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KING KONG, SON OF KONG AND MIGHTY JOE YOUNG MERIAN C. COOPER AND ERNEST B. SCHOEDSACK "Why, the whole world'll pay to see this!" exclaims the man who brings Kong from Skull Island to Manhattan. The world got its money's worth in 1933, as you will with this set that collects the three Cooper-Schoedsack simian sensations (Kong and its less fearsome offspring), all animated by stop-motion ace Willis O'Brien. Among the invaluable extras: a splendid documentary on Cooper by Kevin Brownlow and Christopher Bird, and a making-of feature on the original Kong--still...
...Chinatown bus business in New York City is a rough-and-tumble one, featuring supercheap fares along the Eastern seaboard, erratic schedules and cutthroat competition. But it got out of hand one night in May 2003. In the shadow of the Manhattan Bridge, a Dragon Coach bus company driver named De Jian Chen, reportedly caught in the middle of a murky feud with another outfit, was shot dead...
...entrepreneur thinks the discount bus industry can do a lot better. David Wong, a native of Nanjing, China, is literally taking the Chinatown out of his company. Instead of operating in traffic-clogged Chinatown, Wong chose Penn Station, a major Manhattan transportation hub, as the base for his Eastern Travel & Tour Inc. More important, inspired by David Neeleman, whose JetBlue shook up the airline industry, Wong hopes to remake the bus-trip experience into a paragon of customer service. Wong and his four partners, one Spanish and the rest Chinese, are emphasizing service. "I don't want to copy from...
...uptown Manhattan during rehearsals for Pan Asian Rep's Cambodia Agonistes, conductor and composer Jack Jarrett, 71, taps a key on his laptop to tweak the tempo for the dancers. Looking bohemian in a black turtleneck and wire-rimmed specs, Jarrett's doing his musical director thing. Back home in Greensboro, N.C., he's got another job--as vice president of R&D for software start-up VirtuosoWorks...
...this morning after labor mediators convinced striking New York City transit workers to return their jobs without a contract. That deal was reached on Thursday afternoon. Cursing the walkout had become a bloodsport for New Yorkers in the last three days, but at the 116th Street station in uptown Manhattan, the strike end brought a quick return to normalcy. Commuters streamed past the single station agent with barely a glance, while a couple of French tourists hovered nervously nearby before asking the agent for change for a $20. They were denied...