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04-16-2004, 10:16 PM
Folks, here is the article from yesterday's New York Post:
TWINS PEAK
Ashley & Mary-Kate are the city's hot new sister act
By Russell Scott Smith
When Sarah Lewitinn threw a party recently, it was a typical Lower East Side soiree - with band du jour Franz Ferndinand on the CD player and Sierra Nevada on tap.
And when things began to wind down a bit around 2 AM, Lewitinn stuck in a DVD of... Ashley & Mary-Kate Olsen?
Suddenly, the Olsen Twins - who were once the butt of jokes for all those straight-to-video movies - have become a fixation for groovy young New Yorkers.
"I'm bizarrely obsessed with them," admits Lewitinn, a 24-year-old Spin magazine writer who proudly owns the Olsen's 2002 "When in Rome" video, a greatest hits album and an autograph picture.
"I didn't like them in their 'tween years" says Laura Young, a 23-year-old Wwb producer.
"Now they're - I don't know if you'd use the word edgy - but they're visible to an audience that's not hanging out at the mall"
Once the painfully precocious tots who shared the role of Michelle Tanner on ABC's "Full House," the toothsome twins have emerged into adulthood as not only multimillionaires, but also sex symbols and fashion icons (withness our cover photo from Allure).
"They actually have really great style," says Lewitinn who owns a T-shirt with Ashley on it that matches a Mary-Kate one belonging to her friend.
"They're always doing something new," agrees Young, "One day they're lauching a new makeup line, the next, they're designing clothes for Wal-Mart.
"They're mini-moguls - like what Oprah would be if she were two little white girls."
"It's a girl-power thing," says handbag designer Xanthe Alban-Davies, 29. "Most teen idols turn trashy, so it's nice to see these girls on the road to success."
When Alban-Davies bought one of her guy friends an Olsen Twins calendar for his birthday, the party turned into chaos as everybody grabbed it.
"The guys were like, 'they're so hot,'" Alban-Davies says, "and the women were just so obsessed."
Type "Olsen Twins countdown" into Google and you'll find 3,600 sites that count the days, hours, minutes and seconds until June 13, when the Olsen Twins turn 18 and will be legal to vote - not to mention have sex or pose for Playboy.
"The buzz on this has been building for five years," says Bill Doty, who runs a countdown clock on his web site, www.brokennewz.com "It's going to be a big day for a lot of guys."
The obsession is only going to continue to grow: The Twins' new movie, "New York Minute," opens May 7, and the Olsens are starting classes at New York University in the fall.
Last September, Ashley & Mary-Kate dropped $3.5 million on adjoining apartments in the West Village - launching Olsens-spotting as a hot downtown sport.
Just lat Monday, one downtowner saw Ashely & Mary-Kate shopping for vintage clothes in the East Village.
And in February, they were spotted racing around the halls of NYU's hayden dorm, "Screaming and raising all kinds of hell" when visiting one of their friends.
Of course, there's plenty of Gen-Y irony in all this Olsens love.
"They're greta kitsch," says Mark Graham, 30, who edits the blog whatevs.org.
Watching an Olsens' video like 2001's "Holiday in the Sun" Graham says, "Is definitely choice - kind of like watching a John Waters movie."
When the MTV show "Cribs" visited Jamie Kennedy's house last year, the politically incorrect comedian proudly showed off a home office that was bare except for a tiny Mary-Kate picture posted next to his desk.
"I just thought they were really hot," says Kennedy, "like mini Cameron Diaz one, mini Cameron Diaz two."
But just how wholesome are they? Ashley's now dating Columbia University quarterback Matt Kaplan, and Mary-Kate new beau is David Katzenberg, the son of Hollywood producer Jeffery Katzenberg.
"I think a lot of people would like to see the Olsens fall and maybe get a little bit ruined," says Young.
"I doubt they're going to be the next Paris and Nicky Hilton - but we can always dream."
TWINS PEAK
Ashley & Mary-Kate are the city's hot new sister act
By Russell Scott Smith
When Sarah Lewitinn threw a party recently, it was a typical Lower East Side soiree - with band du jour Franz Ferndinand on the CD player and Sierra Nevada on tap.
And when things began to wind down a bit around 2 AM, Lewitinn stuck in a DVD of... Ashley & Mary-Kate Olsen?
Suddenly, the Olsen Twins - who were once the butt of jokes for all those straight-to-video movies - have become a fixation for groovy young New Yorkers.
"I'm bizarrely obsessed with them," admits Lewitinn, a 24-year-old Spin magazine writer who proudly owns the Olsen's 2002 "When in Rome" video, a greatest hits album and an autograph picture.
"I didn't like them in their 'tween years" says Laura Young, a 23-year-old Wwb producer.
"Now they're - I don't know if you'd use the word edgy - but they're visible to an audience that's not hanging out at the mall"
Once the painfully precocious tots who shared the role of Michelle Tanner on ABC's "Full House," the toothsome twins have emerged into adulthood as not only multimillionaires, but also sex symbols and fashion icons (withness our cover photo from Allure).
"They actually have really great style," says Lewitinn who owns a T-shirt with Ashley on it that matches a Mary-Kate one belonging to her friend.
"They're always doing something new," agrees Young, "One day they're lauching a new makeup line, the next, they're designing clothes for Wal-Mart.
"They're mini-moguls - like what Oprah would be if she were two little white girls."
"It's a girl-power thing," says handbag designer Xanthe Alban-Davies, 29. "Most teen idols turn trashy, so it's nice to see these girls on the road to success."
When Alban-Davies bought one of her guy friends an Olsen Twins calendar for his birthday, the party turned into chaos as everybody grabbed it.
"The guys were like, 'they're so hot,'" Alban-Davies says, "and the women were just so obsessed."
Type "Olsen Twins countdown" into Google and you'll find 3,600 sites that count the days, hours, minutes and seconds until June 13, when the Olsen Twins turn 18 and will be legal to vote - not to mention have sex or pose for Playboy.
"The buzz on this has been building for five years," says Bill Doty, who runs a countdown clock on his web site, www.brokennewz.com "It's going to be a big day for a lot of guys."
The obsession is only going to continue to grow: The Twins' new movie, "New York Minute," opens May 7, and the Olsens are starting classes at New York University in the fall.
Last September, Ashley & Mary-Kate dropped $3.5 million on adjoining apartments in the West Village - launching Olsens-spotting as a hot downtown sport.
Just lat Monday, one downtowner saw Ashely & Mary-Kate shopping for vintage clothes in the East Village.
And in February, they were spotted racing around the halls of NYU's hayden dorm, "Screaming and raising all kinds of hell" when visiting one of their friends.
Of course, there's plenty of Gen-Y irony in all this Olsens love.
"They're greta kitsch," says Mark Graham, 30, who edits the blog whatevs.org.
Watching an Olsens' video like 2001's "Holiday in the Sun" Graham says, "Is definitely choice - kind of like watching a John Waters movie."
When the MTV show "Cribs" visited Jamie Kennedy's house last year, the politically incorrect comedian proudly showed off a home office that was bare except for a tiny Mary-Kate picture posted next to his desk.
"I just thought they were really hot," says Kennedy, "like mini Cameron Diaz one, mini Cameron Diaz two."
But just how wholesome are they? Ashley's now dating Columbia University quarterback Matt Kaplan, and Mary-Kate new beau is David Katzenberg, the son of Hollywood producer Jeffery Katzenberg.
"I think a lot of people would like to see the Olsens fall and maybe get a little bit ruined," says Young.
"I doubt they're going to be the next Paris and Nicky Hilton - but we can always dream."