with a sheepish grin and the assurance that he had simply overscheduled and was “healthy as a horse.”

Hansen then launched into a story that originated in his own front yard in Bucks County,

Pennsylvania. For years, Hansen and his grandchildren have tended the milkweed on their land, hoping to host the offspring of the monarch butterf lies that used to hatch on the plants every summer. Over the past two years, the butterf ly population has declined to the point where, last year, Hansen spotted a lone male butterfly with a broken wing on his property. He was devastated.

“The milkweeds wilting in the hot summer sun were like the moldering wedding cake in Great Expectations,” he later wrote. “How silly, right?

We were only being stood up by an insect.”

But for Hansen, that insect’s failure to show up is one more casualty, among many, of a phenomenon he has been talking about since 1982, when he first testified before Congress about his work.

Yet it wasn’t until this past May, after a wild year of mudslides, typhoons, droughts, f loods and wildfires, among other weather calamities, that the federal government unequivocally verified most of Hansen’s warnings. “Climate change, once considered an issue for a distant future, has moved firmly into the present,” stated a study issued by the National Climate Assessment. Along with the altered migration pattern of various species in response to changing seasons (cue Hansen’s beloved monarchs), the report—the largest on the topic ever undertaken—cited effects ranging from rising sea levels, melting glaciers and an increase in extreme weather of all varieties to an uptick in seasonal allergies and insect-borne diseases. And, like Hansen, the scientists con-

cluded that these grim outcomes are the fault of human beings. Why? Because we refuse to stop burning carbon-producing fossil fuels.

Hansen grew up in Denison, Iowa, one of seven children of a waitress and a tenant farmer who eventually moved the family into town so he could become a bartender. With the aid of a scholarship and money saved from a paper route, Hansen attended the University of Iowa, where he studied math, physics and astronomy in the 1960s under the legendary space scientist James Van Allen.

Curiously enough, Earth wasn’t even Hansen’s original planet of choice: He specialized in Venus—Earth’s brighter, sexier sister planet—and wrote his doctoral thesis on its atmosphere. In 1981, he became the director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, where he spearheaded the Pioneer Venus Project, which deployed two spacecraft to explore the solar winds on Venus and to map its surface. But after he and his colleagues noticed alarming changes in the Earth’s atmosphere, Hansen resigned from the Venus experiment (“a planet changing before our eyes is more interesting and important,” he explained) in order to better understand what was happening to his own planet.

Hansen’s first groundbreaking climate-change paper, co-published in 1981, made several dramatic predictions—all of which have since materialized. Among his prophesies were that the Arctic’s fabled Northwest Passage would open (via melting), the 1980s would get hotter, the number of drought-prone regions would increase and glaciers would start to melt and sea levels would rise. Most controversial of all was his contention that all of these changes stemmed from humans and their carbon-burning fuels.

Hansen submitted his paper four times—three

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Conor Kennedy and Daryl Hannah were arrested along with Dr. James Hansen in February 2013 at a rally in Washington, D.C.

asked to interview a different expert than Hansen, he went public with the muzzling. The incident kick-started his latent activism. “When I testified in the 1980s, it was strictly about the science,” he says. “It was just accepted that scientists weren’t supposed to talk about the policy implications of our work. So for 15 years, I left policy up to the policymakers, and nothing happened. Now I believe scientists need to reach out directly.”

In 2009, he got ar rested for the f irst time, protesting mountaintop coal mining near an elementary school in West Virginia. In 2011, he was handcuffed and arrested outside the White House for demonst rat i ng agai nst President Obama’s support of the Keystone XL pipeline,

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which would bring extremely carbon-heavy fuel extracted from tar sands in Canada into the United States. In an op-ed for the New York Times, he stated that if the tar sands were fully exploited, “civilization would be at risk.”

Last year, Hansen bur nished his stat us as a n iconoclast by resig n i ng f rom h is NASA job, thereby f reeing up his golden years for civil disobedience. Since removing himself from the government’s payroll, he’s become a full-time agitator, writing papers and books, s p e a k i n g a t r a l l i e s a n d p r o t e s t s , h el p i n g social-ju st ice law ye r s who a re f il i ng su it s against the government and racking up more ar rests. “In his willingness to reach out beyond the scientific community, he has shown ot her scient ists t hat it’s okay to wea r t hei r citizens’ hats and engage in policy,” says Scott Mandia, a professor of physical science at Suffolk Country Community College and founder of a legal f u nd to defend cli mate scient ists f rom attacks f rom indust r y. “He’s a pioneer who’s made it easier for others to follow.”

Perhaps most sur prising, given the dismal

news he purveys, Hansen remains cautiously optimistic that disaster can still be averted. But one of his most recent prescriptions—that we stop resisting nuclear energy, which he claims has caused fewer deaths historically than carbon—has put Hansen at odds with traditional environmentalists, whose anti-nuke sentiments are, as he puts it, “a quasi-religion.” Renewable-energy sources, he says, are simply insufficient to eliminate our dependence on fossil fuels. “Suggesting that renewables will let us phase rapidly off fossil fuels,” Hansen wrote in an essay, “is almost the equivalent of believing in the Easter Bunny and Tooth Fairy.”

Interestingly, the path he most favors is a free-market solution that should endear him (but so far has not) to supply-side conservatives. He wants to impose levies on carbon emissions, on the simple principle that only when a commodity becomes so expensive that consumers balk will big business have the motivation to change.

Playing the role of climate Cassandra has fundamentally changed him. “It has made me more focused, because I can see what is happening to the planet and what is not happening with policy,” he says. “It has forced me to work as hard as I can in what time I have.” And that means getting the younger generation onboard— without scaring them to death.

After Hansen’s AGU speech, a young scientist and father of small children asked how Hansen shares his dire predictions with kids. This, as it happens, is a question Hansen thinks about a lot, especially after he gave an informal talk on climate change last summer in the backyard of a friend’s house on Long Island. Two of his grandchildren were mixed into the large, mostly adult audience, and Hansen didn’t notice that his 9-year-old grandson, Connor, was crying. His wife later told him that she’d comforted the boy.

Connor’s tears still haunt Hansen. “I have intentionally not talked about the problem to my grandchildren,” he said. “Instead, I have introduced them to nature. That’s a more positive approach.” He is working on a children’s book called Sophie’s Planet—a collection of letters to his eldest grandchild—that he will publish next year. In it, he adopts a more upbeat tone and puts his predictions about droughts, f loods and rises in sea levels i n a context he hopes t hat h is grandchildren will understand. In one letter Hansen shares with DuJour he says he’s calling his book Sophie’s Planet “because it will soon belong to your generation, young people all around the world. We must help them all understand what is at stake. Never get discouraged— it is an incredible planet.”

The year 2012, when Hurricane Sandy hit the northeast coast, was the hottest ever recorded in the history of the United States.

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times to the journal Science, and once to Nature—before Science fi nally accepted it for the August 1981 issue. The paper’s significance, however, was immediately apparent: Just days after it was published, the New York Times reported his findings on page one. This exposure led to Hansen’s being called to testify before Congress.

Before long, he was a regular fi xture at congressional committee hearings.

But t he test i mony t hat put h i m — a nd h is cause—permanently on the map occurred on June 23, 1988. As severe drought engulfed the country and Washington, DC, sweltered in record 101 degree heat, Hansen was on Capitol Hill, politely but firmly explaining to the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources that the whole world was going to get even hotter and more prone to extreme weather if no effort was made to stem the rampant use of fossil fuels. As Hansen left the committee room, he told a group of waiting reporters, “It’s time to stop waff ling and say that the evidence is pretty strong that the greenhouse effect is here.”

The line was quoted in newspapers and on news programs throughout the world and almost overnight Hansen became a folk hero.

Yet for all the reverence he receives, Hansen has his share of critics and skeptics, and not just among the hard-core climate-change deniers.

Even ardent environmentalists have accused him of overstating the dangers and spreading more fear than enlightenment. And he has been reproached for drawing conclusions that go considerably beyond those of other peer-reviewed studies. Then, too, notes MIT meteorologist Kerry Emanuel (himself a global-warming activist), “A complicating factor is the human psychological need to ascribe every unusual event to a cause. Our Puritan forebears ascribed them to sin, while in the ’80s it was fashionable to blame unusual weather on El Niño. Global warming is the latest whipping boy.”

Hansen was initially surprised by the blowback (he somewhat naively believed that policymakers would react swiftly to his research), but he has never shrunk from asking tough questions and following the evidence wherever it leads, even to dismaying results. This insistence on talking truth to power has made him the poster boy of scientific free speech—one who’s managed to alienate people on both sides of the aisle.

In 2005, he gave a talk on global warming at the annual AGU meeting, also held that year in San Francisco. The next day he learned that the government, via Hansen’s own agency, NASA, decreed that he must get permission to speak to the media. A few weeks later, after NPR was

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Speakers at big-ticket events have found that wisdom is worth its weight in gold.

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on Epstein wants to captivate you. Not just for a minute or two, either. He wants you planted in your seat, transfi xed, for 45 minutes minimum. Epstein, the CEO and founder of Greater Talent Network, books authors, athletes, business leaders and politicians for lectures all over the world, with clients that include Tom Wolfe, Michael Moore, Peggy Noonan, Mia Farrow, Mo Rocca, producer Mark Burnett, Ray Kelly and Tina Brown. Epstein tells DuJour the lowdown on the speaker circuit, a business that’s in full boom. —NANCY BILYEAU DUJOUR: What made you want to go into this industry?

DON EPSTEIN: Even in high school I would br ing people in to talk to students. In college I was fascinated by the celebrity culture, and I saw that the celebrity’s name might draw people to a big lecture. But when people left, they would be more excited about a story. It didn’t make a difference who the person was, if he or she was a great storyteller, then everybody was riveted.

DJ: So you look for people who naturally excel at telling stories?

DE: It’s edutainment. Education and entertainment at the same time. People come to me and say they want to be a speaker and I tell them they must really be engaging, talk about the trials and tribulations. The life lessons are what’s valuable to everybody. You learn through other people’s mistakes.

DJ: Do you work with people to make sure they are polished before they make a speech?

DE: Here’s the thing. Sometimes we don’t want them too polished. For example, there’s Marcus Luttrell, the Navy SEAL who wrote the book Lone Survivor, which became a movie with Mark Wahlberg. He is an incredible hero. People were telling Marcus he needed speech lessons, and when we met, I said, “Absolutely not.” He was raw, he was brilliant, he was original. He told the story from his perspective. And he’s become a hit on the circuit because he’s so genuine.

DJ: It does seem that for the lucky ones, this can be lucrative.

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DE: The great speakers who have an avocation for it can make $25,000 to $200,000.

DJ: That’s per event?

DE: Yes. Some people say, “Wow those prices are crazy,” but at the same time there is real value to this.

DJ: What happens if someone isn’t a sensation in the lecture hall?

DE: We have an evaluation process. We ask the buyer candidly how the person was, warts and all, and if it comes back that they’re not up to speed, we tr y to cor rect things. If it can’t be corrected...well, we have a reputation, and it’s about quality.

D J : S o m e t i m e s yo u h a n d l e a n a u t h o r of a nonfiction book as well as the person who is the subject of the book.

DE: Michael Lewis is a perfect example. He wrote Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, about the Oakland Athletics and manager Billy Beane. We work with Michael and Billy Beane.

Then the book becomes a movie with Brad Pitt and that lends it a whole new life. It’s a very big synergy. That’s what you want. You send the people from the book around the world making speeches, and hopefully in two, three years a movie is made.

DJ: You’ve worked with some of your clients a long time.

DE: I’ve known Tom Wolfe for 30 years. I knew Michael Moore before he made Roger & Me. Then there are politicians like Cory Booker—I met him before he was a councilman.

DJ: I didn’t realize how integral your business is to the entertainment world. There are books and movies, and then there’s the speaker circuit, which monetizes those properties even more.

Where do you see the next trend coming, the next big thing?

DE: The issue audiences want to hear about is analytics. How do you maximize the talent you have?

Like in Moneyball, there’s an incredible team with no money whatsoever. How do they win over a period of time by using statistics to gauge the people they have? Corporations are + more @ fascinated by analytics: doing what DuJour.com you need to do with what you have.

It’s a huge issue throughout the country right now.

DJ: Do you still go out on the lect u re circuit yourself?

DE: I love watching audiences. I am a student of this stuff. I usually stay at the back of the room, and when people leave I’ll go out in the hall so I can listen to what they are saying. I’m much more interested in people leaving an audience happy than in how they felt when they arrived.

Lists of the highest-paid public speakers often include Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, Rudy Giuliani and Donald Trump.

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On the 40th anniversary of All the Presidents Men, David Dayen looks at how media has transformed since two relentless newspaper reporters brought down the Nixon presidency

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ur memor y of Watergate owes much to Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the Washington Post rep o r t e r s w h o s p e n t t wo ye a r s i nve st igat i ng t he burglar y at the Democratic National Committee offices, uncovering a criminal conspiracy inside the Oval Office.

But 40 years ago, if you lived in

Maine or Wyoming and wanted to follow Woodward and Bernstein’s day-to-day revelations, you’d probably have to get them filtered through broadcast news reports by Walter Cronkite. You probably wouldn’t have access to a copy of the Washington Post; maybe your local paper would reprint the articles later, or you’d read rival reporters’ work. To get Woodward and Bernstein them-

selves, you might have to wait for the publication of All the President’s Men, which revealed the behind-thescenes of stories you may never have actually read.

If it were breaking today, every Woodward and Bernstein scoop on Watergate would be instantly available to you, no matter where you lived, by logging onto the Post website. You could share the article with

your friends on Facebook, or discuss it on Twitter. You could read any number of blogs deconstructing the stories, written by everyone from amateur hobbyists to experts on the legal issues. If you chose (and maybe if you didn’t have a job), you could read every single word written by or about Woodward and Bernstein, all with the click of a mouse.

So does t h is mea n we’re i n a golden age of journalism? It would be nice to think so. It’s tr ue that A mer icans with I nter net access can find more journalism than ever before, from every perspective and all over the world. I can look out over the Pacific Ocean and swipe my phone to read about far ming techniques in Mongolia.

However, as many have pointed

The Watergate Complex in Washington, DC, is home to two office buildings, 240 hotel suites, 600 luxury apartments and an on-site dental office.

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NOT-SO-SECRET SERVICE

In his book Within Arm’s Length, former agent Dan Emmett reveals surprising truths about protecting a president—hookers not included. Here are our favorite disclosures.

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A member of the Secret Service will take a bullet for his charge, but he won’t lift luggage. For example, when a friend of a senator told Emmett to haul her suitcases, the agent drew the line. “We will die for our protectees if necessary,” Emmett writes, “but don’t ask us to carry bags.”

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out, the new economy of journalism favors speed over drawn-out investigative scoops. Editors want to fi nd as many eyeballs as possible for their stories and elbow out competitors in a 24-hour news cycle. That leads to more stories about random tweets or gotcha comments than investigations taking weeks to report. While the local reporters left do a great job (think about the Chris Christie bridge scandal), there aren’t enough of them; employment at daily newspapers dropped by one-third from 2000 to 2012. There’s more news these days about the news than news itself.

Carl Bernstein actually saw this coming. In 2002, on the 30th anniversary of the Watergate breakin, he told the PBS Newshour, “If you’re covering City Hall and what

you’re really looking for is to catch the mayor saying something that’s a little untrue and turning it into a big story when, in fact, the sewer system of the whole city is falling apart and people can’t get their water and they’re getting poisoned, you’re missing the news.” Ten years later, the only difference is that nobody covers City Hall anymore.

It doesn’t have to be this way.

New com munication tools make stories easier to gather than ever.

The Guardian writer Glenn Greenwald was living in Rio de Janeiro and his colleague Laura Poitras in Germany when Edward Snowden contacted them over the Inter net from Hawaii. That led to a series of stories about the National Security Agency that won a Pulitzer Prize.

But while that case would not have been possible without online communication and encrypted software, in the end it looked a lot like how Woodward and Bernstein got their Watergate stories. Woodward would signal Deep Th roat about meetings by moving a f lower pot with a red f lag in it to his balcony.

G r e e n w a l d a n d Po i t r a s f o u n d Snowden in a Hong Kong hotel by looking for a man holding a Rubik’s Cube. As Bernstein told DuJour, journalism is “a means of getting to the best obtainable version of the truth. It requires a lot of diligence a nd p e r seve r a nc e a nd c om mon sense to achieve.” While these days we may have a bounty of media, we need to make sure we have the journalism that actually matters.

It wasn’t just President Clinton who was getting in shape when he started running, but his Secret Service minders as well.

“Prior to Clinton’s presidency, no president in the history of the United States had engaged in any serious physical fitness activities,” Emmett recalls.

“Pretty soon the Service would need to find agents who were actually in good physical condition to run with him.”

RULES ARE MADE TO BE BROKEN Even the Secret Service isn’t immune to the charm of a leading man. When Gregory Peck arrived early to a party Senator Edward Kennedy was hosting in a Los Angeles hotel, Emmett skirted strict orders not to allow invitees into the room. After all, he writes, “I was not going to make General MacArthur wait to see Ted Kennedy.”

Prior to his indictment, Watergate burglar James McCord was security coordinator for a group called the Committee to Re-elect the President, or CREEP.

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percent say answering a call is rarely or never acceptable in business meetings

Three out of four people said checking texts or e-mails was unacceptable behavior in business meetings

JASON BINN, CEO OF DUJOUR MEDIA: 132*

A recent online survey of 1,000 people in the UK found that almost two-thirds (66 percent) of respondents were afflicted, a rise of 13 percent when compared to a similar study four years ago

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Distance participants were asked to walk in a recent “texting while walking” study

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*“My days are for face-to-face time with the people I work with. I also like to use that forgotten piece of technology called the telephone. For me, nighttime is the best for getting back to people on e-mail.” —Jason Binn, CEO of DuJour Media **“I try hard not to check e-mails until I get to the office, which is usually between 9:30 and 10 a . m . Reading e-mails at home never feels good or productive.” —David Karp in an interview with Inc. Magazine

I’m pretty well off, thanks to a combination of hard work, wildly good looks and a very wealthy husband. My two siblings are more average, in every way. Still, shouldn’t our parents be required to split our inheritance equally?

For argument’s sake, let’s just pretend we’re not all Republicans here or that you aren’t secretly plotting your parents’ early demise. Ninety is just a number, after all. If it’s cash money we’re talking about, it seems reasonable that your more beleaguered siblings could use it more than you could use yet another Céline Trapeze bag (seriously, sister, 12 is quite enough). More practically, though, if they’re not asking you for assistance now, they will someday.

And someday very soon, especially if your parents really are about to say bonjour to the great Eiffel Tower in the sky. If you’ve been excused from the will, just think about the slouches’ windfall as Mom and Dad giving out handouts so you don’t have to. If it’s something else you’re after, though—your grandmother’s china or your mother’s collection of tiny crystal animals or anything else with sentimental value—it’s worth speaking up while they’re still ticking. Otherwise, stuff it. You’ve got no control over how others spend their money, either before death or after. Clearly your parents gave you all the good sense. Take it and run.

