Archive for May, 2002
May 31, 2002
Kitsch With a Niche: Bollywood Chic Finds a Home
IT was a swell crowd last Tuesday at a dinner party in the Fifth Avenue apartment of Tracey Jackson, a screenwriter, and Glenn Horowitz, a rare-book dealer. The hosts had lured their guests — including the journalist Carl Bernstein; Shashi Tharoor, a United Nations official and writer; and Amy Gross, the editor in chief of O, the Oprah Magazine — with the prospect of meeting India’s hottest new import. Not the requisite guru or swami, fixtures at society gatherings since Edith Wharton’s day, but Aamir Khan, a superstar from Bombay’s over-the-top film industry, Bollywood.
