Word: brooklyn
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Rock knows about hard work and hard times. He was born in Georgetown, S.C., and grew up in a poor part of the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn. His dad (who died in 1988) worked as a truck driver for the New York Daily News; his mom was a schoolteacher (she now runs a day-care center). Rock was bused from his black neighborhood in Bed-Stuy to a white high school in Bensonhurst. He says the students there were "worse than white trash--they were white toxic waste," and would beat him up regularly. Funny thing was, even though...
...Burt Young), who is the godfather here, sees opportunity in this alliance--a chance to off-load some of his talentless son's paintings and do a little money laundering via Michael's auctions. Before you know it, Michael has acquired his eponymous Mob nickname, is burying stiffs in Brooklyn and, finally, wearing a wire for a comically clueless FBI, whose forces include a hearing-challenged agent...
...sharkskin suits, pointy Beatles boots and tattoos--line up their bikes in the club lot. But Vespa fanatics include businessmen, middle-aged women and just regular guys. Hairstylist Robert Winslow, 29, moved from a roomy loft in New York City's tony TriBeCa to a dingier but more spacious Brooklyn apartment without a kitchen, strictly to accommodate his vintage bikes. "I'm obsessive," he says. "My place is pretty much a garage." In May, Mike Frankovich, 25, a student and founder of the Hollywood Rat Pack scooter club, rode the entire length of U.S. Route 66 on his Vespa P200E...
DIED. HAROLD HENRY ("Pee Wee") REESE, 81, Hall of Fame baseball shortstop and captain of the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947, when Jackie Robinson joined the team and began the historic racial integration of the sport. Reese's very public camaraderie with Robinson was crucial in dissipating the ugliness that greeted the rookie. Reese led the Dodgers to seven National League pennants and, in 1955, to Brooklyn's only world championship. He retired in 1958, after a year in the Dodgers' new home, Los Angeles...
...this helium weren't enough, Brown had the good fortune to be evicted from her preferred launch-party site by New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani when he learned that Hillary, his Senate rival, would be on Talk's cover (and not because party givers had planned to festoon the Brooklyn Navy Yard with thousands of condoms featuring the Talk logo). Undaunted, Brown went higher in the pantheon of landmarks and nailed down the Statue of Liberty. The buzz intensified when a prepublication parody on the Internet swept through the chattering classes, promising pieces about "celebrities who have died but still...