Dilemma DuJour welcomes your social-misfit questons. E-mail us at askdilemma@dujour.com

dilemma: getty images. Sources: Pitney Bowes “The New Rude” Study; USC Marshall School of Business study; time magazine techland survey; ceo.com Study; university of queensland research; intel “Mobile Etiquette” Survey.

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Over the #selfie? Consider the #shelfie: It’s the chic new way to show off by displaying one’s books, objects and other knick-knacks. @dujourmedia dropped in on nine different workaholics around NYC to use their curated shelfies as a backdrop for the season’s most expressive accessories PHOTOGRAPHED BY @LIANNATARANTIN STYLED BY @SYDNEYWASSERMAN

The Restaurant: Daniel

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Left: Space clutch, $2,430, LEE SAVAGE, barneys.com. Bootie, $875, GIUSEPPE ZANOTTi design, 212-650-0455. Below (from left): Necklace, $750, ROBERT LEE MORRIS, robert leemorris.com. Susan C Star clutch, price upon request, CORTO MOLTEDO, corto.com. Chelsea Ankle boot, $378, LEON MAX COLLECTION, maxstudio.com. Bottom: High Oxford ankle boot, $1,595, REED KRAKOFF, reedkrakoff.com.

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The Design Studio: Sara Story’s Wallpaper

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The Salon: Paintbox Nails

Left (from left): Patras ring in 18-karat yellow gold with moonstone and diamonds, $3,700, IVANKA TRUMP FINE JEWELRY, 888-7569912. Tron pump, $675, ALEJANDRO INGELMO, neimanmarcus.com. Below (from left): Hera cuff, $600, PAULA MENDOZA, net-a-porter. com. Emmanuelle Fringe bucket bag, $2,150, SAINT LAURENT BY HEDI SLIMANE, 212-980-2970.

Cuff, $575, ROBERT LEE MORRIS, robertleemorris.com. Blades and Lapis necklace, $385, BY / NATALIE FRIGO, bynataliefrigo.com.

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The Decor Boutique: Creel and Gow

The Watering Hole: ACME

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The Artist’s Loft: Sarah Morris

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Petite Faye bag, $1,513, PAULA CADEMARTORI, paulacademartori.com.

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Left (clockwise from top): Haskell sunglasses, $95; Ormsby sunglasses, $95; Baxter glasses, $95, WARBY PARKER, warbyparker. com. Backpack, $2,200, THE ROW, A’maree’s, 949-642-4423. Leman shoe, $398, STUART WEITZMAN, 212-750-2555. Below (from top): Mini Heroine Chain satchel, $1,595, ALEXANDER MCQUEEN, alexandermcqueen.com. Sunglasses, $330, PRADA, prada.com. High top, $1,175, PIERRE HARDY, ssense.com. prop stylist: Nicole Heffron.

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The Bookstore: Mysterious Bookshop

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GARDEN STATE of MIND To play one of the Jersey Boys, Adam Rathe discovers, the actor Vincent Piazza turned himself into a quadruple threat PHOTOGRAPHED BY JEFF HENRIKSON STYLED BY PAUL FREDERICK

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hat some actor s m ig ht f i nd t e r r i f y i ng, Vi nc e nt P ia z z a considers thrilling. Take, for example, an oppor t u nit y to st ar in a huge summer movie, as a real person known for singing, dancing and playing guitar—three things Piazza had no experience doing. It would be enough to make a lesser performer panic, but Piazza had a different outlook.

“I thought, you know what, this is great,” Piazza says with a laugh.

“This is like leading with a nude scene; if I dive in here, it will be liberating.”

A n d w h a t a d i ve t o t a k e . I n Jersey Boys, the Clint Eastwood– d i r e c t e d a d a p t a t i o n of t h e h i t Broadway musical, Piazza plays Tommy DeVito, a founding member of the Fou r Seasons. For the actor, whose big break came courtesy of Boardwalk Empire (he plays gangster Lucky Luciano), it’s more than just an oppor tunity to make an impact on the big screen; it’s also a chance to play an underdog who slogged—and sang—his way to success.

“T hese were blue- collar g uys from a tough neighborhood. They were the have-nots,” Piazza says of DeVito and his band, whose hits i ncluded “Big Gi rls Don’t Cr y” and “Walk Like a Man.” “And they

From 1962 to 1964, the Four Seasons reportedly sold more records in the U.S. than any other act, save the Beach Boys (with whom they were neck and neck).

succeeded to such a deg ree t hat they transcended the limitations the world had put upon them. That’s inspiring.”

Piazza’s own career has taken a slightly different track. The Queens, New York, native grew up thinking he’d become a professional hockey player, but when that didn’t work out—“hockey was my first passion,” he says sheepishly, “but it escaped my abilities”—stints in construction and f inance followed. The latter, Piazza says now, is what pushed him into acting.

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a f r iend at work who’d say I was wasting my time, that I should be an actor,” Piazza recalls. “It made me question the decisions I’d made and I realized I wanted to act.”

From there, Piazza hired an acting coach and almost immediately started working—he won small TV and theater roles before landing on Boardwalk in 2010. Now, he’s coming to Cineplexes, having honed his singing, dancing and guitar-playing skills “at hyper speed” with the help of the Jersey Boys team.

Playing DeVito, he says, has been an experience that reminds him why he wanted to act in the first place.

“I’ve encountered bullies, and this is a stor y that says MORE PHOTOS you ca n f ig ht you r + @ duJour.com way past that and succeed if you work hard,” he says.

“There’s something about elbow grease that can bring you f rom a little corner of New Jersey to being a worldwide sensation.”

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“This is like leading with a Nude scene...it’s liberating.”

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Foyer: Bronze-framed Chinese wall panels (19th century); Chinese lattice doors (18th–19th century); petrol-green stucco walls used in Japanese tea pavilions.

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CURATOR’S KEEP

William Norwich peeks inside the serene, cerebral home of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Harold Koda PHOTOGRAPHED BY KYOKO HAMADA

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n an afternoon in early spring, Harold Koda, the curator in charge of the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, left his office and went home.

It’s a New Yorker’s dream to be able to walk to work, and the pre-war Park Avenue apartment that Harold Koda shares with his longtime partner, lawyer Alan Kornberg, is just three blocks from the Metropolitan Museum on Fifth Avenue.

A few weeks ago, with everything and everyone at the Met on the brink of Charles James Fever—“Charles James: Beyond Fashion” is the Costume Institute’s big spring exhibition—Koda invited me here to talk about the James show.

I’d been to the apartment before and now, as then, found quietude and beauty. Colors are thoughtful and rich. The furniture is important but not stif lingly so. There is proportion and permeability, nothing claustrophobic, a cadence as you go from room to room. There’s nothing in the cognoscenti-approved interior design lexicon to categorize its look. Chino-Neo Classical-Exoticism?

“Here you can find no patterned wallpapers, nor is a single opened fan on display, but the japonisme is present all the same,” says Eric Boman, a close friend of Koda’s. “There’s a spirit of

Buddhist serenity that must be cleansing after a day in the cavernous people-filled halls of the Met.” As you might expect in a home shared by a master curator and a legal mind, nothing is superfluous, from the Frette linens in the bedroom to the 19th-century tole chandelier in the dining room with all its gilding gone.

“I love the whole idea of a mix, and wabi-sabi,” Koda says as we settle in the library. “The beauty of transient things.”

Kornberg and Koda asked decorator Richard Lee to help them design the apartment as well as their country home in Dutchess County. (They recently acquired a third house on the waterfront in Maine.) “It’s absolute hubris to think that because I can do one thing”—like be a museum curator—“I’ll be good at another,” says Koda. “My problem is that I like too much. Richard helps me edit.”

Missing from the time I last visited is a startling pair of lifesize nudes by the photographer Gary Schneider, which had hung extremely front and center in the foyer.

Kod a laughs when asked where the por t raits are hidi ng.

“You mean as one friend called them ‘the sentinels at the gates of hell?’ People would come to the apartment and tell us how

When the Met Gala began in 1948, it was a midnight dinner held in December, and society ladies paid $50 to wear gowns from the Met’s Costume Institute.

Library: Cerused oak bookcases; Chris Jordan’s Circuit Boards, Atlanta, 2004; Hervé Van der Straeten Epines tripod tables in bronze with black lacquer; Adnet oak and blackened iron side table. Dining room: Italian tole chandelier (19th century); Irish Wake table (18th century); Japanned English chairs (1770); Japanese screen influenced by Abstract Expressionism (1950s).

serene it is here so much so that it really started to bug us. So we put our Gary Schneider nudes there to get a reaction.” They got a lot of reactions. “We moved the portraits when just too many people had a hard time with them.”

“i love the whole idea of wabi-sabi, the beauty of transient things.”

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The conversation turns from nudity to clothing, specifically the James exhibition that runs from May 8 to August 10 at the Met. James is celebrated for his “sculptural, scientific, and mathematical approach to designing,” and more than 100 pieces are included in the exhibition, Koda says. The mother lode comes from the collection at the Brooklyn Museum that was transferred to the Costume Institute in 2009. James, who died in 1978, had always encouraged his clients, women such as Austine Hearst and Dominique de Menil, to donate the clothing he made for them to the museum in Brooklyn.

James was “wildly idiosyncratic and emotionally fraught,” Koda says, a genius whose “architectural understanding of the human figure and clothing, his study of anatomy and his obsession about the quality of his work, and the luxury of his materials, transcended fashion.”

He smiles. “Of course it’s very difficult to tell someone who isn’t a dressmaker or a tailor how one ball gown is different than another ball gown. We’re hoping that by the time visitors leave the exhibition, they will have a better understanding of how clothing can actually be an artistic practice.”

Contrary to what you might expect, Koda doesn’t offer gestures and pronouncements like the most famous of Costume Institute alumni, Diana Vreeland, for whom he interned at the Met in his earliest days in New York. He isn’t wearing an afternoon kimono, or beads, or particularly interesting shoes made of rare velvet or reptile, not even a twee bow tie or oversize eyeglasses. His uniform, as it is most days, is a dark, but not too dark, suit by Thom Browne. Nothing too fashion-y or distracting that would compete with the costumes and clothing he mixes with at work. The French art critic Donatien Grau describes Koda as “a discreet living legend,” and “one of the most prestigious figures of the New York fashion world.”

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Living Room: Japanned English chairs with Italian slipcovers (1770s); lacquered English stools (18th century); Japanned Dutch tea table (18th century); de Francisco’s Selfportrait, (Italian, 1951); Interior, (Chinese, 19th century).

And to think that the majority of us would have felt suff iciently sophisticated if we’d said moss green.

I wondered if work ing in the language of one designer for over year, as Koda has with James, would, or could, inspire his at-home aesthetic.

“Well, funny you should ask,” he answers. “I remember during my first year in New York, when Rizzoli was on Fifth Avenue, that on the mezzanine level there was a James sofa that I coveted.”

In addition to haute cout u re gow ns, James also designed furniture.

“It wasn’t one of his larger pieces—just a voluptuous, threebutton settee in shell-pink suede, and it was incredible.” The only problem was that “with its sensual curves it really wouldn’t work in any of our homes because they’re too orthogonal.”

Koda, who grew up in Hawaii, was the associate curator of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology until he took a time out to study for a master’s degree in landscape architecture at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, graduating in June 2000. In November that same year, he became the curator in charge at the Costume Institute. Fashion to landscape and back again?

Why not? Landscape design and fashion are languages, Koda explains, that hold great clues to history and culture whenever we look.

“Harold is extremely self-effacing,” says writer Amy Fine Collins. “He wears his intelligence very lightly. He’s intensely cerebral and profoundly complex in the way he sees things.” She pauses. “There’s a side of him that is very Japanese—inward, spare, austere and hardworking. But,” she adds, “there’s another side to him that’s intensely playful.”

Definitely a playful side: Koda had just secured tickets to see the X-rated rendition of Beauty and the Beast, starring burlesque performer Julie Atlas Muz and her real-life husband, Mat Fraser, at the Abrons Arts Center on the Lower East Side. And he invited the best-dressed philanthropist, Deeda Blair, as his date.

The afternoon is getting on. It’s time for Koda to leave his idyllic apartment and return to the hubbub of the museum.

Before we go, I ask how he (and not I) would describe the complex greenish color of the Japanese teahouse Bedroom: Steel and bronze bed (18th century); silk bedcover (18th century); James Mont desk (1950s); Folke stucco on the walls here. He answers first with levity and Bensow oak and iron bench (1924); Frank Yamrus Rapture portraits (2002); silver Chinese export duck tureens. then a curator’s poignant concern for precision.

Koda pauses. A vision comes to him. “Maybe it means a fourth “It’s a pond-scum-petrol-mushroom-moss green,” Koda says.

“But for art people there is a little coppery umber undertone to house!” The blueprint is formulating as we speak. “Designed by the green that is closest to the exact color called ‘tea dust’ in Zaha Hadid. In Bolinas, north of San Francisco. It’s still very wabi-sabi there: hippies and dot-com billionaires.”

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the hot seat

RodMan’s Revelations

After his controversial trips to North Korea caused an international firestorm, the NBA Hall of Famer mostly shunned the media. Now Dennis Rodman is ready to talk.

Written by Lindsay Silberman

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D u j o u r : Starting from the very beginning—can you talk about what it was like the first time you set foot in the country?

D e n n i s R o d m a n : It’s nothing like you’ve seen over here. Not even close. It’s funny, because when I first went there it was so…Communist. Dry and dreary and like, I don’t know. Everything is so dead. Like The Walking Dead. But the third time I went there, wow. [Pyongyang] changed a lot.

New buildings were popping up and [Kim] is building all these new condos and hotels. He built the largest water park in the world, a ski resort and this big bowling alley. He’s doing everything for these people. You could go bowl for a quarter all day or go swimming all day for like 50 cents.

D J : So in your view he’s “for the people,” yet he’s almost universally regarded as a hostile dictator. How do you reconcile that?

D R : He’s for the people. I wish they had somebody that could actually come back with me. You’ve got a five-foot-one president in a small country that scares the shit out of people on this earth. And people here want to know, “Is he this tyrant? Does he kill people?” I’ve been around him and his compound, I’ve been to his vacation spots. If I would have seen something negative about him, I probably would have come back and said so.

D J : I realize you’re not a foreign-policy expert, but when you’re visiting, don’t you think they’re only showing you the part that they want to show you?

D R : I know the media very well. It can work against you, it can work for you.

And for me, I’ve been dealing with negative publicity all my damn life. But when it comes to politics, I never got involved in that shit.

D J : It’s hard to shock Dennis Rodman. But did that happen at any time in your trips?

D R : It was only one thing. When I walked into that stadium [for the first game], I sat down, and this little guy walks in. The Harlem Globetrotters were playing and I was sitting on the bench, and he sits right beside me.

Seriously, I didn’t know who this f--ker was! People were sitting there kissing his hand and crying and giving their babies to him. I couldn’t believe these people—men and women sitting there crying for 25 minutes—and this kid’s like yay tall! They had this little chant and all the people were on their knees bowing down to this guy. That’s what shocked me right there.

I’ve been around—I’ve seen a lot of leaders—but not like that. That’s how I actually met Kim. The other thing I was really shocked at was when I went to see the grandfather and the father in the mausoleum. It’s about five times bigger than Aventura Mall. The whole thing, I swear to God, it’s five miles in diameter. You cannot run, you cannot walk, you have to get in this escalator. The grandfather is in the middle of the room with all his pictures and stuff, and he’s frozen. That’s a true story! You can’t never bow in front of his head, you have to go around him and bow. I’m like, “Damn! This shit looks real!” They said yeah, he’s frozen forever. The father’s frozen, same thing. Each room is that big and the room after that is for [Kim]. That’s what tripped me out. 150,000 people go in a day. They have to wear black suits. You see them crying the whole time. That’s what trips me out about the country. They all cry.

D J : How would you describe Kim Jong-un’s personality?

D R : When he’s around his people, he’s just like anybody else. He jokes and loves playing basketball, table tennis, pool. They love American ’80s music. They do karaoke to it. He has this 13-piece girls band with violins.

He gets a mic and they play the whole time. He loves the Doors and Jimi Hendrix. Oldies. When I first went, the live band only played two songs for four hours: the theme songs from Rocky and Dallas.

D J : Is he image conscious?

D R : His wife is. They’ve been married two years. She don’t dress like a typical [North] Korean. She likes Gucci, Versace. She dressed really cool. And Kim dressed pretty much in black, gray, brown. He made me two suits.

They come right there and make a suit for you in two hours.

D J : What have your interactions been like with his family?

D R : I’ve been around his whole family; I’ve held his baby. No one’s ever held his baby before but me. I got pictures of me holding his infant. I gave [his daughter] a little Rodman jersey, we took pictures of it. Me, him and her and his wife. I have a lot of pictures of that in my safe-deposit box.

D J : How did the second exhibition game, on his birthday, come about?

D R : He was making fun of the Harlem Globetrotters, saying he didn’t want a circus the next time. We were on this big-ass yacht—it’s like a Lady Moura, a 400-foot yacht, like a cruise ship. And we were having dinner and I said, “I should throw a basketball game here. Just me and I’ll bring a lot of athletes. When is your birthday?” And he said January 8, so I said, “Let’s do it on your birthday.” And he jumped up in the air, started clapping and telling everybody, “Oh my God! He’s throwing a basketball game for me!”

D J : So you put a group together of seven retired NBA players and brought them over. Afterward, some of the players say they were misled about the trip. They thought they were going to play for charity. Is that true?

D R : Bullshit. Bullshit, bullshit, bullshit. They knew.

D J : And they got paid…

D R : Who paid ’em? I paid ’em! I paid them before they went over there.

D J : Roughly how much?

D R : $30,000 to $35,000 each.

D J : So you said, “It’s Kim Jong-un’s birthday, I’ll give you $35,000 for three days, do you want to come?” And they all said yes?

D R : Yeah. They didn’t realize we had a camera rolling 24-7 [for a BBCproduced documentary]. [Filming] them saying, “Oh, I love North Korea!”

To promote his 1996 autobiography Bad As I Wanna Be, Rodman arrived at a NYC event in a horse-drawn carriage wearing a wedding dress, makeup and a blond wig.

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e’s early. It’s just after 10 a . m . at the Turnberry Isle Country Club in Aventura, Florida, and in walks Dennis Rodman—all six feet seven inches of him, wearing a tattered baseball cap emblazoned with “Cheetah Gentlemen’s Club,” a wrinkled cotton T-shirt, black nylon track pants and a pair of impossibly large boat shoes with laces tied in haphazard knots. The oversize pair of women’s sunglasses will remain secured to his face for the duration of the interview.

Rodman, 52, is initially standoffish. “Let’s make this quick,” he says quietly. But once he starts talking, he opens up and over the next two hours delivers as promised, with a frank conversation about North Korea, the nation that has consumed his life for the past 15 months. For the uninitiated, the story goes like this: As part of a documentary series they were creating, producers at the media company Vice gained access to the Communist country—which is off-limits to Americans—by catering to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s obsession with the Chicago Bulls. The producers reached out to Rodman, inviting him to North Korea for an exhibition basketball game alongside three members of the Harlem Globetrotters. Rodman agreed.

