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...industry when its products are used in crimes or by careless third parties almost always fail. Just this spring a jury cleared a Tennessee company that sold a mail-order MAC-11 assault-pistol kit, the so-called MAC in a sack, used in a sniper killing on the Brooklyn Bridge...
Indeed, Shakespeare is enjoying a good season. The Royal Shakespeare Company is finishing up its most extensive U.S. visit to date, a six-week run that began at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and is now at Washington's Kennedy Center--where its no-star production of Hamlet just set a house record. Helen Hunt, fresh from her Oscar, will star as Viola in Twelfth Night, opening in mid-July at Manhattan's Lincoln Center. R&J, a quirky, all-male version of Romeo and Juliet, is creating buzz off-Broadway. And just arrived in New York, following a nationwide...
...what is still arguably her best picture, 1968's "Funny Girl," Barbra Streisand dreamed of being "Sadie, Sadie," a married lady. Today, she is. The Brooklyn-born entertainer, 56, and actor James Brolin, 57, tied the knot Wednesday -- the second anniversary of their first date -- at her Malibu estate in a highly romantic but high-security ceremony...
DIED. ALFRED KAZIN, 83, one of his generation's most eloquent literary critics; in New York City. The Brooklyn-born Kazin stumbled onto his calling seemingly by accident: while riding in a subway in 1934 he was so incensed by a New York Times book review that he got off at Times Square to confront the critic face to face. Kazin's thoughtful critiques continued in On Native Grounds, his seminal 1942 appraisal of American writers, and in countless other essays, reviews and memoirs dwelling in depth on New York, Judaism and above all literature, the three topics dearest...
Breindel, a former Crimson editorial chair, was a well-known conservative commentator in New York. He was a leading voice for the Jewish community during the racial unrest in Brooklyn's Crown Heights...