New York Talks
Garbo Talks is a film about New Yorkers who are in love with movies by a filmmaker who is in love with New Yorkers. Native New Yorker Sidney Lumet directed this 1984 sleeper about a dying mother, Estelle, (Anne Bancroft) whose final wish to meet Greta Garbo is dutifully fulfilled by her son Gilbert (Ron Silver). Lumet had an eye for New York; even in shots in the most mundane of places, the city’s beauty shines through. Here Angelo (Howard Da Silva), a p.i….
Writer’s Guide to New York City
Carpe Diem Comedy Club
I was never the best stand-up comic, which made my meeting with Terry all the more unlikely. I was sixteen and had just finished a set at the appropriately titled New York Comedy Club in midtown Manhattan. I was third or fourth in a bringer show. To all of those unaware of how comedy clubs work, this meant I had to drag along a couple of unwilling friends and family, in this case my mom and Gary, a friend of the family who lived in…
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