Rodman’s first trip to North Korea took place in February 2013. Since then, he says he’s visited six times. He calls Kim a “friend for life,” and as a result has been condemned by some in America as a traitor and a dupe. But however you judge him, the provocative basketball player is now a potential source of information about a country that is inaccessible to most of the world. From the outside looking in, we see only Kim Jong-un’s appalling human-rights record and his country’s notorious famines, state executions and other abuses—but Rodman has a different perspective.

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D J : Do you get any money from the North Korean government? An appearance fee?

D R : No, there’s no money. I do it for free.

D J : Has Kim Jong-un discussed anything political with you?

D R : I’ve never told this to anyone, but the last time I was there, they just came out and started saying stuff about what they want from Americans.

How they want to rewrite the peace treaty, they want us to get the ships out of South Korea. He’s saying the reason why they have the nuclear bombs is because they know that Americans think they can take over. He says, “I don’t want to bomb anyone. But we keep our nuclear weapons because we’re such a small country—that’s the only way we can defend ourselves.”

They just want people in America and the government to know they don’t hate Americans. They want to work with Americans. They just want them to abide by the agreement that they wrote up years ago.

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standing right behind me.

D J : You’re saying that the uncle that the North Korean government itself confirms was executed is actually alive?

D R : He was standing right there.

D J : Are you ever concerned about your safety when you’re over there?

D R : I love my country. I love my country to death. And there’s no other place in the world I’d rather live. But if I go to North Korea—the next time I go to North Korea—the fear for me of not coming back… It won’t be because of North Korea. So I’m just letting you know right now… [long pause] That’s the real truth. Read between the lines on that one.

D J : So you think the American government would have a problem with you coming back into the country?

D R : When I go there, it’s going to be a problem coming back. Because they could actually stop me from coming back. They could actually pull my

“When I [next] go there, it’s going to be a problem coming back.”

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—Dennis Rodman

D J : So up until that point you had never talked politics?

D R : No, it was more casual, just joking and laughing. But when I heard that [political discussion] me and my friend were like, Oh my God, now it’s getting serious. That’s the first time I ever heard that. That takes it to a whole different level.

D J : And how did you respond?

D R : He said, “Well, we just want to try to straighten this out and try to open the doors with Americans.” I thought that I was going to get engaged in trying to negotiate some type of deal with the Americans. And after all of that, we came back for a dinner, and the first thing he said was, “Don’t worry about it. That’s OK. Don’t do that. We don’t want you to get involved.”

D J : You’ve said in the past that Kim Jong-un wants President Obama to call him. Can you elaborate on that?

D R : He really, really wants to talk to Obama. He can’t say it enough. He wants to talk to him to try to open that door a little bit. He’s saying that he doesn’t want to bomb anybody. He said, “I don’t want to kill Americans.”

He loves Americans.

D J : Have you ever seen anything alarming in your time there?

D R : It’s just like any other country, you go to Russia, Germany, you’re gonna see soldiers all over the place. You see soldiers that carry guns and sit at the airports. It’s just like that.

D J : But the difference is that in North Korea there are hundreds of thousands of people suffering and starving in labor camps.

D R : You name any country in the world… Which country does not have that shit? Every country has that.

D J : When you hear that people are dying of malnourishment and being overworked—have you been in the fields, have you seen that?

D R : I’ve seen it. They work for peanuts. But like I said, he’s not like his grandfather or father. He’s not like that. He’s actually trying to change it.

He’s actually doing cool things for these people, and that’s why they love him so much.

D J : And the accusations about him having his family members killed…

D R : You could say anything here about North Korea and people would believe it. The last time I went there, when they said they killed his girlfriend, they killed his uncle, they just fed him to the dogs… They were

passport. They already told me that. They’re afraid of me because I know so much.

D J : “They” being…?

D R : Americans. Our government. They’ve got to be careful what they say, what they do, so I respect that. But for me, I mean, it’s freedom of speech.

I’m not hurting anybody, I’m not putting anybody in danger, I’m just telling what I see. I have that leverage now that no one in the world has.

D J : Is it true you’re being indicted by the U.S. Treasury?

D R : They want to indict me. And I’m like, “For what?” Treason. They’ve threatened me. They said I gave his wife a fur coat, a dress, I gave all these gifts. I was like, “I did? No I didn’t!”

D J : Have you ever asked the U.S. government for support?

D R : I said six months ago [to the government], “Why don’t you guys help me?” They didn’t even give me a f--king response, so I was like, f--k it. I just wish people would actually take advantage of the situation that I have, instead of ridiculing me about everything I do. It’s so unfair. It’s very hard to try to do something like that in North Korea by yourself when the government don’t want to help you.

D J : Why do you think that is?

D R : If Magic Johnson went over there, it would have been a whole different story. He would have had so many people helping him to do some good stuff for the world. But I did this all by myself. I want to go back and take a couple people with me so they could actually see it and say, “Hey, you know what? It’s actually true what he’s been saying.”

D J : Who do you have in mind?

D R : I asked Oprah to go with me next time. I’ve asked quite a few people.

D J : Does this make you more interested in politics or less?

D R : People put me in a category as this diplomat, this ambassador, which I don’t want to be. This is a sports thing. In 10 to 15 years, this is going to be historical. Watch. Because I went there for sports. No one’s ever done that! It’s using sports to open the doors for communication around the world. Going through sports, not through politics. So that people can see North Korea in a great light. That little kid is changing North Korea for the better, and once we see that, maybe he’ll just loosen up and start opening the door for the people of the world. That’s it.

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The One & Only

Emily Giffin “I’ve always wanted to write a book set in the world of sports, and there are few arenas more colorful than Texas football.

But at its heart The One & Only is about relationships: friendships, mother-daughter relationships and especially romantic relationships. One of the themes that really inspired this story is the notion of unconventional love. Society sometimes seems to have such narrow constraints, and I wanted to explore the idea of a woman falling in love with the one person she shouldn’t.”

THE ACTRESS Amy Sohn

“I was drawn to Los Angeles because I have traveled there frequently, pitching television pilots and going to meetings. I chose to tell the story of Maddy Freed and Steven Weller because we are all fascinated and mystified by Hollywood marriages. I wanted to write about the everyday strangeness of

marriage against the backdrop of an extraordinary coupling. We all make trade-offs in marriage, we all feel used or misunderstood, but with my characters Maddy and Steven, these issues are heightened, with money, power, secrets, lies and business.”

The Heiresses

Sara Shepard “I lived in New York in my twenties, though not The Heiresses’ New York, a world of access and privilege and glamour.

It was fun placing these characters on the same streets and in the same shops and restaurants that I’ve visited lots of times, knowing that their lives and perspectives are so different than my own. And yet, I think the characters suffer with some universal struggles: problems with relationships, understanding their families, trying to figure out who they are.”

california Edan Lepucki “I’m drawn to stories about people settling in the wilderness. Such

stories contain danger and magic in equal parts. I also wanted to write about a marriage within a world that looked nothing like my own. What would marriage be like at the end of the world? Frida and Cal are flawed, complicated and relatable, and it was through imagining their inner lives that the outer one, this ruined, future one, came alive.”

How to Tell Toledo From the Night Sky Lydia Netzer

“Toledo is magical and mysterious. It’s familiar enough that people believe they know it, but unfamiliar enough they might believe there really is a Toledo Institute of Astronomy, a hub of science and philosophy for the whole world.

With George and Irene, there is a reversal from expected gender roles. Instead of a practical, rational man and a dreamy girl, you have a ruthlessly pragmatic woman and a hunky guy who happens to believe in multiple gods.”

In 2013, the top-selling novels were, in order, Inferno, Divergent, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hard Luck, Safe Haven, The Fault in Our Stars and Sycamore Row.

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t’s an average October day when 2 percent of the world’s population simply disappears.

Three years later, in one leafy, suburban town, things have only

The traditional love story gets a much-needed update care of Obvious Child

gotten stranger. That’s where The Leftovers, a creepy, compelling new series from HBO, beginning in June, comes in.

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In the series Liv Tyler, the former music-video vixen and Lord of the Rings star, makes her TV debut as Meg, a steely survivor targeted by a newly formed group of fanatics.

Here, Tyler discusses the perks of the small screen and her own brand of disaster preparedness. —A.R.

Dujour: This is your first TV series.

Why pick The Leftovers?

liv tyler: I was dreaming about what it would be like to spend a long time on a character, and this project came from out of nowhere. I read

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it and knew Meg was for me. I was drawn to the role and pursued it; I really went after them.

he appeal of a romantic comedy isn’t lost on Jenny Slate. “When I have a hangover, it always makes me feel better to watch You’ve Got Mail,” the comedian and actress says. “But I also think that people of my generation are hungry for a change in social norms.”

Enter Obvious Child. The film, out in June, follows Slate as Donna, a newly single New Yorker whose attempt at a rebound culminates in a one night stand and, subsequently, an unexpected pregnancy. In this story, however, it’s not just the guy Donna decides she wants, but an abortion as well.

“Obvious Child was a reaction to a slew of movies that all focused on unplanned pregnancy and all ended in childbirth,” director Gillian Robespierre says. “My best friends and I were pissed off; we were frustrated by the lack of representation of real experiences for real characters.”

A nd while the f ilm does por t ray a sit uation rarely explored in on-screen romances, an emphasis on the “com” part of rom-com keeps things from getting too heavy. A supporting cast including David Cross and Gaby Hoffmann keeps the biting, exceedingly enjoyable humor humming along, but funniest of all is Slate, who’s worked on Saturday Night Live and Park s and Recreation. She delivers a steady st ream of wicked

one-liners and appears in almost every frame of the film. It’s her nuanced performance that holds the movie together.

“I think Jenny’s such a smart actress and makes really great choices; she stays true to the authentic tale we were trying to tell,” Robespierre says. “It was a tough shooting schedule, but she was really focused. I admired her wit and her special combination of lewdness and tenderness.”

For her part, Slate says she’s glad to give moviegoers a modern alternative to 90 minutes spent watching Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan f igure out whether they’re meant to be.

“When I think of what is classically romantic to me, it’s an individual finding a partner who wants to be with them no matter what,” MORE PHOTOS she says. “I like the idea that we + @ duJour.com can wipe away some of the oldfashioned elements of a romantic comedy, but keep the classic feeling of what it’s like to fall in love.”

After all, even if the world has changed, our collective desire to watch actors meet-cute remains.

“It’s nice that we can say humans are diverse and complex and the more we open our hearts and minds, the more we can see how today’s pairings are different from old-fashioned ones,” Slate says. “But our need to connect is universal.”—ADAM RATHE

is it reminds me of The Twilight Zone. I like things slightly off.

DJ: Does a job like this make you rethink disasters?

lt: I do worry about how I‘d react in a crisis. Some people have elaborate plans and things ready to go.

I haven’t taken it that far.

DJ: If a crisis was imminent, how would you pass your remaining time?

lt: I’m wildly nostalgic and always think about what if tomorrow never comes. I would spend it exactly the way I am spending it today, at home with my son and my dog.

Rom-com “It” couple Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks will have a reunion of sorts in the upcoming film Ithaca ; she’ll be directing and he will executive produce.

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HALT & CATCH FIRE

This smart new AMC series charts the rise of the personal computer and the high-stakes business around it—not to mention cringe-worthy 1980s fashions.

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The Wachowskis latest sci-fi offering features Mila Kunis as the titular being, who discovers she alone is responsible for the fate of the universe. But no pressure!

The second season of Netflix’s much bingewatched series promises more banter and brutality from inside a Connecticut women’s prison.

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The latest from director Paul Haggis, this ensemble drama follows Liam Neeson, Olivia Wilde, Adrien Brody, Kim Basinger and more through an onslaught of international intrigue.

Herman Koch, who wrote 2013’s breakaway hit, The Dinner, is back with this pageturner about a plastic surgeon, a dead movie star and a charming bungalow on the Mediterranean.

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E.R., this isn’t. On Cinemax’s new series, helmed by Steven Soderbergh and starring Clive Owen, the bloody goings-on at a turn of the century New York hospital are just what the doctor ordered.

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The rare thriller to be longlisted for the prestigious Man Booker Prize, this 1,024-page, four-part novel might be beach reading, but it’s going to be the smartest book out on the sand.

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Another summer blockbuster? Not for Cate Blanchett.

The co–artistic director of the Sydney Theatre Company is bringing stateside her lauded production of Jean Genet’s The Maids for a summertime dose of high culture at New York’s Lincoln Center Festival.

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Richard Linklater’s worth-the-wait bildungsroman is remarkable not only for its performances but also its process: Linklater filmed annually for over a decade to allow his cast to age naturally.

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Tell someone that you’ve just met Sylvester Stallone, and the first question is always the same: How’d he look? The thinking isn’t malicious. It’s just that Stallone helped define masculinity for a generation of men, perhaps more so than any actor since Steve McQueen. He understands that we are complicated, that we are all two sides of the same coin: Rocky, the sensitive, wounded warrior in search of love and approval, and Rambo, his polar opposite—a veined-out, one-man army and hero of the Reagan years.

We’re scheduled to meet at the Peninsula Hotel, which makes perfect sense. Stallone is timeless. And this place is, too; it’s all pastel colors, floral prints and oversize bread baskets. Stallone enters the dining room right on time, dressed in a black, military-style dress shirt that strains to cover his still-hulking frame. He walks with the slow gait of a returning champion as he takes in the room. You actually have to stop yourself from shouting, “Yo, Rock!” as he wraps his massive hand—like a giant slab of concrete—around yours.

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So, how does he look? Fucking fantastic. Like a Picasso painting, with a nose slightly off-center and big, sympathetic eyes. His wrist is so thick, his oversize IWC watch still somehow looks like a toy. His hair is salt-andpepper—more natural than the oil-slick he sports in The Expendables, a surprise hit franchise about aging mercenaries that has earned some $580 million dollars at the box office worldwide. (A third installment is due out this summer.) Stallone broke his neck filming the original in 2009 after he was accidentally thrown into a pile of bricks. The injury required something like seven surgeries to heal. This is 67.

Yes, 67. If you’re surprised he’s still kicking ass at the age some men start wearing diapers, you haven’t been paying attention. When hasn’t this guy been underestimated? Stallone, a man you probably thought was illiterate, earned Academy Award nominations for best original screenplay and best actor in the same year, for Rocky. He’s only the third man in history to have done so. (Charlie Chaplin and Orson Welles were the other

his story. The Rocky years were followed by the Planet Hollywood years and then the Exile, when the work dried up. Stallone leans in, happy to reminisce, telling me about the time he met John Wayne at the People’s Choice Awards in 1977. In as sure a sign as any of how different awards season is these days, Stallone tells me he dressed himself for the event. In a tuxedo he rented.

“I was in this stupid tux and ruff led shirt,” he says, ordering a bowl of chicken soup. “Here is the guy, coming across to me. Let me introduce myself. My name is John Wayne. Welcome to Hollywood.” The moment was so seminal, Stallone still has a photo of it on his iPhone, in a folder marked “Celebrities.” This digital detail speaks volumes: Despite all his success, this guy still thinks of himself as an outsider. Years later, at the opening of a Planet Hollywood in the south of France, Stallone took a page out of Wayne’s book. “This story is not meant to embarrass anybody,” he tells me. “But I said, You know what, there’s Johnny Depp and Leonardo.

“I used to be vain. and very competitive.” two. How do you like them icons?) Rocky may be a fictional character but he’s still the Patron Saint of Philadelphia. The steps he climbed in front of the Philadelphia Museum of Art—known to all as the Rocky Steps—are hallowed ground. There may be other iconic stars from the ’80s, but there’s no public landmark named after the Terminator.

Without question, Stallone’s at an unlikely, yet fascinating, point in his career. He’s at that age where his films, like Judge Dredd and Death Race 2000, are being remade. Rock y, meanwhile, is now a Tony-nominated Broadway musical (Stallone came up with the idea with longtime producing partner Kevin King Templeton). Yet he hasn’t changed with the times so much as bent time to his will. Last year’s Grudge Match, about aging boxers, proved he could laugh at himself, but you’ll notice he left the Viagra jokes to Alan Arkin. That’s ’cause Stallone’s still got it. The Expendables may be the Geriatric Avengers, but dude’s very much on the frontlines.

For all his success, there’s pain there, too, lurking beneath his taut, tattooed chest. For a window into his soul, look no further than his paintings.

Yes, Stallone is an artist, exhibiting his work last year in a solo show at the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg. One piece, entitled Champion Due, shows a weathered, tired boxer in the center of a ring with blood-red tears streaming down his cheeks. Stallone wears his heart on his sleeve, then wipes it all over the canvas.

“A little Campari today?” the waiter asks as we sit down. Apparently Stallone’s a regular at the Peninsula. He even lived at the hotel for two years in the late ’90s while he was searching for the right house.

“Bring me a little iced coffee,” Stallone says, perusing the menu. “I’m gonna have something light,” he adds. Perhaps. But the conversation is anything but.

Sylvester Stallone has been famous for so long you’ve forgotten parts of

They’re just hanging out. I walked across the room: ‘Hi guys, welcome to the business. You’re doing a great job.’ ” The young, would-be stars forced a smile and returned to their conversation. “They went, ‘OK,’ ” Stallone says, with a laugh. “They were shy. I’m sure they appreciated it.”

Stallone’s voice is like an old gravel road; rough and winding, and who knows where it will take you. His stories are dispatches from another time (a better time?) in history. As if on cue, Larry Flynt—the 71-year-old political provocateur and founder of Hustler magazine—passes us. Stallone f lags him down. “Larry, hi. It’s Sly!” “Hello brother,” Flynt says. “Behaving yourself?”

“Are you crazy?” Stallone says. “Life’s too short for that, my friend.”

Stallone’s origin story is so fantastical it seems like something that came from a comic book. His New York feels both more dangerous than now yet also wildly innocent. Stallone once slept in the Port Authority for three weeks before he got in a fight over a bench and was arrested. When Stallone penned Rocky, he was living in a walk-up on 56th and Lexington.

His rent was $71 a month, which he could barely afford; he lived off of $30 a week in unemployment benefits.

“There was an old crumbling building,” he says. “It sat above the subway. It was literally crooked. It was basically a haven for homeless and hobos. You’d step over them to get into your room.” He was married at the time to an aspiring actress, Sasha Czack, and the couple would often wake to the sight of cockroaches drowning in the toilet bowl. Their electricity had been cut off, and Stallone recalls writing Rocky by candlelight. He references Edgar Allan Poe’s work ethic. (Illiterate? Hardly.) A bidding war broke out over the script, and Stallone was offered $315,000 to sell—a fortune at the time—but no one wanted him to act in the thing. Cockroaches be damned, Stallone rejected every offer until he found a buyer willing to

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take a risk on an unknown. In the end, he was paid a paltry $20,000 for the script—the Writer’s Guild minimum at the time. But he got his shot at the title fight.

