Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...American artist trying hard to keep growing. Eternity came breathing down his back six months ago in the form of a heart attack. Now, after three nights of sold-out adulation and guffaw at Long Island's Westbury Music Fair, he leans forward from his French Colonial chair in Manhattan's chic Pierre Hotel--he is surrounded by the stuff of decadence--and talks in his familiar streetguy talk, as he must have talked to the neighborhood kids in White Harlem 25 years ago, airing not so much as a hint of malcontent or overindulgence...
Girl Friends might have been a more successful project if Weill had been as true to life with her main characters as she is with her Manhattan settings and her bit parts. She loads the dice so heavily in Susan's favor that one wonders not only where the plot escaped to, but how one friend could be such a gem and the other such a turd. With all that's happening to Susan in her career and romantic life, it's not clear why she would feel such an acute sense of loss over friendship with...
...INDEPENDENTLY produced film made on a shoestring budget, Girl Friends has a very professional look about it. The film has many touching and amusing moments, and it portrays life in Manhattan with realism and a smattering of humor. But verisimilitude does not a plot make, and Girl Friends suffers most from a one-dimensional story line, even if the line is quite nicely trimmed...
...YORK--A federal judge in Manhattan yesterday said the New York Yankees could not bar a reporter from the Yankee Stadium locker rooms because the reporter is a woman...
...evening a few years ago, several agents of the French government slipped unobtrusively into the U.S. on one of the most daring assignments in the annals of international skulduggery. They checked into a midtown Manhattan hotel, spent much of the next few days watching the CBS Evening News in their rooms, and then fled the country as quietly as they had come, their mission accomplished. The mission? Figurez vous! To capture Walter Cronkite...