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...could be fresh for an evening's prowl of the city's top night spots; his son still has a 1937 album of photos from El Morocco. Phyllis Adams, a pert swank Manhattan deb, has her own memory book of nightclub propositions from elegant gents, including Errol Flynn. Brooklyn's Davie Lerner had never been inside any of these tony boites, but when stationed on Okinawa during the War he designed an officers' club that reproduced the zebra-striped banquettes of El Morocco; to men 9,000 miles from home, it symbolized American class...
...that's all right with the Brooklyn-born actress. She fought for the part of Natalie, a woman who combines the sexy and the maternal in a way that sometimes, Field recalls, made "my jaw hit the ground." The director, himself an actor (he was Tom Cruise's piano-player pal in Eyes Wide Shut), says of Tomei: "She's not afraid to get lost. She's not afraid to stumble. She's looking for it to be messy...
...Greenville, Texas, he formed his first band at the age of 13, and was signed by a local record company the next year. In 1996, his band, Radish, was the subject of a bidding war that garnered national attention. The band broke up in 1999 and Kweller moved to Brooklyn to begin his solo career. In the years following he opened for Guster and Evan Dando tours, while also releasing the short EP Come Home. Finally, at the golden age of twenty, he has released Sha Sha, his first solo album, which comes courtesy of the talented people at Dave...
Ursula von Rydingsvard carefully outlines a pattern in chalk on a cedar beam before it is violently carved with a circular saw. The serrated blade incises the wood as sawdust flies about her Brooklyn studio...
...never make a model for anything; the model never informs me,” she said as she showed photographs taken in her Brooklyn loft. In one slide, she held her chalk in hand as she outlined the form to be cut by craftsmen she calls “the princes of my studio...