William Berlind
Articles by William Berlind
She Feels for You! In Era of Digital Dreck, Thank G-d for Chaka Khan
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A few days before the singer Chaka Khan would win two Grammys for Funk This, her first album in 10 years, she was sitting at Sardi’s in midtown: skin glowing, hair unending, taking a long draw on a Parliament. “I’m fine,” she said, when asked if smoking was O.K. for her voice. “There is a way to keep my voice in order. One of them is to shut up. I hibernate. I sleep as long as possible when I’m working. And then I come out.”
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Bar Band Hits the Big Time, Sorta: Meet the Untroubled Troubadours of 1.800.OKCable
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Here’s Future 86: Kevin, Larry, Courtney and Armand!
The band is called Future 86, and the 1.800.OKCable commercial on which they sing has been driving New Yorkers batty for months. read more »
Sleeping With the FAN on: The Pasty Pathos of Sports-Radio Addicts
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Actor Tony Roberts is a fan of WFAN, whose hosts include Ann Liguori.
For one special night—the 20th anniversary of WFAN 660 AM—in Little Italy, Mets and Yankees fans were as one. read more »
Bling Pan Alley! Songwriters Gala Hits All The Right Notes
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High-tech producers, engineers and rappers may be usurping composers and lyricists, but for one special night the melody lingered on. read more »
Yacht Rock Docks in New York
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I'm Baaaack! Kenny Loggins has returned to make listening easier.
At 8 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. read more »
Yacht Rock Docks in New York
At 8 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. read more »
The Future in 30 Seconds: Listening to iTunes for Free
Musical style and technology have always been in conversation, each one pushing the other along. read more »
Sweet Smell of Hamlisch
Marvin Hamlisch is not a "cookie filled with arsenic," to quoteone of the million quotable lines in read more »
Sweet Smell of Hamlisch
Marvin Hamlisch is not a "cookie filled with arsenic," to quote one of the million quotable lines in read more »
To Serve Mankind
On a recent afternoon, 25-year-old tennis pro Nabile Taslimant stood next to a clay court at Town Te read more »
From Rich's Bathroom to Aretha's Studio
Many people know Denise Rich as the glamorous Democratic fund-raiser at the center of a furious inve read more »
Sondheim Collection: Send in the Clones
Sondheim won't spark any debate but it will certainly please anyone looking to throw on a bit of sop read more »
Burns' Jazz Doesn't Swing
As almost everyone in New York knows by now , Jazz , a 10-part, 19-hour documentary that began airin read more »
To Her, With Love
Actress Melanie Griffith checked into a California drug treatment center for an addiction to prescri read more »
Giants' Wives Call the Plays!
You knew there was something different about these 2001 NewYork Giants back in training camp, when h read more »
As Mets Head Toward the Playoffs Mike Piazza Has His Own Playmate
He was the biggest baseball star in New York. read more »
David Brown Isn't Von Furstenberg, But He Loves to Pretend He Is!
