N.Y.U.’s Li’l Big-Budget Blockbusters

Over a caffé mocha—Starbucks, Astor Place—Allan Tsao, 24, admitted that he was nervous. It was the evening of Jan. 31, just 30 minutes before the screening of his short film in front of an audience of professors and friends at New York University.

Mr. Tsao completed his classes at the N.Y.U. film school in Read More

Neighborhood White Boy Stalks Billion-Footed Beast

Who is Eddie Hayes?

If you have to ask, he hasn’t done his job.

Mouthpiece, the title of his lively, entertaining and utterly unapologetic autobiography, makes him sound like a flak, but he’s actually a lawyer—a “big-city lawyer,” he likes to say—with a colorful history of high-profile clients who come to him because, as Read More

Neighborhood White Boy Stalks Billion-Footed Beast

Who is Eddie Hayes?

If you have to ask, he hasn’t done his job.

Mouthpiece, the title of his lively, entertaining and utterly unapologetic autobiography, makes him sound like a flak, but he’s actually a lawyer—a “big-city lawyer,” he likes to say—with a colorful history of high-profile clients who come to him Read More

Less Than Zero: The Libeskinds Sue Silverstein

A mere 10 days after Governor George Pataki presided over an optimistic and buoyant ceremony to lay the cornerstone of the Freedom Tower at the World Trade Center, Ground Zero master planner architect Daniel Libeskind filed suit against Larry Silverstein, the developer who is building the 1,776-foot-tall spire.

The lawsuit arises out of a billing Read More