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Matisyahu “Youth” Dir. Marc Webb Picture this exchange: “Have you ever heard Jay-Z?” “No, what’s he like?” “Jay-Z is a male, African-American, Brooklyn-born, rapper!” “Wow! That’s a hilarious and totally unlikely combi-nation! I’ll be sure to listen to him a lot now.” This would be, of course, ridiculous, but the phrasing’s not that...
...Harvard, to the Brooklyn-born Limpert, also offered a reprieve from the unbridled materialism of New York City. He says he remembers Boston as a place where intellect was privileged above all else...
...Sopranos, one of television's most realistic depictions of their work. Now the actress who plays her, Lorraine Bracco, is ready to discuss a real-life mental-health problem of her own. In TV spots launching next month and on a website for Pfizer, the Brooklyn-born actress will describe her struggle with depression. Bracco is just the latest celebrity to go public with such a personal admission. Last summer Jane Pauley spilled the beans on her bipolar disorder, and this spring Brooke Shields is set to release a book on her postpartum depression. You thought talking about your couch...
RETIRED. BERNARD TRINK, 72, revered and reviled newspaperman whose "Night Owl" column extolled for nearly four decades the sybaritic pleasures available to expatriate men in Thailand's capital; in Bangkok. The Brooklyn-born Trink covered the city's go-go bars, massage parlors and pubs, making the rounds with his Thai wife in tow, owl medallion around his neck and maroon polyester pants hitched up to his chest. He wrote in a retro style in which prostitutes were "demimondaines," and press releases were preceded by the phrase, "The tom toms have it ..." His signature sign...
...supporters at Harvard are waging their fight by luring hot-button lecturers to campus. Last fall English department members, who had asked Irish poet Tom Paulin to receive an award at Harvard, rescinded the invitation amidst uproar over an interview with an Egyptian newspaper, in which Paulin said that Brooklyn-born settlers on the West Bank “should be shot dead.” Although the department later reinstated the offer, Paulin has yet to speak here...