Word: manhattanization
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Woody and Mia. No last names, please, for the king and queen of Manhattan's glitterati. For a decade they were the wax-doll couple atop a cake at the wedding of popular art and social responsibility. He made, and she starred in, movies that played like fantasies of their partnership. Offscreen, their liaison produced the portrait of an ideal postmodern family. Unmarried, they lived apart yet loved together. While nurturing a rainbow coalition of privileged American kids and children salvaged from the Third World, Mom and Dad lived the city's most public private lives. Tout New York...
...already claimed casualties, real and figurative. Allen's life and eminence seem permanently branded; the only major filmmaker since Charlie Chaplin to be commonly referred to by his first name is now likely to be remembered in part, as Chaplin is, as a despoiler of young women. Manhattan divorce attorney Raoul Felder, alluding to another disgraced director, says of Allen, "He can put his career in an envelope and mail it to Roman Polanski...
Allen's sister, Letty Aronson, a vice president at Manhattan's Museum of Television and Radio, catalogs Farrow's sins: "Mia adopts children in a manic nature -- not for their needs but for hers. She favors her biological children while treating the older adopted kids as servants. I think Mia always had a grand plan to meet Woody, have a relationship with him, be in his films and eventually have his child. Once she did, things began to deteriorate. But even after she knew about Woody's affair, she still wanted to continue her relationship. If he gave up Soon...
...office, at least until people decide whether they like it or not. For Farrow the actress, the spin is not so profitable. For years she has taken the exclusive role of Allen's Galatea. Now that's over. She has been replaced in his next project, Manhattan Murder Mystery, by another actress: Diane Keaton...
...celebrated in SAY IT WITH MUSIC at New York City's ritziest nightclub, Rainbow & Stars, on the 65th story of NBC's building in Rockefeller Center. A cast of seven led by Kaye Ballard performs 47 songs in just 60 minutes, yet gets the flavor of each. A highlight: Manhattan Madness, a 1932 musing on urban glitter and horror that could have been written last week...