Word: manhattanization
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...plans, Hopper decides he is going to throw the biggest, most amazing wedding the whole damned world has ever seen. His decision is cemented when his pride is wounded by his in-laws-to-be. Betsy's fiance Jake comes from a wealthy family from the East Side of Manhattan. His family is in investment banking--they buy and sell companies, Betsy explains to her chubby Italian aunt--and offer to pay for the whole soiree in high style. ("At the Plaza Hotel, maybe?" they suggest.) Hopper, at the suggestion, says he'd like to finance the wedding himself...
Molly (Moore) and Sam (Patrick Swayze) are your typical Manhattan duo. They are smart, caring and gorgeous; they live in a fabulous loft. When they make love, to Bobby Hatfield's orgasmic rendition of Unchained Melody, the sex is so beautiful you could die from it. Too soon, Sam does die -- he is murdered -- in a plot twist that anyone can unravel in an eyewink. Now stranded between heaven and earth, he must use the gifts of a sassy psychic (Whoopi Goldberg) to alert Molly of threats to her life -- and, while he has her attention, to make mad pash...
...clubs has grown from five in 1977 to over 300 this year. More people are buying backyard sets, and public courts are springing up in Tulsa, Phoenix and Rockford, Ill. The final round of the New York Championship Croquet Tournament was played on June 17 at public courts in Manhattan's Central Park before a hushed crowd...
GREMLINS 2. Those anti-Muppets are back, terrorizing a Manhattan high-rise run by a zillionaire who blends all the worst tendencies of Donald Trump and Ted Turner. It's ingenious fun, but relentlessly noisy. After an hour or so, you may feel like a captive teacher at a kindergarten in hell...
...financial troubles, Donald Trump remains a master of the theatrical gesture. Negotiating with dozens of bankers in Manhattan on a plan to restructure his $2 billion debt, he suddenly proclaimed it was time for lunch. Trump went to the phone, called a nearby McDonald's from memory and ordered 25 Big Macs and 25 Quarter Pounders. Hamburgers, he declared, were among his favorite foods. Coming from a person who was asking to borrow an additional $65 million, this was just the kind of down-to-earth taste the bankers were hoping to find...