Saturday Night Live Starts Out Strong With GIRLS Parody (Video)
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De Blasio Hits College-Aged Lhota for Supporting Barry Goldwater
From Zero to Reagan: Theater Publicist Susan Schulman Looks Back on Four Decades in the Business
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The Manhattan Reinvention Map
Michael Grimm Calls Bill de Blasio’s Sandy Plan ‘Completely Asinine!’
Saturday Night Live Starts Out Strong With GIRLS Parody (Video)
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This weekend launched the new season of Saturday Night Live, with six new featured players, a weird extended music video from Arcade Fire, and a lot of Jesse Pinkman. (Aaron Paul totally saved the cold open, let’s be honest.) But the best part of the entire show, hosted by Tina Fey, was the first sketch after the monologue: a parody of HBO’s GIRLS that crystalized the essence of “First World Problems” that makes up the majority of the show’s plot lines by introducing a new “girl,” the Albanian Blerta. Read More
Keeping Up With The Times
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Commercial Observer’s Masters of Real Estate Conference
On October 16th, Commercial Observer will host the annual Masters of Real Estate conference at The Metropolitan Club from 8am to 2pm. Join industry leaders in discussing the current real estate market. For more information, click here.
De Blasio Hits College-Aged Lhota for Supporting Barry Goldwater
The mayor’s race is packing up and going to college.
Joe Lhota has repeatedly skewered Democrat Bill de Blasio for supporting the leftist Sandinista regime in his younger days. And now Mr. de Blasio, who remains far ahead in the polls, is returning the favor. Read More
From Zero to Reagan: Theater Publicist Susan Schulman Looks Back on Four Decades in the Business
When Susan Schulman was growing up, she hung around outside stage doors. “I was a theater kid,” she said recently in her office in Midtown. “I always wanted to be in the theater, but I had no way in.” Eventually, she found one: For 40 years, Ms. Schulman has been one of the most respected publicists in the theater business. She has plenty of stories to tell (“behind-the-curtain stuff,” as she puts it), and finally she has told many of them, in Backstage Pass to Broadway: True Tales of a Theatre Press Agent, published by Heliotrope Books.
Ms. Schulman’s stories are arranged like life—helter-skelter—scattered within the perimeters of two seminal events in her professional life: from A) how she, a rookie of 23, reduced the famously ferocious Lauren Bacall to a contented purr to Z) the time she beat the mighty David Merrick at his own penny-pinching game. (“I don’t know if I got the best of him, but I got money out of him, and that’s unique.”) Read More
What A Year of Cancer Treatment Looks Like (Video)
Jersey City-based writer and artist Emily Helck was diagnosed with breast cancer in July of 2012.
When she began chemotherapy treatment last September, she decided to document the process of weekly treatments with a weekly self-portrait. Read More
The Manhattan Reinvention Map
Get skinnier, smarter and sexier and better dressed when you visit these spots. Read More
Michael Grimm Calls Bill de Blasio’s Sandy Plan ‘Completely Asinine!’
Republican Congressman Michael Grimm is not a fan of Bill de Blasio’s Hurricane Sandy recovery plan.
Yesterday, Bill de Blasio outlined a plan to use federal Sandy recovery money to fix some of the “greater wrongs” of the city by creating living-wage jobs, affordable housing and community health care sites in areas hard-hit by the storm–aspirations that touch on many of the Democratic mayoral nominee’s campaign themes. Read More
Mayor Bloomberg on Obamacare: ‘It Would Be a Sin Not to Try It’
Mayor Michael Bloomberg trashed Washington Republicans today for pushing the country to the brink of a partial government shutdown in their effort to block President Barack Obama’s signature healthcare law.
“This is an outrage. They cannot hold the country hostage to what is just plain and simple politics,” Mr. Bloomberg declared at an unrelated press conference this morning, raging at the concept of negotiating policy issues with the threat of shutting down the federal government. Read More
The Plus Side of Pissing People Off
Doing anything remotely interesting will bring criticism. Attempting to do anything large-scale and interesting will bring armies of detractors and saboteurs. This is fine—if you are willing to take the heat. Read More
Five Essay Prompts for the Breaking Bad Finale: ‘Felina’
These questions regard last night’s episode of AMC’s Breaking Bad. Please answer the prompts with specific examples from LAST NIGHT’S EPISODE, though supplementary material will be accepted as a secondary source. Please write legibly. No. 2 pencils only. You have an hour to finish this test. See below for questions and sample responses.
1. In general, satisfying television finales have several requirements. They wrap up the storylines and the characters’ arcs, and they give many of the (surviving) characters a final scene (shout-out to my favorite Babylon 5 fans, Badger and Skinny Pete!). They also tend to take a look back over the course of the series and call back to various moments that got us to this point. Some of these in last night’s finale were obvious, like the flashback to Hank inviting Walt on the ride-along. Some were mere hints, like the still-oscilatting gun in the trunk, which referenced Tuco’s bouncing car, or the final shot, which was reminiscent of Walter and the fly. There were many others as well. Pick one or two of favorites and explain why Breaking Bad chose to reference these scenes.
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