Word: manhattanization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Today the block is well on its way to becoming Manhattan's most chipper. On its east end a onetime porno palace--where Robert De Niro took Cybill Shepherd on an ill-fated date in Taxi Driver--is now a children's theater. Across the street, next to the New Amsterdam, is a big, bright Disney store--probably the only Disney store in the world that is just four doors away from an establishment that sells scary-looking swords and knives, boxing equipment and dusty copies of Bruce Lee videos. The latter retailer is one of two storefront businesses that...
Born in Los Angeles on the last day of the '50s, Kilmer fast-tracked his way into movies. The youngest actor ever accepted at Manhattan's famed Juilliard School, he co-wrote and starred in a play at Joseph Papp's Public Theater when he was 21. Two years later he landed the lead role in his first big-screen picture, the 1984 spy spoof Top Secret! As a U.S. pop star in East Germany, Kilmer did his own expert vocalizing of the film's tunes, fought off bad guys in an underwater saloon, played an entire scene backward...
Sager is also survived by two sisters, Esther Altschul of Wilmette, Ill., and Dr. Naomi Sager of Manhattan...
...There is the image of the Ph.D. driving a cab in Manhattan," Bossert said...
David was born in Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx in 1948 and grew up on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in a community that included blacks, whites, Asians, Jews, Catholics, Buddhists and other groups...