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...Sandra Bullock in The Net me, lives on Laconia Avenue in the Bronx. Luckily, AmEx's massive computer system noticed subtle differences from my normal spending patterns. This impressed me until I realized the computer had failed to consider that I would never survive a week of living in the Bronx...
...Because, make no mistake, the man was acting. Unlike his braying, spluttering character, O'Connor was born in the Bronx but his real voice was no Bronx cheer; he was soft-spoken and thoughtful and said that he never heard Archie Bunkerisms growing up in his well-off childhood home. An accomplished journeyman stage and film actor, O'Connor made Archie into a character - dry and operatic, hateful and touching - where a cartoon would have sufficed. It would have been easy to make Archie a caricature (and he was one) or a straw man (he was that too). It would...
...child in the Bronx, Byron, now 42, was kept indoors much of the time by a near crippling asthma. But confinement married him to music, a music perceived not as a continent divided into separate principalities but as a unified cosmos. "A lot of the [music] that I've investigated in my life," Byron says, he first encountered "within the walls of my bedroom in my parents' house"--which is to say, within the infinite walls of imagination...
...child in the Bronx, Byron, now 42, was kept indoors much of the time by a near crippling asthma. But confinement married him to music, a music perceived not as a continent divided into separate principalities but as a unified cosmos. "A lot of the [music] that I've investigated in my life," Byron says, he first encountered "within the walls of my bedroom in my parents' house" - which is to say, within the infinite walls of imagination...
...tabloid press and an astute political power broker, but his army of critics charges that he has not outgrown a tendency to play the crassest kind of racial politics. Case in point: the convoluted New York imbroglio this month in which Sharpton was reported to have offered to endorse Bronx borough president Fernando Ferrer--a Puerto Rican who's trying to win the Democratic mayoral nomination by building a coalition of Latino and black voters--if and only if Ferrer backed a slate of black candidates Sharpton favored. The New York Times reporter who wrote the story, Sharpton says, left...