Word: manhattanization
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...last year's movie Romeo Must Die. The Brooklyn-born, Detroit-raised star was also set to appear in two sequels to The Matrix, and she starred in the movie version of Anne Rice's Queen of the Damned, to be released early next year. Grieving fans lined Manhattan's Upper East Side streets as the singer's coffin rode to the chapel in a horse-drawn, glass-paneled hearse. "Aaliyah had a refreshing outlook for one so young," said Gladys Knight. "With true respect for her art and her elders...
...distribute the drug nevirapine to HIV-positive mothers on a national basis. TAC says such action might save the lives of about 35,000 newborn babies a year. UNITED STATES Make Peace or We'll Keep This Chagall Shortly after Marc Chagall's Study for "Over Vitebsk" vanished from Manhattan's Jewish Museum on June 7, the museum received a letter from the "International Committee for Art and Peace." It said the oil painting, valued at $1 million, would not be returned until Israel and the Palestinians make peace. Museum officials are taking the demand seriously. If only Israel...
...tell the difference between rich women and white trash. I see women in Manhattan wearing leopard-print miniskirts, bustiers and stiletto heels, with platinum-blond hair, and the only way I can infer class distinctions is by the size of the dog they're walking. And with the ultrashort miniskirt coming into fashion, it was more pressing than ever that I find out how to differentiate haute couture from the Jersey mall...
...most accomplished, most interesting young vocalists around. Her reticence was actually part of her allure, what drew listeners to her. Aaliyah lived in New York City, but she wasn't really comfortable bringing journalists to her place. So we met, a few months ago, in a Manhattan hotel room. Reporters generally hate hotel room interviews. There's generally nothing to say about the d?cor, nothing that gives you insight into the star's personality. It's a hotel room...
...found it at an outfitter's shop in Jackson Hole, Wyo.: the trademark cowboy coat that he bought for himself, which was included in his first catalog, launched in 1987. The catalog had already become a Hollywood favorite when its kitschy prose--initially written by Manhattan marketing consultant Don Staley--caught the eye of comedian Jerry Seinfeld and Seinfeld co-creator Larry David, who owned some Peterman clothes. "We used to laugh about it all the time," David says of the prose. "When I knew we had to get Elaine [the character played by Julia Louis-Dreyfus...