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...Wald ’11 said he did not think he would be able to tell the difference between the two bagel brands...
Imagine a world without CSI, NYPD Blue and Law & Order. That void was pop culture before Brooklynite screenwriter Malvin Wald conceived and co-wrote The Naked City, the noirish black-and-white 1948 film detailing a police investigation into a model's murder. (Famous last lines: "There are 8 million stories in the Naked City. This has been one of them.") Set on the piers and streets of New York City, the movie broke with depictions of cops as inept bumblers--and private eyes as heroic crime solvers--and set the stage for the now teeming genre of gritty police...
...managers, fellow musicians and loved ones of the slain entertainers have been mum about pointing the finger at any suspects or motives. Some have said they fear for their own safety. Elijah Wald, author of a recent book on narco corridos, argues that entertainers are not being specifically targeted. They are just in the same circles as many drug traffickers and are caught up in the jealousies and arguments that afflict everyone in that world. "If you were to drop a bomb on a random party of drug traffickers you would always get a few musicians," Wald says. "Singers also...
...Elijah Wald recounted how his father saw lobsters being killed for the purpose of experimentation, then insisted they be treated better...
...lobsters went back to the sea healthy,” the young Wald said of his father’s marine research...