Newsies (Nederlander Theatre, March 29)
The next crop of child actors on par with the Billy Elliott kiddos or whoever’s riding the War Horse may be the early-edition-toting stars manqué of the season’s first movie adaptation. (They’ll be helped along by a Harvey Fierstein book and the direction of Jeff Calhoun, fresh off Bonnie and Read More
It’s late at night, a time for reflection. Like his father before him, a well-known and still-aspiring politician has retired to a lonely desk to commit his most private thoughts to his diary, which some day may be published for a large amount of money and read by thousands. It is a loose-leaf diary, which Read More
The latest development, or maybe the last straw, in New York’s soap opera, Mayor , is that the daughter of Judith Nathan, girlfriend of Mayor Giuliani and rival of scorned wife Donna Hanover, is revealed to be “battling anorexia” and has just been mauled by a dog. The introduction of matters involving pathetic, irritating, vulnerable Read More
The latest development, or maybe the last straw, in New York’s soap opera, Mayor , is that the daughter of Judith Nathan, girlfriend of Mayor Giuliani and rival of scorned wife Donna Hanover, is revealed to be “battling anorexia” and has just been mauled by a dog. The introduction of matters involving pathetic, irritating, vulnerable Read More
Rudolph Giuliani, the Reverend Al Sharpton and U.S. Senator Robert Torricelli are very different politicians with very different styles, but they have one critical trait in common: a narcissistic arrogance so pervasive it may well end their careers.
None of the three believes the rules of law or civility apply to him. Mr. Sharpton seems Read More
It was early in the morning on May 27, the day before Mayor Rudolph Giuliani’s 57th birthday, and Mr. Giuliani was already in a rage. The front page of the Sunday Daily News had a screaming headline about “Rudy’s Crumbling World,” with an accompanying story depicting an out-of-touch, barely-there Mayor who was adrift in the Read More
In the matter of Giuliani vs. Hanover, the consensus opinion appears to be a variation on the curse directed at the Montagues and Capulets. As the spectacle passed tawdry and proceeded directly to infamous, both sides were assigned burdens of equal weight.
This may seem like the only reasonable position to take when two Read More
President George Bush’s tax cut of $1.3 trillion over 10
years has left many Americans feeling queasy about the priorities of his
administration. Consider, for example, that
the same amount of money could guarantee that every American born over
the next 10 years, regardless of income or race or family situation, would have
access to Read More
Can Judith Nathan, First Girlfriend, hang around the Mayor’s mansion with his family, or is she de trop when she crosses that threshold? You’d think that Donna Hanover and Rudy Giuliani, being grownups (in age at least), could have resolved the question in the privacy of their lawyers’ offices. But there it is, in court, Read More
In the morning light of this revitalized city, the New York Post ‘s May 15 cover headline felt oddly antique. “Cruella DeHanover” read the 96-point type plastered beneath agiant deer-in-the-headlights photo of Mayor Rudolph Giuliani’s estranged wife, Donna Hanover. The Post ‘s front page usually delivers a caffeinated kick that rivals the breakfast coffee, but Read More
