Word: manhattanization
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...over-the-top, but never flinch from the fear we all feel. The dialogue goes like this:Man 1: “These fucking goddamn terrorists! They want to blow up the Brooklyn Bridge? Why, so I can’t walk across it and look at the destroyed Manhattan skyline and contemplate the fucking mass grave their friends left for us?”Man 2: “How much do you wanna bet that if terrorists blow up the Statue of Liberty, the French won’t even OFFER to replace...
...someone who sees most of the movies that most interest him in venues other than traditional theaters, I can't disagree. I plunder the treasures at Kim's, a Manhattan video chain that embraces both the ineffable and the unspeakable - Kenji Mizoguchi and Jesus Franco. And I scan the Internet for films other people may think of as obscure, and I call essential. Who knows what the Essential Art House movies of the next 50 years will be? Nobody knows. But we can be pretty sure that we won't see them in theaters like the Brattle or the 55th...
...course, they’d watch Lt. Theo Kojak, the New York City police officer who fought crime in what was then a gritty neighborhood of lower Manhattan...
Tahari's initial connection to fashion was occupational but incidental. His first job was as an electrician at Nyborg Electric on 40th Street, in Manhattan's garment district. He was put in charge of servicing the showrooms of clothing firms, giving him a peek at fashion design in process. At night he moonlighted as a salesman at a Greenwich Village clothing boutique called Fig Leaf that was open until 2 a.m. Tahari began making suggestions to the owner about items that he thought would sell. Many of them, including the tube top, took off. Tahari realized...
...packed house at the Regal Union Square Theatre in Manhattan was stoked for the midnight screening of Saw III. The crowd of predominantly young men, some with dates, lent sympathetic attention to the trailers for Turistas (American kids trapped in the house of a Brazilian madman) and The Messengers (the Pang brothers' monster house movie). A collective laugh greeted the opening seconds of the Borat trailer. Then came a trailer in, of all languages, German (subtitled in English): a guttural voice observing that in the U.S. 10,000 people are killed each year, most of them by guns. "Americans...