Word: flatbush
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last typographical error. Or the takeover lieutenant (James Coburn) who possessed a unique gift for bringing disorder out of chaos. And remember the no-neck sergeant (Aldo Ray) who hollered so loud he scared the roaches out of the popcorn? Not to mention all those dogfaces from Flatbush who seldom shot anything more dangerous than dice, and when anybody said "tanks" respectfully replied "yuh welcome...
...York theatre world, the hard work as well as the element of chance. He admires entertainers tremendously. "My mother liked theatrical people and they were always around the house -- not the big names, of course, but they had it in their blood. I remember in particular one family in Flatbush -- one was a showgirl. A showgirl considers herself much above a chorine, you know. There's a world of difference...
...York theatre world, the hard work as well as the element of chance. He admires entertainers tremendously. "My mother liked theatrical people and they were always around the house - not the big names, of course, but they had it in their blood. I remember in particular one family in Flatbush -- one was a showgirl. A showgirl considers herself much above a chorine, you know. There's world of difference...
...Your Brooklyn story [March 11] nauseated me. Brooklyn isn't Sheepshead Bay, Fort Hamilton, Flatbush, Bensonhurst, Canarsie and Coney Island. They're foreign. Brooklyn is Williamsburg, Greenpoint, Fort Greene, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Red Hook-places like that, where you can't get foot-long hot dogs or Marianne Moore, but where you can hear Latin-American music blasting all night, where Al Capone is a martyr, where you can buy licorice for a penny, where you can get the best malted milks in the world. "Only 1% of the kids are still dese, dem and dose types," says...
...Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn today is an amorphous urban sprawl, the most populous (2,600,000 in 80.9 sq.mi.) and proletarian of all five boroughs that comprise New York City. The turning point probably came between the time Durocher left the Dodgers (1948) and the time the Dodgers left Flatbush (1958). Now a housing project occupies Ebbets Field, and one of its occupants, Rodney Kenner, 9, buried the Bums for all time last week as he rode a bicycle where home plate used to be. "You know," said Rodney, "baseball is a bore...