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Dead Ringers | Esquire | MARCH 1976
It was the striped shorts that caused the mix-up at the morgue. When the cops and the maintenance man broke into apartment 10H, slogged their way through the debris covering the living-room floor and found the bodies in the bedroom, they found themselves with an identity problem as well. The maintenance man was certain the bodies in question were gynecologist Cyril Marcus—the tenant of 10H—and his twin brother, gynecologist Stewart Marcus, but he wasn’t certain which body belonged to which twin.
So Many of Andy Warhol’s Factory Stars Died Young. He Knew What Killed Them.
This article originally appeared in the March 1974 issue of Esquire. It contains outdated and potentially offensive descriptions of sex, gender, and identity. You can find every Esquire story ever published at Esquire Classic. Andrea (Feldman) Whips was twenty-five when she died. She was one of the newest of Andy Warhol’s Superstars, and among the latest to die.
The Gay Militants By Donn Teal. 370 pp. New York: Stein & Day. $7.95. (Published 1971)
Oct. 3, 1971 Credit...The New York Times Archives See the article in its original context from October 3, 1971, Section BR, Page 5Buy Reprints TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them.
Twilight of the Tribe: The Wedding that Wasn’t
SYMBOL OF GAY POWER “I always wanted a formal wedding,” Jackie Curtis said, weeks before the wedding, as she chalked the marriage announcement on the sidewalk outside the Albert Hotel: Superstars Jackie Curtis (“Flesh,” “Cock Strong,” “The Moke-eaters”) and Eric Emerson (“Chelsea Girls,” “Lonesome Cowboys”) to Be Married on July 21.
Eva Longoria on Her Days as a 22-Year-Old Headhunter: 'I Was So Successful'
By Dotson Rader Parade More by Dotson Remembering Jean Kennedy Smith: The Last Sibling of John F. Kennedy Dies at 92 Hollywood Icon Kirk Douglas Dead at 103 Billy Joel Opens Up About Music, Women, Superstardom and Why He Feels Like a Lucky Man (Ari Michelson for Parade; Styling, Charlene E.
Dead Ringers | Esquire | MARCH 1976
It was the striped shorts that caused the mix-up at the morgue. When the cops and the maintenance man broke into apartment 10H, slogged their way through the debris covering the living-room floor and found the bodies in the bedroom, they found themselves with an identity problem as well. The maintenance man was certain the bodies in question were gynecologist Cyril Marcus—the tenant of 10H—and his twin brother, gynecologist Stewart Marcus, but he wasn’t certain which body belonged to which twin.
Willie Nelson: 'Three Chords and the Truth-That's What a Country Song Is'
By Dotson Rader Parade More by Dotson Remembering Jean Kennedy Smith: The Last Sibling of John F. Kennedy Dies at 92 Hollywood Icon Kirk Douglas Dead at 103 Billy Joel Opens Up About Music, Women, Superstardom and Why He Feels Like a Lucky Man ‘Since I was a kid, music was what I wanted to do,” Willie Nelson says. “I thought I could make it by my own talents.
Exclusive Interview: Kirk Douglas on Success, Suicide, Family and Film
By Dotson Rader Parade More by Dotson Exclusive Interview: Kirk Douglas on Success, Suicide, Family and Film Resolution Kindness: When Mom Isn’t There Geena Davis Talks Girl Power, Sports and the 25th Anniversary of A League of Their Own (Chelsea Lauren/WireImage/GettyImages) Editor’s Note: This interview was originally published in December 2014, when Kirk Douglas was promoting his book Life Could Be Verse.
Wild Man | Esquire | NOVEMBER' 19
FEATURES THE FIRST ELECTION AT THE END OF THE WORLD NOVEMBER 2019 By CHARLES P. PIERCE FEATURES Big Kid Energy NOVEMBER 2019 FEATURES The Carpetbagging Gamblers of the Garden State NOVEMBER 2019 By DAVID HILL FEATURES ESCAPE VELOCITY NOVEMBER 2019 By Tommy Orange The 2019 Esquire GROOMING AWARDS NOVEMBER 2019
Inside Brad Pitt's World
By Dotson Rader Parade More by Dotson Exclusive Interview: Kirk Douglas on Success, Suicide, Family and Film Billy Joel Opens Up About Music, Women, Superstardom and Why He Feels Like a Lucky Man Resolution Kindness: When Mom Isn’t There Brad Pitt rushes in from his film set, apologizes for being late, and heads off to take a shower and change.
