Word: manhattanization
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MIAMI: Fernando Carreira, the caretaker whose call led police to the houseboat where Andrew Cunanan killed himself, is collecting some of his reward after all, thanks to gay activists in New York and Florida. At a ceremony in Manhattan Monday, the Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project presented him with the $10,000 reward it had offered. As for the rest of the money that may or may not be on the table after all: In Miami, gay activists have collected more than 3,500 signatures on a petition demanding that city pay up on its promise...
...Julia Roberts romantic comedy My Best Friend's Wedding, providing for a younger generation the same kind of romantic charge, simultaneously nostalgic and bracingly fresh, that George Gershwin gave when he was rediscovered by the disco generation two decades ago in Woody Allen's Manhattan...
...working this summer at the Forward, a national Jewish weekly based in Manhattan. While the paper prides itself on serious reporting--and I haven't heard of a slush fund to pay willing eye-witnesses to make up stories for us--the reach of the tabloids is unavoidable. No newspaper, no matter how respectable, can escape the popular expectation of "scandal exposed" that the tabloids have trademarked. If readers don't get infamy uncovered for their buck, they'll stop buying the paper. As a result, even the best papers have responded as any good capitalist ventures would--they have...
...already seen "Scream." So pull that red Pathfinder up to your local video store and check out Rod Steiger's star turn in the 1968 thriller "No Way to Treat a Lady," as a mother-fixated, master-of-disguise strangler on the loose on Manhattan's Upper East Side. He's tracked by a young George Segal as a hangdog cop with some mother problems of his own. For extra currency, try Steiger's third incarnation as Dorian Smith, the swisher with a heart of stone who's been a very bad boy. Look for "Jaws" mayor (and The Graduate...
...grant to some down-on-its-luck former mill town to take in squeegee guys rather than become the site of a nuclear-waste dump. Or the theory that the squeegee guys are secretly rehearsing for cameo appearances at that Las Vegas hotel that features a mock-up of Manhattan...