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...recounts the bizarre story of Jim Williams, a socially prominent antiques dealer who was tried four times for shooting and killing Danny Hansford, a Camaro-driving handyman and hustler. But the book is no typical true-crime thriller; it is as close to Paul Theroux as it is to Dominick Dunne. Populated by a townful of Southern Gothic characters, from patrician bon vivants like the polo-playing Harry Cram to Williams' canny, football-obsessed lawyer Sonny Seiler to local eccentrics like maid Gloria Daniels, who conducted tours of her employer's mansion, occasionally supplementing them with renditions of Stormy Weather...
...place gets with the holiday program in quite the way New York does. Across from the Rockefeller Center tree, Saks Fifth Avenue tells the Yuletide tale of plucky Art Aimesworth vs. the Dark Elves in six sprightly windows (with narration by Cindy Crawford, Peter Duchin, Brooke Shields, Dominick Dunne, Martha Stewart and seven others). At Fendi the Christmas trees are as svelte and haughty as the Euro-mannequins. From the windows of the Warner Bros. Studio Store, a behemoth Bugs and three of his Looney Tunes pals gaze fretfully across 57th Street at the Tiffany's display -- cuddly bears...
...police watch, a frightened Esposito finally directed investigators to the soundproof bunker. Authorities who later questioned the girl said she told them she was forced into the room after refusing sexual advances from Esposito. Katie "told us she was screaming when she was thrust into this," said Detective Lieut. Dominick Varrone...
Hemingway was wrong. The very rich are not different from you and me. They can be just as foolish and venal as the rest of us. Over the years it has been difficult to pity Ann Woodward. Certainly Truman Capote and Dominick Dunne were merciless in their barely disguised fictional portraits of social climbing metastasized into murder. But in Susan Braudy's lackluster account, readers are permitted at least an occasional twinge of compassion as they watch a gawky girl from the Kansas plains emerge from the chrysalis of gritty rural poverty into Manhattan on the eve of World...
...flag it down and ask for condoms. It has, in a sense, become one of the few visible expressions of the city's desire to help poor residents. "The people here are so used to being treated bad, they internalize that and think they're bad," says outreach worker Dominick Maldonado...