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July 3 / Administration of Ronald Reagan, 1986
Remarks on the Lighting of the Torch of the Statue of Liberty in
New York, New York
July 3, 1986
While we applaud those immigrants who
ing civil war was fought. And for love of
stand out, whose contributions are easily
liberty, Americans championed and still
discerned, we know that America's heroes
champion, even in times of peril, the cause
are also those whose names are remem-
of human freedom in far-off lands.
bered by only a few. Many of them passed
"The God who gave us life," Thomas Jef-
through this harbor, went by this lady,
ferson once proclaimed, "gave us liberty at
looked up at her torch, which we light to-
the same time." But like all of God's pre-
night in their honor.
cious gifts, liberty must never be taken for
They were the men and women who la-
granted. Tonight we thank God for the
bored all their lives so that their children
many blessings He has bestowed on our
would be well fed, clothed, and educated,
land; we affirm our faithfulness to His rule
the families that went through great hard-
and to our own ideals; and we pledge to
ship yet kept their honor, their dignity, and
keep alive the dream that brought our fore-
their faith in God. They passed on to their
fathers and mothers to this brave new land.
children those values, values that define civ-
On this theme the poet Emma Lazarus,
ilization and are the prerequisites of human
moved by this unique symbol of the love of
progress. They worked in our factories, on
liberty, wrote a very special dedication 100
ships and railroads, in stores, and on road
years ago. The last few lines are ones we
construction crews. They were teachers,
know so well; set to the music of Irving
lumberjacks, seamstresses, and journalists.
Berlin, they take on tonight a special mean-
They came from every land.
ing.
What was it that tied these profoundly
different people together? What was it that
[At this point, a choir sang the last few
made them not a gathering of individuals,
lines from the poem "The New Colossus." "]
but a nation? That bond that held them
We are the keepers of the flame of liber-
together, as it holds us together tonight,
ty. We hold it high tonight for the world to
that bond that has stood every test and
see, a beacon of hope, a light unto the na-
travail, is found deep in our national con-
tions. And so with joy and celebration and
sciousness: an abiding love of liberty. For
with a prayer that this lamp shall never be
love of liberty, our forebears-colonists, few
extinguished, I ask that you all join me in
in number and with little to defend them-
this symbolic act of faith, this lighting of
selves-fought a war for independence with
Miss Liberty's torch.
what was then the world's most powerful
empire. For love of liberty, those who came
Note: The President spoke at 11:04 p.m. on
before us tamed a vast wilderness and
Governors Island. At the conclusion of the
braved hardships which, at times, were
ceremonies, he went to the Rockefeller
beyond the limits of human endurance. For
estate in Pocantico Hills, NY, where he
love of liberty, a bloody and heart-wrench-
stayed overnight.
Remarks During Operation Sail in New York, New York
July 4, 1986
Thank you, Lee, and thank you all. It's
This weekend we celebrate, my friends, we
been said that we Americans count our
cut loose! The procession that we are about
blessings too seldom. But not this weekend.
to witness will be as colorful as fireworks, as
920
July 3 / Administration of Ronald Reagan, 1986
Administration of Ronald Reagan, 1986 / July 3
Remarks at the Opening Ceremonies of the Statue of Liberty
fiance, Bess, back in Independence, Missou-
on his long train ride to Washington, the
Centennial Celebration in New York, New York
ri, "as the Liberty Lady in New York
news grew worse: The Nation was dividing;
Harbor."
his own life was in peril. On he pushed,
July 3, 1986
And that is why tonight we celebrate this
undaunted. In Philadelphia he spoke in In-
mother of exiles who lifts her light beside
dependence Hall, where 85 years earlier
Thank you. And Lee lacocca, thank you
course of two centuries. Yes, in the 1700's,
the golden door. Many of us have seen the
the Declaration of Independence had been
on behalf of all of America. President and
France was the midwife of our liberty. In
picture of another worker here, a tool belt
signed. He noted that much more had been
Madame Mitterrand, my fellow Americans:
two World Wars, America stood with
around his waist, balanced on a narrow
achieved there than just independence
The iron workers from New York and New
France as she fought for her life and for
metal rod of scaffolding, leaning over to
from Great Britain. It was, he said, "hope to
Jersey who came here to begin restoration
civilization. And today, Mr. President, with
place a kiss on the forehead of Miss Liberty.
the world, future for all time."
work were at first puzzled and a bit put off
infinite gentleness, your countrymen tend
Tony Soraci, the grandson of immigrant
Well, that is the common thread that
to see foreign workers, craftsmen from
the final resting places, marked now by
Italians, said it was something he was proud
to do, "something to tell my grandchil-
binds us to those Quakers [Puritans] on the
France, arrive. Jean Wiart, the leader of the
rows of white crosses and stars, of more
dren." Robert Kearney feels the same way.
tiny deck of the Arabella, to the belea-
French workers, said his countrymen un-
than 60,000 Americans who remain on
At work on the statue after a serious illness,
guered farmers and landowners signing the
derstood. After all, he asked, how would
French soil, a reminder since the days of
Frenchmen feel if Americans showed up to
he gave $10,000 worth of commemorative
Declaration in Philadelphia in that hot
Lafayette of our mutual struggles and sacri-
help restore the Eiffel Tower? But as they
fices for freedom. So, tonight, as we cele-
pins to those who visited here. Part of the
Philadelphia hall, to Lincoln on a train
reason, he says, was an earlier construction
ready to guide his people through the con-
came to know each other-these French-)
brate the friendship of our two nations, we
job over in Hoboken and his friend named
flagration, to all the millions crowded in the
men and Americans-affections grew; and
also pray: May it ever be so. God bless
Blackie. They could see the harbor from the
steerage who passed this lady and wept at
so, too, did perspectives.
America, and vive la France!
building they were working on, and every
the sight of her, and those who've worked
The Americans were reminded that Miss
And yet, my fellow Americans, it is not
morning Blackie would look over the water,
here in the scaffolding with their hands and
Liberty, like the many millions she's wel-
only the friendship of two peoples but the
give a salute, and say, "That's my gal!"
with their love-Jean Wiart, Scott Aronsen,
comed to these shores, is of foreign birth,
friendship of all peoples that brings us here
Well, the truth is, she's everybody's gal.
Tony Soraci, Robert Kearney, and so many
the gift of workers, farmers, and shopkeep-
tonight. We celebrate something more than
We sometimes forget that even those who
others.
ers and children who donated hundreds of
the restoration of this statue's physical gran-
came here first to settle the new land were
We're bound together because, like them,
thousands of francs to send her here. They
deur. Another worker here, Scott Aronsen,
also strangers. I've spoken before of the tiny
we too dare to hope-hope that our chil-
were the ordinary people of France. This
a marble restorer, has put it well: "I grew
Arabella, a ship at anchor just off the Mas-
dren will always find here the land of liber-
statue came from their pockets and from
up in Brooklyn and never went to the
sachusetts coast. A little group of Puritans
their hearts. The French workers, too,
Statue of Liberty. But when I first walked
ty in a land that is free. We dare to hope
huddled on the deck. And then John Win-
too that we'll understand our work can
made discoveries. Monsieur Wiart, for ex-
in there to work, I thought about my grand-
throp, who would later become the first
ample, normally lives in a 150-year-old cot-
fathers coming through here." And which
never be truly done until every man,
Governor of Massachusetts, reminded his
tage in a small French town, but for the last
of us does not think of other grandfathers
woman, and child shares in our gift, in our
fellow Puritans there on that tiny deck that
year he's been riding the subway through
and grandmothers, from so many places
hope, and stands with us in the light of
they must keep faith with their Cod, that
Brooklyn. "A study in contrasts," he said—
around the globe, for whom this statue was
liberty-the light that, tonight, will shortly
the eyes of all the world were upon them,
contrasts indeed. But he has also told the
the first glimpse of America?
cast its glow upon her, as it has upon us for
and that they must not forsake the mission
newspapers that he and his countrymen
"She was silhouetted. very clear," one of
two centuries, keeping faith with a dream
that Cod had sent them on, and they must
learned something else at Liberty Island.
them wrote about standing on deck as their
be a light unto the nations of all the
of long ago and guiding millions still to a
For the first time, they worked in proximity
ship entered New York Harbor. "We passed
world-a shining city upon a hill.
future of peace and freedom.
with Americans of Jewish, black, Italian,
her very slowly. Of course we had to look
Call it mysticism if you will, I have always
And now we will unveil that gallant lady.
Irish, Russian, Polish, and Indian back-
up. She was beautiful." Another talked of
believed there was some divine providence
Thank you, and God bless you all.
grounds. "Fascinating," he said, "to see dif-
how all the passengers rushed to one side of
that placed this great land here between
ferent ethnic and national types work and
the boat for a fast look at their new home
the two great oceans, to be found by a spe-
Note: The President spoke at 9:28 p.m. on
live so well together." Well, it's how we like
and at her. "Everybody was crying. The
cial kind of people from every corner of the
Governors Island. Following his remarks,
to think of America. And it's good to know
whole boat bent toward her. She was beau-
world, who had a special love for freedom
the Statue of Liberty was illuminated. He
that Miss Liberty is still giving life to the
tiful with the early morning light." To mil-
and a special courage that enabled them to
then presented Medals of Liberty to Henry
dream_of_a_new_world_where_old-antago--
lions returning home, especially from for--
leave their own land, leave-their-friends
A.-Kissinger,Franklin-R-Chang-Diaz;I:M:
nisms could be cast aside and people of
eign wars, she was also special. A young
and their countrymen, and come to this
Pei, Itzhak Perlman, James B. Reston, Ken-
every nation could live together as one.
World War I captain of artillery described
new and strange land to build a New World
neth Clark, Albert B. Sabin, An Wang, Elie
It's especially fitting that this lesson
how, on a troopship returning from France,
of peace and freedom and hope. Lincoln
Wiesel, Bob Hope, and Hanna Holburn
should be relived and relearned here by
even the most hard-bitten veteran had trou-
spoke about hope as he left the hometown
Gray. Lee lacocca was chairman of the
Americans and Frenchmen. President Mit-
ble blinking back the tears. "I've never
he would never see again to take up the
Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island Founda-
terrand, the French and American people
seen anything that looked so good," that
duties of the Presidency and bring America
tion, which raised the funds for the restora-
have forged a special friendship over the
doughboy, Harry Truman, wrote to his
through a terrible Civil War. At each stop
tion of the statue.
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For New York's newest, the dream still lives.
Immigration Today
UNLIGHT STREAMING through high windows at Kennedy Airport's new
S
immigration arrival hall reminds me - for an instant-of the light-filled
Registry Room at Ellis Island, where for decades new immigrants to New
York City were processed. Here also at Kennedy weary foreigners, docu-
ments in hand, line up for inspection by the United States Immigration
and Naturalization Service (INS).
But for today's immigrant-prescreened and approved by a U.S. embassy or
consulate in his or her homeland-entry is streamlined. In minutes an INS inspector
confirms that papers are in order and directs the new immigrant to a glass-walled
room. There the newcomer's face is photographed at an angle-right earlobe
showing, please. (It's an identifying feature.) A print of the right index finger is
taken, and the person's signature recorded.
These three identifiers will be printed on a computer-generated, pink-colored,
blue-bordered, forgery-proof permanent
alien registration card. Still popularly
612936
known as a green card, after the kind once
used, it is a work permit and proof of legal
PUBLIC
/
entry, and it entitles the bearer to perma-
nent residence and, should he so decide, to
apply for citizenship after five years.
Each week as many as 2,500 immi-
grants arrive at Kennedy terminals. And
close to 100,000 newcomers-whether
coming by air, ship, or car-claim New
York as their final destination each year.
That's a sixth of all legal immigrants-
some 600,000-that come annually to the
United States. The flow is higher than in
(18T)
-
any decade since 1900-1910.
These new immigrants come for the
same reasons that brought their Ellis
PAM SPAULDING (ABOVE AND OPPOSITE)
Island predecessors- for opportunity, to
Soviet Jewish refugees are admitted to the
escape oppression, to provide a better life
United States at Kennedy Airport; bearers
for themselves and their children. But
of altered and counterfeit documents
they come from other parts of the world,
(above) were rejected.
with different racial and cultural back-
grounds. Whereas Ellis Island welcomed primarily Europeans, Kennedy receives its
newcomers mainly from Asia, the Caribbean, and Latin America.
The Dominican Republic heads the list, with 18,000 entrants in 1988, followed by
Jamaica, China, Haiti, and Guyana. Completing the top ten: India, South Korea,
Colombia, the Philippines, Ecuador. Another 150 countries send from two to 2,000
immigrants each, making New York the globe in microcosm.
How did it happen, this change in the origin of immigrants? Europeans had been
favored since 1924, when Congress in the Johnson-Reed Act set quotas based on the
percentage of a nationality in the U.S. population. During the 1950s that system
Immigration Today
103
was perceived as discriminatory, and in 1965 the Hart-Celler Act gave applicants
from all countries a chance to apply for permanent residence. Now new regulations
mean that no more than 20,000 such visas can be allotted to any country annually.
The 1965 act gave preference to family members of United States citizens or resi-
dent aliens already in the U.S. Some 270,000 enter the country each year under this
system. An additional 330,000 entered in 1988 under other special rules: The
spouses, parents, and young, unmarried children of U.S. citizens, for instance, can
come without limit. At the same time as laws were changed, Europeans seemed less
impelled to emigrate, while demand grew in other continents. The global waiting
line to enter the U.S. lengthens; it stands at 2.3 million. Those who signed up for
family preference visas in Mexico and the Philippines in 1977 may reach the head of
their country's line this year, 13 years later.
Of course many would-be Americans enter without permission - at the same or
double the rate of legal entrants. No one knows for sure. But I found undocumented
immigrants in well-organized networks everywhere in New York City.
Leopoldo, for instance. I met him on a Washington Heights street. Clad in a sweat-
shirt on a freezing January afternoon, he was selling sugary Mexican doughnut sticks
called churros, earning $35 a day. In Mexico City he had been a diesel mechanic, but
in New York without a green card he could find work only as a vendor.
Leopoldo had arrived by way of a well-established pipeline across the United
States-Mexican border, one used by some Asians and Africans as well as Latinos. He
had borrowed $700 to pay a coyote - "travel agent" for the undocumented- - to walk
him across the border near Tijuana, drive him to Los Angeles, and put him on a
plane to New York. Here jobs were said to be plentiful and immigration
enforcers scarce.
Attempting to stop such illegal migration, Congress in 1986 passed a law
penalizing employers who knowingly hire undocumented workers. It was, in the
words of supporters, an attempt "to gain control of our borders."
INS spokesman for New York, Charlie Troy, feels little sympathy for those who
get caught. "It's a matter of fairness. People wait years to get a visa and enter legally.
It's not fair that those who can pay or sneak in can stay too."
And stay they do. New York City does not report undocu-
mented aliens or discriminate against them when providing such
500,000
Destination: New York
When the flood of immigrants crested after the turn of the
century, nearly 80 percent of all newcomers entered the U.S.
through New York. In the first decade of the 1900s alone,
more than six million men, women, and children from Europe
landed at the Port of New York. Today most immigrants
come from Asia and the Americas. Since the 1960s numbers
have risen again; in the 1980s about six million legal immi-
grants arrived, a sixth of them in New York.
Northern Europe
Southern Europe
Cent. & East. Europe
Asia
Africa
Americas
1890s
1900s
1910s
1920s
1930s
1940s
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
Arrivals estimated from INS data.
CHART BY DALE D. GLASGOW; CONSULTANTS: IRA GLAZER, CENTER FOR IMMIGRATION RESEARCH, BALCH INSTITUTE,
AND CHRISTINE DAVIDSON, STATISTICS DIVISION, U.S. IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE
public services as police or hospitals. INS Washington spokesman Verne Jervis
shrugs his shoulders. "Frankly, the administration of immigration law is a night-
mare. We have 1,700 investigators working on employer sanctions nationwide. If we
had 1,700 in New York alone, we still couldn't adequately enforce the law."
The 1986 immigration bill did have a more humane side; it offered amnesty to any
illegals who could prove United States residency prior to 1982. One immigration
adviser from the Borough of Queens told me: "I processed 3,000 cases, and
I never saw SO many bankbooks. Many applicants were also homeowners, with good
jobs. Nothing is SO unfounded as the charge that immigrants go on welfare."
Indeed recent demographic studies sug-
gest that immigrants contribute more in
income, sales, and social security taxes
than they get back in social services.
Illegals receive few if any welfare benefits.
Regardless of their legal status or their
country of origin, the newest New York-
ers follow a familiar pattern. They take
lowly jobs spurned by the native-born.
(Without the new surge of immigrants, for
example, New York's garment industry
would have collapsed.) In time they buy
small businesses as elderly owners retire.
They rehabilitate old buildings, renovate
deteriorating neighborhoods, and, after
the required five years, most become
naturalized citizens.
PAM SPAULDING
HROUGH THE EYES of 15-year-old
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Immigrants from China, Jimmy Tsang
Wenny Cui, from Guangzhou
and his family will soon leave this
(Canton), China, I have come
crowded Chinatown tenement for an apart-
to understand new immigrants.
ment they are renovating.
Five years earlier, Wenny, her sister,
Jenny, and their parents were sponsored by grandparents who had brought, one by
one, Wenny's 12 aunts and uncles with their spouses and children to the U. S.-a
classic case of what is called chain migration.
"When we first came, I cried and cried. My father cry with me," Wenny recalls,
"because we didn't know English. Not even A-B-C."
Adjustment was eased because they settled among their own in one of New
York's oldest-and newest-immigrant neighborhoods. From a foreign-born popu-
lation of 20,000 in 1960, Chinatown has ballooned to 100,000, expanding the infor-
mal boundaries of the lower Manhattan enclave. Neighboring Little Italy and the
formerly Jewish Lower East Side are now increasingly Chinese. New Chinatowns
are taking root in Brooklyn and Queens, as Chinese arrive from China, Hong Kong,
Taiwan, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, even Cuba and South America.
The Cuis are on the immigrant opportunity track. Both parents work in Chinese
restaurants, and the girls speak clear English and do well in school. But problems
remain. "How," Wenny asks, "with so many possibilities, do you decide in
America what you want to be?" The shock of freedom, the many choices, the bur-
den of responsibility for self must be among the most difficult adjustments.
Meanwhile, Congress is again tinkering with immigration laws and quotas. Bills
are now under debate that would provide tens of thousands of additional visas to
those with advanced degrees, needed skills, or money to invest. Lawmakers argue
that the preference given to families blocks worthy candidates without those ties.
The search for the most equitable formulà continues-but unchanged is the vision of
millions abroad that America is the land of promise.
-ALICE J. HALL
Immigration Today
105
New Life for
Ellis
Island
WORKMEN HOIST MARBLE PARTITIONS FOR REINSTALLATION.
Alive with would-be Americans from many lands,
the Registry Room of Ellis Island was the
nation's primary reception depot for immigrants
between 1900 and 1924. Here in 1912 newcomers
await questioning by inspectors seated under the flag.
The spectacle of these foreigners-often 5,000
a day-drew American citizens for a view from the
balcony. After an extensive seven-year restoration,
the Main Building opens this month with a museum
honoring all immigrants to the United States.
By ALICE J. HALL
ASSISTANT EDITOR
Photographs by JOE McNALLY SYGMA
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Main Building of Ellis
Island glistens/ like new
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Jersey City.
MANHATTAN
in New York Harbor.
Central Railroad of
New Jersey Terminal
Its turrets, freshly capped with
LIBERTY
STATE PARK
Ellis
Battery
copper, rise 134 feet. The rich
Island
Governors
Filled 1920s
architecture so impressed Sicil-
6681
Island
Original
Liberty
ian farm boy Giuseppe Santi
Island 3 1906
island-
Island
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Italiano that he would later tell
1890
YORK
his grandchildren, "If they let
o
300 ft
the poor into such a gorgeous
hall, I knew it was possible to be
To prepare for an immigration
BROOKLYN
rich in America."
station, the original 3.3-acre site
For three centuries immi-
was tripled by fill in I892. Later
STATEN
fills increased the size to 27.5 acres.
ISLAND
NGS CARTOGRAPHIC DIVISION
grants have flocked to New
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National Geographic, September 1990
York City. By the 1880s pro-
planned to accommodate half a
piers, while first- and second-
cessing, then regulated by the
million arrivals a year, about
cabin passengers were cursorily
state, occurred at Castle Garden
twice the number entering in
processed on shipboard.
on the Battery (map). Then in
the 1890s. But poverty, anti-
For 17-year-old Myron
1891 Congress established feder-
Semitism, and overpopulation
Surmach from Ukraine, Ellis
al control over immigration and
in southern and eastern Europe
Island marked the first day
the next year moved operations
were pressuring more people
of a long life in America. He
to Ellis Island. The first wooden
to emigrate, and numbers
came in 1910 intending to work
buildings there burned in 1897.
ballooned. Close to 900,000
for a few years in the Penn-
This brick-and-limestone
came through Ellis in 1907,
sylvania coal mines, then return
replacement, built in the French
its peak year.
to his homeland. "At Ellis
Renaissance style by a promi-
And that included only
nobody changed my name;
nent New York firm at the cost
steerage passengers-the great
nobody bothered me. Right
of 1.5 million dollars, opened on
majority. They were barged or
away I liked America. I made
December 17, 1900. It was
ferried to Ellis from Manhattan
money and felt good."
Ellis Island
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First Stepsin
a New Land
As immigration increased, officials
moved functions to different rooms,
added wings, and removed walls.
This cutaway shows the way the
Main Building looked in 1907.
1. Immigrants entered under a
metal-and-glass awning. This mar-
quee has been re-created.
2. Newcomers checked luggage
here. The Baggage Room will be
used for exhibits and visitor
orientation.
3. As they climbed the stairs, immi-
grants were visually inspected.
Those marked with chalk were
directed to an examination room
(yellow). In 1911 the stairway was
relocated to the room's east side.
On a new stairway visitors will
follow the immigrants' climb.
4. For legal inspection, newcomers
lined up with fellow passengers in
rows outlined by metal rails. Each
wore a tag with two numbers refer-
ring to the page and line on the
ship's manifest where his name
appeared. The Registry Room
has been restored to its appear-
ance in about 1920.
5. If an immigrant failed to answer
inspectors properly, he was sent to
the special inquiry rooms (yellow).
Exhibits here will detail immigrant
BROWN BROTHERS (TOP): KEYSTONE/MAST COLLECTION, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
inspection.
EIGHTED DOWN by
button hooks, looked for signs of
6. Detainees slept in dormitories
W
trachoma. Such a "dangerous
that separated men from women
their belongings,
and children. Today one of these
Slavic women trudge
contagious disease" was-and
dormitory rooms has been re-
to the Main Building
still -grounds for exclusion.
created to show how it looked
about 1910. Behind them rises a
Another category to be weeded
in 1908.
hospital, opened in 1902.
out: "persons likely to become a
During the preliminary "six-
public charge."
7. Roof gardens (blue) used for
fresh-air exercise in 1907 were
second médical" - a once-over
Eighty percent of the immi-
enclosed for dormitories and offices
at the top of the stairs to the
grants passed health and legal
by 1914. Today the east wing will
Registry Room-two women
inspection in a day. For those
display "Treasures from Home."
were marked with blue chalk,
singled out for a closer look,
E for eyes, and diverted to an
delays lasting days or weeks
8. Immigrants descended to pur-
chase tickets to their final destina-
examination room (above).
seemed interminable. But only 2
tion. The Railroad Ticket Office will
There Public Health Service
percent of all Ellis Island immi-
house the "Peopling of America"
inspectors, using fingers and
grants were ever sent home.
exhibit.
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East Roof
Garden
7
Dormitories, 6 00000
West Roof
Garden
Awnings
Medical
Examination
Rooms
3
4
Registry
Room
8
Offices
a
5
Railroad
Walting
Ballroad
Room
Ticket
Office
To New Jersey
2
Ferry Office
Baggage
Room
PAINTING BY NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC ARTIST
WILLIAM H. BOND; CONSULTANTS: JUDITH JACOB
AND DIANA PARDUE, NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
To New York
ETAINED during the
D
1910 Christmas holi-
days, these men from
Bohemia and Bulgaria
shared a midday meal in the
Kitchen and Laundry Building's
second-floor dining room, which
seated 1 200 at a shift. A kosher
kitchen was added in 1911.
Feeding the multitudes was
not easy. Scandinavians wanted
dried fish, Chinese rice, Italians
wine. Meals were provided by
concessionaires, and menus
reflected typical American fare.
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During World War II Ellis
A fine-arts restorer was called
Island was a detention center
in to preserve this direct link to
for illegal or criminal aliens
the past. More accustomed to
already in the United States.
working on frescoes in Italy,
The Coast Guard also trained
Christy Adams used scalpel and
recruits here. After the war
swab to remove overpaint and
fewer people were detained, and
make visible such scenes as this
the facility was closed in 1954;
incised ship, belching smoke
its 42 structures fell to vandals,
and apparently flying the Greek
thieves, and decay.
flag (above). The section of wall
Only artifacts of little value,
with this image was moved to a
such as these rusty pans,
second-floor-west exhibit called
remained when restorers began
"Through America's Gate,"
their work in 1983. They found
about the medical inspection,
that as time and weather took
mental tests, legal exams, and
their toll, multiple layers of
ship manifests, which were the
paint peeled from interior walls,
only records of arriving
revealing traces of graffiti left by
immigrants.
immigrants on the original plas-
Many later recorded their
ter. In detention and waiting
impressions. An Armenian boy,
BROWN BROTHERS
rooms the restorers noted ini-
George Mardikian, loved the
tials, dates from 1900 to 1954,
hot-water shower so much, he
A 1906 noonday dinner featured
poems, portraits, cartoons,
recalled, "I began to sing."
beef stew, boiled potatoes, and
birds, flowers, and religious
A 14-year-old Jewish girl,
rye bread, with herring for
symbols. Some were written in
Sylvia Bernstein, fleeing the
Hebrews, plus crackers and
pencil, others in the blue chalk
anti-Semitic atmosphere in 1914
milk for women and children.
inspectors used.
Austria, pretended to be 16-an
By 1917 meat was served at sup-
Among the comments
adult-to join a brother already
.er too. Myron Surmach tasted
scrawled in Italian: "Damned is
in New York. Women traveling
apple pie for the first time;
the day I left my homeland"
unaccompanied were detained
others ate their first banana.
and "Giuseppe and Achille
until a male relative came to
World War I temporarily
came to the Battery the day of
fetch them. Sylvia found her
curbed the immigration flow.
the 18th of May, Saturday
two-day wait very exciting.
Restrictive laws in the 1920s cut
1901." And in Greek: "Blast
"They feed you and they watch
the numbers and required
you America with your much
you [because of] white slavery.
inspection of immigrants by
money who took the Greeks
Sunday my brother picked me
U.S. consular officials abroad.
away from their race."
up. Monday I got a job."
Ellis Island
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A DESERTED village,"
L
Ellis was described in
later years, and the
stench of decay still fills
unrestored, vine-covered outer
buildings. Grime-encrusted
metal eagles guard the Ferry
Building built in the 1930s.
The glass-enclosed corridor
on Island 3 connected the 11
wards of the Contagious Disease
Hospital. Crutches are remind-
ers that the wards were used for
wounded servicemen of both
World Wars.
Originally Island 3 buildings
were crowded with immigrants
suffering from infections con-
tracted aboard crowded ships or
at the island itself. Many were
children with measles, scarlet
fever, diphtheria, or a com-
bination of ailments.
Two-year-old Walter Strahm
became ill during the month-
long journey with his parents
from Bern, Switzerland. When
the family arrived at Ellis on
December 20, 1920, he was
admitted to the hospital for
what became a six-week stay.
"Our days on Ellis Island
were very long days," his
mother later recalled. "Only
one of us could go visit our sick
boy for five minutes once a
week." Viewing him through a
glass, she said, "I could hear
him cry, Mama, Mama.' "
The child developed measles,
scarlet fever, and pneumonia,
and finally died at 11:10 p.m. on
February 9, 1921. But Mrs.
Strahm had heard rumors of
children being kidnapped, and
"no one told me what would
happen to our boy's body."
When researchers at Meta-
Form, designers of the new Ellis
Island Immigration Museum,
became aware of the story, they
helped locate Walter's death
certificate in city records, which
listed his burial place in a local
cemetery. Now the tale has
joined the collection of oral his-
tories told in museum exhibits.
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LETTER
UILT WITH CARE,
B
restored with pride, the
Main Building reflects
an exacting attention to
detail by original craftsmen and
their present-day successors.
The plaster ceiling of the
Registry Room was severely
damaged in 1916 by an explo-
sion set off by German saboteurs
on the Black Tom Wharf a mile
away in New Jersey. The con-
tract for a new ceiling went to a
firm founded by a Spanish
immigrant, Rafael Guastavino,
who arrived in 1881 with his
small son. He brought from Cat-
alonia the ancient technique of
building vaulted ceilings lined
with thin interlocking glazed
terra-cotta tiles set in concrete.
Under the son's direction,
craftsmen hanging from ropes
installed these tiles so carefully
in 1918 that only 17 had to be
replaced when the ceiling was
recently cleaned. Such contribu-
tions by immigrants belied the
then common complaint that
aliens offered little to America.
During restoration some
30,000 square feet of rotting
wooden floors were torn up.
New subflooring was covered
with oak planks, duplicating the
original surface, as here on the
second floor of the east wing.
Wearing the calluses of 45
years' experience, floor installer
Alf Melander cradles his coffee
in a thermos cup. Like many of
the hundreds of craftsmen and
craftswomen who restored the
Main Building, he can point to
an ancestor who came through
Ellis. His mother, arriving from
Norway in 1923, went directly
to the then Scandinavian neigh-
borhood of Bay Ridge in Brook-
lyn. His father, a sailor from
Sweden, skipped immigration
altogether by jumping ship.
"Like all good Americans
then," Melander recalls, "my
father made us speak English at
home, so I never learned a
Scandinavian language."
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National Geographic, September 1990
THE
STATE
the
E
EADY FOR A FLOOD of
fund-raising campaign, the
panels along the arrowhead-
R
visitors, the Main
foundation took in more than
shaped seawall by the flagpole.
Building opens in Sep-
160 million dollars in individual
Other buildings may be reno-
tember 1990 to an
and corporate donations for the
vated and reused, perhaps
anticipated two million day-
Ellis Island project alone. As
as a conference center.
trippers a year. In square feet its
one appealing money-raising
Circle Line ferries will carry
museum will be one of the four
plan, the foundation offers to
visitors to Ellis Island from the
largest in New York City.
put the name of any immigrant
Battery, the Statue of Liberty,
Restoration was carried out
family, regardless of point of
and Liberty State Park in New
by the Statue of Liberty-Ellis
entry or year, on a Wall of
Jersey. The two-million-dollar
Island Foundation in coopera-
Honor for a contribution of a
bridge to New Jersey, built to
tion with the National Park
hundred dollars or more. The
transport construction equip-
Service. In an unprecedented
names will be etched on copper
ment, will be removed.
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National Geographic, September 1990
These immigrants (right),
having cleared inspection in
1912, wait on the north landing
for a ferry to a train depot such
as the Central Railroad of New
Jersey Terminal (above, at
upper left), which has also been
restored. About two-thirds of
Ellis Island immigrants moved
to homes beyond New York
City, the rest crowded into the
great metropolis, then as now
a haven for newcomers.
Ellis Island
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
RESTORATION
ISLAND
ELLIS
COMMISSION
ELLIS ISLAND RESTORATION COMMISSION
FEDERAL HALL, 26 WALL STREET, NEW YORK, N.Y. 10005
212-264-4451
Sixteen Million Immigrants Entered
DOORWAY America Through These FREEDOM
TO
August 15, 1990
OFFICERS
President
PHILIP LAX
President, Chathill Management, Inc.
Served, Statue of Liberty/Ellis Island
Centennial Commission
Mr. Ted Garmey
Vice President
Room 111 OEOB
DR. AUGUST BOLINO
Professor, Catholic University
The White House
Vice President
NORMAN LISS, ESQ.
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Counsel, New York Statue of Liberty Commission
Constitution Bicentennial Commission
Washington, D.C. 20500
Vice President
SET CHARLES MOMJIAN
Ford Aero Space
Secretary
Dear Mr. Garmey:
DR. FRANCIS P. McQUADE
Professor, Seton Hall University Law School
Treasurer
HOWARD SLOTNICK
Thank you for your call.
VP, Director of Operations, Operation Sail
Founder President
DR. PETER SAMMARTINO
Founding President, Fairleigh Dickinson University
Enclosed is the information on The Family History Center you requested
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
as background for President Bush's speech at the opening ceremonies
HON. JACQUELINE BEUSSE
for Ellis Island next month. If there are any questions, or if you need to
New Jersey Commission on Motion Pictures
BERL BRECHNER
discuss any aspect of the project, feel free to contact me or Steve Fenton
Brechner Management Co.
at
(212) 468-4309.
JOHN COSGROVE
Communications Consultant
REAR ADMIRAL RICHARD P. CUERONI
On September 9th, the National Park Service will reopen Ellis Island
Past Superintendent, U.S. Coast Guard Academy
LADY DODGE
National Monument to the American people. Visitors will come by the
Served, Statue of Liberty/Ellis Island
Centennial Commission
boatload to see the place where they or their ancestors entered the
JOHN DUNN
New York Telephone Co.
United States and began their new lives -- as Americans.
P. WILLIAM FILBY
President Emeritus, Maryland Historical Society
MEYER FISHBEIN
What they will see is a magnificent restoration of the brick and mortar that
Retired Director
Military Archives of the United States
makes up Ellis Island. What is still to come is, we believe, the heart and
ZACHARY FISHER
Partner, Fisher Brothers
soul of the immigrant experience.
HON. LOUIS FUSCO
Former Judge, New York State Supreme Court
ROSEMARIE GALLINA
That is what The Family History Center is all about. The Center will be a
Assistant to the Governor of the State of New York
for Ethnic Relations
living genealogical center that provides a glimpse into the pasts of 125
IRA GLAZIER
Director, Temple Batch Center for
million Americans who can trace their very histories back to the 17 million
Immigration Research
PHILIP GUARASCIO
who entered America through Ellis. People who left everything behind
Executive Director, Advertising & Strategic Planning
General Motors Corporation
except for the few earthly possessions they carried with them to the city,
DR. ALEX HALEY
Author
town or farm where they would begin their new lives -- to that place
HENRY J. JUSTUS
which they would, from then on, call "home."
VP, Director of Communications
Phillips-Van Heusen Corporation
RICHARD LEVENSON
Sr. Vice President, Executive Creative Director
Their passage, history and very presence will be recorded in The Family
D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles. Inc.
ALEXANDER B. LYON, JR.
History Center, adjacent to The Great Hall, where their destinies were
Retired. Vice President. Chemical Bank
JOHN (TEX) REAGAN McCRARY
decided. The data will be drawn from the original immigration records
Chairman, Texcomm Inc.
and ships' manifests, recording as many as 29 different pieces of
MORRIS PESIN
Served, Statue of Liberty/Ellis Island
information for each immigrant.
Centennial Commission
CLIFF ROBERTSON
Actor, Robertson and Associates
REAR ADMIRAL RICHARD RYBACKI
In 1992, The Center is scheduled to open its doors to the children,
United States Coast Guard
ELDER RICHARD G. SCOTT
grandchildren and great-grandchildren of these immigrants. It will be a
President, Utah Genealogical Society
chance for all of us to do the seemingly impossible -- to step back in
LYNDA H. SCRIBANTI
Served, Statue of Liberty/Ellis Island
time, to be with our relatives the day they stepped off a boat and looked
Centennial Commission
RABBI MALCOLM STERN
up at the countenance of a great lady who held out a beacon torch to
President, Jewish Historical Society of New York
President Emeritus, Jewish Genealogical Society
show the way.
JAMES DENT WALKER
Associate Director, Charles Summer School
Museum and Archives
EUNICE WHITTLESEY
Member Advisory Board, Maritime Association
Port of New York/New Jersey
All Contributions Are Tax Deductible
Mr. Ted Garmey
August 15, 1990
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To understand the power and beauty of The Family History Center, one
need only imagine imagine a second chance for us to learn more
about our immigrant forbearers than we even dreamed of. What they
looked like, what they had in their pockets, who they travelled with, who
they left behind and where they were going. Answers we might not have
had, because we never got around to asking. All this, and much, much
more, at the touch of a few buttons.
1992 marks the 100th anniversary of Ellis Island. It is also the 500th
anniversary of a voyage made by a Son of Italy to these shores. It will
be a time to celebrate both the beginnings of the New World, and the
New World that was the melting pot for 17 million immigrants.
Sincerely,
Philip Lax
Philip Lax
President
PL:drc
Enclosure
Our Mandate
Today, 125 million Americans - fully one-half of our population - can trace
their roots directly to a family member who entered America through Ellis
Island.
The Family History Center will be a living museum for individuals.
It promises to be an invaluable asset for those doing serious research into
their roots - or for those merely curious about how they became Ameri-
cans. For foreign visitors, The Center will provide a way to discover what
happened to their relatives upon their arrival in the United States.
To a broader degree, The Center will provide a place to unearth exact
data on perhaps the most vital era of immigration - a period of our history
that shaped and determined our place in world civilization, making this, in-
disputably, the "American Century."
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Our Capabilities
The Family History Center will be a computerized database of the seven-
teen million immigrants who were processed through Ellis Island between
1892 and 1954.
With the help of user-friendly computers, visitors can access the per-
sonal histories of individual immigrants by just the touch of a few buttons.
No previous computer knowledge is necessary, as extensive visual aids will
be displayed with step-by-step instructions for use. Soundex, a sound simu-
lation program, will allow names to be located even when an exact spelling
of an immigrant's name is unknown.
There will be up to 29 variables on each immigrant, including given
and surname, date of arrival, age, name of ship, occupation, literacy, country
of origin, ports of embarcation and debarcation, intended destination, race,
physical characteristics, data on relatives already in the United States at the
time of arrival, and those remaining in the country of origin. Visitors will be
allowed approximately 12 minutes to search for relatives at one of 32 on-site
computer stations.
The Family History Center will be located adjacent to The Great Hall
in the West wing of the main building.
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Operational Requirements
The database will contain information on 17 million immigrants who were
processed at Ellis Island, drawn from original ships' manifests, made avail-
able to us by the Immigration and Naturalization Service.
Standard recordkeeping formats for The Family History Center have
been developed in cooperation with INS and the Bureau of the Census. Dr.
Ira Glazier of the Balch Institute Center for Immigration, Temple University,
is overseeing the database development and has already completed an excel-
lent prototype.
We plan to complete the data input over a three-year period, employ-
ing personnel with appropriate language skills to work on related nationality
groups. At least two rounds of verification will assure quality control and
keep the error rate within statistically acceptable limits. In addition, the
computerized records will be cross-indexed with existing microfilms of the
actual passenger lists.
Our operating system will be large enough to support future growth,
including off-site terminals. Although the actual demand (i.e., number of
users) will be significantly less at the outset, our system will be able to sup-
port 600 queries per hour, and as many as 300 users at the same time. Data
storage provides 4 gigabytes of memory, putting us well within current
standards to handle the 200,000 visitors per year anticipated at The Center.
Terminals will be configured in groups of four at eight kiosks placed
throughout The Center's room, to accomodate 32 visitors at a time. The
search at The Center will be free; for a nominal cost, visitors may request an
attractive, printed copy of the manifest's data.
The project will use private vendors for both data entry and technical
design and development of the retrieval system, to be completed within three
years of funding.
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with William Novak
TIP O'NEILL
The Life and Political Memoirs of
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SPEAKER TIP O'NEILL
with William Novak
All Politics Is Local
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We had our street people, too, like old Barber Burke, an alcoholic
who was a fixture in the neighborhood. One cold winter morning
he stopped me on my way to high school and said, "Tip, could you
give me a nickel for a cup of coffee?"
I had ten cents with me for lunch, and I gave him a nickel.
cal
"Where did you sleep last night?" I asked him.
"In the city barns," he said.
"Jesus, Barber," I said, "it must have been cold in there. How did
you cover yourself?"
I'll never forget his answer as long as I live. "Newspapers," he
said. "But they ain't making them out of the stuff they used to."
On that commencement day at Harvard, as I watched those privi-
decided to go into
leged, confident Ivy League Yankees who had everything handed
to them in life, I made a resolution. Someday, I vowed, I would
and raised in North
work to make sure my own people could go to places like Harvard,
rish, working-class
where they could avail themselves of the same opportunities that
ity. At the age of
these young college men took for granted.
keeper, cutting the
as tough work, and
I knew I was Irish even before I knew I was American. Back in 1845,
my grandfather and his two brothers had been brought over from
my daily grind, the
Ireland by the New England Brick Company. I still have a deed for
lebrate commence-
the plot that my grandfather bought in the Cambridge cemetery.
en standing around
The immigrants had seen so much death during the potato famine
g. They were also
that the first thing they did when they came to America was to buy
because of Prohibi-
a plot to be buried in-just in case.
My grandfather settled in North Cambridge and worked in the
d I can still feel the
brickyards, where they made bricks with nothing more than picks,
rite these words. It
shovels, and wheelbarrows. They would mix the clay, soften it,
e. Who the hell do
throw it in the kiln, and then bake the bricks. My father was born
that the law means
in 1874, and as a young man he, too, worked in the brickyards-
digging with a pick and an ax and loading the clay on a tram, with
vard job in twenty
a horse to pull it up the slope from the pit.
e been on the other
But the Irish didn't want their kids in the clay pits, and by around
elatively well off by
1900 these jobs were taken over by the French Canadians. Twenty
go very far to find
years later it was the Italians, with each successive generation mov-
house, and in those
ing their own kids out and getting them educated as clergymen,
insurance or Social
lawyers, or doctors. Banking and insurance, however, remained
ily had to take care
closed to the ethnics. The old aristocracy, the Brahmins of Boston,
ick.
the Yankees, held those for themselves.
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A OF THE HOUSE
All Politics Is Local
9
There was one section of our neighborhood, around Clay Street
But not all of our problems with the English were in the past.
and Montgomery, where some of the old-timers still spoke Gaelic.
There were businesses in Boston that needed employees but put up
But they never encouraged their kids to speak it, because we in the
signs in the windows saying NINA, which, as we all knew, meant
younger generation were expected to be "real" Americans.
No Irish Need Apply. And each year on Easter Sunday, men in our
Still, at the age of seven I was sent to Gaelic school, which met
neighborhood would go from door to door, collecting money for
on Sunday afternoons. We learned a few Gaelic phrases and a
the Irish Republican Army. On the front window of almost every
couple of songs and step dances, but my Irish education didn't last
house you would see a sticker: "I gave to the Army." In those days,
very long. In 1920 Terrence MacSweeney, the lord mayor of Cork,
of course, the IRA was a very different organization from what it
died of a hunger strike. Our teacher was MacSweeney's sister-in-
is today; back then, it simply stood for the united freedom of Ireland.
law, and on the following Sunday she wouldn't allow me back.
More than any other group I know of, the Irish in this country
Because my parents had been born in America, I was considered a
have used the ballot box to improve their lives. When I was growing
"narrowback"-somebody who wasn't really fit for good labor.
up, one of the real powers in Boston politics was an Irishman named
And narrowbacks were no longer welcome at the MacSweeneys'.
Martin Lomasney, who worked out of the Hendricks Club in the
We had a tremendous hatred of the English. In addition to our
West End. It was said that Martin would meet the new immigrants
fierce Irish pride, there was our American heritage as well. Kids in
at the boat and take them straight over to register to vote. Then he'd
other cities were playing cops and robbers, or cowboys and Indians,
bring them over to the gas works and get them a job. Finally, he'd
but with us it was patriots and redcoats. During the Revolutionary
take them to the West End and he'd show them where they were
War there had been skirmishes right in our own neighborhood
going to live until they had earned enough money to find their own
between the British soldiers and the colonials. There was a store on
place.
Massachusetts Avenue on the spot where the redcoats had cut
The old-timers used to tell stories of how Martin would greet
through as they rode into Cambridge from Arlington, and every day
them at the polls on election day. "Here's your ballot," he'd say.
we passed by the stone markers that commemorated the dead. Bun-
"I've already marked it for you. When you get in there, pick up the
ker Hill, the Old North Church, the U.S.S. Constitution, Paul
ballot they give you and give them back this one." When you came
Revere's house, the site of the Boston Tea Party-these were famil-
iar landmarks, and we felt a firsthand connection to the brave men
out you'd give Martin the clean ballot, and he'd mark it off and give
it to the next guy in line.
and women who fought the American Revolution. This
In the 1930s, when I first entered politics, all the financial institu-
history; it was real life.
tions in the city of Boston were closed to my people. Today, of
One of the favorite topics in our neighborhood was how the
course, that's only a bad memory. It was the politicians who made
Yankees in Boston had burned down the Ursuline Convent over in
Charlestown, just a few miles from where we lived. People would
the difference, who took their people out of the menial jobs and gave
them better opportunities.
talk about that terrible deed, about what the Protestant Yankees had
done to those poor Irish Catholic nuns, and they'd stir themselves
I'm proud that I was able to play a role in that process. Although
up into a frenzy.
it happened gradually, there was one occasion when I literally used
my political power to force a change in the system. In 1950, when
I heard so much about that incident that one day, when I was in
I was Speaker of the Massachusetts Legislature, I had business to
my teens, I decided to look it up in a book. To my shock, the
attend to one day in the North Avenue Savings Bank in North
burning of the convent had occurred back in the summer of 1834!
Butto hear people talk about it, you would have thought it hap-
Cambridge. As I was climbing the stairs, I saw a fellow coming
down with tears in his eyes.
bened the day before yesterday.
"What's the matter?" I asked him.
(Hinchliffe/Garmey)
August 30, 1990
4:10 p.m.
IMMIGR
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: ELLIS ISLAND REDEDICATION CEREMONY
Sunday, September 9, 1990
(ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS)
You know, being here today is really one of the most signi-
ficant moments of my presidency. I have rarely felt so humbled
or so moved, as when I think of the courage, sacrifices, and
purity of vision of our immigrant ancestors. So I wanted my
remarks to express the importance of Ellis Island -- and of the
entire 4 centuries of our immigrant experience -- for the country
we share and love. I did a lot of reflecting, and prepared some
comments about that legacy of fierce dedication to liberty.
Then I actually saw this place. I stood on the spot --
right over there [BEHIND, TO RIGHT] -- where Birgitta Hedman
-uneshing
Fichter's mother walked off the boat. Brigitta donated her
mother's shoes to this museum, saying, "Most dear to me [of all
my possessions] are the shoes my mother wore when she first set
foot on the soil of America." I walked the path from the ferry
to the front door, where Ellen Golden fell to her knees in joyous
sobs, kissing the ground of this country, until finally her
children had to raise her to her feet and lead her inside.
Then I entered the Main Hall. In that overpowering place of
size and sound and light, I could feel the weight of feelings of
the 12 million of our ancestors who walked the same path before
me. And I suddenly saw then that the real meaning of Ellis Is-
land is not words. It is emotion. All emotion. This is the
most powerfully compelling human story in our country's history.
?
this
has
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So I don't want to just talk about this place. I want to share
to nature Ellis
with you the way it touched my heart.
3
In the exhibit rooms are photos of those who passed through
here: Hungarians and Norwegians and Bohemians, the Lebanese and
the Irish. You can't forget the eyes -- looking back at you with
sadness, yearning, hope. And you know that though they had
already shed so many tears it seemed they had none left, they
must have overflowed at the first sight of the Statue of Liberty.
Look out there. You can picture them, these travelers who
had spent weeks of lonely misery in dark, dank steerage. Sudden-
ly they poured onto the decks of the steamers. You can almost
see how those weary eyes strained for their first glimpse of the
world's symbol of freedom. You can picture them searching for
the Statue of Liberty through early morning fog -- or through the
dazzling reflection of sunlight on the water -- or through the
fading glow of dusk. She was their personal symbol of deliver-
ance from darkness to light. Now, just a few hundred yards from
here, she finally welcomed them to the land where all things were
possible: the place where their sacrifices would be redeemed.
It was the red-brick world of Ellis Island that was their
gateway. A place of an almost mythic transformation. For through
that door to my right surged Russians, Germans, Italians, Slavs,
Greeks. Then through the door to the left emerged
Americans.
All I want to do today is share the overwhelming human drama
I've felt here. I want to tell you about walking up the staircase
into the Main Hall. As you do, you find yourself thinking of
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people like Jeremiah Cornelius Flaherty, who came here all by
himself at age 14 from the desolate and starving Galway
countryside, sent by an aching mother he would never see again.
He had nothing but the clothes on his back, the family Bible, and
the fierce fire of courage and dreams his family had instilled in
him. Imagine that little boy, weak and ill from the journey,
walking up those stairs, knowing he was being watched by men in
uniform -- the ones he feared at home. What if he had come this
close to the dream and was turned away? Think of the loneliness
and grief; the fear and the yearning; the hope and the joy.
Jeremiah later wrote to his granddaughter: "When I finally
saw that hall, my breath caught. Nothing prepares you. The
size. All that terrifying noise. Thousands of people. Dozens
of languages. Roaring echoes everywhere." In the caucophony of
this overwhelming Tower of Babel, under the enormous flag and the
vaulted ceiling of this cathedral of American rebirth, he edged
his way along the wooden benches, jammed between other bodies and
yet so completely alone. Through the light-flooded windows behind
him was the Statue of Liberty. Through the windows in front was
the skyline of New York, the promised land, the place of freedom
and the future. As F. Scott Fitzterald imagined it: "for a
transitory, enchanged moment man must have held his breath in the
presence of this continent
face to face for the last time in
history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder." "
If we try, we can stand in that same hall and begin to
understand the terror and the joy of being so close to grasping
Two
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meliuis
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the dream in your hand. And, finally, of the overwhelming news
that they'd been accepted. They were then sent out of here,
discharged to a thousand destinations to merge into the tapestry
of this land. A land where they could be equals. Where they
asked nothing but the opportunity to contribute. Where -- at
long last -- they could breathe free and live for liberty.
Surrounded by the intensity of emotion of this place, I was
struck hardest by two things. First: that these were individuals
-- ordinary people who dreamed extraordinary dreams and who gave
up everything they knew for the chance to be free.
Second: they took these risks and made these sacrifices and
held tight to cherished visions for us. They knew their native
lands couldn't nourish their children and their children's chil-
dren. They ached to pass on a richer life, a freer life, a better
life. So they sacrificed all they had known in order to guarantee
for their descendants - us - the freedom, opportunity, hope, and
equality that has been America's call to the world for 400 years.
That's why everyone must make a pilgrimage to this place.
For here we can not only begin to understand our country's
nurturers -- but we also pay a reverent tribute to those who made
possible the unlimited liberty of the lives we now know.
And what we celebrate today and always is that the immigrant
experience didn't end on the ferries that moved off from this
tiny place. No, our newest Americans went out from here anxious
to repay with their enthusiasm and loyalty the gifts their new
land was giving them. And so the American spirit was born.
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They left wonderful legacies, like the story of Frank Capra,
a son of immigrants, who gave us a classic message through the
quintessentially American tradition of Hollywood. His movie,
"It's a Wonderful Life," captured the essence of the immigrants'
dream. With wondrous truth, it says: whatever your place in
society may be: you matter. Whoever you are: your life
matters. That is the real lesson of our immigrant forefathers.
I always knew intellectully that it was the immigrant heart
that reinvigorated our country -- but only today have I felt that
emotionally. We rejoice that these men and women brought their
finest strengths, their bright culture, and their ethnic tradi-
tions, and fitted them into the vibrant mosaic that is America.
This has never happened anywhere else in the world. At any
other time in history. America -- reinvigorated by the force of
the immigrants' turbulent, optimistic energy -- stands alone and
proud in our splendid diversity. As a constant reminder, we
celebrate this in our motto: E PLURIBUS UNUM. From many -- one.
But, you know, what moves me most is the strength and purity
of our immigrants' moral values: Their love of family. Their
priorities of compassion, generosity of spirit, and hard work.
Their unyieldnig belief in the primary importance of a life led
free. Those ideals are the most important things to me.
In the face of today's social crises, I say to you: we must
return to the essential lessons the immigrants brought to us. We
hear the millions of separate stories of the ghosts of Ellis Is-
land -- let us also hear the single, unifying heart. The beat of
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that heart reminds us that this country didn't just happen. It
is the result of sacrifice and sweat. Toil and tears. Spiritual
devotion and family pride. And self-sacrifice for a larger good.
And the beat of that heart also reminds us that we must
never, ever take our blessings for granted. Immigrants are still
arriving each day to enrich us -- people like young Quang Trinh,
a Vietnamese boat boy who wept for joy all night long when told
he could enter the United States. He calls it: "freedom
country." When did any of us cry in gratitude for our daily
freedom? That boy's sense of pure wonder can renew us all.
And it reminds us that Ellis Island -- this powerful,
evocative place -- gives us a clear charge: The call to give the
very best of ourselves to ensure America's life forever.
As I thought about it, I realized that today there is no-
one doing this better than our young men and women in the Persian
Gulf. Here, children of Mexicans or Kenyans stand shoulder-to-
shoulder with the grandchildren of the Japanese or the French,
next to the great-grandchildrer of the Polish or the Dutch -- now
Americans all. Like their ancestors, they've come together
determined to keep America the last, best hope for our world.
My military aides tell me that those young men and women
waiting on the harsh, distant desert sands turn to prayer -- just
as their ancestors did when they were far from home and afraid.
One immigrant wrote for his new country a musical prayer of buoy-
ant, unifying joy. Russian-born Irving Berlin was 5 when he
passed through Ellis Island 97 years ago. Later he composed "God
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Bless America" for our soldiers who were overseas in WWI.
As an act of love and faith, we must hold in our hearts the
memories of our immigrant predecessors. And we must also hold
there the thoughts of our country's sons and daughters who are
today in the Persian Gulf continuing the quest for precious free-
dom. As we do, please silently recite along with me the first
verse of Berlin's prayer for our country -- to honor all these
men and women who are the spirit of America past and future.
"God bless America, land that I love 11 Stand beside her,
and guide her
Through the night with the light from above."
Thank you. And, indeed, God bless America.
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of yes whose dreams had maybe started to dim through the
exhaustion of the trip to the sea
1 Soldier
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"Escalia a - Ellis
August 30, 1990
MEMORANDUM
TO:
CHRISS
TED
FROM:
BETH BH
SUBJECT: ELLIS ISLAND PRE-ADVANCE TRIP
The rededication of Ellis Island will be celebrated over
the weekend of Saturday, September 8 - Sunday, September 9.
The President's involvement will be limited to a time frame
from approximately 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. Sunday.
The Saturday night event will be a fundraising gala to
pay for the Sunday event. Seven hundred special guests will
attend dinner in the Main Hall followed by outside entertain-
ment (readings, etc. by prominent writers and performers).
Sunday begins with a brunch for these 700 people. The
President will attend the end of the brunch. Afterwards,
these 700 will move outside to the site of the gala, joining
1600 other guests, 400 members of the media, and dozens of
participants (for an audience total in excess of 2,500).
The event will be held outside. The President's plat-
form will face the harbor and skyline of New York; the Statue
of Liberty will be visible just off to his right. In front
of him will be the new "Immigrant Wall of Honor" (to be
dedicated by Mrs. Bush). Behind him will be the exterior of
the Main Hall -- there will be no other backdrop.
About 20-30 special guests will also be on the platform.
At this time they include event participants:
Mrs. Bush
Secretary Lujan
Lee Iacocca (Chairman Emeritus, Ellis Island
Foundation)
William May (Chairman of the Foundation)
Steven Briganti (President of the Foundation)
Barbara Walters
Six immigrant guests of honor (being saluted
not for themselves as individuals, but
as representatives of all immigrants)
An American author (possibly E.L. Doctorow)
Gene McNary (INS Commissioner)
Justice Antonin Scalia
Others will be added: possibly Governor Cuomo, etc.
Behind the platform will be the New Amsterdam Singers
and the U.S. Army Band.
Up-to-date program notes are attached.
The event producers would like the President's remarks
to be 12-15 minutes. They have also requested that Mrs. Bush
give a brief address. It is estimated that the event will
last from 12 noon to 1 p.m., when the President will leave.
Because of the size of the crowd, the length of the
speech, and the location, a teleprompter will be essential.
Best contacts:
Peggy Zitko (Director of Public Affairs,
Ellis Island Foundation) -- (212) 883-1986
Sara Lukinson (Producer, Event Production
Staff) -- (212) 249-3798
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
Dear Friend:
I am delighted to welcome and congratulate you on becoming a citizen
of the United States.
You have become part of a great and blessed nation. On this day we are
reminded of, and once again thankful for, the wisdom and foresight of our
Founding Fathers. They clearly recognized that all men are equal in the
sight of our Creator, and that only a nation rooted in a profound respect
for individual rights and dignity can endure.
This nation has not only endured, it has grown and prospered. Ours is a
land of abundance and opportunity. It is a land where people from every
walk of life, every region of the world, have come to share in the rights
and responsibilities of self-government.
As Americans, we are both heirs to and guardians of the blessings of
liberty. Two centuries ago, many brave men and women fought hard to
preserve our flejgling democracy. More recently, many brave men and
women defended freedom and carried the light of liberty through the dark
days of world war. We can and must ensure that their sacrifices were not
made in vain. We must share with our children a love of country and
appreciation for the freedom it enjoys. We must teach them the value of
human life and individual liberty, as well as the importance of community
involvement and public service.
Today, it is my hope that you will always take pride in America and the
principles it holds dear. I ask you to pray for the strength and soul of our
nation, and I encourage you to actively participate in shaping its future.
Again, welcome!
Sincerely,
ay Bush
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and Annemarie. and one grandson. The
mother occasionally got annoyed at my
Interview by Ken Adelman
Powells live at Fort Myer, with an impres-
father. she would remind everyone that
sive view of the Washington skyline.
she was the high school graduate.
My mother's family came by way of
Q: You've come a long way from the
Panama and Cuba. My grandmother
South Bronx.
made her way to New York with one
Ground Zero
A: I had a great childhood. We lived in
daughter. my mother. She left four other
a tenement neighborhood in a big ex-
daughters and three sons back in Jamai-
tended family. I didn't know I was a
ca. My father's family was mostly in
Colin Powell on War, Peace, and
minority because everybody there was a
Jamaica. too. But the cousins here and in
Balancing at the Center of Power
minority. Ours was a neighborhood of
Jamaica have stayed extremely close.
young blacks and Puerto Ricans, mixed
We share the same strong values.
with a large Jewish population. I had a
Q: Do you notice different values be-
eneral Colin Powell became
close family, which provided everything
tween blacks with a West Indian back-
G
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
I needed as a kid. And I had freedom in
ground and other American blacks?
Staff on October 1. 1989, two
New York City, being able to get on a
A: We have different roots. a different
days before a failed coup against Manuel
subway or trolley car and go anywhere I
cultural system. and a different intensity
Noriega left the Bush administration
wanted.
in religion. Most West Indians are High
open to criticism for not backing the pro-
Q: The world was yours.
Anglicans. the same as High Episcopa-
democracy forces in Panama.
A: The world was mine. We all lived in
lians-the higher the better. Their value
Two months later. Powell oversaw
each other's homes, and our parents all
system is a combination of the family
the US invasion of Panama-the Penta-
knew each other. People got along. even
and the British tradition. which was
gon's largest military operation since the
though you never lost your cultural identi-
strong in Jamaica. They never forgot
war in Vietnam. For the youngest man
ty. It wasn't a real melting por. but we
that they were British subjects. This
ever to serve as the nation's highest-
could kid each other. The usual epithets
makes them somewhat different from
ranking military officer, it was a re-
were thrown back and forth.
other American blacks.
sounding success.
C: Did you get into fights?
& Different because other American
Colin Powell. 53. worked his way up
A: No. I wasn't an aggressive kid.
blacks feel they had a slave past?
the hard way. The son of Jamaican immi-
Since I was a year or two younger than
A: West Indies blacks were also
grants. he was born in Harlem and grew
most guys on the block. I was not includ-
brought from Africa as slaves, but they
up in the South Bronx. His first military
ed in real troublesome stuff_ Many kids I
lived under a British system, where slav-
experience was with the ROTC program at
grew up with never got out:
ery was different-and was abolished
the City College of New York. In 1962, as
Q: Were you aware of drugs?
earlier. And the British provided educa-
an Army captain. he was sent to Vietnam
A: Sure. We knew about marijuana
tion and a civil service in which ex-
as an infantry adviser. In 1968 he received
slaves could advance.
the Soldier's Medal-one of the six com-
That didn't exist in the United States.
bat and fifteen major decorations he
where blacks were systematically de-
wears-for rescuing several comrades
I grew up in a time of wars.
prived of every opportunity, of educa-
from a helicopter crash.
My earliest memories are of
tion, of any suggestion they could be
Rising through the ranks in the 1970s,
anything more than second-class people.
he shuttled between Washington and the
World War II. I was 4 years
They were oppressed in this country.
field. In 1983 he was made an assistant to
old when that war started.
totally oppressed. Abraham Lincoln
Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger.
freed the slaves, but it was Martin Lu-
and in July 1986 he took command of the
ther King who freed the whites, who
72,000 troops of the Fifth Corps in West
freed the American people. The real civ-
Germany. Six months later, President
and heroin. We knew it was used around
il war was fought in the 1960s-as
Reagan summoned him back to Washing-
the neighborhood. But for those of us
important as the battles fought in the
ton as Senior Depury National Security
secure in our family lives. that wasn't
1860s-to free Americans from segrega-
Adviser under Frank Carlucci, and in De-
tolerated. Other kids lacked such a sup-
tion 100 years after freeing the slaves.
cember 1987 he was promoted to National
port mechanism. We had drug-overdose
Q: Did you join the Army because it's
Security Adviser when Carlucci became
deaths in the late '40s and early '50s.
an upward-mobile institution?
Secretary of Defense.
Q: How did you get out?
A: I don't know. I never thought about
Powell received his fourth star when
A: I had a very close family, which
it, and no one asked until I got four stars
he moved to Atlanta and took over the
had high expectations for us. And I ac-
and became the chairman. I was 21 years
US Forces Command in April 1989.
quired a good education in the public
old. had not done well in college-my
Last fall, President Bush named him the
school system.
wife and kids wish I would stop saying
twelfth Chairman of the Joint Chiefs.
Q: Your family had been immigrants?
that, but it's true-and I found a mission
Colin and Alma Powell. who have been
A: From Jamaica. in the early 1920s.
in the Army. I liked ROTC.
married for 28 years. have a son,
Both my parents were self-educated. but
Q: Why?
Michael-a civilian foreign policy analyst
my father was a high school dropout. In
A: It had to do with the guys around
at the Pentagon-two daughters, Linda
fact, in any family discussion. when my
me. the sense of order that the military
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ter was starting to smoke while the men
brought to my life. When you find some-
were still in there. I ran back and got the
will lose his or her job: "What about my
division commander out and-
career you guys promised me?"
thing you're good at, you tend to pursue
it. 1 was good at ROTC and not good at
Q:
Was he conscious?
My greatest request as a manager is to
physics, calculus, geology, languages--
A: Barely. He had a fractured shoul-
allow us to bring the armed forces down at
der. I pulled him out and others carried
a manageable rate. We shouldn't take this
Q: Listen. we don't have time for you
high-quality force of 2 million active mili-
to list them all.
him away. I went back in and got the
chief of staff out. He had a concussion.
tary and another million reserves-all of
A: I'll spare you. Anyway. 1 don't
know if I would have finished City Col-
Then I went back to get an aide. who we
whom have volunteered and signed con-
lege had it not been for ROTC. I was
thought was dead. He had been sitting in
tracts-and suddenly break their spirit and
pride and break those contracts.
there four and a half years as it was.
the middle. and the engine and transmis-
I grew up in a time of wars. My earli-
sion had shoved his head into the radio.
We've created, over the last ten years.
est memories are of World War II. I was
As I unbuckled him, he moaned. We got
an armed force that is quite unprecedent-
him out and pulled off his helmet. It was
ed in American history. It's a large force
4 years old when that war started and 9
all bent out of shape, but it had saved his
with no conscription. It's a force that can
when it ended. I was 13 or 14 when the
Korean War broke out.
life. He had a cut across his throat. yet he
do a job professionally, as we proved in
Panama.
Q: Did your parents push you into the
was walking a few days later. The pilot
military?
we also got out: his back was fractured.
Nonetheless, we're pleased that be-
& You made four trips back and forth.
cause of our strength and other factors.
A: No. But they were proud of the
A: Something like that.
the world is changing now. The dangers
success I had in ROTC and liked the
young men I hung around with, and they
Q: And you felt you had to do it? Your
that once existed in Europe are disap-
figured I'd get drafted anyway. They
instincts, your values-
pearing. We should go down in size ac-
A: And your training. All those make
cording to the threat-and the amount of
thought rd be smart to go in as an offi-
you do it. Nothing's conscious. And I
dollars the American people wish to in-
cer. get out in three years. have a nice
vest in their defense. If we constrict too
job with the city, and get a pension.
wasn't alone. Others were doing it. It
But I didn't get out. That confused
wasn't anything too heroic.
rapidly, we won't like what we do to our
them. in 1962. my fourth year in uni-
Q: But it depends on having values.
armed forces. It won't be the same quali-
form. I was sent to Vietnam. They had
A: Kids learn by training and model-
ty force.