Inside the Actors Studio Host James Lipton on His Favorite Interview and Pimping in Paris
On May 29, Inside the Actors Studio — seen in 94 millions homes and in 125 foreign countries — celebrates its 250th episode with a special two-hour retrospective on Bravo. We spoke with its host, James Lipton, at his elegant Manhattan home, where he lives with his wife, Kedakai Turner, a real estate executive. Your 250th show is coming up on Bravo. What do you have planned? “The 250th is different from any show we’ve ever done.
Billy Joel Opens Up About Music, Women, Superstardom and Why He Feels Like a Lucky Man
On July 18, Billy Joel will leave his estate on Long Island’s North Shore to take a 15-minute helicopter ride to Manhattan for what will be his 100th career performance at Madison Square Garden. For the last four years, the “Piano Man” has been “in residence” at the iconic, 20,000-plus-seat arena, each month performing sold-out shows to adoring audiences. It is an unprecedented achievement in his long, hugely successful career.
Brad Pitt Is Finally 'Satisfied'
Brad Pitt opens up about family and finding time for what’s important in life in this Sunday’s PARADE with Dotson Rader. The 47-year-old star shares his thoughts on Angie, the kids, his private pain, and what he lives for now. Be sure to check out this weekend’s issue of PARADE magazine in your local newspaper for the full interview with Brad Pitt. On being a “satisfied man” “I put much more emphasis on being a satisfied man.
Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga Talk About Their New Album and Close Friendship: 'He Saved My Life,' She Says
At first (or even second) glance, it’s an unlikely pairing. He’s the elegant, gentlemanly jazz icon who left his heart in San Francisco, singing classics from the Great American Songbook. She’s the dance-pop sensation known for flamboyant costumes (a meat dress, a Kermit the Frog jacket), fame-themed hits (“Paparazzi,” “Applause”), and fans dubbed Little Monsters. Yet Tony Bennett, 88, and Lady Gaga, 28, actually have a lot in common.
Resolution Kindness: When Mom Isn't There
When Hope Edelman was 17 years old, she lost her mother to breast cancer. Her grief was overwhelming and unrelenting, and for many years she looked everywhere for comfort and emotional healing to no avail. Her mother’s death and the sorrow it bequeathed haunted Edelman and changed her life. In 1994 she published Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss, a groundbreaking study of the unique effect that a mother’s death has on her daughters. It changed how we understand grief.
Geena Davis Talks Girl Power, Sports and the 25th Anniversary of A League of Their Own
Geena Davis, 61, grew up in a family of modest means in small-town Massachusetts. Her dream of being an actress led her to Hollywood, where she found fame in movies including Beetlejuice, Thelma & Louise, Stuart Little and The Accidental Tourist, which won her an Oscar. This summer marks the 25th anniversary of another film she starred in: A League of Their Own, the true story of a WWII-era women’s pro baseball league.
Tennessee Williams, The Art of Theater No. 5
Tennessee Williams, ca. 1965. Photograph by Orlando Fernandez. In Chicago, Williams was hard at work on the production of a new play being done at the Goodman Theater. It was a humorous and moving work called A House Not Meant to Stand, the title of which was his comment on the state of American civilization. I interviewed Williams in his suite at the Radisson Hotel on North Michigan Avenue in Chicago.
Remembering Jean Kennedy Smith: The Last Sibling of John F. Kennedy Dies at 92
By Dotson Rader Parade More by Dotson Hollywood Icon Kirk Douglas Dead at 103 Billy Joel Opens Up About Music, Women, Superstardom and Why He Feels Like a Lucky Man Resolution Kindness: When Mom Isn’t There The Kennedy clan in 1939 (Courtesy of the Kennedy family) Jean Kennedy Smith, the youngest sister of President John F. Kennedy, died Wednesday, June 17, 2020, at her Manhattan home. She was 92.
Laughing With Lily Tomlin, From Laugh-In to Grace and Frankie
Lily Tomlin sits in front of a bookcase displaying her six Emmys, two Tonys, a Grammy, a Mark Twain Prize and a Kennedy Center Honor, among other awards. This weekend she will receive a new prize, the prestigious Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award. Tomlin, 77, grew up in a Southern Baptist working-class family in Detroit. Her late parents, Guy and Lillie Mae Tomlin, moved there from Kentucky during the Great Depression.
The King of Characters: Michael Keaton Takes on Burger King Ray Kroc in The Founder
Michael Keaton, 65, was an unlikely prospect for movie stardom. He grew up in a small town near Pittsburgh, the youngest child in a large working-class family. He attended Ohio’s Kent State University, dropped out and returned to Pittsburgh and got a job on the TV crew of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood. In the mid-1970s, he headed to Los Angeles to become an actor, landing small roles on Maude, Working Stiffs and other TV sitcoms.
