Word: manhattanization
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With a large portion of the sports board--and the news board, for that matter--hailing from New York City, or the greater Tri-State Area, or claiming that someone from their family is from Manhattan, all I hear about is the Mets and the Yankees. Well, enough is enough...
...could be blooming there); and Bell, a comely lad whose unaffected poise carries the film and brings charm to its excesses. It's a victory for Bell to be so natural in a movie so calculating. And victorious they both may be, perhaps even at Oscar time. At a Manhattan screening last week, one Academy member effused, "I'm marking it off in all categories...
...which really is about a 28-year-old woman behind the glove counter at the Neiman Marcus department store in Beverly Hills, offers quieter pleasures: a delicate portrait of people inflicting subtle pain on others and themselves, and an appeal to the intelligent heart. Sitting in a restaurant on Manhattan's Upper West Side, Martin muses that if you were to tape-record someone reading his book in an otherwise silent room, then play back the tape, you'd hear "maybe a little sniffle...
...designs low-maintenance homes for high-maintenance people. That her clientele includes hip-hop music producer Sean ("Puffy") Combs, antivirus-software designer Peter Norton and novelist Tom Clancy is a testament to her diverse appeal. When music executive Andre Harrell called upon her to update his Manhattan apartment in the style of the 1920s Harlem Renaissance, Bridges achieved the look so artfully that her efforts were featured in House & Garden. Fusing minimalism with romanticism, she creates modern settings by using vintage pieces...
...come a long way since the days when he marched door to door with his landlord father to collect, or not collect, rent checks in Harlem. His McCoy Realty Group had become the largest real estate management firm controlled by an African American, and his Park Avenue headquarters in Manhattan catered to Wall Street bigs, but that was not enough for McCoy. Spurred by Sterling Green, an apostle of the United House of Prayer in Washington, McCoy, 45, began helping churches develop property in poor neighborhoods. "I felt God was nudging me in a different direction," he recalls...