Q: You mentioned Panama. What did
never heard of the place. We looked it up
ing. They don't pick that up because
parents sit around and talk to them about
you learn from that?
on a map.
values. Children watch their parents live
A: I relearned things. I didn't learn
Q: Were you happy to go to Vietnam?
much new. I relearned that. in the final
A: Yes. even though 1 was thinking of
values. They don't care what you say,
getting married then. Suddenly I got or-
but they watch what you do.
analysis, the quality. training, profes-
Q: Is the military still a vehicle for
sionalism, and morale of the soldier
ders to go to Vietnam. 1 was with the
second group of advisers to go there.
upward mobility, as it was for you?
make any operation a success or a fail-
Q: Were you excited because it was a
A: It is for all Americans; not just for
ure. The goofiest plans of the goofiest
combat situation?
blacks. We provide one heck of a social
generals can turn out well if you have the
A: It was action. It was what infantry
service to this country. We take in a
right people executing them. The best
officers should want. So I was looking
couple of hundred thousand kids a year
plans of the best generals can turn to zip
who generally hope to better them-
if you don't.
forward to it. I was 24 years old then,
selves. to receive some education, to put
In Panama, we had quality people
and this was hot stuff.
You had some real hot stuff. You
some money aside, to reap benefits
who received good training. We gave
Q:
pulled buddies out of a helicopter.
so they can go to college.
them spare parts for their weapons, put
A: That happened later. on my second
Two, three, or four years later. we
them together as a team. gave them lead-
tour in Vietnam. I was the operations
discharge most of them back into Ameri-
ership that cared about them and their
officer of the division. We were in
can society. They are then much more
families. They knew they were doing a
mountainous terrain and heard about
responsible. They have a better sense of
job for the American people. who be-
lieved in them. With all that, these kids
some operation and wanted to get there.
order in their lives. of self-discipline and
self-appreciation.
will do anything for you.
But it was a very narrow landing zone,
barely enough room for the helicopter
Q: But that kind of service will be-
Q: But you had all those ingredients in
come less available now that the defense
Grenada. The public perception of that
blades to clear the opening.
As the pilot started down. I could see
budget is being cut?
operation was not so positive.
A: Much less.
A: You have to be careful when com-
we were in trouble. He was losing con-
trol. Suddenly the helicopter shifted left
Q: So we're going to have fewer Colin
paring the two. In Panama, we had
three feet. I'll never forget watching the
Powells make it?
weeks to put together a plan. if it became
blade hit the tree and stop instantly. I
A: Yes. There will be a lot of turbu-
needed. That's what General Maxwell
Thurman-the head of the US Southern
remember the sound of the turbine en-
lence over the next few years. It's not
Command-and I spent much of our first
gine running but the blade no longer
easy to cut a force of volunteers. No-
two months in office doing-not looking
turning. Once that happens. the helicop-
body's waiting to get out. There are no
for a war. but making sure that. should
ter is a rock. 1 bent over and put my
conscripts eager to be discharged.
we ever be called upon, we knew what
hands under my knees.
At the end of World War II, Congress
we would do. We had time to review
When we crashed, I didn't think about
was receiving 80,000 letters a week beg-
every detail. We also happened to have a
anything but leaving. I hit the belt.
ging, "Send my son home. We aren't
large headquarters in Panama and had
jumped out. and ran a few feet. Then 1
getting those letters now. Congress now
13,000 soldiers there already.
turned around and realized the helicop-
gets letters asking if someone in uniform
Grenada was a come-as-you-are opera-
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tion. put together in.a" few days. Aspects
onry and men into a situation quickly?
Defense. When I told him something
thus didn't go well. But it was still a suc-
A: Not necessarily. If you're going to
awful had happened. he said. "Well,
cessful operation. It achieved à political
conduct a military operation, try to do it
Colin. if all else fails and we have no
purpose. which is the only reason for hav-
in a way that gets it over quickly. That
choice. tell the truth."
ing a military operation. The people of
doesn't necessarily mean big. Just put
Q: You're known as someone who
Grenada thought it was neat. And don't
the right amount of force in to assure
likes to be with the troops in the field.
forget that Panama came after Grenada.
success as quickly as possible.
A: It's fun.
We learned a lot of lessons from Grenada.
Moreover. realize the tremendous
Q: Yet you've spent many of the last
Q: Like what?
public attention-with minicams, jet
fifteen to twenty years as a desk jockey
A: Improving communications to
travel. satellites, and 24-hour-a-day in-
in Washington. Why is that?
make sure everybody could talk to one
stant communication around the world-
A: Because I keep getting called back.
another. Notwithstanding the mythical
Q:
You don't think Lincoln would have
I haven't volunteered for any of these
story of the soldier calling in an air strike
fared well at Antietam with minicams?
positions. In almost every case I said I
with a credit card-we have yet to find
A: Imagine what would have hap-
didn't want to do it.
that kid or telephone or credit card-we
pened if the American people had been
Q: It's not so terrible being Chairman
had some communications problems.
able to see the carnage at Antietam and
of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. is it?
And we learned some about public
Fredericksburg! I've been previewing a
A: No. of course not.
affairs. Once troops are launched, we
series on the Civil War that will be out
Q: The youngest chairman in-
have to tell the American people what
on public television. I wonder what
A: I'm aging rapidly, I want you to
their armed forces are doing.
would have happened if it had been tele-
know.
Q: Because Panama was so successful.
vised live every night. That's the envi-
Q: We all have burdens in life
will it be replicated elsewhere?
ronment we're in now. Combat is seen
A: I didn't refuse this job. but neither
A: I'm not looking to replicate it. I
and critiqued in real time, hour by hour.
did I go out looking for it. I was very
caution my staff to consider Panama a
as an operation unfolds. I went through it
happy commanding troops in Atlanta.
unique operation in unique circum-
rather vividly in Panama.
There's an old expression. "Better to be
stances. We can't take Panama and look
Q: That's a pain for you and the
governor in the furthest province from
for another piece of ground to repeat it.
commanders?
Rome than number two in Rome." It's
Q: While you try to teach the right
A: You called it a pain, I didn't.
great being a commander in the field,
lessons of Panama, what are the right
Q: Yes, I called it a pain. Still. it's part
where you set your own agenda and are
lessons of Vietnam?
of our democracy.
close to soldiers. That keeps you young.
A: We've learned that we better have
A: That's the point. That's why I tell
Nothing is quite as much fun as being a
clear political objectives when we com-
my guys that it's not a pain. It's the way
commander out where you're not trying
mit US armed forces.
our country operates. The American
to satisfy nine constituencies at once,
Q: We did-to keep South Vietnam
people have a right to know what their
where you're more insulated from the
free from the Communists.
armed forces are doing. So-we have to
daily push and pull of Washington.
A: Okay, you say that now. But we
work with the public and media, and do
Q: You spend a lot of your time talking
can debate whether we had a clear politi-
so smartly. Never deceive people. and
to kids, especially black kids. What do
cal objective during the thirteen years of
don't try to put a spin on it. The more
you tell them?
the war. Once you have a clear political
you tell the public, the better. The Amer-
A: That there's no substitute for hard
objective, you have to make sure that the
ican people are the smartest people on
work and study. Nothing comes easy.
military can achieve that political objec-
earth. They're not captives of the eve-
People keep asking what is the secret to
tive, that the nation commits enough re-
ning news or of editorials. When you
my success. There isn't any secret. I
sources to do the job. Then we must give
leave this epicenter in Washington. you
work hard. I spend long hours. I don't
the commanders enough flexibility to
find they come to fairly informed and
get distracted from the task before me.
achieve their goals. In Vietnam, it didn't
well-balanced conclusions.
It's as simple as that.
work out that way.
Q: You talk about the epicenter. When
I tell young blacks that even more is
We always have to remember that the
pollsters ask Americans about institu-
expected of you. Don't let your black-
tions they respect. the military is always
ness, your minority status. be a problem
one of the highest. But don't the powers
to you. Let it be a problem to somebody
I tell young blacks, don't let
in Washington tend to tilt anti-military?
else. You can't change it. Don't have a
A: We're one of the biggest targets in
chip on your shoulder. and don't think
your blackness be a problem
town, but that's because we spend a lot
everybody is staring at you because
of money, have a large presence in
to you. Let it be a problem to
you're black. It may be true, but let that
Washington, and operate programs that
be their problem, not yours.
somebody else.
are always controversial. That's why we
Beat them at it. Just beat them. Prove
draw more than our fair share of atten-
they're wrong. Let it drag them down.
tion and criticism. It's not a question of
Don't use it as an excuse for your own
who's "fer us" and who's "agin' us."
shortcomings. If you work hard, do the
American people are not patient. They
In my many years in Washington. I've
best you can. take advantage of every
like quick results. Panama gave quick
tried to put out as much information as
opportunity that's put in front of you,
results. Had it lingered on, it might not
possible. and to take lumps if something
success will come your way.
have been such a success.
goes wrong. The rule I follow was given
Q: Do you worry about youth today,
Q: Because of Americans' impatience.
to me by one of my mentors. Charles
with the temptation of drugs?
does the military have to put a lot of weap-
Duncan. who was Deputy Secretary of
A: I worry a great deal about drugs.
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tion. I warned someone, when we were
have an education program. treatment
getting ready for Panama. not to forget
We're losing too many young Ameri-
programs, and random urinalysis tests.
that we're going to drop in 18,000 teen-
cans. particularly African-Americans.
hundreds of thousands a year. 1 came up
agers there with guns. Things can hap-
to drugs. I'm devastated over what's
on the roster for urinalysis three days
pen that you don't like. Young people
happening in the inner cities. There's
after President Bush announced I was to
are subject to temptations.
nothing America has to do of a higher
be the next Chairman. I was sitting in my
Q: What are the big lessons you've
priority in its security-national security
office when 3 young licutenant came in.
learned?
and all kinds of security-than to get a
He had rubber gloves on. He followed
A: That the only thing that really
handle on this drug problem.
me into the bathroom to make sure that
counts in any activity is the people. If
Q: How does the military help here?
custody control was assured.
you have faith in people and try to re-
A: I have had no reservations on that.
Everybody does that when his or her
lease their talents and energies while
We have additional patrolling along the
number comes up, in all the services.
being loyal to them, you'll succeed.
southwestern border. sent more ships to
And if someone deals in drugs or contin-
And never let your ego get so attached
interdict druggies on the high seas.
ues using them. they can go to jail. We
to your position that when your position
Q: And keep the military clean, too.
can afford to kick them out.
goes. your ego goes with it,
How are you doing on that?
Q: It's a big institution.
Ken Adelman's "What I've Learned" interviews
A:
Our drug rates are very low. We
A:
Very big. and it's a young institu-
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icola Iacocca, my father, arrived
in this country in 1902 at the age of twelve-poor, alone, and scared.
He used to say the only thing he was sure of when he got here was that
the world was round. And that was only because another Italian boy
named Christopher Columbus had preceded him by 410 years, al-
most to the day.
As the boat sailed into New York Harbor, my father looked out
and saw the Statue of Liberty, that great symbol of hope for millions
of immigrants. On his second crossing, when he saw the statue again,
he was a new American citizen-with only his mother, his young wife,
and hope by his side. For Nicola and Antoinette, America was the
land of freedom-the freedom to become anything you wanted to be,
if you wanted it bad enough and were willing to work for it.
This was the single lesson my father gave to his family. I hope I
have done as well with my own.
When I was growing up in Allentown, Pennsylvania, our family
was so close it sometimes felt as if we were one person with four parts.
My parents always made my sister, Delma, and me feel impor-
tant and special. Nothing was too much work or too much trouble.
My father might have been busy with a dozen other things, but he
always had time for us. My mother went out of her way to cook the
foods we loved-just to make us happy. To this day, whenever I come
to visit, she still makes my two favorites-chicken soup with little veal
meatballs, and ravioli stuffed with ricotta cheese. Of all the world's
great Neopolitan cooks, she has to be one of the best.
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My father and I were very close. I loved pleasing him, and he
Crane, an army training center just a couple of miles from his
was always terrifically proud of my accomplishments. If I won a
home. Because he could drive, he was assigned to train ambulance
spelling contest at school, he was on top of the world. Later in life
drivers.
whenever I got a promotion, I'd call my father right away and he'd
rush out to tell all his friends. At Ford, each time I brought out a new
Nicola lacocca had come to America from San Marco, about
car, he wanted to be the first to drive it. In 1970, when I was named
twenty-five miles northeast of Naples in the Italian province of
president of the Ford Motor Company, I don't know which of us was
Campania. Like so many immigrants, he was full of ambition and
more excited.
hope. In America he lived briefly in Garrett, Pennsylvania, with his
Like many native Italians, my parents were very open with their
stepbrother. There my father went to work in a coal mine, but he
feelings and their love-not only at home, but also in public. Most of
hated it so much that he quit after one day. He liked to say it was the
my friends would never hug their fathers. I guess they were afraid of
only day in his life that he ever worked for anybody else.
not appearing strong and independent. But I hugged and kissed my
He soon moved east to Allentown, where he had another brother.
dad at every opportunity-nothing could have felt more natural.
By 1921, he had saved up enough money doing odd jobs, mostly as
He was a restless and inventive man who was always trying new
an apprentice shoemaker, that he could return to San Marco to bring
things. At one point, he bought a couple of fig trees and actually
over his widowed mother. As it turned out, he ended up bringing over
found a way to grow them in the harsh climate of Allentown. He was
my mother, too. During his stay in Italy this thirty-one-year-old bache-
also the first person in town to buy a motorcycle-an old Harley
lor fell in love with the seventeen-year-old daughter of a shoemaker.
Davidson, which he rode through the dirt streets of our small city.
Within a few weeks they were married.
Unfortunately, my father and his motorcycle didn't get along too
Over the years a number of journalists have reported (or repeated)
well. He fell off it so often that he finally got rid of it. As a result, he
that my parents went to Lido Beach in Venice for their honeymoon
never again trusted any vehicle with less than four wheels.
and that I was named Lido to commemorate that happy week. It's a
Because of that damn motorcycle, I wasn't allowed to have a
wonderful story, except for one problem: it's not true. My father did
bicycle when I was growing up. Whenever I wanted to ride a bike, I
take a trip to Lido Beach, but it was before the wedding, not after.
had to borrow one from a friend. On the other hand, my father let
And since he was with my mother's brother at the time, I doubt that
me drive a car as soon as I turned sixteen. This made me the only kid
his vacation was very romantic.
in Allentown who went straight from a tricycle to a Ford.
My parents' voyage to America wasn't easy. My mother came
My father loved cars. In fact, he owned one of the first Model
down with typhoid fever and spent the entire trip in the ship's infirmary.
T's. -He was one of the few people in Allentown who knew how to
By the time they reached Ellis Island, she had lost all her hair.
drive, and he was always tinkering with cars and thinking about how
According to the laws, she should have been sent back to Italy. But
to improve them. Like every driver in those days, he used to get a lot
my father was an aggressive, fast-talking operator who had already
of flat tires. For years he was obsessed with finding a way to drive a
learned how to manage in the New World. Somehow he was able to
few extra miles with a flat. To this day, whenever there's a new
convince the immigration officials that his new bride was merely
development in tire technology, I always think of my father.
seasick.
He was in love with America, and he pursued the American
I was born three years later, on October 15, 1924. By this time,
dream with all his might. When World War I broke out, he volun-
my father had opened a hot-dog restaurant called the Orpheum Wie-
ner House. It was the perfect business for somebody without much
teered for the Army-partly out of patriotism, and partly, he admitted
cash. All he really needed to get started were a grill, a bun warmer,
to me later, to have a little more control over his destiny. He had
and a few stools.
worked hard to get to America and to become naturalized, and he
My father always drilled- two things into me: never get into a
was terrified at the prospect of being sent back to Europe to fight
capital-intensive business, because the bankers will end up owning
in Italy or France. Luckily for him, he was stationed at Camp
you. (I should have paid more attention to this particular piece of
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advice!) And when times are tough, be in the food business, because
built up a fleet of about thirty cars, mostly Fords. My father was also
no matter how bad things get, people still have to eat. The Orpheum
good friends with one Charley Charles, whose son, Edward Charles,
Wiener House stayed afloat all through the Great Depression.
worked for a Ford dealership. Later Eddie bought a dealership of his
Later, he brought my uncles Theodore and Marco into the
own, where he introduced me to the fascinating world of the retail car
business. To this day, Theodore's sons, Julius and Albert Iacocca, are
business. By the time I was fifteen, Eddie had convinced me to go
still making hot dogs in Allentown. The company is called Yocco's,
into the automobile business. From that day forward, all my energies
which is more or less how the Pennsylvania Dutch used to pronounce
were directed to doing just that.
our name.
My father is probably responsible for my instinct for marketing.
I came pretty close to going into the food business myself. At one
He owned a couple of movie houses; one of his theaters, the Franklin,
point in 1952, I seriously considered leaving Ford to go into food
is still in use today. Old-timers in Allentown have told me my father
franchising. Ford dealerships operated as independent franchises, and
was such a great promoter that the kids who came down to the
it occurred to me that anyone who could franchise a food operation
Saturday matinees used to get more excited about his special offers
would get rich in a hurry. My plan was to have ten fast-food outlets
than about the movies. People still talk about the day he announced
with one central buying location. This was long before McDonald's
that the ten kids with the dirtiest faces would be admitted free.
was even a gleam in Ray Kroc's eye, and I sometimes wonder if I missed
I doubt there are any kids at the Franklin today. It's now called
my true calling in life. Who knows? Maybe today I'd be worth half a
the Jenrette, and instead of Tom Mix and Charlie Chaplin, it shows
billion dollars, with a sign out front proclaiming: Over 10 billion
porno flicks.
served.
A few years later, I did open my own place, a little sandwich
Economically, our family had its ups and downs. Like many
shop in Allentown called The Four Chefs. It served Philadelphia
Americans, we did well during the 1920s. My father started making
cheese steaks. (That's thinly-sliced steak with melted cheese on an
lots of money in real estate, in addition to his other businesses. For a
Italian roll.) My father set it up, and I put in the money. It did very
few years we were actually wealthy. But then came the Depression.
well-too well, in fact, because what I really needed was a tax shelter.
No one who's lived through it can ever forget. My father lost all
We made $125,000 the first year, which raised my tax bracket to the
his money, and we almost lost our house. I remember asking my
point where I had to get rid of it. The Four Chefs was my first
sister, who was a couple of years older, whether we'd have to move
exposure to bracket creep and the progressive nature of our tax laws.
out and how we'd find somewhere else to live. I was only six or seven
Actually I was in the food business long before I got involved with
at the time, but the anxiety I felt about the future is still vivid in my
cars. When I was ten, one of the country's first supermarkets opened
mind. Bad times are indelible-they stay with you forever.
in Allentown. After school and on weekends, my little pals and I
During those difficult years, my mother was very resourceful.
would line up at the door with our red wagons, like a row of taxicabs
She was a real immigrant mother, the backbone of the family. A
outside a hotel. As the shoppers came out, we would offer to take
nickel soupbone went a long way in our house, and we always had
home their bags for a small tip. In retrospect, it makes a lot of
enough to eat. I remember that she used to buy squabs-three birds
sense-I was in the transportation end of the food business.
for a quarter-and kill the birds herself because she didn't trust the
As a teenager, I had a weekend job in a fruit market run by a
butcher to guarantee their freshness. As the Depression grew worse,
Greek named Jimmy Kritis. I used to get up before dawn to get to the
she helped out in my father's restaurant. At one point she went to
wholesale market and bring back the produce. He paid me $2.00 a
work in a silk mill, sewing shirts. Whatever it took to keep going, she
day-plus all the fruit and vegetables I could lug home after a sixteen-
did it gladly. Today she's still a beautiful woman-who looks younger
hour workday.
than I do.
By this time, my father had other enterprises besides the Orpheum
Like so many families in those days, our strong belief in God
Wiener House. Early on, he bought into a national company called
sustained us. We seemed to pray an awful lot. I had to go to Mass
U-Drive-It, one of the very first car rental agencies. Eventually he
every Sunday and take Holy Communion every week or two. It took
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well-traveled Achille fascinated Irene with his stories of the world and his dreams
merican West had been passed on
of life in the United States. On June 3. 1880, a half year after they first met, they
married in a civil ceremony. On the marriage documents, the bride gave her religion
as "Israelite." The groom. true to a vow taken years before, declared his faith as
"nessuna," nothing.⁴
al town of Foggia, just below the
S lived as it had been for centuries,
vernment, and the local brigands.
By the middle of the nineteenth century, the ocean separating the New World from
ments known as the Risorgimento
the Old no longer held the deep terror of the unknown. Millions, mostly from Great
ffect was far more limited in the
Britain. Ireland, and Germany, had already crossed its waters, and by 1880, the
the forces of modernization. 2
dislocating forces that had shaken them loose from northwestern Europe pushed
was a minor official with the
east and south, spreading "immigration fever." Fewer than 150,000 immigrants
ovide his sons with an education,
arrived from Austria-Hungary, Russia, and Italy in the half century before 1880,
stifling. He chafed at the forced
but in the next thirty years the total skyrocketed to 8.4 million.
harsh discipline. Frustration led
Shortly after their wedding, the La Guardia couple joined the waves of em-
r Achille hid a tack under his
igrants bound for the United States. No letters or diaries exist from Achille or Irene,
ground to trace a large cross on
but there is little mystery to their story. Unlike the thousands who left their wives
dashed home in tears. But when
and children back home, seeking only to gather some dollars and return in better
1 with the teacher. Before long,
circumstances, Achille brought with him his wife, his skills as a musician, a fluency
:ft home, vowing never again to
in several languages, and his intention to lead an American life.
The La Guardias' destination was, in fact, a cosmopolitan subnation, the
developing skill as a cornetist.
immigrant city of New York. By 1880 approximately 12,000 Italians lived in
Il and beauty, and in music he
Manhattan's Five Points section. A reporter wandering amid this exotic community,
'ride in craft substituted for kin
with its peripatetic organ-grinders, unskilled day laborers, and gangs of ragpickers,
I villages and towns of southern
characterized it as a group with "no intellectual capital but the primitive methods
le traveled to northern Italy and
of farming handed down by their ancestors
She held little hope for their
Eventually he signed on as a
success, because "the idyllic life of an Italian hillside or of a dreaming medieval
town is but poor preparation for the hand to hand struggle for bread of an over-
New World, accompanying the
crowded city.
was a revelation. an energetic,
The La Guardias did not settle in the dilapidated tenements that lined Mulberry
portunity. Who could say that
Street and the other thoroughfares of New York's Italian colony. Achille had little
her places that he had seen? He
in common with the unskilled village men of limited experience. He had seen the
ith him. He had found a place
world, he had rejected a future in the old villages of the mezzogiorno, and he did
on who would go with him.
not adopt the narrow dreams of New York's Little Italy. He took an apartment in
Istrian mountains, was a pros-
a comfortable four-story building on Varick Place between Sullivan and Bleecker
ts, Germans, and a small pop-
Streets in Greenwich Village. This appositely named "American Ward" boasted
fance. To one of these Jewish
a unique Bohemian community known for its art, fine restaurants, and diversity.
eldest of five children of Isacco
Here immigrants from France. Germany, Scandinavia, and Ireland mixed com-
al atmosphere, a young woman
fortably with a small black population and some working-class native stock. There
ed her religious identity lightly.
was only one other Italian family on the block.
a chaperoned dance and was
On April 24. 1881, Irene gave birth to their first child, a daughter, Gemma,
ality. Ten years her senior, the
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and nineteen months later, on December 11, 1882, their first son was delivered at
home. Out of respect for Irene's mother, Fiorina Luzzatto-Coen, the couple named
F
the baby Fiorello (Little Flower), adding Raffaele, for Achille's father, and Enrico,
later Americanized to Henry.
It was a fascinating, disquieted America that Fiorello La Guardia entered on
that frosty December day. With the political reconstruction of the South ended,
Americans, tired of causes and ideals, and wishing to be free of scarcity, sacrifice,
and war, had rushed headlong into industrialization. Here was Mark Twain's Gilded
Age, all brilliant surfaces and rich facade, and Yale sociology professor William
Graham Sumner lecturing that social progress was drawn along by a competition
In
in which only the fittest survived. "It's root, hog, or die," declared the respected
rap
professor.
thi
Politics too had its iron laws. On the day Fiorello was born, a group of New
an
N
York State Republicans went to Washington to remind the new president, Chester
le
A. Arthur, that a successful administration must be founded on the tenets of party
h
loyalty, and to lay their claims to a fair share of patronage. His predecessor, James
A. Garfield. recently assassinated by a disappointed office seeker, had complained
C
of similar delegations coming to the White House and taking up all his time. "I
a
di
am considering all day whether A or B shall be appointed to this or that office.
I feel like crying out in the agony of my soul against the greed of office and its
a
consumption of my time.'
That day's news columns reported on the civil service, tariffs, and the wom-
an's suffrage movement, but the classified sections offered as penetrating an insight
into the times as the front pages. Glimpse these advertisements and you understand
New York City's ethnic hierarchy. "Situation Wanted" ads included the tag "good
German girl" or "German Protestant." A few identified themselves as French or
even "colored," but no one told of being Russian or Italian. Religion was important
too. Thus a "respectable Protestant woman" applied for the job of cook, and
another for housework. A "reliable Protestant" offered himself as a coachman and
groom, while "Maurice Linquist's Office" advertised a select assortment of work-
ers, "female and male; all positions; all Protestants." In its book review section
the New York Times reported on the tome Christianity and Progress by Protestant
churchman and reformer Charles Loring Brace, noting that it was wholesome Prot-
estant teachings like those in Brace's book that would save the world from those
"exposed to the Roman corruption." The point was simple and pervasive: Prot-
estants from northwestern Europe carried the American seed.⁸
But America was becoming more diverse, especially in New York, where
Jacob Riis, writing in the 1880s, remarked that a map of ethnic districts "would
show more stripes than a zebra and more colors than any rainbow. The predominant
hues would be "green for the Irish prevailing on the West Side
and blue for
the Germans on the East Side." But there were others too:
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their first son was delivered at
The red of the Italian forcing its way northward along the line of
uzzatto-Coen, the couple named
Mulberry Street
and after a lapse of miles, in the "Little Italy'' of
for Achille's father, and Enrico,
Harlem
On the West Side the red [is] overrunning the old Africa
of Thompson Street, pushing the black of the negro rapidly uptown
Fiorello La Guardia entered on
occupying his home, his church, his trade
instruction of the South ended.
to be free of scarcity, sacrifice,
Hardly less aggressive than the Italian, the [gray of the] Russian and
Here was Mark Twain's Gilded
Polish Jew, having overrun the district between Rivington and Division
le sociology professor William
Streets, east of the Bowery to the point of suffocation, is filling the
drawn along by a competition
tenements of the old Seventh Ward
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or die," declared the respected
Irene La Guardia easily adjusted to her Greenwich Village surroundings. She
ello was born, a group of New
made friends quickly, and together with Achille she tried to fit into their new
ind the new president, Chester
surroundings as much as possible. Achille insisted that Gemma and Fiorello be
founded on the tenets of party
raised as full-fledged Americans, without the ambivalence that marked other im-
onage. His predecessor, James
migrant children. He forbade the use of Italian at home (Fiorello did not learn a
office seeker, had complained
passable Italian until he served as a consular agent in Europe), and he raised his
and taking up all his time. "I
children as Protestants.
nted to this or that office
Still, Achille found more difficulties than he had anticipated. Sometimes it
ist the greed of office and its
seemed as if all the immigrant musicians in America were crowded into Manhattan,
competing for the same few jobs, and Achille would go for many days between
service, tariffs, and the wom-
engagements. But La Guardia refused to take work as a day laborer, to accept the
fered as penetrating an insight
pick-and-shovel work that occupied so large a number of his countrymen. Not for
tisements and you understand
that had he taken a twenty-one-year-old bride across the ocean, and not to raise his
l'' ads included the tag "good
daughter to sew feathers on women's hats in the cramped rooms of Mulberry Street
ified themselves as French or
tenements and have his son go to work before he graduated elementary school. He
alian. Religion was important
had traveled the world alone, married outside his traditions, and did not need the
ed for the job of cook, and
immigrant ghetto to survive. He decided to try a stronger dose of America, without
ed himself as a coachman and
the comforting familiars of the immigrant city. In 1885 Achille La Guardia enlisted
a select assortment of work-
in the United States Army as a warrant officer, chief musician in the Eleventh
In its book review section
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V and Progress by Protestant
that it was wholesome Prot-
d save the world from those
simple and pervasive: Prot-
Under the great arch of the open western sky, the Dakota Territory offered a different
in seed. 8
America from the one the La Guardias had come to know in New York. Colorful
:cially in New York, where
pioneers and cowpunchers peopled its vast wilderness plains, which erupted peri-
P of ethnic districts "would
odically with the excitement of sporadic skirmishes with the Indians. It was a West
rainbow. The predominant
as yet untamed, described by a visiting Theodore Roosevelt as "the west of the
West Side
and blue for
Indian and the buffalo hunter
of reckless riders who, unmoved looked in the
too:
eyes of life or death. It was a land whose plains shimmered in the summer sun,
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THE PROMISED LAND
"Our eyes beheld the Promised Land," an immigrant wrote of that mo-
ment when his ship passed through the Narrows and into the New York
Harbor. There stood the Statue of Liberty, and just ahead lay Ellis Island.
More than sixteen million persons lived through that moment in the
sixty-two years that Ellis Island served as the gateway to America.
One of those who passed through Ellis Island to the Promised Land
was a young Polish boy who had cried when he saw his first ships along
the waterfront of Antwerp. They frightened him because they were so
big.
In the Promised Land he would grow up to join what he would call
the "nucleus of martyrs," the doers of a nation's work. Fright far behind
him, he would build a ship that would awe the world. And, looking back,
he would say that "the present is the fruit of the past and the seed of the
future."
To know him in the present, we must know him in the past.
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By American standards, Hyman George Rickover was born into a medie-
val world, a Europe of emperor and peasant, a land of poverty, a place of
fear. The empire was Russian, ruled by a tsar. The land was Poland, a
conquered province within the empire. The place of his birth was a place
for Jews, the Pale of the Settlement, the Jewish Pale.
Hyman Rickover was born one of about five million Jews of the
Pale, a statelessness within a state, a way of designating aliens within a
nationality. In the Pale there was daily uncertainty and occasional terror,
the terror of the pogroms that came upon villages like a summer storm-
all knew that the storm would come and come again, but no one knew
what night. Pogrom, which once meant "riot" in Russian, arose from an
ancient word that imitated the sound of thunder. By the late nineteenth
century, pogrom meant not thunder or riot, but an organized assault on
Jews by mobs urged on by officials. Around that time, pogromist-"one
who takes part in or promotes organized massacres, as of Jews"-came
into the vocabulary of Russians and Jews.
Rickover's father, born Eliachako but known as Abraham, had seen
with the eyes of a child an outburst of pogroms in 1881 and 1882. His son
would know of those pogroms by tale and, like his father, would himself
know through inarticulate but indelible childhood memory, the days and
nights of pogroms in the Pale.
Hyman Rickover was born in the village of Makow (now Maków
Mazowiecki), about fifty miles north of Warsaw. The nearest town was
Pultusk, eight miles to the south. Guidebooks of the time noted that in
Pultusk there was a single inn "kept by a Jew." Most of the people who
lived in Makow and in the towns and villages around were Jews. They
thought of themselves as Poles, not Russians, for the Polish roots of most
Jews went back to the middle ages. There was a touch of pride and much
heritage in their Polish allegiance. In the early middle ages, Poland had
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invited Jews who had been expelled by other countries, and the Polish
rulers made use of and encouraged their great mercantile prowess. Even
Antwerp, Bremen and Hamburg. Passage to America from Hamburg cost
about thirty dollars.
after Poland became Catholic there still was carefully calibrated toler-
ance for Jews. But never did Jews become a true middle class, never did
Many in the Pale could pay this sum with no great sacrifice.
they attain enough economic or social power to influence the country's
Throughout the towns of the Pale, in cigarette shops and in the needle
rulers. By the late eighteenth century, after a continued increase in Cath-
trades, men and women were making steady incomes. Some even owned
olic animosity, when Poland became part of the Russian empire, the tra-
small factories or had converted their homes to shops. Some families
dition of toleration gave way to official anti-Semitism. With the empire
could raise enough money to leave the Pale together, sail to America, and
came the Pale.
there establish themselves with a small stake of savings.
Polish freedom ebbed and flowed by the whim of the tsar, who offset
But for Abraham Rickover and others who had much smaller and
each surge of nationalism with a reward of seeming independence or a
less reliable incomes, there was only one way to finance an entire family's
punishment of sudden repression. In 1863 Polish nationalism flared into
journey to America. First would go the wage earner and then, perhaps a
rebellion, Russian troops crushed the revolt, and imperial edicts interred
few years later, he would send back enough money for the family to fol-
it. Poles were forbidden to use their language in schools and universities,
low. Such a plan carried risks that man and wife both knew and rarely
in the conducting of official business, in newspapers, in theaters and in
discussed. Many a husband and father had gone to America and there
their churches.
started a new family, leaving the other, as if dead. That was the worst that
In the Pale, Polish Jews endured this and more. They could not own
could happen. Even the best meant years of loneliness and then, in
land, they were barred from most education, and always there was the
America, lifetimes out of phase: a husband and father of the New Land, a
fear of the pogrom. But in the little villages like Makow at least there was
wife and mother of the Old; and children who would know the father as a
a cohesion, a sense of trust. There was a community, a place where people
stranger from a strange land. Or children who would know only America
could love, marry, have children, and eke out a living. And, by the end of
and who, as citizens of the New Land, would leave behind an Old that
the nineteenth century, there was hope in the Pale. People were getting
included much of what their parents really were.
out. They were going to America.
How much of Hyman Rickover came from his parents and how
Abraham Rickover was making a living as a tailor in Makow. He
much grew in his New Land? Those who may have answers, including
had married and was beginning to raise a family when the lure of
Rickover himself, will not speak. Two who could have answered are
America reached the Polish provinces of the Pale. Dates are often hazy in
dead. Abraham died in 1960; his age was eighty-five. Rachel (as she be-
the Rickover family history, as they are in the histories of most immi-
came known in the New Land) died in 1968; she was almost ninety-two.
grants. So it is not known for certain when Abraham and Ruchal Rick-
From such sources as obituaries and school records, it is possible to
over started talking about America. But probably their planning began
sketch the early life of Hyman Rickover. And in this sketch can be seen
after the birth of their first child, Fanny, in the late 1890s.
hints, foreshadowings of the man. But the very records that should start
The first great wave of immigrants from the Jewish Pale of Settle-
the sketch are not in agreement. We do not know when Abraham Rick-
ment arrived in America in previous decades, following an outbreak of
over came to America. We do not know when Abraham Rickover's fam-
pogroms. Most of these immigrants were White Russians and Lithuani-
ily arrived in America. We do not know, as a certainty, when Hyman
Rickover was born.
ans, people of villages and towns, not of the land. Most of them, both men
and women, had worked in factories, and they had managed to save
By Abraham Rickover's account in a 1958 interview with the Chi-
enough from their wages to make the journey. German Jews, beginning a
cago Sun-Times, he left Makow in 1899, settled in New York City, and by
generation before, had shown the way to America. Now there was a
1903 had enough money saved to send for his family. By a Time maga-
route, with dormitories run by German Jews, for those who had to make
zine account based on interviews with family members, Abraham arrived
their way across Europe to the immigrant ships sailing from such ports as
in New York in 1904 and after "another two years of hard work, he saved
enough to send for his family"-Ruchal; Fanny, eight; and Hyman, six.
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Both accounts give Hyman Rickover's year of birth as 1900. His official
Navy biography says he was born on January 27, 1900.
shops, the matzo bakeries, speaking Yiddish, reading Yiddish newspa-
But Rickover's school records show that he was born in Makow on
pers. Beneath their coats each wore a tallis, the traditional prayer shawl.
August 24, 1898. A discrepancy of two years in an immigrant's age is not
Here were three dozen Orthodox synagogues, many of them spiritual de-
unusual; immigration records are notoriously inaccurate. School records,
scendants of synagogues from the Old Land, formed by immigrants from
however, usually are accurate, especially since they provide such a conti-
the same town and still known as the synagogue of Kowner or Antipolier
or Kalvarier.
nuity that a mistake of several years becomes apparent and can be cor-
rected. If Rickover were born in 1898, there might have been a prob-
There would come from this ghetto of the New Land men and
lem-but not an insurmountable one-about his entry into the U.S.
women who would boast of their origins-"up from Maxwell Street"-
Naval Academy. Throughout his official life, he has recorded his birth
sons and daughters of immigrants who bore the badge of "making it in
America": I grew up in the slums. Like New York's East Side, Maxwell
year as 1900.
Sometime around 1904when Hyman Rickover was four or six
Street became famous as a place that produced a new breed of American,
years old-he, Fanny and their mother set out for America in a ship that
a new myth about the land of promise. "I know a Jew fish crier down on
Maxwell Street,
sailed from Antwerp. Abraham Rickover had made an investment in an
Carl Sandburg would sing. "His face is that of a
apartment building in Brooklyn, and he had expected his family to settle
man terribly glad to be selling fish, terribly glad that God made fish."
in New York, among the thousands of Jews whose journey to America
Abraham Rickover would not move his family to the tenements of
ended there. But Abraham lost his investment in the Depression of 1907.
Maxwell Street, where the pushcarts plowed through mud and garbage,
In 1908, soon after the birth of their third child, Hitel (her New Land
where one hundred and twenty-seven people were found living in the six
name would be Augusta), the Rickover family headed for Chicago, the
flats of a single building, where few people spoke English, and where
city that Hyman Rickover would always consider his home town.
children worked in sweatshops twelve hours a day.
Chicago's first Jews of the Pale had arrived in the 1880s. Many of
Out of this ghetto of the New Land, out of "this very center of hard
them had been sent west by Jewish organizations in New York, Baltimore
times," would come proud men, the sons of peddlers, cigar makers, store-
and Boston. These organizations were usually controlled by German
keepers. They would include Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg,
Jews, who saw themselves as Americans a generation ahead of-and a
whose father was a peddler with a blind horse because that was the only
social class above-the peasants from the Pale.
kind of horse he could afford; boxing champion Barney Ross, who, born
In Chicago, the established Jews had founded the Society in Aid of
Barney Rasovsky in New York and brought to Chicago as a youngster,
the Russian Refugees in 1891, when Jews from the Pale were getting off
saw his father shot to death in a holdup of his ghetto grocery store; Wil-
the immigrant ships in New York and being put on trains to Chicago.
liam S. Paley, founder of the Columbia Broadcasting System; actor Paul
About fifty thousand Jews arrived in Chicago between 1880 and 1900.
Muni, whose father owned a Yiddish theater. There were also the many
Many of them got no farther than a district near the station that became
locally acclaimed products of Maxwell Street-the judges, political
known as Maxwell Street.
power brokers, civic leaders, and professional men who became members
The area, about a mile southwest of Chicago's downtown business
of the establishment that ran Chicago. And there were the men who left
district, got its name from a street that had become, with the influx of
Chicago but always remembered Maxwell Street and claimed a common
Jewish immigrants into Chicago, the center of pushcart commerce and
bond with others shaped and tempered there.
tenement life. The Maxwell Street area, the first ghetto of Chicago Jewry,
Hyman Rickover would not grow up to be one of those men. Know-
was the most densely populated slum in Chicago. By 1891, about sixteen
ing that the admiral was born Jewish and from Chicago, someone one
thousand Jews were packed into its tenements and shacks, sometimes
day would ask Rickover about Maxwell Street, and he would reply that
three and four to a single bed.
all he remembered was that "it was a street with pushcarts."
Here the Pale still could be seen and heard. Bearded men in black
Abraham Rickover, wise to the ways of America-and just well
caps, black boots, and long black coats walked amid the kosher butcher
enough off so that he would keep his family out of Maxwell Street tene-
ments-settled his family in a section called Lawndale. The area, first de-
TO:
TED
FROM:
BETH
New Calassus
will
DATE:
AUGUST 24
SUBJECT: IMMIGRANTS WE KNOW AND LOVE
Hi! A couple of thoughts on (of course) Ellis Island.
1. I can't remember in how much detail we talked about
the people whose ancestors we want to use for examples. So
here are some latest thoughts: since there are so many we
can choose from (10 million!), let's try to concentrate
specifically on ones who came through Ellis Island 1892-1924.
(Ideally Dec. 1900 to 1924, when this actual building was
in use.) We'll probably end up going afield, but let's see
where we can start.
It would seem ideal to have two prominent political leaders
(one Democrat, one Republican); Lee Iacoccoa for business; and
then someone not necessarily a household word who has made a
major contribution to society (i.e. scientist, etc.) Could you
see if any of the following might fit the bill -- particularly
see if there's a compelling story behind them:
SEN. GEORGE MITCHELL (I believe his mother came over from
Lebanon)
REP. TOM FOLEY
NIH Bethesder
TIP O'NEILL
DR. WILLIAM (?) DEBAKEY (heart surgeon; believe his parents
came over)
DR. ROBERT GALLO (at National Cancer Institute; discoverer
of AIDS
LEE virus) IACOCCA parents
* For balance, it would be great to get a top-ranking woman
Republican for the fourth one: CARLA HILLS? ELIZABETH DOLE? (Is
OLYMPIA SNOW, rep. for Maine, Democrat or Republic? I think her
parents came over from Greece.)
Maybe a librarian, or someone at Ellis Island itself, would
know of some other prominent figures (who have really contributed
something to American life -- i.e. no actors, etc.) with
inspiring immigrant backgrounds.
2. Has the President ever visited Ellis Island? (I'm
thinking particularly since 1976, when it was a museum.)
3. If you're talking to someone at Ellis Island museum,
maybe they could give an example of an interesting or emotional
bit of immigrant graffiti that they found on the wall --
preferably something that's been preserved.
4. Do you know if there's any particular significance in
the date September 9? Was it randomly chosen, or is it an
anniversary of something in Ellis Island history?
NO.
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To Tell the Epic of America
The Golden Door Reopens
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$2.25 . AUGUST 27, 1990
MR. PEEPERS HITS THE HAMPTONS WILLEM DAFOE, THE WILD ONE
NEWYORK
THE GOLI
ELLIS ISLAND REOPENS TO TELL AMERICA'S
Frances Stenlake Oakley was a six-year-old
SVENS
English girl when she landed on Ellis Island in
LIMIEN
1914. She thought the huge
immigration building might be the Crystal
Palace. "Maybe it's a theater," Oakley told her-
self, "or maybe we're going to have a show.
urtesy of Fred Wasserman
Standing in line for America (left).
One Finnish man made a suitcase
(above right) for bis 1916 trip.
Guerino Salerni
arrived at Ellis Island
in 1919 and
remembers "lots of
jelly, lots of
marmalade, lots of
white bread, which I
bad never seen before. "
DOOR
EPIC STORY
BY DINITIA SMITH
Then they looked in our heads for lice and
they looked in our ears, and I thought, This
is a funny way to get into a show."
Benjamin A.
Gebiner remembers being
detained in the hospital on Ellis Island when
Lewis Hine Hine/The The Bettmann Archive
he arrived as a 23-year-old from Russia in 1921. Immigration offi-
An Italian family
on Ellis Island (1905).
PHOTOGRAPH BY TED HARDIN
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cers thought he might
just as the museum at Ellis Island-started in a burst of patriotic
have tuberculosis. "Here I
nostalgia-is about to be dedicated.
was, I had studied jurispru-
The image of the immigrant as poor, oppressed, and uprooted is
dence, but I couldn't speak
giving way under the weight of new scholarship. Most people who
English. I was dumb-nothing!
came to the New World during the peak immigration years had at
But there was a little boy in the
least the means to pay for the journey, and the stamina and health
hospital, eight or ten years old.
to withstand it. They came seeking better jobs more often than
He'd been there a few months. He was very
freedom. (Of course, many didn't find freedom at all. Not only
lively. He became my interpreter, my angel! I'll never
were blacks imported as slaves, but before 1780, 75 percent of all
forget that little fellow."
white immigrants who settled south of New England were inden-
Guerino Salerni, who came from Italy in 1919 at fourteen,
tured servants.) For the most part, the people who came willingly
remembers the mess hall and "lots of jelly, lots of marmalade,
brought the structures of their old cultures with them and used
lots of white bread, which I had never seen before."
their traditions to build lives here. Perhaps most startling of all, it
When the ship carrying ten-year-old Viola Lewis Scott-Thomas
has recently been shown that a third of all those who have come to
from Barbados arrived in America in 1924, the little girl glimpsed,
America during the twentieth century have chosen to go home
for one tantalizing moment, the mother and father she hadn't seen
again-10 million out of 30 million people.
in almost a decade. Then an inspector found a patch of ringworm
Nowhere is this revised view more clear than in the new Ellis
on her knee and sent her back home.
Island Immigration Museum. The entire restoration project was
The recorded recollections of Guerino Salerni and Frances
developed with the help of a team of historians who aim to up-
Oakley, the inspection card preserved by Benjamin Gebiner, the
date the myth of immigration. As Virginia Yans-McLaughlin, a
photographs that Viola
Rutgers history professor
Scott-Thomas kept to re-
who was an adviser on the
member her parents by-all
HISTORY LESSON
project, puts it, the building
will be included in the new
of the new museum at Ellis
Ellis Island Immigration
Museum, opening to the
In a nation of more than a hun-
Island amounts to nothing
less than "the construction
public September 10, in
time for the island's centen-
dred ethnic groups, Ellis Island is the setting
of a national ideology."
nial in 1992. The museum is
of America's one great unifying epic.
LLIS ISLAND IS
the culmination of the big-
a 27.5-acre
gest restoration project in
parcel-most
United States history, an
of it landfill
eight-year, $345-million en-
from the New
deavor that also involved re-
York City sub-
furbishing the Statue of Lib-
way system-that sits about a
erty, which reopened with a
mile off the Battery. Original-
flourish in July 1986.
ly a sand spit where Native
Thirteen hundred feet
Americans dug for oysters,
from the statue is Ellis Is-
CAMMARATAARCART
Ellis Island was used as an ex-
land, where the main immi-
NÍAGARA-FALLS-
ecution ground for pirates
gration building has been
during Colonial times. The
rescued from abandonment
first immigration station was
and complete disrepair. The
built there in 1892. Five years
new museum it will house is
AMERICA
later, a fire destroyed the
devoted not only to the Ellis
original wooden buildings,
Island experience but also to
A trunk from Sicily bound for Niagara Falls in 1919.
and in 1900, the present
immigration throughout the
Beaux-Arts building, with its
U.S. The 100,000-square-foot space will be filled with more
four graceful copper domes, was erected from a design by the firm
than 2,000 artifacts, 1,500 photographs, oral histories, a li-
of Boring & Tilton.
brary, two theaters, and ultimately-it is hoped-a genealogical
Ships of arriving immigrants anchored off the Narrows. First-
center where visitors may be able to trace their immigrant fam-
and second-class passengers were processed onboard, and those
ilies. The restored immigration building will be one of the larg-
who passed inspection went on to dock in Manhattan. Steerage
est strictly historical museums in the country. Three million visi-
passengers were taken to Ellis Island for processing (along with
tors are expected the first year alone.
first- and second-class passengers who failed inspection).
For many Americans, Ellis Island is holy ground, the entry
"Numbered and lettered before debarking, in groups corre-
point for the ancestors of more than 100 million people, 40 per-
sponding to entries on the ship's manifest, the immigrants are
cent of the country's population. From 1892 to 1924, more than
herded onto the Customs Wharf," wrote Irving Howe in his
12 million people entered the United States through Ellis Island.
book World of Our Fathers. 'Quick! Run! Hurry!' shout offi-
On one day (April 17, 1907), 11,747 immigrants were pro-
cials in half a dozen languages."
cessed there.
The average immigrant spent three to five hours on Ellis. In
In a nation of well over a hundred ethnic groups, Ellis Island is
the main building, the new arrivals climbed to the second-floor
the setting of America's one great unifying epic. While other coun-
Registry Room-also known as the Great Hall-on a staircase
tries have their national legends-France has its Chanson de Ro-
that is a centerpiece of legend. The climb was called "the six-
land, Spain its El Cid-America has the myth of the Golden Door,
second physical": Doctors and nurses watched from the top and
through which the "huddled masses yearning to breathe free," as
weeded out for further examination people who seemed lame or
Emma Lazarus put it, stepped and found freedom and prosperity
out of breath-a sign of possible heart disease or tuberculosis.
at last. Paradoxically, that myth is being rethought and rewritten
Fates were sealed in the Registry Room. An inspector would
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Postcard courtesy of Metaform Inc. Photograph courtesy of Metaform Inc./Karen Yamauchi: National Park Service Collection.
Photographs: top. Ted Hardin; bottom left, Augustus S. Sherman Collection; center right, UPI/Bettmann Newsphotos.
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116m
law
FIRST STEPS
When they got off the boat,
passports in band,
immigrants beaded for the
Videl
Registry Room (above in
1990; left, circa 1912),
where most of their fates
were sealed.
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raise the immigrant's eye-
FTER INSPECTION, IMMIGRANTS DESCENDED A DI-
92
lids-using a finger, a hair-
vided flight of stairs, dubbed the Stairs of Sepa-
pin, or even a buttonhook-
ration because many people parted ways there.
in a painful procedure to check
The stairs were railed off into three sections.
for trachoma, a contagious eye
The right led to the railroad ticket office, where
disease. Scalps were examined for
the immigrants traveled on to Hoboken and far-
favus, a fungal infection. "They were
ther points; the left led to the New York ferry. The center aisle
pretty rough," remembers Frances Oakley.
led to the temporary detention room.
"What bothered me most were the eyes. They tried to
During the peak years, 20 percent of the new immigrants were
grab the baby. My mother said, 'Don't you hurt this baby!'"
detained because they were sick or "politically undesirable" or lia-
James Arraj was eight when he arrived at Ellis from Lebanon
ble to become public charges. Single women who weren't met by a
in 1920: "You were taken before an examiner who sat on a high
relative or a member of an immigration-aid society were also held
bench making big decisions that affected your life.
We had
back, for fear they would be exploited or lured into prostitution. In
an Arabic interpreter. They examined us and held my brother
fact, many women-"picture brides"-came to America to be
back for his eyes. Three days of waiting and worrying. My moth-
married. In September 1907, the SS Baltic carried at least 1,000
er was upset because she didn't know whether they would let us
marriageable girls. Understandably, many weddings were per-
in or not, and there was no one here to meet us. My father knew
formed right on the island.
we were coming, but he didn't know when."
Immigrants who were deemed anarchists, Bolsheviks, or
Immigrants with possible health problems were marked with
criminals were sent to dormitories, where they were detained
chalk on their clothing. An E meant eye disease; an L meant
until they could be sent back. Some sick immigrants were also
lameness; an X meant men-
sent back. Others in need of
tal deficiency; an o around
health care were transferred
the X meant extreme defi-
THENEWVIEW
to hospitals. It is estimated
ciency. In one test of mental-
that 30 percent of children
competence, immigrants
Many immigrants had at least
with measles who were fer-
had to put together a wood-
ried to hospitals on the
en puzzle of a ship. On any
the means to pay for the journey, and the
mainland around the turn of
given day during the peak
the century later died from
immigration period, 5,000
stamina and health to withstand it.
the exposure.
people, weary and anxious,
Detainees were periodi-
could move through the
cally exploited by the con-
Registry Room. "Do you
cessionaires. Irving Howe
have any skills? Do you have
describes a 1909 hunger
a job waiting for you here?
strike led by Alexander Ru-
Are you an anarchist? Are
denief, the son of a Russian
you a polygamist?" the in-
army doctor. The food at El-
spectors would ask.
lis "is suitable for hogs,"
"I was jostled and
cried Rudenief, in a fiery
dragged and shoved and
speech in the mess hall. "We
shouted at," recalled M.E.
are treated like wild beasts.
Ravage in An American in
We sleep on a wet floor."
the Making. "I took it philo-
Still, conditions on the is-
sophically. I had been
land were not always harsh.
through the performance
DO NOT KISS A CHILD, warned
many times before-at the
Before the restoration.
a sign for nurses in the Chil-
Hungarian border, at Vien-
dren's Contagious Disease
na, in Germany, in Holland." Legend has it that immigrants'
Ward. Comforting children, many of them crying because they
names were changed on Ellis Island as they went through the
had been separated from their parents, was obviously a consid-
inspection process. But the museum's researchers found only
erable temptation for the staff. In a taped memoir given to the
one woman who claimed she'd been renamed by immigration
new museum, Morry Helzner, who came from Russia in 1922,
officers, and she could provide no documentation. When Mary-
remembers "the biggest impression I had when they took us to
Angela Hardwick-a staffer at MetaForm, one of the creators of
the dormitories. To see white linens, white tile, sparkling
the new museum-culled the National Archives, she could turn
clean-almost a sterile environment!"
up no evidence to support the legend.
Over time, the treatment of the arriving immigrants became
"We call it the story that won't go away," says Phyllis Mont-
more humane, and some even liked the food. Vartan Hartunian
gomery, the director of research for MetaForm. (Two other com-
came to Ellis from Armenia in 1922. "I hadn't tasted butter," he
panies-Design and Production and Rathe Productions-were
recalls in his taped memoir. "I didn't know what butter was.
part of the consortium that designed the new museum.) One the-
And when butter was placed on white bread and I ate it, to me
ory is that the immigrants' names were changed before they
that was a tremendous delight!"
boarded the ship-by, say, German clerks at Bremen trying to
Ultimately, 2 percent of the immigrants were sent back to their
make sense of the complicated names of Poles who could not read
native lands-an average of 1,000 people some months. Frances
or write. Another theory is that workers from immigrant-aid soci-
Oakley remembers seeing people "sitting on benches. Some were
eties who helped the new arrivals may have suggested that they
crying. I said to my mother, 'Why are they crying?' and she said,
change their names to simplify or "Americanize" them. Certainly,
"Those people can't come to America. They have to go back.'
immigrants changed their own names after they arrived. Many
Some of those who passed inspection went on to be reunited
schools devised family names that they thought fit better into the
on the first floor with family and friends who had come before
new culture.
them. The area where they met came to be known as the Kissing
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Photograph by Ted Hertin.
DOCTOR'S
H
ORDERS
Sometimes, inspectors
used a buttonbook to
S
CT
peel back eyelids and
check for disease.
Diagnoses were
written in chalk on the
immigrants' clotbing
(cbart at left). One
test of competence was
c
N
a steamsbip puzzle
(above).
Post. One matron described the scene in 1910: "The Italian
chusetts senator Henry Cabot Lodge spoke out in the Senate
kisses his little children but scarcely speaks to his wife, never
against "Italians, Russians, Poles, Hungarians, Greeks, and Asia-
embraces or kisses her in public. The Hungarian and Slavish
hitherto tics assimilated and who are most alien to the great body of
races with which the English-speaking people have never
[sic] people put their arms around one another and weep. The
Jew of all countries kisses his wife and children as though he had
people of the United States."
all the kisses in the world, and intended to use them up quick."
The political disruptions unleashed by World War I strength-
ened the campaign against immigrants. Ellis Island was used as a
ONTRARY TO POPULAR BELIEF, MOST IMMIGRANTS
deportation center; Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman
did not take the ferry to the Battery and immedi-
were held there in 1919. In 1923, the president of Colgate Univer-
C
ately settle on the Lower East Side. Two thirds set
sity, Dr. George B. Cutten, said, "The melting pot is destructive to
out for farther points. At the railroad ticket office
our race," weakening it by a "breeding out of the higher divisions
on Ellis, they were given printed tags showing
of the white race." In 1921 and 1924, acts were passed, directed
their destination to pin onto hats and coats. In one
especially at people from Southern and Eastern Europe and, in the
memorable mix-up, a Syrian woman and a Finnish woman were
case of the 1924 act, at Asians. These "racial" quotas were not
accidentally sent to each other's husbands-the Finnish woman
abolished until 1965. Today, there is a limit of 20,000 people for
most countries, with a worldwide ceiling of 270,000 each year
to Memphis, the Syrian to Cincinnati.
What did the immigrants find when they set foot on American
(not counting exemptions).
soil? "I came to America because I heard the streets were paved
The United States has always kept some people out. During
with gold," goes one old Italian saying. "When I got here, I
World War II, it adamantly denied refuge to those fleeing Nazi
found out three things: First, the streets weren't paved with
persecution. In 1939, to take just one example, 20,000 chil-
gold; second, they weren't paved at all; and third, I was expect-
dren-most of them Jewish-were barred from the U.S. With
the closing of the door, Ellis Island was used less and less until it
ed to pave them."
Then, slowly, the Golden Door began to close. During the
was shut for good in 1954. By then, most immigrants were
first half of the nineteenth century, the majority of immigrants
screened abroad.
had come from England, Ireland, Germany, and Scandinavia.
By the 1880s, large numbers were Austro-Hungarian, Italian,
URIOUSLY, THERE IS ALREADY ONE IMMIGRATION MU-
and Russian, and by 1907, those countries supplied the majority
C
seum in New York Harbor-the American Muse-
um of Immigration, built in 1972 in the base of
of new arrivals.
The immigrants were helping to build America, yet restriction-
the Statue of Liberty. For years, scholars have
ists believed the country couldn't contain the new population. Im-
been dismayed by the museum's narrow and often
migrants were accused of overcrowding cities and burdening so-
inaccurate presentation. Indeed, one expert has
cial-service agencies. The Immigration Restriction League based
called it "a scandal." (In an exhibit about Jews, the Torah was
its campaign on so-called scientific evidence that "proved" the
once displayed upside down.) But powerful interest groups, as
"inferiority of immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe." In
well as one of the museum's founders, the late Pierre du Pont
1882, the Chinese Exclusion Act was passed. In the 1890s, Massa-
III, managed to keep the museum alive. But with the new muse-
AUGUST 27, 1990/NEW YORK
33
Photograph by Brown Brothers. Top right and bottom, courtesy of Metaform Inc./Karen Yamauchi: National Park Service
892
um, the old one in its pres-
whom have abandoned traditional roles. They often found jobs
ent form is expected to
before the men, because they could be hired more cheaply-and
wither away.
were sometimes considered better workers.
92
To historians, the AMI
is the very embodiment of
HE CHANGES IN AMERICAN ATTITUDES TOWARD IM-
what immigration experts call
migration are reflected in the history of Ellis Is-
"babushka history." With its
land itself. In the fifties and early sixties, Ameri-
photographs and mannequins of
cans were more concerned with their similarities
European peasants in their "na-
than with their differences, and most had little
tive" costumes, the museum perpetuates
interest in emphasizing their ethnic roots. For
the notion that "the peasants came over in peasant
years after the immigration outpost closed, the island lay vacant
costumes and were redeemed by America," says Virginia Yans-
while the government tried without success to sell it. But with
McLaughlin. One photographer of the period, Augustus F.
the Vietnam War and the civil-rights movement, the differences
Sherman, even made his subjects change into peasant costumes
among Americans were thrown into stark relief. Americans be-
before he took their pictures.
gan to explore their individual and ethnic histories, and interest
Historians have other complaints about the AMI. They say it
in Ellis Island was rekindled.
overemphasizes famous immigrants like Andrew Carnegie and
In 1975, Dr. Peter Sammartino, a founder of Fairleigh Dick-
Joseph Pulitzer, neglecting the common experience, and they de-
inson University, formed a commission to raise money to restore
cry the museum's emphasis on the immigrants' military service.
the island. Later, Phil Lax, a New Jersey real-estate developer,
While it's true that many immigrants fought for this country,
took over. Ultimately, a Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island restora-
many would-be immigrants stayed away during wartime. "It is
tion project was formed under the direction of Chrysler Corpo-
'the contribution approach,' says Rudolph Vecoli, chairman
ration chairman Lee Iacocca.
of the History Advisory Committee of the Statue of Liberty-El-
From the beginning, the restoration was intended to be a
lis Island Foundation and di-
showcase for Reaganomics,
rector of the Immigration
proof that the people them-
History Research Center at
LOOKINGBACK
selves could do what gov-
the University of Minnesota.
ernment had traditionally
"The immigrants were sup-
When Americans began to ex-
done before. The process
posed to pay dues. The mu-
has not been without con-
seum was used to justify
plore their individual and ethnic histories, in-
troversy. In its early years,
their presence. It trivialized
there were complaints about
the immigrants and sani-
terest in Ellis Island was rekindled.
hefty expense accounts,
tized their experience."
charges of conflict of inter-
Like many historians, Ve-
est, and misgivings about
coli is eager to see Americans
the widespread franchising
rethink their past. "The myth
Copenhuger
of the Statue of Liberty
of immigration has always
United States
image.
been a parable of rebirth," he
lacocca and the Depart-
says, "a utopian kind of no-
COOL
ment of the Interior fought
tion, of the immigrant com-
over what to do with the
ing from the corrupt Old
south side of Ellis Island.
World to a fresh New World.
There are 32 buildings in ad-
It is a myth that serves the na-
dition to the main one. Most
tional pride. But we have to
of them are in disrepair. The
face up to the reality of it-
29
National Park Service had ap-
the reality of immigration re-
proved a plan submitted by a
Borth,No.
strictions."
19/145
nonprofit group, the Center
In his landmark work, The
for Housing Partnerships,
Uprooted, published in
A Danish woman's inspection card (1905).
headed by William Hubbard,
1951, Harvard historian Os-
to restore some of the build-
car Handlin portrayed immigrants as victims, torn from their
ings and use them as a conference center. But lacocca came up
traditions and their cultures. But Rudolph Vecoli, in his 1964
with another plan, which would involve tearing down some of the
essay "Contadini in Chicago," challenged Handlin's thesis,
buildings and creating "an ethnic [Colonial] Williamsburg." la-
showing that the immigrants were far from victims-that they
cocca's plan was opposed by the Park Service, and the Hubbard
brought their traditions with them. Since then, a generation of
plan eventually prevailed. So far, Hubbard has been unable to
historians influenced by the ethnic movements of the sixties
raise enough money.
have shown how, through "chain migration," whole families-
In February 1986, just as lacocca was looming as a Democratic
sometimes whole villages-came and settled together, effective-
presidential candidate, he was fired by Interior secretary Donald P.
ly re-creating their communities on American soil. For example,
Hodel, ostensibly because of conflict between his roles as restora-
James Arraj and his countrymen from the Lebanese village of
tion adviser and fund-raising chief. (William F. May, the former
Mashgara settled in Worcester, Massachusetts, where they
chairman of the American Can company, is now chairman of the
worked as tanners-just as they had in the Old Country. Some
Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, responsible for raising
groups founded their own banks. Some created their own
money.)
schools. They re-formed their old fraternal organizations. And
Meanwhile, the job of restoring the main building at Ellis Is-
they were, of course, a force in the American labor movement.
land had fallen to two architecture firms: Boston-based Notter
Recently, historians have also been emphasizing the experi-
Finegold & Alexander and the New York firm Beyer Blinder
ences of blacks and Asians and the role of women. In many
Belle-which did the restorations of Grand Central Terminal
ways, immigration has been a woman's story. Since the thirties,
and the South Street Seaport.
in fact, the majority of immigrants have been women, many of
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NEW YORK/AUGUST 27, 1000
Courtesy of Metaform Inc./Karen Yamauchi: National Park Service Collection.
THE FIRST SLAP
Benjamin A. Gebiner, 92, and Sonia Gebiner, 88: Russia
T WAS REALLY BECAUSE OF A GIRL
ten by Sonia, he found himself thinking of
had "a beautiful scarf." But when the atten-
that Benjamin A. Gebiner found
her all the time. After obtaining a special
dant brought him his clothes, the scarf was
his way to Ellis Island in 1921.
pass, Gebiner traveled to Warsaw to join
missing. Gebiner tried to tell the man, but
And it was there that Gebiner got
her, but he was denied admission to the
he spoke no English. "He slapped my face.
his first slap on American soil-
university. Despairing of a future without
Even though I was an adult, I began to
though not because of the girl.
a degree for Gebiner, the young couple set
cry.
This was the first time I was
Gebiner-from Rovno, in what was
out for America.
slapped in America," says Gebiner today,
then Russia-had been in love with Sonia
The Atlantic was so rough and Gebiner
with a little smile.
Goldfarb since she was fourteen. She left
was so sick that when he got to Ellis Island,
Gebiner went on to law school and a
to study dentistry in Warsaw, and Ge-
officials thought he had TB. After a week in
job with the Workmen's Circle, a Jewish
biner, although a Jew, was nonetheless ad-
the hospital, Gebiner was released. He had
fraternal organization. On July 30, Ge-
mitted to the University of Odessa and,
his best suit ready for the moment he would
biner, 92, and Sonia, 88, celebrated their
later, to the University of Kiev. Still smit-
set foot on true American soil. He had also
seventieth wedding anniversary.
Photograph by Ted Hardin. Line drawing by Jim Irvine.
AUGUST 27, 1990/NEW YORK 35
BACK TO BARBADOS
Viola Lewis Scott-Thomas, 75: Barbados
N 1924, WHEN TEN-YEAR-OLD VIO-
Ellis Island, she was quarantined because
her parents. "My mother looked like such
la Lewis Scott-Thomas journeyed
of ringworm on her knee.
an elegant lady. My father was so hand-
from Barbados to Ellis Island, a
"I was devastated," remembers Scott-
some," she says. "My mother was crying.
violent storm arose at sea. "The
Thomas, who hadn't seen her mother in
My father picks me up and hugs me and
water was coming up| over the
several years.
swings me around-it was like seeing
whole ship," Scott-Thomas re-
She remembers crying and being
Jesus!"
members, "and then the ship would go
"frightened by all those masses of people.
The family took the ferry to the Battery,
down under."
It was overcrowded, dirty. On the island,
and then the subway to Harlem, where
As was the case with many immigrants,
we had been considered to be of the better
Scott-Thomas's father worked as a baker.
the adults stayed below groaning and
class. The doctor said it wouldn't be a
"I saw all these tall buildings. It was over-
vomiting in their bunks while the children
long time. But what does 'a long time'
whelming!" she says. "I came from an
had a wonderful time. "The sailors tied a
mean to a child?"
agrarian society. I wanted to go back
rope around my waist," Scott-Thomas
Scott-Thomas returned to Barbados by
home!"
says, "so I wouldn't fall overboard."
the next boat. A month later, she arrived
Nonetheless, Scott-Thomas went on to
A lively, intelligent child, she nearly
at Ellis Island again and was reunited with
graduate from Spelman College, eventual-
drove the sailors crazy
ly becoming the offi-
with all her questions,
cial historian of Man-
so they let her play
hattan (under then-
down in the hold,
borough president
where she ate "bags
Percy Sutton), and lat-
and bags of Brazil nuts
er an administrator at
and fed the monkeys
the AMI and one of
and the parrots."
the first black women
When the ship reached
in advertising.