He's Magic: Eddie Redmayne Joins the Wizarding World in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
For more than 20 years, Eddie Redmayne has loved acting. He’s played opposite Emma Watson and Michelle Williams in My Week With Marilyn, sung with Hugh Jackman and Anne Hathaway in Les Misérables and portrayed a transgender woman in The Danish Girl and physicist Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything. Now Redmayne, 34, is Newt Scamander, a young “magizoologist” scouring the pre–Harry Potter world for magical creatures, collecting samples of them in his suitcase.
Doris Roberts Opens Up About Her Life and Career: 'None of the Men in My Life Ever Wanted Me to Be Successful'
Editor’s Note: Emmy-winning actress Doris Roberts, who famously portrayed Marie Barone on Everybody Loves Raymond, died April 17, 2016. She was 90. Dotson Rader interviewed Roberts in 2014. Doris Roberts reunited with Ray Romano, Patricia Heaton, Brad Garrett, and Monica Horan in Las Vegas recently when the stars of Everybody Loves Raymond were inducted into the Broadcasting Hall of Fame.
Jeff Goldblum on Fighting Space Aliens, Finding Joy and His New Baby Boy
On a gray day in Los Angeles, Jeff Goldblum hikes down from his house in the Hollywood Hills to have drinks in the lounge of the Chateau Marmont Hotel in West Hollywood. He has lived in the same house since the early ’80s, when roles in movies such as The Big Chill and The Right Stuff started to come his way. Goldblum had spent this morning, like most, at home with his wife and baby boy. Goldblum, 63, is 6 feet 4 inches, slender and fit.
Ellen DeGeneres Talks Feelings, Fun and Finding Dory
Ellen DeGeneres is a lot like the cartoon fish she gives life to in Disney/Pixar’s Finding Dory, opening June 17. Much like Dory, whom we met in the hit 2003 movie Finding Nemo, DeGeneres, 58, is undaunted, kind, strong and loving, swimming on despite the obstacles in her way. But unlike Dory, whose amnesia causes her to remember almost nothing, DeGeneres remembers a whole lot.
James Corden Is Up Late and Loving It
The first thing you see when you drive onto the lot of CBS Television City in Los Angeles is an enormous billboard of James Corden’s face. It’s there because The Late Late Show With James Corden is a hot property.
The Singles Girl
TWILIGHT IN MONTE CARLO: The great and the good clamor in the cafés, club doormen and their bouncers pop their knuckles and their necks as they brace for the evening onslaught, and phalanxes of boys in Aventadors and Mulsannes roll out of basement garages, tops down, to strike out on the nightly prowl.
A Streetcar Named Tennessee
A Streetcar Named Tennessee T. Williams, the guy who set them on their ear this season on Broadway, doesn’t turn out to be quite as expected, but the funny part is that you don’t mind it Every Article, Every Issue. Read anything Esquire has ever published - over 1,000 issues and 50,000 articles. New issues added as they are published. Don't wait for the mail! Curated, timely recommendations so you know where to start. You look like someone who would appreciate a good story.
Ben Stiller: Seriously Funny
Fifteen years after Ben Stiller directed and starred in the first Zoolander movie, he is back with Zoolander 2, a laugh-out-loud comedy about the further misadventures of dim-witted supermodels Derek Zoolander (Stiller) and his buddy Hansel (Owen Wilson). The movie hilariously skewers fashion designers, narcissistic rock stars, James Bond movies, capitalism and other targets ripe for parody.
Leonardo DiCaprio: Man of the World
Leonardo DiCaprio is in Miami, preparing to leave for Paris to film interviews for his new documentary about the environment. These days the world-famous actor devotes much of his time and money to saving the planet, and this passion, along with his interest in history, is among the reasons that led him to star in the movie The Revenant (in theaters now).
Dad vs. Dad: Mark Wahlberg and Will Ferrell Feud in Daddy's Home
In their new movie opening Christmas Day, Daddy’s Home, Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg play two mismatched dads ardently competing for something they already have: the love of their kids. The tricks and antics they use to win the children’s loyalty culminate in a wild and very early celebration of the holiday. Ferrell is the nerdish second husband of a suburban housewife and stepdad to her two children. Wahlberg is their ne’er-do-well biological father.
