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...can’t repeat, measuring different women’s degrees of what he has dubbed “freakiness.” (As a disclaimer, I feel I should add that Big Al pursues women of all races and places equally: black, white, Hispanic, New Jersey, Miami, Brooklyn, Manhattan—it’s all the same.) This show was actually a predictable destination after years of pathologically watching “Antiques Roadshow” (almost as good as mullet-spotting at the local Wal-Mart during the one and only summer I spent in Vermont...
DIED. JAMES E. DAVIS, 41, New York City councilman from Brooklyn; after being shot by Othniel Askew, 31, an opponent Davis had brought into the building as his guest; in New York City. Having fended off a challenge from the political novice, Davis escorted Askew into City Hall without going through metal detectors. On the balcony overlooking the council chamber, Askew pulled out a gun and shot Davis in front of onlookers, then was shot to death by a security officer...
...twin towers that loomed so large in my youth were gone—and I had not been there to say goodbye. New hot neighborhoods—like the Brooklyn blocks whimsically dubbed DUMBO (Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass)—had sprung up without me to gaze in their shop windows. And a new mayor had wiped out the city’s recycling program and banished smoke clouds from sidewalk cafes...
...Nine Smashing Car Chases," the graphic that accompanied our report on car-thrill movies [SHOW BUSINESS, June 16], said the pursuit in The French Connection happened in the Bronx. It took place in Brooklyn...
DIED. LARRY DOBY, 79, Hall of Fame slugger who became the first African American in the American League--just 11 weeks after Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier by joining the National League's Brooklyn Dodgers; in Montclair, N.J. In a 13-year career spent mostly with the Cleveland Indians, the star center fielder never lost his cool despite segregated conditions and rejection by some of his teammates. "The Bible ... says you should forgive and forget," he observed in 1999. "Well, you might forgive. But boy, it's tough to forget...