Photograph by Ted Hardin.
Courtesy of Metaform Inc./Karen Yamauchi: National Park Service Collection.
ANEW BLUEPRINT
Guerino Salerni, 84: Italy
VEN TODAY, GUERINO SALER-
Salerni's father had first come to the
torboat. "Where's Mama? Where's
E
ni remembers the touch of
United States in 1896. He found work in
Mama?" his father cried. Salerni's step-
his grandfather Luigi's
construction, traveling back and forth be-
mother threw down a bottle of Centerba, a
whiskers as he kissed him
tween the U.S. and Italy regularly, each
liqueur from Abruzzi, in greeting-even
goodbye. When Salerni,
time begetting a child. In 1918, Salerni's
though America was in the midst of
now 84, talks about leaving
father decided it was time for the rest of
Prohibition.
for America in 1919-when he was 14-
the family to come. Like many immi-
Because there had been a death from ty-
tears still come to his eyes. "It was the last
grants, they traveled with a group from
phoid fever aboard the ship, Salerni spent
time I saw him," says Salerni. "He was
their village. There was Salerni's step-
ten days in quarantine before he was re-
quite a fellow." Guerino Salerni came
mother (his mother had died), his sister,
united with his father for good. When he
from a family of stonemasons in a medi-
and a dozen ladies whose husbands had
grew up, Salerni became an architect,
eval hill town in the region of Abruzzi,
already journeyed ahead.
working on a number of projects in New
east of Rome. As a boy, Salerni could
Salerni hadn't seen his father in five
York City-including the construction of
build a dome of stones in the fields and it
years, but as the ship docked near Ellis Is-
East River Drive-continuing the tradi-
would stand.
land, he spotted him down below in a mo-
tions of his Italian ancestors.
Salerni's
passport.
Photographs: left. Gino Gareza; center, Ted Hardin.
AUGUST 27, 1990/NEW YORK
39
AWARTIME VOYAGE
Frances Stenlake Oakley, 83: England
N 1914, AFTER FRANCES STENLAKE
two families boarded a train heading for
come to meet the family, and unaccompa-
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Oakley set sail from England for
New York. At a stopover in Buffalo, the
nied women were not allowed to leave the
America aboard the Mauretania,
Welsh woman was left behind at the sta-
island. Frances's father had written that
World War I broke out.
tion as the train pulled away, with her
his brother, Frank, would be there to
"Ladies and gentlemen, Eng-
children onboard. By then, the group had
greet them, but Frances's mother had nev-
land is at war," an officer told the
had nothing to eat for two days because of
er met him.
passengers in the dining room. "There
difficulties in changing money. Oakley's
For two days, the family watched anx-
will be no lights onboard ship from now
mother took the five weeping Welsh chil-
iously as visitors arrived by ferry to greet
on. After dinner, you will go to your cab-
dren under her wing, sharing with them
the newly arrived immigrants. "My moth-
ins." Oakley was six and on her way with
the three ice-cream cones she had grabbed
er watched every man expectantly. There
her mother and two brothers to join her
at the station.
was a lot of hugging and kissing, but no-
father, who had left for America in 1913
At Ellis Island, the Welsh children were
body came to us. My mother, being a
to work as a carpenter. The Mauretania
put in a "hospital wing" until their moth-
proper English lady, would never speak to
was diverted to Halifax, Nova Scotia, and
er could join them. "We never saw them
a strange man. The next morning, she was
began speeding across the Atlantic.
again," says Oakley.
desperate." There was a man with a Pana-
Before Frances Oakley and her brother
At first, Ellis Island seemed like a won-
ma hat who had passed the family four
went below deck, though, they watched as
drous place to the little girl, who had been
times the day before. "My mother said,
German U-boats chased the ship, coming
dressed in her Sunday best-a white serge
'I'm going to stop him. I'll die if it's not
as close as a half-mile.
sailor suit "just like the young prince of
your uncle!' She said, 'I beg your pardon.
There was a Welsh family onboard with
Wales"-for her arrival in America. But
Are you Frank?' He said, 'Yes!' He went
the Stenlakes, a mother and five children,
there was a new crisis. Frances's father
in and signed for us, and finally we got off
including a two-year-old. At Halifax, the
had been injured at work and couldn't
Ellis Island."
Photograph by Ted Hardin.
Courtesy of Metaform Inc./Karen Yamauchi: National Park Service Collection.
Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University. Photograph: Photography Archive, Carpenter
The dining ball at Ellis
Island, circa 1905.
Photograph by Culver Pictures.
(Continued from page 34)
"Here the ego of the architect had to be suppressed," says
HE MANAGING ARCHITECT, JOHN BELLE, 58, OF
Belle. "I could have designed one just like the TWA canopy at
Beyer Blinder Belle, was himself an immigrant
Kennedy airport, but we had to have one that fit the site." The
from Wales. As he surveyed the main building,
new canopy was built of glass and steel in a deliberately contem-
Belle remembers, he was "scared out of my
porary but unobtrusive style.
pants. I don't know any other nation where one
Inside, in the Registry Room, workers began the task of re-
building has had so much influence. I was not
storing the great tiled ceiling, built by the Guastavinos, a Span-
sure we could put that building back together." For twenty
ish immigrant family. Each of the 28,800 tiles was tested by
years, the structure had sat in the middle of New York Harbor,
tapping it with a small rubber mallet. In the end, only seventeen
exposed to the elements. The interior was knee-deep in debris,
had to be replaced.
the roof was rotting, plaster was falling from the ceilings and
Then came the problem of the staircase leading to the Registry
walls. The building was saturated with moisture.
Room. At different times, there had been two staircases in differ-
Every hammer, bucket, and sack of cement would have to be
ent places, both removed. But the staircase-and the six-second
transported across the water. In 1986, a temporary bridge was
physical-were at the center of immigrants' memories, so the Park
built from the New Jersey side for $2.4 million. A construction
Service made another exception and a new staircase was built, in
launch was rented at a cost of $25,000 a month.
the second location. Then there were the theaters and escalators
Engineers began the task of drying out the building. Plastic
that had to be added. A decision was made to put them in the old
tubes four feet in diameter and thousands of feet long blew hot
light wells, where they would least disrupt the building's integrity.
air into the building and sucked the moisture out-working
As many as 90 architects and engineers were working on the
gently, to prevent more plaster from falling as the building dri-
project at the same time. Archaeologists, civil engineers, and
ed. It took two years. In the meantime, the roof was restored.
lighting designers took part. At one point, a group of Native
The domes were removed, then finials were lowered back on by
American leaders was brought in to bury bones found during
helicopter in 1987.
the excavations. This spring, the restoration was complete.
From the beginning, there was the problem of how to "inter-
From the beginning, the National Park Service and the History
pret" the site. "We researched every file, every ar-
Advisory Committee were determined not to repeat the mistakes
chive we could for any reference to the building,"
of the old museum. An early plan was to em-
says Belle. "All the materials, the colors, the
phasize only Ellis Island, but historians insist-
textures, had to be right."
ed that it be shown in a larger context. "We
The building's main canopy, which
sheltered the immigrants as they ar-
1892
said, 'You have [proposed] a [basically]
European story in the middle of a city that
rived, had disappeared. The Park Serv-
is black and Asian. This is a national muse-
ice philosophy of restoration is to
um,' says Yans-McLaughlin, the editor of
"freeze a building in time, and it is
000000000
Immigration Reconsidered (Oxford Uni-
against policy to replicate structures that no
S
AND
versity Press). The historians also wanted
longer exist. It was decided to bend the rules.
"attention to women."
42
NEW YORK/AUGUST 27, 1990
o REACH THE NEW MUSEUM, VISITORS MAY TAKE
ferries from the Battery or from Liberty Park, in
STATION.
ELLIS
ISLAND.
YORK.
New Jersey, arriving just as the immigrants did.
IMMIGRATION
As they enter the main building, they will find
themselves in a restored baggage room filled with
trunks, suitcases, and baskets that immigrants
brought with them.
To the designers, the Registry Room is the museum's "emo-
tional core." For that reason, they decided to leave it empty
except for the original benches and an inspector's desk. "You
can feel the emotion in that room. This place couldn't be violat-
ed," says MetaForm's Phyllis Montgomery. "It is the invisible
made perceptible."
Near the Registry Room is the reconstructed Board of Special
Inquiry room, a court of last resort for immigrants who had
been detained. The museum will also contain a dormitory room,
refurbished to look almost as it did in 1908, with 36 canvas
bunks stacked in triple tiers in a space 24 feet square.
DE
On the third floor is "Treasures From Home," a 3,000-square-
MAGOWAN,
MAPLEWOOD.
foot gallery that includes almost 900 artifacts. Among the exhibits
BOARD OF SPECIAL INQUIRY.
is an empty box that once contained candy given to Nathan Solo-
mon, a Polish Jew, by his mother when he set out for America in
1923. There are the candy wrappers, a notebook with recipes from
LAST CHANCE
the family's candy store, and a picture of Solomon's parents and
The Board of
brothers and sisters. It is what Solomon had left to remind him of
Special Inquiry
his family-killed in the Holocaust.
was the court of
There is a sampler that Mary Kudrna Garba made for the
last resort for
father she had never seen when she arrived in America from
immigrants
Czechoslovakia as a ten-year-old in 1923. There is a teddy bear
denied admission
that Gertrude Schneider Smith, now in her seventies, had saved
to the U.S.
since 1921, when she brought it with her from Switzerland.
A postcard from
"What is one person's treasure is another person's trivia,"
the twenties (above);
says Montgomery. "But in this museum, the quintessentially
the modern re-
mundane is elevated to a point of great dignity, even of art. This
creation (right).
is nothing if it isn't a family story. One of the great legends of
every family history is leaving the homeland. The wrenching, the
joys and travails, resonate with the descendants."
Above all, the exhibit highlights the museum's intent to com-
memorate the stories of ordinary Americans. "There are no fa-
B. IMMIGRATION STATION. ELLIC ISLAND. NEW YORK.
mous immigrants in this museum," says Montgomery. "In a city
with 100 museums with some of the greatest treasures in the
world, this is a museum that should speak to all of us."
The museum's designers have been careful to show Ellis Is-
land in the context of 400 years of American immigration histo-
ry. In "Peopling of America," a visitor will be able to press a
button and see the location of 122 ethnic groups on a remote-
controlled map of the United States. Another exhibit, "The
Word Tree," shows the contributions of various ethnic groups
to the American language-hunky-dory and Yankee from the
Dutch, for instance; raccoon from Native Americans. There is
also an exhibit called "Forced Migration," on the slave trade.
The historians wanted Ellis Island to be shown as part of the
largest migration of people in the history of the world. As the
Industrial Revolution took hold in Europe and the population
grew, jobs became scarce. By the late-nineteenth and early-
twentieth centuries, transportation systems had been trans-
DORMITORIES
formed, making travel easier. "[T]here was never a period when
the spirit of restlessness was so generally abroad over the world
MAGOWAN.
12
as it is now," says the New York Times of February 13, 1910. In
their search for jobs, the immigrants traveled to Australia, New
SLEEP TIGHT
Zealand, Argentina, Brazil, and Canada, though most came to
"Sanitary, well-
the United States. Between 1880 and 1924, nearly 26 million
ventilated and
people arrived here.
comfortable
One whole wing of the museum, "Peak Immigration
dormitories insure
Years"-developed largely by Fred Wasserman of MetaForm-
rest for those
is devoted to the lives of these immigrants: their departures
detained over night,"
from their homelands, their voyage, their dispersal throughout
says the back of a
the country. There are nearly 100 passports from 30 countries
twenties postcard
as well as photographs of the rules posted aboard ship. There
(above); a 1990
are brochures from the Immigration Restriction League and the
restoration (left).
Ku Klux Klan.
Photographs: top and center bottom, Fred Wasserman; center top and bottom, Ted Hardin.
AUGUST 27, 1990/NEW YORK
43
1892
92
TODAY, KENNEDY AIRPORT
immigrants and their children. Dominicans are currently the
is the country's new Ellis
biggest group, followed by Jamaicans and Chinese. At P.S. 22 in
Island. About a third of all
Queens, the students speak twenty languages. And in the New
legal immigrants to the United
York City courts these days, there is a frequent demand for in-
States come through Kennedy;
terpreters who know Wolof, a language spoken in West Africa
most have already been cleared
and in New York by Senegalese street merchants.
at U.S. consulates abroad. Those
The new immigrants have reversed the city's declining popu-
without proper documents are sent directly
lation and are stemming the decrease in the labor force. They
home or, if they claim asylum, taken to an Immigra-
are revitalizing dying neighborhoods, setting up shop in empty
tion and Naturalization Service (INS) compound in Queens,
stores on Flatbush Avenue, bringing the infinite variety of their
where they may remain for months until being cleared. Of
cultures to the great mix that is the city.
course, there are still many restrictions on who may enter. Peo-
But in an eerie reprise, immigrants are stirring resentment. A
ple who test HIV-positive are not accepted, and under the
recent Gallup poll for New York Newsday showed that 49 per-
McCarran-Walter Act of 1952, those with "unacceptable" polit-
cent of New Yorkers think there are too many immigrants in the
ical beliefs are turned away.
city. In the past four years, bias crimes against Asians has tri-
Most new immigrants are Mexican, followed by people from
pled. Rudolph Vecoli sees "a new anxiety because of racial con-
other parts of Latin America. Asians make up the third-largest
cerns, a neo-nativism" on the rise-expressed, for instance, in
group. Most are young. The law gives preference to those who
the 1986 Immigration Act. Vecoli sees the same attitude behind
already have family here and to people with job skills in a field
the movement by former California senator S. I. Hayakawa-
with a shortage of American workers, such as nursing.
himself the son of Japanese parents-to have English declared
The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 was de-
the official language by constitutional amendment.
signed to stop illegal immigration by imposing sanctions on em-
Now, as borders in Europe shift once again, as the U.S. faces an
ployers and gave amnesty to illegal aliens who entered the U.S.
increase in migration from the Hispanic and Asian worlds, the
before 1982. The legislation has had some unintended effects:
Museum of Immigration at Ellis Island becomes a timely symbol.
Employer discrimination against aliens has increased, and some
"This is a museum about the courage needed to start lives," says
immigrants now pay as much as $5,000 for forged documents.
Phyllis Montgomery. "I would hope those who are part of the old
New York, meanwhile, is once again becoming a city of émi-
immigration will come-and by reliving the anxious days of the
grés. More and more foreign-born people are settling here. By
past, understand and sympathize with similar anxieties being ex-
the year 2000, 56 percent of New York City's population will be
pressed by new immigrants today."
Photograph by UPI/Bettmann Newsphotos.
AVIEW TO THE FUTURE -
By the year 2000, 56 percent of New York will be immigrants and
their children, bringing infinite variety to the great mix that is the city.
Give Me, Also, Your Skilled
America is about to enhance its reputation as a
family preferences; 150,000 would be admitted as
nation of immigrants, and not just for tired, huddled
independents.
masses. Legislation moving through Congress
For the first time, about a third of these work-
would increase the number of immigrants, making
based immigrants would be admitted without spe-
it easier for families to unite and for businesses to
cific jobs but with specific skills needed in the U.S.
recruit skilled workers. This first major overhaul of
That would be the same number of immigrants -
legal immigration in 25 years would be as welcome
54,000 - now admitted under sponsorship by spe-
as it is overdue.
cific employers.
America's willingness to admit foreigners has
In the House, a bill sponsored by Bruce Morri-
always been influenced by economic conditions and
son of Connecticut is likely to reach the floor soon. It
occasional xenophobia. From the 1920's to 1965, a
would allow up to 775,000 legal immigrants each
national-origins quota
year, including 520,000
system favored immi-
for family members
grants from northwest-
Proposed Increases in Immigration
and 75,000 for skilled
ern Europe. In a 1965
The number of immigrants allowed in the U.S.
workers. The House bill
reform, Congress gave
per year, in thousands.
also would admit about
more favorable treat-
55,000 "diversity" im-
ment to immigrants
Skilled workers and dependents
Family
migrants a year from
from Asia and the West-
Current
areas that have not ob-
ern Hemisphere.
54
436
Law
tained many visas in re-
Still, the vast ma-
cent years, like Ireland
jority of immigrants
Senate
and Africa.
80
480
could qualify for admis-
Bill
The House bill also
sion only on the basis of
contains a more trou-
their relationship to
House
188
520
blesome provision that
people already resident
Bill
smacks of the old-time
in the United States.
Sources: Immigration and Naturalization Service; U.S. Congress
fear of foreigners. The
Potential immigrants
bill would impose a fee,
with needed skills had a
$500 to $1,000, on com-
hard time competing for entry with sons; daughters,
panies with 50 or more employees, for each foreign
brothers and sisters.
worker they hired. The money would be placed in a
Now, America realizes how much it needs such
trust fund to retrain American workers. Unions de-
skills, let alone the ambition and energy of the im
fend the fund as reasonable social policy, particu-
migrants who possess them. Global competition and
larly if a portion is targeted for women and minori-
a decline in American work-force skills have
ties.
prompted Congress to pay more attention to the
But there is little logic and no justice in impos-
needs of the economy.
ing such a fee only on companies that can efficiently
use new workers. There may be good reason for
srit
to
7/169
to
America to retrain workers, whether displaced by
A bill passed by the Senate last year would es-
new machines, new products or new workers, If so,
tablish one immigration category for family mem-
the retraining cost ought fairly to be borne by all. To
bers and one for independents, mostly workers.
load it all on a few industries with a $500 head tax is
Under this bill, sponsored by Edward Kennedy of
unfair, even punitive.
Massachusetts and Alan Simpson of Wyoming,
There will be time to iron out such differences.
about 630,000 immigrants would be allowed to enter
For the moment, it's enough to celebrate the recog-
each year, about 136,000 more than entered in 1988.
nition by Congress that skilled immigrants offer the
Of the total, 480,000 would qualify under various
economy new energy and hope
III. IMMIGRANT EXPERIENCE:
-Federal government first became involved in immigration in 1890.
-Ellis Island opened in 1892.
-Ellis Island closed in 1954 (peak years ended after 1924)
-Immigrants to Ellis Isl. entered New York Harbour from Atlantic,
into the "narrows," into New York harbour. In the harbour,
immigrants would have immediately seen Brooklyn and lower
Manhattan. In interviews however, almost all recall the Statue
of Liberty as their first sight/ recollection. The boats did not
take passengers to Island directly, but to a dock. From there,
immigrants transferred to a barge which took them to Island.
From Ellis Isl., the new citizens re-boarded barges to either
Manhattan- the Bowery (1/3) or to New Jersey (2/3) where trains
departed to all points west.
-Famous people who (themselves) came through Ellis Island
include:
Irving Berlin (Note: Beth, this has got to be the classic
immigration success story: the man who goes from rags to riches,
writes "God Bless America," lives to 100 came through E.I.
Knute Rockne- famous Notre Dame football coach, the "gipper"
Felix Frankfurter
Samuel Goldwyn
Father Flanagan,
founder of Boys Town
Bob Hope
Al Jolson
Mother Frances Cabrini
Al Capone (Note: Beth, there's gotta be a good joke here)
Sol Hurok
Ben Shahn, artist
Emma Goldman
Maria von Trott
Charles Steinmetz- 1st research on lightning
Dr. Michael Pupin- conducted 1st X-ray. Arrived with 5 cents in
his pocket
-Other entry points were established in Boston, Baltimore,
Philadelphia, Galvaston (Tx.), Seattle, and Angel Island in San
Francisco.
Voogh Pubteer.
Calin Pomell-son san
Fienella laghardic
of Immigrants
Jal Dimaggilo DOU
Durahis.
Imper, Mike michals
Derch Bok - immegrant father.
1904 Amercanzation
Unerge B rensan -Dan of Inoh imrigrants
1924
them
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IV. MISCELLANEOUS:
-Books:
1. Gateway to Liberty, by May J. Shapiro: on order.
2. The Huddled Masses, by Alan M. Kraut: on order.
3. My Life, by Golda Meir: on order.
-Immigrant photographs: being sent
-A videotape of the film "Island of Hope/Island of Tears" is
being prepared and sent to White House.
-Enclosed are:
A. Acknowledgements update #1: expected soon
B. Schedule of celebration events: expected soon
C. Text of remarks given by President Reagan to
celebrate the restoration of the Statue of
Liberty: July 3, 1986
D. POTUS comments on the "American dream," July 17,
1990
E. Emma Lazarus: "The New Colossus"
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Presidential Remarks: Dedication of the Ellis Island Immigration
Museum: September 9, 1990
Project officer: Sid Rogich
Location: New York, N.Y.
Pre-advance: Monday, August 27, 1990
Contacts:
Stephen Briganti, President, Ellis Island/Statue of Liberty
Foundation (S.L./E.I.) : 212-883-2012
Peg Zitko, Public Information Director, E.I./S.L.: 212-883-2017
Issue report 1: August 20, 1990
Preliminary information
I. THE EVENT:
-Event: A. First Lady to dedicate Immigrant Wall of Honor
B. POTUS to dedicate The Ellis Island Immigration Museum
-Statue of Liberty, though clearly related, is not being
celebrated.
-Events will begin on Saturday night (9/8) with a fundraising
banquet and continue through Sunday. (See schedule for details)
-The Museum and Wall of Honor celebrate immigration throughout
the history of the United States, what event coordinators refer
to as "the peopling of America."
-There will be six "immigrant guests of honor" attending and
celebrated at the dedication ceremony. They are:
-The S.L./E.I. was created in 1982. President Reagan selected
Lee Iacocca as the foundation's Chairman. (Iacocca remains the
foundation's Chairman-Emeritus. The current Chairman is William
F. May. The current President (Chief Operating Officer) is
Stephen A. Briganti. The Foundation is an independent and
(exclusively) privately funded organization. Ellis Island, and
the Statue of Liberty, however, are maintained with the
assistance of the National Park Service.
-There is no theme for the event.
-The Museum and Wall of Honor will be open to the public
beginning on Monday, September 10, 1990. Pre-advance trip will
have access to exhibits, though they will not be completed at
time of trip.
II. THE MUSEUM:
-The Ellis Island Immigration Museum and Immigration Wall of
Honor are expected to receive 2,000,000 visitors per year. That
figure breaks down to 5000/day, an appropriate figure given that
roughly 5,000 immigrants were processed through Ellis Island per
day during its peak years.
-Officials at the E.I./S.L. are trying to make a videotape of the
film "Island of Hope/ Island of Tears" for our use.
-The Immigrant Wall of Honor is made from the still-existing sea
wall that extends around the border of Ellis Island. Names are
inscribed in copper. There are currently in excess of 200,000
names on the wall (this figure will continue to increase). These
are names of immigrants to America from the beginning to the
present. It costs $100 to place a name of an ancestor on the
wall. Names of famous people who have their ancestors on the
wall include:
Barbara (Pierce) Bush (1600's)
Gregory Peck
Lee Iacocca: both of his parents came into Ellis Isl.
Steve Briganti, President of E.I./S.L.
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The Statue of Liberty-
Ellis Island Foundation, Inc.
52 Vanderbilt Avenue
New York, NY 10017-3808
212-883-1986
ELLIS ISLAND
1892-1992
the SLIBE, INC
TELEFAX COVER SHEET
DATE:
8-20-90
TIME: 4:15 P.M.
TO: Ted garmery
FROM: Pay Zitko
The white House
Number of receiving FAX 202-456-6218
Number of pages to follow (including cover page)
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Instruction/Comments/Descriptions
Ted- I was waiting to receive an updated rendown for
Sept.9- - Having not yet received, I - forwarding This
tentative schedule, Also The list of on immigrant greats
of Honor & The brief selected bibliography.
Under separate cover later this week, you will
receive d copy of "Isce 8 Hope, Isle of Tears "_ The
Ellis (sland flom
Also, The writer/ produces of The Spt-9 event has done
some reading T research which <he would be happy
to share with you. Feel free to contact we
Sara Lukinson
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1. MILITARY BAND
PRE-SHOW CONCERT
2. FIREBOATS IN HARBOR
SPRAYING COLORED WATER
Music: Military Band (cont'd)
3. IMMIGRANTS ARRIVAL
ON ISLAND (BY BOAT?)
TAKE PLACES OF HONOR
Music: Military Band (cont.'d)
4. PRESIDENT AND MRS- BUSH
ARRIVE AND TAKE PLACE OF
HONOR TO ARMY HERALD TRUMPETS
PERFORMANCE
Music: "Ruffles & Flourishes"
(INTRO TBA)
S. PRESENTATION OF COLOR GUARD
6. NEW AMSTERDAM SINGERS
w/SOLOIST OR POSSIBLY THE
GRANDKIDS OF IMMIGRANT
GUESTS OF HONOR PERFORM
"Star Spangled Banner"
(ANNOUNCER V.O.:
"Ladies & gentlemen, the
Star Spangled Banner")
7. LEE IACOCCA WELCOME
AND INTRO BARBARA WALTERS
8. BARBARA WALTERS INTROS
IMMIGRANT GUESTS OF HONOR
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9. MUSICAL TRIBUTE TO
IMMIGRANT GUEST3 OF HONOR
Music: (TBA)
10. ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER TALK
RE IMMIGRANT WALL OF HONOR
AND INTRO MRS. BUSH
DEDICATION
11. PRESIDENT AND MRS. BUSH
WALK TO WALL OF HONOR
Music: (TBA)
12. BARBARA RUSH
DEDICATION REMARKS
13. NEW AMSTERDAM SINGERS
PERFORMANCE AS
PRESIDENT AND MRS. BUSH
WALK BACK TO STACE
Music: "Simple song"
(Copland)
14. AMERICAN AUTHOR OR
POET PIECE
American Names
15. JUSTICE (IBA)
SWEARING IN
OF NEW IMMIGRANTS
(ANNOUNCER V.O. INTRO)
16- LEE IACOCCA INTROS
PRESIDENT BUSH
17. PRESIDENT BUSH
DEDICATION REMARKS
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18. PRESIDENT BUSH
RIBBON CUTTING
DOVE RELEASE
Music Cue (TBA)
19. CHOIR w/SOLOIST
PERFORMS
"America The Beautiful"
DAYTIME FIREWORKS ON
FINAL CHORD
20. PRESIDENTIAL EXIT
21. AUDIENCE EXITS TO
MILITARY BAND MUSIC
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ELLIS ISLAND: IMMIGRANT GUESTS OF HONOR
1. JOSEPH TALESE
Immigrated from Italy in 1920 at age of 17, current age, 87.
2. STEVEN CONGRESS
Immigrated from Albania in 1913 at age of 16, current age, 95.
3. JOHANNA FLAHERTY
Immigrated from Ireland in 1923 at age of 16, current age, 84.
4- CLARA LARSEN
Immigrated from Russia in 1911 at age of 121, current age, 92.
5. LOUIS WINNICK
Immigrated from Rumania in 1922 at age of 1, current age, 69.
6. AYLEEN JAMES
Immigrated from Panama in 1923 at age of 7, current age, 73.
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SUGGESTED BRIEF BIBLIOGRAPHY
Kraut, Alan M., The Huddled Masses: The Immigrant in American Society,
1880-1921. Arlington Heights, IL: Harlan Davidson, Inc., 1982 - Provides
good overview of American immigration during the peak immigration years.
Shapiro, Mary J., Gateway to Liberty: The Story of the Statue of Liberty
and Ellis Island. New York: Vintage Books, A Division of Random House,
First Edition, 1986. - Provides very good information on the Ellis Island
experience.
Sept. 1990 - National geographic
Life
Travel Holiday
The New Colassus,
by Emma Lazarus
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me.
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
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F. STORIES
Do any of the following have ancestors who went they E.I.
If soffestants Spear at,stones EI (will eventures - but not night now
need to know they live: age when came: come alone?;
why come?; what aar their boat like?; about were the
conditions they left behind?; what were the condition.the
came $?300 there descendants have any helpeals, menator
6, George Bush
from old county ?)
2. Barban Bush - W of Honor, - 160015,
3. George mitchell
4. Fip 0' Nill -
S. Lee Iacocca
6. Find a famour scientist or humant ther (the one
AIDS?, etc.)
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N.B. -Sechom A,B, &C can
probably all byanned
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by E.I. people. -
- all A, B, €C, & stand
-re:Ellis Island -
question in othersection
needed ASAP
A.
EVENT ITSELF
to A, B,&C
(Peg Zikka; Dir. Pub- Affans; (212)883-1956)
1. What is the event?
The Immgala
myht
-just opening of museum? Museum: Imagral Honor.
Sunday
-on Statue of bi berty, too?
wall of
-What is schedule (i.e. entire weeked;
other speahers; when GB speak; how long
Throughout 2. Is this event saluting a particular period ? immigration? centures or four
endertainment, etc. before him; etc.)
of
11peapling
3, What is the S.AL.-E.I. Forendation?
400 America your
- history 1982-Reaga - laccola
Chanmany
- what is gait. involvement? nagout funday
Cex. Nat
-what in publ private, that public?
Park sewice
4. Is there a theme for the opening evat?
an
Act. the
5, Will exhibits be open & running & available to be
william F
Seen for pre-advance?
May
to. was the project office? who dairs advance
Pres CC.O, 0.)
Stepher
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1892- 1954.
(1924)
(5000 day placerses
a day.
B. museum
2 mehalf lye
1. How many visitors expected?
5000/day.
2. Can we get a copy of the from" Island of Hope/Island
of Tears" trying
3. Any famous people have their ancestors' names
Paul Raver washington on wall? w. donation - honor
Geage H Solson
4. Can they send 200,000. US some more photos of immigrants at
Ellis F Rand - the earlier the better
(existivall- sea
nams in copper
Norr soulat ows
Brank
IMMIGRANT EXPERIENCE
1. what used approach rute for boats have been
harbour
V
(i.e. see the S, th. 1st?) WV
(which view of E.I seen 1st?)- 1/4 mule( whall
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how then into cidy = what see 1st ahoad of them,
barge
1/3 Manhatta II -Battey " Ph. "
last behind them?)
V
1:3
2/3 -ferry toN V.
2. Who are some notable immigants? (i.e. came thing
E,I. dans Succen in fields of MUSR, ants, perider,
Science etc. Charles Steinmetz ightming
Feet tool
Sol Haroh
3. Through "doors" of E.I.?
Golden Door
1890 Eldis guitone
&
shahn
4. What countries passed thigh E.I.?
of enty
Benartist
5. " other ports, in U.S. operating at same time 7-Gal vosta
6. Poems, stries, boths about the experience - WA TX.
Emma
7. Writings on the American Dream
Ave
Goldman
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von
8. Dr they have suggestime Pupic on other bodes, apples, maring etc. kned? -Seattle
DC.
mehall LTST xray w. photo 5¢
$ 100 /name Can Through
wall:
-Trung Berlin
-G Pech
- Knite Rockue
-lacoca
-Felix tranhforte
(maint
-Samel Goldwyn
Dad
- Boh Hope
Father Flanagon
- -Steme ganaparents Brigant's
- -AI Jalson
Mathe Fances Cabrini
(A( Capane.)
D.
MISC.
1. Modern-day immigration
Keweh
- - th/year - -1.N.S.
- what are current parts penty / Airports
LAX.
2. GB writings, etc. on American Dream
3, " IL " " immigrant experience
4. IL "
" " ANUS.A. ara melts pot
5. When is pre-advance? Who's going?
6. Whols the project office?
7. Whod dars Advance?
8. Anyone in Admin. specialing in immigration?
9. Copy of Reagan Statue of Liberty speech
10. il "nempaper anticles about
"
E.
BOOKS, ER.
1. May J, Shapird, Gatenay do Liberty
2. Alan m. Krant, The Huddled Maner
3. Golda Mein, my Life
4. Emma poem
July 24, 1990
INFORMATION
MEMORANDUM FOR CHRISS WINSTON, ALL WRITERS AND RESEARCHERS
FROM:
ED McNALLY W
SUBJECT:
"RELIGIOUS VALUES, FAMILY VALUES, OR WHATEVER"
In his briefing with the Magazine Publishers of America
last week, the President observed that he is "still
trying to
find the appropriate way to discuss, using the bully pulpit of
the White House
religious values, family values, or
whatever."
In his complete answer (attached), the President
explores this theme a bit, citing a couple of pithy examples of
where some Americans lost their way (seeing Vietnam as an
"immoral" cause, celebrating subway vandalism as "art")
We may want to look at these themes in helping the
President "find the appropriate way" to use the bully pulpit --
especially in the upcoming political speeches -- where we're
looking to define the values that separate us from them.
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THE PRESIDENT: I'm not sure I understand what
by "buttressing commercial activities." I mean, cl
your finger on the future. And what we are --
America's historic ability to lead in
markets. But I'm not sure I
WHITE HOUSE
office THE of the press Secretary
July 17, 1990
For Immediate Release
WITH MAGAZINE BRIEFING BY THERS PRESIDENT CAMERICA
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11:35 A.M. EDT
giving out producers and our
....age. We are trying to open up markets so that
----, and we are putting a lot of emphasis on research. I
--yet the total budget figure for research this year, but it's
enormous, not just in this -- as it relates to electronics, computers
and telecommunications. But I think that I would draw the line in
terms of R&D and then trade policies that give us a chance to
compete.
I've just come from an appeal by a United States senator
for support on -- this is a little off your question -- for the
textile industry, to protect the textile business further. And I
can't do that. I can't say that I think the answer to the problem of
textiles is further protection. Nor can I say that I think the
answer to these three very important elements of our technology is
further protection. So that leads you then to R&D and to opening the
markets abroad.
o
Mr. President, I'm Jim Guthrie of the MTA. I'd like
to address you as our spiritual leader who would like to keep us
looking ahead. We're coming out of a decade that could probably be
politely defined and characterized as one of self-indulgence and
immediate gratification. There were inquisitive yuppies; there were
junk bond LBOs that led to certain decrements in our own economic
fabric; there were Wall Street convictions, and now we're at the S&L
crisis. Secretary Mosbacher talked about the Baldrige Award. You've
talked about a thousand points of light. What else is going on that
will keep us looking ahead to the quality and the value that we're.
talking about restoring to all areas of our life?
THE PRESIDENT: You know, I've never been too pessimistic
about America in this regard. I'll make you a slight confession. I
still am trying to find the appropriate way to discuss, using the
bully pulpit of the White House, these matters you talk about --
talking about religious values, family values or whatever... I think
there is a danger that one can over do it, and yet, I think it's
appropriate that the President try to not only adhere to those
values, but to discuss them.
Having
said that, I'm not pessimistic about America. We
go through cycles. We went through a cycle in the Vietnam War where
our own sons and, to some degree, daughters were told that our cause
was immoral. People feeling as strongly as they did. I was old
enough or blind enough, or whatever, not to accept that view. I
still don't accept that view. Because when I look at Southeast Asia
and I see a Vietnam where the charge was against us, if we'd only get
out, this is an indigenous civil war, you'd have a little more
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democracy there that hasn't worked out that way. And in your line
of work where there were many publications, there are now but a few.
And you see still people going out in these boats.
But the point is as it relates to your question, we had a
generation of Americans that were taught that -- about a deep
conviction by professors and politicians and others that our purpose,
our cause was wrong. And then we condoned as a society certain
excesses that we should have condemned. And I'm talking about an
elevation of understanding about narcotics, for example, which gets
right to the core of values.
Well, you've got to understand. I even think that we
condoned graffiti as an expression of people's -- wasn't this
marvelous -- creativity, when all it was was littering and cluttering
up not exactly beautiful subway cars, but -- (laughter) --
nevertheless) we condoned things we should have condemned. I have
confidence that the country goes somewhat cyclically, but always
moves forward to our fundamental values.
I'm not discouraged about it. I wrestle with things that
I think are important -- and I don't want to get into a debate with
you all about the flag amendment. I happen to feel strongly about
it, and I'd like to see the debate done so you could do it without
having to call the other guy a demagogue. I may be wrong, but I feel
strongly about it and I've fought for it because I do think there was
a unique symbol there. And there's pretty good understanding on the
part of the American people. The debate can go on without
denigrating the other person's convictions that disagrees or feels
that amending the Bill of Rights or the Constitution would be an
egregious error.
But I keep coming back, as I listen to the debates on all
these questions -- the National Endowment of the Arts -- all of them
-- that we have a way of finding our way through in the United States
these what appear to be dilemmas or these challenges. And the reason
is, I think there is a fundamental understanding that we are one
nation under God, that we have great respect for religion diversity,
and that as we see the social problems of the day, we return more and
more to the importance of the family.
So I don't know what we can do about it. I want to be
very careful about censorship and about demagoging these issues,
whatever they are. But I don't feel that I ought to address myself
in a legislative sense to helping with this question because I think
we can sort it out as people. And I'm confident of our -- not only
of our decency and honor as a country, but of our tremendous
generosity as a country. We've got some big problems here at home,
and I've got to address myself perhaps more effectively to some of
those. But I don't put down one of them the weakening of the moral
underpinning of this country. I hope I'm right.
Here we've got a couple of more. I was late getting
over. Yes. (Laughter.) Thank you, Kristin. I don't want to
overrule my leader here. (Laughter.) She'll kill me when we get out
of here.
Q
Mr. President, I'm Tom Ryder, from American Express.
After yesterday's disappointing budget news, does the
administration's game plan on deficit reduction change?
THE PRESIDENT: No --
Q Where do we go from here?
THE PRESIDENT: The news in the Congress has been
somewhat discounted because the numbers have been shared with them.
And that news is one of the reasons I tried to make very clear that
we would go with no preconditions to these talks.
We're getting to a crunch. The debt ceiling vote is
going to drive some of the action. I'm still optimistic -- or put it
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W
HO WOULD'VE EVER DREAMED IT? I MEAN,
c'mon, I'm a poor tough kid from the Lower
East Side," says Charlie DeLeo, 42, the son of
Greek and Italian immigrants. "I'm nobody spe-
cial. How did I ever get so lucky?"
The diminutive DeLeo is known as the unof-
ficial Keeper of the Flame of the 305-foot Statue
of Liberty. His job is to keep every centimeter of
the 29-foot, 2500-pound torch spick-and-span and burning bright. Since
1972, DeLeo has been the sole caretaker of the torch.
It all began when he first visited the statue with his fourth-grade class.
"I got goose bumps," he says. "She was the most beautiful thing I'd ever
seen-besides my mother. It was the beginning of a love affair."
But the affair was put on hold when Charlie began to spend most of
his time hanging out with friends on the streets of New York. What inspired
him to change his life was the assassination of President Kennedy. "He
had done so much good for this country," says DeLeo. "I decided to quit
It began with
by his safety belt. He severely injured a hand but never reported it, lest he
wasting my life. When I was 17, I joined the Marines to serve my coun-
lose his beloved job. "The reason I subject myself to such discomfort,
try. In Vietnam, he survived a half-dozen mortar attacks and received a
says DeLeo, "is I'm 'the keeper.' And he II readily tell you that nobody is
Presidential Unit Citation and the Purple Heart. When he returned to the
U.S. in 1968, the first thing he did was visit the Statue of Liberty.
magical
allowed on the torch except him. The torch has been closed to the public
since 1916, when it was damaged-along with other parts of the statue-
In the ensuing four years, DeLeo bounced from job to job. "Those were
by a huge explosion set by German spies at a munitions depot nearby in
tough times," he says. "My life didn't have any purpose. For solace, he
turned to the statue. "I thought to myself, 'I'm meant to be here, with the
moment
New Jersey. The torch was repaired but never reopened to the public.
DeLeo takes his role as a maintenance-mechanic's helper seriously.
Lady,' he recalls. Then and there, he asked the maintenance supervisor
And he's protective of Miss Liberty. "I'm very sensitive when I hear peo-
of the Statue of Liberty National Monument for a job. DeLeo was hired
temporarily as a laborer.
"From the first day," says DeLeo, "my eyes were riveted to the torch. I
in childhood,
ple say anything derogatory about her," he says. "But I don't worship the
statue. I feel she has a spirit that understands. She speaks a silent, univer-
sal message of hope that anyone who cherishes democracy can understand.
couldn't believe it didn't have a regular caretaker to make sure it was clean
On July 4, 1986, a new torch-made of copper, covered with gold
and that all the lighting worked. Almost every day, I'd go up early in the
and it
leaf-was unveiled along with the restored Lady Liberty during the cen-
morning. I'd check the lights, dust and polish it. And I'd write poems and
tennial celebration for the statue. "That was an unforgettable day," DeLeo
recite them to her." DeLeo's reveries atop the statue seemed to be in jeop-
says. "But the actual day. of the Lady's 100th birthday was Oct. 28. held
ardy when his supervisor discovered his early-morning ascensions. Instead,
DeLe was asked if he' like to be permanently assigned to care for the torch.
has been
my own, quiet celebration that evening and said a prayer for all the people
who still don't live in a democracy."
Ever since, DeLeo has made frequent forays to the torch. He scales the
DeLeo, a Seventh-Day Adventist, donates most of his $25,000-a-year
42-foot iron ladder to the top of the statue's arm, then swings over and
going strong
salary to his church, numerous charities and foster-care programs. "It's
climbs a 5-foot ladder. Next, he pushes open a porthole-like door and
magic money," says Charlie, who lives with his cat, Chico, in a sparsely
squeezes through to the circular catwalk just beneath the torch. Then he
furnished flat in Brooklyn. "It wouldn't be right to hoard it. God has given
wipes the gold on the torch with water and a cotton rag and, whenever
needed, changes the torch's 16 floodlights-eight 250-watt quartz lamps
ever since
me the honor of being 'the keeper. That's worth more than money.'
"Most men don't ever discover their calling," he adds. "I've found
and eight 70-watt sodium vapor lamps.
mine. And, the good Lord willing, I'll be Miss Liberty's keeper the rest of
It is perilous work. Once, DeLeo fell from a girder and was saved only
my life."
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co-counsel Neufeld learn that their post-
better-by eliciting the active participa-
trial plea for mercy had been rejected by
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Broadway Originals - Evening at Pops A
salute to the golden age of the American musical
with tunes by Kern, Gershwin, Rodgers & Porter.
Kitty Carlisle Hart hosts.
Friday 8/24 at 9 PM
perience-is the essence and the promise of
artificial reality. And people want that.
When the products are ready, people will
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telephone, television, VCRs, the fax-and
Shake, Rattle and Roll Celebrate the rock
they'll do it faster and more pervasively
music of the '50s and 60s as the great ones
than most people think. This technology
perform their best-known songs before a live
can also make experience and interaction
dancing audience. Featuring Chubby Checker,
more accessible to those with low income,
The Coasters, The Drifters, Lesley Gore, Ben E.
and the disabled. We need to make sure
King, Brenda Lee, Jerry Lee Lewis and more.
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An Earful
I FIND DAVID DENBY'S COLUMN "TWIN
Tweaks" ["The Ear," July 16] to be most
puzzling. While I understand how buying
one CD player over another can provide
optimum sound, Denby's assertion that
Sing with along
"tweaking" the discs themselves will pro-
duce certain improvements makes no
sense. A CD player reads digital data from
a CD and nothing else. These data are en-
coded in a binary form, just as the infor-
mation on a computer's hard disk is
stored. That means that the information is
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either read from the disc or not read from
the disc; there is no middle ground, no an-
alogue enhancements or degradations
possible (until after the data have been
The Compleat Beatles A magical musical
read and processed by the electronics).
chronicle of the Fab Four, from their early
Edmund Doran
Liverpool days through their meteoric rise to their
Los Angeles, Calif.
tumultuous breakup.
Saturday 8/25 at II: 10 PM
David Denby replies: Edmund Doran
and other correspondents lecture me as if I
didn't understand what a digital recording
is. I do understand. Nevertheless, along
with thousands of other audiophiles and
Echoes of The Big Bands With Merv Griffin
music-lovers, I have heard both the defi-
Relive the great moments of a time when swing
ciencies in digital sound and the improve-
was king, with performances by Benny Goodman,
ments that the various tweaks can make.
Glenn Miller, Cab Calloway, Tommy and Jimmy
Unlike Doran, we trust theory less than our
Dorsey and Count Basie. Hosted by Merv Griffin.
own ears. Obviously, there are problems in
Sunday 8/26 at 8:05 PM
the mastering of the discs and in playback
(jitter? refraction of the laser beam?) that
haven't yet been sufficiently researched.
Positive Feedback
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WE APPRECIATE YOUR RESPONSIVENESS TO
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the concerns of the gay-and-lesbian com-
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June 11]. It is encouraging for us to see
you report these positive, image-building
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BY JEANNETTE WALLS
BUY HIGH, SELL LOW BROOKE'S SOUR DEAL GRETA AND THE GAVEL NO ANSWER
TRUMP HAS TROUBLE
HOW SOTHEBY'S SNAGGED GARBO'S ESTATE
AT 69TH AND THIRD
Art-world insiders are talking about how Sotheby's used its ace in
More than Donald Trump's
the hole to help it win the coveted right to auction off the Greta
ego is being hurt by his bad
Garbo estate. Gray Reisfield, the late actress's niece and the execu-
press. Real-estate sources say
trix of her estate, was torn between elaborate proposals by Soth-
apartments are selling slowly at
eby's and Christie's. She decided to go with Sotheby's, a source
Trump Palace, the building that
says, because it offered her the rights to several photographs of
the developer is putting up on
Garbo taken by Cecil Beaton. "Gray is as much a control freak as
69th Street at Third Avenue.
her aunt," says another source. "Christie's countered with some
"It's partly because the
never-published Garbo pictures, but Sotheby's won."
whole real-estate market is in
"Ultimately we picked Sotheby's because we were more com-
a slump," says one source.
fortable with its marketing approach," says Reisfield's lawyer. An-
"But it's also because Trump's
other source adds, "Garbo's estate is a tad disappointing. There
name was one of the build-
are three Renoir paintings but very little personal memorabilia.
We're not in for another Warhol sale."
ing's big selling points. Once
that got tarnished, a lot of the
TRUMP PALACE
condos' cachet evaporated."
Sprague declines to discuss
wasn't working. The group
"Apartments were being
specific deals. "Like everyone
claims it's just one example of
snatched up earlier this year,"
else in the industry, we're
the failure of the entire emer-
says a spokeswoman for the
watching the market with con-
gency-phone system.
real-estate firm, the Corcoran
cern
.
But people who
Alfred Allen, 54, died after
Group. "But sales have all but
want to buy quality will al-
passersby frantically tried to
stopped. They're offering about
ways buy a Trump product."
use one of the park's newer
30 percent off on most of the
cellular phones, which had a
remaining apartments. A num-
PARK PHONES:
nearly dead battery. "The sys-
ber of the people who had
tem plays Russian roulette
agreed to buy apartments at the
DEAD AND DEADLY?
with lives," says Central Park
original price are talking about
Watch's William Dobbs.
banding together to get some
The Central Park Watch group
"Twenty-one of the park's 47
sort of retroactive discount."
says a man died of a heart at-
phones are cellular, and the
Trump Corporation execu-
tack in the park on August 1,
batteries go dead all the time.
tive vice-president Blanche
partly because a nearby call box
They should all be hard-wire
phones." A bitter irony, says
Dobbs, is that callers some-
GRETA GARBO
'SHIELDS AIN'T HEAVY, SHE'S MY DAUGHTER'
times get a recording instruct-
Brooke Shields decided not to be the pitchwoman for an exer-
ing them to dial 911. "That's a
cise studio after she clashed with the owner about her weight.
bit difficult," says Dobbs,
Art Clyde, who owns the Body Art Exercise Studio, says the
"since the phones have no
sometime actress and model had agreed to publicize the midtown
buttons or dial." A police
club in exchange for free workouts and weight training. "She took
spokesman says, "We're in
two classes a week for a couple of months and had taken 40 one-
the process of correcting that
on-one sessions, but she just wasn't taking off the weight because
problem right now."
she was eating way too much," says Clyde, a former New Jersey
"The police [check] the cel-
state trooper, whose trademark is verbal abuse. "There was no
lular phones weekly, but they
falling-out," says Shields's spokeswoman. "It was a misunder-
require too much mainte-
standing because of improper information that Body Art's public-
nance," says a Central Park
relations firm had given a number of people. Teri [the star's moth-
Conservancy spokeswoman.
er] and Brooke felt it best not to further any relationship."
"We are looking into changing
"We were supposed to appear on Live With Regis and Kathie
them over to solar power."
Lee," says Clyde, "but she needed to take off 20 to 25 pounds.
She's a big girl. So I called her and said, 'Get your fat ass in
SEWAGE SHORTAGE
here.' I guess she got upset, because her mother called up the
RISES TO THE TOP
BROOKE SHIELDS
show and canceled, and we haven't heard from her since."
Sewage from Manhattan's
ASSOCIATE EDITOR: JOANNA MOLLOY
West Side has decreased dra-
Photographs: top, Donal Holway; center, Photofest; bottom, Noel Quidu/Gamma-Liaison.
AUGUST 27, 1990/NEW YORK
11
INTELLIGENCER
THE MYSTERY OF THE MISSING SLUDGE TEE FOR 90...A PLAY FRAY FOOD STUFF
matically this year, and state
senator Franz Leichter wants
WILLIS TO WORK ON BILLY BATHGATE
to know why.
There have been decreases of
Bruce Willis is becoming a fixture on the New York film scene.
as much as 30 million gallons a
A source says the actor, who made his name as a Los Angeles
day since February, and
detective in Moonlighting, is planning to take a role in Billy
Leichter has asked the city's
Bathgate, the story about the inner circle of the Dutch Schultz
Department of Environmental
gang. Willis has a part in The Bonfire of the Vanities-due out
Protection to investigate the
in December-and recently blocked traffic around the Brooklyn
numbers, which represent flow
Bridge while filming Tri-Star's Hudson Hawk.
into the North River Sewage
The source describes Willis's role as "small but pivotal." Billy
Treatment Plant. An aide to the
Bathgate, which is based on the prizewinning E. L. Doctorow
THE NORTH RIVER SEWAGE
senator says the low figures
novel, will be directed by Robert Benton, who did Kramer vs.
TREATMENT PLANT
could be used to encourage un-
Kramer, and stars Dustin Hoffman. The Touchstone film begins
wanted development on the
shooting in October.
West Side, which might exceed
Willis couldn't be reached for comment, but the source says,
North River's capabilities.
"Willis is hot, and he's managing to carve out a niche as a semi-
"The plant has been run-
serious, gritty actor."
ning at capacity since it
opened in 1986," says the
range and two miniature-golf
RESTAURANT NOTES
aide. "We're suspicious. Thir-
courses on Randall's Island, to
ty million gallons doesn't dis-
be finished by next summer.
FROM ALL OVER
appear overnight."
The $2.5-million project will
"It went down quite a bit,
cost the public nothing and will
Gage & Tollner owner Peter
which was somewhat unusual
generate at least $500,000 in
Aschkenasy will open Chesa-
but within seasonal shifts,"
revenue a year for the city's cof-
peake House, a seafood res-
says Edward Wagner, a DEP
fers. "We're very glad to get a
taurant, in a former Shubert
assistant commissioner. "We
facility there, because it's un-
theater at Broadway and 47th
do have an ongoing water-
used land," says Joanne Imo-
Street by February. "The the-
conservation program, and
hiosen, assistant commissioner
ater opened in 1918, and in
we're seeing the effect of that
for revenue for the Parks De-
1920, there was a Rodgers
at all our plants. But because
partment. "It'll liven up Ran-
and Hart musical there," says
the senator has expressed con-
dall's Island and bring in mon-
Aschkenasy. "Then it was the
BRUCE WILLIS
cern, we will be looking over
ey at the same time."
home of the Minsky Bur-
all the records."
Imohiosen came under at-
lesque. We want to keep the
tack during negotiations after
theater connection, so we'll
RANDALL'S ISLAND:
American Golf offered the city
display stage sets. We hope to
a $200,000 signing bonus.
start with the ones from Je-
A HOLE-IN-ONE
"One of the parties that lost
rome Robbins' Broad-
complained it was a bribe," she
way."
Restaurant Row's
The city has cut a deal that al- -
says. "Unfortunately, the check
Carolina, on West 46th Street,
lows American Golf Corpora-
was not made out to me but to
will close September 23 and
tion to build a 90-tee driving
the City of New York."
reopen October 1 as Cafe Cas-
sis, a French Provincial restau-
rant. Co-owner and chef Ei-
oH, DAVID!: MERRICK GETS TOP BILLING
leen Weinberg says, "Prices
will be moderate. It's time for
Producer David Merrick shocked some in the theater world
a change after eight
when he billed his revival of George and Ira Gershwin's 1926
Oh, Kay! as "David Merrick's Oh, Kay!" The newspaper ad
years.
Former Docks
was later changed to "David Merrick presents George and Ira
chef Ellis Simberloff will open
Plum Island, a seafood restau-
Gershwin's Oh, Kay!"
DAVID MERRICK
rant, in the old Marcello space
Marc Gershwin, the musicians' nephew, says, "I've heard a
on First Avenue near 72nd
few interpretations of what happened. Some people are saying
Street after Labor Day. "In to-
there was a communication lag, some are saying Merrick wants
day's market, you have to em-
to prove he can still do a show, and others are saying that the ad
phasize service," says co-own-
agency screwed up."
er Irwin Karlitz. "So our staff
"We were getting conflicting requirements as to how we were
has to go through ten hours of
allowed to use the Gershwin name, but it's been cleared up,"
seminars in food and wine
says a spokesman for the show. "But after doing 88 shows, Da-
tasting before they begin to
vid Merrick deserves to call it what he wants."
work here."
12
NEW YORK/AUGUST 27, 1990
Photographs: top, Donal Holway; center, Adam Scull/Globe Photos; bottom, Martha Swope.
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UNIVERSAL
APPEAL
can Express. Yet research showed that
while consumers wanted a well-established
card, Amex's "niche cards don't play well
to the masses," says Kahn. So AT&T
aligned itself with Visa and MasterCard,
which are already accepted by 7 million es-
tablishments worldwide. AT&T formed a
partnership with the Universal Bank of Co-
lumbus, Georgia, which issued and handled
the cards.
Since most of the people who've added
the Universal card to their wallets have
subtracted someone else's, and because
credit cards are the rare gold mine in fi-
nancial services, AT&T's new rivals are
fuming. With 29 million credit-card ac-
counts (or 38 percent of the bank-card
market), $3.6 billion in interest, and
$500 million in fees last year, Citicorp has
been at the top of the credit-card bonanza.
Prudential-Bache estimates that this year,
credit cards will account for 85 percent of
Citicorp's earnings.
Citicorp, like other fat cats, has
switched to a rival phone system (Citicorp
PHONE LINE: A Universal spot.
and Amex moved some business to MCI),
hustled to assemble its own discount long-
AT&T'S NEW CREDIT CARD
dismiss an offer from us as another no-
distance offers (Sprint and Visa teamed
fee, bait-and-switch offer," says Paul
up last December), and complained to the
PEOPLE CARRY AROUND, ON AVERAGE, THREE
Kahn, president and chief executive of
Federal Communications Commission
bank credit cards and seven other store,
AT&T Universal Card Services Corp-
and Federal Reserve Board that AT&T is
gasoline, debit, or charge cards, making
oration.
sidestepping laws barring commercial and
the collective wallet bulge with some 260-
When AT&T began its research, in
industrial firms from owning banks.
million pieces of plastic. Why would any-
1987, the company found that consumers
Jeffrey Kutler of American Banker pre-
one need another?
were jettisoning single-purpose cards for
dicts that banks won't cut their annual
Because it's an irresistible value, that's
multipurpose ones. At the time, credit-
fees but will tack on to their credit cards
why. Since AT&T launched its Universal
card volume was climbing 20 percent an-
"enhancements" like AT&T's purchase
card in March, an estimated 5 percent of
nually and growth of profits hovered near
protection, accident insurance, and ex-
those it reached out and touched (com-
50 percent. Inspired by the success of
tended warranties. Amex-which, unlike
pared with the usual 1.5 percent response
Sears's two-year-old Discover Card,
MasterCard and Visa, expects users to pay
rate for bank cards) have decided it's the
AT&T figured it could clean up by under-
in full each month-recently raised the
right choice. In the past five months, AT&T
cutting the competition-eliminating the
fees on its green and gold cards to $55
has issued 4.6 million cards-a record for
fee paid by consumers, reducing the
from $45 and to $75 from $65 but is
that period-upsetting the status quo and
amount (anywhere from 2 to 4.5 percent
pouring $100 million into new services.
touching off a high-stakes marketing war.
of the purchase price) charged to mer-
"What was once a short-term competitive
AT&T's is a basic no-fee (until the end
chants for handling credit-card transac-
advantage for the American Express gold
of 1990) credit, phone, and cash-advance
tions, and relying largely on the interest
card is becoming a standard feature every-
card with all sorts of extras: 10 percent
on unpaid bal-
where," says Ste-
discounts on long-distance calls, instant
ances. By provid-
phen Szekely, vice-
credit on disputed charges, free collision
ing discounts on
president of Pay-
coverage on rental cars, and extended
telephone calls, the
AT&T
Universal
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warranties on goods bought with the
Universal card
a financial-services-
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Sprint) in the
VISA
the market with
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AT&T family.
solicitations, part
than the average 19.6 rate of most cards.
At first, the com-
of an intensive
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pany debated be-
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among fledgling cards. What's more, Uni-
tween creating its
that will involve
versal is backed by AT&T's reputation for
own card and team-
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more than $1 bil-
honesty and service. "Consumers don't
ing up with Ameri-
lion in advertising
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Photograph by Donal Holway.
and promotion this year, according to
Kurt Peters, editor of Credit Card News, a
Chicago-based newsletter. Citicorp sent
out 700 million such invitations to poten-
tial cardholders. And card companies
have also added incentives: People who
run up $250,000 on Diners Club win a
free trip on the Orient Express; $3,600 in
charges earns free sunglasses. Discover
offers discounts on travel and merchan-
dise.
MasterCard and MCI, who will offer a
discount calling-card program, plan to in-
troduce 20 to 50 percent savings at stores
like Sam Goody and Toys 'R' Us. And
Visa, which hooked up with MCI to offer
VisaPhone, is renewing its 1989 Our
Treat sweepstakes, whereby it will pay for
15,000 randomly selected Visa purchases.
Card issuers and bank associations will
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"It pays to Discover" ads have focused on
the money refunded to customers who use
the card. MasterCard's "Master the mo-
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day use, whereas Amex and Visa show
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booths, and parking lots; already some
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EDITED BY CHRIS SMITH
MR. PEEPERS'S NIGHTS: Silhouettes on the Tent
S WE DROVE UP THE MONTAUK
stare, then the
A
Highway from Southampton, we
crickets, so many
passed Sapore di Mare. There was
that for a second I
a large green-and-white-striped
felt like it was last
tent out front and a sign saying CLOSED
August and I was
FOR PRIVATE PARTY, and I got that old
back in Morocco
Hamptons glow again because I was
at Malcolm
going to the party. I was back for one night, and on my way to
Forbes's birthday.
the right tent. It was not the Southampton Hospital benefit
Many of the faces
tent, with all the blazers and silk dresses. I was heading for the
massing to get in
tent of the steaming typewriters and leaping laptops, a tent with
were exactly the
two Morts and two Rons-one inside (Ron Perelman), one out
same, only a year
(Ron Galella).
older, and this
There were so many Range Rovers and haute Jeeps outside
was another tent.
the East Hampton Cinemas that it looked like a game preserve
Of course, they
in Kenya without the animals. But no, we were the animals.
did not look a year
There was a huge mass to stare at us.
older. These are
"Excuse me, I said, pushing through, and one of the crowd
people I have been
turned around with that face of jealous rage. "We are going to
seeing for twenty
the movie," I added, just to gall him, and then the crowds
years, and most of
parted for my group as we ducked under the rope.
them look a little
There was Nina Griscom, now the working press, outside
younger now,
holding a microphone, interviewing her old friends. Nina was
even better than
wearing the uniform of the summer, a tiny white Lycra dress,
before-more
Nina Griscom interviewing Christie Brinkley.
the kind that binds and goes in under the little toned ass and
stitched together.
hugs and flattens like a bandage-like a mummy wrap-and
This was a Peggy Siegal event, and Peggy Siegal, the P.R.
then gorgeous tan legs and thin, toned tan arms stick out. She
woman, has a certain friendly energy, a persistence, plus a bank
was kind of the queen of the blonde mummies.
of favors owed. It was also a David Brown event, and David,
Then I began to hear the crickets of the summer; their
the producer, and his wife, Helen Gurley Brown, also can
cameras were whirring and clicking and cricketing away in the
spread wide fingers in the power pot. It was an HBO event, and
summer night. These crickets of East and Southampton are
finally, it was a party with movie stars and a dinner at Sapore di
large and beige and hung with equipment. In Connecticut, they
Mare that wouldn't involve the taking out of the wallets.
are small and green and rub their legs together, but both hop.
They were all there in the lobby. Now, this whole tribe of
There was that mass on the sidewalk, hundreds of people to
people had something in common aside from the fact that they
Kelly and Calvin Klein.
David Geffen.
John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion.
Mai and Paul Hallingby.
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Photographs: top, Ron Galella; bottom, left to right, John Barrett/Globe (2); Mary Hilliard (2).
AUGUST27,1990
MR. PEEPERS S NIGHTS
all had 90-degree pools and did not age (unlike, say, the people
stayed young and gotten even younger and I was still me?
on the street). They all were, or had been, a raging success in
I saw John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion, and their quiet
life. Some were the raging successes of yesteryear, some the
seated presences in the midst of all this hip-hopping filled me
successes of tomorrow, but they all had credits. Some had, or
with awe, and my tongue cleaved to the roof of my mouth. I
would have in the next few weeks, their credits right up on the
nodded, but they did not see.
screen, like Nick Pileggi and Nora Ephron. Some had their very
I saw Kurt Vonnegut and Jill Krementz, Shana Alexander.
books in the window of Book
Hampton next door. Some of
them had great works still
locked inside their steaming
laptops, just ready to beep
out into raging success. A
few, but just a few, among
them had just had failures,
but they wore their failures
like raging successes.
I told someone I liked his
book, but then I wondered if
it was wrong to mention a
slightly past success. (It was
not.) Anyway, this lobby was
large with faces and people
who had done important
Helen Gurley and David Brown (left); Molly Ringwald, Beau
deeds and deserved to have
Bridges, Elizabeth McGovern, James Woods, Peter Weller.
the lovely Nina Griscom ask
them questions and to feel the warm pounce of the crickets of
Charlie Michener sat behind me. Princess Yasmin Aga Khan sat
summer in the spicy air.
in front, as did Patty and Marty Raynes. Off to the left were
Shirley Lord and Abe Rosenthal with Pat Kluge. Pete Peterson
HE PHOTOGRAPHERS LOWERED THEIR CAMERAS EN MASSE AT
and Joan Ganz Cooney were on that side, and way in the corner,
T
my entrance. Down, Bill. Down, Sonia. Down, Mary.
David Geffen, who is desperately rich now. David was wearing
Down, Ron. I felt the very first vibrations of the power
his usual white T-shirt. Somewhere in that vicinity were his
lobby. It was packed with these famous people and those
hosts, Calvin and Kelly Klein, and I was glad to see we were
quivering on the verge. Everyone was too busy saying hello to
both back unscarred after our horse falls.
get popcorn. The air was too intense with raging success and
Way in the back on the left were Judy Licht and Jerry Della
darting eyes and jealous elevations of the pulse. Walking down
Femina. Mai Hallingby was smiling widely in a mucho white
the aisle was like having your temperature taken.
satin dress (bet she was going to change tents), with Paul in the
Am I hot?
only regimental tie and blazer in the East Hampton fiveplex,
Am I cold?
costumes that all the smoking slouching typewriters and their
Am I loved?
agents perceived as very Southampton and out of it. Walter
Will Mort Janklow look over my head?
Isaacson was on the other aisle, and Terry and Joan McDonell
Yes, suddenly I knew. This was not the Trans Lux Cinema in
of Smart were in front.
Danbury. This was my East Hampton nightmare come to life.
I pushed into a row with my friends Francesca Stanfill and
Everyone I knew was all around me, and I was walking down the
Peter Tufo, and then saw that Roy Scheider was there, his
aisle stark naked. Or as good as naked, without a very recent
profile as motionless and carved as an idol. I wanted to say,
success. They were averting their eyes. Was Sally Quinn a tad
"Hey, Roy, loved you in Marathon Man," but that was a past
cold? Could it be she did not know me, since everyone else had
success and I didn't know if it would do.
Mort Zuckerman.
Claudia and Ron Perelman.
Pat Kluge.
Princess Yasmin Aga Khan.
Photographs: top, John Roca/LGI; bottom, left to right, Sonia Moskowitz; John Barrett/Globe; Alex Oliveira/DMI; Sonia Moskowitz.
