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...erstwhile Dodgers fans used to say in Brooklyn: "Wait 'til next year...
Sharpton was born in Brooklyn and became alicensed Pentecostal minister when he was 10 yearsold, according to The Times. From age 10 to 18, hewas youth pastor of a Brooklyn Church...
...Muhammad incident also comes at a bad time for black-Jewish relations in general, especially in New York City, which never sleeps because it's too busy fretting about race. The Justice Department recently announced plans to look - into Brooklyn's 1991 Crown Heights riots, sparked when a Jewish motorist struck and killed a black youngster. In January, New York police mistakenly raided a Nation of Islam mosque after a false robbery report...
...Also attending the birthday dinner are Sara's rebellious cliche of a daughter Tess, Tess' improbable Lithuanian resistance fighter boyfriend Tom, and Pfeni's bisexual boyfriend Geoffrey. A stuffed shirt Englishperson makes a brief appearance but he is mainly there as contrast to Mervyn, the lovable faux furrier from Brooklyn, who arrives at Sara's house to give something to Geoffrey and stays for dinner...
...truth there is pain; in pain there is laughter. That might be Brooks' motto, in comedy and life. Brooklyn-born, New Jersey-bred, Jim was a lonely child whose father had left home. "In I'll Do Anything," says Platt, "I think he is unconsciously, or consciously, investigating what might have happened to him had his father not left, if he had not been raised by his mother and sister." After New York University, he worked for CBS as a newswriter, then in 1966 moved to Los Angeles to make TV documentaries. Three years later, he created the series Room...