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Williams walked what the New York Post has called the “tough streets” of Brooklyn as a youth. He walked them on his way back from school—where a speech impediment made him a laughingstock—to his home, where his mother fired a weapon at his father on one occasion and chased him with a butcher knife on another. He cried as he watched two sisters die of AIDS. He got into a number of legal scrapes early in his career as a late-night sidekick of Charles Barkley during their days...
...that someone had applied for a couple of credit cards in his name and had run up a $6,000 tab, it was late September and law-enforcement agencies were busy tracking down terrorists. Johnson, 31, a production assistant at a cable-channel website, called his local precinct in Brooklyn and was told the N.Y.P.D. was so swamped, the detectives couldn't do anything unless he had the perpetrator's name and address...
When he presented his findings to the police near his home in Brooklyn, they said the case should be handled where the charged goods were delivered, in the Bronx, and the two precincts bounced Johnson back and forth until a report was finally filed in Brooklyn...
...Born in Brooklyn in 1938, Nozick studied analytic philosophy as an undergraduate at Columbia University. Later at Princeton he pursued graduate work in analytic philosophy, a field that tries to understand the relation between linguistic statements and the real-world subjects they define...
Like '70s, '80s' pilot is heavy on the kind of cringe-worthy details (two words: animal prints) that characterize Gen X and Y nostalgia in general. Whereas baby-boomer touchstones like Brooklyn Bridge and The Big Chill recalled the '50s as more innocent and the '60s as more meaningful than the present, their successors tend to subscribe to the bad-yearbook-photo school of history. Instead of seeing the past as a lost Eden, they see history as an eternal march upward from dorkiness. The more memorable moments in the '80s pilot--already beaten to death...