It’s a cliché to call his a Cinderella story, but it’s true—right down to playing dress-up. Stallone wore a now-chic leather jacket over a white cable-knit sweater to the 1976 premiere of Rocky. When it came time for the Academy Awards, Rocky was nominated for best picture in a category that somehow included All the President’s Men, Network, Bound for Glory and Taxi Driver. Talk about a good year. There’s a famous photo of Stallone and the producers of Rocky right after they won the top prize.

Stallone, all smiles, has his fist raised above his head. You’ll notice he’s not wearing a bow tie.

Stallone explains: “We were pulling into the driveway where the Oscars were being presented. It was a rented tux. The tie explodes on the way and the driver goes, ‘Wanna borrow my tie?’ I said, ‘Nah, I don’t think it’ll matter.’ I flipped my collar out. At that time it was the Italian style. It was as though I had walked in wearing the scarlet letter and I had scarlet fever.

People were appalled. I mean, appalled.” Imagine the stir he would have caused if he’d shown up, like Jared Leto, with ombré hair.

Fame came fast, and hard. There were evenings at Studio 54. And white suits. And floor-length fur coats. So many fur coats. Stallone was working nights at the time on a movie called Nighthawks. “The sun would go down,” he says. “My lunch break would be from one to two. I would go to Xenon or Studio 54 every night.” To be clear, Stallone went to Studio 54 for lunch.

“It became like a country club,” he says. Mick Jagger, Halston, Martin Scorsese, Norman Mailer—he hung out with them all. Stallone sets the scene: “There was a giant spoon on the ceiling and you’d see the moon and the moon would take a gigantic dose of cocaine. And it would trickle down and sparkle and people were dancing and you’d look around and there’s Bianca.” The VIP room was in the basement. That’s where Stallone became friendly with Andy Warhol, who went on to paint him several times. “Andy always had his camera, which he would fire from the hip as though he was a gunslinger.”

Talk about whiplash. Stallone had ear ned just $1,400 the year before Rock y came out. Now he was hanging out at the Factor y until five in the morning? It was too much. He gave a bunch of interviews, a nd he st a r ted to hate t he sou nd of h is ow n voice. “I would pontif icate on ever ything from tuberculosis to time war ps”—topics he k new nothing about. “I was tr ying so hard to distance myself from the Rock y image.” It all came to a head in a July 1982 Rolling Stone cover stor y. The cover line read: “The Trouble With Sylvester Stallone.” “In the pict u res,” he says, “I’m just sad-look ing. My interview was so boring, the writer said he was suffering from AWOL— Asleep With Open Lids.” When Stallone sat down to write Rock y III, the story came easily to him. It was a story about Rocky becoming an egomaniacal, self-obsessed dick. And it was autobiographical.

If an interview from 1982 still haunts him—and Stallone quotes the article freely from memory—you can imagine the unseen scars he carries from a contentious relationship with his father. At 11, Stallone broke his collarbone jumping off the roof of his house. He was kicked out of a handful of schools. “You weren’t born with much of a brain,” his father

told him, “so you better start using your body.” The line was so damaging, Stallone wrote it into the original Rocky.

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tallone’s father, an Italian immigrant, moved the family from New York to the DC area in 1950, where he opened a beauty school. “The name Stallone means horse or stallion,” he says. “They were horse people, but peasants. He was going to break away from the Stallone mold. He became a beautician.” Stallone laughs. “He was about as much a beautician as I would be a biophysicist.

He had thick hands, like mine. Like baseball mitts. He was Rambo.”

Was he around to see your success?

“Yes, he was. And he was conf licted by it.”

How so?

“He had aspirations and dreams, too. If two normal parents all of a sudden give birth to Tom Brady and go, God, where did that come from? But if you’re a tough guy and your son is playing tough characters, you go, ‘I could kick my son’s ass… Why didn’t I get all of that?’ ” Did he come to the Oscars?

“He didn’t show up.”

You invited him?

“Yeah. It was a real rough relationship. He taught me to be very combative. Rejection can really turn you into a winner, or it can expose you as a real loser. I was in the rejection business. Show business is that. My father, because he was so difficult, made me very, very resilient. And spiteful. In other words, I’m gonna do it in spite of you.”

Stallone pulls out his iPhone to show me another photo. There he is as a young man in Hell’s Kitchen, wearing a wide-lapel shirt, sitting on a pile of bricks. “I was born in that room,” Stallone says, pointing to a rundown brownstone in the background. “You can see the neighborhood I came from. I keep photos only to remind me of the journey. I feel like our memory fades. And you are what you are.”

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f you know what you’re worth, go out and get what you’re worth.” That’s a line from 2006’s Rocky Balboa, the sixth (yes, sixth) film in the series. It had once been Stallone’s motto. Yet somewhere along the way he’d forgotten it.

He divorced his first wife in 1985; his turbulent second marriage, to actress Brigitte Nielsen, ended less than two years later. Roger Ebert had once predicted Stallone would be the next Brando. While he put on more than 30 pounds for 1997’s Cop Land, his performance largely went ignored. Stallone weathered a series of commercial disappointments in rapid succession. I mention that he seemed poised for the kind of career resurrection Quentin Tarantino specializes in.

“Tarantino did call,” Stallone says. “I was foolish. He called for Jackie Brown—the De Niro part. I said, I’m not sure I can pull this off.” Years later Tarantino tried again with Grindhouse, offering him the role Kurt Russell eventually played. “First, I think it had been offered to Mickey Rourke,” Stallone says, “then he offered it to me. I said, I don’t know if I can pull this off with the girls and whatever.” Stallone was f lailing. In 2003, he played the fourth lead in Spy Kids 3. He did two episodes of Las Vegas, the NBC series starring Josh Duhamel. By his own admission, he

was not fun to be around.

“I believe we suffer two deaths,” he says, his hands clasped together on the table. “If you feel you’re a creative person, you die twice in this life.

And the creative death is a horrible one that can linger for 30 years. You realize you’re done. And you have no outlet for it. It’s a horrible thing. I was saddened by the prospect that I was probably the architect of all of this.” He adds: “We’re all very f lawed. And we all think we can get over our f laws. But we can’t. We can manage them. But we are who we are.”

In a way, that’s what makes The Expendables so genius. “We are who we are.” Stallone once again had to write himself out of a hole, betting on himself when no one else would. The Expendables is, ostensibly, about

I warn kids: There’s a check coming due.”

It doesn’t seem possible that you’re turning 68.

“It’s very possible. Get those cataracts out of there.”

What’s it like to see yourself on-screen now?

“I don’t like it. Believe me. I only wish I could do every movie coming out of the sun. And I’m backlit. I’d love to do a desert film. That would be the greatest movie.”

Are you vain?

“I used to be vain. And very competitive. ‘Arnold has size. I can’t get that size. I don’t have the genetics.’ I tried to get more definition. Finally it got to the point where you’re getting [voted] Best Abs in movies? I don’t

“We’re all very flawed. And we think we can get over our flaws. But we can’t.... We are who we are.”

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a group of mercenaries who—forget it, it doesn’t matter. The plot (such as it is) barely coheres. It was a hit because audiences wanted to see Stallone, Mickey Rourke, Bruce Willis and Arnold Schwarzenegger together on-screen. It was like The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel but with dynamite.

For his part, Stallone likens the film to a reunion tour featuring Three Dog Night, Blood, Sweat and Tears, and the Righteous Brothers. In other words: These relics were greater than the sum of their parts. (Sample bit of dialogue: Schwarzenegger says, “I’ll be back”; Willis scowls, “You’ve been back enough. I’ll be back.”)

Says Terry Crews, an NFL-star-cum-action-hero who appears in The Expendables: “He’d write monologues for all of us. Then it would come time to shoot it and he’d throw it all away. He’d say, ‘Man, they don’t want to see us say all this stuff. But what you just read? That’s what you’re thinking while you’re shooting.’ ” While the blockbuster seems like a no-brainer now, studio executives balked, as did some of Stallone’s own compatriots. Jean-Claude Van Damme basically accused him of slumming when Stallone tracked him down in Thailand to offer him a role in the first film. Van Damme said: “Sly, I think you are above this. Why are you making this movie?”

“I said, ‘Well, I think it’s financially sound, and it’s what we do, JeanClaude.’ He goes, ‘I believe you are at the point in your life where you should play a priest in East L.A. helping young people,’ ” Stallone says. “I go, ‘A priest? Does he carry a gun?’ ” The two had words. Stallone called Van Damme “an idiot.” Van Damme must have had a change of heart. He played the villain in the sequel.

Of Stallone, Crews adds, “He truly has shown what faith is: You gotta go when everybody says no.” A fourth Expendables is now in the works. (Stallone says Bill Clinton would be his dream cameo.) Which begs the question: How much longer can this go on? And what’s left for Stallone to prove?

Do you ever think, I’m too old for this shit?

“Trust me. Every day I feel it. I fucking hate it. But there’s no getting around it, you know? I just should not have done so many stunts. But now

want to get Best Abs. That’s not the title you want. I guess I think of myself as a filmmaker.”

That’s vintage Stallone—putting a fine point on the changing face of masculinity nearly 40 years after Rocky first premiered. Is Best Abs something men are supposed to aspire to?

Today, Stallone is busier than he’s been in years. He and his wife, Jennifer Flavin, have three daughters—ages 17, 15 and 12—and he’s heavily involved in their lives. (Like any dad, he laments their increasing obsession with social media. Though, considering he once got into a Twitter feud with Bruce Willis over a salary dispute, he doesn’t have much ground to stand on.) When asked about the secret to marriage, he says, “ending fights quickly. Going to bed angry builds up scar tissue. And as you know, nothing grows on scar tissue.”

Surely he’s enjoying his victory lap around town. Stallone’s done eight films since 2010. There’s even talk of a Rocky spin-off, of sorts: Fruitvale Station’s Ryan Coogler is working on Creed, about the grandson of Apollo Creed stepping into the ring. (Rocky would train the kid, and Stallone is game—should the script come together well.) But perhaps there’s something else at work here. Maybe Stallone is running from mortality, too. The topic’s always been on his mind. Even as far back as 1978 he told Playboy, “If I slow down, the omnipotent clock is going to catch me and cut me to pieces with the second hand.”

“You can panic,” he says now. “Or you can just surrender to it and realize it’s an inevitability.” In other words: Of course Rocky is now a musical.

Just as Studio 54 is now a scrubbed-clean Broadway theater. Life hasn’t stood still for Stallone, or any of us.

When he’s feeling contemplative he turns inward and focuses on painting, which he once referred to as his “first love.” Look closely at his work and you’ll frequently see a clock somewhere on the canvas. “Father Time,” he says, adding, “We do two things in the world: We race. And we fight.

When Rambo said, ‘War is normal. Peace is an accident,’ I’m sorry to say, you know, that’s true.”

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o hear him tell it, Jeff Koons keeps the hours of an average businessman. “I’m here Monday through Friday, nine to five,” he says, shrugging, as if the operation he runs out of a former warehouse on Manhattan’s far west side were some ho-hum insurance office and not an extraordinary, Wonka-esque culture factory turning out the world’s most sought-after art.

Koons, of course, is the creator of some of contemporary art’s most outsize work, including his series of 10-foot-high “Balloon Dog” statues, one of which sold in 2013 for more than $58 million, breaking the record for the price paid for a single piece by a living artist.

Add to his substantial fortune a seemingly endless chorus of hosannas and, the coup de grâce, this summer’s retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art—the museum’s final exhibit at its current Madison Avenue home—and there’s no question that Koons is the most successful artist of his time. If all that weren’t

already apparent, a visit to the artist’s 33,000-squarefoot studio easily hammers home the point.

Visitors walk in off an unimpressive gray stretch of sidewalk and are immediately transported to someplace refined, whimsical and really rather marvelous.

At every turn there’s a mesmerizing piece—an oversize painting, an almost-completed sculpture, a pile

“I’M RESPONSIBLE FOR EVERYTHING.” —JEFF KOONS

of heads of familiar superheroes—and what seems like an army of employees (there are 125 in all) working to carry out Koons’ singular vision. But this is no devil-may-care art assembly line. Koons creates a very limited amount of work—usually less than 20 pieces a

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year—and is exceedingly serious about every aspect of the creative process.

“I let things resonate for a long time,” Koons says.

“Generally what I make today, I have already thought about for at least a year and sometimes two. I have already been thinking about it and whether or not I want to make that gesture.”

Most of that thinking, Koons says, takes place in his office—a shared room littered with Macs, art books and miniatures of his sculptures that buzzes with activity even when the boss sits down for an interview.

“This is where I come to work,” he explains. “I tend to work on paintings here. We do two-dimensional design in this office, and in the next room we develop things to 3D. If I’m working on a sculpture, after I get the basic design and scale, we go into the next room over and start to develop models.”

A 3D studio isn’t the only upscale perk of the workspace, however. Koons is a fitness fanatic who, with his wife, Justine, has six young kids to keep up with, so he keeps a gym on the building’s second floor in order to meet his personal trainer for a daily appointment.

“I train every day, five days a week,” Koons says.

“I have a complete gym here and I have a trainer who comes and works with me. Bringing your body and mind together is ver y impor tant. For me, it’s ver y freeing.”

Something has to be, considering Koons’ extensive obligations. While the artist does employ a lot of help, he’s involved in each piece in the studio and considers every action on his behalf to be his own.

“I’m responsible for everything: It’s up to me to educate my staff, and I really have to be able to watch everything from a distance,” he says, explaining how he keeps the studio running smoothly. “If I pick up a

Left: Assistants work on the details that go into constructing the artworks—under the watchful eye of an assortment of maquettes and miniatures.

Below: Putting finishing touches on Gazing Ball (Snowman), 2013, plaster and glass.

—Jeff Koons

water bottle and move it, I am telling my hands to do that and I am the one moving it. It’s the same thing working with a staff: I’m just informing them that I would like to take this and move it from here to there. I’m really not that removed.”

It’s a system that clearly works for Koons, who’s also dabbled in high-end collaborations, like creating a set of $20,000-per-bottle sculptures for Dom Pérignon. With the biggest exhibit of his career only weeks away from opening, Koons seems remarkably calm. “We’ve been working on [the exhibition] for approximately two years and a lot of work has gone into this project,” he says. “Now it’s actually less and less work every day because we have so much done already. We know exactly what it’s going to look like and we’re just thrilled.”

Of all the works of ar t a visitor can see at Koons’ studio, the most impressive creation just MORE PHOTOS might be the cool, collected demeanor + @ duJour.com of the man himself. Sure, he’s organized and efficient and undeniably at the top of his game, but beneath the surface he admits to being just as wowed by the spectacle of his studio as anyone else.

“I feel very lucky to have this,” he says, walking off to his next appointment. “Sometimes I have to pinch myself just to believe it’s real.”

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t was late February in Aspen, and Nancy Pfister was home. As the small plane taxied across the tarmac, she began gathering up her things. Nancy had seen this airport more times than she could count. She was always flying somewhere—Bali, Saint Tropez, the Valley of the Gods in India—but sooner or later, something always pulled her back home to the mountains of Colorado.

She had arrived at a relatively quiet time, which locals like her preferred. During Christmas and New Year’s, dozens of private jets crowded the airport, carrying celebrities, hedge fund managers, the occasional Saudi prince. In a few weeks, spring breakers would arrive, looking for a last chance to ski before the roads turned to mud and the snow turned slushy and gray.

Pf ister came from one of the most prominent families in Aspen, the developers of Buttermilk Mountain. She had grown up riding horses on the trails behind the family compound, hiking to mountain lakes in search of rare f lowers and f ly-fishing

with her mother on Woods Lake. With high cheekbones, a long, slender neck and the willowy figure of a runway model, she was beautiful. She had a big laugh and a fearlessness that over the years attracted everyone from the late Hunter S. Thompson to Michael Douglas, whom she had brief ly dated. A bit of a wild child, she had once been at the center of Aspen’s party scene, when cocaine was plentiful and cops, who were often at the same parties, looked the other way. To many people, Nancy defined the Aspen of a certain era.

But that Aspen was gone, and now Nancy spent most of her time elsewhere. She loved seeing her family and friends, but she had no plans to stay long. In fact, she was annoyed that she was back at all. She’d spent the winter with friends in Australia, but the tenants in the house she owned and rented out in Aspen hadn’t been paying, forcing her to cut her trip short. She planned to stay in Aspen a few weeks, take care of business and return to Australia, perhaps for good.

Waiting for her when she deplaned was her personal assistant, a woman named Kathy Carpenter who had the same casual style as Nancy, with free-f lowing, dark hair and pretty brown eyes. Like Nancy, she was easy to talk to. Anyone passing by that night might think the two were close friends. But while Nancy treated Carpenter as an equal, they came from very different social classes. Nancy had never held a traditional job; the money she’d inherited had allowed her to go wherever she wanted, whenever she wanted. Carpenter, on the other hand, came from down valley, where the service workers who ran the ski lifts and bused tables could afford to live. For 20 years, she had worked at Alpine Bank, which provided her housing off Main Street. It was the only way someone on Carpenter’s salary could live in Aspen.

As they drove up Buttermilk Mountain, the road winding through the towering forest, the headlights of the snowcats grooming trails on Ajax Mountain cut through the darkness. If Nancy were to roll down her window, she could smell the scent of the pine trees studding the snowy hills, the smoke from the big fireplaces of her neighbors. It was a smell that told her she was home, and safe. For all its changes, Aspen was still a small town, the sort of place where you could sleep with your window open, or leave your car door unlocked. Nothing bad ever happened here.

But within the week, Nancy Pfister would be dead, bludgeoned to death and stuffed into a closet, the woman at the wheel suspected of playing a role in her murder.

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n the winter of 1988, the journalist Ted Conover arrived in Aspen to write a book about how the town had transformed itself into a city for the very wealthy and celebrities. He was attending a lecture about Rilke at the Aspen Community Center, when a stylish woman started making eye contact with him. Something about her distracted him. As he later wrote, “She wore a long skirt, a white oxford shirt and a sweater vest,” and seemed to exude a vibe

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Flower girl: Friends say Nancy grew up a tomboy; she continued to love the outdoors.

that was both bohemian and moneyed. While the lecturer went on about Rilke’s mother, it seemed like this woman had taken control of the event with the power of her presence alone.

“She looked well-heeled, unapologetic, somehow even proprietary over the proceedings,” Conover wrote in the book Whiteout, the seminal history of modern Aspen. As soon as the lecture was over, the woman, who turned out to be Nancy Pfister, turned to Conover.

“Are you doing anything for the next hour?” she asked.

Conover fumbled for a reply. “Have we met?” he wanted to ask, but instead agreed to hop in Nancy’s Porsche, and they headed to Woody Creek to meet the gonzo journalist Hunter Thompson, the godfather of Nancy’s daughter.

As they drove, Conover got the general outlines of Pfister’s life, and he would fill in the rest of the blanks later—her parents owned land on Buttermilk Mountain, which they would eventually turn into a ski resort, and were part of an extended clan of families who more or less ran the town.

