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...film concentrates on two of the men - Sergeant John McLoughlin (Nicolas Cage) and Officer Will Jimeno (Michael Pe?a) - who were pinned down in the metal carnage on the buildings' Concourse level, and on the attempt of a few men above to rescue them. It intercuts the action in Lower Manhattan with the hopes and forebodings of McLoughlin's and Jimeno's wives as they anxiously await news of their husbands' fate...
...competitive, brilliant family—“In one often-repeated tale, [Spitzer’s father] Bernard reduced Eliot, then about seven or eight, to tears during a game of Monopoly”—of his academic success, and of his time in the Manhattan District Attorney’s office...
...relentlessly and unfairly hounded by the judiciary system. Record producer Phil Spector, who championed the comedian in his last year, claimed that Lenny "died from an overdose of police." Think that's an exaggeration? Well, Martin Garbus, one of Lenny's many lawyers, quotes a prosecutor in the the Manhattan D.A.'s office as saying, "I feel terrible about Bruce. We drove him into poverty and bankruptcy and then murdered him.... We all knew what we were doing. We used the law to kill...
...teeming with them. Schrager, who revolutionized the hotel industry in the 1990s with his highly designed boutique properties like the Delano in Miami, is back in business and looking to launch yet another lifestyle revolution with his idiosyncratic Gramercy Park Hotel, opening this week at that fabled Manhattan location. Schrager wants to restore the celebrity of that address with a $200 million, 185-room hotel and adjacent condominium property...
...Observer has been criticized for its upper-crust emphasis, principally its focus on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Though its affluent, highly-educated readership is attractive to advertisers, some media observers have also noted that the Observer’s appeal is too narrow as a result...