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...dare the movies be? As film critic David Ehrenstein says, "The entire history of the cinema is about the mass audience forging an emotional identification with people whose experiences are not like theirs. You don't have to be a dockworker to identify with Brando in On the Waterfront or a Southern belle to identify with Scarlett O'Hara. If you create a persuasive character, the audience will come...
...have built a $1 billion stake in southern Florida, primarily in Miami's booming cruise business. The British are the second biggest investors from the Continent. Barclay's Bank regularly finances Washington's grain deals with Russia, not from New York but from Miami. The Germans are snapping up waterfront property along the beach and Biscayne Bay. The mysterious Munich investor Thomas Kramer even has visions of building something between a modern-day Manhattan and a reconstructed Portofino at the tip of Miami Beach...
...native of Jersey City, New Jersey, Freeh graduated from both college and law school at Rutgers University, then joined the FBI as a field agent. He was a prime investigator in the bureau's successful penetration of waterfront rackets from Miami to Manhattan, once working undercover at a health club to eavesdrop on suspects' conversations. Later, as an Assistant U.S. Attorney, he handled prosecution of the case, which resulted in more than 100 convictions...
...guided walking tour of the waterfront highlighting Boston's earliest Black community...
...guided walking tour of the historic waterfront, admission...