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Mean Streets--This is the film that made Martin Scorsese. A rough, startling, excellent glimpse of the lives of a couple of small-time Italian hoods in the Bronx. Robert de Niro sparkles as Johnny Boy, the idiotic, irresponsible galoot who drags his nominally smarter buddy, Harvey Keitel, into some big trouble. This film catches the pulse of The City better than almost any other film of the '70s. A must...
...audience. Gilroy's play fairly oozes with a trite plot, an insipid and oft-repeated theme, and a hackneyed conclusion. Whatever dramatic tension there is develops fleetingly in the second act, building to a swift and unsatisfying climax. The story is simple. It's 1946 in Da Bronx. Timmy Cleary has just returned from the Army, back to the not-so-peaceful home of his parents, John and Nettie. They are a middle--class, heavily Irish family, and like all good families in the theater, they have their problems, ad infinitum. The mother detests the father. The father detests...
...defendant was David Berkowitz, 25, the notorious Son of Sam, who had killed five women and one man in a spree that terrorized New York City for more than a year. Two psychiatric panels had already declared him sane enough to be tried. But last week, Bronx Supreme Court Justice William Kapelman wanted to be sure that Berkowitz was legally capable of pleading guilty and receiving criminal punishment. "Notwithstanding any influence the demons might have had," he finally declared, "I hold you competent to be sentenced...
...meant last month when a court-appointed psychiatrist asked what he planned to do at the sentencing? "I know, but I'm not telling," he had replied. It sounded, thought some, as if he were planning his outrageous performance. "This will be the third psychiatric report," complained Bronx District Attorney Mario Merola. "Where will it go? Where will...
...with some American friends to invest in New York City. They have already picked up a loft building in SoHo and an old office building on lower Fifth Avenue. Now the group is toying with the notion of plunging into a truly speculative venture in the economically depressed West Bronx. The Münchner's reason is simple: 'Why not? The property we're looking at is available at a price that makes it quite impossible to go wrong...