Word: soho
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Beyond its narrative difficulties, Vicki Polon's screenplay still leaves a lot to be desired. Polon is no wit, and her attempts to portray such overly familiar New Yorkers as SoHo art dealers, pushy cab drivers and Greenwich Village hipsters fall flat. Hot issues like lesbianism and abortion are dragged into the action for cheap effects rather than serious consideration. There is not a single memorable or startling line in the movie...
With co-op prices so high and rents climbing, the renovation of old houses and buildings is an inviting alternative. Whole neighborhoods, such as SoHo (south of Houston) and SoSo (south of SoHo), are undergoing strikingly imaginative renovation. Neighborhood and block associations have proliferated, increasing New Yorkers' sense of community and their feeling that they are not at the mercy of an anonymous city bureaucracy. If a neighborhood association makes a fuss about infrequent trash collections, a sanitation truck shows up fairly promptly. A certain new self-reliance is evident among New Yorkers, who on their own are reclaiming...
...forestalling the climax, the film makers try to amuse us with voyeuristic glimpses of their heroine's glamorous world. They don't get even these details right. In Laura Mars, all fashion models are bimbos who speak in kootchy-koo voices. A photo exhibit opening at a SoHo gallery attracts more crowds and press coverage than a movie premiere...
Free-form jazz tends to cluster in downtown Manhattan's SoHo. One of its angels is Rivers, who runs Studio Rivbea, a nonprofit, partially subsidized loft, complete with stage for performing, and directors' chairs and rugs for the audience...
...about $10,000 each, and in three weeks sold out the offering to customers, many of them walking in off the streets. One Munich businessman has gone into partnership with some American friends to invest in New York City. They have already picked up a loft building in SoHo and an old office building on lower Fifth Avenue. Now the group is toying with the notion of plunging into a truly speculative venture in the economically depressed West Bronx. The Münchner's reason is simple: 'Why not? The property we're looking at is available...