Her mother, one of the first American women to f ly warplanes, also f lew helicopters and loved all forms of skiing, including backcountry. Her dad wore a big white cowboy hat and ran cattle on the Lazy Chair Ranch, where Nancy had grown up.

The encounter was typical of the way Nancy introduced herself to people, brash and unabashed. Billy Clayton, a lifelong friend, said he first met Nancy when she was 12 years old. He kept horses at Nancy’s father’s ranch, and he immediately took to the girl as if she were his little sister.

“Even at a young age, she had this sense that she could do anything. She was fearless. And that was really infectious,” Clayton recalls. “They always gave me the wild horses to work with, and in a way, that’s what Nancy was like, those horses.”

Nancy came of age at a time when Aspen was undergoing dramatic change. The Aspen of her childhood was a place without gated communities or even paved roads. Cassandra Denver, the ex-wife of the late singer John Denver, remembers Nancy taking her on ski races across hidden meadows at midnight and summer hikes up to ice-cold mountain lakes in search of wild mushrooms. “She was just so much fun,” Denver says. “One of the most free-spirited people I’ve ever been around.”

By the time Nancy was in high school in the early ’70s, Aspen had begun to usher in an era Hunter Thompson described as a “wild and incredible dope orgy.” The movie stars came not long after. “Nancy was right in the middle of that scene,” Clayton remembers. “I mean, if you could see all the people that rode in that red Porsche with her, everyone from Steve Martin to the Dalai Lama.”

They often ended up at Thompson’s place, where he sometimes wandered around stark naked, hopped up on mescaline, shooting his .44 magnum at targets he’d set up around his property. Aspen was in the midst of a great battle, he would say—his cigarette holder jabbed in the side of his mouth—that pitted the “subdividers, ski pimps and land developers” against the hippies who “still valued a good place to live.”

Nancy cheered when the mayor cut down highway billboards, but realized, like Thompson and all the other environmentalists, that you could only hold back change for so long. By the early ’80s, the trickle of movie stars, as Conover wrote, had “swelled into a f lood,” and the billionaires

who would raze trees to erect massive homes weren’t too far behind.

Aspen was increasingly becoming a place that consisted of two worlds: the cosmopolitan small town that was tasteful and refined, with great thinkers, environmentalists and a world-class opera house, and the town as it existed to outsiders, “a place for pleasure and escape…a Never-Never Land,” as Conover put it. While all locals were inf luenced by both worlds to some extent, no one occupied them quite to the extent Nancy did.

“There was a certain overlap between outside wealth and glamour and the old, privileged Aspen, and Nancy loved that space,” Conover says. “She

wrote, “casually eating with chopsticks from a Chinese carry-out carton. I was drawn to her… Soon we were standing a foot apart, face-to-face, just looking at each other. What I noticed most was her eyes—mesmerizing and mischievous, like cat-eye marbles.”

Without a word, Nancy scooped up a clump of rice with her chopsticks and pushed it toward him. “I opened my mouth,” he wrote, “accepted the morsel and knew I had arrived.”

Andersen immediately fell in love with the beguiling aura Nancy possessed. Many men did—polo players, ski racers, movie stars. But Nancy

“NANCY REALLY EMBODIED WHAT ASPEN WAS IN THAT ERA.” really embodied what Aspen was in that era.” But as Aspen changed, so did never settled down, and as the years passed, friends who had once idolized Nancy. Clayton could see it happening. “When I knew her, she was just a her free spirit began to question some of her choices, clucking at her long small-town girl,” he remembers. “She loved horses, she loved to ski, she absences from home and the months she’d spend away from Juliana, who was a tomboy. And then all those people, Michael Douglas, Jack Nichol- stayed with family and friends while she was gone. Nancy told Juliana that she never intended to marry her father, a handsome polo player from son, they took her out of there and introduced her to the world.”

At the same time, Nancy felt deeply uncomfortable with what Aspen Argentina. He was simply a baby donor, she said, someone to fill a role. was becoming, and often opposed her father’s development of Buttermilk This didn’t sit well in Aspen, which despite its claims of open-mindedness, Mountain, even joining committees to stop the project. While she remained can actually be quite conservative and bound by convention.

As she got older, gossip followed her. She was promiscuous, some said. especially close with her dad, and in love with her hometown, she began Unfit to be a mother. No Pants se a rch i ng for t he u nt r a mNance became a cruel nickname meled and raw experiences in around town. Why couldn’t she nature she had experienced as be more li ke her t wo sisters, a child. She traveled to Nepal who had married and lead quiet and Indonesia, and when she and respectable lives? “People had her only child, Juliana, in can become very judgmental,” 1986, she took the baby with Clayton says. “And I think they her wherever she went. They we re jealou s. For one t h i ng, lived off and on in an abanmost people can’t just jump on doned sugar mill in Hawaii a plane and f ly wherever they and spent months at a time in want. And it bugged people that Bali and Thailand.

In cold blood? Trey Styler, Nancy Styler and Kathy Carpenter were arrested for Pfister’s murder. she never settled down.”

“At times it was hard for Instead, she lived a chaotic life, continually on the r un. She’d call me,” Juliana says now. “It was like, ‘Why do I have to eat this weird food, and why am I up till one-thirty in the morning at this art show? Why are Clayton out of the blue from Stade Roland Garros, where she was watchwe in this weird country? I just want to be with my friends at school.’ But ing the French Open, and hand the phone to Roman Polanski, or from it was also awesome. The things that once made me embarrassed I now Africa, where she was with Anjelica Huston. Over time, the circle of friends who could just travel with her on a moment’s notice became look back on with so much gratitude.”

Once, for example, Nancy and Juliana were in St. Tropez when Nancy smaller and smaller. Friends got married, others got jobs, but Nancy remained unencumbered, free to do whatever she wanted. She began to saw a man on the deck of an 80-foot-long mahogany sailboat. travel alone more often. When she came back to Aspen, many of her old “Hey,” she called out. “Is that your sailboat?”

When the man said it was, Nancy didn’t skip a beat. “Can my daughter friends were not all that available, so she began taking on new ones that, sources say, seemed seedy, even dangerous. and I come with you?”

“And I was like, ‘Mom, ‘cmon!’ I was so embarrassed,” Juliana says.

“But now I look back and think, man, I spent like two days on the most ne night in the summer of 2012, Nancy was up in Glenbeautiful sailboat ever. I just think, if more people were like that, imagine wood Springs, about an hour from Aspen. Locals joke the experiences we’d have.” that Aspen has both a Dior and a Louis Vuitton store Paul Andersen, a writer for the Aspen Times, told the story of meetjust off Main Street, but if you want socks for your ing Nancy in a recent column for the paper. He had just moved to town. kids, you have to drive to Glenwood Springs, the nearIt was the off-season and the pedestrian mall was empty “except for this est place with a Target. While Nancy came from monstrangely appealing woman. She came sauntering toward me,” Andersen ey, she shopped at thrift stores and had no problem hanging out with lift

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operators or waiters, or drinking at a bar in downtown Glenwood Springs.

Her closest friends—Cassandra Denver, Billy Clayton, a few others— were either no longer in Aspen, or were too busy to spend time with her.

It had become a common refrain in Nancy’s life now that she was in her fifties—everyone had grown up and settled down.

Clayton remembers her frustration at this. Last fall they were in Houston, talking about a real estate project Clayton and his business partner were getting off the ground in Costa Rica. “Let’s go down and see it,” Nancy said.

“Right now?” Clayton’s business partner asked.

“Sure, why not?” Nancy wondered.

“Well, I can’t just hop on a plane at the drop of a hat.”

“Oh,” Nancy said, disappointed. “I can.”

On that night in August of 2012, with none of her close friends around to party, Nancy was with Kathy Carpenter, who by then had been her personal assistant and banker for at least three years. Carpenter had become a fixture in Nancy’s life, almost like an extended part of the family. She took care of Nancy’s dogs and her house, and had even stayed with her at Nancy’s place in Maui.

After a night of drinking, they went outside to find Nancy’s car, but

“This was a crime of passion.”

—an attorney for the defendants after wandering around with no luck, they returned to the bar and asked a server who had just gotten off work if she could help them. For more than an hour, the group walked around Glenwood Springs, looking for the car.

The whole time, the server would later say, Carpenter berated Nancy, at times yelling at her, or mumbling insults under her breath. Carpenter was so drunk she was barely coherent. Eventually Nancy had someone call the police for her, telling them she was afraid of Carpenter and worried she might get violent.

To some of Aspen’s blue bloods, the incident was indicative of how far Nancy had fallen from grace. While her sisters were still invited to parties hosted by the glossy luxury magazines, editors left Nancy off the list, worried she might show up and drink too much. One longtime friend said that Nancy had become so enmeshed in New Age mysticism they could

paying rent. But that seemed like a strange move. Why couldn’t Kathy take care of the dispute? And why did she have to return from Australia to resolve it?

One possibility is that money was actually tight for Nancy, and without the $4,000 rent check, she couldn’t afford to stay in Australia. A few days before she left, she reunited with her lifelong friend Janie Bennett, who also lived in Aspen but happened to be in Australia visiting her father.

They met up for dinner at a yacht club on the Sydney harbor. While it bothered some back in Aspen that Nancy had never conformed to social norms, Bennett found it reassuring that her friend hadn’t changed. To her, Nancy seemed the same girl who had attracted so many celebrities 20 years before—vivacious, glamorous and full of interesting ideas.

At one point in the dinner, Nancy turned to Bennett and said, “I’m leav-

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In the family: Nancy Pfister with daughter Juliana.

barely carry on a conversation “without it becoming cosmic and Peter Pan.” Says another friend, “I was very fond of her. But I also kept her at an arm’s distance.”

Last November, Nancy was making preparations to leave Aspen for the winter, as was her custom. At a party at her house shortly before she left, she introduced friends to the couple that would rent her place while she was in Australia. They seemed like a good choice. William Styler was a retired anesthesiologist who had built his career in the Denver metropolitan area. A short man with a bird-like frame and a white, professorial beard, he was soft-spoken and polite. His wife, Nancy, seemed the type who would love to claim an Aspen address. A friend would later describe her to the Aspen Daily News as a combination of Dolly Parton and I Dream of Jeannie—with a fake tan, long French nails and gold lamé shoes. Her Denver area home had an air of new money to it, with fake waterfalls, white leather couches and lavender carpets. They were more Vegas than Aspen. “There was an element that these people were living in their own world,” their friend told the paper.

The Stylers had once been rich, with an exquisite garden of Victoria water lilies in their backyard, but a business dispute had left them in financial trouble. To make matters worse, William Styler, known as Trey to his friends, had been laid low by an illness, forcing him, at times, to get around in a wheelchair. One friend said the couple seemed beaten down by life.

Aspen had long been a place for reinvention, and perhaps that is why the Stylers came there. Nancy’s closest friends still aren’t sure how she met them.

After the Stylers agreed to rent her house for the winter, Nancy took off for Australia. Over the next few months, she seemed unconcerned with how things were going back home. An Australian newspaper later reported that while in Sydney she struck up a friendship with a man who had fixed the television in her hotel room, spending Christmas with his family and making plans to go skiing together in Aspen. For the man, the whirlwind friendship was unlike any other he had in his life, but for Nancy it was typical.

She was making plans with Billy Clayton to start a business together, but she also talked about moving to Australia permanently. And then her plans abruptly changed. In early February, she reportedly told friends she had to return to Aspen earlier than expected because her tenants weren’t

ing tomorrow and I don’t want to go.” She looked out at the water, which was on fire with the sun setting above the harbor.

“Well, then why are you going?” Bennett asked.

“I have these tenants I have to deal with,” Nancy said.

And with that, the conversation at the table resumed, and they didn’t talk more about it.

High crime: Nancy’s Aspen house, where her body was found in a closet.

Juliana they said they’d both considered the rumor but quickly dismissed it. “My mom liked men,” Juliana says f latly. “She wasn’t a lesbian.” But Clayton thinks it might be possible that Carpenter had developed an obsessive infatuation with Nancy that, intertwined with petty jealousies and class envy, could have morphed into something more.

“Kathy would sometimes get really upset about something Nancy had said to her,” he says. “Nancy was a no-bullshit kind of person, and Kathy would say, kind of pissed off, ‘Nobody talks to me like that,’ like Nancy talked down to her. But Nancy was just real honest with everyone. She didn’t mean it that way.” Juliana, meanwhile, sees no point on ferreting out a motive. While she plans to attend the trial for the three defendants, which could begin this fall, she has little to say about them, only that, “They have families too, who are also hurt and shocked.”

If there is a lesson to learn from this, friends say, perhaps it is that Nancy was too open, too fearless and too trusting. In the end, the very qualities that made Nancy so unique are what killed her. Juliana doesn’t buy this theory, either. “I think it’s the opposite,” she says. “I think more people should live like her.”

In the weeks after the murder, Nancy’s friends flew in from all over the world to pay their respects. They held her memorial in the ballroom at the Hotel Jerome, a place that represented old Aspen as much as Nancy did.

There have of course been murders in Aspen before—a ski racer killed by his French lover in the ’70s, a drug dealer killed by a car bomb in 1985— but this murder somehow felt different. It wasn’t just that Aspen had lost one of its most familiar faces, it had lost a piece of its soul.

“Nancy was Aspen,” Conover says. “She couldn’t have come from any other place, at any other time. It got me thinking about when + more @ they first discovered the Galápagos Islands, and found those duJour.com sea turtles and seals that had no fear of man. There was an innocence to them, and she carried that same openness to the world.”

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ow Nancy spent her final days is unclear. When she got home she called her friend Billy Clayton. He was glad she was home. He often worried about her when she was traveling abroad alone. But now that she was in Aspen, he told her, he could sleep well knowing she was safe.

Three days later, Nancy was murdered in her home. W hile police haven’t released the exact details of the crime, a source close to the investigation says Nancy was bludgeoned to death with a hammer. The blows occurred on her bed, after which someone dragged her 12 feet across the f loor and put her in a closet. A mattress was then f lipped over her to hide the body.

For several days af ter Nancy’s body was discovered, police kept Carpenter, who had reported the murder, under surveillance, as well as the Stylers, the tenants. Shortly after Nancy’s body was discovered, the couple f led to Basalt, 20 miles north of Aspen, checking in to a rundown motel. They stayed there for about a week, as the police watched their every move. Nancy Styler often came in to the hotel lobby to collect the local paper, a clerk at the front desk says. She was particularly interested in stories about the murder of Nancy Pfister, saying that she was collecting them for a scrapbook.

“She was very f lippant about it,” the clerk says. “She would say, ‘Oh, we’re the criminals in room 210.’ ” On March 3, police knocked on the weathered door of the motel room.

Nancy Styler was quickly cuffed. Her husband took much longer. When he emerged into the light from the dark motel room, he was wearing a turquoise-colored bathrobe, his thin frame shivering.

Carpenter was arrested several days later. Friends who had known her for 20 years at the bank expressed shock; when I visited and asked to speak to someone who knew her well, the color drained from the bank manager’s face at the mere mention of Carpenter’s name. She took me upstairs to meet the bank president, who politely told me he couldn’t speak about the case. “We’re really rooting for her, hoping she’s innocent of these charges.”

Friends of the Stylers were equally shocked, expressing skepticism that Trey Styler was even strong enough to overtake Nancy.

“It’s just going to take a very extraordinary piece of evidence to convince me that they did what they’ve been accused of doing,” says Paul Gordon, who represented the Stylers in a contentious lawsuit some years before. “[Trey Styler] is not even physically capable. If he’s 5'7'', I’d be surprised, and if you shake his hand, it’s an old man’s hand. What you hear so far is that she was beaten to death and stuffed in a closet. I will chew off my right foot before I believe that Trey Styler could do that.”

Police have not revealed a suspected motive and declined several requests for comment, as did several attorneys for the Stylers and Kathy Car penter. Some speculate Nancy was killed for her money. Others wonder if it was drug related. But neither of those motives add up, says a source close to the Stylers.

“I want you to think about the facts of the case,” says one of their attorneys, who requests anonymity. “What would the motive of the Stylers be? There wasn’t a lot of money there.” Contrary to press reports that the

Stylers hadn’t been paying rent, one of their attorneys says they were, but Carpenter had been keeping the money to herself. “This was a crime of passion; this wasn’t something that was well thought-out,” the attorney says, suggesting that there was more to Nancy’s relationship with Carpenter than has been reported.

It wasn’t the first time I’d heard the theory that Carpenter and Nancy might have been lovers. When I brought this up with Billy Clayton and

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nsel Elgort has just scarfed down a foot-long sausage, and now he’s fidgeting mercilessly. He strums the spokes of a plastic fork, then pushes it aside and begins thump-thump-thumping a beat with his hands on a distressed wooden picnic table.

We’re at an air y beer garden in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, a place Elgor t frequents—for the sausages, not the beer (he’s 20). He recently returned from Austin, Texas, where he spent about two months filming a star-studded comedy, and soon he’ll begin the onslaught of press for The Fault in Our Stars, a heart-wrenching drama based on John Green’s best-selling YA novel. In the meantime, he’s enjoying a month-long break; although in Ansel’s world, the word “break” does not exist, and apparently, there is no such thing as sitting still. Aside from his burgeoning acting career, Elgort also produces music (under the DJ alias Ansolo), paints (typically miniature toys), rock climbs (at an indoor climbing gym in Brooklyn) and has a newfound addiction to video games.

Elgort is a self-proclaimed overachiever. “It’s just in my blood,” says the Manhattan native. “My parents used to tell me I could do whatever I wanted as long as it was productive. They weren’t strict but they also did not want [my siblings and me] wasting our time. I play piano, I sing, I dance… I just don’t know how anyone could sit around and do nothing.”

Elgort’s affinity for the arts isn’t all that surprising—his father is famed fashion photographer Arthur Elgort and his mother, Grethe Barrett Holby, is an opera director.

As a child, he honed his skills by going to work with his parents, performing in his mother’s operas and posing for his father’s photo shoots. Eventually, the hard work paid off. He made his film debut in last year’s reboot of Carrie and starred in the sci-fi blockbuster Divergent. But the young actor’s crowning moment is his deeply emotional portrayal of a charismatic 17-year-old cancer survivor in The Fault in Our Stars. “It was definitely my greatest challenge as an actor, but also the thing I am most proud of,” says Elgort, who first discovered his love of performing at 13.

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One of the biggest (so to speak) trends in restaurants today is the large-format meal, a pre-booked, chef-designed menu, usually offered to groups of five to fifteen. Inspired, in part, by the nose-to-tail movement, the concept rewards adventurous eaters as well as anyone who loves to indulge. But a surprising portion of the meals’ appeal derives from the opportunity to host a dinner party outside one’s own home; the company, it seems, is as important as the (unquestionably delicious) food Written by Jolyon Helterman

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amalgam) of three modern dining trends. First, the nose-to-tail movement, wherein chefs began butchering in-house and, thus, had entire animals in the walk-in. Second, the Cult of Pig, in which diners became obsessed with all things cochon. Finally (and perhaps counterintuitively), the small-plates revolution, which undercut the rigid tripartite meal structure of the appentree-soufflé era and ushered in a far more relaxed view of both portioning and pacing.

