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...previous experience as a boss has been confined to playing characters ranging from Don Corleone in The Godfather, Part II to a film mogul in The Last Tycoon. But this year the 46- year-old Manhattan native became president of his own movie company, New York City's TriBeCa Productions, which already has ten film projects in early stages of development. In September, De Niro will open the TriBeCa Film Center, an eight-story converted coffee factory near the Hudson River that will house his production company and offer space to other independent filmmakers...
...headquarters, De Niro chose an 83-year-old red brick building situated in TriBeCa, a trendy downtown neighborhood where he lives. De Niro, who will have 50% ownership in the building, is supervising a renovation that will leave in place industrial details like the giant coffee scales in his office. But the building's advanced features will include a 70-seat screening room designed by director George Lucas' production company...
Perhaps the best forum for flirting with such fantasies is TriBeCa's premier nightclub, Area. Every six weeks the club spends $60,000 and 300 man-hours revamping its interior to promote a new theme. Past themes have included "surburbia," "obelisks," and "passion," all of which entailed major structural changes, bizarre invitations, and display cases complete with live models acting out an aspect of the theme. On Halloween night a masked man attacked a hanging animal carcass with a chainsaw...
James Surls' sculptures, at the Delahunty galleries in SoHo and TriBeCa (through April 14) may not be as complex and many-layered as Graves', but they have their own peculiar intensity about the stuff of the natural world - in his case, wood. Surls, 40, a muscular farm dweller from Splendora, Texas, who is sometimes mistaken for Willie Nelson, works with whole branches and roots, artfully pegged and jointed together so that their knotty, straight-from-the-ground appearance is kept even as they turn into parodies of the human figure. It is like the folksy sensibility that pops...
...five years too soon. He lowered them in 1964, when the mini had several years to go. For that matter, he raised hemlines again only two years ago. This had no particular resonance in the mainstream of fashion, but at the smart restaurants in Manhattan's trendy Tribeca, the prettiest girls are in minis and boots...