AUGUST 27, 1990/NEW YORK
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MR. PEEPERS NIGHTS
MUGNESS AND POWER FILLED THE AIR ALONG WITH THAT
What with all the greeting of great minds and gawking of the
S
smell of popcorn, which still holds such promise. For a
mortals it was very hard to get out of the theater, especially for
short while, there was much murmuring in the ranks at the
Roy Scheider. This was Roy Scheider night.
sight of a few empty seats. For Peggy Siegal had decreed,
Out front, the long silver stretch cars, so beachlike, so rural,
"No house guests," unless, of course, they were as famous,
were bathing in the flashing strobes.
glorious, and recently successful as their hosts. This was a
The cars on the Montauk Highway heading west to
theater filled with no average humans
Sapore di Mare cruised in one long line of glory with everyone
with Toyotas and dreams and houses
peering into the cars in front and behind as if they
north of the highway.
could never get enough. But only the favored hung a left for
David Brown made a gracious speech,
Sapore di Mare, leaving the others to keep going on into their
and then a man from HBO called
own private worlds, where simple dreams are made of
Michael Fuchs spoke. He said, "Don't
hypervirgin Colavita olive oil poured on the road vegetables
be put off by the literary credentials of
of Route 27.
these movies," and the eyebrows of the
From our spot on the highway, I could see the large lit-up
smoking typewriters shot up all over the
striped tent with the silhouettes of the revelers imprinted on
theater because he sounded serious.
it-glasses raised, throats cast back, mouths open, barking with
Then he referred to David Brown as a
summer laughter. I was about to drive Young Adolph into all of
"classy producer" and to someone else
this. The crickets were here, too, photographing into the cars.
as "classy," too. I immediately
The outside Ron photographed right into Roy Scheider's silver
understood.
station wagon. And there was Peggy Siegal, all shiny in bronze
We were worshipers in the temple of
satin, at the entrance.
haute class. Ernest Hemingway,
What to do? Drink? Eat? Say hello again in depth? Discuss
Mary McCarthy, Dorothy Parker had
success? Discuss High Art? Pick up a plate? Find a table? It
written these stories made into an HBO
was never like this after the Danbury Trans Lux. There's no
movie. So don't be put off by the
dinner with a living label like Calvin Klein, two princesses, and
imprint of great brains, great "classy"
the blonde mummies of Southampton. I mean, there's just no
brains.
Clay and Gail, and Wilfrid Sheed and Miriam Ungerer or Nancy
This was part of the new Decade of
Peggy Siegal.
Collins. We don't have two Morts in a tent. In fact, we don't
Seriousness. This was the time for High
have many tents without sleeping bags. In Connecticut, I live
Art, even on TV. High Art made it all right to know that 450
out where a friend is someone who just might come up the road
kind of megapeople had filled an East Hampton theater to see a
if you scream.
90-minute TV movie and not have to pull out their wallets at
All the drinking in the HBO movie made me very thirsty, plus
Sapore di Mare.
there was this atmosphere of mad chthonian my-plate-is-full
We had here onscreen your top authors. Top adapters. Top
success.
directors. Top actors like Beau Bridges and Melanie Griffith
"Thank you," Kurt Vonnegut said to the bartender as he
and Elizabeth McGovern and James Woods, and we were
picked up his drinks.
watching TV with the very top people. Oh, I forgot. This TV
"Thank you for all the pleasure your books have given me,"
movie was subtitled "Stories of Seduction." So, on one hand,
high literary seriousness-the Noble Purpose, so crucial to the
nineties-and, on the other hand, Sex. Satin teddies. Satin tap
pants. Garters. Thighs. Satin bra straps falling down the arm,
satin robes flapping open on hairy legs. Clever dialogue and
flesh. The only thing this screening lacked to make it
totally acceptable was an environmental connection like some
spiked trees, some David Lynch "wood," an endangered rain
forest.
First we saw Elizabeth McGovern as a radical, seduced but
not quite by a bottle of booze and a Brooks Brothers shirt. In
these three stories, there was a lot of drinking of cocktails and a
lot of smoking of cigarettes and, above all, a lot of talk. Reams
of talk, and not just talk, but real dialogue. Sometimes, you
could just feel this kind of dialogue pouring from all the laptops
and the hot steaming East Hampton PCs. This was a good
Brenda and Roy Scheider.
audience. They applauded everyone, especially those who were
here in the theater or safely dead. Writers love other writers
said the bartender.
who are safely dead.
I was so busy hip-hopping with the scotch sloshing onto my
wrists and popping things in my mouth that there was no chair
S WE LEFT, THERE WAS A HUGE RESURGENCE OF LIGHT AND
and no table left, and I wound up having to eat on the floor of
A
flashes, as though everyone who had unplugged had now
the platform at the feet of David Brown and the actor who
plugged back in for the Exit of the Famous. Pat Kluge,
played the bathrobed seducer, and some youngish girl in a red
large and magisterial in a kind of Royal Family flower-
mummy dress who frowned at me as if to say, "Just who are you
print suit, stood motionless as that old country deer caught in
here at my golden feet?"
the headlights, rooted to one spot till she was discovered by the
I looked back up as if to say, "Oh, don't mind me, my dear,
bobbing bulbs for her photo moment.
I'm just another silhouette on the tent."
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BOOKS
Imagine: John Lennon, has put
August 20, 10 P.M.)
Boone, a Novel,
together some of Presley's best
Brooks Hansen and
moments onscreen and on TV.
THEATER
Nick Davis (Summit;
HOORE
$19.95): Edie was a
FASHION
The Grapes of Wrath:
model for this
Steinbeck's story of the Okies'
novel-cum-"oral
"House of Style": Cindy
journey to the promised land
history" by two
Crawford and an MTV crew
25-year-old
track what's hot-from the
Harvard grads.
street fashions of East Berlin to
Kerry Hayes
This time around,
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the subject is a
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DAVIS
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MOVIES
BEST SELLERS
sometimes even poetic touches
Loka: This Swedish mineral
Peter Cunningham
Boone, who's remembered by friends,
hangers-on, admirers, and enemies.
The Freshman: There are madcap,
Seventh Heaven, Alice
throughout Andrew Bergman's wacky
water in the smart glass bottles
Hoffman (Putnam; $19.95):
little comedy, but the sequence of
is in full fizz. It's now at Alo
Alo, David K's, and Food
makes for first-rate theater.
This is Hoffman's big
Brando skating is inspired.
Emporium.
September 2 is your last chance
breakthrough novel. The story
The Go-Between: Joseph Losey
to see the Tony Award-winning
involves a single mother raising
directed and Harold Pinter
production from Chicago's
her children on Long Island in
the fifties.
wrote the screenplay for this
Steppenwolf.
exquisitely detailed Edwardian
drama. This 1970 film is
TASTINGS
filtered through the eyes of the
little boy who acts as the "go-
BY ALEXIS BESPALOFF
between" for the daughter
(Julie Christie) of a rich family
All that sparkles: Crisp, refreshing
and her lover (Alan Bates).
California sparkling wines, made by
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MUSIC
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Lucia di Lammermoor: Gail
Dobish, a young coloratura
ART
soprano who a lot of people
think may be the next great
David Kelley
"Matisse in Morocco": The
diva, is part of the new cast that
artist's visit to North Africa was
Coco Masuda
takes over on August 21. At the
brief, but it produced some of
his most transcendent and
SCENES
New York City Opera.
TELEVISION
memorable works. At the
The last of the Philharmonic's
Julee Cruise,
Museum of Modern Art
concerts in Central Park also
Floating Into
"John Hammond: From Bessie
through September 4.
kicks off a yearlong celebration
the Night
Smith to Bruce Springsteen":
of Carnegie Hall's hundredth
(Warner Bros.
The record executive behind
birthday. Among the gems:
Records): Her
some of the biggest names in
Isaac Stern playing Bruch's
ethereal vocals
American music is the subject
Concerto No. 1, and Zubin
are perfect for
of this week's American
Mehta conducting Sibelius's
the moody
Masters profile. (Channel 13;
Symphony No. 2. On the
FLOATING
THE
synthesizer
August 20 at 9 P.M.)
Great Lawn, August 20 at
INTO
tracks by
8 P.M.
Angelo Badalamenti, which include
Edge: Robert Krulwich is the
music from for Twin Peaks.
host of this new arts-and-
DANCE
culture show produced by
VIDEOS
WNET and the BBC. In episode
Feld Ballets/NY: The company is in
No. 1, there's James Wolcott on
town through August 25, performing
Elvis: The Great Performances
humor, Buck Henry on Nixon,
new and old works like lon and The
($19.99 per volume): Director
and excerpts from Karen Finley
Jig Is Up. At the Joyce Theater.
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THE GOLI
ELLIS ISLAND REOPENS TO TELL AMERICA'S
Frances Stenlake Oakley was a six-year-old
SUMSKA
AMERIKA
English girl when she landed on Ellis Island in
LINIEN
1914. She thought the huge
immigration building might be the Crystal
Palace. "Maybe it's a theater," Oakley told her-
self, "or maybe we're going to have a show.
Courtesy of Fred Wasserman.
Standing in line for America (left).
One Finnish man таде a suitcase
(above right) for bis 1916 trip.
Guerino Salerni
arrived at Ellis Island
in 1919 and
remembers "lots of
jelly, lots of
marmalade, lots of
white bread, which I
bad never seen before.
EN DOOR
EPIC STORY
BY DINITIA SMITH
Then they looked in our heads for lice and
they looked in our ears, and I thought, This
is a funny way to get into a show."
Benjamin A. Gebiner remembers being
detained in the hospital on Ellis Island when
Lewis Hine/The Bettmann Archive.
he arrived as a 23-year-old from Russia in 1921. Immigration offi-
An Italian family
on Ellis Island (1905).
PHOTOGRAPH BY TED HARDIN
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cers thought he might
just as the museum at Ellis Island-started in a burst of patriotic
have tuberculosis. "Here I
nostalgia-is about to be dedicated.
was, I had studied jurispru-
The image of the immigrant as poor, oppressed, and uprooted is
dence, but I couldn't speak
giving way under the weight of new scholarship. Most people who
ISLAND
English. I was dumb-nothing!
came to the New World during the peak immigration years had at
But there was a little boy in the
least the means to pay for the journey, and the stamina and health
hospital, eight or ten years old.
to withstand it. They came seeking better jobs more often than
been there a few months. He was very
freedom. (Of course, many didn't find freedom at all. Not only
lively. He became my interpreter, my angel! I'll never
were blacks imported as slaves, but before 1780, 75 percent of all
forget that little fellow."
white immigrants who settled south of New England were inden-
Guerino Salerni, who came from Italy in 1919 at fourteen,
tured servants.) For the most part, the people who came willingly
remembers the mess hall and "lots of jelly, lots of marmalade,
brought the structures of their old cultures with them and used
lots of white bread, which I had never seen before."
their traditions to build lives here. Perhaps most startling of all, it
When the ship carrying ten-year-old Viola Lewis Scott-Thomas
has recently been shown that a third of all those who have come to
from Barbados arrived in America in 1924, the little girl glimpsed,
America during the twentieth century have chosen to go home
for one tantalizing moment, the mother and father she hadn't seen
again-10 million out of 30 million people.
in almost a decade. Then an inspector found a patch of ringworm
Nowhere is this revised view more clear than in the new Ellis
on her knee and sent her back home.
Island Immigration Museum. The entire restoration project was
The recorded recollections of Guerino Salerni and Frances
developed with the help of a team of historians who aim to up-
Oakley, the inspection card preserved by Benjamin Gebiner, the
date the myth of immigration. As Virginia Yans-McLaughlin, a
photographs that Viola
Rutgers history professor
Scott-Thomas kept to re-
who was an adviser on the
member her parents by-all
HISTORY LESSON
project, puts it, the building
will be included in the new
of the new museum at Ellis
Ellis Island Immigration
In a nation of more than a hun-
Island amounts to nothing
Museum, opening to the
less than "the construction
public September 10, in
dred ethnic groups, Ellis Island is the setting
of a national ideology."
time for the island's centen-
nial in 1992. The museum is
of America's one great unifying epic.
LLIS ISLAND IS
the culmination of the big-
a 27.5-acre
gest restoration project in
parcel-most
United States history, an
of it landfill
eight-year, $345-million en-
from the New
deavor that also involved re-
York City sub-
furbishing the Statue of Lib-
way system-that sits about a
erty, which reopened with a
mile off the Battery. Original-
flourish in July 1986.
ly a sand spit where Native
Thirteen hundred feet
Americans dug for oysters,
from the statue is Ellis Is-
M
CAMMARATA-ARKANCE
Ellis Island was used as an ex-
land, where the main immi-
ecution ground for pirates
gration building has been
during Colonial times. The
rescued from abandonment
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first immigration station was
and complete disrepair. The
built there in 1892. Five years
new museum it will house is
AMERICA
later, a fire destroyed the
devoted not only to the Ellis
original wooden buildings,
Island experience but also to
A trunk from Sicily bound for Niagara Falls in 1919.
and in 1900, the present
immigration throughout the
Beaux-Arts building, with its
U.S. The 100,000-square-foot space will be filled with more
four graceful copper domes, was erected from a design by the firm
than 2,000 artifacts, 1,500 photographs, oral histories, a li-
of Boring & Tilton.
brary, two theaters, and ultimately-it is hoped-a genealogical
Ships of arriving immigrants anchored off the Narrows. First-
center where visitors may be able to trace their immigrant fam-
and second-class passengers were processed onboard, and those
ilies. The restored immigration building will be one of the larg-
who passed inspection went on to dock in Manhattan. Steerage
est strictly historical museums in the country. Three million visi-
passengers were taken to Ellis Island for processing (along with
tors are expected the first year alone.
first- and second-class passengers who failed inspection).
For many Americans, Ellis Island is holy ground, the entry
"Numbered and lettered before debarking, in groups corre-
point for the ancestors of more than 100 million people, 40 per-
sponding to entries on the ship's manifest, the immigrants are
cent of the country's population. From 1892 to 1924, more than
herded onto the Customs Wharf," wrote Irving Howe in his
12 million people entered the United States through Ellis Island.
book World of Our Fathers. " 'Quick! Run! Hurry!' shout offi-
On one day (April 17, 1907), 11,747 immigrants were pro-
cials in half a dozen languages."
cessed there.
The average immigrant spent three to five hours on Ellis. In
In a nation of well over a hundred ethnic groups, Ellis Island is
the main building, the new arrivals climbed to the second-floor
the setting of America's one great unifying epic. While other coun-
Registry Room-also known as the Great Hall-on a staircase
tries have their national legends-France has its Chanson de Ro-
that is a centerpiece of legend. The climb was called "the six-
land, Spain its El Cid-America has the myth of the Golden Door,
second physical": Doctors and nurses watched from the top and
through which the "huddled masses yearning to breathe free," as
weeded out for further examination people who seemed lame or
Emma Lazarus put it, stepped and found freedom and prosperity
out of breath-a sign of possible heart disease or tuberculosis.
at last. Paradoxically, that myth is being rethought and rewritten
Fates were sealed in the Registry Room. An inspector would
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naic.
FIRST STEPS
When they got off the boat,
passports in band,
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Registry Room (above in
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raise the immigrant's eye-
FTER INSPECTION, IMMIGRANTS DESCENDED A DI-
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lids-using a finger, a hair-
vided flight of stairs, dubbed the Stairs of Sepa-
pin, or even a buttonhook-
ration because many people parted ways there.
in a painful procedure to check
The stairs were railed off into three sections.
ISLAND
for trachoma, a contagious eye
The right led to the railroad ticket office, where
disease. Scalps were examined for
the immigrants traveled on to Hoboken and far-
favus, a fungal infection. "They were
ther points; the left led to the New York ferry. The center aisle
pretty rough," remembers Frances Oakley.
led to the temporary detention room.
"What bothered me most were the eyes. They tried to
During the peak years, 20 percent of the new immigrants were
grab the baby. My mother said, 'Don't you hurt this baby!''
detained because they were sick or "politically undesirable" or lia-
James Arraj was eight when he arrived at Ellis from Lebanon
ble to become public charges. Single women who weren't met by a
in 1920: "You were taken before an examiner who sat on a high
relative or a member of an immigration-aid society were also held
bench making big decisions that affected your life.
We
had
back, for fear they would be exploited or lured into prostitution. In
an Arabic interpreter. They examined us and held my brother
fact, many picture brides"-came to America to be
back for his eyes. Three days of waiting and worrying. My moth-
married. In September 1907, the SS Baltic carried at least 1,000
er was upset because she didn't know whether they would let us
marriageable girls. Understandably, many weddings were per-
in or not, and there was no one here to meet us. My father knew
formed right on the island.
we were coming, but he didn't know when."
Immigrants who were deemed anarchists, Bolsheviks, or
Immigrants with possible health problems were marked with
criminals were sent to dormitories, where they were detained
chalk on their clothing. An E meant eye disease; an L meant
until they could be sent back. Some sick immigrants were also
lameness; an X meant men-
sent back. Others in need of
tal deficiency; an O around
health care were transferred
the X meant extreme defi-
THENEWVIEW
to hospitals. It is estimated
ciency. In one test of mental
that 30 percent of children
competence, immigrants
Many immigrants had at least
with measles who were fer-
had to put together a wood-
ried to hospitals on the
en puzzle of a ship. On any
the means to pay for the journey, and the
mainland around the turn of
given day during the peak
the century later died from
immigration period, 5,000
stamina and health to withstand it.
the exposure.
people, weary and anxious,
Detainees were periodi-
could move through the
cally exploited by the con-
Registry Room. "Do you
cessionaires. Irving Howe
have any skills? Do you have
describes a 1909 hunger
a job waiting for you here?
strike led by Alexander Ru-
Are you an anarchist? Are
denief, the son of a Russian
you a polygamist?" the in-
army doctor. The food at El-
spectors would ask.
lis "is suitable for hogs,"
"I was jostled and
cried Rudenief, in a fiery
dragged and shoved and
speech in the mess hall. "We
shouted at," recalled M. E.
are treated like wild beasts.
Ravage in An American in
We sleep on a wet floor."
the Making. "I took it philo-
Still, conditions on the is-
sophically. I had been
land were not always harsh.
through the performance
DO NOT KISS A CHILD, warned
many times before-at the
Before the restoration.
a sign for nurses in the Chil-
Hungarian border, at Vien-
dren's Contagious Disease
na, in Germany, in Holland." Legend has it that immigrants'
Ward. Comforting children, many of them crying because they
names were changed on Ellis Island as they went through the
had been separated from their parents, was obviously a consid-
inspection process. But the museum's researchers found only
erable temptation for the staff. In a taped memoir given to the
one woman who claimed she'd been renamed by immigration
new museum, Morry Helzner, who came from Russia in 1922,
officers, and she could provide no documentation. When Mary-
remembers "the biggest impression I had when they took us to
Angela Hardwick-a staffer at MetaForm, one of the creators of
the dormitories. To see white linens, white tile, sparkling
the new museum-culled the National Archives, she could turn
clean-almost a sterile environment!"
up no evidence to support the legend.
Over time, the treatment of the arriving immigrants became
"We call it the story that won't go away," says Phyllis Mont-
more humane, and some even liked the food. Vartan Hartunian
gomery, the director of research for MetaForm. (Two other com-
came to Ellis from Armenia in 1922. "I hadn't tasted butter," he
panies-Design and Production and Rathe Productions-were
recalls in his taped memoir. "I didn't know what butter was.
part of the consortium that designed the new museum.) One the-
And when butter was placed on white bread and I ate it, to me
ory is that the immigrants' names were changed before they
that was a tremendous delight!"
boarded the ship-by, say, German clerks at Bremen trying to
Ultimately, 2 percent of the immigrants were sent back to their
make sense of the complicated names of Poles who could not read
native lands-an average of 1,000 people some months. Frances
or write. Another theory is that workers from immigrant-aid soci-
Oakley remembers seeing people "sitting on benches. Some were
eties who helped the new arrivals may have suggested that they
crying. I said to my mother, 'Why are they crying?' and she said,
change their names to simplify or "Americanize" them. Certainly,
"Those people can't come to America. They have to go back."
immigrants changed their own names after they arrived. Many
Some of those who passed inspection went on to be reunited
schools devised family names that they thought fit better into the
on the first floor with family and friends who had come before
new culture.
them. The area where they met came to be known as the Kissing
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Photograph by Ted Hardin.
DOCTOR'S
H
ORDERS
Sometimes, inspectors
used a buttonbook to
S CT K
peel back eyelids and
check for disease.
Diagnoses were
G
written in chalk on the
immigrants' clothing
(chart at left). One
test of competence was
C
N
a steamship puxzle
(above).
Post. One matron described the scene in 1910: "The Italian
chusetts senator Henry Cabot Lodge spoke out in the Senate
kisses his little children but scarcely speaks to his wife, never
against "Italians, Russians, Poles, Hungarians, Greeks, and Asia-
embraces or kisses her in public. The Hungarian and Slavish
tics
races with which the English-speaking people have never
[sic] people put their arms around one another and weep. The
hitherto assimilated and who are most alien to the great body of
Jew of all countries kisses his wife and children as though he had
people of the United States."
all the kisses in the world, and intended to use them up quick."
The political disruptions unleashed by World War I strength-
ened the campaign against immigrants. Ellis Island was used as a
ONTRARY TO POPULAR BELIEF, MOST IMMIGRANTS
deportation center; Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman
C
did not take the ferry to the Battery and immedi-
were held there in 1919. In 1923, the president of Colgate Univer-
ately settle on the Lower East Side. Two thirds set
sity, Dr. George B. Cutten, said, "The melting pot is destructive to
out for farther points. At the railroad ticket office
our race," weakening it by a "breeding out of the higher divisions
on Ellis, they were given printed tags showing
of the white race." In 1921 and 1924, acts were passed, directed
their destination to pin onto hats and coats. In one
especially at people from Southern and Eastern Europe and, in the
memorable mix-up, a Syrian woman and a Finnish woman were
case of the 1924 act, at Asians. These "racial" quotas were not
accidentally sent to each other's husbands-the Finnish woman
abolished until 1965. Today, there is a limit of 20,000 people for
to Memphis, the Syrian to Cincinnati.
most countries, with a worldwide ceiling of 270,000 each year
What did the immigrants find when they set foot on American
(not counting exemptions).
soil? "I came to America because I heard the streets were paved
The United States has always kept some people out. During
with gold," goes one old Italian saying. "When I got here, I
World War II, it adamantly denied refuge to those fleeing Nazi
found out three things: First, the streets weren't paved with
persecution. In 1939, to take just one example, 20,000 chil-
gold; second, they weren't paved at all; and third, I was expect-
dren-most of them Jewish-were barred from the U.S. With
ed to pave them."
the closing of the door, Ellis Island was used less and less until it
Then, slowly, the Golden Door began to close. During the
was shut for good in 1954. By then, most immigrants were
first half of the nineteenth century, the majority of immigrants
screened abroad.
had come from England, Ireland, Germany, and Scandinavia.
By the 1880s, large numbers were Austro-Hungarian, Italian,
URIOUSLY, THERE IS ALREADY ONE IMMIGRATION MU-
and Russian, and by 1907, those countries supplied the majority
C
seum in New York Harbor-the American Muse-
of new arrivals.
um of Immigration, built in 1972 in the base of
The immigrants were helping to build America, yet restriction-
the Statue of Liberty. For years, scholars have
ists believed the country couldn't contain the new population. Im-
been dismayed by the museum's narrow and often
migrants were accused of overcrowding cities and burdening so-
inaccurate presentation. Indeed, one expert has
cial-service agencies. The Immigration Restriction League based
called it "a scandal." (In an exhibit about Jews, the Torah was
its campaign on so-called scientific evidence that "proved" the
once displayed upside down.) But powerful interest groups, as
"inferiority of immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe." In
well as one of the museum's founders, the late Pierre du Pont
1882, the Chinese Exclusion Act was passed. In the 1890s, Massa-
III, managed to keep the museum alive. But with the new muse-
Photograph by Brown Brothers. Top right and bottom, courtesy of Metaform Inc./Karen Yamauchi: National Park Service
AUGUST 27, 1990/NEW YORK
33
ELLIS
892
um, the old one in its pres-
whom have abandoned traditional roles. They often found jobs
ent form is expected to
before the men, because they could be hired more cheaply-and
wither away.
were sometimes considered better workers.
992
To historians, the AMI
is the very embodiment of
HE CHANGES IN AMERICAN ATTITUDES TOWARD IM-
what immigration experts call
ISLAND
photographs and mannequins of
T
migration are reflected in the history of Ellis Is-
"babushka history." With its
land itself. In the fifties and early sixties, Ameri-
cans were more concerned with their similarities
European peasants in their "na-
than with their differences, and most had little
tive" costumes, the museum perpetuates
interest in emphasizing their ethnic roots. For
the notion that "the peasants came over in peasant
years after the immigration outpost closed, the island lay vacant
costumes and were redeemed by America," says Virginia Yans-
while the government tried without success to sell it. But with
McLaughlin. One photographer of the period, Augustus F.
the Vietnam War and the civil-rights movement, the differences
Sherman, even made his subjects change into peasant costumes
among Americans were thrown into stark relief. Americans be-
before he took their pictures.
gan to explore their individual and ethnic histories, and interest
Historians have other complaints about the AMI. They say it
in Ellis Island was rekindled.
overemphasizes famous immigrants like Andrew Carnegie and
In 1975, Dr. Peter Sammartino, a founder of Fairleigh Dick-
Joseph Pulitzer, neglecting the common experience, and they de-
inson University, formed a commission to raise money to restore
cry the museum's emphasis on the immigrants' military service.
the island. Later, Phil Lax, a New Jersey real-estate developer,
While it's true that many immigrants fought for this country,
took over. Ultimately, a Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island restora-
many would-be immigrants stayed away during wartime. "It is
tion project was formed under the direction of Chrysler Corpo-
'the contribution approach,' says Rudolph Vecoli, chairman
ration chairman Lee lacocca.
of the History Advisory Committee of the Statue of Liberty-El-
From the beginning, the restoration was intended to be a
lis Island Foundation and di-
showcase for Reaganomics,
rector of the Immigration
proof that the people them-
History Research Center at
LOOKING BACK
selves could do what gov-
the University of Minnesota.
ernment had traditionally
"The immigrants were sup-
posed to pay dues. The mu-
When Americans began to ex-
done before. The process
has not been without con-
seum was used to justify
plore their individual and ethnic histories, in-
troversy. In its early years,
their presence. It trivialized
there were complaints about
the immigrants and sani-
terest in Ellis Island was rekindled.
hefty expense accounts,
tized their experience."
charges of conflict of inter-
Like many historians, Ve-
est, and misgivings about
coli is eager to see Americans
INSPECTION CARD
the widespread franchising
(Immigra and Steerage Passengers.)
rethink their past. "The myth
Copenhugen.
of the Statue of Liberty
Port of departure,
Date of departure,
of immigration has always
Name of ship,
United States
image.
been a parable of rebirth," he
Name of immigrant,
Last
residence,
Denmark
lacocca and the Depart-
says, "a utopian kind of no-
4T
ment of the Interior fought
tion, of the immigrant com-
Inspected
passed
AVW
by
Funnegration
Bureau,
over what to do with the
ing from the corrupt Old
alart
SEC
south side of Ellis Island.
World to a fresh New World.
&
Dep.
Consul
port
There are 32 buildings in ad-
It is a myth that serves the na-
Date.)
Date.
dition to the main one. Most
tional pride. But we have to
of them are in disrepair. The
face up to the reality of it-
(The
following
to
be
filed
in
by
ships
surgeon or agent prior to or after
Ship's list or manifest,
No. on ship's list or manifest,
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National Park Service had ap-
the reality of immigration re-
proved a plan submitted by a
Berth, No.
strictions."
19
Steamship
nonprofit group, the Center
di
14
15
16
61
In his landmark work, The
for Housing Partnerships,
Uprooted, published in
A Danish woman's inspection card (1905).
headed by William Hubbard,
1951, Harvard historian Os-
to restore some of the build-
car Handlin portrayed immigrants as victims, torn from their
ings and use them as a conference center. But lacocca came up
traditions and their cultures. But Rudolph Vecoli, in his 1964
with another plan, which would involve tearing down some of the
essay "Contadini in Chicago," challenged Handlin's thesis,
buildings and creating "an ethnic [Colonial] Williamsburg." la-
showing that the immigrants were far from victims-that they
cocca's plan was opposed by the Park Service, and the Hubbard
brought their traditions with them. Since then, a generation of
plan eventually prevailed. So far, Hubbard has been unable to
historians influenced by the ethnic movements of the sixties
raise enough money.
have shown how, through "chain migration," whole families-
In February 1986, just as lacocca was looming as a Democratic
sometimes whole villages-came and settled together, effective-
presidential candidate, he was fired by Interior secretary Donald P.
ly re-creating their communities on American soil. For example,
Hodel, ostensibly because of conflict between his roles as restora-
James Arraj and his countrymen from the Lebanese village of
tion adviser and fund-raising chief. (William F. May, the former
Mashgara settled in Worcester, Massachusetts, where they
chairman of the American Can company, is now chairman of the
worked as tanners-just as they had in the Old Country. Some
Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, responsible for raising
groups founded their own banks. Some created their own
money.)
schools. They re-formed their old fraternal organizations. And
Meanwhile, the job of restoring the main building at Ellis Is-
they were, of course, a force in the American labor movement.
land had fallen to two architecture firms: Boston-based Notter
Recently, historians have also been emphasizing the experi-
Finegold & Alexander and the New York firm Beyer Blinder
ences of blacks and Asians and the role of women. In many
Belle-which did the restorations of Grand Central Terminal
ways, immigration has been a woman's story. Since the thirties,
and the South Street Seaport.
in fact, the majority of immigrants have been women, many of
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THE FIRST SLAP
Benjamin A. Gebiner, 92, and Sonia Gebiner, 88: Russia
T WAS REALLY BECAUSE OF A GIRL
ten by Sonia, he found himself thinking of
had "a beautiful scarf." But when the atten-
that Benjamin A. Gebiner found
her all the time. After obtaining a special
dant brought him his clothes, the scarf was
his way to Ellis Island in 1921.
pass, Gebiner traveled to Warsaw to join
missing. Gebiner tried to tell the man, but
And it was there that Gebiner got
her, but he was denied admission to the
he spoke no English. "He slapped my face.
his first slap on American soil-
university. Despairing of a future without
Even though I was an adult, I began to
though not because of the girl.
a degree for Gebiner, the young couple set
cry.
This was the first time I was
Gebiner-from Rovno, in what was
out for America.
slapped in America," says Gebiner today,
then Russia-had been in love with Sonia
The Atlantic was so rough and Gebiner
with a little smile.
Goldfarb since she was fourteen. She left
was SO sick that when he got to Ellis Island,
Gebiner went on to law school and a
to study dentistry in Warsaw, and Ge-
officials thought he had TB. After a week in
job with the Workmen's Circle, a Jewish
biner, although a Jew, was nonetheless ad-
the hospital, Gebiner was released. He had
fraternal organization. On July 30, Ge-
mitted to the University of Odessa and,
his best suit ready for the moment he would
biner, 92, and Sonia, 88, celebrated their
later, to the University of Kiev. Still smit-
set foot on true American soil. He had also
seventieth wedding anniversary.
Photograph by Ted Hardin. Line drawing by Jim Irvine.
AUGUST 27, 1990/NEW YORK
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BACK TO BARBADOS
Viola Lewis Scott-Thomas, 75: Barbados
N 1924, WHEN TEN-YEAR-OLD VIO-
Ellis Island, she was quarantined because
her parents. "My mother looked like such
I
la Lewis Scott-Thomas journeyed
of ringworm on her knee.
an elegant lady. My father was so hand-
from Barbados to Ellis Island, a
"I was devastated," remembers Scott-
some," she says. "My mother was crying.
violent storm arose at sea. "The
Thomas, who hadn't seen her mother in
My father picks me up and hugs me and
water was coming up over the
several years.
swings me around-it was like seeing
whole ship," Scott-Thomas re-
She remembers crying and being
Jesus!"
members, "and then the ship would go
"frightened by all those masses of people.
The family took the ferry to the Battery,
down under."
It was overcrowded, dirty. On the island,
and then the subway to Harlem, where
As was the case with many immigrants,
we had been considered to be of the better
Scott-Thomas's father worked as a baker.
the adults stayed below groaning and
class. The doctor said it wouldn't be a
"I saw all these tall buildings. It was over-
vomiting in their bunks while the children
long time. But what does 'a long time'
whelming!" she says. "I came from an
had a wonderful time. "The sailors tied a
mean to a child?"
agrarian society. I wanted to go back
rope around my waist," Scott-Thomas
Scott-Thomas returned to Barbados by
home!"
says, "so I wouldn't fall overboard."
the next boat. A month later, she arrived
Nonetheless, Scott-Thomas went on to
A lively, intelligent child, she nearly
at Ellis Island again and was reunited with
graduate from Spelman College, eventual-
drove the sailors crazy
ly becoming the offi-
with all her questions,
cial historian of Man-
so they let her play
hattan (under then-
down in the hold,
borough president
where she ate "bags
Percy Sutton), and lat-
and bags of Brazil nuts
er an administrator at
and fed the monkeys
the AMI and one of
and the parrots."
the first black women
When the ship reached
in advertising.
Photograph by Ted Hardin.
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Lowenfish (Poland, 1923).
daughter Eleni (Greece, 1923).
A Chanukab
menorab from
Poland, circa
1890.
A memorial pin for
an Italian child.
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Gertrude Schneider
Smith brought with
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in 1921 "was part of
everybody over there,"
she says. "And
that's probably
why I never
wanted another
doll. He was just it."
Nathan
Solomon's
candy box.
One Chinese
immigrant brought
a compass with him
in 1924 to find bis
way in America.
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children (1921).
Giovanni Stramesi carried
the key to bis house in Italy,
in case be ever returned.
A Chinese musical
instrument.
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The movable hearth that
Guerino Salerni's family
brought from Italy (1919).
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Guerino Salerni, 84: Italy
VEN TODAY, GUERINO SALER-
Salerni's father had first come to the
torboat. "Where's Mama? Where's
E
ni remembers the touch of
United States in 1896. He found work in
Mama?" his father cried. Salerni's step-
his grandfather Luigi's
construction, traveling back and forth be-
mother threw down a bottle of Centerba, a
whiskers as he kissed him
tween the U.S. and Italy regularly, each
liqueur from Abruzzi, in greeting-even
goodbye. When Salerni,
time begetting a child. In 1918, Salerni's
though America was in the midst of
now 84, talks about leaving
father decided it was time for the rest of
Prohibition.
for America in 1919-when he was 14-
the family to come. Like many immi-
Because there had been a death from ty-
tears still come to his eyes. "It was the last
grants, they traveled with a group from
phoid fever aboard the ship, Salerni spent
time I saw him," says Salerni. "He was
their village. There was Salerni's step-
ten days in quarantine before he was re-
quite a fellow." Guerino Salerni came
mother (his mother had died), his sister,
united with his father for good. When he
from a family of stonemasons in a medi-
and a dozen ladies whose husbands had
grew up, Salerni became an architect,
eval hill town in the region of Abruzzi,
already journeyed ahead.
working on a number of projects in New
east of Rome. As a boy, Salerni could
Salerni hadn't seen his father in five
York City-including the construction of
build a dome of stones in the fields and it
years, but as the ship docked near Ellis Is-
East River Drive-continuing the tradi-
would stand.
land, he spotted him down below in a mo-
tions of his Italian ancestors.
Salerni's
passport.
Photographs: left, Gino Gareza; center, Ted Hardin.
AUGUST 27, 1990/NEW YORK
39
*
A teapot from
late-nineteenth-
century China.
A Greek Orthodox family
brought a Saint Nicholas
icon from Cyprus in 1921
I
(left); a prayer book from
Poland (1909).
MICONT To ATE
METT
58
hugh
A lacquered wooden
spoon from Armenia;
an Armenian
wedding dress (far
left). An Austrian
child wore this suit
when be arrived in
1925 (left).
Elin Hedman arrived
from Sweden in
1924. "My mother's
shoes tell a whole
story," says Birgitta
Hedman Fichter.
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A
Russian a
Jersey
AWARTIME VOYAGE
Frances Stenlake Oakley, 83: England
N 1914, AFTER FRANCES STENLAKE
two families boarded a train heading for
come to meet the family, and unaccompa-
Oakley set sail from England for
New York. At a stopover in Buffalo, the
nied women were not allowed to leave the
America aboard the Mauretania,
Welsh woman was left behind at the sta-
island. Frances's father had written that
World War I broke out.
tion as the train pulled away, with her
his brother, Frank, would be there to
"Ladies and gentlemen, Eng-
children onboard. By then, the group had
greet them, but Frances's mother had nev-
land is at war," an officer told the
had nothing to eat for two days because of
er met him.
passengers in the dining room. "There
difficulties in changing money. Oakley's
For two days, the family watched anx-
will be no lights onboard ship from now
mother took the five weeping Welsh chil-
iously as visitors arrived by ferry to greet
on. After dinner, you will go to your cab-
dren under her wing, sharing with them
the newly arrived immigrants. "My moth-
ins." Oakley was six and on her way with
the three ice-cream cones she had grabbed
er watched every man expectantly. There
her mother and two brothers to join her
at the station.
was a lot of hugging and kissing, but no-
father, who had left for America in 1913
At Ellis Island, the Welsh children were
body came to us. My mother, being a
to work as a carpenter. The Mauretania
put in a "hospital wing" until their moth-
proper English lady, would never speak to
was diverted to Halifax, Nova Scotia, and
er could join them. "We never saw them
a strange man. The next morning, she was
began speeding across the Atlantic.
again," says Oakley.
desperate." There was a man with a Pana-
Before Frances Oakley and her brother
At first, Ellis Island seemed like a won-
ma hat who had passed the family four
went below deck, though, they watched as
drous place to the little girl, who had been
times the day before. "My mother said,
German U-boats chased the ship, coming
dressed in her Sunday best-a white serge
'I'm going to stop him. I'll die if it's not
as close as a half-mile.
sailor suit "just like the young prince of
your uncle!' She said, 'I beg your pardon.
There was a Welsh family onboard with
Wales"-for her arrival in America. But
Are you Frank?' He said, 'Yes!' He went
the Stenlakes, a mother and five children,
there was a new crisis. Frances's father
in and signed for us, and finally we got off
including a two-year-old. At Halifax, the
had been injured at work and couldn't
Ellis Island."
The
CUNARD
MAURETANIA
Photograph by Ted Hardin.
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Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University. Photograph: Photography Archive, Carpenter
The dining ball at Ellis
Island, circa 1905.
Photograph by Culver Pictures.
(Continued from page 34)
"Here the ego of the architect had to be suppressed," says
HE MANAGING ARCHITECT, JOHN BELLE, 58, OF
Belle. "I could have designed one just like the TWA canopy at
I
Beyer Blinder Belle, was himself an immigrant
Kennedy airport, but we had to have one that fit the site." The
from Wales. As he surveyed the main building,
new canopy was built of glass and steel in a deliberately contem-
Belle remembers, he was "scared out of my
porary but unobtrusive style.
pants. I don't know any other nation where one
Inside, in the Registry Room, workers began the task of re-
building has had so much influence. I was not
storing the great tiled ceiling, built by the Guastavinos, a Span-
sure we could put that building back together." For twenty
ish immigrant family. Each of the 28,800 tiles was tested by
years, the structure had sat in the middle of New York Harbor,
tapping it with a small rubber mallet. In the end, only seventeen
exposed to the elements. The interior was knee-deep in debris,
had to be replaced.
the roof was rotting, plaster was falling from the ceilings and
Then came the problem of the staircase leading to the Registry
walls. The building was saturated with moisture.
Room. At different times, there had been two staircases in differ-
Every hammer, bucket, and sack of cement would have to be
ent places, both removed. But the staircase-and the six-second
transported across the water. In 1986, a temporary bridge was
physical-were at the center of immigrants' memories, so the Park
built from the New Jersey side for $2.4 million. A construction
Service made another exception and a new staircase was built, in
launch was rented at a cost of $25,000 a month.
the second location. Then there were the theaters and escalators
Engineers began the task of drying out the building. Plastic
that had to be added. A decision was made to put them in the old
tubes four feet in diameter and thousands of feet long blew hot
light wells, where they would least disrupt the building's integrity.
air into the building and sucked the moisture out-working
As many as 90 architects and engineers were working on the
gently, to prevent more plaster from falling as the building dri-
project at the same time. Archaeologists, civil engineers, and
ed. It took two years. In the meantime, the roof was restored.
lighting designers took part. At one point, a group of Native
The domes were removed, then finials were lowered back on by
American leaders was brought in to bury bones found during
helicopter in 1987.
the excavations. This spring, the restoration was complete.
From the beginning, there was the problem of how to "inter-
From the beginning, the National Park Service and the History
pret" the site. "We researched every file, every ar-
Advisory Committee were determined not to repeat the mistakes
chive we could for any reference to the building,"
of the old museum. An early plan was to em-
says Belle. "All the materials, the colors, the
phasize only Ellis Island, but historians insist-
textures, had to be right."
ed that it be shown in a larger context. "We
The building's main canopy, which
sheltered the immigrants as they ar-
1892
said, 'You have [proposed] a [basically]
European story in the middle of a city that
rived, had disappeared. The Park Serv-
is black and Asian. This is a national muse-
ice philosophy of restoration is to
um," says Yans-McLaughlin, the editor of
"freeze a building in time," and it is
Immigration Reconsidered (Oxford Uni-
against policy to replicate structures that no
ISLAND
versity Press). The historians also wanted
longer exist. It was decided to bend the rules.
"attention to women."
42
NEW YORK/AUGUST 27, 1990
0 REACH THE NEW MUSEUM, VISITORS MAY TAKE
ferries from the Battery or from Liberty Park, in
New Jersey, arriving just as the immigrants did.
U. S. IMMIGRATION STATION. ELLIS ISLAND. NEW YORK.
As they enter the main building, they will find
themselves in a restored baggage room filled with
trunks, suitcases, and baskets that immigrants
brought with them.
To the designers, the Registry Room is the museum's "emo-
tional core." For that reason, they decided to leave it empty
except for the original benches and an inspector's desk. "You
can feel the emotion in that room. This place couldn't be violat-
ed," says MetaForm's Phyllis Montgomery. "It is the invisible
made perceptible."
Near the Registry Room is the reconstructed Board of Special
Inquiry room, a court of last resort for immigrants who had
been detained. The museum will also contain a dormitory room,
refurbished to look almost as it did in 1908, with 36 canvas
bunks stacked in triple tiers in a space 24 feet square.
On the third floor is "Treasures From Home," a 3,000-square-
MAGOWAN MAPLEWOOD
foot gallery that includes almost 900 artifacts. Among the exhibits
is an empty box that once contained candy given to Nathan Solo-
BOARD OF SPECIAL INQUIRY.
mon, a Polish Jew, by his mother when he set out for America in
1923. There are the candy wrappers, a notebook with recipes from
LAST CHANCE
the family's candy store, and a picture of Solomon's parents and
The Board of
brothers and sisters. It is what Solomon had left to remind him of
Special Inquiry
his family-killed in the Holocaust.
was the court of
There is a sampler that Mary Kudrna Garba made for the
last resort for
father she had never seen when she arrived in America from
immigrants
Czechoslovakia as a ten-year-old in 1923. There is a teddy bear
denied admission
that Gertrude Schneider Smith, now in her seventies, had saved
to the U.S.
since 1921, when she brought it with her from Switzerland.
A postcard from
"What is one person's treasure is another person's trivia,"
the twenties (above);
says Montgomery. "But in this museum, the quintessentially
the modern re-
mundane is elevated to a point of great dignity, even of art. This
creation (right).
is nothing if it isn't a family story. One of the great legends of
every family history is leaving the homeland. The wrenching, the
joys and travails, resonate with the descendants."
Above all, the exhibit highlights the museum's intent to com-
memorate the stories of ordinary Americans. "There are no fa-
U. IMMIGRATION STATION. ELLIS ISLAND. NEW YORK.
mous immigrants in this museum," says Montgomery. "In a city
with 100 museums with some of the greatest treasures in the
world, this is a museum that should speak to all of us."
The museum's designers have been careful to show Ellis Is-
land in the context of 400 years of American immigration histo-
ry. In "Peopling of America," a visitor will be able to press a
button and see the location of 122 ethnic groups on a remote-
controlled map of the United States. Another exhibit, "The
Word Tree," shows the contributions of various ethnic groups
to the American language-hunky-dory and Yankee from the
Dutch, for instance; raccoon from Native Americans. There is
also an exhibit called "Forced Migration," on the slave trade.
The historians wanted Ellis Island to be shown as part of the
largest migration of people in the history of the world. As the
Industrial Revolution took hold in Europe and the population
grew, jobs became scarce. By the late-nineteenth and early-
twentieth centuries, transportation systems had been trans-
DORMITORIES
formed, making travel easier. "[T]here was never a period when
the spirit of restlessness was SO generally abroad over the world
MAGOWAN,
MAPLEWOOD,
12
as it is now," says the New York Times of February 13, 1910. In
their search for jobs, the immigrants traveled to Australia, New
SLEEP TIGHT
Zealand, Argentina, Brazil, and Canada, though most came to
"Sanitary, well-
the United States. Between 1880 and 1924, nearly 26 million
ventilated and
people arrived here.
comfortable
One whole wing of the museum, "Peak Immigration
dormitories insure
Years"-developed largely by Fred Wasserman of MetaForm-
rest for those
is devoted to the lives of these immigrants: their departures
from their homelands, their voyage, their dispersal throughout
detained over night,"
the country. There are nearly 100 passports from 30 countries
says the back of a
as well as photographs of the rules posted aboard ship. There
twenties postcard
are brochures from the Immigration Restriction League and the
(above); a 1990
Ku Klux Klan.
restoration (left).
Photographs: top and center bottom, Fred Wasserman; center top and bottom, Ted Hardin.
AUGUST 27, 1990/NEW YORK
43
ELLIS
892
Cyr. for POTUS.
1892
TODAY, KENNEDY AIRPORT
immigrants and their children. Dominicans are currently the
is the country's new Ellis
biggest group, followed by Jamaicans and Chinese. At P.S. 22 in
Island. About a third of all
Queens, the students speak twenty languages. And in the New
legal immigrants to the United
York City courts these days, there is a frequent demand for in-
ISLAND
States come through Kennedy;
terpreters who know Wolof, a language spoken in West Africa
most have already been cleared
and in New York by Senegalese street merchants.
at U.S. consulates abroad. Those
The new immigrants have reversed the city's declining popu-
without proper documents are sent directly
lation and are stemming the decrease in the labor force. They
home or, if they claim asylum, taken to an Immigra-
are revitalizing dying neighborhoods, setting up shop in empty
tion and Naturalization Service (INS) compound in Queens,
stores on Flatbush Avenue, bringing the infinite variety of their
where they may remain for months until being cleared. Of
cultures to the great mix that is the city.
course, there are still many restrictions on who may enter. Peo-
But in an eerie reprise, immigrants are stirring resentment. A
ple who test HIV-positive are not accepted, and under the
recent Gallup poll for New York Newsday showed that 49 per-
McCarran-Walter Act of 1952, those with "unacceptable" polit-
cent of New Yorkers think there are too many immigrants in the
ical beliefs are turned away.
city. In the past four years, bias crimes against Asians has tri-
Most new immigrants are Mexican, followed by people from
pled. Rudolph Vecoli sees "a new anxiety because of racial con-
other parts of Latin America. Asians make up the third-largest
cerns, a neo-nativism" on the rise-expressed, for instance, in
group. Most are young. The law gives preference to those who
the 1986 Immigration Act. Vecoli sees the same attitude behind
already have family here and to people with job skills in a field
the movement by former California senator S.I. Hayakawa-
with a shortage of American workers, such as nursing.
himself the son of Japanese parents-to have English declared
The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 was de-
the official language by constitutional amendment.
signed to stop illegal immigration by imposing sanctions on em-
Now, as borders in Europe shift once again, as the U.S. faces an
ployers and gave amnesty to illegal aliens who entered the U.S.
increase in migration from the Hispanic and Asian worlds, the
before 1982. The legislation has had some unintended effects:
Museum of Immigration at Ellis Island becomes a timely symbol.
Employer discrimination against aliens has increased, and some
"This is a museum about the courage needed to start lives," says
immigrants now pay as much as $5,000 for forged documents.
Phyllis Montgomery. "I would hope those who are part of the old
New York, meanwhile, is once again becoming a city of émi-
immigration will come-and by reliving the anxious days of the
grés. More and more foreign-born people are settling here. By
past, understand and sympathize with similar anxieties being ex-
the year 2000, 56 percent of New York City's population will be
pressed by new immigrants today."
Photograph by UPI/Bettmann Newsphotos.
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N A SCENE TOWARD THE END OF DAVID
I
Lynch's new film, Wild at Heart (page 60),
the sleazeball-maniac criminal Bobby Peru
(Willem Dafoe) has cornered the pregnant
young heroine, Lula (Laura Dern), in a
vomit-stained motel room. As Peru fondles
the terrified girl, black leather rubbing up
against body-tight spandex, his hands caressing
her ever more explicitly, the camera moves in
closer to their faces. He will leave her alone, he
claims, if only she will ask him for sex. "Just say,
'F--- me,' he whispers over and over in her ear.
By the end of the scene, which has a surprise pay-
off, the curving mouths, cheekbones, and nostrils
of Dafoe and Dern take over the screen-a hot,
writhing abstraction, like a pair of Francis Bacon
portraits under a magnifying glass.
The hyperbolic menace that Dafoe brings to
this performance stands out in a movie studded
with highly wrought cameo roles. Festooned with
a pencil mustache and a USMC tattoo, gassed-
back hair and bad teeth, Dafoe plays Bobby Peru
as a villain amused by his own idiotic reptileness.
He explains his name-"Just like the country"-
with a leer and a guffaw. Nobody could get a big-
ger charge out of his sick, yokel humor than Bob-
by himself. As if we didn't know already what he
represents, Lula describes him as "a black angel."
What is it about Dafoe that leads Hollywood
directors to cast the 35-year-old New York actor
as an unearthly figure, more allegorical than real?
No other American movie star of the eighties
played more good and evil angels. It's as if his fea-
tures-the expressionistic cheekbones, secret
smile, and pale, Northern European eyes-and
that little tough-guy body wouldn't pass as those
of an ordinary leading man.
GOING TO EXTREMES WITH
WILLEM DAFOE
BY
RICHARD B. WOODWARD
T
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DONE PHOTOGRAPH BY KIMBERLY WRIGHT
Oliver Stone, who chose Dafoe to play
bined texts (often an exploded version of
denly shifts into first-person confession:
the martyred Sergeant Elias in Platoon,
a classic, such as Our Town) choreo-
"I was a bit of a wise guy, but basically I
for which the actor earned an Academy
graphed to revved-up, stylized action. Ac-
was a sweet, square kid. I just wanted to
Award nomination, says, "Willem has
tors appear in masks and in drag, on vid-
find out what I was good at and then do it. I
that old-type Gothic face that can go ei-
eo, often in multiple roles. Low comedy-
think that essentially I had no education."
ther way, like a William Blake or a Na-
slapstick and corny vaudeville routines—
Sweet and square, he nonetheless found
thaniel Hawthorne character." Martin
alternates with high-flown rhetoric.
himself out of sync with his hometown. As
Scorsese picked him to play Jesus in The
Improvisation takes place under Le-
a teenager, he was suspended from high
Last Temptation of Christ because, as he
Compte's keen supervision. Serious and
school for making a mildly pornographic
told American Film, "physically, he's an
driven, an intellectual attired at rehearsal
video. He wrote plays and joined an experi-
amazing actor." In Alan Parker's Missis-
in overalls and reading glasses, she looks
mental group, Theatre X, in Milwaukee.
sippi Burning, Dafoe played a lawful, in-
like a gorgeous head librarian in charge of
Film never seriously figured in his plans.
nocent FBI agent opposite Gene Hack-
a hippie commune. LeCompte is eleven
"I didn't have those juvenile dreams
man, whose character was more corrupt
years older than Dafoe. According to the
about Hollywood and 'I wanna be some-
but also more likable. Dafoe's is a face of
circumstances, he refers to her as his
body,'' he says. He took the name Wil-
rigid piety in this morality tale about the
"wife," "girlfriend," or, with a smile,
lem to escape the family nickname Billy
civil-rights movement.
"boss."
(his given name is William), a fact he now
Typically, Lynch has a more idiosyncratic
Dressed in shorts and T-shirt on this
regrets because some regard it as exotic or
rationale for choosing Dafoe. As he has
hot July afternoon, his forearms and
affected. "I didn't know who de Kooning
been telling the press ever since the Cannes
calves muscled like those of a natural ath-
was. I didn't even know how to spell Wil-
Film Festival, where Wild at Heart won the
lete-instead of some Hollywood star re-
lem," he says. "Believe me, if I had to do
Palme d'Or, "I wanted Clark Gable to
cently pumped up-Dafoe, in repose,
it over again, I never would have changed
play the part. But he's
most closely resem-
my name."
dead, so I asked
bles Baryshnikov.
Willem."
NEXT
"It's a curse and a
THOUGHT OF HIM AS THE SHY PROP
YEAR, DAFOE
blessing that people
not go-
WILL PLAY PAINTER JACK-
Dafoe. "They want to
ing to
talk to me about
sell me
SON POLLOCK IN A FILM
where I come from.
I
guy," says Spalding Gray about
OU'RE
can't place me," says
Dafoe's sudden appearance down-
Y
town in 1977. At the time, Gray
and LeCompte were living togeth-
er, and Dafoe, who had come to
to every
They say, 'You look so
New York at the invitation of Rich-
girl in
DIRECTED BY LECOMPTE.
Polish, or so German,
ard Schechner, did carpentry at the
America
or so Russian.' I was
Garage. In a matter of months, LeCompte
as the
in a Korean deli the
and Dafoe had become a couple.
boy next door," says
other day, and a wom-
"I think he was incorporated because
Dafoe in his hard,
an asked me if I had
Liz fell in love with him at first sight,"
slow monotone. Ethe-
any Asian blood."
says Gray about Dafoe's quick acceptance
real as he may look, he
Trying to get Dafoe
into the Group. "At least, that's what she
talks like a hard-nosed
to describe where he
said." The emergence of Dafoe, during
guy who grew up on
comes from-how a
performances of Point Judith, the epi-
the docks somewhere.
boy from Appleton,
logue to a trilogy, coincided with the
His answers to most
Wisconsin, the sev-
phasing out of Gray, who had decided he
questions have a
enth of eight children
wanted to work on his monologues.
shoulder-shrugging
born to a doctor, de-
Gray and Dafoe, although they live in
tone, as if everything
cided to immerse
the same SoHo building, rarely see each
had an obvious
himself in avant-
other. "I don't know Willem that well."
explanation.
garde theater-is
says Gray. "I've never hung out with him
"If you're not a
hard work. He resists
alone. Sometimes, going up the stairs, I'll
bland, good-looking
looking back. "I'm
run into him and he'll be friendly; other
guy, you don't get of-
lobotomized about
times we'll barely say hello."
fered certain kinds of parts," he says. "So
whole sections of my life," he says. "I
The two could not be more different in
you get stuck in character roles. What are
think as I was growing up, I wasn't inter-
performance. Gray teases out the psycho-
most character roles? Villains. As far as an-
ested in understanding myself."
analytic subtexts of everything. Memories,
gels"-he flashes his ambiguous grin-
"He doesn't talk much about his past,"
paranoid jokes, shaggy-dog stories, do fig-
"I'm an angelic kind of guy."
says LeCompte. "Willie's got that old
ure eights in his motor-mouthed pseudo-
We are sitting in a café in SoHo around
midwestern streak: no need for psychia-
confessions. Dafoe, on the other hand, is
the corner from the Performing Garage,
try. I mean that in a healthy way. He's tru-
supremely self-contained, unneurotic,
where Dafoe is in rehearsals for a new piece
ly conservative. He's a moderate person.
anti-introspective.
with the Wooster Group, the downtown
People don't understand that."
"It makes Willem nervous to talk psy-
theater ensemble. For thirteen years, this
"Okay, I'll guess," he finally says about
chologically," says Kate Valk. "He'll say,
company has been his base and its mem-
the shaping factors in his youth. "You
'Just tell me what to do."
bers-Jim Clayburgh, Spalding Gray, Pey-
grow up middle class in the Midwest. It's
The "task-oriented" side of the Woos-
ton Smith, Kate Valk, Ron Vawter-his ex-
comfortable and homogenous. You don't
ter Group style strongly appeals to Dafoe.
tended family. He lives nearby with the
get exposed to a lot of funk. Then you
He has the body of a former high-school
Group's director, Elizabeth LeCompte, and
grow up. You don't have any money. Here
athlete (wrestling and football), and he
their eight-year-old son, Jack.
you were middle class and now you're
likes physical challenges.
Formed in 1975 as an offshoot of Rich-
down to poverty level. You're a dishwash-
"Willie has a tremendous capacity to do
ard Schechner's Performance Group, it
er, hanging out in dangerous neighbor-
heroic, hard labor," says LeCompte. "He
has a small, loyal following, especially in
hoods. You're ambitious intellectually,
likes to lose himself in that. Things that
Europe. Its wide-open, seemingly anar-
but, most important, you're still very na-
are more subtle drive him crazy. He
chic style uses densely layered and recom-
ive." This second-person parable sud-
doesn't get away as easily in psychological
48
NEW YORK/AUGUST 27, 1990
Photograph by Terry O'Neill/Sygma.
the few instances where Da-
foe had trouble with a direc-
tor. Oliver Stone, in a senti-
ment echoed by others, calls
him "an absolute delight. I
would work with him any-
time, anywhere."
Dafoe's confidence on-
stage, although not as strik-
ing as in a camera close-up,
attracted attention in movie-
land soon after he came to
New York. Monty Montgom-
ery, who co-directed him in
his first starring role, as a
moody, Brando-like biker in
the 1982 movie The Love-
less, chose Dafoe after seeing
several Wooster pieces.
"Willem has tremendous
presence," says Montgomery.
"He has one of those faces,
like Mick Jagger's, that both
men and women like. And I
liked his tough voice. The
movie called for a lot of voice-
overs. As soon as I heard him,
returning the call on my an-
swering machine, I knew this
THE GOOD, BAD, AND
was the guy for the part."
UGLY: (CLOCKWISE
Dafoe followed this star-
FROM TOP LEFT) IN THE
ring role on a motorcycle with
LAST TEMPTATION OF
another, as the satanic gang
CHRIST, TO LIVE AND
leader in Walter Hill's Streets
DIE IN L.A., PLATOON,
of Fire. But his film career
AND MISSISSIPPI
shifted up a gear with To
BURNING.
Live and Die in L.A., the
William Friedkin cop film
made in 1985. Playing an elu-
sive counterfeiter and killer
named Rick Masters, Dafoe
graced the well-written part
with the deadly, feline quality
he can convey so well. Mas-
parts. That's why we have a hard time"-
wood urging the cast members to come
ters is an aesthete, a frustrated painter who
sigh-"because I want to develop that
out and join him on the Coast.
burns up his canvases; but he is also a pa-
side of him. It's hard for both of us."
As the member closest to LeCompte, Da-
tient, criminal craftsman. In a passage that
The dynamics of the Wooster Group,
foe also functions as the outlet for Group
ranks with the best that Dafoe has ever put
although independent of any member,
tensions. "He can get angry at Liz for every-
on film, Masters is shown printing up a new
have benefited from Dafoe's movie ca-
body," says Valk. "When they fight, they
batch of money, concentration and perverse
reer. Resentment, if it's there, is muted.
really fight. Nothing is repressed. And then
glee flickering across his face.
"If they don't like it, they keep their
it blows over. They have a very strong rela-
Both Oliver Stone and Scorsese liked
mouths shut about it," he says. "And
tionship. Each has a power center. He
what they saw in the film and offered him
some, more than others, when I come
doesn't need her to make films, and she
choice parts. Platoon and The Last Temp-
back, seem very happy to have me."
doesn't need him to do her work."
tation of Christ required the kind of back-
"I miss his animal energy when he's
breaking work that Dafoe seems to enjoy.
away," says Valk. "He's so primal and im-
HE GROUP LIFE FOR DAFOE HAS
"He'll do anything to help make some-
mediate and funny. He can get in a bad
always run parallel with a film
thing right," says Stone, who forced the
mood if he thinks he's not getting enough
career. For his first prominent
cast to train for weeks in the Philippine
attention. He gets jealous when he comes
Wooster role in 1979, as a foul-
jungle. Likewise, Scorsese kept up a fast
back after making a $25-million picture
mouthed shiphand in Point Ju-
pace in the heat of Morocco. "Once we
and we've been working on a piece."
dith, the character was written
started, we didn't have time to reflect,"
LeCompte takes into account whether
as someone who was always
says Dafoe. "This was his labor of love,
or not Dafoe will be around for live
"away." Writer Jim Strahs dot-
and I put myself in his hands. And the sto-
performances. And at this phase in the
ted the text with jokes about Heaven's
ry suited that approach because all this
group's history, she mines his career for
Gate, Dafoe's first movie. He left the
stuff is working through this guy."
material. In Frank Dell's Temptation of
group for a long stretch to appear in the
Lost in the Fundamentalists' outcry was
Saint Antony, he was going to play the
film. As it went famously over schedule,
Dafoe's gutsy performance. Reviews were
Devil; instead, because he had a movie
Dafoe battled director Michael Cimino in
mixed regarding his salt-of-the-earth ac-
commitment, he appears only on video, as
order to return to New York and honor his
cent. But for this most saintly of parts,
a corrupted soul on the phone from Holly-
commitment to the company. It was one of
Dafoe showed a wider range than ever-
Photographs by Photofest.
AUGUST 27, 1990/NEW YORK
49
and he has never seemed more human.
you. So many restrictions you put on
cracked mirror, in the style of Geinin and
Despite having worked in fourteen fea-
yourself he takes off. And all of the sud-
Noh theater.
ture films, he has not often appeared with
den, you feel free and silly and inventive."
Dafoe's playful side jumps out in this
old Hollywood pros. By now, Dafoe usu-
Bobby Peru shares some sinister quali-
setting. He and the other actors are
ally has as much experience as anyone else
ties with Frank Booth from Blue Velvet,
dressed in makeshift Japanese outfits,
in his movies. But in a story he tells about
and, in fact, Dafoe was a strong candidate
cheap black wigs, fake Samurai swords,
Gene Hackman and Mississippi Burning,
for what became Dennis Hopper's tour de
and garments made out of old bathrobes.
Dafoe seems to recognize that he doesn't
force. "He had a certain look I liked a
He stands still as LeCompte pins up his
easily open up.
lot," says Lynch, who loves a striking
bare-assed outfit. Afterward, as she is
"I remember, about three days before
face. "He had a real good attitude about
talking privately with a few actors, he
we finished, we had a wrap-up dinner to-
taking things as far as you can. I knew I
practices twirling a bamboo stick that, as
gether. I thought Hackman was going to
would work with him someday."
he drops it, clatters on the stage. He im-
flatter me, and he started to. Then he said,
Like other directors, Lynch admires
mediately looks at LeCompte, grinning at
'Willem, in these last three days, try to
Dafoe's professionalism. "He's already a
the other actors, like a boy who knows he
find more colors.' He tells me this three
long way down the road when he shows
is pushing his luck.
days before we wrap!"
up," says Lynch. "I would get ideas from
"There's no question that Willie works
From Hollywood's perspective, Dafoe's
watching him. The way he laughs: That
out some things in the company that he
film career seems stalled at the moment.
led to those beautiful close-ups. Those
can't do in the real world," says LeCompte.
His latest movie, Flight of the Intruder,
were just thrilling, thrilling things."
Having performed inside a fake chicken
might achieve what Off Limits failed to
The softer, boyish side of Dafoe hasn't
heart, run around in blackface, danced na-
do: sell him as an action star. (This
ked except for a flimsy grass skirt, and
LECOMPTE AND THE WOOSTER GROUP.
version of Stephen Coonts's novel is
urinated onstage, Dafoe has done
being delayed due to reediting.) Da-
whatever has been called for, and of-
foe was convincing as a boxer in Tri-
ten a bit more, according to the bent
umph of the Spirit, a film about a
rules of a typical production.
family of Greek Jews in Auschwitz,
After rehearsal, Dafoe sits on a
but only a handful of people saw it.
loading dock across from the Garage
"The more in demand you get, the
and talks about the kinds of roles he
more complicated it becomes," he
likes, why he has a hard time with
says. "You look at the money peo-
certain kinds of acting. It sounds like
ple, whether or not they're going to
something he has thought hard
beat up on the director. You look at
about and, perhaps, argued about
the distribution. You don't like to
with LeCompte.
make movies that don't get seen."
'I'm not crazy about text," he
says. "When a screenplay doesn't
HE EXAGGERATED BIT PARTS
have strong physical actions, I'm
that Dafoe has taken in
generally not interested because it
T
two recent films-the sa-
doesn't play on my imagination. I
distic prison guard in John
would have to make too many
Waters's Cry-Baby and
choices and have too many subjec-
Bobby Peru in Wild at
tive attitudes. I'm suspicious of peo-
Heart-have brought mov-
DAFOE
ple who want to tell people every-
ie and stage life even closer
WONDERED SOME-
thing. I think I tell a lot by what I do.
together. Lynch's method strongly
"Every time I try to convey some-
reminds Dafoe of LeCompte's direc-
TIMES IF DAVID LYNCH'S QUIRKS
thing, in the telling it loses some-
tion in the company.
thing and I don't believe it anymore.
"He's got certain things that he
MIGHT BE SOME SORT OF PUT-ON.
So I ask myself, 'Am I just lazy? Is
wants to happen, but he makes sure
this a cop-out?' Maybe. But every
you don't get too involved with ef-
time I have this agenda that I want
fect," Dafoe says. "You're not building a
shown up much on film. His sculpted face
to move you in a certain way, I either feel
case for him during performance. Liz works
perhaps seems too invulnerable to suffer
corrupt during the seduction or I start to
the same way."
common heartbreak. "I'd like to play a ro-
lose interest."
Wild at Heart, another of Lynch's wide-
mantic scene with a woman," he says. "Not
Dafoe doesn't sound concerned about his
eyed looks at American sex and violence,
as a conceited career move but because it's
next career move. "I'm getting older," he
has plenty of his celebrated mannerisms.
a different kind of energy." In most of his
says. "I'm doing things for my own reasons.
It will likely do for cigarettes what Twin
Hollywood roles SO far, Dafoe is more likely
That's something you learn in the theater."
Peaks did for coffee and cherry pie. Like
to scare women than to WOO them.
