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...third floor of New Quincy, she and her roommates have a unique perspective on the "goings-on" of the tutor suite next door: "My room-mates and I hear [goings-on] every morning at 9 a.m...repeated moaning through the bathroom fire door like clockwork. People in Greenwich could set clocks by this...
DIED. CARL G. SONTHEIMER, 83, portly engineer cum epicure, who brought the Cuisinart to America; in Greenwich, Conn. It was in France that Sontheimer, in his 50s and "retired," first spotted a newfangled blender that sliced, diced, ground, grated and chopped, all in one. After some fine-tuning, the Cadillac of cookware was born. Though he sold the company in 1988, Sontheimer never lost his taste for fine cuisine, and just before entering the hospital, he served up a final feast of rack of lamb...
Collected Stories, a finalist for the 1997 Pulitzer Prize, is about a mentor-protege relationship between two women writers. Ruth Steiner (Deborah Kipp), a middle-aged writer living in Greenwich Village, takes on the overeager graduate student Lisa Morrison (Felicity Jones) as her assistant and tutee. Lisa is awed by the impressive Ruth, who has published a respected body of short stories and who embodies a long-standing New York literary tradition Though Lisa starts out as an insecure chatterbox, both women soon emerge as uniquely witty, charming personalities. Their interaction provides plenty of sparkling, funny dialogue, especially about...
Time out! In a garish era for movies, does Brooks even have a shot with this Candygram? Its sentimental story has more cripples and victims than A Christmas Carol. And the first half an hour, a bit slow and unsure of its tone, plays like The Grinch from Greenwich Village. The film also echoes Jerry Maguire, the Tom Cruise hit that Brooks produced last year. That one had a self-obsessed hero, a sweet mother-child tandem and a media figure in trouble. All you can say about Brooks' new film, which he wrote with Mark Andrus, is that...
Richard Hartley Mims Jr., the novel's HIV-negative narrator, can't stop prematurely expostulating about his talented Greenwich Village friends who began dying from AIDS in the early '80s. Robert, an Iowa Adonis, squeezes a legendary social life and the completion of an epic symphony inspired by the Titanic into two blazing years. Angie, a part-time waitress, cracks the art world with large, spirited canvases and the smarts to know that even a gifted girl has to hustle. Mims' own promising career as a writer is detoured by home-nursing the stricken. His key ring, he notes with...