Celebrating Creativity … In creating each issue of Manhattan magazine, we were guided by the romantic notion that this city and its surroundings were the center of creativity, from the arts to business, science, medicine, sports, fashion, and philanthropy. And so we featured exclusive interviews with top medical researchers, billionaire businessmen, supermodels, human rights leaders, Oscar winners, Olympic athletes, rock stars, cultural icons, and more.
We launched Manhattan’s “Competitors” series of interviews for legendary designer Oleg Cassini with film icon Charlton Heston, Yankees Hall of Famer Dave Winfield, and film star Burt Reynolds. Our Manhattan Award winners included Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Elie Wiesel, Broadway’s Tommy Tune, Grammy Winner Judy Collins, Gloria Steinem, the nation’s leading Cancer Researchers, and more.
Special features included U.S. Senators, leading scientists, Earth Summit Secretary-General Maurice Strong, environmental activists, Oscar-winning producers and actors on cinema, the Director of the NAACP on race relations, Secretary of the Navy James Webb on the Gulf War, LeRoy Neiman and Peter Max on art, billionaire businessmen and philanthropists Bob Tisch and David Koch, plus Bianca Jagger, the beloved children-with-AIDS caregiver Mother Hale, “Mame” and “Hello Dolly” composer Jerry Herman, Dina Merrill, Tony Randall, Peace Corps Founding Director Sargent Shriver, and countless more. (Photography: Rick Bard)
Her book “Revolution From Within” was on the best seller lists for eight months. Why that title? “Because from infancy to the grave, many systems try to derive their authority by undermining our own self-authority. But the reverse is also true: our self-authority undermines those hierarchies, making us trust our experience — instead of the system ‘out there,’ whether it is the government, the family, or a social system built on race, sex, or class.” — Gloria Steinem
“The new technology and the Internet, which is so important to creating a communication link, also can become a weapon of hatred … It’s so easy to hate. You don’t have to think … Hatred is also seductive, because you feel stronger in hatred. You feel superior to the other person … For the hater to feel superior, he must make everybody inferior. For him to feel beautiful, he must make everybody ugly.” — Holocaust concentration camp survivor and Nobel Peace Prize winner, a very prophetic Elie Wiesel, in our 1999 interview
“The fate of the Earth is likely to be decided in our generation, based on what we do, or fail to do … If we act, all the energies of the private sector will be unleashed in a new wave of creativity to achieve a sustainable economy … There is strong evidence that habits can change. In that must lie our hope for the future” — UN Earth Summit Secretary-General Maurice Strong
“The whole idea of what the planet means to us is very much what was on the minds of the youth of the 60’s, when everyone talked about the oneness of the globe, the one consciousness of mankind, and a planet without borders.” — Peter Max
“There is a kind of equanimity about life, and about people. You must realize you are full of holes and that others are too. And you must extend your hand in any given opportunity — cautiously, however, so they will not grab it and make you fall.” — Oleg Cassini
On stage, “There are no retakes. You can’t let down for a moment — and if you do make a mistake, you have to make it work for you.” — Tommy Tune
“Baseball is one of the few sports where, even if you are enormously successful, you only win four out of 10 times when you are at bat. Actually, three times! You fail seven out of 10 times … You learn ‘Don’t Make Excuses.’ ”