Next year, he will join his two careers,
many other actors, Dafoe wondered
starring as Jackson Pollock in a film di-
sometimes if Lynch's quirks might be a
URING REHEARSALS FOR Brace
rected and co-written by LeCompte. The
put-on. But one take, which didn't make
D
Up!, the new Wooster Group
$5-million picture, produced by Monu-
the final cut, convinced him that Lynch is
piece that will be performed in
ment Pictures, is based on Ruth Kligman's
not only sincere but helpful.
Europe this fall, Dafoe and a
account of her love affair with the artist
"We were doing a camera rehearsal,"
circle of dancers practice a
during his last years. Treatment of the ma-
he says. "During camera rehearsals you
long sequence of hopping steps
terial remains a secret; LeCompte will say
don't want to play a scene to death. I de-
that will be videotaped. Al-
only that the film is "extreme."
cided to sing my lines. And David came
though he is the first to master
"I don't know much about it," says Da-
up and said, 'Great. Why don't you do
the movement, Dafoe doesn't stop to in-
foe. "She wants me to put on some weight
that?' And I thought, The guy's a crack-
struct the others. He seems happy to be
and drink and cry a lot. That's all I know.
pot. Then I thought, Why not? Why can't
the instrument rather than the leader.
But when she's confident, I'm confident."
you?
The frame for Brace Up! is Chekhov's
His smile is unambiguous. "And I've nev-
"That's the kind of thing he does for
Three Sisters, presented, as if seen in a
er seen her so confident."
50
NEW YORK/AUGUST 27, 1990
Photograph by Seiichi Tanaka.
CORN MEAL
FOOD
NEW
DEPARTMENT
GRIL
B
RENDAN WALSH,
executive chef at the Coyote
Grill (104 Waterview Road,
Island Park, New York; 516-
889-8009), is bringing the
tastes of the Southwest to the
South Shore of Long Island.
His roasted-corn-and-
shrimp soup-adapted from
a recipe by Stephan Pyles,
chef at the Routh Street Cafe
in Dallas-is a dazzler.
"When corn is roasted,"
Walsh says, "its sugar cara-
melizes and yields a rich,
earthy flavor. And the cool,
spicy chili cream has a clean
taste."
Hot and hearty, this soup is
"like a bisque," he says, and
would be equally delicious in
winter. But right now, "enjoy
it with a beach breeze in the
background."
-BARBARA COSTIKYAN
BRENDAN WALSH'S ROASTED-CORN-AND-SHRIMP SOUP
6
dried ancho chilies and
yellow cornmeal
Roast corn on an oiled bak-
stock from pot. Slowly stir
8 fresh poblano chilies
1/2 cup heavy cream
ing sheet for 15 to 20 min-
into soup, then simmer for 30
(available at Dean &
Kosher salt to taste
utes, turning once; let cool.
minutes longer. Purée soup in
DeLuca and Fairway),
2 cups crème fraîche
Cut kernels from cobs, and
batches; return to pot, and
seeded
1
pound uncooked
set aside. In a large pot, com-
season.
10 to 12 ears corn, shucked
medium shrimp (about
bine cobs and clam juice, and
Combine ancho purée with
10 cups bottled clam juice
25), shelled and
bring to a boil. Reduce heat,
half of crème fraîche, and
2
tablespoons butter
deveined
and simmer for 45 minutes.
strain. Combine poblano pu-
2
cups diced onion
Scallion greens
In another large pot, melt
rée with remaining crème
1½ cups diced celery
butter, and sauté vegetables
fraîche; strain. Add shrimp to
1
cup diced carrot
Preheat oven to 400 de-
until soft. Add corn-clam
soup, and cook for 2 minutes.
1
bay leaf
grees. Soak ancho chilies in
stock, bay leaf, red pepper,
Ladle into bowls, drizzle with
1/4
teaspoon crushed, dried
½ cup hot water for 5 min-
and parsley, and bring to a
chili creams, and garnish with
red pepper
Bowl and plate, Frank McIntosh at Henri Bendel. Illustration by Richard Patlin Ware.
utes; squeeze dry. Purée in a
boil. Add corn kernels, and
scallion greens. Serves 6.
1
bunch parsley, stems
blender, and set aside. Purée
simmer for 15 minutes.
removed
poblano chilies with ½ cup
In a bowl, combine masa
2/3 cup masa harina or
hot water; set aside.
harina, cream, and 1 cup
STYLIST: GILLIAN DUFFY
PHOTOGRAPH BY BRIAN HAGIWARA
AUGUST 27, 1990/NEW YORK
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Jaunts/Dwight V. Gast
THAR
SHE BLOWS!
Recently, Finback II passengers have spotted from 20 to 80
creatures-whales, dolphins, sharks, sea turtles-on every trip
The Montauk Point Lighthouse, commis-
sioned by George Washington, used to be
297 feet from the edge of its cliff. Because
of the continuing erosion of the eastern-
most end of Long Island, Washington ex-
pected the structure-completed in
1797-to last 200 years. It probably will
last another seven years, though it's now
less than 60 feet from the water. The
lighthouse is open daily from 10:30 A.M.
to 6 P.M. (Saturdays until sunset); climb
its 137 steps for views of eastern Long Is-
land, Gardiners Island, Block Island, Con-
necticut, and Rhode Island.
At Montauk Point State Park, which
surrounds the lighthouse, share Walt
Whitman's delight in the "innumerable
wonders and beauties all along the shore,
and the edge of the cliffs." His 1849 Let-
ters from a Travelling Batchelor recounts
his Montauk adventures: "We rambled
up the hills to the top of the highest-we
SEA WATCH: Looking for leviathans on a voyage led by marine biologists.
ran races down-we scampered along the
shore, jumping from rock to rock." Visi-
THE GLORY DAYS OF WHALING OFF EASTERN
makes its way, volunteers distribute infor-
tors can do that today by taking the hour-
Long Island are long gone. Happily,
mation packets and scientists explain the
long walk from Turtle Cove past the light-
though, the whales are alive and well, and
peculiarities of local marine life. Our wa-
house to Oyster Pond, then through the
instead of harpoons, modern seafarers heft
ters harbor several types of whales,
woods and back to the lighthouse.
binoculars and Nikons. That's the proper
sharks, dolphins, and turtles-some of
Three miles west of the lighthouse, on
equipment for a journey on the Finback II,
them found almost nowhere else. "This
Montauk Highway, you'll find the Third
the vessel on which the Okeanos Ocean
seems to be the only place in the world
House Museum (summer hours-till Sep-
Research Foundation offers marine-wild-
where sperm whales come in to shore reg-
tember 1-10 A.M. to 4 P.M. daily; closed
life-watching cruises from Montauk.
ularly," said Sadove. "And the only
Wednesdays). Built in 1749 as the third
Twice a day, this bright-white, 90-foot,
known feeding grounds for leatherback
house to accommodate the overseers of
dolphin-nosed boat-designed for scien-
turtles are the waters off Newfoundland
the area's pastureland, it is the oldest
tific expeditions-sails with up to 150
and the eastern point of Long Island."
ranch in the United States. Teddy Roose-
passengers on its two well-scrubbed blue
Leatherbacks are eight-foot, 1,000-pound
velt and his Rough Riders camped here af-
decks. Adventurous individuals, couples,
critters, the largest species of sea turtle.
ter returning from the Spanish-American
and families looking for some of the most
Sadove's attitude toward the whales
War in 1898. Behind it is the Pharaoh
dramatic displays of nature in the metro-
was refreshingly nonreverential. "Just be-
Museum, which contains local Indian
politan area spend four and a half hours
cause they make songlike noises doesn't
artifacts.
on the ocean with a varied cast of
mean humpback whales are any smarter
You can't help noticing the heavy hand
Okeanos scientists and volunteers ranging
than cows or canaries," he said. "Still,
of developer Carl Fisher as you continue
from teenagers to septuagenarians.
certain whales-like killer whales-have a
west and approach the business district of
"We can't predict what you'll see," said
communicative language and hunt in or-
Montauk Village. In the twenties, Fisher
Sam Sadove, the scientist onboard during
ganized social groups, and they appear to
tried unsuccessfully to make Montauk
my trip-the first of the season, in late
be fairly intelligent."
"the Miami Beach of the North." At the
May-"but we guarantee you'll see some-
Also refreshing was the experience of
traffic circle in the center of town is his
thing." No marine life surfaced on my
spending a few hours on the brisk, open
seven-story office tower. Other remnants
voyage, but since mid-July, sightings have
ocean. Even in summer, a cruise requires
of his legacy are Montauk Manor, on Sig-
been "fantastic," says Judy Raab (who,
warm clothing. We returned from our trip
nal Hill, and a few houses scattered
with Sadove, founded Okeanos): Passen-
invigorated, as if we had taken a dip in a
throughout Montauk-all in the same
gers saw anywhere from 20 to 80 animals
Hamptons beach or pool, and a lot more
quizzical Tudor style. Pass through the
per trip.
enlightened about the secrets of the deep.
uninteresting business district to the Sec-
Aided by sonar and Loran detection
ond House Museum (open daily-except
systems, the Finback II ventures as far as
WHETHER OR NOT SHE BLOWS, THERE'S
Wednesdays-from 10 A.M. to 4 P.M.), at
50 miles out into the Atlantic. As the boat
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dunes, or to a peaceful wildlife refuge
ivista
(Continued from page 54) of town. Built
and famed for its Montauk lobster. An-
in 1797 as the second house for pasture-
other local specialty, Long Island duck, is
RISTORANTE
land overseers, it is the oldest building in
served deliciously à l'orange flambé near-
Montauk, notable for its period furnishings.
by at the Inn at Napeague (Napeague
From the museum, follow Old Montauk
Stretch, Amagansett; 516-267-3332), an
Highway, a four-mile stretch of battered as-
unassuming, redwood-and-knotty-pine
phalt separated from the crashing Atlantic
family den of a place where the portions
by some delightfully scraggly dunes. Just af-
of duck and everything else on the menu
ter the road rejoins Montauk Highway, turn
are old-fashioned-generous. On the way
right on Napeague Harbor Road (park at
back to the city, stop off at the Lobster
the road's end) to finish your visit with
Roll Restaurant, commonly known as
some more Whitmanesque hill-rambling at
Lunch (Montauk Highway at Napeague
Hither Hills State Park. There you can
Beach, Amagansett; 516-267-3740), a
hike beside Long Island's highest dunes to
seafood shack whose booths bustle with
Napeague Bay or to the peaceful wildlife
summer-sharers and vacationing celebs
The "best new Theater District
refuge of Fresh Pond.
tucking into the eponymous dish-chunks
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59
Movies/David Denby
CREEP
SHOW
Wild at Heart never touches normality; it's gaga from the start.
It seems a malignant work-a self-destroying voodoo doll
IN Wild at Heart, THE NEW FILM BY DAVID
a dreamy, even rapturous, visual style. He
she's obsessed with keeping the gangster's
Lynch, the director of Blue Velvet and
had the worldview of a dirty-minded ado-
young driver, Sailor, away from her
Twin Peaks gives us a classic Lynch joke.
lescent-everyone was connected to ev-
daughter, Lula. At the beginning of the
Young Lula (Laura Dern) and her outlaw
eryone else by something forbidden. Still,
movie, Marietta sends someone to kill
lover, Sailor (Nicolas Cage), are driving
operating within that view, he created a
Sailor, but Sailor dispatches the assassin
from New Orleans into Texas, and Lula,
floating, fairy-tale atmosphere that was
with his bare hands, bashing his brains
who is ecstatically happy, turns on the ra-
anything but crude. He set Blue Velvet
out. When he gets out of prison, Lula is
dio. As she punches the buttons, one sta-
and Twin Peaks in American towns, dis-
waiting for him. They salute each other
tion after another offers news of bizarre
solving normal life with his erotic dream
with the pop equivalents of Tristan and
murders, dismemberments, disasters.
logic.
Isolde's love calls, and they're off.
Furious, Lula jumps out of the car, but
Wild at Heart, however, never touches
Sailor and Lula make love in marathon
Sailor quickly finds some rock music on
the radio; they both love this song
("Slaughterhouse," by the speed-metal
group Powermad), and they start leaping
and celebrating in a field next to the road.
On the soundtrack, the rock gives way to
Shipman Ward Inc.
a luscious orchestral passage from Rich-
ard Strauss's Four Last Songs-the over-
ripe end of romanticism. "This whole
world is wild at heart and weird on top,"
Lula says later.
Someone said (admiringly) of Lynch's
early film Eraserhead that it demonstrated
a directorial temperament akin to that of a
drunken man who stumbles along in the
dark and then throws up: overwhelming
dismay and sudden violence. Well, Lynch
has moved along in life. Wild at Heart at-
tempts to re-create a state of emotion akin
to the burning last stretch before orgasm
and the played-out funk after it. "I wish I
could get over the rainbow again," Lula
sighs unhappily at one point. The movie
goes back and forth between exaltation
PURPLE VELVET: Laura Dern and Nicolas Cage do the Wild thing.
and exhaustion. This, I realize, may not
sound bad. No more than anyone else can
normality; it's gaga from the start. Freely
sessions, dance like tigers, drive through
Lynch sustain such a mood; from time to
adapting a novel by Barry Gifford, Lynch
the night. Dern arches her long back and
time, he seems to snap under the strain.
has made a southern road movie in which
thrusts out her small, rounded breasts. In
He gets a great performance from Laura
brand-new freakish characters-creeps,
a daze, she stretches out in bed in cheap
Dern; he climbs the tower of excess, go-
murderers, nuts-slide into virtually every
motels, her long legs and thighs covered
ing all the way into obsessional eroticism.
scene. The characters, large and small,
in black lace. She holds nothing back. The
But then he makes fun of himself and puts
talk in a murderously affected patois, a
dialogue is stylized and mocking-Lula
in a lot of junk, as if the passionate scenes
nightmare of pop cliché, and they drift
could be a young Marilyn Monroe as
were just a dumb joke. Wild at Heart is
through the movie unconnected-or bare-
imagined by Norman Mailer or Sam Shep-
full of self-mocking trash as well as perfer-
ly connected-to one another. The trip
ard-but Dern, who is still in her early
vid excitement, and the trash is not re-
from Louisiana into Texas is a trip
twenties, gives herself to Lula's emotions
deemed by the jokes. It seems almost a
through Lynch's fantasies, which become
without belittling irony. Her Lula is a
malignant work-an instant fetish object,
more and more unhinged.
woman aroused but still young and
an appalling, self-destroying voodoo
There is a repeated shot-a match
tender, vulnerable to the gusts of feeling
doll.
struck in close-up, accompanied by the
pushing her this way and that-the ulti-
In both Twin Peaks and Blue Velvet,
amplified sound of incendiary apocalypse.
mate youthful romantic. Playing a volatile
Lynch entertained us by exposing the dark
We get the point. People are on fire-one
but decent guy, a lover with an angry
impulses of lust and criminality festering
man literally. Lula's mother, the tarnished
streak, Cage is sunk in hood mannerisms,
under the surface of "normality." He was
southern belle Marietta (Diane Ladd),
his hair draped over his hangdog face.
a naughty boy, a new kind of perverse co-
had her husband torched years ago by her
Sailor wears a snakeskin jacket, telling
median-sly but also contemplative, with
gangster lover (yeah, you heard me). Now
people that it represents "my individuality
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NEW YORK/AUGUST 27, 1990
Photograph: Sygma.
and my belief in personal freedom." He
there are Lula's memories of her lunatic
advertisements on late-night cable.
talks like Elvis, in lordly punk style. If
cousin (Crispin Glover), who thinks
Lynch may need to work within certain
Cage were made more attractive, the mov-
black-gloved aliens are gonna get him.
limits, as he has to do when he makes
ie would be easier to take. Lynch, howev-
Also wearing a blonde wig, and pink lip-
Twin Peaks episodes for network televi-
er, has eyes only for Dern.
stick, Isabella Rossellini shows up as a
sion. Forced to take note of certain propri-
Sailor and Lula's chatter in bed-dirty,
character named Perdita Durango, and
eties and standards, he can use his magi-
affectionate babble-is perhaps the frank-
doesn't do anything.
cal inventiveness to tease and undermine.
est talk heard in movies since Last Tango
Lynch's idea, I believe, is that Lula and
But left entirely free, as he is in Wild at
in Paris. Lynch gives us lots of lovemak-
Sailor are trapped by all the sordidness
Heart, he falls apart. He is threatening to
ing, turning the scenes into a yellowish fe-
that gathers on the dark side of living-as
turn into a charlatan of the late-Fellini va-
ver, thick and voluptuous, demanding
these two do-only for sensation. Late in
riety, pulling out his freaks because he
that we relish the sex as a state of feeling.
the movie, Willem Dafoe has some great
doesn't know what else to do.
Lula and Sailor are meant to be innocent
moments as a psychopathic little criminal,
in their desire to pass through life on cur-
Bobby Peru, who turns everything into
ONE OF THE WAYS OF CLEANSING MOVIES OF
rents of extreme emotion. Lula wants to
obscenity. When he comes on to Lula,
false emotion is to leave emotion out alto-
feel good and only feel good, but she's
putting his mouth right up to hers, sex
gether-to go deadpan and turn the whole
plagued by portents-a woman laughing
seems like filth. Perhaps if Dafoe had
idea of expressivity into a joke. Thus Jim
on the other side of a motel-room wall,
turned up earlier and had been a major
Jarmusch (Stranger Than Paradise, Down
visions of a witch pursuing her.
structural element in the movie-the vile
By Law) in America. And thus, also, the
As the couple flees, the crazy Marietta
obverse of Lula and Sailor-Wild at Heart
young Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki,
sends various emissaries after them-her
wouldn't seem like such a waste.
whose comic melodrama Ariel is playing
current lover (Harry Dean Stanton), her
Lynch's fascination with creeps has
at the Bleecker Street Cinema. This beau-
past lover, and God knows who else.
gone past astonishing us and is turning
tifully photographed fable of a young,
Reaching out with clawlike hands, her an-
decorative and whimsical. In Wild at
alienated worker who travels from Lap-
guished face topped with a huge, flaxen
Heart, the naked fat ladies from Blue Vel-
land to Helsinki in an old Cadillac con-
wig, Marietta is, of course, is the witch
vet return, a calling card, and out on the
vertible and who falls, by degrees, into a
that Lula keeps seeing. But Lynch's turn-
road, Lynch piles up vicious people mean-
life of crime is told so coolly and matter-
ing the movie into a joshing fantasy, and
inglessly, as if he were showing off his
of-factly that the bareness becomes a form
his throwing in references to The Wizard
wares. Ooh, nasty! Wild at Heart is
of revolt. Ariel's wry terseness isn't entire-
of Oz, doesn't make Wild at Heart any
Lynch's Mondo Cane, the old documenta-
ly satisfying, but it's a relief from the over-
less absurd. In scene after scene, Ladd
ry atrocity film. Some of the dirtier
insistence of most movies these days. I
weeps and shrieks, and weirdos ogle
episodes are even feebly staged, with
was intrigued: I wanted to see more
the camera. There's a clubfooted whore;
the pathetic, studied languor of porno
Kaurismäki.
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Theater/John Simon
'RICHARD'
THE THIRD-RATE
Washington plays Richard as an old-fashioned heavy, always
expecting-perhaps even hoping-to be hissed by the crowd.
THE HEARTENING, INDEED EXHILARATING,
to attain), can do wonders without a com-
all to Denzel Washington himself, to
thing about Richard III is that it is Shake-
mensurate cast, such as, largely through
oblige him to train for Richard in public.
speare's first play that really works. (Yes,
Papp's fault, is not available here. For it is
Washington is an actor of noteworthy
The Comedy of Errors does, too, but only
quite clear that the aim has been thor-
achievement and, I believe, even more
as a highly derivative piece of jolly juvenil-
oughgoing democratization of the theater,
considerable promise. Given the right
ia.) So what we get here is a sense of the
which to Papp means casting any number
role-as, most notably, on stage in A Sol-
28- or 29-year-old playwright exultant in
of actors of color in both major and minor
dier's Play and on screen in Glory-he is
his first success, a play that, though melo-
roles. To make this color-blind casting
electrifying and unforgettable. But what
drama rather than tragedy and insecure in
more conspicuous yet, the little princes
in his background (including an unre-
its versification, offers a terrific central
are played one white, one black-the lat-
markable West Coast production of Cor-
character, some interesting subsidiary
ter, a college graduate, too old and too tall
iolanus) could have prepared him for a
ones, and a plot that, de-
Shakespearean lead? True,
spite holes and bumps, al-
he speaks his lines tripping-
lows for thrillingly break-
ly, and in Central Park,
neck traversal from be-
where the actors are solidly
ginning to end.
miked, projection is not a
Although Richard is a
problem. But the trio of vo-
consummate villain in the
cal flexibility, variety, musi-
Senecan sense, he has
cality is. This Richard
charm and wit: charm
speaks in something peril-
enough to win Lady Anne,
ously close to a monotone,
wit enough to make an au-
with the voice tending to
dience laugh with him even
become shrill, suggesting
while hating him. It is in
unease rather than what
this play that what was to
makes Richard SO menac-
become Shakespeare's com-
ing: his fiendish self-
plexity, his layering and tex-
confidence.
ture, his appreciation of hu-
Furthermore, this Rich-
man ambiguities, and his
ard is too healthy and hand-
masterly exploitation of the
some. It is not that Crook-
interaction of poetry and
back should be played as he
drama-the possibilities of
might have been in some
the two not acting in uni-
Hollywood pre-talkie ver-
son-can first be sensed
sion, but that the physical
and savored. But it takes ac-
handicaps here seem mini-
tors and directors of consid-
HOLLOW CROWN: Peter McRobbie, Denzel Washington in Richard III.
mal, allowing Richard to
erable stature to save the
cut a winning, almost un-
play from its youthful excesses and insuf-
for Prince Edward. But nothing must
blemishedly heroic figure. In this respect,
ficiencies and to bring out its underlying
stand in the way of Papp's good citizen-
as in so many others, Olivier's movie ver-
strengths.
ship, logic least of all.
sion was exemplary, despite Olivier's
Richard III receives some, but nowhere
Be it said immediately that the black
great good looks and scarcely lesser vani-
near enough, help of that kind in Joe
and Asian actors in the leading roles are
ty. Still, that Richard was not handsome:
Papp's current production at the Dela-
no worse than the majority of the rest, so
weirdly fascinating, perhaps, or poetically
corte. It would seem that four centuries of
Papp may be right after all: If most of the
peculiar. For it is only when an unsightly
its popularity and frequency on the boards
parts are to be mangled, they might as
Richard must exercise great charm and
have gone rather by the board here. For
well be mangled democratically. If, on the
wit and cunning to prevail that his
this, I do not blame Robin Phillips, the
other hand, the goal had been to find the
achievement becomes imposing. But
British director, who has, in all but the
most qualified and compelling actors-if,
Washington is easily the most masculinely
battle scenes (mismanaged by Martino M.
in other words, the main concern had
seductive presence in the entire cast.
Pistone), shown taste and judiciousness,
been art-such democracy would have
Worst of all, Washington misses Rich-
even if only modest invention. But modest
been inconceivable. Art is an aristocracy
ard's humor. Not entirely; he does get the
invention that takes no depraved liberties
of talent; the gifted, like it or not, consti-
obvious, easy laughs. But Richard must,
is a rare and precious quality these days,
tute an elite. You need not take it from
until near the end, revel in his villainies:
greatly to be preferred to the pinnacles of
me; you can get it from no less an author-
He enjoys his ability to cozen others, rel-
so-called director's theater.
ity than Dick Cavett in a recent op-ed
ishes his talent for dissembling. He uses
Still, no director, not even one of the
piece in the New York Times.
those around him-as well as the audi-
first rank (which Phillips, I think, has yet
It is, then, no service to anyone, least of
ence, when he addresses it directly-as so
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Photograph by Martha Swope Associates/Carol Rosegg.
many mirrors in which to admire himself,
see his ugliness beautified by success and
power. Washington, however, plays him
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does not extend to having her played by a
white actress.) Another letdown is Mary
(212)
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(516)
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along a few actors from Canada, where he
(201)
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Grads. Join the NY Urban Professional's Fall Coed
the Set, knows soap opera from firsthand
505-0657
675-3312
Volleyball League. Teams & individuals welcome. All
Games in Manhattan. All levels of competition (180
experience, but seems somewhat less ac-
SPANISH
CASTILIAN
teams).
quainted with life, and still less so with
MEXICAN
and TAPAS
212-877-3614
theater. Much the same appears to apply
to his director, A. C. Weary (on whose
name it would be too easy to pun), and to
four of the five-member cast, which, on
the night I attended, had Beth Ehlers sub-
HSF DAZZLING
Victor's
ARRAY OF
NEW YORK
café
52
MIAMI
stituting for Cady McClain. The exception
DIM SUM
Cuban & Spanish Cuisine
AUTHENTIC HONG KONG STYLE CUISINE
was Kate Collins, of whom I'd like to see
across the street from
more; of everyone else involved in this
46 Bowery 374-1319
"CITY OF ANGELS"
578 2nd Ave. (at 32nd St.) 689-6969
foolhardy venture, less.
236 W. 52 ST.
212-586-7714
major credit cards
AUGUST 27, 1990/NEW YORK
63
S^LES & BARG^INS
BY LEONORE FLEISCHER
TO A T
in. by 8 ft., 6 in.), now 20 percent off; Pa-
here $38. Also, take 20 percent off all
gani/Perversi hook shelving from Italy,
Portmeirion Botanic Garden sets and
THIS STORE'S THREE BRANCHES (TWO IN
single, was $450, now $375; double, was
serving pieces; choose from more than
SoHo, one in East Hampton) have dis-
$650, now $525; glass shelving at addi-
100 French Limoges patterns, 20-30 per-
counted cotton clothing in bright, artistic
tional cost; Falsopiano black or silver
cent off list; Erté service plates, list $110,
designs. Most items are unisex, in sizes
metal-frame table with laminate top, from
here $84; Nikko faux-marble service
S-XL. For example, tank tops and T-
Italy by Grafite, about 3 ft. by 5 ft. closed,
plates, list $100, here $75; and much
shirts in sizes 2 months-4 years, were
top unfolds to double size, was $1,150,
more. 18/8 stainless-steel 5-piece flatware
$15-$18, now $10-$12; summer dresses
now $900; Philippe Starck Wendy Wright
settings are 20-65 percent off, including
(fits all to size 14), were $59, now $29;
chair from Spain, was $200, now $150;
Dalia Picasso, list $45, here $34; Dansk
art-printed canvas totes, were $16-$18,
Achille Castiglioni's Cumano side table
Torun, list $67, here $42; Boda Nova
now $10-$12; unisex short-sleeved art-
from Italy (it can hang on a wall), was
Oval Steel, list $70, here $54; Jay Spectre
printed sport shirts, in polo or mock-tur-
$250, now $200; Bill Becker's Perimeter
Eclipse, list $100, here $30; and more.
tleneck, were $29-$39, now $15-$20;
glass-and-wood coffee table, was $450,
Services for 8 with serving pieces include
and more, including closeouts of discon-
now $375; Ribalta black leather love seat
Yamazaki Diva and Nicole, list $360, here
tinued or damaged T-shirts, sweatshirts,
with 2-color cushions from Italy, by Fabri-
$134; Supreme Cutlery Marchesa, list
pants, and shorts, all 50-75 percent off.
zio Ballardini/Fulvio Forbicini, was
$450, here $139; Retroneu Esprit, list
A.E., M.C., V.; no checks; all sales final.
$4,000, now $3,200; La Literatura rolling
$400, here $170; decanters from Water-
Foravi, 97 Wooster St., near Spring St.
bookcase from Spain, by Vincent Marti-
ford, Atlantis, Wedgwood, and others,
(966-4134); 505 Broome St., near W.
nez, was $1,600, now 10 percent off; and
20-50 percent off; Baccarat Dom Perig-
Broadway (226-2091); 50 Main Street,
more, including accessories and floor
non champagne flute, list $57, here $44;
East Hampton (516-329-0814). Mon.-
samples. M.C., V., checks accepted; all
Lalique Bacchantes vase, list $2,450, here
Sun. 11 a.m.-7 p.m. and Sat. till 8 p.m.;
sales final; delivery additional. SEE, Ltd.,
$1,590; Daum crystal automobiles, 30
through 9/3.
920 Broadway, near 21st St. (228-3600);
percent off; Atlantis stemware, 35 per-
Mon., Wed., Fri., and Sat. 10 a.m.-7
cent off; Alessi kettles, clocks, and acces-
CLOSET CASE
p.m.; Tues. and Thurs. till 8 p.m.; and
sories, 20-30 percent off; and more. In
Sun. 11 a.m.-6 p.m.; through 9/3.
addition, tablecloths, napkins, and place
FOR A LIMITED TIME, THE AUTHOR OF THE
mats are reduced to 50 percent, including
book Organize Yourself! will go to your
WAXING AROMATIC
Damask banquet cloths, list $70-$80,
home and straighten your closet for a re-
here $35-$45; and more. A.E., M.C., V.,
duced price (at least 4 hours' work is re-
THROUGH SEPTEMBER, THIS COMFORTABLE,
checks accepted; exchanges possible;
quired). She'll pull your wardrobe togeth-
relaxing salon is offering considerable dis-
phone orders accepted. Robin Importers,
er, matching, discarding, and organizing
counts: If you use at least three of its serv-
510 Madison Ave., near 53rd St. (753-
your clothing-she'll even shop with you
ices, you'll get them for half-price. All its
6475); Mon.-Fri. 9:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m.
if necessary. The service is available by ap-
products are made, without chemicals,
and Sat. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. (closed Sat., Aug.
pointment only, anywhere in the tri-state
from aromatic plant extracts. For exam-
26); through 9/30.
area. The hourly fee, usually $100 per
ple, if you take a deep-cleaning facial, usu-
hour plus travel, now is $60 per hour plus
ally $45; a manicure, usually $15; and a
MAIL-BONDING
one-way transportation time (transport
pedicure, usually $25, you'll get all three
costs included). Checks accepted; no
for $42.50. Also available are French
A NEW TRADE PAPERBACK, AVAILABLE AT
credit cards. Ronni Eisenberg & Asso-
manicure, usually $18; full leg wax, usual-
your local bookstore, offers mail-order-
ciates, 222-9551; through 9/30.
ly $40; aroma-therapy massage, usually
catalogue-rebate coupons worth $1,400.
$75; bikini wax, usually $15; lower-leg
The book lists 58 famous mail-order cata-
SHELF-RESPECT
wax, usually $20; body brush and tone,
logues for men, women, and children, fea-
usually $35; and more. By appointment
turing gift items and houseware. Partici-
SEE, LTD., HAS OPENED A NEW SHOWROOM
only. A.E., M.C., V., checks accepted.
pants include Brookstone, Hammacher
and is celebrating by discounting its con-
Diane Young Skin Care Center, 38 E.
Schlemmer, Eddie Bauer, Brownstone
temporary designer furniture, most of it
57th St. (753-1200); through 9/30.
Woman, Master Animal Care, Gump's,
imported. For example, Roberto Tapinas-
Spiegel, and the Sporting Life; each lists a
si's Rataplan leather sofa from Italy, was
THE CHINA SYNDROME
couple of full-color sample pages, along
$3,800, now $2,900; Gianni Pareschi's
with the address and phone number for
Tia chairs and stools, were $200 each,
FAMOUS-MAKER CHINA, FLATWARE, AND
the entire catalogue (many are free), and a
now 4 for $600; Philippe Starck's Jon Ild
giftware, with hundreds of china and
rebate coupon to use when ordering (all
shelving (including poles) from Spain,
stoneware patterns, are 25-50 percent off
coupons are good through September
was $80 for 2 poles, now $60; set of
here. For example, 6-piece setting of Roy-
1991). Rebates range from $25 off a $150
shelves, was $400, now $300; desk unit,
al Worcester Evesham, list $65, here $39;
purchase (Spiegel) to $15 off a $35 pur-
was $150, now $120; Nani Marquina's
(the following prices are for 5-piece place
chase (from What on Earth, the Great
geometric and abstract wool rugs from
settings): Royal Crown Derby Old Imari,
Living Catalog, and others), $20 off a $50
Spain, were $950 (for approx. 5 ft., 6 in.
list $675, here $390; Mikasa Arabella, list
purchase (Brookstone, Haverhills, J. Jill,
by 8 ft.) up to $1,160 (for approx. 6 ft., 6
$45, here $28; Hutschenreuther Fleur de
Ltd., Hanna Andersson, Barrie Pace, and
DO NOT PHONE: Send suggestions for
Lis, list $90, here $54; Taitu Legno, list
others), $25 off a $50 purchase (The
"Sales & Bargains" to Leonore Fleischer,
$94, here $70; Oscar de la Renta Traver-
Sporting Life, Christina Stuart, and oth-
New York Magazine, 755 Second Ave., N.Y.,
tine, list $95, here $75; Arabia Ruska, list
ers), or $75 off a $200 purchase (Yield
N.Y. 10017-5998, six weeks before the sale.
$67, here $45; and Dansk Bistro, list $60,
House). America By Mail; $14.95.
64 NEW YORK/AUGUST 27, 1990
CUE
A Complete Entertainment Guide for Seven Days Beginning
AUGUST 27
65
MOVIES
MOVIES
THEATER GUIDE
74
THEATER
COMPILED BY STEPHEN DUBNER
In this listing of movie theaters in the greater New
the Spirits. 8/27-28: Mountains of the Moon;
York area, the Manhattan theaters are listed
Fitzcarraldo.
77
geographically; those in the other boroughs,
12. ART GREENWICH TWIN-Greenwich Ave. at 12th
alphabetically; and those elsewhere, by county. The
St. (929-3350). #1-Ghost. #2-Mo' Better Blues.
number preceding each theater is used for cross-
ART
indexing the capsule reviews that follow.
13. QUAD CINEMA-13th St. west of Fifth Ave. (255-
8800). #1-Life is a Long Quiet River. #2-Cinema Pa-
Schedules are accurate at press time, but theater owners
radiso. #3-Taking Care of Business. #4-Tie Me Up!
may make late program changes. Phone ahead and
Tie Me Down!
avoid disappointment and rage.
79
14th-41st Streets
MUSIC & DANCE
MANHATTAN
18. LOEWS 19TH STREET EAST-Broadway at 19th St.
Below 14th Street
(260-8000). #1-Presumed Innocent. #2-Arachnopho-
bia. #3-The Freshman. #4-The Two Jakes. #5-
Ghost. #6-Air America.
1. FILM FORUM-Watts St. west of Sixth Ave. (431-
81
1590). Film Forum has closed. It will reopen at a new
19. NEW CHELSEA-23rd St. bet. Seventh and Eighth
location later this summer.
Aves. (691-4744). #1-Wild at Heart. #2-Wild at
RESTAURANTS
Heart. #3-Mo' Better Blues. #4-Mo' Better Blues.
2. THALIA SOHO-Vandam St. west of Sixth Ave.
#5-Problem Child. #6-Die Hard 2: Die Harder.
(675-0498). 8/22-23: The Go-Between; The L-Shaped
#7-My Blue Heaven. #8-Flatliners. #9-The Exor-
Room. 8/24-26: Last Year at Marienbad; Hiroshima Mon
cist III: Legion.
Amour. 8/27-28: Los Olvidados; Macario.
20. 23RD STREET WEST TRIPLEX-23rd St. bet. Eighth
87
3. ESSEX-Grand St. at Essex St. (982-4455). Gremlins
and Ninth Aves. (989-0060). #1-Dick Tracy. #2-
2: The New Batch.
The Jungle Book; Arachnophobia. #3-Through 8/23:
OTHER EVENTS
4. ANGELIKA FILM CENTER-18 W. Houston St. (995-
Young Guns II. Opening 8/24: Pump Up the Volume.
2000). #1-Jesus of Montreal. #2-The Two Jakes.
21. GRAMERCY-23rd St. at Lexington Ave. (475-
#3-The Unbelievable Truth. #4-The Two Jakes.
1660). Taking Care of Business.
#5-Wild at Heart. #6-The Cook, The Thief, His
89
Wife, and Her Lover.
22. BAY CINEMA-Second Ave. at 31st St. (679-0160).
The Exorcist III: Legion.
5. BLEECKER STREET CINEMAS-Bleecker St. at La
Guardia Pl. (674-2560). #1-Ariel. #2-Fun Down
24. LOEWS 34TH STREET SHOWPLACE-34th St. at Sec-
CHILDREN
There.
ond Ave. (532-5544). #1-Pump Up the Volume.
#2-The Two Jakes. #3-Ghost.
6. WAVERLY-Sixth Ave. at W. 3rd St. (929-8037).
#1-Young Guns II. #2-Flatliners.
25. 34TH STREET EAST-34th St. at Second Ave. (683-
0255). Presumed Innocent.
90
7. 8TH STREET PLAYHOUSE-8th St. east of Sixth Ave.
(674-6515). Air America.
42nd-60th Streets
NIGHTLIFE
8. MOVIELAND 8TH STREET-8th St. east of University
Pl. (477-6600). #1-The Freshman. #2-My Blue
31. NATIONAL TWIN-Broadway bet. 43rd-44th Sts.
Heaven. #3-Presumed Innocent.
(869-0950). #1-The Exorcist III: Legion. #2-Mo'
9. THEATRE 80-St. Marks Pl. bet. First and Second
Better Blues.
Aves. (254-7400). 8/22: Performance; Don't Look Now.
92
32. LOEWS ASTOR PLAZA-44th St. west of Broad-
8/23: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf; Butterfield 8.
8/24-25: Dinner at Eight; The Women. 8/26: Rebecca;
way. (869-8340). The Two Jakes.
RADIO
The Spiral Staircase. 8/27: Grand Illusion; La Bête Hu-
33. CRITERION CENTER-Broadway bet. 44th-45th
maine. 8/28: Victim; Peeping Tom.
Sts. (354-0900). #1-Die Hard 2: Die Harder. #2-
10. BIJOU-Third Ave. bet. 12th-13th Sts. (505-
Presumed Innocent. #3-Total Recall. #4-Young Guns
II. #5-Air America. #6-Air America.
7320). Mo' Better Blues.
93
11. CINEMA VILLAGE-12th St. east of Fifth Ave. (924-
34. EMBASSY 1-Broadway bet. 46th-47th Sts. (302-
3363). 8/22-23: Mala Noche; The Terence Davies Tril-
0494). Taking Care of Business.
TELEVISION
ogy. 8/24-25: Driving Miss Daisy; The Autobiography of
35. MOVIELAND-Broadway at 47th St. (757-8320).
Miss Jane Pittman. 8/26: And the Ship Sails On; Juliet of
Closed for renovations.
AUGUST 27, 1990/NEW YORK
65
MOVIES
36. EMBASSY 2-Seventh Ave. bet. 47th-48th Sts.
(730-7262). Arachnophobia. EMBASSY 3-Through
61st Street and Above, West Side
Restoration of the Palaces of Leningrad. 8/25 at 1:15: Py-
sanka: The Ukranian Easter Egg; Lost to the Revolution.
8/23: The Jungle Book; RoboCop 2. Opening 8/24: Del-
At 4, 6:30: "Focus on Africa": Jom (1981, Senegal),
ta Force II. EMBASSY 4-Through 8/23: Dick Tracy.
79. LOEWS PARAMOUNT-Broadway at 61st St. (247-
dir. Ababacar Samb; in Wolof, English subtitles.
Opening 8/24: Delta Force II.
5070). Ghost.
8/28-8/31: "The Decorative Arts and Architecture
37. WEST SIDE CINEMA-Seventh Ave. bet. 47th-48th
80. CINEPLEX ODEON 62ND AND BROADWAY-62nd St.
of Central Europe" and "Trompe L'Oeil Painting."
Sts. (398-1720). #1-My Blue Heaven. #2-My Blue
at Broadway (265-7466). Wild at Heart.
8/28 at 1: Renaissance Architecture in Slovakia; Style and
Heaven.
Design in Slovak Furniture; Royal Rococo; Bustelli: Ein
81. LINCOLN PLAZA CINEMAS-Broadway bet. 62nd-
38. WORLDWIDE CINEMAS-49th-50th Sts. bet. 8th
Spiel Aus Porzellan; at 3:30: Painting the Town.
63rd Sts. (757-2280). #1-May Fools. #2-Tie Me
and 9th Aves. (246-1583). #1-"Festival Latino."
Up! Tie Me Down! #3-Cinema Paradiso.
MUSEUM OF BROADCASTING-1 E. 53rd St. (752-7684).
Call 598-7155 for bilingual info. #2-"Festival La-
Suggested contributions: adults $4, students $3, under
tino." #3-Mo' Better Blues. #4-Wild at Heart. #5-
83. REGENCY-Broadway bet. 67th-68th Sts (724-
13 and seniors $2. Through 12/8: MB Playhouse.
The Exorcist III: Legion. #6-Problem Child.
3700). Mo' Better Blues.
Tue.-Fri. at 3, Tues. at 6, Sat. at 1: "Outstanding Per-
40. GUILD 50TH STREET-50th St. bet. Fifth and Sixth
85. LOEWS 84TH STREET SIX-Broadway at 84th St.
formances." 8/21-25: The Naked Civil Servant, dir.
Aves. (757-2406). Duck Tales: The Movie.
(877-3600). #1-The Two Jakes. #2-Taking Care of
Philip Mackie, with John Hurt. "Rocky and Bullwin-
41. ZIEGFELD-54th St. west of Sixth Ave. (765-
Business. #3-My Blue Heaven. #4-Presumed Inno-
kle and Friends: A Tribute to Jay Ward." Tue.-Sat. at
cent. #5-The Freshman. #6-Pump Up the Volume.
3, Tues. at 5 and 6:30. Selections from every Jay Ward
7600). Flatliners.
cartoon series spanning his thirty years in television,
42. EASTSIDE CINEMA-Third Ave. bet. 55th-56th
87. METRO CINEMA-Broadway bet. 99th-100th Sts.
including the characters Rocky and Bullwinkle, Boris
Sts. (755-3020). Problem Child.
(222-1200). #1-Arachnophobia. #2-Duck Tales: The
Badenov and Natasha Fatale, Dudley Do-Right, Cru-
Movie.
43. CARNEGIE HALL CINEMA-Seventh Ave. at 56th
sader Rabbit, George of the Jungle, Super Chicken,
St. (265-2520). The Unbelievable Truth. CARNEGIE
89. OLYMPIA CINEMAS-Broadway bet. 106th-107th
and many others. Also, a selection of Jay Ward's ani-
SCREENING ROOM-(757-2131). Daddy's Dyin'
Sts. (865-8128). #1-The Exorcist III: Legion. #2-
mated television commercials will be screened, span-
Who's Got the Will?
Flatliners.
ning 1963-1984.
44. SUTTON-57th St. east of Third Ave. (759-1411).
91. NOVA-Broadway bet. 147th-148th Sts. (862-
MUSEUM OF MODERN ART-11 W. 53rd St. (708-9490).
#1-Pretty Woman. #2-My Blue Heaven.
5728). #1-Mo' Better Blues. #2-Arachnophobia.
Free with museum admission. Titus Theater 1:
45. FESTIVAL THEATER-57th St. west of Fifth Ave.
Through 9/11: "Twentieth Century Fox 1935-65."
(307-7856). The Freshman.
MUSEUMS,
8/23 at noon: Night People (1954), dir. Nunnally John-
son, with Gregory Peck and Broderick Crawford; at
46. 57TH STREET PLAYHOUSE-57th St. west of Sixth
SOCIETIES, ETC.
3: Pickup on South Street (1953), dir. Samuel Fuller,
Ave. (581-7360). Life is a Long Quiet River.
with Richard Widmark and Jean Peters; at 6: Forty
47. BIOGRAPH-57th St. east of Broadway (582-
ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES-34 Second Ave. (505-
Guns (1957), dir. Samuel Fuller, with Barbara Stan-
4582). Through 10/13: "A New Look At Hollywood
5181). $5. 8/23-26 at 7: The Territory, dir. Raul Ruiz.
wyck, Barry Sullivan, Dean Jagger. 8/24 at noon:
Musicals." 8/23-25: Gigi. 8/26-27: The Firefly; One
8/23-31 (call for times): Three films by Aki Kauris-
Carmen Jones (1954), dir. Otto Preminger, with Doro-
Night of Love. 8/28-29: Star!
mäki: Shadows in Paradise (1986); Crime and Punishment
thy Dandridge and Harry Belafonte; at 3: Love is a
48. GOTHAM-Third Ave. bet. 57th-58th Sts. (759-
(1983); Calamari Union (1984).
Many Splendored Thing (1955), dir. Henry King, with
2262). Through 8/23: Young Guns II. Opening 8/24:
FILM SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER-Alice Tully Hall,
William Holden, Jennifer Jones; at 6: Pickup on South
The Sound of Music.
Lincoln Center (362-1911; 877-1800). $5.50.
Street (see 8/23). 8/25 at noon: Forty Guns (see 8/23); at
49. PLAZA-58th St. east of Madison Ave. (355-3320).
2:30: The Best Things in Life Are Free (1956), dir. Mi-
Through 8/26: "A Roman Holiday: Masterworks of
Quick Change.
the Italian Cinema from Neo-Realism to the Pre-
chael Curtiz; at 5: Bigger Than Life (1956), dir. Nicho-
las Ray, with James Mason, Barbara Rush, Walter
50. PARIS-58th St. west of Fifth Ave. (688-2013).
sent." 8/22 at 6:15: Love and Anarchy (1973), dir. Lina
Wertmuller; at 8:45: Padre Padrone (1977), dir. Paolo
Matthau. 8/26 at noon: The Girl Can't Help It (1956),
Metropolitan.
dir. Frank Tashlin, with Tom Ewell and Jayne Mans-
51. 59th STREET EAST-59th St. west of Second Ave.
and Vittorio Taviani. 8/23 at 6:15: Allonsanfan (1974),
field; at 2:30: The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing (1955),
(759-4630). Flatliners.
dir. Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, with Marcello Mas-
troianni; at 8:45: Seven Beauties (1976), dir. Lina Wert-
dir. Richard Fleischer, with Ray Milland, Joan Col-
52. MANHATTAN TWIN-59th St. bet. Second and
muller, with Giancarlo Giannini. 8/24 at 6:15: The
lins, and Farley Granger; at 5: Love is a Many Splen-
Third Aves. (935-6420). #1-The Exorcist III: Le-
dored Thing (see 8/24). 8/27 at noon: Bigger Than Life
Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1971), dir. Vittorio De
gion. #2-Another 48 Hrs.; Duck Tales: The Movie.
(see 8/25); at 3: The Three Faces of Eve (1957), dir.
Sica, with Dominique Sanda and Helmut Berger.
Nunnally Johnson, with Joanne Woodward, Lee J.
53. BARONET-Third Ave. at 59th St. (355-1663). Die
8/25 at noon: The Tree of the Wooden Clogs (1978), dir.
Cobb; at 6: The Fly (1958), dir. Kurt Neumann, with
Hard 2: Die Harder. CORONET-Mo' Better Blues.
Ermanno Olmi; at 3:30: Ecco Bombo (1977), dir. Nanni
Vincent Price, Herbert Marshall. 8/28 at noon: The
54. CINEMA 3-59th St. west of Fifth Ave. (752-
Moretti; at 5:45: Passion of Love (1981), dir. Ettore
Long, Hot Summer (1958), dir. Martin Ritt, with Paul
5959). Problem Child.
Scola; at 8:15: Identification of a Woman (1982), dir. Mi-
Newman, Joanne Woodward, Orson Welles, Lee Re-
chelangelo Antonioni, with Tomas Milan. 8/26 at 2:
55. CINEMA I-Third Ave. at 60th St. (753-6022). Pre-
mick; at 3: An Affair to Remember (1957), dir. Leo
sumed Innocent. CINEMA II-(753-0774). Taking Care of
Golden Dreams (1981), dir. Nanni Moretti; at 4: A Spe-
McCarey, with Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr; at 6:
cial Day (1977), dir. Ettore Scola, with Sophia Loren
Business. CINEMA THIRD AVE.-Dick Tracy.
and Marcello Mastroianni; at 6:15: A Blow to the Heart
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957), dir. John Huston,
with Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum.
61st Street and Above, East Side
(1982), dir. Gianni Amelio, with Jean-Louis Trintig-
nant and Laura Morante; at 8:30: Kaos (1984), dir.
NEW COMMUNITY CINEMA-423 Park Ave., Hunting-
Paolo and Vittorio Taviani.
ton, N.Y. (516-423-7653). $6; members $4; senior
60. UA GEMINI TWIN-Second Ave. at 64th St. (832-
citizens $3.50. 8/22-23 at 8: For All Mankind (1989),
1670). #1-The Freshman. #2-Air America.
FILMS CHARAS-Community and Cultural Center,
dir. Al Reinert; A Trip to the Moon (1902), dir.
360 E. 10th St. (982-0627). Nonmembers $3; mem-
61. BEEKMAN-Second Ave. at 66th St. (737-2622).
Georges Melies. 8/24-27 (call for times): Pathfinder
bers $1.50. 8/28 at 8: "New Video." Paper Tiger's
Wild at Heart.
(1988, Norway), dir. Nils Gaup; in Lapp, Eng. subti-
Drawing the Line at Pittston; new videos by Jacob
tles. 8/28-8/30 at 8: The Mahabharata (1989), dir. Peter
62. LOEWS NEW YORK TWIN-Second Ave. bet. 66th-
Burckhardt, Paul Garrin, Barbara Rosenthal.
Brook.
67th Sts. (744-7339). #1-Pump Up the Volume. #2-
FRENCH INSTITUTE-22 E. 60th St. (355-6100). "Ciné-
NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY-Vincent Astor Gallery
The Two Jakes.
Club." $5; students and senior citizens $3.50. "Paris
at Lincoln Center, Amsterdam Ave. and 65th St.
63. 68TH STREET PLAYHOUSE-Third Ave. at 68th St.
Film Noir." 8/22 at 12:30, 6: Frantic (1988), dir.
(870-1600). Free admission. Through 9/22: "Wired
(734-0302). Presumed Innocent.
Roman Polanski, with Harrison Ford, Betty Buckley;
for Sound: The Exhibitors' Dilemma": a multi-media
64. LOEWS TOWER EAST-Third Ave. bet. 71st-72nd
at 3:15, 8:45: Tchao Pantin (1983), dir. Claude Berri,
exhibition exploring the early sound film era.
Sts. (879-1313). Ghost.
with Coluche, Richard Anconina, Angès Soral, and
PUBLIC THEATER-425 Lafayette St. (598-7171). $6; se-
65. UA EAST-First Ave. at 85th St. (249-5100). The
Philippe Léotard (in French, Eng. subtitles).
nior citizens and students $5. "Renoir." 8/22-23: At 8:
Two Jakes.
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART-Fifth Ave. at 82nd
A Day in the Country (1936); Grand Illusion (1937).
66. 86TH STREET EAST-86th St. east of Third Ave.
St. (879-5500; 570-3949). Free with museum admis-
8/24-30: "Festival Latino" documentaries and short
(249-1144). #1-My Blue Heaven. #2-Taking Care of
sion. Through 8/25: "The Art of the Soviet Union"
films in competition.
Business.
and "Recent Paintings Acquisitions. 8/22 at 1: Art in
QUEENS MUSEUM-NYC Bldg., Flushing Meadow-
Revolution; at 3:30: Théodore Géricault; Eugène Dela-
Corona Park, Queens (718-592-2405). Free with
67. LOEWS ORPHEUM-86th St. at Third Ave. (289-
croix. 8/23 at 1: Renascence: The Restoration of the Palaces
museum admission. 8/25 at 2: A series of short films
4607). Closed for renovations.
of Leningrad; at 3:30: Théodore Géricault; Eugène Dela-
on the 1939/40 World's Fair: Beauty for Ashes (1967);
68. 86TH STREET-86th St. west of Lex. Ave. (534-
croix. 8/24 at 1: Art In Revolution; at 3:30: Théodore Gé-
RCA, The Birth of an Industry (1939); 1939 World's Fair
1880). #1-Mo' Better Blues. #2-Flatliners.
ricault; Eugène Delacroix; at 7:30: Renascence: The
Newsreel Clips (1939).
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WHITNEY MUSEUM-Madison Ave. at 75th St. (570-
0537). Free with museum admission. Through 8/26:
"Film and Video on Art." 8/21 at 1:30, 8/22-23 at
11:30, 8/24-25 at 2:30, 8/26 at 3:30: Horst (1988); Al-
fred Stieglitz: Photographer (1981); Man Ray (1984).
8/21 at 4:30, 8/22-23 at 2:30: Diego Rivera: I Paint
What I See (1989); 20th Century American Art: High-
lights of the Permanent Collection (1982); The Art Show
That Shocked America (1963). 8/24-25 at 11:30, 8/26 at
12:30: Painting the Town: The Illusionistic Murals of
Richard Haas (1989); Diego Rivera: I Paint What I See
(1989).
BRONX
100. ALLERTON-Allerton Ave. nr. Cruger Ave.
(547-2444). #1-The Exorcist III: Legion. #2-Air
America. #3-Arachnophobia; Duck Tales: The Movie.
101. BAY PLAZA-2210 Bartow Ave. (320-3020). #1-
Ghost. #2-Presumed Innocent. #3-Problem Child.
#4-Duck Tales: The Movie; Wild at Heart. #5-
Arachnophobia; Flatliners. #6-Mo' Better Blues. #7-
Air America. #8-The Exorcist III: Legion. #9-My
Blue Heaven.
105. FAIRMONT-(901-3006). #1-Dick Tracy. #2-
Problem Child. Beg. 8/24: Delta Force II. #3-The Ex-
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106. INTERBORO-E. Tremont Ave. nr. Bruckner
Blvd. (792-2100). #1-The Exorcist III: Legion. #2-
Problem Child; Air America. #3-Presumed Innocent.
OPENS FRIDAY, AUGUST 24th
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107. KENT-E. 167th St. nr. Grand Concourse (538-
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4000). The Exorcist III: Legion.
BROADWAY AT 44TH STREET
59TH STREET E. OF 3RD AVE.
86TH ST. BET. PARK & LEX.AVES.
108. LOEWS PARADISE-E. 188th St. at Grand Con-
869-0950
935-6420
534-1880
course (367-1288). #1-The Two Jakes. #2-Air
CINEPLEX ODEON
CINEPLEX ODEON
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America. #3-Ghost. #4-Arachnophobia.
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109. PALACE-Unionport Rd. at E. Tremont Ave.
23RD ST. BET. 7TH & 8TH AVE.
6TH AVE. AT 3RD STREET
BROADWAY AT 99TH STREET
691-4744
929-8037
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110. RIVERDALE-Riverdale Ave. at 259th St. (884-
9514). #1-My Blue Heaven. #2-Presumed Innocent.
111. VALENTINE-E. Fordham Rd. at Valentine Ave.
(584-9583). #1-Mo' Better Blues. #2-Die Hard 2:
Die Harder. #3-The Exorcist III: Legion.
112. WHITESTONE-Bruckner Blvd. at Hutchinson
River Pkwy. (409-9030). #1-Problem Child. #2-
AFTER MARY GOT ONE OF THESE, THE MAGAZINES
Ghost. #3-My Blue Heaven. #4-Presumed Innocent.
AND NEWSPAPERS WOULDN'T LEAVE HER ALONE.
#5-Wild at Heart. #6-Duck Tales: The Movie. #7-
Total Recall. #8-Taking Care of Business. #9-Air
America. #10-The Jungle Book; Die Hard 2: Die Hard-
er. #11-Mo' Better Blues; The Exorcist III: Legion.
#12-Arachnophobia; Jetsons: The Movie. #13-The
Two Jakes; Flatliners.
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203. BROOKLYN HEIGHTS-Henry St. at Orange St.
(596-7070). #1-The Two Jakes. #2-Ghost.
204. CANARSIE-Ave. L at E. 93rd St. (251-0700).
#1-Flatliners; Duck Tales: The Movie. #2-The Ex-
orcist III: Legion. #3-My Blue Heaven.
206. COBBLE HILL-Court St. at Butler St. (596-
9113). #1-Taking Care of Business; My Blue Heaven.
#2-Presumed Innocent; Duck Tales: The Movie.
208. COMMODORE-Broadway at Rodney St. (384-
As head of the Serials Department at Northwestern University Library
7259). #1-The Exorcist III: Legion. #2-Air America;
Mo' Better Blues.
in Evanston, Illinois, Mary is responsible for the acquistion and in-
209. DUFFIELD-Duffield St. at Fulton St. (624
ventory control of every journal, magazine and newspaper the library
3591). #1-Mo' Better Blues. #2-The Exorcist III:
Legion.
subscribes to. It's a huge, rewarding job. And just one of the many
210. FORTWAY-Ft. Hamilton Pkwy. at 68th St.
challenging opportunities you could consider with a
(238-4200). #1-Ghost. #2-My Blue Heaven. #3-
Presumed Innocent. #4-Air America. #5-Die Hard 2:
Master's Degree in Library and Information Science.
Die Harder.
THE FUTURE IS INFORMATION. TAKE CHARGE OF THE FUTURE.
211. KENMORE-Church Ave. nr. Flatbush Ave.
For more information, write to "Library Careers", American Library Association, 50E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611.
(284-5700). #1-Mo' Better Blues. #2-The Exorcist
III: Legion. #3-Arachnophobia. #4Quick Change;
Problem Child.
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MOVIES
212. KENT-1170 Coney Island Ave. (338-3371). #1-
310. FOREST HILLS-FOREST HILLS-(261-7866). #1-
507. GREAT NECK-SQUIRE-(966-2020). #1-The Ex-
Taking Care of Business; My Blue Heaven. #2-Pre-
The Freshman. #2-Flatliners.
orcist III: Legion. #2-Presumed Innocent. #3-
sumed Innocent.
311. FOREST HILLS-LOEWS TRYLON-(459-8944). The
Through 8/23: Air America. Beg. 8/24: Darkman.
213. KINGS PLAZA-Flatbush Ave. at Ave. U (253-
Two Jakes.
508. HEWLETT-HEWLETT-(791-6768). Taking Care of
1111). #1-Presumed Innocent. #2-Pump Up the Vol-
312. FOREST HILLS-MIDWAY-(261-8572). #1-The
Business.
ume. #3-Mo' Better Blues. #4-Die Hard 2: Die
Exorcist III: Legion. #2-Mo' Better Blues. #3-Prob-
509. HICKSVILLE-HICKSVILLE-(931-0749). #1-Duck
Harder.
lem Child. #4-Air America.
Tales: The Movie; Die Hard 2: Die Harder. #2-Taking
214. KINGSWAY-Kings Hwy. at Coney Island Ave.
313. FRESH MEADOWS-CINEMA 5-(357-8976). #1-
Care of Business.
(645-8588). #1-The Two Jakes. #2-Flatliners. #3-
Taking Care of Business. #2-Mo' Better Blues. #3-
510. LAWRENCE-LAWRENCE-(371-0203). #1-Duck
Problem Child. #4-My Blue Heaven. #5-The Exor-
The Jungle Book; Flatliners. #4-The Exorcist III: Le-
Tales: The Movie; Problem Child. #2-Mo' Better
cist III: Legion.
gion. #5-The Freshman; Duck Tales: The Movie.
Blues. #3-Flatliners.
215. LOEWS GEORGETOWN-Ralph Ave. at Ave. K
314. FRESH MEADOWS-MEADOWS-(454-6800). #1-
511. LEVITTOWN-LEVITTOWN-(731-0516). #1-The
(763-3000). #1-Ghost. #2-Taking Care of Business.
Die Hard 2: Die Harder. #2-Air America. #3-Prob-
Jungle Book; Pretty Woman. #2-Wild at Heart.
216. LOEWS ORIENTAL-86th St. at 18th Ave. (236-
lem Child. #4-Ghost. #5-Wild at Heart. #6-My
512. LEVITTOWN-LOEWS NASSAU-(731-5400). #1-
5001). #1-Ghost. #2-The Two Jakes. #3-Taking
Blue Heaven. #7-The Two Jakes.
Air America. #2-Taking Care of Business. #3-The
Care of Business.
315. JACKSON HEIGHTS-COLONY-(478-6777). #1-
Two Jakes. #4-Duck Tales: The Movie; The Fresh-
217. MARBORO-Bay Pkwy. at 69th St. (232-4000).
Taking Care of Business. #2-Problem Child.
man. #5-Ghost. #6-Pump Up the Volume.
#1-Air America. #2-Presumed Innocent. #3-My
316. JACKSON HEIGHTS-JACKSON-(335-0242). #1-
513. LONG BEACH-PARK AVENUE-(432-0576). #1-
Blue Heaven. #4-The Exorcist III: Legion.
The Exorcist III: Legion. #2-Through 8/23: Air
The Jungle Book; Problem Child. #2-Taking Care of
America. Beg. 8/24: Darkman. #3-My Blue Heaven.
Business.
218. METROPOLITAN-392 Fulton St. (858-8580). #1-
Problem Child. #2-Duck Tales: The Movie; Arachno-
317. KEW GARDENS HILLS-MAIN STREET-(268-3636).
514. LYNBROOK-LYNBROOK-(593-1033). #1-Die
phobia. #3-Die Hard 2: Die Harder. #4-Taking Care
#1-Presumed Innocent. #2-Taking Care of Business.
Hard 2: Die Harder; Young Guns II. #2-The Fresh-
of Business.
#3-The Two Jakes. #4-Ghost.
man. #3-Air America; The Exorcist III: Legion. #4
318. OZONE PARK-CROSSBAY-(848-1738). #1-Pre-
Through 8/23: Total Recall; Teenage Mutant Ninja Tur-
219. THE MOVIES AT SHEEPSHEAD BAY-Knapp St. off
Belt Pkwy. (615-1700). #1-Flatliners. #2-Pre-
sumed Innocent. #2-Taking Care of Business. #3-
tles. Beg. 8/24: Men at Work.
Ghost.
515. MALVERNE-TWIN-(599-6966). #1-Duck Tales:
sumed Innocent. #3-My Blue Heaven. #4-Ghost.
#5-The Two Jakes. #6-The Freshman. #7-Prob-
320. REGO PARK-DRAKE-(457-4002). Jetsons: The
The Movie. #2-Pretty Woman; Days of Thunder.
lem Child. #8-Die Hard 2: Die Harder. #9-Young
Movie; Die Hard 2: Die Harder.
516. MANHASSET-MANHASSET-(627-7887). #1-
Guns II.
322. SUNNYSIDE-CENTER-(784-3050). #1-My Blue
Ghost. #2-The Two Jakes. #3-Dick Tracy.
220. OCEANA-Brighton Beach Ave. at Coney Is-
Heaven. #2-Taking Care of Business.
517. MASSAPEQUA-THE MOVIES AT SUNRISE MALL-
land Ave. (743-4333). #1-Through 8/23: Duck
(795-2244). #1-Ghost. #2-The Two Jakes. #3-
STATEN ISLAND
Tales: The Movie; Flatliners. Beg. 8/24: Delta Force II.
Presumed Innocent. #4-Through 8/23: Air America.
#2-My Blue Heaven. #3-Taking Care of Business.
Beg. 8/24: Witches. #5-The Exorcist III: Legion.
AREA CODE 718
#4-Through 8/23: Air America. Beg. 8/24: Darkman.
#6-My Blue Heaven. #7-Die Hard 2: Die Harder.
#5-Wild at Heart. #6-Presumed Innocent.
#8-Through 8/23: Problem Child. Beg. 8/24: Dark-
400. ELTINGVILLE-AMBOY-(356-3800). #1-My Blue
man. #9-Flatliners.
222. RIDGEWOOD-Myrtle Ave. at Putnam Ave.
Heaven. #2-Flatliners.
(821-5993). #1-Through 8/23: Arachnophobia. Beg.
519. MERRICK-MERRICK TWIN-(546-1270). #1-The
401. NEW DORP-HYLAN-(351-601). #1-Presumed
8/24: Delta Force II. #2-Through 8/23: Air America.
Exorcist III: Legion.#2-Taking Care of Business.
Innocent. #2-Taking Care of Business.
Beg. 8/24: Darkman. #3-The Exorcist III: Legion.
520. NEW HYDE PARK-HERRICKS-(747-0555). #1-
406. TRAVIS-THE MOVIES AT STATEN ISLAND-(983-
#4-Through 8/23: Mo' Better Blues. Beg. 8/24: Men
Presumed Innocent. #2-My Blue Heaven.
At Work. #5-Problem Child.
9600). #1-My Blue Heaven. #2-Presumed Innocent.
#3-Problem Child. #4-The Exorcist III: Legion.
521. OCEANSIDE-OCEANSIDE-(536-7565). #1-Prob-
#5-Flatliners. #6-Ghost. #7-Die Hard 2: Die
lem Child. #2-Pretty Woman.
QUEENS
Harder. #8-The Freshman. #9-The Two Jakes.
522. PORT WASHINGTON-MOVIES-(944-6200). #1-
#10-Air America.
AREA CODE 718
Flatliners. #2-Die Hard 2: Die Harder. #3-Cinema
Paradiso. #4-Presumed Innocent. #5-Duck Tales: The
LONG ISLAND
300. ASTORIA-UA ASTORIA-(545-9470). #1-My Blue
Movie; Arachnophobia. #6-The Jungle Book; Pretty
Heaven. #2-Presumed Innocent. #3-Flatliners. #4
Woman. #7-The Exorcist III: Legion.
AREA CODE 516
The Exorcist III: Legion. #5-Problem Child. #6-Air
523. SOUNDVIEW CINEMAS-(944-390). #1-Wild at
America.
Nassau County
Heart. #2-The Freshman. #3-Air America. #4
301. BAYSIDE-LOEWS BAY TERRACE-(428-4040).
Pump Up the Volume. #5-My Blue Heaven #6-
#1-Presumed Innocent. #2-Pump Up the Volume.
Taking Care of Business.