That said, with his inaugural bo ssäm dinner, Chang made the largeformat concept popular and, more significantly, cool. Suddenly, the familystyle f loodgates opened, emboldening restaurant kitchens to branch out to other creatures, great and smallish. If diners were willing to take the initiative and band together to share an entire suckling pig, how about partial cows, say, or multiple chickens? Now top restaurants in every major (and aspiring) food city have dared to dabble in the beauty of the beast-for-acrowd. At the Breslin, the gastropub inside New York’s Ace Hotel, chef April Bloomfield offers a curry lamb for parties of 10 to 12 at a prime center table; Ed Schoenfeld’s new Decoy, meanwhile, operates exclusively on a large-format concept.

“It’s fun to go and share. It’s the emotional part of it,” says Schoenfeld. “In an era where food is often the main event of the evening, one of the things that’s attractive about this type of meal is that it’s curated, it’s special, it’s an experience.”

T h roughout the cou nt r y, dining has evolve d t o be a ve r y conv iv ial t h i ng.

“There was a time when you got dressed up in your best clothes and went to a fancy restaurant to celebrate a special occasion or sign a business deal, but [today], restaurants have become a platform for entertainment,” says Michael Psilakis, who serves large-format meals at his NYC restaurants Kefi and MP Taverna. “The meal is just the mechanism that brings people [together].

The company is the star of the show.”

Of cou rse, landing a reser vation for one of Chang’s tables—or Bloomfield’s, or Schoenfeld’s —is no small feat. You have to be willing to work. To book a table at Momofuku, you need to call exactly four weeks before your desired date. Twenty four hours before, they will ask for a final head count, and everyone must show. This means you can’t invite your f lakier friends to this particular party. You will also disqualify vegans, as well as generally picky eaters for whom a game bird or a pig butt would prove too Fear Factor. But maybe that’s okay.

In fact, perhaps the most appealing thing about large-format dining is that, as host, you can call the shots in a way that you just can’t anymore at home. As someone who loves to cook for friends and family, assembling a dinner according to someone else’s rules absolves me from having to accommodate my friends’ every eating habit or schedule restriction du jour.

In a way, it lets me serve what I want to serve, or at least what I want to eat.

For the nurturer/pleaser/consummate-host type, this is incredibly freeing.

Witness some sample texts from my own duck lunch:

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he rotisserie-duck meal at Momofuku Ssäm Bar in New York’s East Village is (rightly) counted among the city’s most glorious gastronomic pleasures—right up there with Masa’s lavish, $600-a-mouth omakase and the Peter Luger porterhouse in that pantheon of actually-worth-it foodie badges. Served to parties of three to six (at exactly one table per seating), the star of this family-style meal—what has been termed “large-format” dining—is a local beauty from Long Island’s Crescent Farms, prepped and roasted to burnished-mahogany perfection under the watchful eye of superstar chef David Chang and his trusted delegates.

But it isn’t the pitch-perfect sourcing that makes this avian feast so special. Nor is it Chang’s cult cachet—though for sure that makes this duck all the more coveted. Rather, it’s the unassuming layer of house-made pork-and-duck sausage tucked between the breast meat and the skin. To the untrained eye, that deft, nuanced move might simply read as garden-variety porcine gratuitousness. But as anyone who has ever tried to cook (or even just eat) a duck knows, the disproportionately hefty layer of fat just under the skin is, quite literally, a big fat problem. Simply put, unless you’re willing to overcook the breast, there’s not enough time to melt enough of the fat layer without employing a host of tricks, most of which are inadequate, leaving you with dry breast meat, globs of chewy fat, or both. Therein lies the culinary sleight-of-hand, and why Chang—who cooks his duck to perfection—fills tables months in advance.

Ssäm Bar’s rotisserie duck is just one of 13 large-for mat offerings th roughout Chang’s Momofuku empire, and they, along with large-format dinners at other top spots, represent some of the country’s hardest reservations to snag. My first experience with large-format dining was Chang’s bo ssäm dinner, which includes a whole slow-roasted shoulder of Niman Ranch pig, served with a dozen oysters, white rice, Bibb lettuce and a variety of sauces. The food is exemplary—salty and fragrant and deliciously intense—but the fun is in the format (and, not for nothing, a VIP table in an otherwise unreservable restaurant). Groups of 6 to 10 are encouraged to assemble their own wraps and otherwise help themselves, as they might at an intimate gathering at someone’s home. The feel is like Thanksgiving, but you get to choose your family, don’t need to cook and can leave before cleanup.

Chang, of course, did not invent large-format dining. It’s a concept as old as Adam—or at least Moses, who played beleaguered sous to the holiest of hands-on chefs in Exodus 12:5, when tasked with prepping slaughtered lamb for an unruly 600,000-top. Later came medieval ox feasts, then pilgrim tryptophan banquets and eventually backyard pig roasts galore. In its restaurant incarnation, though, the large-format craze emerged as a spin-off (or

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Them: Sounds fun, but babysitter can’t come till noon, OK to make it 1?

Me: Wish I could, but they’re strict—15 minutes late and we lose table.

Them: Not so big on duck but love to hang. What else they got?

Me: Ooh, yikes. For this entire party has to partake. Sorry! Talk soon!

And once you’ve assembled your perfect group of eager guests, there’s just something so damned celebratory about big-group dining, especially in an age when we’re dining out on a regular basis like never before. Chefs are

famous for loving guests who want their food the way they intend it, which means they generally go all out for the large-format table. “The restaurant makes you feel special,” says Josephine Son, an advertising exec who describes herself as “that friend that everyone asks where to eat next.” Her favorite large-format experience so far has been “the whole roast pig at the Breslin. April makes a big show of it.”

At my Ssäm Bar duck gathering, the bird came out, and it was magnificent:

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a platter of confit-cooked fowl sliced into perfect disks, accompanied by ramekins of sweet-pungent hoisin and bright, bracing scallion-ginger sauce, house-made mooshoo-style chive pancakes and a heaping bowl of crunchy fried shallots, plus piles of fresh mint, basil and cilantro and tender leaves of Bibb lettuce for wrapping. We oohed. We aahed. We joked about hitting the gym post-feast, punctuating the punch line with exaggerated sips of a fowl-friendly chilled Gamay.

But then a funny thing happened. The duck? It faded into the background.

No one was sizing it up. There was no one daring a neighbor to “give it a try.” No one was frenetically cutting their appetizer into six portions to dole out perfect mini-tastes to everyone at the table. “WHO WANTS TO TRY 17% OF MY OCTOPUS?” We were just eating—the same thing—and so our focus wasn’t on our plates. We were left to enjoy one another’s company.

How refreshing is that?

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Above: Hell of a view—the sandstone cliffs visible from Ghost Ranch inspired a number of Georgia O’Keeffe paintings. Opposite: The glass walls of Mickey and Jeanne Klein’s sunken living room were designed to offer an unobstructed view and highlight Tears by Kiki Smith. Previous page: First Presbyterian Church in Santa Fe, built in the late 1800s, is a classic display of adobe architecture.

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anta Fe seems to exist, at least i n t he wa r me r mont h s, i n a pe r pet u al Mag ic Hou r, t hat time of day when ever ything a p p e a r s s of t e r a n d r e d d e r.

Calmer, maybe a little hopef ul. A ny where else a nd you get this twice a day, if you’re lucky. But here, it’s always on, as if the town itself were lit from within.

The capital of New Mexico—and incidentally, the oldest capital city in the U.S., having been founded by the Spanish in 1610—has long been

home to a vibrant arts community, both for those who create art and those who buy it, and so it remains. Santa Fe has more artists per capita than anywhere else, and is considered the third largest art market in the country. They—the artists, the buyers—come for the same reason they always came: that view. Georgia O’Keeffe, perhaps the most famous among the artists to whom Santa Fe can lay some claim, owned multiple houses in the area, and could often be seen perched atop one of them, angling for a better, or different, look at the cottonwood trees and rock formations that would appear again and again in her

work. Cerro Pedernal, Spanish for “f lint hill,” was a particular favorite, showing up in some 20-something O’Keeffe pieces. She believed that if she painted it enough, it would be hers. After her death, her ashes were scattered at its peak.

Other artists with ties to Santa Fe have included photographer Alfred Stieglitz, sculptor John Connell and novelist Cormac McCarthy.

But they also come for the healing such views tend to afford. In turn, Santa Fe has helped cultivate its reputation as a place for renewal by giving birth to dozens of New Age institutes, Zen centers, Tibetan shrines and yoga centers.

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It helps that the place is sunny an average of 320 days a year. “Touch the country,” D.H. Lawrence wrote of New Mexico, “and you will never be the same again.”

Because of this intense inf luence of nature, and the inclination to want to spend your time in Santa Fe outside, art here isn’t contained to the more than 100 galleries along Canyon Road or to places like the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum or SITE Santa Fe, the nonprofit space that for ms the epicenter of the cit y’s f lo u r i s h i ng c o nt e m p o r a r y- a r t s scene. Indeed, ar t is ever y where here, in the wind-sculpture gardens dotting so many front lawns and in the hills behind gleaming, modern houses. A few minutes outside of town live Mickey and Jeanne Klein, Austin, Texas notables and serious ar t enthusiasts who call Sante Fe their second home. There is no adobe here. Instead, the walls are made of glass, basalt and concrete and are built to accommodate specific works of contemporary art, including pieces by Ellsworth Kelly, Kiki

“touch the country and you will never be the same.”

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Smith, Richard Serra and Richard Tuttle, a post-minimalist who also spends part of the year in Santa Fe. A “skyspace” created by installation artist James Turrell and installed in the center of the house showcases light and space while letting in the intense New Mexico sun. The Paula Hayes–designed landscape, meanwhile, was meant to blur the line between art and nature—and this is

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Above: Natural selection—Chimney Rock in Abiquiu, another O’Keeffe favorite. Below: With glass walls and custom wooden millwork, Mickey Klein’s office is (nearly) one with nature. Opposite: A view of the Klein’s living room from the outside showcases landscape design by Paula Hayes.

where the heaviest dose of “Santa Fe” comes in. A number of works of art, including pieces by Olafur Eliasson and Andy Goldsworthy, are tucked away in the tall grass that spans the couple’s 47 acres, through which they hike twice daily. “The house was made for the land and for the art, and in some places for the land and art at the same time,” says Andrew Gellatly, the Kleins’ registrar. “It’s an open-air museum.”

T he K lei n s’ is not you r t y pical Santa Fe house, but the idea of “typical” is fading as contemporary-art lovers form a scene that’s a little more modern, bolstered by the work going on at Santa Fe Art Institute and at SITE Santa Fe and by a f lourishing culinary scene in

which fajitas and margaritas are giving way to Asian gast ro-fare and mezcal cocktails. It is a scene that has helped Santa Fe, in recent years, attract an undoubtedly more fashion-forward contingent. Fred Segal has a house here. Tom Ford ha s t wo. W h ile a rch itect u r ally, much of Santa Fe remains fairly consistent, still dominated by the sort of low-rise, pueblo-style adobe brick buildings most people think of when they think of the American Southwest, sur prises emerge everywhere. In the center of town, the Inn and Spa at Loretto hews to the traditional adobe model but with a twist in the form of an adjacent Gothic Revival–style chapel, while in recent years modern architects

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Left: Dancing shadows—a cottonwood tree soaks in the late day sun. Opposite: The New Mexico Museum of Art’s adobe exterior keeps it cool in the daytime and warm at night.

have begun to push the boundaries of tradition even in the heart of downtown. That said, there is not and may never be an element of f lash or ostentation. There is luxury, but it’s a quieter luxury, from the Japanese-style sleeping rooms at the Ten Thousand Waves to the private casitas at the Four Seasons Resort Rancho Encantado, nestled in the shadow of the Sangre de Cristo

foothills. “The art community in particular is very strong, but also very laid back,” says Jamie Way, gallery director at Shiprock Santa Fe, which deals in traditional and contemporar y Native American art, rugs and jewelry. “But that sums up Santa Fe in general. It’s very much not about ‘show.’ ” Of course, the real reason to come to Santa Fe,

and the reason to come back, is an entirely personal endeavor that has nothing to do with art, architecture or even nature—and everything to do with connection. Santa Fe, the locals like to say, is a state of being. And, as the artists who have found inspiration here have known for centuries, it’s never the same place twice.

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The tallest observation wheel in the world has opened at the Linq, Las Vegas’s new open-air entertainment district just off the Strip. The High Roller, a 550foot contraption facing Caesars Palace, boasts 28 spherical, glass-enclosed cabins that each hold up to 40 passengers for the 30-minute ride (the time it takes for the wheel to make a full revolution). Higher than the London Eye and China’s Star of Nanchang, the High Roller is outfitted with more than 2,000 ever-changing LED lights and offers unparalleled views of the city. “We wanted to bring something completely new to Las Vegas,” says Jon Gray, vice president and general manager of the Linq. “The High Roller acts as a great anchor to the area, enticing people to turn from the Strip and head into the entertainment district.”

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CHOOSING SOPHIE’S

RL and Fred’s now have competition in the world of luxury retail dining thanks to Sophie’s. This elegant destination sits on the seventh floor of Saks Fifth Avenue and beckons shoppers to sip a gimlet or dine on classic American fare—grilled cheese and tomato soup, lobster roll, chicken Caesar salad—paired with a stellar Michigan Avenue view.

700 NORTH MICHIGAN AVENUE; SOPHIES.COM

BOTTLE ROCKIT

Find cherry brandy and pinot noir on tap at Bottlefork, the latest venue from the Rockit Ranch Team. This time they’ve recruited chef Kevin Hickey (Four Seasons) to whip up dishes including Manilla-clam and Portuguese-sausage flatbread, buttermilk fried rabbit leg and spinach-and-artichoke “dip” oysters.

Soho House is opening a new club in a six-story West Loop warehouse with a 40-room hotel, rooftop pool club, gym, spa and plenty of sure-to-be-packed restaurants.

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Jared Van Camp

Element Collective hospitality group He may be a proponent of slow food, but chef Jared Van Camp is moving faster than ever. Along with the rest of the crew at Element Collective—the force behind Old Town Social, Nellcôte and RM Champagne Salon—Van Camp is looking at one busy summer, with three new socially conscious, seasonally driven spots. Van Camp claims the unifying principle behind the projects is decidedly simple: “We open places that we would like to go to,” he says. “Places that interest us, that we think are cool.” From what we’ve heard so far, they won’t be the only ones.

LEGHORN Forget the Colonel. Here, it’s all about friedchicken sandwiches made with local birds, house-made buns, house-made pickles and, well, house-made everything. When the sandwiches run out, they close up shop.

959 NORTH WESTERN AVENUE; LEGHORNCHICKEN.COM

OWEN + ALCHEMY This supercharged juice bar offers seasonal, local and farm-fresh cold-pressed juices, superfood smoothies and nut milks, all in a 1,000-square-foot Logan Square space.

2355 NORTH MILWAUKEE AVENUE; OWENANDALCHEMY.COM

KINMONT Van Camp’s fish restaurant is known for sustainable seafood from start to finish.

“To be able to sit down and trust that every piece of fish is coming from a renewable source—that’s a big deal,” says the chef.

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AMPERSAND Tucked away in the back of Kinmont, emerging and established chefs (Mike Sheerin, Mindy Segal) take turns setting up camp, pop-up style, to share new flavors and ideas. Van Camp explains: “We thought it would be a great community outreach for people to showcase and raise a little money for concepts that are going to come to life.” AMPERSANDPOPUP.COM

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Four years after she closed her clothingdesign business— which had fans including Michelle Obama—Maria Pinto is back with a reinvented label, M2057. Her first collection is made up of 13 affordable pieces, and to raise

MARIA PINTO, 2.0 her start-up costs, Pinto crowd-funded with a campaign that exceeded her goal of $250,000 in 45 days. We asked the Kickstarter queen to kick off summer with a few of her favorites for the steamy season in the Windy City.

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WHAT WILL BE YOUR SIGNATURE WARDROBE PIECE?“I spent a summer in the south of France and fell in love with the long, flowing skirts the girls wore. So I designed a long skirt called the Ali. It’s fabulous in white and looks really fresh and lovely for summer.”

WHAT’S YOUR GO-TO HAIRSTYLE? “I have been seeing Charles Lord since 1997. His cuts are precise and his vision for what’s next is spot on. I go for a more natural look in the summer. To tame frizz, I use products from Japanese brand Spice Water.”

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BEYOND THE BARRE Barre Bee Fit’s Ariana Chernin and Jillian Lorenz first bonded over a shared passion for fitness. Now they’ve got their own army of fans thanks to their signature class—a 60-minute sweat fest that earned them a loyal following at their first studio in River North—and the subsequent seven classes, all of which feature props and ever-changing choreography. The newest addition to the brand’s fitness fleet is a Michigan Avenue flagship location. Talk about raising the .

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WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE WAY TO GET BIKINIREADY? “Everyone should try Go Cycle’s studio on North Avenue. Instructor Emmy Rigali teaches killer classes, including one with 40 minutes of spin and 20 minutes of free weights. If that doesn’t kick you into shape, nothing will!”

One visit to the new Gold Coast flagship of The Frye Company will give you visions of a summer spent on a motorcycle, sporting the brand’s classic kicks. With hundreds of styles to choose from, you’ll be in hog heaven.

1007 NORTH RUSH STREET; THEFRYECOMPANY.COM

Porsche isn’t just something you can drive, it’s something you can wear.

Fashion aficionados can check out everything but a car at the new Porsche Design store. We’re particularly fond of the sleek leather briefcases and the technical and beautiful writing implements. 520 NORTH MICHIGAN AVENUE; PORSCHE-DESIGN.COM

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The LEED-certified NYLO Dallas South Side hotel boasts a rooftop pool with amazing views of the city skyline. Enjoy a NYLOrita cocktail at its SODA Bar. NYLOHOTELS.COM

Two new boutiques, two new reasons to update your summer wardrobe

CANARY Above: Owner Merry Vose stocks

labels (Peter Pilotto, Frame Denim and Preen) that are favorites with her loyal shoppers. But, she says, the pieces are “rare enough to ensure a client won’t ‘run into herself’ at the next event.”

TRAFFIC LA The edgy West Coast boutique recently reopened its Dallas women’s store at the Joule hotel.

New here are Carbon & Hyde jewelry and one-of-a-kind dresses

by Cesar Arellanes and Drifter.

The boutique’s surrounding area is hotter than ever—just ask owner Michael Moldovan.

“Over the last year, downtown has become the destination for locals in Dallas, for both shopping and dining,” he says.

