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...clock nears 8 along the Eastern Seaboard on Tuesday night, a strange new phenomenon takes place in U.S. urban life. Business falls off in many a nightclub, theater-ticket sales are light, neighborhood movie audiences thin. Some late-hour shopkeepers close up for the night. In Manhattan, diners at Lindy's gulp their after-dinner coffee and call for their checks. On big-city bar rails, there is hardly room for another foot. For the next hour, wherever a signal from an NBC transmitter can be picked out of the air, a large part of the population has its eyes...
...been asking for months, and it was posed yet again after the awards ceremony on March 24. Out of 15 nominations, Miramax received just one Oscar--for Jim Broadbent's supporting performance in Iris. It's not as if Weinstein and his brother Bob, who co-founded the Manhattan-based company 22 years ago, are going hungry. Last year, say the brothers, Miramax pulled in nearly $1 billion, with $161 million in profit, at the global box office. But in an industry where you are what you drive, perception is important. The paucity of awards, the firings, the closing...
...Abelardo Morell’s 1994 photograph “Camera Obscura Image of the Empire State Building in Bedroom,” midtown Manhattan hangs upside down. The building of focus perches like a sleeping bat, suspended from the ceiling; its spire rests on a cot’s downy comforter. The sun glints off an upper-story window. A full-length mirror on the door of the room wraps the building as if around a corner, lending it a three-dimensional feel. The wall behind the bed reveals the clouds and the orb of the sun pushing through...
Jobbins and Lim, co-presidents of H-LOGS, have big plans for their new organization, which the College officially recognized in early March. “We want shuttle buses to New Jersey during major holidays that bypass Manhattan and make the New Yorkers take public transportation from Jersey,” Lim announced to the 20 students in attendance at the first meeting, held March 12 in Loker Coffee House (“the closest thing to a diner on campus,” according to the co-presidents). The two also have big ideas for pre-frosh weekend...
Bill Clinton is making himself a fixture on Manhattan's publishing scene. And why not? Knopf is paying Clinton more than $10 million for the rights to his autobiography, due next year. It is believed to be the biggest nonfiction deal of all time. A few weeks ago, we spotted him at the Studio Museum in Harlem at the launch party for "Bill Clinton and Black America" by DeWayne Wickham (One World/Ballantine). And on Tuesday night, we watched him hosting a party for Sarah Brady, the author, with Merrill McLoughlin, of "A Good Fight" (PublicAffairs; April 2). The scene...