500. BALDWIN-GRAND AVENUE-(223-2323). #1-
302. BAYSIDE-THE MOVIES AT BAYSIDE-(225-7711).
Taking Care of Business. #2-Duck Tales: The Movie;
524. ROCKVILLE CENTRE-FANTASY-(764-8000). #1-
#1-Ghost. #2-Flatliners. #3-The Two Jakes.
Flatliners.
Wild at Heart. #2-Arachnophobia. #3-Presumed In-
#4-The Freshman.
501. BELLMORE-MOVIES-(783-7200). Duck Tales: The
nocent. #4-The Two Jakes. #5-Pump Up the
Volume.
303. CORONA-PLAZA-(639-7722). #1-Through
Movie; Arachnophobia.
8/23: Die Hard 2: Die Harder. Beg. 8/24: Delta Force II.
502. BETHPAGE-MID-ISLAND-(796-7500). Presumed
525. ROCKVILLE CENTRE-ROCKVILLE CENTRE-(678-
Innocent.
3121). #1-Ghost. #2-My Blue Heaven.
304. DOUGLASTON-MOVIEWORLD-(423-7200). #1-
My Blue Heaven. #2-Ghost. #3-Flatliners. #4
503. EAST MEADOW-MEADOWBROOK-(731-2423).
526. ROSLYN-ROSLYN-(621-8488). #1-Taking Care
The Exorcist III: Legion. #5-Problem Child. #6-Die
#1-Through 8/23: Problem Child. Beg. 8/24: Dark-
of Business. #2-The Freshman.
Hard 2: Die Harder. #7-Air America.
man. #2-Through 8/23: Die Hard 2: Die Harder.
527. SYOSSET-SYOSSET-(921-5810). #1-My Blue
305. ELMHURST-LOEWS ELMWOOD-(429-4770). #1-
Beg. 8/24: Witches. #3-The Exorcist III: Legion; Pre-
Heaven. #2-Flatliners. #3-The Freshman.
Ghost. #2-Taking Care of Business. #3-Arachnopho-
sumed Innocent. #4-Presumed Innocent; Flatliners.
528. SYOSSET-UA CINEMA 150-(364-0700). Presumed
bia. #4-Pump Up the Volume.
504. FRANKLIN SQUARE-FRANKLIN-(775-3257). #1-
Innocent.
306. FLUSHING-UA QUARTET-(359-6777). #1-My
Taking Care of Business. #2-My Blue Heaven. #3-
530. VALLEY STREAM-SUNRISE-(825-5700). #1-Mo'
Blue Heaven. #2-The Exorcist III: Legion. #3-Prob-
Problem Child. #4-The Freshman; Duck Tales: The
Better Blues. #2-Ghost. #3-Mo' Better Blues. #4
lem Child. #4-Die Hard 2: Die Harder.
Movie.
The Exorcist III: Legion. #5-Air America. #6-Tak-
307. FLUSHING-UTOPIA-(454-2323). #1-The Two
505. GARDEN CITY-ROOSEVELT FIELD-(741-4007).
ing Care of Business. #7-Flatliners. #8-My Blue
#1-Presumed Innocent. #2-Ghost. #3-Flatliners.
Jakes #2-Program unavailable.
Heaven. #9-Arachnophobia; Jetsons: The Movie.
#4-Die Hard 2: Die Harder. #5-Air America. #6-
#10-Total Recall; Presumed Innocent. #11-Die Hard
308. FOREST HILLS-CINEMART-(261-2244). #1-
Taking Care of Business. #7-The Two Jakes. #8-The
2: Die Harder; Duck Tales: The Movie. #12-Young
Pretty Woman; The Jungle Book. #2-Duck Tales: The
Freshman.
Guns II; Another 48 Hrs. #13-The Jungle Book; Prob-
Movie; Wild at Heart.
506. GLEN COVE-GLEN COVE-(671-6668). #1-Flat-
lem Child.
309. FOREST HILLS-CONTINENTAL-(544-1020). #1-
liners. #2-The Exorcist III: Legion. #3-Taking Care
532. WESTBURY-DRIVE-IN-(334-3400) #1-
My Blue Heaven. #2-Young Guns II. #3-Presumed
of Business. #4-Air America. #5-Presumed Innocent.
Through 8/23: Air America. Beg. 8/24: Darkman.
Innocent.
#6-The Two Jakes.
#2-The Exorcist III: Legion. #3-My Blue Heaven.
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533. VALLEY STREAM-GREEN ACRES-(561-2100).
627. PORT JEFFERSON-MINI EAST-(928-655). My
USDA
ABOVE
#1-Ghost. #2-Ghost; Wild at Heart. #3-The
Blue Heaven. WEST-Presumed Innocent.
PRIME
THE REST !
Freshman. #4-The Two Jakes. #5-Dick Tracy. #6-
630. SAG HARBOR-SAG HARBOR-(725-0010).
Pretty Woman.
Through 8/23: Without You I'm Nothing. Beg. 8/24:
THE
ASSEMBLY
534. WESTBURY-WESTBURY-(333-1911). #1-Ghost.
Too Beautiful For You.
#2-The Two Jakes.
631. SAYVILLE-SAYVILLE-(589-0232). #1-Ghost.
MORE THAN A GREAT STEAKHOUSE!
#2-Air America. #3-Duck Tales: The Movie; Prob-
Suffolk County
lem Child.
SPECIAL PRE-THEATER DINNER
633. SMITHTOWN-SMITHTOWN-(265-1551). Flatliners.
GREAT FISH, VEAL & LOBSTER
600. BABYLON-BABYLON-(669-3399) #1-The Exor-
634. SOUTHAMPTON-SOUTHAMPTON-(283-1300).
16 WEST 51st STREET N.Y.C.
cist III: Legion. #2-Through 8/23: The Freshman.
#1-Ghost. #2-Air America. #3-Through 8/23:
Rockefeller Center - 581-3580
Beg. 8/24: Darkman. #3-Flatliners.
Problem Child; Die Hard 2: Die Harder. Beg. 8/24:
601. BABYLON-SOUTH BAY-(587-7676). #1-The
Darkman. #4-The Exorcist III: Legion. #5-
Discount Parking Dinner & Theater
Two Jakes. #2-Air America; Taking Care of Business.
Through 8/23: The Freshman. Beg. 8/24: Witches.
#3-Through 8/23: Problem Child. Beg. 8/24: Delta
635. STONY BROOK-LOEWS-(751-2300). #1-Ghost.
Force II.
#2-Air America. #3-The Two Jakes.
602. BAY SHORE-CINEMA-(665-1722). My Blue
636. WEST ISLIP-TWIN-(669-2626). #1-Taking Care
CitiTicket
Heaven.
1-800-4-EVENTS
of Business; Die Hard 2: Die Harder. #2-Duck Tales:
ACCESS TO ENTERTAINMENT (212) 736-5609
603. BAY SHORE-LOEWS SOUTH SHORE MALL-(666-
The Movie.
4000). #1-Presumed Innocent. #2-Ghost.
638. WESTHAMPTON-HAMPTON ARTS-(288-2600).
606. BROOKHAVEN-MULTIPLEX-(289-8900). #1-
#1-Taking Care of Business. #2-The Two Jakes.
Duck Tales: The Movie. #2-Young Guns II. #3-Air
America. #4-Arachnophobia. #5-The Two Jakes.
639. WESTHAMPTON-WESTHAMPTON-(288-1500).
Presumed Innocent.
#6-Ghost. #7-Taking Care of Business. #8-Jetsons:
P.O. BOX 255
The Movie; Die Hard 2: Die Harder. #9-Problem
FORT LEE, NJ 07024
AMEX/MC/VISA
NEW YORK STATE
Child; Presumed Innocent. #10-The Exorcist III: Le-
gion; Flatliners. #11-The Jungle Book; My Blue Heav-
AREA CODE 914
en. #12-Wild at Heart; Pretty Woman.
608. COMMACK-MULTIPLEX-(462-6953). #1-Air
Topofthe Sixes®
Westchester County
39 stories above it all
America. #2-Ghost. #3-The Exorcist III: Legion.
666 Fifth Avenue
757-6662
#4-Arachnophobia. #5-Taking Care of Business.
700. BEDFORD VILLAGE-BEDFORD PLAYHOUSE-(234-
#6-Duck Tales: The Movie; Die Hard 2: Die Harder.
#7-Dick Tracy; Young Guns II. #8-Pretty Woman;
7300). #1-Presumed Innocent. #2-Wild at Heart.
The Jungle Book. #9-Presumed Innocent; My Blue
702. BRONXVILLE-BRONXVILLE--(961-4030). #1-The
Heaven. #10-Flatliners; Problem Child. #11-Wild at
Freshman. #2-Ghost. #3-Flatliners.
Heart; The Two Jakes. #12-The Freshman; Mo' Better
703. GREENBURGH-CINEMA 100-(946-4680). #1-
Blues.
Flatliners. #2-Taking Care of Business.
610. CORAM-THE MOVIES AT CORAM-(736-6200).
704. HARRISON-CINEMA-(835-5952). The Freshman.
MONTES
#1-Flatliners. #2-Ghost. #3-The Two Jakes.
705. HARTSDALE-CINEMA-(428-2200) #1-Presumed
#4-The Exorcist III: Legion. #5-My Blue Heaven;
Innocent #2-The Two Jakes. #3-Ghost. #4-The
Home-Made Pastas
Taking Care of Business. #6-Presumed Innocent; Air
Freshman.
and Regional Specialties
America. #7-Through 8/23: Problem Child. Beg.
706. HAWTHORNE-ALL WESTCHESTER SAW MILL-
8/24: Darkman. #8-Through 8/23: Die Hard 2: Die
Lunch Dinner Cocktails
Harder. Beg. 8/24: Witches.
(747-2333). #1-The Two Jakes. #2-Ghost. #3-Air
AE & Visa - Closed Tuesday
America. #4-Presumed Innocent. #5-Problem Child.
611. CORAM-PINE-(698-6442). #1-Taking Care of
97 MacDougal St. Tel. 228-9194
#6-The Exorcist III: Legion. #7-Flatliners. #8-
Business. #2-The Exorcist III: Legion. #3-Duck
Bet. Bleecker & W. 3rd
674-9456
The Freshman. #9-Taking Care of Business. #10-My
Tales: The Movie. #4-Problem Child.
Blue Heaven.
612. EAST HAMPTON-CINEMAS-(324-0448). #1-Pre-
707. LARCHMONT-PLAYHOUSE-(834-3001). Presumed
New York
sumed Innocent. #2-Metropolitan. #3-The Two
Innocent.
Le Steak
Wash. D.C.
Jakes. #4-Flatliners. #5-My Blue Heaven.
708. MAMARONECK-PLAYHOUSE-(698-2200). #1-
Unique Bistro Specializing in
613. ELWOOD-ELWOOD-(499-7800). #1-Taking Care
Flatliners. #2-My Blue Heaven. #3-Air America.
STEAK and SWORDFISH
of Business. #2-The Two Jakes.
#4-Die Hard 2: Die Harder.
'Steak and Fries are tops'-FORBES
615. GREENPORT-GREENPORT-(477-0500). Through
709. MOUNT KISCO-MOUNT KISCO-(666-6900). #1-
*** -Best Restaurant in America-1987
8/23: Die Hard 2: Die Harder. Beg. 8/24: Ghost.
My Blue Heaven. #2-The Two Jakes. #3-Ghost.
Pre Movie & Theater-Open Sundays
616. HUNTINGTON-SHORE-(421-5200). #1-Presumed
#4-Flatliners; The Jungle Book. #5-Taking Care of
1089 Second Ave. (bet. 57 & 58) (212) 421-9072
Innocent. #2-Ghost. #3-Pump Up the Volume. #4
Business; Duck Tales: The Movie.
Flatliners.
711. NEW ROCHELLE-PROCTORS-(632-1100). #1-
we're here:
617. HUNTINGTON STATION-WHITMAN-(423-1300).
Mo' Better Blues. #2-Taking Care of Business.
Wild at Heart.
712. NEW ROCHELLE-TOWN-(632-9700). #1-The
Exorcist III: Legion. #2-Duck Tales: The Movie; Air
#2-Wild at Heart. #3-The Exorcist III: Legion.
America.
AROUND
676 Sixth Avenue
at 21st Street
618. ISLIP-ISLIP-(581-5200). #1-The Two Jakes.
691-3535
619. LAKE GROVE-MALL SMITH HAVEN-(724-9550).
714. PEEKSKILL-BEACH-(737-6262). #1-Air Ameri-
PLUCK
and Now we're Here:
#1-The Freshman. #2-Presumed Innocent. #3-Die
ca. #2-My Blue Heaven. #3-Arachnophobia; Duck
Hard 2: Die Harder. #4-Taking Care of Business.
Tales: The Movie. #4-Presumed Innocent.
THE
1700 Second Avenue
at 88th Street
996-6200
620. LINDENHURST-LINDENHURST-(888-5400).
715. PEEKSKILL-WESTCHESTER MALL-(528-8822).
Through 8/23: Jetsons: The Movie; Navy SEALs. Beg.
#1-Taking Care of Business. #2-The Two Jakes.
8/24: Pretty Woman.
#3-Ghost. #4-The Exorcist III: Legion.
621. MATTITUCK-MATTITUCK-(298-4405). #1-
Ghost. #2-Flatliners. #3-Taking Care of Business.
716. PELHAM-PICTURE HOUSE-(738-3160). Taking
#4-Presumed Innocent. #5-My Blue Heaven. #6-
Care of Business.
Toipei
The Two Jakes. #7-Pump Up the Volume. #8-The
718. RYE-RYE RIDGE-(939-8177). #1-Taking Care of
A MIDTOWN CHINATOWN
Exorcist III: Legion.
Business. #2-Ghost.
Mandarin, Szechuan & Hunan Cuisine
623. NORTHPORT-NORTHPORT-(261-8600). Through
719. SCARSDALE-FINE ARTS-(723-6699). Wild at
LUNCH & DINNER COCKTAIL LOUNGE
8/23: Jetsons: The Movie; Navy SEALs. Beg. 8/24:
Heart.
OPEN 7 DAYS 4 PRIVATE PARTY ROOMS
Pretty Woman.
712 THIRD AVE.(45 St.) Tel: 697-6775/6
721. WHITE PLAINS-GALLERIA-(997-8198). #1-Mo'
625. PATCHOGUE-THE MOVIES AT PATCHOGUE-(363-
Better Blues. #2-My Blue Heaven; Duck Tales: The
2100). #1-Through 8/23: Duck Tales: The Movie.
Movie.
Beg. 8/24: Delta Force II. #2-Ghost. #3-Presumed
Innocent. #4-The Exorcist III: Legion. #5-My Blue
722. YONKERS-CENTRAL PLAZA-(793-3232). #1-
Heaven. #6-Air America. #7-Flatliners. #8-The
Two Jakes. #9-Through 8/23: Die Hard 2: Die Hard-
Exorcist III: Legion. #4-Duck Tales: The Movie; Tak-
Fino
Classic
Arachnophobia. #2-Die Hard 2: Die Harder. #3-The
Italian Cuisine
er. Beg. 8/24: Darkman. #10-Through 8/23: The
ing Care of Business.
Lunch
Dinner
Cocktails
Freshman. Beg. 8/24: Pump Up the Volume. #11-
723. YONKERS-MOVIELAND-(793-0002). #1-Pre-
Through 8/23: Arachnophobia. Beg. 8/24: Witches.
sumed Innocent. #2-Through 8/23: Young Guns II.
Closed Sunday
#12-Taking Care of Business. #13-Through 8/23:
Beg. 8/24: Darkman. #3-Air America. #4-My Blue
4 East 36ᵗʰ St. (5th & Mad.) 689-8040-1
Problem Child. Beg. 8/24: Men at Work.
Heaven. #5-Problem Child. #6-The Two Jakes.
AUGUST 27, 1990/NEW YORK 69
MOVIES
725. YORKTOWN HEIGHTS-THE MOVIES AT JEFFERSON
820. WESTPORT-FINE ARTS-(227-3324). #1-Pre-
931. CRANFORD-CRANFORD-(276-9120). #1-Air
VALLEY-(245-0220). #1-The Freshman. #2-Flat-
sumed Innocent. #2-The Freshman; The Jungle Book.
America. #2-Duck Tales: The Movie; Problem Child.
liners. #3-Problem Child. #4-Presumed Innocent.
#3-My Blue Heaven. #4-Ghost.
932. ELIZABETH-ELMORA-(352-3483). The Jungle
#5-Air America. #6-My Blue Heaven. #7-Young
821. WESTPORT-POST-(227-0500). The Two Jakes.
Book; The Freshman.
Guns II; Duck Tales: The Movie.
822. WILTON-CINEMA-(762-5678). Taking Care of
933. LINDEN-QUAD-(925-9787). #1-Taking Care of
Business.
Rockland County
Business. #2-Flatliners. #3-My Blue Heaven; Duck
Tales: The Movie. #4-Problem Child; Air America.
NEW JERSEY
935. UNION-LOST PICTURE SHOW-(964-4497). The
753. NANUET-MOVIES-(623-0211) #1-Arachnopho-
Two Jakes.
bia. #2-Pump Up the Volume. #3-Duck Tales: The
AREA CODE 201
Movie; Pretty Woman. #4-Taking Care of Business.
936. UNION-UNION-(686-4373). #1-Flatliners. #2-
#5-Mo' Better Blues.
Hudson County
Ghost.
755. NEW CITY-TOWN-(634-5100). #1-My Blue
937. WESTFIELD-RIALTO-(232-1288). #1-Flatliners.
Heaven. #2-Ghost.
900. ARLINGTON-LINCOLN-(997-6873) #1-Pre-
#2-The Freshman. #3-The Exorcist III: Legion.
756. NEW CITY-UA CINEMA 304-(634-8200). #1-
sumed Innocent. #2-My Blue Heaven. #3-Ghost.
938. WESTFIELD-TWIN-(654-4720). #1-Taking Care
The Exorcist III: Legion. #2-Presumed Innocent.
902. JERSEY CITY-NEWPORT CENTER-(626-3200).
of Business. #2-Wild at Heart; The Jungle Book.
757. NYACK-CINEMA EAST-(358-6631). Wild at Heart.
#1-Die Hard 2: Die Harder. #2-The Exorcist III:
759. PEARL RIVER-CENTRAL-(735-2530). #1-Taking
Legion. #3-Air America. #4-Mo' Better Blues. #5-
Bergen County
Care of Business. #2-The Freshman; Duck Tales: The
The Two Jakes. #6-Arachnophobia. #7-Problem
Child. #8-Presumed Innocent. #9-Ghost.
950. BERGENFIELD-CINEMA 5-(385-1600). #1-Tak-
Movie.
903. JERSEY CITY-STATE-(653-5200). #1-Through
ing Care of Business. #2-The Exorcist III: Legion.
760. PEARL RIVER-PEARL RIVER-(735-6500). Air
8/23: Mo' Better Blues. Beg. 8/24: Delta Force II. #2-
#3-Problem Child. #4-Ghost; Air America. #5-
America.
Through 8/23: Problem Child. Beg. 8/24: Darkman.
Duck Tales: The Movie. Beg. 8/24: Pump Up the
764. LAFAYETTE-(357-6030). Flatliners.
Volume.
#3-The Exorcist III: Legion. #4-Through 8/23: Air
CONNECTICUT
America. Beg. 8/24: Witches.
951. CLOSTER-CLOSTER-(768-800). The Two Jakes.
904. SECAUCUS-LOEWS MEADOW PLAZA 8-(902-
952. EDGEWATER-LOEWS SHOWBOAT-(941-3660).
9200). #1-Taking Care of Business. #2-Young Guns
#1-Ghost. #2-The Two Jakes. #3-Taking Care of
AREA CODE 203
II. #3-The Jungle Book; Mo' Better Blues. #4-The
Business. #4-The Freshman.
Fairfield County
Two Jakes. #5-Wild at Heart. #6-Duck Tales: The
953. EMERSON-TOWN-(261-100). #1-The Two
Movie; Pump Up the Volume. #7-Air America. #8-
Jakes; Problem Child. #2-Pretty Woman; The Jungle
Problem Child.
Book. #3-Ghost.
800. BROOKFIELD-(775-0070). #1-Wild at Heart.
#2-Mo' Better Blues; Problem Child.
905. SECAUCUS-LOEWS MEADOW SIX-(866-6161).
956. FORT LEE-LINWOOD-(944-6900). #1-My Blue
#1-Die Hard 2: Die Harder. #2-Arachnophobia.
Heaven. #2-Presumed Innocent.
801. DANBURY CINE-(743-2200). #1-Through 8/23:
#3-Flatliners. #4-Presumed Innocent. #5-Ghost.
The Two Jakes. Beg. 8/24: Witches. #2-Presumed In-
958. OAKLAND-TWIN-(337-4478)- #1-My Blue
#6-My Blue Heaven.
Heaven. #2-Presumed Innocent.
nocent. #3-My Blue Heaven.
906. WEST NEW YORK-MAYFAIR-(865-2010). Arachno-
802. DANBURY-CINEMA-(748-2923) #1-Ghost;
959. PARAMUS-CINEMA 35-(845-5070). Through
phobia; Q&A.
Duck Tales: The Movie. #2-Through 8/23: The
8/23: Betsy's Wedding. Beg. 8/24: Pretty Woman.
Freshman. Beg. 8/24: Flatliners.
Essex County
960. PARAMUS-BERGEN MALL-(845-4449). Young
Guns II.
803. DANBURY-PALACE-(748-7496). #1-The Exor-
cist III: Legion. #2-Taking Care of Business. #3-
910. BLOOMFIELD-CENTER-(748-7900). Air America;
961. PARAMUS-ROUTE 4-(487-7909). #1-Presumed
Through 8/23: Flatliners. Beg. 8/24: Delta Force II.
The Jungle Book.
Innocent. #2-Pump Up the Volume. #3-The Fresh-
805. FAIRFIELD-COMMUNITY(255-6555). #1-Air
man. #4-Die Hard 2: Die Harder. #5-Flatliners.
911. BLOOMFIELD-ROYAL-(748-3555). #1-Die Hard
America. #2-Flatliners.
#6-Ghost. #7-My Blue Heaven. #8-Wild at Heart.
2: Die Harder. #2-The Exorcist III: Legion.
#9-Air America. #10-The Two Jakes.
807. GREENWICH-CINEMA-(869-6030). #1-Wild at
912. CEDAR GROVE-CINEMA 23-(857-0877). #1-Pre-
Heart. #2-Mo' Better Blues; Problem Child.
962. PARAMUS-ROUTE 17-(843-3830). #1-The Ex-
sumed Innocent. #2-My Blue Heaven. #3-The Two
orcist III: Legion. #2-Taking Care of Business. #3-
808. GREENWICH-PLAZA-(869-4030). #1-Presumed
Jakes. #4-Pretty Woman. #5-Ghost; Duck Tales:
Mo' Better Blues; Duck Tales: The Movie.
Innocent; The Two Jakes. #2-Through 8/23: Air
The Movie.
America. Beg. 8/24: May Fools.
963. RAMSEY-CINEMA-(825-2090) Presumed Innocent.
913. IRVINGTON-CASTLE-(372-9324). #1-Mo' Better
809. NEW CANAAN-PLAYHOUSE-(966-0600). #1-
Blues; Arachnophobia. #2-Die Hard 2: Die Harder;
964. RAMSEY-LOEWS INTERSTATE-(327-0158). #1-
Presumed Innocent #2-My Blue Heaven.
Miami Blues.
Taking Care of Business. #2-Air America.
810. NORWALK-CINEMA-(838-4504). #1-Die Hard
916. MILLBURN-MILLBURN-(376-0800). #1-Pump
965. RIDGEFIELD-PARK 10-(440-6661). #1-Pre-
2: Die Harder. #2-Mo' Better Blues; Problem Child.
Up the Volume. #2-Problem Child.
sumed Innocent. #2-Duck Tales: The Movie; Pump Up
the Volume. #3-Ghost. #4-Air America. #5-Tak-
812. RIDGEFIELD-CINEMA-(438-3338). Duck Tales:
917. MONTCLAIR-CLARIDGE-(746-5564). #1-Taking
ing Care of Business. #6-Flatliners. #7-The Exorcist
The Movie; Arachnophobia.
Care of Business. #2-Wild at Heart. #3-Problem
III: Legion. #8-Problem Child; Mo' Better Blues. #9-
813. SOUTH NORWALK-SONO-(866-920. 8/21-23:
Child.
My Blue Heaven. #10-The Two Jakes.
The Belly of an Architect. 8/24-27: Mama, There's a Man
918. MONTCLAIR-WELLMONT-(783-9500). #1-Mo'
966. RIDGEFIELD PARK-RIALTO-(641-0617). Die Hard
in Your Bed; 1990 Festival of Animation. 8/28-30: Going
Better Blues. #2-Arachnophobia. #3-My Blue Heav-
2: Die Harder.
Places.
en; Duck Tales: The Movie.
967. RIDGEWOOD-WARNER-(444-1234). #1-Ghost.
814. SPRINGDALE-STATE-(325-0250). Cinema Paradi-
919. NUTLEY-FRANKLIN-(667-1777). #1-Ghost;
#2-The Two Jakes. #3-Die Hard 2: Die Harder.
so; Pretty Woman.
Cinema Paradiso. #2-Flatliners; The Jungle Book; To-
#4-Flatliners.
815. STAMFORD-AVON-(324-9205). #1-Taking Care
tal Recall.
968. RUTHERFORD-WILLIAMS-(933-3700). #1-Tak-
of Business. #2-The Exorcist III: Legion.
920. UPPER MONTCLAIR-BELLEVUE-(744-1455).
ing Care of Business. #2-Duck Tales: The Movie; The
816. STAMFORD-CINEMA-(324-3100). #1-The
#1-Flatliners. #2-The Freshman. #3-Air America.
Freshman.
Freshman. #2-Duck Tales: The Movie; Flatliners.
921. WAYNE-WAYNE-(890-0505). #1-The Jungle
969. TEANECK-MOVIE CITY-(836-3334). #1-Taking
#3-Through 8/23: Young Guns II. Beg. 8/24: Delta
Book; Mo' Better Blues. #2-The Two Jakes. #3-Air
Care of Business. #2-Duck Tales: The Movie; The Ex-
Force II.
America. #4-Wild at Heart. #5-Taking Care of Busi-
orcist III: Legion. #3-Arachnophobia.
817. STAMFORD-RIDGEWAY-(323-5000). #1-Ghost.
ness. #6-Ghost. #7-Problem Child. #8-Duck
#2-My Blue Heaven.
Tales: The Movie; Pump Up the Volume.
970. TENAFLY-CINEMA 4-(871-8889). #1-My Blue
Heaven. #2-Presumed Innocent. #3-Flatliners. #4
818. STRATFORD-UA STRATFORD SQUARE-(377-
922. WEST ORANGE-ESSEX GREEN-(731-7755). #1-
The Freshman.
5056). #1-Problem Child. #2-Taking Care of Busi-
Ghost. #2-Presumed Innocent. #3-Die Hard 2: Die
ness. #3-Duck Tales: The Movie. #4-Arachnophobia.
Harder.
971. WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP-CINEMA-(666-2221).
#5-Die Hard 2: Die Harder. #6-My Blue Heaven;
#1-The Freshman. #2-Taking Care of Business.
Flatliners.
Union County
#3-Wild at Heart; Duck Tales: The Movie.
819. TRUMBULL-TRANS-LUX-(374-0462). #1-Pre-
972. WESTWOOD-PASCACK-(664-3200). #1-Pre-
sumed Innocent. #2-Ghost. #3-Through 8/23: The
930. BERKELEY HEIGHTS-BERKELEY-(464-8888).
sumed Innocent. #2-My Blue Heaven. #3-Flatliners.
Two Jakes. Beg. 8/24: My Blue Heaven.
Duck Tales: The Movie; Dick Tracy.
#4-Air America.
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REVIEWS
COMPILED BY STEPHEN DUBNER
This index, arranged in alphabetical order, includes
thetic and likable in Arachnophobia; he brings a touch
dent, and who
but you know the rest. We're in a
most, but not necessarily all, films currently playing.
of bulldog vanity to the young doctor's sense of his
world of Reaganite high-school morality here, where
own powers. But the end is awful-a knock-down,
winning is the only thing that matters but you're sup-
The date in parentheses at the end of the capsule
reviews refers to the issue of New York in which David
drag-out battle with the hairy tarantula in the base-
posed to be modest about it. The movie is Don Simp-
ment of Daniels's house. It seems overwrought and
son-Jerry Bruckheimer formula, but with a more de-
Denby's review originally appeared; the numbers that
tacky, like something out of a lousy B-movie. But
tailed and textured script than usual by Robert
follow the reviews refer to the theater numbers in the
Arachnophobia is an immensely good-humored horror
Towne. He writes a good role for Robert Duvall:
listings pages immediately preceding this section.
movie. It's the perfect drive-in movie-if there are
Harry Hogge, North Carolina stock-car designer and
MPAA RATING GUIDE
drive-ins left in America. (7/30/90) PG-13. 18, 20, 36,
crew chief. Days of Thunder doesn't offer much insight
87, 91, 100, 101, 108, 109, 112, 200, 211, 218, 222,
into what draws men to racing except that, like the
G:
General Audiences. All ages admitted.
305, 501, 522, 524, 530, 606, 608, 625, 714, 722, 753,
mountain, it's there. With Michael Rooker, a brood-
PG:
Parental Guidance Suggested. Some
812, 818, 902, 905, 906, 913, 918, 969
ing, rather recessive actor, as a nasty rival driver who
material may not be suitable for
becomes Cole's best friend, and the beautiful and
ARIEL-(1 hr. 14 min.; 1990) Reviewed in this issue. 5
children.
blunt-talking redhead Nicole Kidman, who plays the
BETSY'S WEDDING-(1 hr. 37 min.; 1990) A loving fa-
standard action-hero girl in post-feminist drag-she's
PG-13:
Parents Strongly Cautioned. Some
ther tries wild schemes, some outside the law, to give
cast as a doctor. (7/16/90) PG-13. 601
material may be inappropriate for
children under 13.
his daughter the perfect wedding. With Alan Alda,
Molly Ringwald, and Ally Sheedy. Written and di-
DICK TRACY-(1 hr. 50 min.; 1990) A charming and
R:
Restricted. Under 17 requires
rected by Alda. R. 959
beautifully designed work of American popular art-
accompanying parent or adult
by far the most beautiful of the recent big cartoon-
guardian.
CINEMA PARADISO-(2 hrs. 3 min.; 1990) In Italian,
strip movies. Warren Beatty has made an immense
Eng. subtitles. Giuseppe Tornatore's soft-grained
enlargement of Chester Gould's famous comic strip,
X:
No one under 17 admitted.
reminiscence of growing up at the movies in a small
yet it remains faithful to its odd glories. We're back in
NEW FILMS
Sicilian town. According to Tornatore, the aban-
the thirties-not the real thirties, of course, but the
doned people of Sicily need movies the way crops
thirties that were experienced as myth even by people
need rain. He shows us almost nothing of the towns-
living then. The perspectives are exaggerated, the col-
New films recommended by New York's critic.
people's lives, but we see them constantly at the the-
ors primal pop. Human figures walk through Depres-
ater, loving everything without reservation-they
sion-era sets painted red and blue, and then, through
AIR AMERICA-(1 hr. 52 min.; 1990) Mel Gibson and
laugh and weep together, and the theater is not only
the subtlest of special effects, the figures blend into
Robert Downey Jr. team as renegade pilots for the
the place of entertainment, it's the mirror of cultural
drawn or miniaturized versions of big-city towers.
world's most secret airline. Dir. Roger Spottiswoode.
change. Tornatore's story is in the form of a parable
Slit-eyed under his glamorous hat, with the requisite
R. 7, 18, 33, 37, 60, 100, 101, 106, 108, 109, 112, 208,
about art and life. The hero, Salvatore, a young fa-
square jaw, Warren Beatty is perhaps not young
210, 217, 220, 222, 300, 304, 312, 314, 316, 406, 505,
therless boy, attaches himself to the theater's projec-
enough to play Chester Gould's resolute crime fighter
506, 507, 512, 514, 517, 523, 530, 532, 601, 606, 608,
tionist, Alfredo (Philippe Noiret). For the boy, the
with quite the brutality one expects; the lines in Beat-
610, 625, 631, 634, 635, 706, 708, 712, 714, 723, 724,
cinema is experience, and he wants to emulate Al-
ty's face almost automatically suggest experience and
760, 805, 808, 902, 903, 904, 910, 920, 921, 931, 933,
fredo. But Alfredo, embittered, feels cut off from ex-
knowledge. But Beatty, a marvelously physical actor,
950, 961, 964, 965, 972
perience, and, in a selfless act, persuades the boy to
has a vertical stiffness that works well. As a nightclub
leave. The movie's grand scheme is hollow: Torna-
floozy, Madonna is an element in the design-her tac-
ANOTHER 48 HRS.-(1 hr. 38 min.; 1990) There's
tore doesn't have a lot on his mind, though he acts as
tile white flesh is exposed in eight varieties of decolle-
nothing creative or original about this hard-driving
if he did. Much of the direction is buffoonish, though
tage, her small, lewd mouth highlighted in ruby. Her
sequel, but it's good enough-a narrowly proficient,
there are moments. (2/5/90) 13, 81, 522, 814, 919
triumph is that she projects beauty without having it.
professional piece of work. Walter Hill, who directed
the original, shows his usual talent for shoot-outs in
THE COOK, THE THIEF, HIS WIFE, AND HER LOVER-(2
But some bishops we've known have projected more
hrs.; 1990) Peter Greenaway's boring and repellent
sexual warmth. James Caan and Dustin Hoffman are
tight spaces-there's a beauty here in the stairwell of
an old hotel. The movie has pace and rhythm; its
"art" movie has received some unaccountably favor-
enduringly strange in small roles, and Al Pacino has a
thrills are honestly earned. Whomping and bullyrag-
able reviews, probably because of its X rating. (Crit-
comic triumph-his first in the movies-as the chief
ging each other, the ex-con Reggie Hammond (Eddie
ics may think that by praising the movie, they are
thug. Glowing cinematography by Vittorio Storaro.
fighting censorship.) In the vile, wet, wind-ravaged
(6/18/90) PG. 20, 36, 55, 105, 516, 533, 608, 930
Murphy) and San Francisco police detective Jack
Cates (Nick Nolte) seem to enjoy fighting, like two
night, wild dogs feed on slops, while human beings
DIE HARD 2: DIE HARDER-(2 hrs. 2 min.; 1990) It
longtime professionals of marriage who will never
eat, fornicate, and die among the rotting meats and
doesn't have the spatial unity-everything shot in a
give up their Punch-and-Judy union. Nolte looks and
maggots. Whew! Thus the movie's portentous yet
perilously unfinished skyscraper-that gave Die Hard
sounds magnificent. Murphy is less funny than before
sensational tone. In some undefined place, a gangster
a kind of claustrophobic brilliance, and it lacks the
but less slick, too. He's beginning to come down off
(Michael Gambon) shows up with his henchmen and
original superbly witty villain (Alan Rickman). The
his wife at the vast French restaurant he owns. He
the incomparable high of being Eddie Murphy. When
villain this time is a disenchanted CIA operative who
he comes down a little farther, he may turn into an
cats, roars, throws food, breaks many dishes; his con-
becomes a terrorist, snarling an airport, and he's a
actor. (6/25/90) R. 52, 530
versation is nonstop gibberish on the subjects of defe-
very dull fellow. The movie, however, is an accept-
cation, flatulence, sex, eating. Meanwhile, his wife
able sequel. Taking on the terrorists single-handedly,
ARACHNOPHOBIA-(1 hr. 43 min.; 1990) Arachnopho-
(Helen Mirren) escapes into the arms of another man
Bruce Willis falls in and out of one spectacular scrape
bia is a horror comedy with a sunshiny smile. A dan-
(Alan Howard) who regularly dines at the restaurant.
after another. It may have the flimsy plotting of an old
gerously arrogant entomologist, Dr. Atherton (Julian
The film's structure is intentionally static, the mood
Mission: Impossible episode, but the ingenuity dis-
Sands), leads a scientific expedition into the Venezue-
high-flown, the meaning proudly incoherent yet bris-
played in keeping the thrills sufficiently farfetched
lan jungle and captures a giant poisonous tarantula.
tling with contempt. Greenaway appears to be cele-
makes up for the high-priced, low-grade waste that
The spider hitches a ride in a coffin back to an idyllic
brating the role of the artist (the cook) in a society
this kind of movie represents. Directed by Renny
little town in California, where it takes up residence in
controlled by thugs (the thief and his henchmen). But
Harlin. (7/16/90) R. 19, 33, 53, 111, 112, 210, 213,
the barn of the young town doctor (Jeff Daniels). It
who knows? The principal meaning of the movie is
218, 219, 303, 304, 306, 314, 320, 406, 503, 505, 509,
spins, mates with a common house spider, and multi-
disgust. Murky, wine-dark cinematography by Sacha
514, 517, 522, 530, 606, 608, 610, 615, 619, 625, 634,
plics; then the offspring go on a rampage. Arachnopho-
Vicrny. Music by Michael Nyman. (5/7/90). 4
636, 708, 722, 810, 818, 902, 905, 911, 913, 921, 961,
bia is one of the great "cek" movies of all times; many
DARKMAN-(1 hr. 35 min.; 1990) The latest movie from
966, 967
of the plot elements and most of the mood is derived
director Sam Raimi, who is responsible for Evil Dead
from Jaws, the greatest eek movie of all. The director,
DUCK TALES: THE MOVIE-(1 hr. 53 min.; 1990) Huey,
and Evil Dead II: Dead by Dawn. This time Raimi of-
Frank Marshall, a longtime associate of Steven Spiel-
fers a thriller/love story hybrid. With Liam Neeson,
Dewey, and Louie get a magic lantern from Uncle
berg's, exploits our twin susceptibilities-fear, and
Frances McDormand, Larry Drake. R.105, 220, 222,
Scrooge. Screenplay by Alan Burnett. Dir. Bob
longing to be frightened-but not grimly; Arachno-
316, 503, 507, 517, 532, 600, 610, 625, 634, 723, 903
Hathcock. G. 40, 52, 87, 100, 101, 112, 200, 204, 206,
phobia is entirely good-humored. The screenplay, by
218, 220, 308, 313, 500, 501, 504, 509, 510, 512, 515,
Dan Jakoby and Wesley Strick, is constructed as a sc-
DAYS OF THUNDER-(1 hr. 45 min.; 1990) Stock-car-rac-
522, 530, 606, 608, 611, 625, 631, 636, 709, 712, 714,
ries of interlocking malicious jokes. In the end, Dan-
ing noise festival starring Tom Cruise. Tom is a hot-
721, 722, 724, 753, 759, 802, 812, 816, 818, 904, 912,
iels needs the spiders, which he loathes, in order to
shot driver (Cole Trickle) who endangers himself and
918, 921, 930, 931, 933, 950, 962, 965, 968, 969,
prove that he's not a bad doctor. Daniels is sympa-
his car, and whose best friend gets hurt in the acci-
971964, 965, 968, 969, 971
AUGUST 27, 1990/NEW YORK
71
MOVIES
THE EXORCIST III: LEGION-(1 hr. 49 min.; 1990) A po-
comes a success, the Catholic Church turns against
himself plays Bleek's inept manager Giant, and is on
lice lieutenant investigates a series of eerie murders
Daniel and the others, and Montreal's culture-vultures
to something here-the way an old neighborhood
that have terrified the Georgetown community. With
and media types set upon them. The band of actors
friend can exploit the loyalty and guilt of someone
George C. Scott and Ed Flanders. Written and direct-
begins to resemble the persecuted Christ and his disci-
who's become successful. But Mo' Better Blues is not
ed by William Peter Blatty. R. 19, 22, 31, 38, 52, 89,
ples. Arcand brings out the overripe emotionality of
about the things that can bring a jazz musican down,
100, 101, 105, 106, 107, 109, 111, 112, 204, 208, 209,
actors as personalities; he's fond of their problems and
it's about how art brings a human being down. In a
211, 214, 217, 222, 300, 304, 306, 312, 313, 316, 406,
crises and attitudes. Arcand gets at the way modern
rush of melodramatic and unconvincing plot, Lee lets
503, 506, 507, 514, 517, 519, 522, 530, 532, 600, 606,
media society turns every event, no matter how ear-
the air out of his own balloon; the movie is false and
608, 610, 611, 618, 631, 625, 634, 706, 712, 715, 722,
nestly intended, into sensation. But his idea that an
perhaps hypocritical. With Wesley Snipes as Shadow,
756, 803, 815, 902, 903, 911, 937, 950, 962, 965, 969
actor is a modern Christ come to redeem our petty
the saxophone player who wants to replace Bleek
FLATLINERS—(1 hr. 51 min.; 1990) Five med students
lives is nuts, and his desire to protect his actors' purity
both onstage and in bed. Music by Bill Lee and Bran-
conduct dangerous experiments: stopping the heart of
throws the movie out of whack. If we forget some of
ford Marsalis. (8/13/90) R. 10, 12, 19, 19, 31, 38, 53,
one of the students, reviving him, and then discussing
the parallels to the New Testament and just enjoy the
68, 83, 91, 101, 109, 111, 112, 208, 209, 211, 213, 222,
his afterlife experiences. With Kiefer Sutherland, Julia
film as a sincere tribute to a certain kind of serious,
312, 313, 510, 530, 530, 608, 711, 721, 753, 800, 807,
Roberts, and Kevin Bacon. Written by Peter Filardi.
dirt-poor actor who is heroic in his art and generous
810, 902, 903, 904, 913, 918, 921, 962, 965
Dir. Joel Schumacher. R. 6, 19, 41, 51, 68, 89, 101,
in his life, the movie becomes touching. With Rémy
MY BLUE HEAVEN-(1 hr. 36 min.; 1990). Fish-out-of-
109, 112, 200, 204, 214, 219, 220, 300, 302, 304, 310,
Girard and Catherine Wilkening. (6/4/90) R. 4
water story in which a New York mobster goes into a
313, 400, 406, 406, 500, 503, 505, 506, 510, 517, 522,
JETSONS: THE MOVIE-(1 hr. 22 min.; 1990) When
witness-protection plan and has to relocate to South-
527, 530, 600, 606, 608, 610, 612, 616, 621, 625, 633,
George Jetson receives a promotion, the family of the
ern California. With Steve Martin, Rick Moranis,
702, 703, 706, 708, 709, 724, 764, 802, 803, 805, 816,
future moves to a new planet but finds itself in the
Joan Cusack. Written by Nora Ephron. Directed by
818, 905, 919, 920, 933, 936, 937, 961, 965, 967, 970,
middle of a conflict between the forces of modern
Herbert Ross. PG-13. 8, 19, 37, 37, 44, 66, 85, 101,
972
technology and ecology. Featuring the voices of
106, 110, 112, 204, 206, 210, 212, 214, 217, 219, 220,
THE FRESHMAN-(1 hr. 42 min.; 1990) Marlon Brando
George O'Hanlon, Mel Blanc, and Tiffany. G. 112,
300, 304, 306, 309, 314, 316, 322, 400, 406, 504, 517,
uncomfortably dominates this comedy, rather as if a
320, 530, 606, 620, 623
520, 523, 524, 527, 530, 532, 602, 606, 608, 610, 612,
whale had run aground on the beach and people de-
LIFE IS A LONG QUIET RIVER-(1 hr. 35 min.; 1990) In
621, 625, 627, 706, 708, 709, 714, 721, 723, 724, 755,
cided to throw a party around it. He doesn't do all
French, Eng. subtitles. A satiric comedy about two
801, 809, 817, 818, 819, 820, 900, 905, 912, 918, 933,
that much, but he's there, and he's great, and he's the
French families-one rich, the other poor-who find
956, 958, 961, 965, 970, 972
only whale in town. Brando plays Don Corleone
out that their children were switched at birth. Screen-
NAVY SEALS—(1 hr. 40 min.; 1990) The Navy's SEAL
again, but this time as a joke. He is a New York "im-
play by Florence Quentin and Etienne Chatiliez. Dir.
(Sea, Air, and Land) Team fights Middle Eastern ter-
porter," Carmine Sabatini, who employs a quiet and
Chatiliez. 13, 46
rorists. With Charlie Sheen, Michael Biehn, and Jo-
respectful Vermont boy, Clark (Matthew Broderick),
MAY FOOLS—(1 hr. 58 min.; 1990) In French, Eng. subti-
anne Whalley-Kilmer. Screenplay by Chuck Pfaffer
who is studying film at NYU. Written and directed
tles. Louis Malle's house-party movie isn't very good,
and Gary Goldman. Dir. Lewis Teague. R.620, 623
by Andrew Bergman, this is a comedy-writer's mov-
but it's worth seeing for Michel Piccoli, who gives a
ie: It's entertainingly conceived but not particularly
PRESUMED INNOCENT-(2 hrs. 6 min.; 1990) As a
robust and moving performance as an inept Bordeaux
well executed. Bergman's pace falters. He makes
piece of moviemaking, this is neither graceful nor ex-
landowner, Milou-a sort of gentrified peasant who
small, revue-skit jokes but emphasizes them as if they
citing, but it holds the audience in its doleful, power-
loves life but has let everything slip into ruin. At the
were unbelievably daring. This movie, which is more
ful grip. In Alan J. Pakula's adaptation of Scott Tur-
beginning of the movie, Milou's mother dies, and the
quirky than funny, is best savored in pieces. As Car-
ow's 1987 best-seller, Harrison Ford plays a deputy
rest of his family shows up-prosperous, most of
mine's crooked nephew, Bruno Kirby is great, and
prosecutor named Rusty Sabich, who learns of the
them, but unhappy, selfish, and trivial. May Fools is a
Penelope Ann Miller, playing Carmine's libidinous
grotesque murder of Carolyn Polhemus (Greta Scac-
relaxed and companionable production, with some
daughter, puts little tics in her lines, as if she were
chi), a beautiful fellow prosecutor and Rusty's lover
wonderful music by jazz violinist Stephane Grappelli
jumping out of her skin. (8/6/90) PG. 8, 18, 45, 60,
for a while. Rusty is ordered to investigate the crime
and lots of people running in and out, falling in love
85, 200, 219, 302, 310, 313, 406, 504, 505, 512, 514,
by his boss, Raymond Horgan (Brian Dennehy), who
with one another like Chekhov's mismatched charac-
523, 526, 527, 533, 600, 608, 619, 625, 634, 702, 704,
needs an arrest to win his re-election. And then the
ters. The movie is set in May 1968, at the time of the
705, 706, 724, 759, 802, 816, 820, 920, 932, 937, 952,
roof falls in: Rusty is himself investigated, arrested,
student demonstrations in Paris, and Malle and Jean-
961, 968, 970, 971
cuffed, and tried. Pakula has constructed a tight, busi-
Claude Carrière, who worked on the screenplay, sati-
nesslike, highly factual movie, and Ford's weighted,
GHOST-(1 hr. 40 min.; 1990) Patrick Swayze, a
rize these bourgeois characters who talk of revolution
seemingly depressed demeanor sets a tone of sup-
young investment banker, is murdered on the street
but panic and run at the first sign that the trouble
pressed rage that works for the material. In the flash-
by an anonymous assailant and hangs around as a
might come their way. But the movie scores off its
backs presenting Rusty's adulterous affair, Ford is a
ghost to warn his girlfriend, Demi Moore, that she's
characters too easily and without much sympathy.
hopelessly gloomy lover, but when Rusty is put on
in danger, too. The movie is a combined thriller and
(6/25/90) 81, 808
trial, Ford's haggard face comes to life. He seethes and
ghost story-Swayze realizes that his death was
MEN AT WORK-(1 hr. 38 min.; 1990) Two garbagemen
churns, suggesting volumes through the smallest
planned and tries to stop the murderer-and it's much
are planning to open a surf shop when they discover a
movements of his eyes and mouth. As for Scacchi,
better than it should be, given its hokey subject. The
dead city councilman in a load of trash. With Emilio
she is stunning, but the wrong actress for Carolyn.
director, spoofmeister Jerry Zucker, working for
Estevez, Charlie Sheen, Leslie Hope, Keith David.
Raul Julia, who has never fit comfortably into the
once without his brother David and Jim Abrahams
Written and directed by Estevez. PG-13. 222, 514,
movies, gives the screen performance of his career in
(together, they made Airplane! and Ruthless People),
625
the plummy role of Alejandro "Sandy" Stern, the Ar-
has developed a gentle, even sensitive touch. The
METROPOLITAN-(1 hr. 28 min.; 1990) In this im-
gentine-born Jewish lawyer who defends Rusty.
movie is lyrical and romantic rather than frightening.
Swayze is not an interesting actor, but, aided by spe-
mensely likable new independent film, a group of
What gives the material its driving force is Turow's
New York preppies and debs gather in evening
portrait of a criminal investigation of life's malevo-
cial effects, he makes a terrific poltergeist. Trying to
clothes at the Park Avenue apartment of one of the
lence. (8/6/90). R. 8, 18, 25, 33, 55, 63, 85, 101, 106,
come to terms with his ghosthood, he swipes at
girls' parents and, to our astonishment, speak-in lit-
110, 112, 206, 210, 212, 213, 217, 219, 220, 300, 301,
things and watches his hand go right through them. A
crate, complete sentences. They flirt, like all teen-
309, 317, 318, 401, 406, 502, 503, 503, 505, 506, 507,
former dancer, he falls with abandon through walls
agers, but also hold forth, with comic solemnity, on
517, 520, 522, 524, 528, 530, 603, 606, 608, 610, 612,
and windows, and tumbles through closed doors into
such things as faith, morals, utopian socialism, and
616, 619, 621, 625, 627, 639, 700, 705, 706, 707, 714,
subway cars, where he meets a frighteningly posses-
the likely doom of their own class. The most brilliant
723, 724, 756, 801, 808, 809, 819, 820, 900, 902, 905,
sive ghoul, played by Vincent Schiavelli. With
talker in the group is Nick Smith (Christopher Eige-
912, 922, 956, 958, 961, 963, 965, 970, 972
Whoopi Goldberg as a medium, and young Tony
man), a young dandy. Over the objections of his
Goldwyn, who has an innocent face and ambiguously
PRETTY WOMAN-(1 hr. 57 min.; 1990) Julia Roberts
blathering friend, Charlie (Taylor Nichols), a highly
arched eyebrows, as a young colleague of Swayze's.
is a big, gangling, long-waisted girl who has a wide
theoretical, virginal young man, Nick welcomes into
(7/23/90) PG-13. 12, 18, 24, 64, 80, 101, 108, 112,
mouth that breaks into a grin of delight. Playing Vivi-
the group an outsider, Tom Townsend (Edward Cle-
203, 210, 215, 216, 219, 302, 304, 305, 314, 317, 318,
an, a good-hearted Los Angeles hooker, Roberts flops
ments), a genuine Wasp preppy whom sweet, high-
406, 505, 512, 516, 517, 524, 530, 533, 533, 534, 603,
around a lot, swinging her shoulders and arms-she
principled, and bookish Audrey (Carolyn Farina) falls
606, 608, 610, 615, 616, 621, 625, 631, 634, 635, 702,
does much that's obvious and amateurish-but when
for. The hero and heroine are a little mousy, and the
705, 706, 709, 715, 718, 755, 802, 817, 819, 820, 900,
she breaks into that grin, audiences love her. Pretty
movie, as a whole, is too cozily on the side of chastity
902, 905, 912, 919, 921, 922, 950, 950, 952, 953, 961,
Woman is pleasant, but, as anyone can see, it turns the
and goodness, yet most of Metropolitan is funny and
965, 967
Pygmalion story into a large wedge of cheesecake.
graceful. That such a film exists at all in the summer
Richard Gere is the supersophisticated but uptight fi-
GREMLINS 2: THE NEW BATCH-(1 hr. 1990) A series of
of meaningless $60-million movies may be considered
accidents creates a new generation of Gremlins, and
nancial deal-maker who falls for the trampy girl, in-
a miracle. Written and directed by Whit Stillman.
the malevolent minnies threaten to take over New
stalls her in his Beverly Wilshire penthouse suite,
(8/13/90). 50, 612
York City. With Zach Galligan and Phoebe Cates.
dresses her up, and invites her to business meetings.
MO' BETTER BLUES—(2 hrs. 15 min.; 1990) For a long
First they just use each other, but then.
Written
Screenplay by Charlie Haas. Dir. Joe Dante. (6/25/90)
time, nothing much happens in Spike Lee's beautiful-
by J. F. Lawton and directed by Garry Marshall, Pret-
PG-13. 3
ly crafted jazz fantasia. Lee's hero, Bleek Gilliam
ty Woman takes us back to Hollywood's softly beguil-
JESUS OF MONTREAL-(1 hr. 59 min.; 1990) In
(Denzel Washington), a young jazz-trumpet player,
ing entertainments of the fifties. At least Marshall,
French, Eng. subtitles. The theatricality and skill of
performs at a Manhattan club, carries on with two
who understands mass audiences after many success-
Canadian writer-director Denys Arcand redeems a
women-Indigo (Joie Lee), a teacher, and beautiful,
ful years in TV, knows what he's doing. The movie is
pretentious idea. In Montreal, a saintly young actor,
ambitious Clarke (Cynda Williams)-and tries to set-
a bit of an innocent whore itself, but it does deliver.
Daniel (Lothaire Bluteau), puts together an irregular
tle conflicts inside his band. Lee writes sharply point-
With Laura San Giacomo and Jason Alexander.
troupe of performers and mounts a radical new ver-
ed exchanges between members of the band. The at-
(4/2/90) R. 44, 308, 511, 601, 521, 522, 533, 606, 608,
sion of the Passion play. Yet when the production be-
mosphere is fierce with pleasure-unfettered. Lee
620, 623, 753, 814, 912, 953, 959
72
NEW YORK/AUGUST 27, 1990
MOVIES
PROBLEM CHILD-(1 hr. 87 min.; 1990) A yuppie couple
Nicholson to lose his way in (the script should have
GOING PLACES-(2 hrs. 2 min.; 1974) In French, Eng.
adopt a child from hell. With Michael Oliver and John
been pruned with a machete knife). There's so much
subtitles. Two thrill-seeking drifters commit petty
Ritter. Screenplay by Scott Alexander and Larry Kar-
plot, and it's so haphazardly organized, that the little
crimes and share the same women. With Gerard De-
aszewski. Dir. Dennis Dugan. PG. 19, 38, 42, 54,
bits of information are more frustrating than revela-
pardieu, Miou-Miou, and Isabelle Huppert. Dir. Ber-
101, 105, 106, 109, 112, 200, 211, 214, 218, 219, 222,
tory. Nicholson is good at creating actors' moments,
trand Blier. 813
300, 304, 306, 312, 314, 315, 406, 503, 504, 510, 513,
small explosions of temperament, but he doesn't val-
GRAND ILLUSION-(1 hr. 52 min.; 1937) In French, Eng.
517, 521, 530, 601, 606, 608, 610, 611, 625, 631, 634,
ue clarity or storytelling; he tries to get by on the per-
subtitles. Probably the best treatment ever of the dy-
706, 723, 724, 800, 807, 810, 818, 902, 903, 904, 916,
sonality of his performers, as if personality were an
ing of chivalry in warfare and the passing of aristocra-
917, 921, 931, 933, 950, 953, 965
analyst's resource and not merely one element among
cy from the modern world. It is sad, wise, and occa-
PUMP UP THE VOLUME-(1 hr. 40 min.; 1990) An irrev-
many that a director draws on. With Harvey Keitel,
sionally very funny, and it has a simplicity dependent
erent high-school student (Christian Slater) uses his
Meg Tilly, Madeleine Stowe, and Rubén Blades.
on shrewdness and finesse. The acting is uniformly
own pirate radio station to encourage fellow students
Photographed by Vilmos Zsigmond. (8/20/90) R. 4,
superlative. With Jean Gabin and Erich von Stroheim.
to discover their individuality. With Samantha Ma-
18, 24, 32, 62, 65, 85, 108, 112, 200, 203, 214, 216,
Dir. Jean Renoir. 9
this, Ellen Greene, Lala Zappa, Ahmet Zappa. Writ-
219, 302, 307, 311, 314, 317, 406, 505, 506, 512, 516,
ten and directed by Allan Moyle. R.38, 24, 62, 85,
517, 524, 533, 534, 601, 606, 608, 610, 612, 613, 618,
HIROSHIMA, MON AMOUR-(1 hr. 28 min.; 1959) In
621, 625, 635, 638, 705, 706, 709, 715, 723, 801, 808,
French, Eng. subtitles. The first international success
200, 213, 301, 305, 512, 523, 524, 616, 621, 625, 753,
of director Alain Resnais stars Emmanuele Riva as a
904, 916, 921, 950, 961, 965
819, 821, 902, 904, 912, 921, 935, 951, 952, 953, 961,
965, 967
woman with memories of the German Occupation of
QUICK CHANGE-(1 hr. 27 min.; 1990) Bill Murray,
France and Eiji Okada as a Japanese survivor of Hiro-
along with screenwriter Howard Franklin, directed
THE UNBELIEVABLE TRUTH-(1 hr. 40 min.; 1990) A
shima. The movie is fancy and borderline-preten-
this bank-robbery comedy, and many of the plot
black comedy about a Long Island convict who re-
tious, with some passages of great lyrical intensity. 2
mechanisms come right out of Murray's personality.
turns to his hometown. With Robert Burke, Adri-
At times the camera just fixes on him as he stops and
enne Shelly, and Christopher Cooke. Directed by Hal
JULIET OF THE SPIRITS-(2 hrs. 28 min.; 1965) In Italian,
Hartley. R. 4, 43
Eng. subtitles. Fellini's first film in color, and a com-
thinks. Trying to escape to the airport after commit-
plete departure from the neorealist subject matter of
ting a heist at a Park Avenue bank, Murray and his
WILD AT HEART-(2 hrs. 4 min.; 1990) Reviewed in this
his earlier works. The film delves into the fantasies of
partners (Geena Davis and Randy Quaid) get stuck in
issue. R. 4, 19, 38, 61, 80, 101, 112, 220, 308, 314,
a middle-aged woman, played by Fellini's wife, Giu-
the city, falling into one bizarre mess after another,
511, 523, 524, 533, 606, 608, 617, 618, 700, 719, 757,
lietta Masina, revealing all of the character's neuroses
and Murray has to improvise his way out of trouble.
800, 807, 904, 917, 921, 938, 961, 971
in an overly long feast of cinematic flourishes. 11
Murray's humor is all about defeating the expecta-
YOUNG GUNS II-(1 hr. 45 min.; 1990) Billy the Kid and
tions of the moment. For one long moment, as the
THE JUNGLE BOOK-(1 hr. 18 min.; 1967) Walt Disney's
his cronies are prosecuted by the government. With
situation begins to unravel, his face is as neutral as
animated feature, based on the Mowgli stories of
Kiefer Sutherland, Emilio Estevez, and Lou Diamond
possible. Murray is playing a civil servant disgusted
Rudyard Kipling. With the voices of Phil Harris, Se-
Phillips. Screenplay by John Fusco. Dir. Geoff Mur-
with the city, but he never seems like a New Yorker;
bastian Cabot, Louis Prima, George Sanders. Dir.
phy. PG-13. 6, 38, 33, 48, 219, 309, 514, 530, 606,
he has his own tempo, which is not the city's. Quick
Wolfgang Reitherman. G. 20, 36, 112, 308, 313, 511,
608, 723, 724, 816, 904, 960
Change is a variant on a debonair-thieves caper movie;
513, 522, 530, 606, 608, 709, 820, 904, 910, 919, 921,
it features good-natured, harmless robbers who are
932, 938, 953
REVIVALS
merely eager to leave the hated city with a pile of
LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD-(1 hr. 33 min.; 1961) In
money. The movie is a distinctly minor affair, but it
French, Eng. subtitles. The famous avant-garde puz-
has a pleasant feeling of just winging it. Much of
AND THE SHIP SAILS ON-(2 hrs. 8 min.; 1983) In Italian,
zler of the early sixties. An attractive couple wanders
Quick Change's scenes of New York chaos are routine,
Eng. subtitles. Prodigiously imaginative, at times
through the shadows of a vast European hotel. Did
but there are funny bits, and performers, through-
brilliant Fellini, yet filled with arbitrary and ultimately
they meet the year before? It's ultimately not worth
out-especially Tony Shalhoub as a frantic taxi driver
boring details. Beginning as a silent black-and-white
pondering, but the movie is exquisite, a true cinemat-
who doesn't speak any English and gravelly Jason Ro-
quasi-newsreel about the cream of pre-World War I
ic equivalent of the понуеаи roman. With Delphine
bards as a police chief. (7/30/90) R. 49, 211
European society embarking on a cruise, the movie
Seyrig. Dir. Alain Resnais. 2
gradually transforms into sound and color, as if mov-
TAKING CARE OF BUSINESS-(1 hr. 48 min.; 1990) Odd-
ing from a dreaming to a waking state. A grand meta-
MALA NOCHE-(1 hr. 18 min.; 1985) An intricate study
couple comedy pairing an obsessively organized ad
phor for the collapse of European culture, it declines
of mutual exploitation set in the slums of Portland,
executive with a convict who escapes prison to collect
into a traditional Fellini circus. 11
Oregon. Written and directed by Gus Van Sant. 11
free World Series tickets. With Charles Grodin and
James Belushi. Directed by Arthur Hiller. R. 13, 21,
LA BÊTE HUMAINE-(1 hr. 39 min.; 1938) In French,
MOUNTAINS OF THE MOON-(2 hrs. 15 min.; 1990) Bob
Eng. subtitles. Jean Renoir's adaptation of the Zola
Rafelson's large-scale film about Victorian explorers
34, 55, 66, 85, 112, 200, 206, 212, 215, 216, 218, 220,
305, 313, 315, 317, 318, 322, 401, 500, 504, 505, 506,
novel is one of his-or anybody's-carthiest and most
Sir Richard Burton (Patrick Bergin) and John Han-
sensitive films. The great Jean Gabin is the engine
ning Speke (lain Glen) is half of a great film. The mo-
508, 509, 512, 513, 519, 523, 526, 530, 601, 606, 608,
610, 611, 613, 619, 621, 625, 636, 638, 703, 706, 709,
driver tainted with the insanity of the Rougon-Mac-
tor of the plot-Speke's repressed homosexual love
711, 715, 716, 718, 722, 753, 759, 803, 815, 818, 822,
quarts, and the wonderfully slutty Simone Simon is
for Burton, which is manipulated by another homo-
904, 917, 921, 933, 938, 950, 952, 964, 965, 968, 969,
the married woman who unwisely tries to use him. 9
sexual, an unscrupulous publisher (Richard E.
DINNER AT EIGHT-(1 hr. 53 min.; 1933) Still the best of
Grant)-makes for neither interest nor grandeur. See
971
the movie, however, for the Kenya landscapes and the
TOTAL RECALL-(1 hr. 49 min.; 1990) Arnold Schwarze-
those all-star vehicles, thanks to some of the sharpest
scenes of battle and adventure. Written by Rafelson
negger as a bulky secret agent at loose in the twenty-
comedy timing you'll ever see. Be prepared, howev-
and William Harrison. R. 11
first century, a man who may have had his memories
er, to put up with the corny serious portions with
wiped out by the malignant ruler of Mars, Cohaagen
John and Lionel Barrymore. With Marie Dressler,
PERFORMANCE-(1 hr. 45 min.; 1970) When James Fox,
Jean Harlow, Billie Burke, and Wallace Beery. Dir.
as a gangster on the lam, takes refuge in the home of
(Ronny Cox). The idea, based on a Philip K. Dick
story, is a good one, but the movie, despite some in-
George Cukor. 9
an androgynous rock star (Mick Jagger), he gets
DRIVING MISS DAISY-(1 hr. 45 min.; 1989) In Bruce
drawn into a bizarre world of drugs, sex, rock and
vention and wit, stops being fun after a while. In-
Beresford's mild but pleasing adaptation of Alfred
roll, and is-it-a-dream-or-is-it-real? experiences. Di-
creasingly vicious in his attitudes, the Dutch-born di-
rector Paul Verhoeven never lets up on violence now,
Uhry's play, the great Jessica Tandy plays a wealthy
rector Nicolas Roeg's first feature (co-directed by
and the pounding, manic glee of it begins to get on
old Georgia widow of German-Jewish descent, and
Donald Cammell) is edited into juggled fragments (a
technique he refined to more successful effect in Don't
one's nerves. Some of the special effects are excellent,
Morgan Freeman her black chauffeur of many years.
