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Jacinda T. Townsend...
Most of the action centers on Tom Townsend (Edward Clements), a West Side resident who accidentally falls in with a small preppy group that, in some confusion over a taxicab, shanghais him to a chic after-party. Tom is eventually seduced by a lifestyle he once knew and later forswore. The film traces the rise and fall of this group of comrades-in-formals in a most bittersweet way. There are, of course, the token romantic entanglements. But they are far less interesting than the social comments the film makes...
...line with last June's auction of the most expensive piece of furniture ever sold: a $12.1 million desk. The mahogany masterpiece was no curlicued Versailles settee or crested English bureau. It was a stately secretary of distinctly American block-and-shell design, crafted in 1760 by the Goddard-Townsend cabinetmakers of Newport, R.I. "For years, Europeans have given us an inferiority complex," says furniture dealer Harold Sack, 78, who bought the desk for an anonymous client, believed to be Texas billionaire Robert Bass. "To finally see American furniture taken as an important art form is enormously gratifying...
...sons in the business today, started his dealership in 1905. He found authentic pieces for the Fords and Du Ponts, who became major collectors in the 1920s. In time, their priceless collections were turned over to museums, where exquisite examples of Early American | furniture -- including the nine other Goddard-Townsend desks known to be in existence -- now reside...
Back in Brooklyn, Lee is at home. When he was honored last month by the Black Filmmaker Foundation, Lee pledged allegiance to his home borough and teasingly swore never to join Hollywood's "black pack," whose members include Eddie Murphy and director Robert Townsend. Lee's next picture, the story of a jazz musician who must balance his career and love life, will also be shot in Brooklyn and Manhattan. Hollywood holds little allure for the man who rides around on a twelve-speed Peugeot bicycle (he doesn't have a driver's license) and considers a relaxing evening "going...