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Whoever plays Robert Durst in the TV movie had better have range, because Durst has displayed a bounty of personas over the years: Manhattan playboy, heir to a real estate fortune, jealous husband, fugitive and, in the opinion of some, devious killer. Durst, 60, was acquitted last week of murdering his elderly neighbor, Morris Black, in Galveston, Texas. The verdict was a shock because Durst has a history of finding himself close to people who die or disappear and because he himself described grisly details surrounding Black's demise. In court he admitted dismembering the body but said he recalled...
November in New York City has its charms. Ice skaters twirl in Central Park, Santa sets up shop at Radio City and department stores unfurl their holiday finery. But to Delia Everett, November meant a chilly wait for the 6:45 a.m. bus to her Manhattan job as an executive assistant. To her husband Jim, who had lost his job as a steam fitter, it meant fixing heaters and patching plumbing in their Mahwah, N.J., apartment building, where he worked as assistant super to cover the rent. To their two children, it meant gray afternoons watching TV in their...
West Side Story didn’t suddenly make it cool for Manhattan gangs to dance through the streets, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t fascinating to watch the Jets and the Sharks physicalize their confidence and tension by leaping and twirling. Jerome Robbins’ choreography isn’t the only reason to watch this Romeo and Juliet update. There’s also a masterful set of songs here, written by Leonard Bernstein ’39 and a young Stephen Sondheim. This is one of the few musicals where each...
...businessman Leo Gleicher. She and best friend Ally Hilfiger (Tommy’s daughter) unite in “Rich Girls,” MTV’s latest offering of deliciously unrealistic reality TV. “Rich Girls” documents the 18 year-olds’ Manhattan misadventures, which invariably include walking their credit cards down Fifth Avenue—as Ally notes, “We just prance around this damn city like it’s our little shopping haven...
...pack of High Life, but let’s just ignore that. Rod Assia, executive producer of “Rich Girls,” offered Fox News his analysis: “These are very common teen themes; they’re just set in Manhattan and are a little more fabulous...