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...over the Capasso divorce; and Sukhreet, the judge's troubled daughter. Bess is a towering "glamazon" who dazzled almost everyone she met; Hortense Gabel is a stocky housing lawyer with Coke-bottle glasses and sensible shoes. Yet Alexander pairs them as spiritual twins. Both had climbed out of the Bronx through brains, hard work and chutzpah. And both hated looking back...
Billy Bathgate by E.L. Doctorow (1989). A boy growing up in the Bronx during the Depression is effectively adopted by Dutch Schultz, a notorious gangster. The hero's vision of criminal life, at once glamorous and corrupting, amounts to a privileged education. This story of a young man's coming of age already seems a part of the American grain...
Here, the disasters of war are at home. The Bronx veterans' hospital where Ron is sent to recuperate is an open sewer teeming with rats, drugs and whores. Back in Massapequa, Ron is now the flinching veteran used as a prop for patriotism, and family life is a ceaseless, sickening debate about the war. Even in Mexico, at a kind of seraglio for impotent veterans, he finds little sympathy among his own crippled kind. He looks into the angry face of his buddy Charlie (Willem Dafoe) and finds a mirror of his own grotesque despair. He has hit bottom...
...This Bronx-reared Barnum has magazines in his blood. In the 1960s and '70s, working as a cover designer with the late editor Harold Hayes, Lois turned Esquire's cover into a gallery that registered every shock of those seismic years. As an adman, he taught America's children the insistent demand "I want my Maypo." In the early 1980s he recycled the line to meet their grownup tastes: "I want my MTV." And he's the man who told people, "When you got it, flaunt it" (for Braniff airlines, remember?), a pretty good description of his advertising ethos...
Women's Cross Country at Heptagonals, Van Cortland Park, Bronx, N.Y., 12 noon...