Word: manhattanization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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More important, his characters are not the usual musical-comedy creatures. They are your basic Woody Allen folks, a family of upper-middle-class Manhattan strivers--liberaloid, neurotic, mildly dysfunctional. Mom (Goldie Hawn) numbers among her causes prison reform. So, naturally, her eldest daughter (a wonderfully surprising Drew Barrymore as a coolly appraising material girl) falls for one of the recidivists (Tim Roth, in another of his beautifully calculated bounces off the wall) her mother brings home to dinner. This leaves nice Holden (Edward Norton) in the lurch and Father (Alan Alda) fuming impotently...
...liquid assets amounting to about half a million dollars, but they were immediately used to pay lawyers. A member of the first defense team says Simpson's financial adviser, Skip Taft, looked at everything Simpson owned but found nothing significant aside from the Rockingham house and a condominium in Manhattan, which Simpson has since sold. He did raise about $1 million with his book I Want to Tell You, and the Star paid $450,000 for the rights to use pictures of his homecoming after his acquittal. Still, most of the original defense team has not been fully paid...
...years Beyer has been delivering food to the Bowery Mission, located in one of Manhattan's grittier neighborhoods. Each week he makes the six-hour round trip to the Big Apple, delivering produce, canned meats and pastries donated by Mennonite farmers and businesses near his town. He calls what he does "the Lord's work" and says, "People trust me with the food I take up there. To see these happy faces means a good...
...Girolamo, 5, or Everett Webre, a mature 4, which Saturday-morning television shows they like best, and they will look at you blankly as though you were quizzing them about hedge funds or Harold Pinter. The boys, no budding back-to-the-landers, are the sons of TV-friendly Manhattan media professionals, but neither James nor Everett has ever watched Saturday-morning cartoons. "This is family time," explains Everett's mom Priscilla Glover, "one of the few times during the week we can all be together. Everett knows he can watch the Disney Channel whenever he wants, so he doesn...
Last summer, I worked as an intern at American Heritage magazine. The job--a paying one--was not without its perks. The magazine was owned by the Forbes family, and the offices were in the Forbes Building on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. There was a gym on the ninth floor that all employees were paid to use for three hours each week, and on the first floor was the Forbes Gallery, featuring Faberge eggs and Malcolm Forbes Sr.'s large collection of toy boats. I even had the dubious honor of meeting Steve Forbes. While I had responsibilities that included...