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From New York Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani's Office of Film, Theatre and Broadcasting comes the startling figure of $2.37 billion in film and television revenues last year. In 1997, 213 films were shot in New York City, compared with only 12 in Boston...
Because of Muhammad's hatred and propensity to incite, Giuliani tried to move the march from the center of Harlem to a more remote location. But the mayor was rebuked by a federal appeals court, which allowed the march to proceed on a smaller scale citing rights to free speech and due process...
...march took place as scheduled Sept. 5, though just a few thousand youths showed up. Giuliani virtually shut down Harlem, closing subway stations and dispatching scores of officers to protect the peace. When Muhammad took the stage near the end of the event, his rhetoric was characteristic...
...debatable whether such a virulent speaker ought to have been allowed to gather thousands of impressionable youths in the middle of the city, especially given the lean on public resources entailed. Once the event was given the go-ahead, Giuliani ought to have worked more closely with the community to insure a safe rally with as little additional racial antagonism as possible; Muhammad himself supplied enough of that...
...week later, after Giuliani had inveighed against the float and suspended or fired the firefighters involved, the New York Times went back to Broad Channel to assess the community's reaction. "Those guys on the float, I know they play with the colored people," said one Broad Channel resident. "It was all in fun. I wish every kid in the Channel could grow up like that bunch...