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Richard Phillips’ “Negation of the Universe” (his first solo museum exhibition in the U.S.) will showcase works featuring contemporary figures like George W. Bush and Dakota Fanning alongside his monumental outdoor sculpture Playboy Marfa (above). Through August 10. 161 GLASS STREET; DALLASCONTEMPORARY.ORG

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American Revolution

The dining scene in Dallas is experiencing a renaissance thanks to a slew of new restaurants serving up inventive American fare. Among them: AF+B, an upscale neighborhood tavern in

Fort Worth that offers dishes like grass-fed-beef burgers and duck pot pie. 2869 CROCKETT STREET. The carnivorous BLIND BUTCHER in East Dallas is making waves with its hand-cranked sausages, charcuterie and cheese boards. 1919 GREENVILLE AVENUE

. GEMMA owners Allison Yoder and Stephen

Rogers have crafted a seasonal menu showcasing local farm produce. 2323 NORTH HENDERSON

“MIND’S EYE: MASTERWORKS ON PAPER FROM DAVID TO CÉZANNE” AT THE DALLAS MUSEUM OF ART

More than 100 works, from sketches to watercolors, offer a look at the working methods of 70 artists, including Degas, Cézanne and van Gogh. 1717 NORTH HARWOOD STREET; DMA.ORG

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WARDROBE CLASSICS: I wear my gray leather Balenciaga leggings, Ralph Lauren cashmere turtleneck, vintage Chanel plaid jacket, black Barneys New York boots and Hermès printed cashmere scarf all the time. At night, I

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might put on my vintage ‘80s black velvet strapless dress with fishnets and my Diego Dolcini furry shoes.

Mercier Secret Camouflage concealer and foundation, Nars blush in Orgasm and YSL mascara.

MAKEUP MUSTS: I love Tom Ford lipstick in Sable Smoke for a nude lip, Laura

SKIN-CARE ESSENTIALS: Himalaya Herbal Healthcare Neem & Turmeric face wash, Kiehl’s Calendula Herbal Extract toner and Ultra Facial moisturizer and Avène Soothing eye contour cream.

If you spotted her around town, Nini Nguyen would probably be wearing an oversize vintage Chanel blazer as a dress with a Maison Martin Margiela belt. But for the most part, the fashion designer, stylist (she’s worked with Rihanna) and Vietnam native keeps things simple, relaxing at home in North Dallas with her husband and their sheltie, Minie.

Here, she shares her personal picks for style, beauty and where to shop and eat around town.

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SHOPS: Neiman Marcus for shoes, beauty products and special runway pieces.

For vintage, I go to Forty Five Ten, V.O.D. Boutique, Carla Martinengo and Dolly Python.

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EATS: Toulouse for brunch, CBD for dinner and Tei-An for date night.

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VISITING: The Dallas Museum of Art. COLLECTING: Photo books. My favorite is Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty Beauty.

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COVETING: Balenciaga’s white-on-white motif, Alexander Wang’s cropped tops and trousers and Céline’s graphic printed jackets.

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My favorite Dallas memory is of our 10-year anniversary party in 2010. “ It was a Monday night—would anyone come? Dom Pérignon supplied champagne and we had amazing guests, including Narciso Rodriguez, Thakoon Panichgul and all the clients we love. Everyone said it was the best Monday-night party ever. That night, Dallas felt like the most glamorous place on earth.

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keep cool and carry on Six ways to beat the heat during houston’s steamy season

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Join the B-cycle bike-share program and feel the breeze while getting around downtown quickly.

The program has expanded to 29 racks, and members can pick up and return a bike to any station. Bonus: It tracks your mileage and calories burned.

greenest juice When it’s too hot to eat heavy, get six pounds of

raw produce in a single bottle of cold-pressed green juice from Austinbased Daily Greens. Founder Shauna Martin, who created Daily Greens after her breast cancer diagnosis at age 33, credits her resilient health to daily green juicing. drinkdailygreens.com

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They take it Seattle-level serious at Blacksmith coffee bar and restaurant in Montrose, and you can have your handmade cup of joe any way you like it. We’ll take it iced and served up by dapper barista John Letoto.

1018 westheimer road 832-360-7470

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best park to visit There’s never been a better time to visit Hermann Park, currently celebrating its 100th anniversary. The Centennial Art Project commemorates the milestone with a series of installations on the grounds by artists including Orly Genger (above) and Trenton Doyle Hancock. hermannpark.org

Don’t just scream for ice cream, run out and get a scoop of the house-made stuff from Cloud 10 Creamery. Opened by pastry chef Chris Leung, the shop whips up small-batch flavors like buttermilk chai and lime-ceylon cinnamon with no artificial ingredients.

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Boho-chic accessories made of glimmering agate and gold instantly elevate sundresses and shorts.

“There’s no simpler way to dress up your look than with the right jewelry,” says Temple Street founder Ana Mae Holmes, who designs vibrant, easy-breezy pendants and other pieces.

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Houston holds its own as a foodie capital, and its chefs aren’t taking the summer off. Two tasty new hot spots are serving up down-home dishes made for the dog days.

Here’s how to tell them apart.

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Chef Ronnie Killen, best known for the upscale Killen’s Steakhouse, recently opened Killen’s Barbecue in Pearland to rave reviews.

At Punk’s, Clark Cooper Concepts restaurant group celebrates classic Southern fare from the Gulf Coast up through the Carolinas— with a twist.

The Alley Theatre has launched a $73 million capital campaign to renovate its Theater District building for a fall 2015 reopening.

The revamped venue will boast a new stage and lobby space with a skyline view.

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THE VIBE Cafeteria chic.

Rustic Southern charm.

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Savvy Houstonians Susan and Sanford Criner are no strangers to live music. The couple opened Rockefeller’s nightclub as part of an inner-city real estate renovation in 1979, so it’s no surprise they are the hosts of Music With Friends, an exclusive new club that organizes marquee musical performances for its members. “Music With Friends is a way for us to recreate the magic of Rockefeller’s, presenting big acts in an intimate venue,” says Susan Criner, who’s also the owner of Gulf Coast Entertainment. Founded by Larry Farber in Charlotte, MWF now operates in four cities: Houston follows Charlotte, Charleston and Nashville. Membership offers three annual performances by worldrenowned artists, plus pre- and post-event cocktails. “Other MWF clubs have had acts such as Aretha Franklin, Tony Bennett, Diana Ross, Willie Nelson, Bonnie Raitt and Sheryl Crow, but the beauty of the club is that each city’s members get to give their input on which acts they want to see, through an artist poll,” Criner explains. Though the first show is not until the fall and the talent is yet to be determined, she says memberships are selling quickly—limited only by the seating available in the Hobby Center’s Zilkha Hall (800 Bagby Street). “It’s an acoustic jewel box that accommodates 500 people,” Criner says. “There’s not a bad seat in the house!” MUSICWITHFRIENDS.COM

Buttermilk fried chicken, served with horseradish mash, gravy and biscuits.

The best-selling beef ribs.

FUN FACT Meat lovers queued up for as long as two hours during the restaurant’s February debut just to get a plate of Killen’s smoked meats.

Punk’s gets its name from coowner Charles Clark’s nickname.

THE PHILOSOPHY “I don’t want it to be the barbecue place with the best brisket or best beef rib. I want it to be the best barbecue place, period,” says chef Killen.

“I have a passion for personal service and an appreciation for details.

I strive to live in the moment, anticipate and be consistent,” says Grant Cooper.

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THE NIGHTINGALE ROOM Jazz and blues are presented with a side of specialty cocktails and dancing at this newly opened lounge in the Historic District, helmed by partner Mike Criss.

Think twinkling chandeliers and candle-lit birdcages in an atmospheric vintage setting that pays homage to local 1920s music legend Sippie Wallace.

308 MAIN STREET; FACEBOOK.COM/NIGHTINGALEROOM

PROHIBITION The much-loved burlesque and cabaret show has left its Galleria digs and settled into a historic space downtown. Prohibition is taking over an 8,500-square-foot building on the edge of the Historic District.

The space has been renovated to feature second-floor mezzanines, 40-foot ceilings and a bar and restaurant space.

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With the addition of French fashion house Céline and beauty megabrand Sisley to its already impressive

WHAT TO WEAR IN VEGAS: “I like to mix and match—like pairing a Tom Ford suit with a Zegna tie and shoes from Dolce & Gabbana. I also love Richard Mille and Bulgari watches.”

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FAVORITE LOCAL HAUNTS: “On a Saturday afternoon, I’ll head to the speedway and drive the newest Ferrari at the Dream Racing experience.

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Designer Tory Burch is teaming up with Bank of America on a new partnership that provides local female entrepreneurs with the resources that they need to start and grow a business.

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No American city does over-the-top extravagance quite like Las Vegas, especially when it comes to the sprawling villas at two of the city’s top hotels.

At Aria Resort & Casino, the property’s 16 Sky Villas offer amenities like 24-hour butler service, in-room gyms and formal dining rooms. Additionally, each villa is equipped with gadgets that allow guests to customize their wake-up process through adjusted temperature, lighting, selected music and curtain opening. What’s behind those curtains? Floor-to-ceiling windows with panoramic views. Guests at Nobu Hotel’s recently opened Nobu Villa can also enjoy views of the strip from the comfort of a 4,700-square-foot outdoor terrace that features a robatayaki grill, Zen garden and Japanese-inspired hot springs.

Designed by David Rockwell, the villa boasts a billiards area, media room and sushi bar, where one of Nobu’s renowned chefs can prepare a meal for guests.

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Basketball legend MICHAEL JORDAN married JUANITA VANOY. The couple split in 2006.

ELVIS PRESLEY married PRISCILLA BEAULIEU at the Aladdin Hotel, breaking millions of teenage hearts in the process.

THE FRENCH RESTAURATEUR BRINGS A PARISIAN BRASSERIE TO THE VENETIAN DB Brasserie, a new venue between the Venetian and the Palazzo. The casual French eatery will boast a “bistro feel,” thanks to mirrored walls and leather banquettes in Jaguar racing green, a hue

the chef calls “the color of Las Vegas.”

While a menu is still in the works, Boulud describes the restaurant’s fare as a hybrid of his other eateries: “It will have components of Bar Boulud, DB Bistro

Moderne, DBGB and Boulud Sud,” he says—so diners can look forward to dishes like escargots spaetzle and poireaux vinaigrette.

The restaurant will open up to the Venetian’s casino, but don’t expect to see Boulud at the blackjack tables. “I’m a bad gambler,” he admits. We’d hate to see him leave the kitchen anyway.

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Irish singer SINÉAD O’CONNOR married BARRY HERRIDGE, her fourth husband, at the Little White Wedding Chapel.

Before Brad, there was BILLY BOB THORNTON. ANGELINA JOLIE wed the actor at the

BOULUD IS BACK

It wasn’t card games or showgirls that drew lauded chef Daniel Boulud back to Las Vegas after a six-year absence, but the chance to plant his flag in a true foodie destination. “Las Vegas has one of the biggest representations of talented chefs in America, all in one city,” Boulud tells DuJour. To rejoin this group, Boulud is opening

With newly designed wedding salons about to open at the Wynn, we’re feeling nostalgic for one of Las Vegas’ most beloved—and riskiest—pastimes: marriage. Here’s a look back at some of Sin City’s memorable unions.

FRANK SINATRA and MIA FARROW married at the Sands—and divorced two years later.

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MANSUR GAVRIEL Just when you thought you couldn’t love its structured leather carryalls any more, the brand debuts its famed bucket bag and a new of-the-moment backpack in a rainbow of colors.

BACKPACK, $795, MANSUR GAVRIEL, AT JENNI KAYNE BOUTIQUES

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As creative director of Jimmy Choo since 1996, Sandra Choi has always been one step ahead when it comes to fashion. Her latest triumph is the unveiling of the brand’s re-envisioned Los Angeles flagship on Rodeo Drive, which recently opened its doors after an extensive remodel. If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to spend time in Choi’s stylish shoes, here she shares the details on her favorite ways to spend a day in Los Angeles.

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BOÎTE “I love the garden restaurant at the Chateau Marmont.

The people-watching is great and everyone seems relaxed and at ease.”

SHOPPING “It’s all about vintage for me: The Way We Wore for fashion and JF Chen for interiors and furniture that I dream about adding to my home.”

HANGOUT SPOT “Soho House. It feels as though a piece of hip London has transplanted itself to Los Angeles, but with the added benefit of sunshine!”

CULTURAL HIT ”Escaping to a museum or gallery is a rare treat when I’m in town working. I especially love the setting and the architecture at the Getty Center.”

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Luxury eyewear brand Sama, beloved by Jennifer Aniston, Jay-Z and Halle Berry, celebrates 10 years at its Beverly Hills flagship boutique this year and will open a third Destination Sama boutique over the summer.

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Two local accessory lines that will carry you from day to night

STARK British-born socialite Petra Stunt’s exotic-skin handbag line, Stark, continues to shine, informed not only by Stunt’s extensive worldwide travels, but also by art—including the work of Ed Ruscha.

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RTA, or Road to Awe, the denim collection produced within 10 miles of downtown LA, has already been snapped up by retailers like Bergdorf Goodman and Ron Herman. This spring, together with Diavolina’s Evelyn Ungari, RTA designer Eli Azran and partner David Rimokh unveiled coated motocross jeans, leather shirts and rumpled linen blazers.

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MALIBU MOVES SOULCYCLE The beloved cycling workout has arrived at the beach. The brand’s 27th studio (and sixth in California) is now open at Malibu Village, boasting 52 bikes in more than 2,200 square feet.

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MALIBU BEACH YOGA Take healthy living to the next level with the opening of Malibu Beach Yoga in Point Dume Village. Unwind with class offerings ranging from kundalini to meditation for kids.

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For an organic, non-dairy ice cream cleanse Kippy’s! Ice Cream Shop 326 LINCOLN BOULEVARD; KIPPYSICECREAM.COM

For chocolate-dipped Salty Pimp soft-serve Big Gay Ice Cream 124 WEST 9TH STREET; BIGGAYICECREAM.COM

For seasonal, artisanal flavors Sweet Rose Creamery MULTIPLE LOCATIONS; SWEETROSECREAMERY.COM

Walking through the Hard Rock Hotel Palm Springs feels like traveling back in time. The walls are adorned with musical relics that span decades—from a contract Bob Dylan signed in 1967 to a vinyl outfit worn by Cher in the ’90s—but the hotel is more than an impressive collection of memorabilia.

Each of the resort’s 163 rooms offers a picturesque view of the desert landscape, and some border the cabana-lined pool, where guests can soak up the sun and sip tasty cocktails, like the strawberry-jalapeño margarita. Opening up a property in a city influenced by music seemed like a natural fit, explains John Galloway, the brand’s VP and CMO. “We have a memo written by Frank Sinatra, as a reminder of the Rat Pack influence here, side by side with images of Coachella,” says Galloway. “It’s a juxtaposition between the old and the new.”

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For a red-velvet waffle cone Sprinkles MULTIPLE LOCATIONS; SPRINKLES.COM

For a kosher banana split Holy Cow Kosher Creamery 8946 WEST PICO BOULEVARD; HOLYCOWKOSHERCREAMERY.COM

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SAMMY DAVIS JR. The Rat Packer’s custom suit from 1974.

LADY GAGA A silicon, silver wire and crystal dress from 2010.

FUN. A backdrop from 2012’s MTV Movie Awards.

ERIC CLAPTON His vintage National Studio 66 guitar.

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Visit the Bass Museum’s “Vanitas: Fashion and Art” through July 20.

Philip Treacy’s poppy hat and Alexander McQueen’s monarch butterfly dress made the cut for guest curator Harold Koda, who is in charge of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute. 2100 COLLINS AVENUE; BASSMUSEUM.ORG Miami Beach has a new hospitality player in Tommy Hilfiger, who recently purchased the iconic 1940s Art Deco Raleigh Hotel and reportedly plans to turn it into a private club and hotel.

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Hospitality impresario Cy Waits, who created XS and Tryst in Las Vegas, headed south this spring to open Adoré Nightclub in Miami Beach.

Inside, a gold and amber color palette offsets antique mirrors and showcases a stunning centerpiece, the glowing cathedral ceiling floating above the stage.

The Boulan Hotel venue, which accommodates 800 people, features a 3D LED sphere hovering above the dance floor and a 100,000watt sound system. “Here, the nightlife really influences the city’s culture,” says Waits. “People come here to party and the party becomes a lifestyle.”

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Wynwood who? Judging by a slew of new hotspots, the Miami dining scene is looking a lot like the ’90s again. Prime 112 has

expanded its empire with a seafood restaurant, PRIME FISH. Restaurateur Myles Chefetz is updating the former Nemo’s space with a leafy courtyard, while chef Michael Sabin serves a Gulf Stream’s

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worth of marine delicacies, from bigeye tuna poke to Dover sole meunière. 100 COLLINS AVENUE; MYLESRESTAURANTGROUP.COM

/ Brush up on your Italian at ROBERTO CAVALLI‘s eponymous eatery. Patrons come

for a lavish setting adorned with Cavalli’s signature animal prints, and for fresh pasta dishes like chestnut pappardelle smothered in a white veal ragu. Wild nights ensue upstairs, where banquettes are stocked with—what else?—house vodka. 150 OCEAN DRIVE; CAVALLIMIAMI.COM / Leave it to Russians to create the four-story temple of excess that is 1826 RESTAURANT & LOUNGE—but don’t expect borscht.

Danny Grant, a two-Michelin-starred chef, is behind the haute menu, which features dishes such as smoked fish mousse served in chive cups and topped with caviar. 1826 COLLINS AVENUE; 1826COLLINS.COM / CY WAITS

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French fare meets suckling pig at the Hilton Cabana Miami Beach. Its oceanfront terrace is a departure from the group’s usual industrial locales. 6261 COLLINS AVENUE; LECHONBRASSERIE.COM

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SLS BRICKELL The high-powered trifecta of hospitality guru Sam Nazarian, designer Philippe Starck and chef José Andrés is ready to transform the mainland. The trio is teaming up with the Related Group to open SLS Hotel & Residences in Brickell.

Due in 2016, the Starck-designed compound combines 450 residential units, 133 guest rooms, a spa, two pools and restaurants curated by Andrés, who has already incorporated local flavor by tapping Miami toque Michael Schwartz. “The vibe, lifestyle and energy Sam, Philippe Starck and José are developing for this fantastic property will transform Brickell,” says developer Jorge Pérez.

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THE FOUR SEASONS AT SURF CLUB Beachfront living in quiet Surfside goes five-star with the Four Seasons Surf Club Hotel & Residences. The development, featuring a trio of new glass towers and the restoration of the circa-1930 Surf Club, marks architect Richard Meier’s Miami debut. “This is a residential and a hotel project with 880 square feet of beachfront property,” Meier says. “It’s a 14-story building and each unit has ocean views. We are preserving the original Surf Club structure and building around it.”

Josef Dirand is designing the hotel’s 80 rooms and 150 residences and also oversees the look of public spaces like the Winston Churchill Bar and a main restaurant in the property’s glamorous former ballroom. Amenities are luxurious, and include a spa and a dining concept by Casa Tua Mare. It all comes to life in 2016.

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NOBU AT EDEN ROC A relocation from the Shore Club to the historic Eden Roc is big news for Nobu. The hospitality company will open a 200-room hotel within the hotel by year’s end, an arrangement similar to its partnership with Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.