The Director's Chair: A Conversation with Ron Howard
Ron Howard, 61, first became famous as a child actor, portraying Opie on TV’s The Andy Griffith Show in the 1960s, but grew up to become a movie director whose critically acclaimed films include Apollo 13, The Da Vinci Code, Frost/Nixon, A Beautiful Mind and Rush. His wonderful new adventure drama, In the Heart of the Sea, based on the true story of Melville’s Moby Dick opens December 11. Originally from Oklahoma, Howard now lives with his wife, Cheryl Alley, in rural Connecticut.
Chris Hemsworth Tackles a Whale of a Tale: In the Heart of the Sea
Chris Hemsworth has been a demigod, a hunky fairy-tale huntsman and a Formula One racing champ. But none of those roles were anything like Owen Chase, the first mate of the ill-fated whaling ship Essex, whom he plays in his new movie, In the Heart of the Sea, based on the true seafaring saga that inspired novelist Herman Melville to write Moby-Dick. “I got swept up in the story,” says Hemsworth, 32. “Humans tested to absolute extremes: It was a big challenge.
Dolly Parton on Coat of Many Colors, Faith and Marriage
Looking at Dolly Parton, it’s hard to believe her 70th birthday is coming up on January 19, 2016, just over a month away. She seems too young and unchanged, too youthfully exuberant. She remains in life as she does in memory, the Dolly we have always known, the blonde bombshell with the famously top-heavy hourglass figure and the seductively girlish voice.
Thrills & Chills with Jack Black
Jack Black is certain that his new movie, Goosebumps, will scare kids—but not too much. “I thought it would be fun to do a kids’ movie that was scary in the right amounts,” he says. “My sons are 7 and 9 years old, and they love a little spooky in their movies. Goosebumps felt like a perfect project, scary and funny—a great combo for me.” In Goosebumps, opening Friday, Oct.
The Hugh You Never Knew: From Lost Boy to Blackbeard
Hugh Jackman has stopped in Los Angeles on his way to visit family and friends in his native Australia. Jackman, 46, who lives most of the time in New York with his wife, actress Deborra-Lee “Deb” Furness, 59, and their two kids, Oscar, 15, Eva, 10, is in a good mood, happy to be going home for a few weeks. He is unpretentious in his black blazer, jeans and a white dress shirt open at the neck, topped off by a soft Australian accent and easy smile.
Neil Patrick Harris Is Having the Best Time Ever!
“I have a voracious appetite for new adventures,” Neil Patrick Harris says. The host of the upcoming NBC variety show The Best Time Ever (which debuts Tuesday, Sept. 15) and I are talking in a loft in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village, several miles south of his home in Harlem. The show, broadcast live, is a fast-paced, high-spirited hour of games, extravagant prizes, hidden cameras, celebrity pranks, music and comedy, with Harris as host and chief mischief-maker. It premieres Tuesday, Sept.
Nick Nolte on Robert Redford, Football and Anxiety
Parade contributor Dotson Rader interviews Nick Nolte about his role in the new movie A Walk in the Woods and his life as an actor. Walk in the Woods: The Appalachian Trail DOTSON RADER: I saw your film. You’re terrific in it. It’s an intelligent movie. It’s grown up. It’s about real people, old enough to have longtime friends. How did you get involved in this? NICK NOLTE: Well, I knew about A Walk in the Woods because I was a writer.
Part II: Patrick Kennedy on Mental Health and Running for Political Office
Parade contributing editor Dotson Rader spoke with members of the Kennedy family about their lives. In this three-part series, each member answers questions about political service, their future plans and finding happiness. After serving 16 years as a Congressman, Patrick J. Kennedy, 47, the second son of the late Sen. Edward M.
Inside the Actors Studio Host James Lipton on His Favorite Interview and Pimping in Paris
By Dotson Rader Parade More by Dotson Hollywood Icon Kirk Douglas Dead at 103 Billy Joel Opens Up About Music, Women, Superstardom and Why He Feels Like a Lucky Man Resolution Kindness: When Mom Isn’t There (Courtesy Bravo) On May 29, Inside the Actors Studio — seen in 94 millions homes and in 125 foreign countries — celebrates its 250th episode with a special two-hour retrospective on Bravo.
Tennessee Williams , The Art of Theater No. 5
Interviewed by Dotson Rader Tennessee Williams, ca. 1965. Photograph by Orlando Fernandez. The Paris Review interview with Tennessee Williams took place over several weeks, first in Chicago, and then in New York. In Chicago, Williams was hard at work on the production of a new play being done at the Goodman Theater. It is a humorous and moving work called A House Not Meant to Stand, the title referring to the state of American civilization at present.
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