Word: manhattanization
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...business model behind the new 3-D push is simple enough: the movies cost only a little more to make than flat films, while the ticket price is about 25% higher in 3-D theaters. (I sprang $15 to see My Bloody Valentine in Manhattan.) As a rabid movie watcher, I'm not immune to the pleasures 3-D can bring to certain genres. It's an advance in visual appeal similar to, but not greater than, Blu-ray. Which is to say, a difference in degree, not in kind. And with Blu-ray, you don't need the damn...
...Jerome Robbins choreography; and I'd have to be a pretty benighted theatergoer not to know at least the central conceit of the story - Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet transplanted to the street gangs of New York City in the 1950s. (Read TIME's 1957 article "New Musical in Manhattan...
...Bernard Madoff passes time as inmate No. 61727-054 in the Metropolitan Correctional Center in lower Manhattan, questions about his giant scheme continue to dog investigators and the public. Among them is the curious relationship Madoff had with his bank, JPMorgan Chase...
...business center access, as well as in-room video games and movies on-demand - call the Apple Core Reservations Department by March 29 (you can't enter online). The drawing will be held March 30. Good for stays April 1 to 15. Participating hotels include La Quinta Inn Manhattan (17 West 32nd Street), Red Roof Inn Manhattan (6 West 32nd Street), Comfort Inn Midtown (129 West 46th Street), The Hotel @ Times Square (59 West 46th Street) and Ramada Inn East Side (161 Lexington Avenue). Call...
...proud White House tradition of cashing in - er, signing lucrative book deals - on the way out the door. That includes not only Presidents but also first ladies, secretaries of state, speechwriters and so on, all the way down to the White House chefs. But the common wisdom in Manhattan publishing circles was that George W. Bush would have to cool his heels for a while before he penned his memoir. The thinking: Bush's low approval ratings might render any presidential tell-all a toxic asset for his publisher...