After dining on yellowtail sashimi with jalapeño and black cod, guests can retire to David Rockwell–designed rooms, which respect and reimagine the hotel’s iconic Morris Lapidus interiors.

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The kings of clubs

Nightlife impresarios Richie Akiva and Scott Sartiano discuss the business of building an empire

When Richie Akiva and Scott Sartiano opened their first venue, Butter, in 2002, they knew they were onto something big—but they never imagined that the chic downtown hotspot would become the catalyst for a burgeoning nightlife empire. Now, 12 years later, Sartiano and Akiva are the masterminds behind a growing portfolio of venues, including Butter, Up&Down and 1OAK, which has outposts in New York, Las Vegas, Mexico

City, Los Angeles and, most recently, Southampton. Akiva says their success comes from their unique ability to sense what the market is missing—and not be afraid to push the envelope. “At Butter, we were the first to put a DJ booth in a restaurant—and we got crucified by the press,” he explains.

“But then a year later, Jean-Georges opened Spice Market in the Meatpacking District with a DJ booth and people praised it. We’re originators; we’re definitely not followers.”

As for the future, Akiva and Sartiano plan

on expanding the 1OAK brand overseas, and their instincts say London is the perfect place to go next. Says Sartiano, “I learn something new in this business every day.

That’s one of the things that keeps it fresh and exciting.” But Akiva admits that it’s not all glitz—there’s plenty of hard work involved. “A lot goes into doing something the right way,” he says. “Anyone with money can open [a hotel or club], but they’re not necessarily creating something special that they’re putting their heart and soul into.”

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butter midtown 70 west 45th street buttergroup.com

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Park Hyatt, the high-end hotel brand with luxurious locations all over the world, has at last landed in New York. Its new flagship will open in Midtown’s One57 skyscraper, taking over the first 25 floors of the hotly anticipated 90-story building.

The 210 ultra-modern rooms and suites have been designed by Pritzker Prize–winning architect Christian de Portzamparc and renowned interior-design studio Yabu Pushelberg.

“We are looking at special projects and amenities that will go above and beyond what is expected,” says general manager Walter Brindell. Perhaps the most impres-

sive perk, however, is a simple one: space. Starter rooms clock in at 475 square feet and include grand floor-toceiling windows that look out over the city. Every room boasts the kind of design aesthetic you would expect from an in-the-know local with extravagant taste. Luxe bathrooms are stocked with toiletries from Nolita-based fragrance company Le Labo, who created a custom, tuberose-scented collection of shampoo, bath washes and soaps for the hotel. Once you’ve enjoyed everything the room has to offer, the spa’s six treatment rooms and chef Sam Hazen’s American restaurant await.

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Restaurateurs Michael and Alan Stillman (of Quality Italian and Smith & Wollensky, among others) have opened General Assembly, a bright eatery in the NoMad neighborhood.

Chef Craig Koketsu’s menu has everything from uni toast to a celery root and apple salad (a fun take on ants-ona-log), plus a robust cocktail program (try the tequila-based Loose Cannon, served over spicy jalapeño ice cubes).

Michael Stillman expects it will add a dimension to his business: “This concept plays on a classic bistro feel but incorporates a lot of current culinary trends.”

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Designer Cynthia Rowley has partnered with J.Crew on a capsule collection of color-blocked wet suits, perfect for all manner of sea and surf fun.

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tion. Here she talks to DuJour about her retail experience and effortless personal style.

out in the uniforms we designed makes us all feel like we’re part of a national movement.”

MOST VALUABLE ADVICE YOU’VE EVER RECEIVED? “Say thank you often and sincerely.”

WHAT ABOUT BEAUTY? “I use Bobbi Brown foundation and eye shadows, Chanel blush and lip glosses

and Dior mascara.

I prefer a natural makeup look with an accentuated eye at night.”

WHAT ARE YOUR BESTLOVED LOCAL HAUNTS? “I live on the Upper East Side with my family, and our favorite spots up there are Sfoglia, Crown and Sant Ambroeus. In Toronto [where the company is based], I love the classic Italian Sotto Sotto.”

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WHAT’S YOUR SUMMER FASHION LOOK? “I love all the current artful prints and lace treatments. I often wear Giambattista Valli and Roland Mo-

uret and I love the Erdem black-andwhite lace dress I just purchased. For accessories, it’s Proenza Schouler’s Lunch Bag clutch and Alaïa totes, Casadei’s gold T-strap sandals and Nicholas Kirkwood’s laser-cut lace-up sandals.”

Nars’ sleek packaging comes to life with the unveiling of the beauty brand’s latest location.

The Upper East Side storefront will carry the entire line plus a nine-piece nail-polish collaboration with Phillip Lim (available in July). The space is fashioned in marble with illuminated glass cubes and black metal with red lacquered touches. 971 MADISON AVENUE; NARSCOSMETICS.COM

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WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU’VE DONE RIGHT DURING YOUR TIME AT LORD & TAYLOR? “For me it’s all about people. I’ve surrounded myself with people who have a passion for customers and product. With an amazing team, you can do anything.”

WHAT’S BEEN YOUR MOST MEMORABLE EXPERIENCE AT THE BRAND? “The unveiling of our Christmas windows at Lord & Taylor.

Every year seeing the crowds and excitement makes me proud to be a part of such an iconic organization. It’s really the start of the holiday season for me. At Hudson’s Bay it’s the opening ceremony of the Olympics. Seeing Team Canada march

Cartier’s fourth freestanding shop, a glass showcase on the corner of East 59th Street, is the company’s temporary flagship for the next two years while its other Fifth Avenue location undergoes renovation. Fans of the French jeweler will love the two-story boutique, which offers private rooms for all the personalized services you could want. 767 FIFTH AVENUE; CARTIER.COM

Swiss fashion company Philipp Plein plots its expansion into the North American market with a new Madison Avenue flagship featuring its edgy array of men’s, women’s and accessory collections. On our shopping list for summer? The brand’s new embellished It bag, “The Weapon”— as spotted in a black crocodile version on Kim Kardashian. 625 MADISON AVENUE; PHILIPP-PLEIN.COM

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In her new role as president of Hudson’s Bay and Lord & Taylor, Liz Rodbell oversees all stores, marketing and digital, in addition to merchandising for both brands.

After 27 years with the company, she’s tackling a renovation of the Lord & Taylor Fifth Avenue flagship, including a new shoe floor and shop-inshop concepts, as well as the launch of the 424 Fifth collec-

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COMMUTING TO THE HAMPTONS JUST GOT MORE STYLISH AS TWO PRIVATE CARRIERS OFFER NEW WAYS TO JET IN AND OUT THIS SUMMER

Greenport favorite Noah’s has expanded to include a wine bar with an extensive list of international varietals plus weekly wine-flight specials featuring North Fork producers.

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East Hampton Airport has never looked better. Celebrating 50 years, Berkshire Hathaway–owned NetJets has introduced its straightoff-the-assembly line Signature Series Challenger 350 aircraft (the company is the exclusive launch partner of the Bombardier jet). The super-quiet aircraft is equipped with cutting-edge avionics, an increased wingspan and an improved engine and can fly 10 passengers comfortably between New York and L.A. How is Delta Private Jets stepping up?

The carrier, which offers private jet travel with the strength and safety standards of a major airline, now boasts access to 1,000 private jets across the world. Following the April opening of a state-of-the-art 40,000-squarefoot tech-and-service facility at its headquarters at the Cincinnati airport, the brand launches its latest additions, the Cessna Citation Bravo and the Challenger 604. If you have to leave the Hamptons at all, these are the best ways to do it. NETJETS.COM; DELTAPRIVATEJETS.COM

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SHALOM, HARLOW THIS SUMMER, ONE OF MANHATTAN’S MOST GLAMOROUS RESTAURANTS IS SETTING UP SHOP IN SAG HARBOR

JENNIFER’S BODY OF WORK

Until July 13th, the Parrish Art Museum will be hosting the first survey of painter Jennifer Bartlett’s work, featuring 22 iconic pieces, including oil-on-canvas diptychs of Amagansett.

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and Gosman’s. “Our New York City customers are a captive audience, and having a place they already know makes them feel at home out east,” says owner Richie Notar, also the man behind Nobu. “I want to create a venue where you can come several times a week, not an over-the-top place where we only see you for special occasions.” It helps that the new location is only three miles from the longtime Hamptons resident’s own Wainscott home. “It was a no-brainer,” says Notar. LONG WHARF AT BAY STREET,

1. TOMAS MAIER REOPENS IN A NEW LOCATION Bottega Veneta creative director Tomas Maier’s easy-breezy tunics, graphic maillots and sharp aviators have an atmospheric new 1,000-square-foot home in East Hampton’s Red Horse Market. Says Maier of the location, “What I love most about the Red Horse in East Hampton are the horses grazing in the field across the road under the tall oak trees.”

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2. LISA PERRY EXPANDS OUT EAST Much like Lisa Perry’s whimsical Madison Avenue flagship, her new East Hampton boutique will be all white and will house the designer’s ready-to-wear, in addition to beachy items and a collection of the Perry’s favorite Manolo Blahnik styles. “East Hampton was the obvious choice since it is very close to my house,” Perry explains of the location.

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“Best views on the East End,” Eric Miller says of Bay Kitchen Bar, his new East Hampton venture. The vistas do complement Miller’s sea-to-table menu, but when you’ve had enough surf, the turf is just as enticing, thanks to Miller’s hickory roaster. “That’s where Long Island ducks and organic chickens will , . be transformed,” he promises.

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Harlow, an alluring newcomer to the midtown Manhattan restaurant scene, is debuting a beach outpost this summer in Sag Harbor. The airy space will have a nautical feel and funky art on the walls, and its menu will showcase the bounty of the Hamptons and the North Fork from local farmers, fishermen and vineyards. Serving seafood is a natural fit for a restaurant with a prime waterfront location in Sag Harbor, and dishes will include branzino with wasabi gremolata and hearts of palm, grilled shrimp tartines and other seafood offerings from Island Creek

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3. SNAG STYLISH FLATS French slipper brand Galet is taking its shoe show on the road with a bright orange van packed with the label’s whimsically patterned slip-ons. Spot them at social events this summer like Bridgehampton Polo. GALET.COM

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The Altamarea Group, under the direction of chef Michael White, has taken over food and beverage operations at Richard Gere’s Bedford Post Inn. The changeover includes reopening the flagship restaurant as Campagna.

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Boutique hotel group Grace Hotels has set its sights on Connecticut: WASHINGTON’S MAYFLOWER INN AND SPA has been given a modernizing interior makeover and rebranded the Mayflower Grace. More exciting still, chef Jonathan Cartwright has landed in the kitchen. His country-chic restaurant, Muse, overlooks the hotel’s Shakespeare Garden and serves dishes featuring local ingredients and seafood.

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The Borgata’s culinary offerings get even more tempting this season with the unveiling of The Borgata Baking Company. Helmed by the property’s executive pastry chef, Thaddeus DuBois—who was previously a chef at the White House—the Borgata now offers addictive desserts-onthe-go such as macarons, cake pops, éclairs and cupcakes in a jar. Chef DuBois explains: “I wanted to add more grab-and-go options and the opportunity to experiment with desserts represents an exciting challenge.”

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Americana Manhasset strengthens its reputation as a premier Long Island shopping destination with renovations at two boutiques: Dior and Loro Piana.

An enlarged shoe department and a new display for rare and exclusive fragrances, La Collection Privée, are on track for a summer opening at Dior. At Loro Piana, offerings will include indulgent treats like a chic backpack in supple New Zealand calfskin and a suede bomber jacket. The store’s nature-inspired interior design features oak wardrobes, white glass, sand-colored walls and sisal floor coverings and, as always, the furnishings are upholstered in the Italian brand’s finest fabrics. “These brands both represent the epitome of luxury, so we are thrilled that our Americana boutiques will convey that sensibility,” says Andrea Sanders, senior vice president of the property.

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Changes are afoot at Valentino’s South Coast Plaza boutique.

Architect David Chipperfield has reimagined the space using gray Venetian terrazzo with Carrara marble chippings, sand-blasted Pac ific Coa mirrors and brass st H wy chandeliers.

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ALLI WEBB, FOUNDER OF THE BLOWOUT CONCEPT DRYBAR, SHARES HER FAVORITE O.C. HOTSPOTS three times the usual amount of caffeine.

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1. HUNTINGTON BEACH has a fantastic dog beach. There are all kinds of pups running around, and my dog Cooper is in absolute heaven every time we go.

2. FASHION ISLAND is my go-to shopping destination. Tons of my favorite stores, like Nordstrom, Theory, Anthropologie, Blushington and, of course, Drybar, are all located at this shopping mecca.

4. THE QUIET WOMAN in Corona Del Mar has become a celebration destination for our family. Even my sevenyear-old chose it for his birthday dinner. It’s a quaint little restaurant with great ambiance and a killer family-style salad. QUIETWOMAN.COM 5. MANPUKU in Costa Mesa has the best Japanese BBQ in town and a wakame salad to die for. MANPUKU.US

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3. I’m addicted to the cold-brewed iced coffee at PORTOLA COFFEE LAB in the OC Mix. Watch out: It has

6. I have a total love/ hate relationship with BARRY’S BOOTCAMP in Irvine. I love what it has

done for my body, but hate how hard it is.

(OK, maybe I secretly love it!) It’s an intense workout, but you see results—and fast.

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For his new Kai collection, Alor designer Jack Zemer looked no further than the waves of the Pacific Ocean outside his Rancho Sante Fe home for inspiration.

“Jack was stirred by the architecture of nature,” explains the SoCal jewelry brand’s Ori Zemer, “and so he created this softly spiraling stainlesssteel wave alongside gold and diamonds.” .

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7. THE CAMP + THE LAB, two trendy Costa Mesa anti-malls, are not to be missed (and are conveniently located across the street from each other). At the Camp, you’ll find everything from The Studio to SEED People’s Market—full of local designers. Fuel up at unique eateries like Milk & Honey, Taco Asylum and Habana Cuban Bistro.

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Beachfront destination Hyatt Regency Huntington Beach Resort & Spa has opened Watertable, a restaurant helmed by chef Manfred Lassahn. Ingredients from local purveyors, including Laguna Beach boutique bee farm Aliso Canyon Honey Co. and Enfuso olive oils from Los Alamitos, make their way onto the menu, which features family-style Sunday suppers. Or sample a “beer-tail” along with one of the restaurant’s signature bar jars—mason jars filled with pâté or pickled vegetables.

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JAY JEFFERS’ COLLECTED COOL

“Coco Chanel once said, ‘Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and remove one accessory.’ I love this idea,” explains celebrated San Francisco interior designer Jay Jeffers. “You don’t need every inch of every surface covered.” While continually following this sage advice, the founder of Jeffers Design Group now celebrates 15 years of his firm’s success with a new book, Jay Jeffers: Collected Cool: The Art of Bold, Stylish Interiors (Rizzoli). “Collected Cool allows me to see

the growth and change in my design over time,” Jeffers says about the book, “an incredible anthology of the amazing work of my team, my clients and all the artisans that contribute to each project.” If this wasn’t enough, his retail space, Cavalier by Jay Jeffers, which opened in 2012, has expanded with Cavalier@Coup—an accessories shop that has taken up residence in the city’s Coup D’Etat design studio. Here, Jeffers walks us through one of the inspiring rooms featured in the book.

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“This was a topfloor space in a brick home in Pacific Heights. The overscaled tall, angled ceilings were very different from the other floors of the house, which are spaces with smaller proportions, crown moldings and traditional details. The design is my version of industrial chic. We painted the corners of all the rooms with rivets to look as if the walls had been pieced together.”

1.”The light fixtures are all our own design by a local San Francisco artist.

We juxtaposed the industrial elements with graphic pattern and color.”

3.”The sofa is our own design, as is the pattern on the rug made

by Kyle Bunting.”

2.”The yellow color calls out to the feeling that this room is up in the sky, in comparison to the rest of the home.”

5.“The fireplace is a steel version of an otherwise traditional fireplace that would normally be in stone.”

4. “The wing chairs are vintage Gio Ponti.”

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As a fully crowdsourced and crowd-funded men’s fashion company, San Francisco–based Gustin continues to give the people what they want. “We started with denim in 2005 and will always have a soft spot for making jeans,” explains co-founder and Berkeley native Josh Gustin. His partner Stephen Powell agrees: “Denim is still our core. The Grey Silk [jean] has been our quickest-selling product ever; it usually sells out in under five minutes.” Now the company is branching out with shirts and leather goods. “We’ve had a great time learning how to make the highest-quality duffel bag possible,” says Gustin. “We launched those in February and instantly sold out.” And that’s just the beginning. Powell is clear on the company’s goal: “Ultimately we’d like to make every core garment a guy needs.” WEARGUSTIN.COM

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FAMOUS LAST WORDS

Award-winning actor George Hamilton is the definition of debonair, but his handwriting reveals secrets beneath the surface On one hand, he’s rebellious when choosing letterforms. He uses capitals interspersed with small-case letters in the middle of words, which aligns with the identity of an iconoclast.

But he dots each i so carefully, that on another level, he is meticulous about his details and overly scrupulous about tending to norms. A study in contrasts!

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Note the careful placement and clear lines that are separated by even spaces.

This is an individual with good organizational skills.

When a person writes their first name on top of their professional name, the formal self serves as a pedestal for the personal self. People who are in the spotlight will sometimes write like this and have that psychological posture.

The first letters of his names are creatively rendered and unique—they show that he’s trying to differentiate himself.

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ith his gleaming white teeth and eternally bronze glow, George Hamilton is one of Hollywood’s most recognizable faces. It’s an image he’s been carefully crafting since the start of his acting career. According to an expert handwriting analyst, Hamilton’s drive for visual perfection goes beyond his impeccably tailored suits and perfectly coiffed hair—it’s evident in his handwriting as well. “This writer has a strong sensitivity to appearances and how things look. He has good taste, a talent when it comes to design and an interest in architecture,” explains Toronto-based graphologist Annette Poizner.

“This is the handwriting of the personality type that I would call the ‘performer.’ Someone who is very mindful of how he looks, but less cognizant of what he feels.” Interestingly, Hamilton’s favorite quote (above) implies a similar sentiment.

The 74-year-old actor—who recently launched a brand of anti-aging supplements called Youth Infusion—says that throughout his life, he’s turned to comedy as an escape from “fairly tragic” situations. “I immediately block out the negative and try to find the joke in things. As soon as I find the humor, I’m totally at ease,” says Hamilton.

Poizner notes that the predominance of sharp

a ngles i n the w r it i ng i ndicates a deeply analytical thinker with above average intelligence. But his attention to detail—like in the dots ca ref ully placed above each i — mea ns h e i s of t e n p r e o c c u p ie d w it h t h e i m p r e s sion he’s making. “His writing is poised and ready for ‘public consu mpt ion,’ ” she says.

Hamilton readily admits: He was brought up in an image-conscious culture. “I was raised in a world based on Southern manners—where everything is wrapped in paper with a bow on it.

And that isn’t necessarily true; it’s just the way I present the package.”—LINDSAY SILBERMAN

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