One night this summer, a little-known 32-year-old Brooklyn artist named David Brown was lurking outs read more »
The Court of King Latrell I
There sat Oliver Platt, the swarthy, tousled actor known for his portrayal of cowardly suck-ups. read more »
Meet Dangerous Rage of East Side-The Shiny $125 Aluminum Scooter
On a recent afternoon, the man who calls himself Scooter Dan was standing on the corner of 91st Stre read more »
Ritzy Nursery School Kids Get Rejected From Kindergarten
New York's wealthiest parents always knew-and feared-that, someday, it had to happen. And on Feb. read more »
Sex Kitten Amy Sohn Reemerges at Oxygen
Wednesday, March 22WNBC's 11 o'clock news plunged directly into the mouth of hell on Sunday night, M read more »
Craiggers Meets Jesse Jackson … Talk Soup Host Can Kick Your Butt … Gruesome Fox Show
Wednesday, Mar. 15Somebody over at CBS was angry enough over Craig Kilborn's Feb. read more »
Conan Writer Wonders … Pop-Up Guy Drops Acid … MTV Snubs Boy-Band Show of Corporate Sibling ABC
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Porn Star Ron (The Hedgehog) Jeremy Tries to Make It in Legit Movies
Ron Jeremy, the actor known for his appearances in such X-rated classics as Inside Seka , Deep Throa read more »
Oscar Snubs Errol Morris … Kevin Smith Attacks ABC … Charlie Rose's Technique
Wednesday, Mar. read more »
Eric Schaeffer Is the Filmmaker the Critics Just Love to Despise
Question: What is the opposite of a critic's darling? read more »
Charm School for Spouses: Swarthy Scoundrels Coach Couples in Corporate Manners
It's hard enough getting ahead in this town. read more »
John Rocker Is the Latest Hero for the Web's Far-Right
John Rocker, the Atlanta Braves' relief pitcher whose opinions about New York and its citizenry has read more »
Take Me Out to the Ball Park-Let Me Buy Into a Ragged Myth
American Fan: Sports Mania and the Culture That Feeds It , by Dennis Perrin. read more »
East Side Art Maven Jeffrey Loria Joins Major Leagues … in Montreal
There's another Major League Baseball team owner in town. read more »
Post Columnist Enjoys Rudy's New York on Rupert's Dime
Rod Dreher, the New York Post 's movie critic turned conservative news columnist, was pacing the hou read more »
Beck: The Black Album … Prince Is Back (As Producer)
Beck: The Black AlbumFor certain white pop music performers who owe a debt to black music, there com read more »
New Yorkers Laughed at Y2K Hype, But Now They're Finally Scared
Over the past year New Yorkers have heard dire predictions about the millennium-from computer meltdo read more »
The Bar Code Falls Victim to Profits
Attention, drinkers: When was the last time you got a buyback? read more »
Like Joe Torre, the Yankees Won't Give In to Private Troubles
The New York Yankees were deep to begin with, a tough team of veterans who knew the score on the fie read more »
Clubhouse Confidential: Mets Enjoy Close Shave
They were smiling in the dugout, in the rain. read more »
Mike Piazza's 'Loudmouth' Dad Nervously Watches Mets Advance
Mike Piazza is one of the best hitters in the game. read more »
A Tale of Two Managers: Cool Joe Torre and Tight Bobby V.
In the 1999 baseball season, New York Yankees manager Joe Torre has endured cancer; the near-firing read more »
Love and Advil in Queens: Everybody Wants a Piece
Each day during the U.S. read more »
Women Warriors Invade the U.S. Open; How Coach Brad Gilbert Remade Agassi's Game
Women Warriors Invade the U.S. Open
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Chuck Dolan, the New Boss of the Mets?
Charles Dolan, the reclusive chairman of Cablevision Systems Inc., has a crazy, scary, beautiful con read more »
Keith Hernandez, Hero of '86 Mets, Navigates His Life After Baseball
Keith Hernandez is alive and well and living on the East Side, but he hasn't found anything that get read more »
Sportswriters in Bitter Feuds Over Sprewell, Ewing, Van Gundy
For months, the sportswriters who cover the New York Knicks have been feuding with one another in pr read more »
James Cameron: King of Murdoch's World?
Wednesday, May 26Shae D'Lyn plays Dharma's kooky and cute friend on the cute ABC sitcom Dharma & Gre read more »
NBC's Party at Avery Fisher Hall: Sassa, Conan and a Nasty Li'l Dog
Wednesday, May 19NBC presented its '99-'00 lineup to its advertisers at Lincoln Center's Avery Fishe read more »
Van Gundy: Warrior in Nebbish Clothing
In Miami, not long before the start of Game 2, Walt (Clyde) Frazier, symbol of faded New York Knick read more »
D-Girl Becomes Dawson's Gal … Shales Is Fat … Friends Fun … Wendie Malick, Egyptian Temptress
Wednesday, May 12Hadley Davis, 27, knows how to get ahead in TV. read more »
Aaron Sorkin Delivers White House Show to NBC
Wednesday, May 5National TV Turn-Off Week is finally over, and thank goodness! read more »
Al Goldstein Accuses Craig Kilborn of Plagiarism
Wednesday, April 28The Living Edens is a nature show that amazingly doesn't make you feel guilty. read more »
