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Overall, many thought that the traffic was worse approaching the bridges, than it is inside of Manhattan...
...Manhattan's Supper Club, Angelina Jolie--humanitarian, Oscar winner, erstwhile wearer of a vial of Billy Bob Thornton's blood--is scheduled to speak about Sierra Leone. It's a benefit dinner for Witness, a group that has been chronicling abuses in the war-torn African country--slaughter, rape, the drafting of child soldiers. So, naturally, a swarm of cameras are there to get her take on the big issue of the day: Isn't she, like, totally excited that Brad Pitt has decided to adopt her two kids...
...catapulted to international fame as the much hailed designer of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, above, in Washington; of complications of Parkinson's disease; in New York City. Freed, an émigré from Nazi Germany who became the longtime business partner of I.M. Pei, designed, among other things, Manhattan's sprawling Jacob K. Javits Convention Center and Washington's Ronald Reagan Building. Of the Holocaust Museum's hexagonal, skylighted Hall of Remembrance, he said, "Light is the only thing I know that heals. People at the camps said the sky was the only...
...Five witty, good-looking young people dating, hanging out and trading quips in Manhattan. It's a revolutionary idea for a sitcom--in 1994. Overshadowed by more distinctive sitcom debuts this fall (see #10), Mother does for the young-urbans comedy what Everybody Loves Raymond did for the bickering-in-laws genre: proves that originality isn't everything. The gimmicky hook--narrator looks back on his courtship from 25 years in the future--is a distraction; what stands out is the crackling dialogue and rapport among the ensemble cast. (When Neal Patrick Harris isn't slipping the show into...
...when the non-profit advocacy group Prep-for-Prep recruited her to go to Trinity, a private Manhattan preparatory school, Wynn’s life changed forever...