The movie, passing in time from the fifties through
Look Now and The Man Who Fell to Earth) that add up
but too many people are gouged in disgusting ways,
to a dubious whole. 9
bashed in the face, screwed to death with drills. It's a
the civil-rights period, lovingly measures the precise
measure of the movie's sleaziness that the special-ef-
shadings of irritation, affection, and dependence that
REBECCA-(2 hrs. 10 min.; 1940) Joan Fontaine is the
fects makeup is so crudely done that the characters
flow back and forth between the two characters as
terrified bride, Laurence Olivier the glowering lord of
who are supposed to be mutants look much worse
they shift, ever so slowly, from mistress and servant
the manor, and Judith Anderson the evil housekeeper
than they have to. A whore with three breasts keeps
to friends. With Dan Aykroyd and Patti LuPone.
in this enthralling modern Gothic. Directing from a
coming back, so we can take another look. There's a
(12/18/89) PG. 11
script by Robert E. Sherwood and Joan Harrison,
lousiness to Total Recall that extends to the cast. No
FITZCARRALDO-(2 hrs. 37 min.; 1982) In German, Eng.
which was based on Daphne du Maurier's novel, Al-
one of note seems to be in it except Arnold Schwarze-
subtitles. Epic folly from director Werner Herzog. A
fred Hitchcock injects his characteristic blend of fear,
negger. You would think he would take the lack of
cracked colonial entrepreneur (Klaus Kinski) wants
wit, and sex. 9
class around him as an insult, but we could be wrong
desperately to build an opera house for his shabby city
THE SPIRAL STAIRCASE-(1 hr. 23 min.; 1946) A tense
about that. (6/18/90) R. 33, 112, 514, 530, 919
in the Amazon jungle. Hoping to finance his scheme
and thrilling murder mystery, packed with excite-
THE TWO JAKES—(2 hrs. 18 min.; 1990) Jack Nicholson's
by forging a new trade route for rubber, he has an
ment and magnificently acted. With Dorothy
much-delayed sequel to Roman Polanski's Chinatown
Indian tribe haul a steamship by hand over a moun-
McGuire, Ethel Barrymore, George Brent, Kent
is one of the most impenetrably complicated and un-
tain-an image so monstrous and static it becomes a
Smith, Gordon Oliver, and Elsa Lanchester. Dir.
rewarding movies in years. The movie is set in 1948, a
joke. With Claudia Cardinale. 11
Robert Siodmak. 9
decade after the events of Chinatown, and a routine
GIGI-(1 hr. 56 min.; 1958) Based on Colette's story
WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?-(2 hrs. 11 min.;
adultery case again provides a way for Jake Gittes
about a young French girl whose aunt trains her to be
1966) Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor invite
(Jack Nicholson), bedroom-snooping private-eye, to
a courtesan. This terrific musicalized version won
George Segal and blobby Sandy Dennis over to show
unwittingly slip into the malaise that is modern Los
nine Oscars, and contains the memorable title song as
them what is wrong with life in general and academ-
Angeles. This time oil, rather than water, provides
well as "Thank Heaven for Little Girls" and "I Re-
ics in particular. A talky, strident film, this was hailed
the structural and metaphoric underpinnings for the
member It Well" (all courtesy Lerner & Loewe). With
at the time as audacious and ruthlessly honest, which
murderous goings-on. Robert Towne, who wrote
Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan, Her-
is another way of saying it's dated. Dir. Mike Nich-
both pictures, seems to have provided a maze for
mione Gingold. Directed by Vincente Minnelli.
ols. 9
AUGUST 27, 1990/NEW YORK
73
THEATER
COMPILED BY RUTH GILBERT
Many Broadway theaters will accept ticket orders, for a
humor; directed by Don Scardino. Ron Perlman has
2/26/89. Imperial Theater, 249 West 45th Street
surcharge, on major credit cards by telephone.
joined the cast (he's the Beast in TV's Beauty and the
(239-6200). 2 hrs. and 45 mins.
IRLS
Running more than a year.
Beast!). Featured in the cast are Pamela Blair (who has
LETTICE AND LOVAGE-Maggie Smith and Margaret Ty-
Running more than two years.
the only female role in the play), Michael Country-
zack are the glittering stars of Peter Shaffer's comedy
IRLS Infra-Red Listening System; $3 rental fee.
man, Kurt Deutsch, Mike Hodge, Keith Langsdale,
Ross Bickell, Conan McCarty, and Michael O'Hare.
about a tour guide of the stately homes of England;
HALF-PRICE TICKETS AVAILABLE DAY OF
directed by Michael Blakemore. And so great are
For a twenty-eight-year-old novice playwright, Sor-
PERFORMANCE, for Broadway and Off
these two luminous Maggies that the play manages to
kin has done a bang-up. Opened: 11/15/89. Mon-
Broadway, at the Times Square Theatre Center,
work up considerable steam. With Paxton Whitehead
day-Saturday at 8, Saturday at 2, Wednesday at 2, $25
Broadway at 47th St., and the Lower Manhattan
and Bette Henritze. Tuesday through Saturday at 8,
to $40. At the Music Box Theater, 239 West Forty-
Theatre Center, 2 World Trade Center; in Brooklyn at
Saturday at 2, Sunday at 3; $35-$45. Opened 3/25/90.
fifth Street (239-6200). 2 hrs. and 45 mins. IRLS
Borough Hall Park.
At the Ethel Barrymore Theater, 243 West Forty-
GRAND HOTEL-The Musical: By Luther Davis, Robert
Seventh Street (239-6200). 2 hrs. and35 mins. IRLS
Performance length is approximate; also, price changes
Wright, and George Forrest. It's based on Vicki
are frequent; phone theater for specifics.
LES MISERABLES-A musical, based on the Victor
Baum's novel which takes place in an international
Berlin hotel in the late 1920s, and is directed and cho-
Hugo novel; book is by Alain Boublil and Claude-
Michel Schonberg; music by the latter and lyrics by
BROADWAY
reographed by Tommy Tune. There is a skillful cast
Herbert Kretzmer; additional material by James Fen-
of twenty-nine, which features Karen Akers, Liliane
ton; adapted and directed by Trevor Nunn and John
Montevecchi, and Michael Jeter (who portrays a su-
Caird with their customary panache. With Robert
perbly danced, sung, and acted bookkeeper), Timo-
Now Playing
Westenberg, Christy Baron, Craig Schulman, Joe
thy Jerome, Rex Smith, John Wylie, and Yvonne
Kolinski, Hugh Panaro, Jacquelyn Piro, Ed Dixon,
Marceau and Pierre Dulaine (who are a pair of super-
Evalyn Baron, Gregory Grant. A fugitive is pitted
ASPECTS OF LOVE-A musical, with adaptation and mu-
smooth adagio dancers). Monday through Saturday
against a cruel, self-righteous police inspector in a life-
sic by Andrew Lloyd Webber, based on David Gar-
at 8, Saturday at 2; Wednesday at 2, $37.50 to $55.
nett's novel, set in France in the 1950s, which traces
Opened: 11/12/89. At the Martin Beck Theater,
long struggle to evade capture. Monday-Saturday at
8, Saturday at 2, Wednesday at 2, $25-$60. From 9/3,
the course of love between an English youth and a
302 West Forty-fifth Street (246-0102). 2 hrs. IRLS
schedule is: Tuesday-Saturday at 8, Wednesday and
French actress through an affair which involves all
those whose lives it touches; directed by Trevor
THE GRAPES OF WRATH-An extraordinary adaptation
Saturday at 2. (From 9/9, there'll be Sunday matinees
Nunn; the lyrics are by Don Black and Charles Hart;
of the classic "Okie" novel by John Steinbeck, adapted
at 3.) Opened: 3/12/87. 200 $16 tickets available at
and directed by Frank Galati. Here's a play that has
box office Monday-Thursday for students and senior
the choreography is by Gillian Lynne. With Danielle
something to say and knows how to say it. The prin-
citizens with I.D. Broadway, Broadway at 53rd
DuClos, Walter Charles, Ann Crumb, Michael Ball,
Kathleen Rowe McAllen,Kevin Colson. Opened:
cipals are all remarkable: Gary Sinise as Tom Joad,
Street (239-6200). 3 hr. 15 min
IRLS (Last perfor-
4/8/90. Monday through Saturday at 8, Wednesday
Lois Smith as Ma Joad, and Terry Kinney as the Rev-
mance at the Broadway is 10/13. 10/16, show re-
and Saturday at 2; $35-$55. Broadhurst, 235 West
erend Jim Casey. Kevin Rigdon's scenery sovereignly
opens at Imperial, 249 West 45th Street (239-6200).
44th Street (239-6200). IRLS 2 hr. 30 min.
conveys the four elements, water, fire, air, and earth.
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA-Andrew Lloyd Webber
Tuesday-Saturday at 8, Wednesday and Saturday at 2,
BLACK AND BLUE-Musical revue, with plenty of ex-
and Harold Prince's musical, based on Gaston Ler-
Sunday at 3; $32.50-$50; through 9/2. Opened:
cellent tap-dancing, conceived and directed by Clau-
oux's novel, lyrics by Charles Hart and Richard Stil-
3/22/90. Steppenwolf at the Cort Theater, 138 West
dio Segovia and Hector Orezzoli, stresses the raw
goe; choreography by Gillian Lynne. A terrific techni-
Forty-eighth Street (239-6200). 2 hr. 45 min. IRLS
power of traditional jazz and blues style; choreogra-
cal achievement chock-full of gorgeous scenery and
phy by Henry LeTang, Cholly Atkins, Frankie Man-
GYPSY-Linda Lavin stars as Rose, the ambitious, hard-
costumes. The action takes place in 1860, and tells of a
ning, and Fayard Nicholas. With LaVern Baker, Lin-
working mother, Jonathan Hadary is Herbie, Crista
mysterious Creature (Steve Barton) who lurks be-
da Hopkins, Carrie Smith, Bunny Briggs, Ralph
Moore is Louise, who grows up and becomes the
neath the Paris Opera House stage and exercises a
Brown, Lon Chaney, Jimmy Slyde, Dianne Walker,
famous Gypsy Rose Lee. The music is by Jule Styne,
reign of terror over performers, audience, and stage
Cyd Glover, Savion Glover, Tarik Winston, Dorme-
the lyrics are by Stephen Sondheim, and the book is
hands alike. Featured in the cast are Rebecca Luker
shia Sumbry. Monday-Saturday at 8, Saturday and
by Arthur Laurents, who is also the director. Featured
(who plays the Creature's love and protegé), Kevin
Wednesday at 2, Sunday at 3, $50-$60. Minskoff, 200
in the cast are Tracy Venner, Robert Lambert, Barba-
Gray, Catherine Ulissey, Marilyn Caskey, George
West 45th Street (869-0550). 2 hr. 20 min.
IRLS
ra Erwin, Anna McNeely, Jana Robbins, Ronn Car-
Lee Andrews, John Horton Murray, Leila Martin,
roll, Christen Tassin, and Kristen Mahon. Bonnie
and Jeff Keller. Monday through Saturday at 8, Satur-
CATS-A musical based on T. S. Eliot's delightful Old
Walker has reproduced Jerome Robbins's original
day at 2, Wednesday at 2, $35 to $60. Opened:
Possum's Book of Practical Cats, and presented with a
choreography. Monday through Saturday at 8, Satur-
1/26/88. At the Majestic Theater, 247 West Forty-
first-rate cast of twenty-three talented American
day at 2, Wednesday at 2, $25 to $55. Opened:
fourth Street (239-6200). 2 hr. 30 min.
IRLS
"cats"; directed by Trevor Nunn. The music is by
11/16/89. At the St. James Theater, 246 West Forty-
Andrew Lloyd Webber; the choreography is by Gil-
THE PIANO LESSON-August Wilson's 1990 Pulitzer
fourth Street (246-0102). 2 hrs. 55 mins. IRLS
lian Lynne. There are splendid scenery and costumes,
prize-winning play, well acted, well directed, and sin-
lightsome, high-flying dancers, imaginative and
THE HEIDI CHRONICLES-Mary McDonnell stars in
cere, takes place in Pittsburgh in 1936 and stars
show-stopping lighting, canny and effervescent direc-
Wendy Wasserstein's clever, funny, and sometimes
Charles S. Dutton as a sharecropper who wants to
tion, and there's almost too much dazzlement.
even wise, play which celebrates a woman's wish to
buy the land his grandfather worked on as a slave, and
Opened: 10/7/82. Monday through Saturday (except
stand by her beliefs. It's awash in witty wisecracks
plans to sell an heirloom piano he and his sister (S.
for Thursdays which are always dark) at 8, Saturday
coming thick and fast from all directions, and pro-
Epatha Merkerson) inherited to help pay for the land;
at 2, Wednesday at 2, Sunday at 3, $30 to $55. At the
vides an evening's entertainment everyone should get
directed by Lloyd Richards. Featured in the cast are
Winter Garden Theater, Broadway and Fiftieth
a kick out of; directed by Daniel Sullivan. With Kario
Ernie Scott, Rocky Carroll, Apryl R. Foster, Tommy
Street (239-6200). 2 hrs. and 45 mins.
IRLS
Salem, Christine Estabrook, David Lansbury, Alma
Hollis, Carl Gordon, Lisa Gay Hamilton. Tuesday-
CITY OF ANGELS-James Naughton and Gregg Edelman
Cuervo, Julie White, Wendy Lawless, James Mac-
Thursday, and Sunday at 8, Saturday at 2, Sunday at
star in Larry Gelbart's imaginative thriller; the music
Donald. Opened: 3/9/89. Monday through Saturday
3, Friday and Saturday at 8, Wednesday at 2, $7.50-
is by Cy Coleman, the lyrics are by David Zippel, and
at 8, Wednesday and Saturday at 2; through 9/1; $25
$42.50. Manhattan Theater Club, Walter Kerr, 225
the choreography is by Walter Painter; directed by
to $40. Plymouth Theater, 236 West 45th Street
West 48th Street (582-4022). 2 hr. 50 min.
Michael Blakemore. An entertaining combination of
(239-6200)
IRLS 2 hrs. and 40 mins.
PRELUDE TO A KISS-Timothy Hutton, Barnard
musical comedy and private-eye films of the 40s, it
JEROME ROBBINS' BROADWAY-Tony Roberts stars in
Hughes, and Mary-Louise Parker star in Craig Lu-
boasts a funny idea and slews of juicy one-liners. With
this revue, based on excerpts from Robbins's dance-
cas's contemporary fairy-tale comedy, wherein a cou-
Renè Auberjonois, Randy Graff, Dee Hoty, and Kay
oriented and very popular Broadway musicals, from
ple develops a whirlwind love affair, marry, and
McClelland. Opened: 12/11/89. Tuesday through
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum to
weird complications ensue; directed by Norman
Saturday at 8, Saturday at 2, Sunday at 3, Wednesday
West Side Story, Gypsy, Fiddler on the Roof, High Button
René. With Larry Bryggman, Joyce Reehling, Craig
at 2, $35 to $55. Virginia Theater, 245 West 52nd
Shoes, Billion-Dollar Baby, On the Town, to Peter Pan,
Bockhorn, Debra Monk, L. Peter Callender, Pete Ty-
Street (977-9370). 2 hrs. and 30 mins. IRLS
among others. With Dorothy Stanley, Scott Wise,
ler, Kimberly Dudwitt, Michael Warren Powell, John
A FEW GOOD MEN-Bradley Whitford is now the star of
Alexia Hess, Michael Kubala, Karen Mason, plus 62
Dossett. Tuesday-Thursday at 8, Friday at 8, Satur-
Aaron Sorkin's play, a mystery of murder and mili-
other dancers; directed by Jerome Robbins and Gro-
day at 2 and 8, Sunday at 3, Wednesday at 2, $35-
tary corruption offering nearly three cracklingly good
ver Dale. Monday-Saturday at 8, Saturday at 2,
$42.50. Opened: 5/1/90. Helen Hayes, 240 West
hours of theater, with tension niftily interwoven with
Wednesday at 2, $35-$60; through 9/1. Opened:
44th Street (944-9450). 2 hr. 15 min. IRLS
74
NEW YORK/AUGUST 27, 1990
TRU-Robert Morse, in an inspired, brilliant perfor-
FOREVER PLAID-A musical comedy, written and di-
a man so obsessed with his wife he can't reason or
mance, looks at two days in the life of Truman Capote
rected by Stuart Ross, tells of a semi-professional har-
function properly; co-directed by Conway and Will
based on papers from his estate. It takes place on
mony group tour that was cut short by a car accident
Lieberson. Mila Burnette (at one time Mrs.Conway)
Christmas Day in his United Nations Plaza apart-
on the night of their first gig in 1964; now the "teen
is the wife, Holly Baron her friend and co-worker,
ment, and is written and directed by Jay Presson Al-
angels" are allowed one night at liberty on earth to do
and Julia Gibson the daughter. Tuesday-Saturday at 8,
len. Monday through Saturday at 8; Saturday at 2,
the show they never got to do in life. With Jason
$12; through 9/1. Quaigh Theater production at The-
Wednesday at 2, $27.50 to $40; through 9/1. Opened:
Graae, Stan Chandler, Guy Stroman, David Engel.
ater 808, 808 Lexington Avenue (223-2547).
12/14/89. At the Booth Theater, 239 West Forty-
Tuesday-Friday at 8, Saturday at 7:30 and 10:30, Sun-
MEN OF MANHATTAN-Scenes of New York City Gay Life,
fifth Street (239-6200). 2 hrs. IRLS
day at 3 and 7:30; $30. Opened: 5/20/90. Steve
by John Glines; directed by Charles Catanese. Fea-
McGraw's, 158 West 72nd Street (595-7400).
tured in the cast are John Carhart, David Baird, Rich-
OFF BROADWAY
FURTHER MO'-An exhilarating musical, written, direct-
ard Skipper, Steve Liebhauser, Scott Zimmerman, T.
ed by Vernel Bagneris, and offering undiluted plea-
L. Reilly, and Cy Orfield, playing twenty-five char-
Schedules and admissions extremely subject to
sure, fictionalizes events the last night of a perfor-
acters in vignettes that range from the trials of the ac-
change. Phone ahead, avoid disappointment.
mance at a theater before it is mysteriously destroyed
tor-waiter to the first encounter after meeting on a
by fire. Featured in the cast are Frozine Thomas,
phone line. Wednesday through Friday at 8, Saturday
AS YOU LIKE IT-FRESH!-Shakespeare's folio text of
James Wilcher, Sandra Reaves-Phillips, and Topsy
at 6 and 9, Sunday at 7; $20. A Glines production at
the play has been reinterpreted to take place in a multi-
Chapman. Tuesday through Friday at 8, Saturday at 6
the Courtyard, 39 Grove Street (869-3530).
ethnic economically polarized contempoary New
and 9, Sunday at 3 and 7; $27.50-$32.50. At the Vil
MONEY TALKS-Dolores Gray and Helen Gallagher star
York City; directed by R. Jeffrey Cohen. With How-
lage Gate Theater, 160 Bleecker Street (475-5120).
ard Wesson, Omar Carter, Linda Powell, Charles
in Edwin Schloss's comedy, directed by David Ka-
Duvan, George McGrath, Charles Hall, and Kamala
THE GRAND GUIGNOL-A triple bill of horror shows: The
plan, which deals with a love-and-money feud be-
Lopez. Wednesday through Saturday at 8, Sunday at
Treatment of Dr. Love, in which a quack gynecologist
tween a snob of the Upper East Side, and her some-
is confronted by someone he has mutilated in the past;
time friend, a decorator, both of whom are seeking
7; $12; 8/22 through 9/16. At The RAPP Arts Cen-
ter, 220 East Fourth Street (529-6160).
Experiment at the Asylum describes two psychiatrists
suitable husbands for their daughters. Featured in the
who allow their patients a disastrous moment of free-
cast are Jill Wisoff, Judith Cohen, Janet Sarno, Julie
THE BERMUDA LOVE TRIANGLE-Richard Nathanson's
dom; Orgy in the Traffic Control Tower, aout three
Halston, Lucille Patton, Helen Hanft, Ted Neustadt,
musical comedy, which he also directed, about one
scab controllers and two bimbos fired up by booze
and Arnie Kolodner. Previewing from 8/21 to 9/5 (all
man's obsession in the process of finding a satisfactory
and cocaine at LaGuardia. Tuesday-Friday at 8, Satur-
seats $25). The opening is 9/6; Tuesday through Sat-
romantic relationship. Featured in the cast are Vin
day at 7 and 9:30, Sunday at 3 and 7; $17-$20. Play-
urday at 8, Wednesday, Saturday, and Sunday at 3;
Knight, Rebecca Anderson, and Lisa Pariseau.
house 91, 316 East 91st Street (831-2000).
$32.60 to $35. At the Promenade Theater, Broad-
Wednesday through Saturday at 8; through 8/25; $12.
At the Twenty-ninth Street Playhouse, 212 West
HAMLET-Fortinbras (Frederick Zimmer) is the key in
way and Seventy-sixth Street (580-1313).
Twenty-ninth Street (529-1488).
this version, in which Elsinore is depicted as an armed
MURDER ONCE FORGIVEN-Robert Hunt's mystery-
camp and Denmark as a country on red alert. Paul
thriller, based on an actual case, about a woman and
THE BROADWAY JUKEBOX-A celebration of rediscov-
Todaro has the title role, Joseph Hillyer is Claudius,
her lover who fail at murdering her husband and then
ered Broadway show tunes, conceived by Ed Linder-
and Jeanne La Porta will be Gertrude. Robert Michael
have to deal with the consequnces when h develops
man, directed and choreographed by Bill Guske. Fea-
Kane and Christine Zito are Laertes and Ophelia.
amnesia. Tuesday and Wednesday at 8, Saturday at
tured in the cast are Sal Viviano, Robert Michael
Thursday and Friday at 8, Saturday at 3 and 8;
10, Sunday at 3; $2; through 9/2. At the Riverwest
Baker, Amelia Prentice, Susan Flynn, Gerry McIn-
through 8/25; $10. At the House of Candles The-
Theater, 155 Bank Street (243-0259).
tyre, Ken Lundie, Ed Linderman, and Beth Leavel.
ater, 99 Stanton Street (353-3088).
Tuesday through Friday at 8, Saturday at 5 and 9,
NUNSENSE-Dan Goggin's musical adventures of five
HOSANNA-David McCann and David DeBeck are the
motivated nuns who mount a talent show to raise
Sunday at 3 and 7; $27.50. At the John Houseman
Theater, 450 West Forty-second Street (564-8038).
stars in the revival of a 1974 two-character play by the
money for what they consider to be a good and noble
French Canadian playwright Michael Tremblay. The
cause. Featured in the present lively cast are Brooks
BY AND FOR HAVEL-Kevin O'Connor and Lou Brock-
story deals with bizarre happenings at a Halloween
Almy, Alicia Miller, Bonnie Schon, Lin Tucci, and
way appear in two one-acters, the first Vaclav Havel's
night parade, when fantasy and reality collide at the
Amanda Butterbaugh. Tuesday through Thursday at
Audience, and the second Samuel Beckett's Catastrophe
hands of two lovers; directed by Charlie Hensley.
8, Saturday at 2, Sunday at 3, $30; Wednesday at 2;
(a play inspired by the Czechoslovakian president-
Tuesday through Saturday at 7:30, Sunday at 3 and 8;
$27.50; Friday and Saturday at 8, $32.50. Opened:
playwright), in which Evelyn Tuths join the two ac-
$15. A Performing Arts production at the Actor's
12/12/85. At the Douglas Fairbanks Theater, 432
tors; both directed by Vasek Simek. Tuesday through
Playhouse, 100 Seventh Avenue South (564-8038).
West Forty-second Street (239-4321).
Saturday at 8, Saturday at 2, Sunday at 3 and 7:30;
THE LEGACY-The triumphant return of Gordon Nel-
0 DOENTE IMAGINARIO-A Festival Latino presentation
$20; through 9/2. Opened: 3/8/90. John Houseman
Theater, 450 West Forty-second Street (564-8038).
son's history of gospel music; directed by Elmo Terry
of The Imaginary Invalid, a musical version of the Mo-
Morgan. You might well clap your hands and stomp
liére play, in which adaptor/director Caça Rosset has
CAMILLE-A story of true love at its truest, with all the
your feet, and have a great time to boot. Friday and
placed the work in a carnival setting, incorporating
sex and sacrifice love implies; written by the late
Saturday at 8, Sunday at 3; $15. At the National
five musicians, plus circus elements; the music is by
Charles Ludlam, based on the Dumas tale; directed by
Black Theater, 2033 Fifth Avenue (427-5615).
Marc Antoine Charpentier. 8/21 to 25 at 8; 8/26 at 3
Everett Quinton (who plays Camille). Featured in the
THE LIFE-A musical by Cy Coleman and Ira Gasman,
and 8; $15 and $20. In Portuguese with simultaneous
cast are Cheryl Reeves, Kevin Scullin, Georg Oster-
directed and choreographed by Joe Layton. It looks at
translation 8/21, 22 at 8, and 8/26 at 3. A Teatro Do
man, Eureka, Bobby Reed, Jim Lamb, Carl Clay-
the sordid Times Square sub-culture of a hooker, her
Ornitorrinco production at the Public/Newman
bourne, H.M. Kououkas, Jean-Claude Vasseux, and
pimps, and their struggle for survival in the 1970s.
Theater, 425 Lafayette Street (598-7150).
Steven Pell. Tuesday through Friday at 8, Saturday
Featured in the cast are Heather Wright, Edwin Louis
OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY-Steven Keats stars in Jerry
and Sunday at 7; $25. At the Charles Ludlam The-
Battle, Sharon Wilkins, David Drake, Degan Ever-
Sterner's thoroughly professional piece of work; fun-
ater, 1 Sheridan Square (691-2271).
hart, Mamie Duncan Gibbs, Stuart Hult, Alde Lewis,
ny, serious, suspenseful, involving, disturbing, and,
CARREÑO!-A one-woman classical musical play telling
Laura Berman, Sachi Shimizu, Guylane Bouchard,
above all, expertly crafted; about the efforts of a small
of the secret life and loves of Teresa Carreño, Venezu-
Peter Schankowitz, Jan Mussetter, Stanley, Mathus,
New England community to protect itself against ac-
elan-born piano virtuoso who attained international
Larry Marshall, and Mark Maharrey. Monday
quisition by an unscrupulous Wall Street takeover art-
fame at the turn of the century, and her 30-year search
through Saturday at 7; $12. At the Westbeth Theater
ist; directed by Gloria Muzio. Featured in the cast are
for a daughter lost through adoption; created and per-
Center, 151 Bank Street (242-7103).
Priscilla Lopez, Jacqueline Brookes, Arch Johnson,
formed by Pamela Ross (who is a recitalist, chamber
LIGHT UP THE SKY-Bruce Weitz, Betsy Joslyn, Peggy
James Murtaugh. Tuesday-Friday at 8, Saturday at 3
music player, and soloist); directed by Gene Frankel.
Cass, Charles Keating, Linda Carlson, and Bill
and 8, Sunday at 3 and 7; $33. Opened: 2/16/89. Min-
Wednesday-Saturday at 8, Saturday and Wednesday
McCutcheon are the stars in a revival of the 1948
etta Lane Theater, 18 Minetta Lane (420-8000).
at 2, Sunday at 3 and 7; $22-$25. Opened: 5/17/90.
Moss Hart backstage comedy, set during the Boston
PAPP'S DOUBLE BILL-Two one-acters: The first, Jeff
INTAR, 420 West 42nd Street (279-4200).
tryout of a new play destined for a Broadway open-
Storer and Edward Hunt's Indecent Material, an adap-
THE FANTASTICKS-The longest running show on or off
ing; directed by Larry Carpenter. Featured in the cast
tation of some of Senator Jesse Helms's speeches on
Broadway; a gracious musical fable that has spawned
are John Bolger, Elaine Bromka, Humbert Allen As-
arts funding and obscenity. The second, Report from
much talent in its time. With William Tost, George
tredo, Paul Nielsen, Max Robinson, John Vennema,
the Holocaust, an adaptation of Larry Kramer's essays
Riddle, Bryan Hull, Earl Aaron Levine, Steven Mi-
Peter Robinson. Tuesday-Saturday at 8; Wednesday,
reporting on the last years in the AIDS crisis. Ccast in
chael Daley, and Robert Vincent Smith. Tuesday-Fri-
Saturday, and Sunday at 2; $18-$30; through 9/16.
both plays are Patricia Esperon (as Jesse Helms, David
day at 8, Saturday at 7 and 10, Sunday at 3 and 7:30;
Roundabout, 100 East 17th Street (420-1883).
Ring (as Larry Kramer), and Rebecca Hutchins (as the
$25-$29. Opened: 5/3/60. Sullivan Street Theater,
MAMA, I WANT TO SING-Deitra Hicks stars in this fine
dancer). Tuesday-Sunday at 8, Saturday and Sunday
181 Sullivan Street (674-3838).
gospel musical by Vy Higginsen (who is also the nar-
at 3; $15; 8/22-9/9. Manbites Dog at the Public/Su-
FORBIDDEN BROADWAY 1990-Creator/lyricist/director
rator), with her husband Kenneth Wydro, and her sis-
san Stein Shiva, 425 Lafayette Street (598-7150).
Gerard Alessandrini's satirical review is up to par,
ter Doris Troy, about a girl in the church choir who
PERFECT CRIME-Warren Manzi's cat-and-mouse duel
snuff, and lots of mischief. All the new stuff's here
dreams of becoming a pop singer. Opened: 3/23/83.
between a detective and a wealthy female psychiatrist,
plus favorites back by popular demand. Featured in
In repertory with Mama, I Want to Sing, Part II, with a
set in a small Connecticut town; directed by Jeffrey
the cast are Suzanne Blakeslee, Jeff Lyons, Marilyn
twenty-member cast and eighteen new gospel,
Hyatt. Featured in the cast are Catherine Russell, Lio-
Pasekoff, and Bob Rogerson, with the indefatigable
rhythm and blues, and pop songs by Wesley Naylor.
nel Chute, Brian Dowd, Marcus Powell, and Dana
Philip Fortenberry on piano. Tuesday through Friday
A third show, Let the Music Play Gospel, is performed
Scott Galloway. Tuesday through Saturday (except
at 8:30; Saturday at 7:30 and 10:30; Wednesday at 2:30;
on weekends. Phone for details. At the Heckscher
for Wednesday night which is dark) at 8, Sunday at 3
Sunday at 3:30; $32.50 to $35. Opened: 9/15/88, and
Theater, Fifth Avenue at 104th Street (534-2804).
and 7; Wednesday and Saturday at 2; $30. Opened:
still going strong (ever-changing). At the Theater
THE MAN WHO FELL IN LOVE WITH HIS WIFE-Kevin
April, 1977. At the Harold Clurman Theater, 412
East, 211 East Sixtieth Street (838-9090).
Conway is the star of Ted Whitehead's comedy about
West Forty-second Street (695-3401).
AUGUST 27, 1990/NEW YORK
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THEATER
PHILADELPHIA, HERE I COME!-Brian Friel's comedy
Reggie Montgomery, and Kevin Jackson. Tuesday
MISALLIANCE-George Bernard Shaw's satirical tour de
about a young Irishman on the eve of his departure for
through Sunday at 8, Saturday and Sunday at 3; $20.
force on the discord existing between sexes, classes,
the new world and a new life; directed by Paul
At Joseph Papp's Public/Martinson Theater, 425
and generations, with an insight into modern relation-
Weidner. With Pauline Flanagan, W. B. Brydon, Pat-
Lafayette Street (598-7150). IRLS
ships; directed by Eleanore Tapscott. Friday and Sat-
rick Fitzgerald, Frank McCourt, Ciaran O'Reilly,
Chris Carrick, Dermot McNamara, Madeleine Pot-
A SUMMER OUTING-Robert Hunt's story of the first
urday at 8, Sunday at 3; $10; through 9/23. Westside
professional baseball player to be the victim of an
Repertory, 252 West 81st Street (874-7290).
ter, Denis O'Neill, Brian O'Bryne, John Short, Pad-
dy Croft, Bernard Frawley, and Colin Lane. Tues-
"outing"-having his secret gay lifestyle reported in a
ONE ACTS TO GRIND-Six progressive works, five pre-
magazine. Thursday and Friday at 8, Saturday at 3
day-Friday at 8, Saturday at 3 and 8, Sunday at 3; $25.
mieres, and one New York presentation, by Missing
and 7, Sunday at 7; $10; through 9/2. At the River-
Irish Repertory Theater production, South Street
Children. With Adrienne Shelly, Suzanne Costallos,
west Theater, 155 Bank Street (243-0259).
Theater, 424 West Forty-second Street (279-4200).
James Davies, Pat Specks, Alexander Duncan, and
THE TRAGEDY OF KING RICHARD III-As part of Joseph
Eric Sanders. 8/22 to 25 at 8, 8/26 at 2; $10. At the
QUIET ON THE SET-Terrell Anthony's comedy, directed
Papp's Shakespeare in the Park series, this presenta-
Perry Street Theater, 31 Perry Street (757-6947).
by A. C. Weary, takes you behind the scenes into the
tion has Denzel Washington in the title role, Mary Al-
wacky world of daytime serials, and features an all-
THE RED SIGNAL-Agatha Christie's tale of romance, in-
ice as Queen Margaret, Jesse Bernstein as Duke of
soap-star cast from All My Children and Guiding Light,
trigue, murderous passions, and more; directed by
York; and Daniel Davis, Virginia Downing, Jonathan
including Trent Bushey, Robert Newman, Kate Col-
Fred Fondren. Through 9/1, Wednesday through Sat-
Fried, Jenny Nichols, Nancy Palk, and Sam Tsout-
lins, Matt Servitto, and Cady McClain. It takes place
urday at 8, Sunday at 3; $8. At the Prometheus The-
souvas; directed by Robin Phillips. Also featured in
on the set of a popular soap opera which allows two
ater, 239 East Fifth Street (477-8689).
the cast are Lisa Arrindel, Joseph Ziegler, David Aar-
plots to develop. Tuesday through Saturday at 8, Sat-
THE SHADOW BOX-Michael Cristofer's Pulitzer Prize-
on Baker, Wade Williams, Seth Gilliam, John Miscu-
urday at 3, Sunday at 3 and 7:30; $25 to $27.50. Or-
winning play, directed by Marc Geller, deals with
lin, Philip Moon, Steve Graham, Curt Hostetter,
pheum Theater, 126 Second Avenue (477-2477).
Chris DeBari, Erin O'Brien, Tracey Copeland, Rafael
three terminal cancer patients in an experimental hos-
REPERTORIO ESPANOL-Cafe con Leche, Gloria Gonza-
Clements, William Moses, Royal Miller, and Jean-
pital community, trying to come to grips with the fi-
nality of their condition. With Patricia Barker, Bill
lez's comedy about the Americanization of a Cuban
Paul Moran. Tuesday through Sunday at 8; through
family in New York; directed by Rene Buch. A dou-
9/2. Tickets are distributed, one to a person, FREE,
Roulet, Don Jeffrey. Wednesday-Saturday at 8, Sun-
ble bill: Pedro Juan Soto's El Huesped, and Manuel
starting at 6:15 before each performance. At the Dela-
day at 3; $10; 8/25-29. Red Light production at the
Gonzalez's musical, Los Jibaros Progresistas, both of
Sanford Meisner, 164 11th Avenue (206-1764).
corte Theater, enter Central Park West at Eighty-
which deal with the Puerto Rican experience in pre-
first Street, or from the East Side at Seventy-ninth-
SOULFUL SCREAM OF A CHOSEN SON-Ned Eisenberg's
sent-day New York and in Puerto Rico at the turn-of-
Street and Fifth Avenue (861-7277).
play, set in 1967 Brooklyn, tells of a Jewish teenager
the-century, respectively; the first directed by Beatriz
who becomes obsessed with living the black experi-
Cordoba, and the second by Rene Buch; both featur-
OFF OFF BROADWAY
ence; directed by June Stein. With Kirk Lombard, Er-
ing stars of Repertorio's acting ensemble. La Viuda
ica Gimpel, Martin Shakar, and Karen Ludwig. From
Alegre, Franz Lehar's operetta features a Spanish trans-
BROKEN ENGLISH-Gilbert Girion's play, directed by
8/28, Tuesday through Saturday at 8, Sunday at 3;
lation by Rene Buch, who directs; $15. Phone theater
Tim Sanford, tells of two intelligent, off-beat writers
through 9/3 at 8; $7. Thereafter, through 9/16, (spe-
for further information and specifics as to other enter-
trying to keep their relationship alive while living to-
cial matinee 9/12 at 3), all seats are $10. Vineyard
tainments (zarzuelas, dance, etc.). Gramercy Arts
Theater, 108 East 15th Street (353-3874).
gether and collaborating on a screenplay. Featured in
Theater, 138 East 27th Street (889-2850).
the cast are Welker White, Christopher Fields, and
TEMPTATION-Czechoslovakian playwright/President
THE ROTHSCHILDS-Mike Burstyn amd Allen Fitzpat-
Roma Mafia. 8/22, 23, 24, 27, 28, 9/1, 4, at 8; 8/26 at
Vaclav Havel's play uses the Faust legend to remind us
rick in the musical by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon
7. At the Judith Anderson Theater, 420 West For-
that under conditions of modern bureaucracy, neither
Harnick, book by Sherman Yellen, based on Freder-
ty-second Street (1/718-622-2387).
East nor West holds a monopoly on the sale of souls;
ick Morton's biography, which traces the rise of a
THE CENSUS TAKER-Outdoor musical comedy, featur-
directed by Michael Mariano. Wednesday-Sunday at
man from the Frankfurt ghetto and his five sons
8; $10; 8/30 to 9/15. Schapiro Center at Columbia
ing dance, startling stage effects and a company of 35
(played by Bob Cuccioli, Ray Wills, Joel Malina,
University, 605 West 115th Street (854-6920).
actors, 10 crew, 5 musicians. FREE! Author/director
Nick Corley, and Da vid Cantor), who finally create
Crystal Field's tale is of a bamboozled detective whose
TONY 'N' TINA'S WEDDING-A wedding at St. John's
the most powerful banking houses of Europe; direct-
clients turn out to be crooks. Company tours city
Church, 81 Christopher Street; then a reception at
ed by Lonny Price. Tuesday through Saturday at 8,
streets, playgrounds, parks and bandshells. Through
147 Waverly Place, with Italian buffet, champagne,
Wednesday and Saturday at 2:30, Sunday at 3; $35 to
9/16 at 2 p.m. For information, call 1/212-254-1109.
and wedding cake. Tuesday through Saturday at 7,
$37. At the Circle in the Square Downtown The-
ater, 159 Bleecker Street (254-6330).
CORIOLANUS-William Shakespeare's play stars Will
Sunday at 2; phone for prices. (279-4200).
Buchannan in the title role and is directed by James
THE TRIAL-Guy Davis's play, directed by Jamal Joseph.
SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION-Swoozie Kurtz replaces
Jennings. Wednesday through Saturday at 8; $8;
The audience, as jury, is asked to determine the fate of
the ever-enjoyable Stockard Channing (temporarily)
through 8/25. American Theater of Actors at Out-
a man who has allowed drugs to take possession of
as the star of John Guare's play about everything, with
door Theater, 314 West 54th Street (581-3044).
him. Tuesday-Saturday at 8, Saturday at 2, Sunday at
something in it for everyone, set in New York City,
3; $15. McGinn/Cazale Theater, situated above
about a mugging victim who seeks refuge at an ele-
FANNY'S FIRST PLAY-George Bernard Shaw's 1911
The Promenade, Broadway at 76th Street (575-7672).
play satirizing London drama critics; directed by Gene
gant dinner party; directed perkily by Jerry Zaks. Fea-
Feist. 8/24 at 8, 8/25, 26, at 3 and 8; free (donations
TRIPLE BILL-Keller Easterling's two one-acters, Attic
tured in the cast are John Cunningham, Gregory Sim-
accepted). Roundabout Theater Ensemble at Susan
and Porch, the first about a man, stricken with deaf-
mons, Sam Stoneburner, David Eigenberg, Kelly
Bloch Theater, 307 West 26th Street (420-1360).
ness, who creates a world of sound for himself; the
Bishop, Peter Maloney, Brian Evers, Robin Morse,
second, a portrait of 5 people who lived in the same
Philip LeStrange, Gus Rogerson, Paul McCrane,
FIFTH OF JULY-A revival of Lanford Wilson's play, set
room of a boarding house over a 30-year period; both
Evan Handler, Anthony Rapp, Stephen Pearlman,
in the seventies, wherein a group of close friends re-
examine their lives and the unfulfilled dreams of the
directed by Elfin Frederick Vogel; followed by Dur-
and Mari Nelson. Monday through Saturday at 8;
renmatt's Late Evening in the Fall, translated by Elfin
Wednesday and Saturday at 2; $40; through 12/31.
sixties over the holiday weekend; directed by Linda
F. Vogel and directed by Mihaly Kerenyi, in which a
Show transfers to the Vivian Beaumont Theater up-
Arbuckle. Thursday-Sunday at 8; $10; through 8/26.
bookkeeper-turned-detective tries to unravel the se-
stairs in Lincoln Center 10/30; Stockard Channing has
Avalon Theater, 2744 Broadway (316-2668).
cret behind the writings of a famous author. 8/21, 29,
left to make a film but will return for the Beaumont
FROZEN STYPH-At Ronald Jay Cohen's comedy, audi-
30, 31, 9/5 at 8; 8/25 at 3 and 8; 8/26 and 9/1 at 3; $10.
stint. At the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, in Lin-
ences are invited to attend a dinner party in honor of
Judith Anderson, 420 West 42nd Street (420-0218).
coln Center, 150 West Sixty-fifth Street (239-6200).
the late Max Styph. Evening includes dinner.
THE TURNIP FESTIVAL-One-acters from 8/20-25, Mon-
SMOKE ON THE MOUNTAIN-Connie Ray's blue-grass
Wednesday-Sunday at 7:30; $65 ($35-groups of 20 or
day-Saturday at 8; $5: Thomas O'Leary's Breath, di-
musical comedy about a depression-era family who
more). Garvin's, 19 Waverly Place (718-389-4124).
rected by Jim Fall; Robert Shaffron's The Survival of
travel through the South bearing witness to their reli-
THE GERMAN REQUIEM-Eric Bentley's play, directed by
the Species, directed by Wendy Davidson; Richard
gion with banjo, fiddle, and songs; directed by Alan
Judith Malina, is set in the mountains and castles of
Holland's Perfect Moments. From 8/27-9/1 at 8; $5:
Bailey. With Connie Ray, Reathel Bean, Jane Potter,
feuding Medieval Swabia. Wednesday through Sun-
Larry Myers's Children Anonymous, directed by Duane
Kevin Chamberlin, Robert Olsen, Linda Kerns, and
day at 8; $10; through 9/9. At The Living Theater,
Marble; Karen Rizzo's The Hot Seat, directed by Leslie
Dan Manning. Monday through Saturday at 8,
272 East Third Street (979-0601).
Ayvazian; Kirk Aanes's Intuition. Playwrights Hori-
Wednesday at 2, Sunday at 3 and 7; $25. At the
IT'S STILL MY TURN-Terry Sweeney impersonates Ms.
zons Theater School at the Samuel Beckett The-
Lamb's Theater, 130 West 44th Street (997-1780).
Reagan reading poetry, telling stories, reminiscing, in
ater, 406 West 42nd Street (695-5429).
SONG OF SAD YOUNG MEN-Carl Hancock Rux's play,
a one-man show directed by Bill Lovejoy. Thursday-
A WOMAN'S EYE-Two one-acters by Sue Reinhard:
directed by Trazana Beverley, looks at issues plaguing
Saturday at 10, Sunday at 6; $15. The Actors Play-
Backing Into Hoboken, directed by Celia Braxton,
urban communities such as substance abuse, the dys-
house, 100 Seventh Avenue South (564-8038).
about the current theatrical financial environment of
functional family, AIDS and the HIV-infected, and
LINE-Israel Horovitz's play about five people who
New York City; and Toujours Seule, directed by Da-
how these affect the black male. With Marlow Wyatt,
want to be first in line, directed by Doug Lieth, cho-
vid S. Macy, about a poor woman who is seduced by
Claire Dorsey, C'Esther Wooten, Marcelle Lashley,
reographed by Leava Hall; Wednesday, Saturday,
a handsome artist who sweeps her off to his cabin in
Isaiah Washington, Jacinto Riddick, Don Corey
Sunday at 9:30; $10. In rep with I-Land, featuring
the woods. 9/5, 6, 7, 8 at 8, 5/8 and 9 at 3; $10. River-
Washington, Melvin Riley, Will Rose. Friday, Satur-
day, and Sunday at 8, Sunday at 3; through 8/26;
excerpts from Sonia Picer's novel about the ups and
west Theater, 155 Bank Street (243-0259).
downs of life in Manhattan; directed by Rebecca Ver-
$12.50. Cecil Alonzo Players, 317 Claremont Street
nooy; Thursday and Friday at 9:30; $10. Also in the
NEW YORK TICKET SERVICE
at Lafayette, Brooklyn (1/718-783-9838).
repertory is Elise Formichella's Love in the Bottom of the
For information regarding theater, dance, and concert
SPUNK-A play, written and directed by George Wolfe,
Ninth (through 9/9), Thursday through Sunday at 7;
tickets, call 880-0755 Monday through Friday from
is based on three tales by Zora Neale Hurston. Fea-
$10. At the 13th Street Theater, 50 West Thirteenth
10:30 a.m. to 4:30. New York Magazine will be happy to
tured in the cast are Danitra Vance, Chic Street Man,
Street (675-6677).
advise you.
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NEW YORK/AUGUST 27, 1990
ART
EXHIBITIONS
COMPILED BY EDITH NEWHALL
MCCOY-41 E. 57th St. (319-1996). Works by Bidlo,
leder, Bloodgood, Boochever, Krushenick, McCas-
GALLERIES
Kaplowitz, Pereira, Wynne; through 9/6.
lin, Mosher, Staehle, Westfall; through 8/31.
PACE-32 E. 57th St. (421-3292). Drawings and other
PACE-142 Greene St. (421-3292). Works by Chamber-
Galleries are generally open Tue.-Sat. from
works on paper by Baselitz, Close, Condo, Dine,
lain, Oldenburg, Ryman, Samaras, Schnabel, Serra;
between 10 and 11 to between 5 and 6.
Marden, Morley, Picasso, Samaras, Schnabel, others;
through 8/31.
SOLOS
through 9/7.
PERLOW-560 Broadway (941-1220). Works that have
REECE-24 W. 57th St. (333-5830). Paintings by Jian-
the American barn as a theme, by gallery and invited
Guo Xu, Hong Yun Li, Ke-Ming Liu, Yang, Zeng;
artists; through 9/4.
57th Street Area
through 8/31.
TWINING-568 Broadway (431-1830). Summer exhibi-
ST. ETIENNE-24 W. 57th St. (245-6734). Paintings,
tion with works by Cameron, Ducret, Hawkes-
KAREL APPEL-Works on paper from 1949-1984;
drawings, and prints by Coe, Klimt, Klinger, Ko-
worth, Plachy, Tress, Voulkos, Willis; through 8/31.
through 8/31. Urban, 500 Park Ave. (593-3306).
koschka, Kollwitz, Moses, Schiele, others; through
WEBER-142 Greene St. (966-6115). Works by gallery
8/31.
MICHAEL KIDNER-Constructivist paintings and sculp-
artists; through 8/31.
ture; through 9/15. Center for International Contem-
SEAGRAM-375 Park Ave. (572-7379), Mon.-Fri. 9-5.
porary Arts, 724 Fifth Ave. (586-2422).
Lithographs and etchings by Arp, Braque, Le Corbu-
Other
sier, Leger, Miro, Picasso, others; through 8/31.
SoHo and TriBeCa
SHEA & BEKER-20 W. 57th St. (974-8100). Prints and
CREATIVE TIME'S ART IN THE ANCHORAGE-Brooklyn
works on paper, by Bisbee, Bochner, Drasler, Gipe,
Bridge at Cadman Plaza West and Old Front St.,
Hammond, Komoski, Lane, Rose, Torreano, others;
GEORGE BASELITZ-Prints from 1964-1987; through
Brooklyn (619-1955), Thur.-Sun. 12-6. Site-specific
through 9/8.
installations by Allyn, Blane, Dove, Doyle, Gold-
9/23. Nolan, 560 Broadway (925-6190).
TILTON-24 W. 57th St. (247-7480). "Detritus: Transfor-
berg, Paul H-O & Roger Boyce, Yong Soon Min,
DAVID RABINOWITCH-A recent sculpture titled "Metri-
mation and Re-construction," with works by
Nechak, Patkin, Rubins; through 10/7.
cal Constructions in 13 Masses, 1989-90"; through
Belcher, Coyne, McCaslin, Mitchell, Nauman, Pon-
JAMAICA ARTS CENTER-161-04 Jamaica Ave., Jamaica,
8/31. Flynn, 113 Crosby St. (966-0426).
dick, Potter, others; through 8/31.
N.Y. (718-658-7400). "Coast to Coast: A Women of
CHRISTOPHER WOOL-Recent drawings; through 9/12.
Color National Artists' Book Project"; through 9/22.
Luhring Augustine, 130 Prince St. (219-9600).
SoHo and TriBeCa
PARK AVENUE ATRIUM-237 Park Ave. (850-9786),
Mon.-Fri. 8 a.m.-7 p.m. Like Cats & Dogs: Car-
GROUP SHOWS
ALEXANDER-59 Wooster St. (925-4338). Works by
toons and Sculptures"; through 9/7.
Ahearn, Bosman, Nadin, Nechvatal, Otterness, Win-
SNUG HARBOR CULTURAL CENTER-1000 Richmond
Madison Avenue and Vicinity
ters; through 8/24.
Terrace, Staten Island, N.Y. (718-448-2500). "Family
ANDERSON-63 Thompson St. (431-8547). Recent
Stories," with works by Lau, Lovell, Madigan, Mu-
ARSENAL-Fifth Ave. at 64th St., in Central Park (360-
works by Bruggeman, Pihlblad, Wells; through 9/22.
noz, Nicosia, Williams; through 9/2; "4th Annual
1309). "Parks Happenings: The 60s"; through 8/31.
A/D-560 Broadway (966-5154). "The Garden," with
Sculpture Festival" with works by Alvarado-Juarez,
DAVIS & LANGDALE-231 E. 60th St. (838-0333). Works
works by Andoe, Deutsch, Finlay, Gornik, McDer-
Anker, Antoni, Chamberlain, Edelstein, Meadows,
by Allan, Anderson, Herder, Kulicke, Roseman,
mott & McGough, Nelson, Powley, Sicilia, Tuttle,
Mumm, Nalls, Sherwood, Siegel, Snyder, Spauld-
Shickler; through 8/31.
Wentworth; through 9/30.
ing; through 10/28.
GAGOSIAN-980 Madison Ave. (744-2313). Works by
BAUM-588 Broadway (219-9854). Paintings and photo-
SOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK-Broadway at Vernon
Hockney, Johns, Klein, De Kooning, Lichtenstein,
graphs by Burson, Cowin, Divola, Dubina, Garvens,
Blvd., Long Island City (718-956-1819). Large-scale
Newman, Still, Warhol, others; through 9/3.
Roberts, Simonian; through 8/31.
outdoor sculptures by Breivik, Di Suvero, Fasnacht,
MARBELLA-28 E. 72nd St. (288-7809). Paintings by
Fleming, Frank, Ginnever, Neri, Pepper, Unger, Wi-
BENNETT & SIEGEL-140 W. Broadway (385-4434).
Bierstadt, Clark, Hallowell, Inness, Wyant, others;
broe, others; through 10/30.
"The Erotic Image," with works by Colette, Forsell
through 9/28.
and McGrady, Klein, Lerer, Rivers; through 8/25.
PHOTOGRAPHY
SPANIERMAN-50 78th St. (879-7085). Works by Bir-
CROWN POINT PRESS-568 Broadway (5476). "Altered
ney, Farny, Gorson, Hale, Hassam, Homer, Ritman,
States: Multiple Impressions from the Same Matrix,"
ALICE AUSTEN HOUSE-2 Hylan Blvd., Staten Island
Robinson, Wiggins; through 9/22.
with works by Cragg, Diebenkorn, Held, Kushner,
(718-816-4506), Thu.-Sun. 12-5. Photographs of sail-
Pfaff, Scully, Steir, Thiebaud, Wiley; through 9/5.
57th Street Area
ing vessels and steamships taken by Austen from her
CUTLER-593 Broadway (219-1577). Paintings and
front lawn in the late 19th and early 20th centuries;
prints by Chia, Diebenkorn, Dine, Francis, Hockney,
through 11/30.
CHILDS-41 E. 57th St. (838-1881). Works by Avery,
Jenkins, Jaudon, Johns, Motherwell, Schnabel, Tor-
CITY GALLERY-2 Columbus Circle (974-1150). Photo-
Botkin, Burchfield, Embry, Zorach, others; through
reano, Walker, others; through 8/31.
graphs of New York by members of the SoHo Photo
8/31.
HALLER-415 W. Broadway (219-2500). Works by An-
Gallery; through 8/24.
COLE-200 W. 57th St. (333-7760). Drawings from 1911
thony, Baron, Brown, Kaplowitz, Lundin, Rawls,
to 1951, by Bishop, Davis, Lachaise, Marsh, Sloan,
Streeter, others; through 8/25.
DANZIGER-415 W. Broadway (226-0056). "Photogra-
others; through 8/31.
phers' Muses," with works by Weston, Callahan,
IHARA LUDENS-568 Broadway (941-0110). Works by
Fonnsagrives, Meisel, Metzner; through 8/31.
DEUTSCH-29 W. 57th St. (754-6660). Works by Ajay,
Beenen, Filippini, Glovsky, Jaime-Mena, Merchant,
Daphnis, Dinnerstein, Kalish, Lozowick, Model, Slo-
Mosher, Tomaselli, Welch, others; through 8/25.
PATRICK FAIGENBAUM/SUZANNE LAFONT-Photographs
bodkina, others; through 8/31.
of Italian aristocracy that are reminiscent of works by
KATZEN-475 Broome St. (966-4469). Works by Coyer,
17th-century Italian court painters/Large, multi-pan-
FISCHBACH-24 W. 57th St. (759-2345). Realist paint-
Elkins, Lederman, Mason; through 8/31.
eled portraits of different subjects caught in somewhat
ings by Blaine, Freilicher, Gerlach, Shatter, Touch-
KLEIN-594 Broadway (431-1980). Works-in-progress
similar moods. Through 9/7. Pace/MacGill, 32 E.
ton, and other gallery artists; through 8/31.
by Blum, Casebere, Ferrara, Highstein, Mullican;
57th St. (759-7999).
GOODMAN-24 W. 57th St. (581-5187). Works by An-
through 9/28.
FEDERAL HALL NATIONAL MEMORIAL-Wall and Nassau
selmo, Baldessari, Boltanski, Penone, Schutte, Wall,
LORENCE-MONK-578 Broadway (431-3555). Works by
Sts. (264-8711), Mon.-Fri., 10-5. "Historic Hudson
others; through 8/31.
gallery artists; through 8/24.
Valley: Photographs and Present"; through 8/30.
HEIDENBERG-50 W. 57th St. (586-3808). Works on pa-
LUCIEN-555 Broadway (274-0208). "Inside the Beast,"
I.C.P.-1130 Fifth Ave. (860-1777), Tue. 12-8 (5-8 free
per by Dine, Moore, Paladino, Stella, others; through
with works by Ahearn, Birmelin, Romberger, Woj-
of charge), Wed.-Fri. 12-5, Sat.-Sun. 11-6. $3; stu-
8/31.
narowicz, Wong; through 8/23.
dents $1.50; seniors $1. Through 9/9: "Weston's Wes-
I.B.M.-590 Madison Ave. (745-3500). "Rediscovering
NAHAN CONTEMPORARY-380 W. Broadway (925-
tons: Portraits and Nudes"; "Arnold Eagle's New
Pompeii"; through 9/15.
3230). "No Trends," with works on paper by Barry,
York: The 30s and 40s."
LLADRO-43 W. 57th St. (838-9341). Works by Aguilar,
Denes, Kushner, Grossman, Spector, others; through
I.C.P. MIDTOWN-1133 Ave. of the Americas (768-
Beulas, Bilbao, Canizares, Cillero, Selma, Ubeda,
8/31.
4680), Tue. and Wed. 11-6, Thu. 11-8, Fri.-Sun.
others; through 9/1.
NEWBERG-580 Broadway (219-1885). Works by Arm-
11-6. $2; students and seniors $1. Through 9/2:
AUGUST 27, 1990/NEW YORK
77
ART
"Making History/Making News: Live from Tianan-
10/14: "The Doghouse."
Decades of American Art: The 60s and 70s."
men Square, A Video Installation by Shu Lea
FRAUNCES TAVERN MUSEUM-54 Pearl St. at Broad St.
Cheang." Through 9/2: "Marilyn Bridges: The Sa-
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN-1083 Fifth Ave., at
cred and the Secular, A Decade of Aerial
(425-1778). Mon.-Fri. 10 a.m.4. $2.50, students and
89th St. (369-4880). Tue. noon-8, Wed.-Sun.
Photography."
seniors $1; free Thurs. Through 8/31: "Wall Street:
noon-5. (Free Tue. 5-8). $2.50, seniors and students
Changing Fortunes."
$2. Through 9/2: "New York Architecture: 1990
CHARLES MARTIN-Portraits, cityscapes, and still lifes
taken in New York, Paris, Lisbon, and Brazil;
FRICK COLLECTION-1 E. 70th St. (288-0700). Tue.-Sat.
NYC/AIA Design Awards." Through 9/2: "Prize-
10 a.m.-6., Sun. 1-6. $3, students and seniors $1.50.
through 8/31. 4th Street Photo, 67 E. 4th St. (673-
Winning Drawings from The Roman Academy,
Children under 10 not admitted. Fragonard's "The
1682-1754."
1021).
Progress of Love."
NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY-Central Park West at
CAREN NEDERLANDER-Landscape photographs on can-
GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM-Fifth Ave., at 89th St.
77th St. (873-3400). Museum is closed for renova-
vas; through 8/30. Books & Co., 939 Madison Ave.
(980-8897).
(360-3500). Closed for restoration; will re-open in fall
tions; will re-open on 9/5.
of 1991.
NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY-Central Research Build-
STEP-66 Crosby St. (226-6515). Photographs by Ash-
HUDSON RIVER MUSEUM-Trevor Park-on-Hudson, 511
er, Kane, Kravitz, Pallat; through 8/30.
ing, Fifth Ave. and 42nd St. (869-8089). Daily (except
Warburton Ave., Yonkers (914-963-4550). Wed.,
Sun.) 10 a.m.-6. "Building the New York Public Li-
LINNAEUS TRIPE/SUZANNE OPTON-Photographs of In-
Fri., Sat. 10 a.m.-5, Thu. 10 a.m.-9, Sun. noon-5.
brary." Through 9/1: "Portugal-Brazil: The Age of
dia and Burma taken between 1854-1873, by this
$2, children $1. Through 9/9: "The Art of the Frame:
Atlantic Discoveries." Through 8/31: "Words Like
photographer who was stationed there as a Captain in
American Frames of the Arts and Crafts Period."
Freedom." Through 9/22: "Play Ball! Baseball's Early
the British Army/Monoprints. Through 8/31.
Lowinsky, 584 Broadway (226-5440).
JEWISH MUSEUM-Fifth Ave. at 92nd St. (860-1888).
Innings."
Sun. 11 a.m.-6, Mon., Wed., Thu. noon-5, Tue. to
NEW YORK TRANSIT MUSEUM-Boerum Place and
WITKIN-415 W. Broadway (925-5510). Pencil and cray-
8 (free 5-8). Closed Fri.-Sat., major Jewish holidays.
Schermerhorn St., Brooklyn (718-330-3060). Mon-
on drawings of flowers by Sigrid Spaeth and photo-
$4.50, seniors and students $2.50. Through 12/90:
.-Fri. 10 a.m.4, Sat. 11 a.m.4. $1.15 or a token;
graphs by Abbe, Baron, Marcus, Muray, Steichen,
"Exodus and Exile: 2,000 Years in Ancient Israel."
children 55c. Through 9/29: "The D-Train Project by
others; through 8/24.
Through 11/1: "Why I Got Into TV and Other Sto-
Tom Finkelpearl and Bolek Greczynski."
ZABRISKIE-724 Fifth Ave. (307-7430). Photographs by
ries: The Art of Ilene Segalove."
NOGUCHI MUSEUM-32-37 Vernon Blvd., Long Island
Brooks, Calet, Fontcuberta, Maul, Sugiura, Wagner;
LOWER EAST SIDE TENEMENT MUSEUM-97 Orchard St.
City, Queens, N.Y. (718-204-7088). Wed. and Sat.
through 8/24.
(431-0233). Tue.-Fri. 11 a.m.4. Free. Through
11 a.m.-6. $2 contribution suggested. A collection of
1/11/91: "Out of the Ashes: The Triangle Shirtwaist
over 250 works by the renowned sculptor and a sculp-
PERFORMANCE
Fire."
ture garden (on Saturdays, a shuttle bus departs from
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART-Fifth Ave. at 82nd
the Asia Society at Park Ave. and 70th St. every hour
HOME FOR CONTEMPORARY THEATER AND ART-44
St. (879-5500). Tue.-Thu. and Sun. 9:30 a.m.-5:15,
on the half hour from 11:30 to 3:30, and returns on the
Walker St. (431-7434). Through 8/26, Wed.-Sun. at
Fri. and Sat. 9:30 a.m.-9. Contribution $5; children
hour for roundtrip fare of $5).
8: Chutes & Ladders in "Octopus." $10.
and seniors $2.50. Lila Acheson Wallace Wing and the
PARRISH ART MUSEUM-25 Job's Lane, Southampton
P.S.122-150 First Ave. (477-5288). 8/23-26, 8/30-9/2
Iris and Gerald B. Cantor Roof Garden
The
Arts
(516-283-2118). Mon., Tue.-Sat. 10 a.m.-5, Sun.
at 9:30: Penny Arcade in "Bitch! Dyke! Faghag!
of Japan
The Heathcote Foundation Gallery of
1-5. $2. Through 9/16: "Half-Truths," with works
Whore! Part I (The Sex Show). $10.
Late 18th- and Early 19th-Century Decorative
by Grenville Davey, Robert Gober, Erik Levine, Ann
ST. ANN CENTER-157 Montague St., Brooklyn (254-
Arts
Boscotrecase: Wall Paintings from Ancient
Messner, Joel Otterson, Jack Risley, Tony Tasset,
4158). 8/24, 25 at 7:30: Werktheater Basel/New York
Rome
Louis XIV Bedroom and Adjoining En-
Rosemarie Trockel.
presents "Interview." $10.
trance Gallery
Charlotte and John C. Weber Gal-
QUEENS MUSEUM-New York City Bldg., Flushing
leries for Ancient Chinese Arts
André
Mertens
Meadow Park (718-592-5555). Tue.-Fri. 10 a.m.-5;
MUSEUMS
Galleries for Musical Instruments
20th-Century
Sat.-Sun. noon-5:30. Contribution suggested.
Design and Architecture Gallery
Islands and An-
Through 8/26: "The Expressionist Surface: Contem-
cestors
AMERICAN CRAFT MUSEUM-40 W. 53rd St. (956-6047).
Henry R. Luce Center for the Study of
porary Art in Plaster."
American
Art Central Europe 1700-1800
Wed.-Sun. 10 a.m.-5, Tue. 10 a.m.-8. $3.50, seniors
Samaras on Paper Through 10/14: "Andean
ABIGAIL ADAMS SMITH MUSEUM-421 E. 61st St. (838-
students $1.50, children under 12 free. Through 8/26:
6878). Mon.-Fri. 10 a.m.4. $3; $2 children; $1 se-
Four-Cornered Hats, Ancient Volumes." Through
"Jewelry/Means/Meaning." Through 9/30: "Build-
niors. Furnished rooms from the Federal Period
1/6/91: "Chess and Art." Through 9/9: "Master-
ing a Permanent Collection: A Perspective on the
(1790-1830).
works of Louis Comfort Tiffany. Through 1/6/91:
1980s."
"Glass Gathers." Through 9/2: "Italian Renaissance
SOUTH STREET SEAPORT MUSEUM-207 Front St. (699-
AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY-CPW at
Frames." Through 9/2: "American Frames.
9424). Daily 10 a.m.-5. $6, seniors $5, children $3.
79th St. (769-5000). Daily 10 a.m.-5:45; Wed., Fri.,
Through 8/26: "Chinese Ceramics from the Collec-
Through 12/31: "Titanic!" Through 1/20/91: "Men's
Sat. 10 a.m.-9. Contribution $4; children $2;
tion of Adele and Stanley Herzman." Through 11/4:
Lives."
free Fri.-Sat. 5-9. Gardner D. Stout Hall of Asian
"Art of Central Africa: Masterpieces from the Berlin
STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM-144 W. 125th St. (864-
Peoples: 3,000 artifacts and artworks, covering Tur-
Museum fur Volkerkunde." Through 9/9: "Small Il-
4500). Wed.-Fri. 10 a.m.-5, Sat.-Sun. 1-6. $2; chil-
key to Japan, Siberia to India
Hayden
Planetar-
lusions: Children's Costume 1710-1920." Through
dren and seniors $1; free for seniors on Wed.
ium Margaret Mead Hall of Pacific Peoples
10/28: "Reflections of the Floating World: The Use of
WHITNEY MUSEUM-Madison Ave. at 75th St. (570-
Celestial Plaza Hall of South American Peo-
the Mirror and Reflection in Ukiyo-e Art." The
3676). Tue. 1-8, Wed.-Sat. 11 a.m.-5, Sun. noon-6.
ples Aurora Gem Collection. Through 1/6/91:
Cloisters, Fort Tryon Park (923-3700). Tue.-Sun.
"African Reflections: Art from Northeastern Zaire."
$5; seniors $3; free Tue. 6-8. "Twentieth-Century
9:30 a.m.-5:15. Medieval collection.
American Art: Highlights of the Permanent Collec-
Through 4/7/91: "Behind the Scenes."
MUSEUM OF AMERICAN FOLK ART-2 Lincoln Square
tion
III"
"Calder's Circus. Through 9/2: "Mau-
BRONX MUSEUM OF THE ARTS-1040 Grand Concourse
(595-9533). Daily 9 a.m.-9. Free. Through 9/3: "Pic-
rice Prendergast." Through 9/16: "Hans Hofmann."
at 165th St. (681-6000). Sat.-Thu. 10 a.m.-4:30, Sun.
tures, Patchwork, and Promised Gifts: Recent Addi-
Through 10/14: "Edward Ruscha: Los Angeles
11 a.m.-4:30. $1.50, students and seniors $1.
tions to the Permanent Collection." Through 9/3:
Apartment Drawings." Whitney Museum at Phil-
Through 9/3: "A Decade of the Marketplace."
"Jacob Maentel in Indiana."
ip Morris, 42nd St. at Park Ave. (878-2550). Mon-
Through 9/3: "Paintings by Carol Sun."
EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO-1230 Fifth Ave., at 104th St.
