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...commercial street, there were 100 patrons one day last week but not a black in the place. "Oh, we get a few colored in here," said a grandmotherly woman behind the counter. "In fact, I think I sold a Big Mac to one a couple of weeks ago." In Boulevard Manor, the most expensive part of town, a black face is not merely remarkable, but alarming. )own here," says a Manor resident, anyone who sees a colored person walking along the street without a delivery uniform on calls the police...
...year-end madness in Miami is usually happy and carefully orchestrated, a prelude to the Orange Bowl parade and the big college football game it self. But the madness in Miami last week was grim and unexpected. Three days before the floats and marching bands rumbled up Biscayne Boulevard, the down-and-out Overtown section, just five blocks south of the parade route, erupted into spasms of street combat after a young black man was killed by police. By the time the pillaging and mob assaults ended, a second person had been killed by police, more than 25 people...
...Cage aux Folles, an expensive French restaurant on La Cienega Boulevard, where transvestites impersonate famous female singers. Tipped by radio that Arrington and the coke had been seized, the agents waited until Hetrick finished his late-night meal, then arrested him outside the restaurant...
...jangly cowboy songs and cruel chiaroscuro. Propelled by her screenwriter husband (who fades out of his own picture), her producer (who finds younger actresses for his casting couch), her neurologist (who ladles out morphine) and a curious reporter (who cannot escape the lure of decadence), Veronika travels down Sunset Boulevard to a dead end. Fassbinder's black-and-white palette turns neon into a soft, blinking Cyclops eye, slices light into flickers with an overhead fan, dapples windows with rain stains, all to re-create the visual style in which Veronika could feel at home and alive...
...calendar said September, but the audiences filling Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House obviously did not believe it. When the jaunty man in the black vest and open-necked shirt sauntered out from the wings, it was April in Paris and the giant stage was a boulevard: for the first time in nearly a quarter of a century, Yves Montand is once again on tour in America...