Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...their photographs here and there around his office. He and his wife Suzanne Richie transported the cats each weekend to their home in the Catskill Mountains. There he turned them loose to explore the outdoors that he had loved as a boy, when his parents brought him up from Brooklyn on vacation, to stay in summer cottages...
...phone to Wilshire Court Productions in Los Angeles just hours after the World Trade Center bombing. Her proposal: How about a TV movie based on the heroic deeds performed by everyday folks caught in the disaster? On Saturday, one day after the explosion, she started meeting with people: two Brooklyn teachers whose kindergarten students were caught in the blast; a telephone repairman who set up a triage area for the injured; a mechanic who led six people to safety from the bowels of the towers. "They were on it real quick," says Fred Ferby, the mechanic. "She had everything together...
...condescend, artists and spectators all but inevitably feel an anthropological distance from their subjects. This holds especially true in the theater, a medium the underclass is apt to avoid as alien and unaffordable. Certainly, few playgoers at Aven'U Boys, a violent and vivid series of vignettes set in Brooklyn, New York, that debuted off-Broadway last week, appear to share the despondent, nihilistic subliteracy of the title trio of Italian Americans in their late teens (played, with terrifying conviction, by actors looking a decade older...
...invaded their turf to buy a sandwich. They seem capable of redemption: the brightest (Adrian Pasdar) falls passionately if shamefacedly for a black woman (Cynthia Martells). But in this hateful world any such union is doomed. Its miserable end is a reminder that integration has failed, that Brooklyn and many places like it remain ready to explode...
...from Robert De Niro's New York City-based Tribeca Productions, is sure to be hailed by critics as "quality" television. The term once conveyed innocent praise, but lately it has become freighted with sanctimoniousness -- a club to beat the heads of dopey network executives who won't renew Brooklyn Bridge. TV shows should not strive for "quality." They should strive to be good. Tribeca is a good show...