LAUNCHED:

01/28/1998 at 12:00 AM EST

Talk magazine, with a bash on Liberty Island in New York harbor, Monday night, with Madonna, Paul Newman, Christopher Reeve, Henry Kissinger, Salman Rushdie, Lauren Bacall, Demi Moore, Elizabeth Hurley, Hugh Grant, Matthew Broderick, Queen Latifah, Kevin Bacon, Kate Moss, Pierce Brosnan, Michael Eisner, Liam Neeson and Natasha Richardson among the 800 guests. Cover girl Hillary Rodham Clinton did not attend.