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...writers also "throw a wench in the works, perhaps only so they can use that pun. Jason Cooper provides an energetic performance as Marion Haste, whose Brooklyn accent sometimes becomes Long Island (we thought she was supposed to be Amy Fisher for a while) and sometimes disappears altogether. Haste is one of Lasnight's previous nights, and now she's pregnant. She writes a kiss and-tell "scroll" and tries to convince Diana that Lastnight is scum. (Political Subtext...
...contemporary types on which to build the characters. Jack was the dreamer, the creative type. For Little Red I wanted a compulsive over-eater. The hardest was Cinderella because she is so boring. I kept thinking Nancy Reagan...Nancy Reagan. The Baker and His Wife are a couple from Brooklyn... The Princes, definitely womanizers...
Like Queen, Tyson grew up in a harshly segregated society (the Brownsville section of Brooklyn) and was taken in by a white father figure (trainer Cus D'Amato). Like Queen, Tyson had an emotional, childlike personality (in one clip he weeps in anxiety before a match at the Junior Olympics). His encounters with the outside world, like Queen's, leave him bitter and disillusioned. Says Tyson about the various promoters, managers and other gold diggers who fought over him: "My philosophy was, like, people basically suck...
Never mind all that, says Hoffenberg, a self-styled "nice guy from Brooklyn," who explains that his troubles were merely "technical violations." In any case, he wants to make the Post a going business. He has already made good on his promise to reinstate half of Kalikow's salary cuts and hopes to bolster the bottom line by using his 1,000-member sales force as advertising salespeople. He won't interfere in editorial matters, he insists. "The creative side, that's not my job. I have enough to do on the publishing side," although he wants to write...
...condemned Korean passivity during riots last year in Los Angeles riots and racial boycotts in Brooklyn. He also called for greater involvement in politics by members of the Korean community...