Dental duo fixes
Hollywood’s grins
NEW YORK (AP) - Smiling
before the camera, a Tinseltown tra
dition, requires teeth of pearly white
perfection.
Dentists Gregg Lituchy, 38, and
Marc Lowenberg, 51, know how to
make a celebrity smile. The list of
celebrity clients at their Central Park
office includes Courteney Cox, one
of NBC-TV’s “Friends,” and star of
“Scream 2.”
Cox has been booking routine
checkups since 1984, the year she
was discovered in a Brian De Palma
video, “Dancing in the Dark,” with
Bruce Springsteen.
Ron Eldard, formerly of televi
sion’s “Men Behaving Badly,” once
bumped into fellow actor Jason Patric
(“Speed 2: Cruise Control”) in the
waiting room. Both were there for a
cleaning (which might be an incen
tive for some of us plebes to show up
for regular visits).
Supermodels Cindy Crawford,
Christy Turlington and Amber Valetta
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Lowenberg. Paul Reiser of “Mad
About You” and film actress Ellen
Baikin are former patients.
Actress Julianna Margulies has
been a patient for years. “She came to
me right before she went out to Los
Angeles to do the pilot for ‘ER
Lowenberg said. “I didn’t charge her
for X-rays because she was an aspir
ing actress.”
Usually, celebrities just need rou
tine dental work. But sometimes, the
pathway to beauty is filled with
bonding, bleaching - and more.
“When you’re watching TV and
you see these incredible smiles, I
would have to guess a lot of that is
porcelain veneers,” Lituchy said. “It’s
the Mercedes of smiles. It’s pre
dictable, k lasts, and it’s an expensive
luxury for yourself.”
Porcelain veneers - which can
cost up to $20,000 - can beautify
every tooth visible to an adoring pub
lic. And Lowenberg said he’ll “go to
any length to attain perfection.”
So whose perfect smile is the
result of dental artistry?
“Everybody goes to the dentist
«-—
You can’t have a
more intimate
relationship with
someone than when
you re working on
their mouth ”
Marc Lowenberg
celebrity dentist
and has no compunction saying they
go to the dentist,” said Lowenberg.
“But people in the limelight want
people to believe that whatever they
have, they were bom with.”
Singer/daytime television host
Kathie Lee Gifford (“Live With
Regis and Kathie Lee) is the only
celebrity he could recall who has
admitted having a touchup. And she’s
not one of his patients.
What attracts celebs to this
dynamic dental duo? How about this?
If you make a visit to the dentist
entertaining, tne entertainers will
come. “Patients who are overly anx
ious can have reflexology on their
feet or hands, or a shoulder massage,”
Lowenberg said.
Besides the usual dental para
phernalia, the Lowenberg/Lituchy
offices are equipped with overhead
television sets and VCRs. “During
dental work, most patients watch E!
Entertainment Television or MTV,”
Lowenberg said. “For a long proce
dure, they’ll watch a movie.”
Lowenberg and Lituchy have
been creating “smile make-overs”
together for seven years. They’re best
friends, but true closeness, they said,
comes with their patients.
“You can’t have a more intimate
relationship with someone than when
you’re working on their mouth,”
Lowenberg said. “In between
drilling, you share what’s going on in
your life”
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Jazz hall at Lincoln Center
to symbolize art’s excellence
■ The theater will fea
ture 1,100 seats and
space for rehearsals,
recordings and teaching
facilities.
NEW YORK (AP) - The
Yankees have Yankee Stadium.
Theater has Broadway. Opera has
the Met.
But where do you put jazz in a
city full of musicians and music
lovers?
Under an agreement announced
Tuesday, a 1,100-seat concert hall
would be built not far from Lincoln
Center as the headquarters for the
world’s largest jazz organization,
Jazz at Lincoln Center.
The project, estimated to cost
as much as $88 million, would
extend the boundary of the Lincoln
Center performing arts complex to
tiie edge of Central Park. The as-yet
unnamed theater would also
include space for rehearsals, teach
ing and recording.
The theater is expected to be
completed late in 2001.
It “will stand as an example for
people all over the world what a
hall that swings is about - because
that’s what we’re going to do up in
there, swing,” said trumpeter
Wynton Marsalis, the artistic direc
tor of Jazz at Lincoln Center.
“This is not just about a build
ing for jazz,” added Gordon Davis,
the group’s board chairman. “This
is about a symbol... of excellence
and civilization and the importance
of this music as America’s most
original art form.”
The hall would be on the site
occupied by the New York
Coliseum, a 42-year-old building
that became obsQlete once the
Jacob K. Javits Convention Center ~
opened in 1986. It has long been a
target of developers who covet the
location in midtown Manhattan not
far from Carnegie Hall and Times
Square.
The Metropolitan
Transportation Authority, which
owns the site, is considering five
proposals to redevelop the site.
Most call for hotels, TV studios,
movie theaters and retail shops, but
the jazz hall deal will require at
least some of the bids to be revised.
The developer will be responsi- *
ble for spending up to $45 million
to build the shell of the jazz facility,
and then convey the property to
Jazz at Lincoln Center at no cost,
possibly in a lease.
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