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...Broadview, a boutique investment bank specializing in high-tech firms. There are thousands of young people like him in New York, working a two-year stint in finance, sporting dress shoes and bulging billfolds. From the outside it looks like the lifestyle of a GAP ad--urban excitement plus youth plus heaps of money...
When the white Jets sing to the police officer on their tale in "Office Krupke," they are singing for all the delinquent youth in the play: "There is good, there is good/There is untapped good/Like inside, the worst of us is good." To examine the play and find it intentionally, harmfully stereotypical is not just a difference of opinion, it's a misinterpretation of the authors' intent. "West Side" is a timeless story, whether it's set in 16th-century Verona, 1950's New York or any modern city today...
...Rhymes. The hip-hoppers supply new vocals, while Marley's are drawn from alternate takes in decades-old recording sessions. "We got the idea, well, from Daddy basically," says Marley's son Stephen, who served as executive producer. "It was one of his dreams to get to the urban youth of America...
...grateful my children are beyond the reach of policies that replace the joy of learning with the fear of failing. As a teacher, I shudder at what the educrats have wrought for America's youth. BETTY RASKOFF KAZMIN Willard, Ohio...
...1950s. But then an ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY review of his 1998 movie, Sphere, referred to Dustin Hoffman as a "noodgey and menschlike" Jewish psychologist. The racial stereotyping annoyed Levinson ("Nobody would say Mel Gibson was playing a Catholic industrialist in Ransom"), but it also got him thinking about his youth again. Rather than fume, he sat down and wrote for three straight weeks, imagining characters from his past talking about race, religion and class. "It wasn't writing," he says. "It was dictation...