Word: manhattanization
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...three generations of Hungarian Jews in Istvan Szabo's Sunshine--won him kudos, but the films fizzled at the box office. His two commercial successes could be considered coattail rides: as Hannibal Lecter's apprentice madman in Red Dragon and as Jennifer Lopez's prince charming in Maid in Manhattan. Casual moviegoers may recall that his name has an exotic pronunciation, then wonder, What ever happened to Rafe Fines...
...never use the word tortured," he says defensively and decisively, as he sits in the tea room of a posh Manhattan hotel. "I use it in response to someone saying it to me, but I don't ever ..." That is one of many Fiennes statements that evaporate in mid-sentence, leaving tantalizing verbal contrails. An actor whose art is in precision wants always to say the right thing--if he must do interviews...
...acquired a reputation as a pretty hard-partying hombre himself. In 1991 he became notorious all over again for American Psycho, a semipornographic, ultraviolent best seller about an investment banker turned serial killer, which he successfully--and with some validity--passed off as an indictment of 1980s Manhattan greedhead culture...
...that guy--the repentant, demon-chased Oedipal wretch Bret--the real Ellis? There's certainly a strong family resemblance. Ellis had a difficult, angry, alcoholic father. He dates both men and women. He has lost some of his lust for fame (although the real Ellis still lives in Manhattan, not Connecticut). "There's a heavy dose of self-loathing about celebrity," he sighs. So what does he not loathe? "Um." Long silence. "Ah, I like to write. I love to read. I like to go to movies. I like to go to museums." He's trying for a straight answer...
DIED. ABE HIRSCHFELD, 85, oddball real estate tycoon and publicity hound, who offered $1 million to Paula Jones to settle her sexual harassment suit against President Bill Clinton in 1998; in New York City. The irascible eccentric amassed his fortune developing semi-enclosed parking garages in Manhattan, and his increasingly bizarre behavior--he was jailed in 2000 for ordering a hit on a business partner--always kept him in the papers, including the pages of the New York Post, which he owned for two tumultuous weeks in 1993. During his brief tenure, a disgruntled staff ran the headline...