.-Sat. 11 a.m.-6, Thu. to 7:30 (Sculpture Court is
BROOKLYN MUSEUM-200 Eastern Pkwy. (718-638-
(831-7272). Wed.-Sun. 11 a.m.-5. Suggested admis-
open Mon.-Sat. 7:30 a.m.-9:30; Sun. and holidays 11
5000). Wed.-Sun. 10 a.m.-5. Donation $4; students
sion $2; students and seniors $1. Through 10/14: "Na-
a.m.-7). Free. Through 9/26: "With the Grain: Con-
$2; seniors $1.50. Egyptian Galleries
Period
via, Suarez, Rosario: Three Contemporary Sculp-
temporary Panel Painting." Whitney Museum at
Rooms Reinstallation of Himalayan and South-
tors." Through 9/16: "Art Underground: A Public
Equitable Center, 787 Seventh Ave., at 51st St.
east
Asian
Arts
Williamsburg Murals
Art Project by Nitza Tufino."
(554-1113). Mon.-Fri. 11 a.m.-6, Thu. to 7:30, Sat.
Through 2/4/91: "In Pursuit of the Spiritual: Oceanic
MUSEUM OF MODERN ART-11 W. 53rd St. (708-9400).
12-5. Free. "Early/Later: Works from the Permanent
Art Given by Mr. and Mrs. John A. Friede and Mrs.
Daily 11 a.m.-6, Thu. to 9. Closed Wed. $7; students
Collection." Through 9/8: "The New American Pas-
Melville W. Hall." Through 9/17: "Prints by the Na-
$3.50; seniors $3; Thu. 5-9 pay what you wish.
toral: Landscape Photography in the Age of Ques-
bis: Vuillard and His Contemporaries.' Through 9/4:
Through 8/28: "Francis Bacon.' Through 9/4: "Ma-
tioning." Whitney Museum Downtown at Feder-
"Ago/Anon: A Site-Specific Installation by Winifred
al Reserve Plaza, 33 Maiden Lane at Nassau St.
tisse in Morocco: The Paintings and Drawings,
Lutz.' Through 9/3: "American Watercolor Masters:
(943-5655). Mon.-Fri. 11 a.m.-6. Free. 8/7-10/19:
1912-1913." Through 9/4: "Artist's Choice: Ells-
Winslow Homer and John Singer Sargent." Through
worth Kelly, Fragmentation and the Single Form."
"Forging a Metropolis: Architecture of Lower
10/14: "Working in Brooklyn/Installations."
Manhattan."
Through 9/30: "Contemporary Works from the Col-
CENTER FOR AFRICAN ART-54 E. 68th St. (861-1200).
lection." Through 9/4: "Architectural Drawings of
the Russian Avant-Garde." Through 8/26: "Projects:
AUCTIONS
Tue.-Fri. 10 a.m.-5, Sat. 11 a.m.-5, Sun. noon-5.
$2.50; students and seniors, $1.50. Through 8/20:
Lorna Simpson." Through 10/9: "Lady Hawarden,
"Likeness and Beyond: Portraits from Africa and the
Victorian Photographer.
CHRISTIE'S-502 Park Ave., at 59th St. (546-1000).
World."
Next sale on 9/12.
MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK-Fifth Ave. at
COOPER-HEWITT MUSEUM-Fifth Ave. at 91st St. (860-
103rd St. (534-1672). Tue.-Sat. 10 a.m.-5; Sun. 1-5.
CHRISTIE'S EAST-219 E. 67th St. (606-0400). Next sale
6868). Tue. 10 a.m.-9, Wed.-Sat. 10 a.m.-5, Sun.
Free. Through 10/29: "The Passing Scene." Through
on 9/11.
noon-5. $3; seniors and students $1.50; free Tue. after
1/6/90: "The Gibson Girl."
DOYLE-175 E. 87th St. (427-2730). Next sale on 9/12.
5. Through 9/2: "Color, Light, Surface: Contempo-
NASSAU COUNTY MUSEUM OF FINE ART-Northern
SOTHEBY'S-York Ave., at 72nd St. (606-7000). 8/28 at
rary Fabrics.' Through 9/2: "Flora Danica and the
Boulevard, Roslyn (516-484-9337). Tue.-Fri. 10
10:15 a.m. and 2: "Sotheby's Arcade Auctions: Furni-
Heritage of Danish Porcelain, 1760-1990." Through
a.m.-4:30., Sat.-Sun. 1-5. Free. Through 9/3: "Two
ture and Decorations." On view from 8/21.
78
NEW YORK/AUGUST 27, 1990
MUSIC
AND
DANCE
COMPILED BY FLORENCE FLETCHER
MUSIC AND DANCE DIRECTORY
gae. Continental Insurance Atrium, 180 Maiden Lane
S. Norwalk, Conn. (203-852-0700, ext. 206). To-
Carnegie Hall and Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie
at Front St., at 12:15. Free.
night: Nicole and Friends, with lyrical jazz. $5.
Hall, Seventh Ave. at 57th St. (247-7800).
BILL SPILKA AND HIS DIXIELAND BAND-Outdoors at
City Center, 131 W. 55th St. (581-7907).
1411 Broadway, 40th-41st Sts., at 12:15. Free.
Friday, August 24
BOB TELSON & LITTLE VILLAGE, with music for dancing.
Joyce Theater, 175 Eighth Ave. at 19th St. (242-0800).
World Financial Center Plaza, Liberty and Vesey Sts.,
MOSTLY MOZART-Festival Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi con-
Lincoln Center: 62nd-66th Sts., between Columbus
West St. and the Hudson River, at 7:30. Free. Rain
ductor; pianist Louis Lortie, violinist Cho-Liang Lin,
and Amsterdam Aves.: Alice Tully Hall (362-1911);
date, 8/23.
violist Jaime Laredo. Roman's "The Drottningholm
Avery Fisher Hall (874-6770); Library Museum (870-
BACA BROOKLYN PARKS MUSIC-Joan Osborne Band/
Music"; Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 13, Sinfonia
1630); Metropolitan Opera House (362-6000); New
Point of View Band. Marine Park, Fillmore Ave. and
Concertante K. 364, and Symphony No. 41, "Jupi-
York State Theater (870-5570).
Marine Pkwy., near Park House, at 7:30. Free.
ter." Avery Fisher Hall at 8. $10-$20. Pre-concert re-
Madison Square Garden, Seventh Ave. at 33rd St.
WESTBURY MUSIC FAIR-Brush Hollow Rd., West-
cital at 7 by Mr. Lortie.
(563-8300).
bury, L.I. (516-334-0800). Tonight at 8: Harry Con-
ROSALINDE O'ROURKE GANG-"Funky fusion." WPIX
Merkin Concert Hall, Abraham Goodman House,
nick Jr. and his orchestra. $27.50. Note: same concert
Plaza, Second Ave. and 42nd St., at 12:30. Free.
129 W. 67th St. (362-8719).
Tue., 8/21.
SUMMERGARDEN-Tho Museum of Modern Art's Abby
MOSCOW CONSERVATORY IN AMERICA-Nicholas Music
Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden, open Fri. and
Metropolitan Museum, Fifth Ave. and 82nd St.
Center, Rutgers Arts Center, George St. at Rte. 18,
Sat., 6-10 p.m.; entrance 14 W. 54th St.; admission
(570-3949).
New Brunswick, N.J. (201-507-8900). Tonight at 8:
free (708-9850). During the season, Juilliard perform-
92nd St. Y, on Lexington Ave. (996-1100).
conservatory students perform. Free.
ers will play the music of Stravinsky. Tonight at 7:30:
Radio City Music Hall, Sixth Ave. and 50th St. (247-
OUTDOOR MUSIC IN NEWARK-Juan Carlos Oliva and La
violinist Frank Almond, pianist William Wolfram.
Music includes Duo concertant.
4777).
Progresiva, with Latin music. Washington Park at
Symphony Space, Broadway at 95th St. (864-5400).
12:30. Free.
UNION SQUARE PARK-See 8/22. Today, ASSAB;
reggae.
Town Hall, 123 W. 43rd St. (840-2824).
Thursday, August 23
BUDWEISER MUSIC CRUISE-Circle Line Boat No. 7,
from Pier 81, Hudson River and 41st St. (956-5550).
CONCERTS
Sunset cruise, boarding at 7, returning at 9 ($25);
MOSTLY MOZART-Tackacs String Quartet; hornist Bar-
moonlight cruise, boarding at 9:30, returning at 11:30
Bryant Park Ticket Booth
ry Tuckwell, pianist Yefim Bronfman. Mozart's
($25). Tonight:Koko Taylor. Also a midnight dance
Horn Quintet in E flat, K. 407, and Piano Quartet in
cruise, with a D.J. ($15).
g, K. 478; Beethoven's Quartet No. 15 in a, Op. 132.
HALF-PRICE TICKETS for same-day music, dance, and
RICHARD MEYER AND JOSH JOFFEN-Folk music. Cen-
Avery Fisher Hall at 8. $10-$20. Pre-concert recital at
occasionally opera performances are sold here, de-
7.
terfold Coffeehouse, 263 W. 86th St. (866-4454), at 8.
pending on availability, six days a week: Tue., Thu.,
$6.
Fri., noon-2 and 3-7; Wed. and Sat. 11 a.m.-2 and
FOUR NATIONS-Baroque-violinist Judson Griffin, Ba-
3-7; Sun. noon-6. Also, full-price tickets for future
roque-cellist Loretta O'Sullivan, harpsichordist An-
CELEBRATE BROOKLYN-Prospect Park Bandshell,
performances. Just inside the park, off 42nd St., east
drew Appel. Music by Biber, Raynor Taylor, Johann
P.P.W. and 9th St., at 8. Free; $1 donation requested.
of Sixth Ave. (382-2323).
Schobert. St. Paul's Chapel, Broadway and Fulton
"Folk and Country" weekend. Tonight: Stony
St., at 12:10. Free.
Creek, urban country & western/The Blue Chief-
tains, a "rockabilly" band.
PARLIAMENT SOUND SERIES-Kid Creole and The Co-
Wednesday, August 22
BARGEMUSIC-See 8/23.
conuts. South Street Seaport, Pier 16, Fulton St. and
the East River, at 6:30. Free.
CLEM DEROSA'S NEW YORK CITY BIG BAND-Salute to
MOSTLY MOZART-Festival Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi con-
LINCOLN CENTER OUT-OF-DOORS-Through 8/27.
big-band jazz, music for dancing. Snug Harbor Cul-
ductor; pianist Walter Klien, violinist Leonidas Kava-
Damrosch Park at 8:15: Angels, Visions, and Ap-
tural Center Great Hall, 1000 Richmond Terrace, S.I.
kos. Paart's Collage on B-A-C-H; Mozart's Piano
paritions; see listing for 8/22. Free.
(718-448-2500), at 8. $12; in advance, $10.
Concerto No. 19 and Violin Concerto No. 4; Gade's
BALALAIKA RUSSE-"East Comes West." Music from
BARD MUSIC FESTIVAL-Through 8/26: "Rediscovering
Symphony No. 4. Avery Fisher Hall at 8. $10-$20.
Pre-concert recital at 7 by Mr. Klien and Mr. Kava-
Russia. Exxon Building Gardens, west of Sixth Ave.,
Brahms." Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson,
49th-50th Sts., at 12:30. Free.
N.Y. (914-758-2869). Tonight at 8:30 in the Festival
kos. Note: The same program Tues., 8/21.
Tent: Festival Orchestra, Leon Botstein conductor;
LINCOLN CENTER OUT-OF-DOORS-Through 8/27. See
UNION SQUARE PARK-See 8/22. Today: The JazzMo-
bile. Free.
Ridge String Quartet, mezzo-soprano Milagro Var-
also Other Events, page 87, and Children, page 89.
gas, violinist Eric Wyrick, violist Walter Trampler,
Today's music: Noonjazz, Marco Rizo and his Lat-
MARCO RIZO-Latin jazz. Steps of City Hall at 12:15.
pianist Sarah Rothenberg. Brahms's "Academic Festi-
Free.
in-jazz quartet; North Plaza at noon Chamber
val Overture" and Two Songs; Dietrich-Schumann-
Music of the World: Abel-Steinberg-Winant
NEW YORK CHORAL SOCIETY SUMMER SING-John Daly
Brahms's "F A E" Sonata for Violin and Piano;
Trio; "Music of the Pacific Rim"; North Plaza at
Goodwin conducts an open reading of Bach's Mass in
Brahms's Quintet in f, Op. 34. Champagne reception
5:30 Angels, Visions, and Apparitions; world
B minor. CAMI Hall, 165 W. 57th St. (724-6633), at
follows. $25.
premiere of a work by David Bordon, with the
7:30. $7. Scores provided. Final sing of the season.
EVIAN MUSIC FESTIVAL-8/24-9/2. Southampton, L.I.
Mother Mallard Ensemble and American Music/
BARGEMUSIC-Violinist Ik-Hwan Bae, pianist Joseph
(516-267-3117). Tonight at 8:30 and 10:30: New York
Theatre Group; Neely Bruce conductor; Damrosch
Villa. Brahms's Sherzo in c and Sonata No. 1; Grieg's
Rock and Soul Revue, with Donald Fagan, Bill With-
Park at 8:15. Free.
Sonata Op. 45. Fulton Ferry Landing, Brooklyn (718-
ers, and other artists. Performing Arts Center, South-
TIAN JIANG, pianist. Federal Hall, 26 Wall St., at 12:30.
624-4061), at 7:30. $15.
ampton High School, Narrow Lane. $22.50. The fes-
Free.
IRA HELLER/MIKE BURSTYN/JOEY RUSSELL NESHOMA
tival also includes seminars and master classes.
RAY SCHINNERY RHYTHM AND BLUES BAND-Jazz and
ORCHESTRA-"Jewish Entertainment Night." Mid-
WESTBURY MUSIC FAIR-See 8/22. Tonight at 7: the
Blues series, "Sounds at St. Paul's," Broadway at Ful-
wood Field, Ave. K or Ave. L and E. 16th St.,
Smothers Brothers and the Righteous Brothers. $25.
ton St., at 5:30. Free.
Brooklyn (718-469-1912), at 7:30. $1 (exact coins or
bill). Rain site, Walt Whitman Auditorium, Brooklyn
JAZZ WEDNESDAYS-World Trade Center Austin J. To-
College.
Saturday, August 25
bin Plaza. At noon: Sherry Winston. At 1: Dave Sam-
uels Group. Free.
ETHNIC MUSIC FESTIVAL-Paddy Noonan Irish Variety
Show. Astoria Park, 19th St. and 23rd Ave., Queens,
MOSTLY MOZART-See 8/24. Final program of the
SOLID BRASS-"Basically Brass." Music by a brass
season.
at 7:30. Free.
quintet. McGraw-Hill mini-park, west of Sixth Ave.,
SEUFFERT BAND, George F. Seuffert conductor. 102nd
LINCOLN CENTER OUT-OF-DOORS-Through 8/27.
between 48th-49th Sts., at 12:30. Free.
St. and Boardwalk, Rockaway, Queens, at 7:30. Free.
Damrosch Park Bandshell, noon-9: Roots of Ameri-
UNION SQUARE PARK-Pavilion, 17th St. and Broad-
can Music Festival, "The Best in Blues, Gospel, and
SUMMERJAZZ '90-Hudson River Museum courtyard,
way-Fourth Ave., at noon. Today: Johnny Allen
Folk." At noon, Voices of Thunder; at 1, Cathy Fink
511 Warburton Ave., Yonkers, N.Y. (914-963-4550).
Band, blues-rock. Free.
& Marcy Marxer; at 2, Aztec 2-Step; at 3, U. Utah
Tonight at 8: the Nat Adderley Quintet. $8.
Phillips; at 4, the Boarding Party; at 5, Chicago Nel-
WATERHOUSE-Caribbean sounds, from Calypso to reg-
MUSIC AT THE MARITIME CENTER-10 N. Water Street,
son and the King Bees; at 6, Robin & Linda Williams;
AUGUST 27, 1990/NEW YORK
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MUSIC & DANCE
at 7, the Nashville Bluegrass Band; at 8:30, Dr. John.
plays at 10:30 a.m., 12:30, and 3. Music at 10:30 in-
Ibert, Mindorashvili, Falick, Winter, Arnold. Fifth
Free.
cludes Clement's Suite Louis XV; music at 3 includes
Avenue Presbyterian Church, 7 W. 55th St., at 8. Do-
RIVERSIDE PARK ARTS FESTIVAL-The Rotunda, W.
C.-M. Schoenberg's "Castle on a Cloud" from Les
nation asked.
79th St. at the Boat Basin. Tonight at 6: Pe-De-Boi,
Miserables (arr. Davis). Riverside Drive at 122nd St.
MARTHA ARNOLD, soprano/BENTON HESS, pianist. Mu-
samba music and dance. Free. Rain date, 8/26 at 6. See
(222-5900). Free.
sic of Mozart, Weber, Strauss. Trinity Church,
also Dance, below.
RIVERSIDE PARK ARTS FESTIVAL-See 8/25. Today at 4:
Broadway and Wall St., at 12:45. Free.
SUMMERGARDEN-Scc 8/24.
Red Rodney Quintet. Jazz.
SRI CHINMOY: MUSIC FOR PEACE-"Lyrical melodies in
CELEBRATE BROOKLYN-See 8/24. Tonight: Ned Sub-
BRONX ARTS ENSEMBLE AND LENINGRAD CHAMBER OR-
a peaceful atmosphere." Town Hall at 8. Free.
lette Band, with Texas-New York sounds/Bones &
CHESTRA, Alexander Kantorov conductor. Mozart's
SWING STREET-Dance-band music. Exxon Building
Hart, with urban-country music.
Symphony No. 40; Tchaikovsky's Serenade for
gardens, west of Sixth Ave., 49th-50th Sts., at 12:30.
COUNTRY WESTERN FESTIVAL-Guest artists Garth
Strings, Op. 48. Two performances: At 2, Rock-
Free.
wood Dr. Circle, Van Cortlandt Park (near Broad-
Brooks, Becky Hobbs, and Ridin' Hi. Seuffert Band-
JIMMY NILES-Caribbean music. Austin J. Tobin Plaza,
way and Mosholu Ave.); if rain, Church of the Medi-
shell, Forest Park Music Grove, Woodhaven,
World Trade Center, at noon. Free.
ator, W. 231st St. and Kingsbridge Ave. At 4,
Queens, at 4:30. Free. Rain site, Msgr. Mulz Hall, 88-
Keating Hall, Fordham U., Bronx Rose Hill Campus
RON HORTON-Jazz. City Hall steps at 12:15. Free.
14 Jamaica Ave.
at Southern Blvd. Free (549-1899).
UNION SQUARE PARK-See 8/22. Today at noon:
WEST END CHAMBER PLAYERS-Music by Bach, Mo-
SEUFFERT BAND, George F. Seuffert conductor. Forest
Mighty Sweet Tones, country rock.
zart, Rossini, for mixed winds and strings. Tribute to
Park Music Grove, off Woodhaven Blvd., Queens, at
SURREAL McCOYS-Country rock. Battery Park City
Milton Berlin. Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Alfred T.
3. Free.
Esplanade, foot of Liberty St., at 6:30. Rain date,
White Memorial, 1000 Washington Ave. (718-622-
CELEBRATE BROOKLYN-See 8/24. Tonight at 8: Amy &
6/23. Free.
4433), at 2:30. Free.
Leslie, acoustic-folk duo, with guitarist Dan Utten-
BACA BROOKLYN PARKS MUSIC-Point of View Band;
dorfer/Sally Rogers & Howie Bursen, with folk
OPERA
Canarsie Pier, Rockaway Pkwy. & Belt Pkwy., at
music.
12:30 Kiyoshi; P.S. 306 Park, Cozine Ave.-
Wortman Ave.-New Jersey Ave.-Vermont St., at 5.
BARGEMUSIC-See 8/23. Today at 4.
New York City Opera
Free.
DANIEL CARNEY, composer-inventor, in the premiere of
FRIENDS OF THE ARTS-Summer festival, through 9/9.
his "No. 6 for Auto-Acoustic Instruments." Snug
NEW YORK STATE THEATER-Through 11/18. Tickets,
Planting Fields Arboretum, Oyster Bay, L.I. (516-
Harbor Cultural Center Great Hall, 1000 Richmond
$7-$45. Supertitles for all operas not in English. 8/21
922-0061). Tonight at 8: the Modern Jazz Quartet.
Terrace, S.I. (718-442-8534), at 3. Free. At 2, tour of
at 8: Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor, Salemno con-
Tent, $15-$25; lawn, $12.50.
the sculpture exhibition.
ducting; Dobish, Brubaker, Rucker, Stefan Szkafar-
ISLIP JAZZ FESTIVAL-See 8/25. Tonight only: the Clark
owsky (debut). 8/22, no performance. 8/23 at 8: Mo-
BARD MUSIC FESTIVAL-See 8/24. Today at 12:30, Olin
Terry Quartet.
zart's Le Nozze di Figaro, Bergeson conducting;
Auditorium: violinist Sidney Harth, cellist Luis Gar-
BARD MUSIC FESTIVAL-See 8/24. Today: at 11:30 a.m.,
Gibbons, Monti, Schneiderman, Perry, Shaw. 8/24 at
cia-Renart, pianist Todd Crow; Brahms's Piano Trio
in B Op. 8 (1854); also a lecture; $10. At 3, Olin Audi-
Olin Auditorium, the Ridge String Quartet, violist
8: Puccini's Tosca, Salemno conducting; Davis, Al-
torium: performances and discussion; $10. At 8:30,
Walter Trampler; Fuchs's Quartet in E Op. 58;
gieri, Dworchak. 8/25 at 2: Sondheim's A Little Night
Festival Tent: Festival Orchestra, Leon Botstein con-
Brahms's String Quintet No. 2; $10; pre-concert lec-
Music (in English), Gemignani conducting; Howes,
ductor; violinist Elmar Oliveira. Volkmann's "Rich-
ture at 11. At 4, Festival Tent, the Festival Orchestra,
Resnik, Lambert, Moore, Terry, Andrews, Ander-
ard III" Overture; Joachim's Violin Concerto in d;
Leon Botstein conductor, pianist Yefim Bronfman,
son, Maguire. 8/25 at 8: Bizet's Carmen, France con-
soprano Lucy Shelton, mezzo-soprano Milagro Var-
ducting; Graham, Fleming, Absalom, Hawkins. 8/26
Brahms's Symphony No. 4. $15; pre-concert lecture
at 2: Lucia di Lammermoor; same as 8/21. 8/28 at 8: Ja-
at 7:45.
gas, tenor Jon Humphrey, baritone William Sharp.
Goldmark's Overture "Sakuntala"; Schubert-
nacek's From the House of the Dead (in English; note:
WESTBURY MUSIC FAIR-See 8/22. Tonight at 8: K.T.
Brahms's Five Songs; Bruch's Romanze for Viola and
also with supertitles), Keene conducting; Absalom,
Oslin, country singer-songwriter. $20.
Orchestra Op. 85; Brahms's Liebeslieder Waltzer and
Garrison, Eugene Perry (debut), Foss, West; U.S.
EVIAN MUSIC FESTIVAL-See 8/24. Tonight at 9: Miles
Piano Concerto No. 1. $15; pre-concert lecture at 3.
stage premiere, directed and choreographed by Rhoda
Davis.
Levine; sets and costumes by John Conklin, lighting
WESTBURY MUSIC FAIR-See 8/22. Tonight at 8: Dionne
ISLIP JAZZ FESTIVAL-8/25, 26. Roy Haynes and his
by Curt Ostermann. 8/29 at 8: Carmen, France con-
Warwick and Gregory Hines. $20.
quartet, Sat. only. Over two nights, performers in-
ducting; Graham, Boucher, Brian Hilt (debut), Peter-
clude the Frank Vignola Group, Talib Kibwe Odys-
son. No performance 8/30. 8/31 at 8: Le Nozze di Fi-
sey, the Brad Terry Quartet, Tina Fabrique &
Monday, August 27
garo; same as 8/23. 9/1 at 2: Carmen; same as 8/29. 9/1
Friends. Heckscher State Park, East Islip, L.I. (516-
at 8: Tosca; same as 8/24.
632-6590), 4:30-10. Free.
CONCIERTO POR LA PAZ Y LA AMISTAD-Festival Latino
JAZZ MARATHON-Mark Morganelli amd the Jazz Fo-
program, Concert for Peace and Friendship, with
Other
rum All-Stars, the Roy Haynes Quartet, others. Lin-
Tania Libertad, Ray Barretto, others. Delacorte The-
coln Park, Newark, N.J., 6-midnight. Free. Rain
ater, Central Park, 81st St. and C.P.W., at 8. Free.
OPERATIC CONCERT-Bella Voce Opera Company, Es-
site, Essex Plaza, 1060 Broad St.
LINCOLN CENTER OUT-OF-DOORS-Final program:
ther M. Flint director. Guest artist, pianist Svetlana
ART AWARENESS-Tonight at 8: David Van Tieghem.
"Charles Mingus Epitaph." Gunther Schuller and a
Gorokhovich. Arias and ensembles from Don Gio-
Rte. 42, Lexington, N.Y. (518-989-6433). $10-$15.
30-piece jazz orchestra. Damrosch Park Bandshell at
vanni, Faust, Rigoletto, Die Fledermaus, The New Moon,
8:15. Free. Rain date, 8/28.
La Boheme, La Perichole, Le Nozze di Figaro, others.
ANTOINE ZEMOR, pianist. Music by Chopin. St. Paul's
Also piano works by Rachmaninoff, Chopin, Schu-
Sunday, August 26
Chapel, Broadway and Fulton St., at 12:10. Free.
bert, Nof Yalduti (premiere). CAMI Hall, 165 W.
57th St. (496-6682). 8/20 at 8. $10, $15.
HOT WATER: CARIBBEAN MUSIC-Black Sheep, with
MUSIC FOR VOCAL QUINTET-Negan Friar, Christina
reggae. 55 Water St. Plaza at 12:15. Free.
LA VIUDA ALEGRE-Spanish-language production of Le-
Taylor, Val Vollmer, Drew Martin, Richard Porter-
har's The Merry Widow, translated by director Rene
JEAN MARIE, vocalist, with comedian-impressionist Sal
field. Madrigals by Monteverdi, Rod Drotos; pre-
Buch. Repertorio Espanol, Gramercy Arts Theater,
Richards. World Trade Center, Austin]. Tobin Plaza,
miere of a work by Porterfield. Home for Contempo-
138 E. 27th St. (889-2850). 8/26 at 3. $20.
at noon. Free.
rary Theatre and Art, 44 Walker St. (431-7434), at 4.
$4.
UNION SQUARE PARK-See 8/22. Today at noon: Big
DANCE
World Hotel, Afro-Caribbean music.
LINCOLN CENTER OUT-OF-DOORS-Through 8/27.
Damrosch Park Bandshell, noon-9: Roots of Ameri-
THE MIGHTY SPARROW-Annual Caribbean Night.
can Music Festival, "the best in blues, gospel, and
Wingate Field, between Brooklyn and Kingston
Feld Ballets/NY
folk." At noon, Good Ol' Persons; at 1, Jack Jackson;
Aves., Brooklyn (718-284-4700), at 7:30. Free.
at 2, Lee Cloud & The Original Northernaires; at 3,
ANDY STATMAN KLEZMER ORCHESTRA-Freedom
JOYCE THEATER-8/20-25. Tickets, $25. "Preview" of
Square Park, Main St. at 75th Rd., Flushing, Queens,
the company's winter season. Two programs: 8/20,
Herdman, Hills & Mangsen; at 4, Pat Cannon/Foot &
Fiddle Dance Company; at 5, Bob Gibson; at 6, the
at 1. Free.
21, 24, 25 at 8: Consort, Embraced Waltzes, The Jig Is
Killing Floor, with Larry Dale, Bob Gaddy, Rosco
WESTBURY MUSIC FAIR-See 8/22. Tonight at 8: Dionne
Up. 8/22, 23 at 8; 8/25 at 3: Meadowlark, Ion (preview
of a new solo for Buffy Miller, music by Steve Reich),
Gordon; at 7:30, Tommy Makem; at 8:45, Doug Ker-
Warwick and Gregory Hines.
Charmed Lives, Embraced Waltzes.
shaw. Free.
LONG ISLAND CHORAL SOCIETY SUMMER SING-IN-
TANIA LIBERTAD, vocalist. "El Neo Folklore," fusion of
Meredith Elaine Baker conducts an open reading of
Afro-Peruvian and Brazilian music. World Financial
Mendelssohn's Elijah. St. John's Episcopal Church,
Other
Plaza, Hudson River and West St., Liberty and Vesey
Rte. 25A, Cold Spring Harbor, L.I., at 8. $5; take a
Sts., at 3. Free.
score or borrow one.
LINCOLN CENTER OUT-OF-DOORS-8/20, 21 at 5:30,
ST. PETER'S CHURCH-At 5: Jazz Vespers, with Dick
Fountain Plaza: Laurie Carlos and Don Meissner, in
Smolens and Hank Edmonds. Lexington Ave. and
Tuesday, August 28
"Monkey Dances." Free. See also Concerts, above.
54th St. (935-2200).
PAULA HUNTER & DANCERS-Solo and group works
HARLEM LIVE!-The Uptown String Quartet, an all-
GEORGIAN WOODWIND QUINTET-New York debut of
from repertory. Merce Cunningham Studio, 55 Be-
group, with Maxine Roach. Marcus Gar-
the group from Soviet Georgia: flutist Ervand Petro-
thune St. (924-0077). 8/22, 23, 24 at 9. $8.
vey Park Amphitheater, Fifth Ave. and 122nd St., at
syan, oboist Merab Grdzelishvili, clarinetist Andrew
RIVERSIDE PARK ARTS FESTIVAL-8/25 at 4: group to be
5. Free.
Gedgadze, bassoonist Ramaz Lotoev, French-hornist
announced. Rain date, 8/26 at 2. Rotunda, W. 79th St
RIVERSIDE CHURCH-Carillonneur Joseph C. Davis
Valery Anikhimowsky. Works by Bach, Rossini,
and the Hudson River Boat Basin. Free.
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NEW YORK/AUGUST 27, 1990
RESTAURANT
COMPILED BY GILLIAN DUFFY
KEY TO ABBREVIATIONS
a.m., Fri. 7:30 a.m.-2 a.m., Sat. 8 a.m. (M)
Fri. noon-3:30. D Mon.-Thu. 5:30-11, Fri. to 11:30,
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
Sat. to midnight. Ent. nightly. Free parking. Closed
B
Breakfast
5 & 10 NO EXAGGERATION-77 Greene St., at Spring
Sun. (M)
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
Br
Brunch
St. (925-7414). Casual. Continental. Spcls: steak am-
RAOUL'S-180 Prince St., bet. Sullivan and Thomp-
L
Lunch
bassador in sesame plum sauce, char-broiled chicken
son Sts. (966-3518). Dress opt. French bistro. Spcls:
D
Dinner
marengo in jalapeno pepper and chutney sauce, veal
steak au poivre, escargots Polignac, rognons de veau
champagne with apples. Res. sug. D Tue.-Thu. 5-11,
la moutarde. Res. nec. D only Mon.-Fri. 6:30-11:30,
S
Supper
Fri.-Sat. to midnight. Champagne Br Sat.-Sun.
Sat.-Sun to midnight. (M-E)
AE, MC.
(I)
Inexpensive-Mostly $15 and under*
noon-3. 1940s-style ent. Wed.-Sat. (M)
ROYAL CANADIAN PANCAKE HOUSE-145 Hudson St.,
AE, MC, V.
(M)
Moderate-Mostly $15-$35
bet. Beach and Hubert Sts. (219-3038). Casual. Ca-
FORLINI'S-93 Baxter St. (349-6779). Casual. Italian.
nadian. Spcls: pancakes, waffles, crepes, soup, sand-
(E)
Expensive-Mostly $35 and over*
Spcls: panserotti alla piacentina, Forlini's tortelli, ano-
wiches, steak au poivre, seafood vol-au-vent. No res.
AE
American Express
lini di pollo. L Mon.-Sat. 11:30 a.m.-3. D Tue.-Sat.
B, L and D daily 7 a.m.-midnight. (I-M)
CB
Carte Blanche
5-2 a.m., Sun.-Mon. to 11:30. Reduced rate parking
No credit cards.
Mon.-Thu. (I)
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
DC
Diners Club
SGARLATO'S CAFE-Pier 17, South St. Seaport,
GIANNI'S-15 Fulton St., South St. Seaport (608-
Promenade Level. (619-5226). Casual. Continental.
MC
MasterCard
7300). Casual. Northern Italian. Spcls: fettuccine alla
spcls: seafood fettuccine al Fredo, grilled swordfish,
V
Visa
quatro formaggio, oven-poached salmon, garlic
chicken piccata. L Mon.-Sat. 11-4. Br Sun. 11-3. D
bread with Gorgonzola. Res. sug. B Mon.-Fri. 7:30
Formal:
Jacket and tie
Sun.-Thu. 4-11, Fri.-Sat. to a.m. (M)
a.m.-9:30 a.m. L and D Sun.-Thu. 11:30 a.m.-mid-
AE, DC, MC, V.
Dress opt: Jacket
night, Fri.-Sat. to 1 a.m. Private parties for 100. Out-
door cafe. (M)
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
SOHO KITCHEN AND BAR-103 Greene St. (925-1866).
Casual:
Come as you are
GREENE STREET-101 Greene St., bet. Prince and
Casual. American. Spcls: pizza, pasta, grilled fish, 110
*Average cost for dinner per person ordered à la
different wines by the glass. No res. Open
Spring Sts. (925-2415). Casual. French/American.
carte.
Mon.-Thu. 11:30a.m.-2a.m., Fri.-Sat. 11:30 a.m.-4
Spcls: lobster ravioli stuffed with wild mushrooms
a.m., Sun. 11:30 a.m.-10. (I-M)
This is a list of advertisers plus some of the city's most
and baby vegetables, salmon fillet with three caviars
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
popular dining establishments.
in lemon butter sauce, roast loin of lamb with egg-
Please check hours and prices in advance. Rising food
plant provençal. Res. sug. D Mon.-Thu. 6-11:30,
SPIRIT OF NEW YORK-Pier 11, South St. at Wall St.
and labor costs often force restaurateurs to alter prices
Fri.-Sat. to midnight. Pre-theater D Mon.-Fri. 6-7.
(279-1890). Casual. American. Spcls: roast beef au
on short notice. Also note that some deluxe restaurants
Br Sun. noon-9. Ent. nightly. (M-E)
jus, chicken Dijon, fresh baked fish. Res. sug. L cruise
with à la carte menus levy a cover (bread and butter)
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
sails Mon.-Fri. at 1, Sat. at noon. Sun. Br cruise sails
GREENHOUSE RESTAURANT & WINE BAR-3 World
at 1. D cruise sails daily at 7. Ent. (E) AE, MC, V.
charge. Many restaurants can accommodate parties in
private rooms or in sections of the main dining room-
Trade Center, in the Vista International (938-
TENNESSEE MOUNTAIN-143 Spring St., at Wooster
ask managers for information.
9100). Casual. American. Spcls: blackened salmon
St. (431-3993). Casual. American. Spcls: Canadian
steak, smoked pork chops with sweet-potato salad,
baby back ribs, fried chicken, meat and vegetarian
MANHATTAN
double chocolate cake. Res. nec. B Mon.-Fri. 6:30
chili, frozen margaritas. Res. sug. Open Mon.-Wed.
a.m.-11:30 a.m., Sat.-Sun. from 7 a.m. L Mon.-Fri.
11:30 a.m.-11, Thu.-Sat. to midnight, Sun. to 10. Br
Lower New York
11:30 a.m.-3:30, Sat. noon-3:30. Champagne Br
Sat.-Sun. 11:30 a.m.4. Outdoor terrace. (I)
Sun. 11:30 a.m.-3:30. D Sun.-Thu. 5-11:30, Fri.-Sat.
AE, DC, MC, V.
6-10:30. Dancing Fri.-Sat. eve. (M)
WINDOWS ON THE WORLD-1 World Trade Center
AMICI MIEI-475 W. Broadway, at Houston St. (533-
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
(938-1111). 107 stories atop Manhattan. Formal.
1933/1850). Casual. Italian. Spcls: homemade ravioli,
HUDSON RIVER CLUB-4 World Financial Center (786-
American/international. Membership club at L (non-
black linguini, vegetable carpaccio. Res. sug. L
1500). Formal. American Hudson River Valley.
member surcharge). D Mon.-Sat. 5-10. Table d'hôte.
Mon.-Fri. noon-4. Br Sat.-Sun. noon-5. D daily 5-1
Spcls: corn-crust scallops with hard-cider sauce and
Buffet Sat. noon-3, Sun. to 7. Res. nec. (M) Cellar
a.m. Private parties. (M)
AE, DC, MC, V.
grilled apples, lump crab and potato fritters, venison
in the Sky: Wine-cellar setting. 7-course D with 5
BOULEY-165 Duane St., bet. Hudson and Green-
and other game dishes. Res. sug. L Mon.-Fri.
wines. Mon.-Sat. at 7:30. Res. nec. Classical guitar-
wich Sts. (608-3852). Formal. Modern French. Spcls:
noon-3. D Mon.-Sat. 5:30-10, Sun. 1-6. Private par-
ist. (E). Hors d'Oeuvrerie and City Lights Bar:
tuna gravlax, seared black sea bass in special spices
ties for 15-150. (E)
AE.
Jacket required. B Mon.-Fri. 7 a.m.-10:30 a.m. Inter-
with truffle vinaigrette, painters palette of fruit. Res.
MANHATTAN BREWING CO.-40-42 Thompson St.,
national hors d'oeuvres Mon.-Sat. 3-1 a.m. (cover af-
nec. L Mon.-Fri. 11:30-3. D Mon.-Sat. 5:30-11.
bet. Sixth Ave. and West Broadway, at Broome
ter 7:30), Sun. to 9 (cover after 4). No res. Br Sun.
Closed Sun. (E)
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
St. (219-9250). Casual. Texas barbecue. Spcls: slow
noon-3. Res. nec. Jazz nightly. Free D parking. (M)
CAFE RAKEL-231 Varick St. at Clarkson St. (929-
smoked brisket with barbecue sauce, smoked beans,
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
1630). Casual. French/American. Spcls: grilled tuna
blackened cob corn, grilled lobster, smoked chicken
au poivre, pan-roasted Tuscan chicken, sliced roast leg
wings, beer brewed on premises. Open Tue.-Thu.
Greenwich Village
of lamb with vegetable gallette. Res. sug. L Mon.-
5-midnight, Fri.-Sat. from noon, Sun. noon-8. Res.
Fri. 11:30-2:30. Br Sun. 11:30-3:30. D Mon.-Thu.
sug. for 10 or more. Private parties for 10-500.
ARLECCHINO-192 Bleecker St. (475-2355). Casual.
6-11:30, Fri.-Sat. to midnight, Sun. 5-10. (M)
Closed Mon. (I-M)
MC, V.
Italian. Spcls: spiedino Arlecchino, tagliatelle a modo
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
THE MARKET BAR AND DINING ROOMS-World Trade
nostro, lombatina balsamica. Res. nec. L daily
CAPSOUTO FRERES-451 Washington St. (966-4900).
Center Concourse (938-1155). Casual. American.
noon-4. D Sun.-Thu. 6-midnight, Fri.-Sat. to 1 a.m.
Casual. Contemporary French. Spcls: duckling with
Spcls: seafood stew, porterhouse steak, vegetable
Private parties for 45-50. (M)
AE.
ginger cassis sauce, lobster neptune. L Tue.-Fri.
platter, frozen chocolate soufflé with burnt-almond
BARROW STREET BISTRO-48 Barrow St. (691-6800).
noon-3:30. Br Sat.-Sun. noon-4:30. D Sun.-Thu.
sauce. Res. nec. Concourse café and barroom. Dining
Casual. International bistro. Spcls: potato rosti with
6-11, Fri.-Sat. to midnight. (M) AE, CB, DC.
Room: L Mon.-Fri. 11:30 a.m.-2:30. D Mon.-Fri.
salmon tartare, caviar and creme fraiche; roasted pear
CINCO DE MAYO-349 W. Broadway, bet. Broome
5-10. Barroom: 11:30 a.m.-11. Free D parking.
salad with endive, watercress, Roquefort and walnut-
and Grand Sts. (226-5255). Casual. Classic Mexican.
Closed Sun. (M)
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
oil vinaigrette; grilled lamb chops on lentils with bal-
Spcls: budin de tortilla, duck en mole verde, carne
MONTRACHET-239 W. Broadway, off White St.
samic, smoked bacon and roasted tomato. Res. sug.
asada tampiguena. Res. sug. L daily noon-5. D
(219-2777). Casual. French. Spcls: pasta with wild
Br Sun. 11:30-3:30. D Mon.-Sat. 5:45-11, Sun. 5-10.
Mon.-Sat. 5-midnight, Sun. to 11. Private parties for
mushrooms and truffle juice, baby pheasant with orzo
(M)
AE, MC, V.
100. Ent. Thu.-Sat. (M)
AE, DC, MC, V.
and olives, roast lobster with curry and crisp onions.
CAFE DE BRUXELLES-118 Greenwich Ave., at W.
CUPPING ROOM CAFE-359 W. Broadway. (925-2898).
Res. sug. L Fri. only noon-3. D Mon.-Sat. 6-11. Pri-
13th St. (206-1830). Casual. Belgian/French. Spcls:
Casual. American/Australian. Spcls: fresh New Zea-
vate parties for 10-60. Closed Sun. (M-E)
AE.
carbonnade flamande, waterzooi, steak with pommes
land mussels, Australian-style lamb cutlets, penne dal
PONTE'S-Desbrosses and West Sts., 2 blocks south
frites, mussels. Res. sug. L Tue.-Sat. noon-3. D
Assunta. Res. sug. B, L and D Sun. a.m.-midnight,
of Canal, upstairs (226-4621). Dress opt. Italian/
Mon.-Sat. 5-midnight, Sun. 4-10:30. Br Sun.
Mon. 7:30 a.m.-midnight, Tue.-Thu. 7:30 a.m.-1
Continental. Spcls: steak, seafood. Res. sug. L Mon.-
noon-4. (M)
AE, MC, V.
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RESTAURANTS
CAFE ESPANOL-172 Bleecker St. (505-0657; 353-
2317). Casual. Spanish/Mexican. Spcls: paella ala
14th-42nd Streets, East Side
Fri. noon-5:30. Br Sat.-Sun. 11:30-4. D daily
5:30-12:30 a.m. (M)
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
marinera, parrillade de marisco, lobster. Res. sug. L
WATER CLUB-500 E. 30th St. (683-3333). Casual.
daily noon-4. D Mon.-Thu. 4-midnight, Fri.-Sun.
THE BACK PORCH-488 Third Ave., at 33rd St. (685-
American. Spcls: jumbo crab cakes, Maine lobster,
to 1 a.m. Also 63 Carmine St. (675-3312). (I)
3828). Casual. American. Spcls: seafood, steaks, pas-
muscovy duck with confit. Res. sug. L Mon.-Sat.
AE, DC, MC, V.
ta. Res. sug. L Mon.-Fri. noon-5. D Mon.-Fri. 5-11,
noon-2:30. Buffet Br Sun. 11:30-2:30. D Mon.-Sat.
CARIBE-117 Perry St., at Greenwich St. (255-9191).
Sat. to 11:30, Sun. 4:30-9. Br Sun. noon-4. Outdoor
5:30-11, Sun. to 10. Private parties for 30-300. Pianist
Casual. West Indian/Jamaican. Spcls: curry goat, red
sidewalk cafe. (M)
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
nightly. (E)
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
snapper, ropa vieja, oxtails, jerk chicken, conch frit-
BALLARD'S CHOWDERHOUSE & GRILL-303 Lexington
ters, fried bananas and rum. L Mon.-Fri. 11:30
Ave. at 37th St. in the Shelburne Murray Hill
14th-42nd Streets, West Side
a.m.-3:30. Br Sat.-Sun. 11:30 a.m.-3:30. D
(447-7400). Casual. American. Spcls: chowderpot of
Sun.-Thu. 5-11, Fri.-Sat. to midnight. Private par-
the day, crab cakes with Dijon-mustard sauce, grilled
THE BALLROOM-253 W. 28th St. (244-3005). Casual.
ties 40-80. (I)
No credit cards.
fillet of yellowfin-tuna salad on fresh spinach. Res.
Continental. Spcls: rack of lamb, fresh fish, tapas.
EL CHARRO ESPANOL-4 Charles St., bet. Greenwich
sug. B Mon.-Fri. 7 a.m.-10 a.m. L Mon.-Fri.
Res. sug. Buffet L Tue.-Fri. noon-3. Br Sun.
and Seventh Aves. (242-9547). Casual. Spanish.
noon-3. Br Sat. 11 a.m.-3, Sun. from noon. D
noon-4:30. D Tue.-Sat. 5-midnight. Tapas bar.
Spcls: fresh fish, veal chop, paella, mariscada with
Mon.- Sat. 5:30-10:30, Sun. to 9. Rooftop clambake
Complete D. Ent. Private parties for 350. Closed
green sauce. Res. sug. Open Mon.-Thu. 11:30 a.m.-
Thu. 6:30-9:30. Bar noon-2 a.m. Pianist Fri.-Sat.
Mon. (M)
AE, MC, V.
midnight, Fri.-Sat. to 1 a.m., Sun. 1-midnight. 2-
10-2 (M)
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
CELLAR GRILL-131 W. 34th St., in Macy's lower lev-
hrs. free D parking. (M) AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
CAFE SOCIETY-915 Broadway, at 21st St. (529-8282).
el (967-6029). Casual. American. Spcls: chicken pot-
EL COYOTE-774 Broadway, bet. 9th-10th Sts. (677-
Casual. Northern Italian. Spcls: capellini primavera,
pie, pizza, cobb salad. Res. sug. Open for L and D
4291). Casual. Mexican. Spcls: large combination
pollo Society, pesca spada alla griglia. Res. sug. L
Mon.-Fri. 11 a.m.-9, Sat.-Sun. to 8. (I)
AE.
plates, chili rellenos, shrimp con salsa verde. L
Mon.-Fri. noon-3. D Mon.-Thu. 6-11, Fri.-Sat. to 1
Mon.-Sat. 11:30 a.m.-3. Br Sun. noon-4. D
a.m., Sun. to 10. Private parties for 75-200. Ent.
CHELSEA PLACE-147 Eighth Ave., bet. 17th-18th
Sun.-Thu. 3-11:30, Fri.-Sat. to midnight. (I)
Mon.-Thu. (M)
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
Sts. (924-8413). Casual. Northern Italian. Splcs: fet-
tuccine al fredo, veal piccata, chicken francese. Res.
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
CANASTEL'S-229 Park Ave. So., at 19th St. (677-
sug. L Mon.-Fri. noon-2:30. D daily 5:30-11:30. Ent.
EL FARO-823 Greenwich St. (929-8210). Casual.
9622). Casual. Northern Italian. Spcls: cappellini alla
nightly. Private parties for 24. (M)
Spanish. Spcls: chicken villarroy, mariscada egg
trevisana, scampi alla Andrea, red snapper del golfo.
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
sauce, extrena. No res. L Mon.-Fri. 11 a.m.-3. D
Res. sug. L Mon.-Fri. noon-4:30. D Mon.-Thu.
Mon.-Thu. 3-midnight, Fri. to 1 a.m., Sat. noon-1
5:30-midnight, Fri.-Sat. to 1 a.m., Sun. 3-11. Jazz
CIRELLA'S-400 W. 42nd St. (564-0004). Casual. Tradi-
a.m., Sun. 1-midnight. (M) AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
Sun. 6-10. (M)
AE, DC, MC, V.
tional Italian. Spcls: penne all' arrabbiata di mare, piz-
HAROLD'S-150 E. 34th St. in the Dumont Plaza
za ai funghi, cotoletto di agnello alla griglia, scalop-
GOTHAM BAR & GRILL-12 E. 12th St. (620-4020). Cas-
pine alla francese. Res. sug. Open for L & D Mon.-
ual. American. Spcls: grilled salmon à la greque, veal
(684-7761). Casual. American. Spcls: grilled tuna
Fri. 11:30 a.m.-11:30, Sat.-Sun. from 5. Private
carpaccio with bresaola, rack of lamb with garlic flan
with spinach and warm Dijon cream, mustard-mari-
parties. Free parking with 5-1 a.m. (M)
and flageolet, seafood salad, peach coupe. Res. nec. L
nated chicken grilled with vegetables, smoked chick-
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
Mon.-Fri. noon-2:30. D Mon.-Thu. 5:30-10:30,
en and grilled shrimp with farfalle pasta. Res. sug. B
Fri.-Sat. to 11:15, Sun. to 9:45. (M)
Mon.-Fri. 7 a.m.-10 a.m. L Mon.-Fri. noon-3. Br
DINO CASINI'S-132 W. 32nd St. (695-7995). Dress opt.
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
Sat.-Sun. 11 a.m.-3. D daily 6-10. Summer garden
Italian/Continental. Spcl: veal Sorrentino, lobster.
HAVELI-100 Second Ave., bet. 5th-6th Sts. (982-
noon-10. (M)
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
Res. sug. L Mon.-Fri. 11:45 a.m.-3:30. D Mon.-Fri.
3:30-9. Complete L and D. Closed Sat.-Sun., except
0533). Casual. Northern Indian. Spcls: mali kofta,
M.K.-204 Fifth Ave., at 25th St. (779-1340). Casual.
for private parties. (I)
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
chicken tandoori, resmi kebab. Res. sug. L and D dai-
American-continental. Spcls: salad nicoise with fresh
ly noon-midnight. Ent. 7-10. Private parties for 100.
tuna, penne marinara with mozzarella, filet mignon
FIASCO-358 W. 23rd St. (620-4620). Casual. Northern
AE, MC, V.
with herbs and mustard. Res. sug. D Tue.-Sat. 8-1
Italian. Spcls: shrimp and scallops sauteed with shred-
(M)
a.m. Ent. Private parties for 10-700. Closed Sun. and
ded cabbage in cognac cream sauce, lobster ravioli in
JOHN CLANCY'S-181 W. 10th St., at Seventh Ave.
Mon. (M)
AE, DC, MC, V.
fresh tomato, garlic, and herb sauce; 18 varieties of
(242-7350). Dress opt. American/seafood. Spcls: lob-
pasta, homemade desserts. Res. sug. L Mon.-Fri.
ster American, swordfish grilled over mesquite. Res.
OYSTER BAR & RESTAURANT-Grand Central Termi-
11:30 a.m.4. Br Sat.-Sun. 11:30 a.m.4. D
nec. L Mon.-Fri. noon-3. D Mon.-Sat. 6-11:30,
nal (490-6650). Casual. American seafood. Spcls:
Sun.-Thu. 5-midnight, Fri.-Sat. to 1 a.m. Enclosed
Sun. 5-10. (M-E)
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
oysters, grouper, swordfish, red snapper. Res. nec.
garden room. Private parties for 35-150. (M)
Open Mon.-Fri. 11:30 a.m.-9:30. Closed Sat.-Sun.
MARTA-75 Washington Place. (673-4025). Casual.
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
(M)
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
Northern Italian. Spcls: linguini carbonara, gnocchi al
LOX AROUND THE CLOCK-676 Sixth Ave., at 21st St.
pesto, veal cardinale, chicken alla Valdostana, pasta
PARK BISTRO-414 Park Ave. So., bet. 28th-29th Sts.
(691-3535). Casual. Jewish deli. Spcls: bagel board,
with lobster sauce. Res. sug. L and D Tue.-Thu.
(689-1360). Casual. French. Spcls: petatou of warm
pieroghies, lobster club sandwich. No res. Open
noon-11, Fri.-Sat. to 11:30, Sun. 1-11. Closed Mon.
goat cheese with fresh thyme, polenta of lobster with
Sun.-Thu. 7 a.m.-4 a.m., Fri.-Sat. 24 hours. Private
(M)
AE, MC, V.
ratatouille sauce, bayaldi of lamb with flageolets. Res.
parties for up to 100. Also 1700 Second Ave., at
sug. L Mon.-Fri. noon-3. D daily 6-11. Closed
MITALI-296 Bleecker St., at Seventh Ave. So., (989-
88th St. (996-6200). (I-M)
AE.
through 9/4. (M)
AE, DC.
1367). Casual. Northern Indian. Spcls: murgh tikka
OLD HOMESTEAD-56 Ninth Ave., bet. 14th-15th Sts.
muslam, lamb du-piag, chicken tandoori. Res. sug. L
ROSSINI'S-108 E. 38th St. (683-0135). Casual. North-
(242-9040). Casual. American. Spcls: sirloin, 41/2-lb.
Fri.-Sun. 11 a.m.-3:30. D daily 4:30-midnight. Pri-
ern Italian. Spcl: hot antipasto, chicken primavera.
lobster, prime rib. Res. sug. L Mon.-Fri. noon-4. D
vate parties. Complete D. Also Mitali, 334 E. 6th St.
Res. nec. Open Mon.-Fri. 11:30 a.m.-11:30, Sat.
Mon.-Fri. 4-10:45, Sat. 1-midnight, Sun. 1-10.
(533-2508). (I)
4:30-midnight with Aldo Bruschi Trio. Closed Sun.,
AE, MC, V.
Complete D. Valet parking from 5. (M)
except for parties over 50. (M)
AE, DC, V.
PAMPLONA-4 W. 22nd St. (989-1022). Casual. Span-
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
STELLA DEL MARE-346 Lexington Ave., bet.
ish-continental. Spcls: tapas, shrimp in garlic sauce,
PERIYALI-35 W. 20th St. (463-7890). Casual. Greek.
filet of sole Marbella, paella Valenciana. Res. sug. L
39th-40th Sts. (687-4425). Dress opt. Northern Ital-
Spcls: grilled shrimp with herbs and lemon, charcoal-
ian. Spcls: veal Stella, black pasta, salmone alla griglia,
Mon.-Fri. noon-3. D Mon.-Thu. 5-11, Fri.-Sat. to
grilled octopus in red wine marinade, rabbit stew,
midnight. Strolling guitarist. Closed Sun. (M)
roast quail stuffed with wild rice and mushrooms.
shish kebob. Res. nec. L Mon.-Fri. noon-3. D
Res. nec. L Mon.-Fri. noon-2:30. D Mon.-Sat.
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
Mon.-Thu. 6-11, Fri.-Sat. to 11:30. Private party
5-10:30. Private parties for 25-100. Pianist Mon.-Fri.
rooms for 15-25. Closed AE, MC, V.
PORTO BELLO-208 Thompson St., bet. W. Third
from 6-10:30. Closed Sun. (M-E)
and Bleecker Sts. (473-7794). Casual. Italian. Spcls:
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
WORLD YACHT-Riveranda, Empress of New York,
red snapper marechiaro, veal Riviera, chicken vecchia
Duchess of New York, and Princess of New York,
TIME & AGAIN-116 E. 39th St. (685-8887). Jacket re-
sturla. Res. nec. L and D Sun.-Thu. noon-11, Fri.-
Cabaret-Pier 62, W. 23rd St. and the Hudson
quired. American. Spcls: coulibiac of salmon, sauteed
Sat. to 11:30. (M)
AE, MC, V.
River (929-7090;-8540). Jacket required. American/-
breast of chicken stuffed with herbed goat cheese,
Continental. Spcls: filet mignon, coulibiac of salmon,
RINCON DE ESPANA-226 Thompson St. (475-
peach charlotte with caramel sauce, "Savor the Seas"
stuffed chicken breast, pasta with lobster. Res. nec. L
9891/260-4950). Casual. Spanish. Spcls: assorted sea-
thru July. Res. sug. L Mon.-Fri. noon-2:30. Br Sat.-
cruise sails Mon.-Sat. at noon. Br Sun. at 12:30. D
food with green, garlic, or egg sauces, grilled veal
Sun. 11 a.m.-3. D Mon.-Sat. 6-11. (M)
cruise sails nightly at 7. Private parties for 2-2000.
chop, paella Valenciana. L Sat.-Sun. noon-3. D
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
Dancing. (E)
AE, MC, V.
Sun.-Thu. 5-11, Fri.-Sat. to midnight. Guitarist eve-
UNION SQUARE CAFE-21 E. 16th St. (243-4020). Casu-
nings. (M)
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
al. Italian/American. Spcls: herb roasted chicken with
43rd-56th Streets, East Side
SAZERAC HOUSE-533 Hudson St. (989-0313). Casual.
creamy polenta and mascarpone, grilled rabbit with
American/Creole. Spcls: jambalaya, eggplant slivers
garlic-simmered artichokes, trevisano and tarragon
ALFREDO: THE ORIGINAL OF ROME-53th St., bet. Lex-
with shrimp and scallops, salmon cakes, fresh fish dai-
vinegar sauce; yellowfin tuna burger with ginger-
ington and Third Aves., Citicorp Bldg. (371-
ly, BBQ ducks. Res.sug. L Mon.-Fri. 11:30 a.m.-5.
mustard glaze, grilled onions and creamy cabbage
3367). Casual. Italian. Spcl: fettuccine Alfredo. Res.
D daily 5-12:30 a.m. Br Sat.-Sun. 11 a.m.-5.(I-M)
slaw. Res. nec. L Mon.-Sat. noon-3. D Mon.-Thu.
sug. L Mon.-Sat. 11:30 a.m.-11:30. Br Sun. 12:30-4.
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
6-11, Fri.-Sat. 6-midnight. Private parties for 24.
D Mon.-Sat. 4-11, Sun. to 10. (M)
SEVILLA-62 Charles St., at W. 4th St. (929-3189).
Closed Sun. and 8/27-9/10. (M) AE, DC, MC, V.
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
Casual. Spanish. Spcls: paella à la Valenciana, maris-
VIA VIA-560 Third Ave., at 37th St. (573-6093). Ca-
AMBASSADOR GRILL-1 United Nations Plaza, at
cada Sevilla. L Mon.-Sat. noon-3. D Mon.-Thu.
sual. Northern Italian. Spcls: farfalle al salmone,
44th St., in the U.N. Plaza Hotel (702-5014). Dress
3-midnight, Fri.-Sat. to 1 a.m., Sun. noon-mid-
scampi all'aglio ed erb, roast rack of lamb with rose-
opt. French. Spcls: warm scallop salad with basil
night. (I-M)
AE, DC, V.
mary, garlic and red wine sauce. Res. sug. L Mon.-
dressing, cassoulet, sauteed venison with grape sauce,
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RESTAURANTS
grilled duck breast with vanilla sabayon. Res. sug. B
LA GALERIE AT THE RENDEZVOUS-21 E. 52nd St., in
noon-2:30. L daily noon-2:30. D daily 5:30-10. (M)
Mon.-Fri. 7 a.m.-11 a.m., Sat. from 7:30 a.m., Sun.
the Omni Berkshire Place (753-5970). Formal.
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
to 10:30 a.m. L Mon.-Fri. noon-2. Br Sat. 11 a.m.-2,
French. Spcls: le pot-au-feu de homard au choux et
SHINBASHI-280 Park Ave., on 48th St. (661-3915).
champagne buffet br. Sun. 11:30 a.m.-3. D daily
riesling, magret de canard roti au miel et confit d'oig-
Dress opt. Japanese. Tatami and Western seating. Res.
6-10:30. Prix fixe L and D. Piano bar 5:30-1 a.m. (M)
nons. D daily 6-midnight. Pre-theater D 5-6:45. Free
sug. L Mon.-Fri. 11:30 a.m.-2:30. D Mon.-Sat.
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
hr D parking. (M)
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
5:30-10. Closed Sun. (M) AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
ARIA-253 E. 52nd St. (888-1410). Casual. Itialian.
LAURENT-111 E. 56th St. (753-2729). Formal. French.
SHUN LEE PALACE-155 E. 55th St. (371-8844). Dress
Spcls: carpaccio of beef with truffle oil and mush-
Spcls: turbot aux courgettes, steak au poivre à l'Ar-
opt. Szechuan/Hunan. Spcls: rack of lamb Szechuan
rooms, lobster and shrimp lasagna with morels, herb-
magnac, seasonal game. Res. nec. L Mon.-Fri.
style, Norwegian salmon with asparagus, sizzling
roasted loin of lamb with a pine-nut crust. Res. sug. L
noon-3. D Mon.-Fri. 6-10:30, Sat. 5-11. Pre-theater
scallops. Res. nec. L Mon.-Fri. noon-3. D
Mon.-Fri. 11:30-3. D Mon.-Sat. 5-11. Closed Sun.
D 5:30-6:45. Private parties. Closed Sun. (E)
Mon.-Thu. 3-11, Fri. to midnight, Sat. noon-mid-
(M)
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
night, Sun. noon-11. (M)
AE, CB, DC.
THE BARCLAY RESTAURANT & TERRACE-111 E. 48th
LE CYGNE-55 E. 54th St. (759-5941). Formal. French.
SMITH & WOLLENSKY-Third Ave. and 49th St. (753-
St., in the Hotel Inter-Continental (421-0836).
Res. nec. L Mon.-Fri. noon-2:30. D Mon.-Fri. 6-10,
1530). Dress opt. American. Spcls: 18-oz. steak, 4- to
Jacket required. American. Spcls: fillet of beef with
Sat. to 11. Closed Sun. (E)
AE, DC.
5-lb. lobster. Res. sug. Open Mon.-Fri. noon-mid-
bouquet of vegetables and tarragon hollandaise, L.I.
night, Sat.-Sun. 5-midnight. (M-E)
duck with peach-brandy glaze, sauteed swordfish
LELLO RISTORANTE-65 54th St. (751-1555). Formal.
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
with shiitake mushrooms and brandy. Res. sug. B
Italian. Spcls: spaghettini primavera, petto di pollo
Valdostana, scaloppine Castellana. Res. sug. L
TORREMOLINOS-230 E. 51st St. (755-1862/1877). Cas-
daily a.m.-10:30 a.m. L Mon.-Sat. 11:30 a.m.-3. D
Mon.-Fri. noon-3. D Mon.-Thu. 5:30-10:30, Fri.-
ual. Spanish/Continental. Spcls: zarzuela de mariscos,
daily 5:30-11:30. Br Sun. 11:30 a.m.-3. (M-E) Ent.
Sat. to 11. Closed Sun. (M-E)
paella. Res. nec. L Mon.-Fri. noon-3. D Mon.-Thu.
Mon.-Sat. 5:30-11:30 and Sun. Br.
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
5:30-11, Fri.-Sat. to midnight. Ent. Tue.-Sat. eves.
Closed Sun. (M)
AE, CB, DC, MC.
CHEZ LOUIS-1016 Second Ave., bet 53rd and 54th
LE PERIGORD-405 E. 52nd St. (755-6244). Formal.
WALDORF-ASTORIA-301 Park Ave., bet. 49th-50th
Sts. (752-1400). Dress opt. French. Spcls: roast chick-
French. Spcls: confit de canard, mignon de veau,
Sts. (355-3000). Bull and Bear: Jacket required.
en, roasted wild mushrooms, garlic potato pie, fruit
crêpes soufflés. Res. nec. L Mon.-Fri. noon-3. D
American. Spcls: prime beef, fresh seafood. Res. sug.
pie. Res. sug. L Mon.-Fri. 11:45 a.m.-3. D Mon.-
Mon.-Fri. 5:15-10:30, Sat. to 11. Complete L and D.
L daily noon-3. D daily 5-10. S daily 10-12:30 a.m.
Sat. 6-midnight, Sun. 5-10. (M-E)
Private parties for 30. Closed through 9/5. (E)
Cocktails 10:30 a.m.-1 a.m. (M) Peacock Alley
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
Restaurant and Cocktail Lounge: Jacket required.
DRAKE HOTEL-440 Park Ave., at 56th St. (421-0900).
LOUISE JR.-317 E. 53rd St. (752-7832; 355-9172). Cas-
Continental/nouvelle. Res. sug. B Mon.-Fri. 6:30
Cafe Suisse: Casual. Continental/Swiss. Spcls: veal
ual. Northern Italian. Spcls: antipasto, seafood, veal.
a.m.-10:30 a.m., Sat. 7:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m., Sun. 8
émincé with roesti or spaetzli, kirsch-torte. Res. sug.
Res. sug. L Mon.-Fri. noon-3. D Mon.-Fri. 5-10:30,
a.m.-10:30 a.m. L noon-2:30. D 5:30-10:30. Com-
B Mon.-Sat. 7 a.m.-11 a.m., Sun. to 11:30 a.m. L
Sat. 5-11. Complete L and D. Closed Sun. (M)
plete D. Buffet Br Sun. 11 a.m.-2:45. Ent. Cole Por-
Mon.-Sat. 11 a.m.-5, Sun. noon-5. D daily 5:30-11.
AE, CB, DC.
ter's own piano Tue.-Sat. 6-2 a.m., Sun.-Mon. 8-1
(M) Drake Bar: B Mon.-Sat. 7-10:30. L Mon.-Sat.
11 a.m.-2:30. Cocktails Sun.-Fri. 11:30 a.m.-1 a.m.,
LUTECE-249 E. 50th St. (752-2225). Formal. French.
a.m. (M-E) The Waldorf Cocktail Terrace: Tea
Spcls: escalope de saumon à la moutarde, rognons de
daily 2:30-5:30. Cocktails 2:30-2 a.m. Ent. nightly.
Sat. to 1:30 a.m. Ent. nightly. (M)
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
veau au vin rouge, médaillons de veau aux morilles.
Oscar's: Casual dining and snacks. B Mon.-Sat 7
a.m.-11:30 a.m., Sun to noon. L Mon.-Sat. 11:30
Res. nec. L Tue.-Fri. noon-2. D Mon.-Sat. 6-10.
ELMER'S-1034 Second Ave. (751-8020). Jacket re-
AE, CB, DC.
a.m.-3, Sun. noon-5. D 5-9:30. Complete D. S to
Closed through 9/5. (E)
quired. Continental. Spcls: escargots, coquilles mai-
11:45. Cocktails noon-11:45. Sir Harry's Bar: Cock-
son, rack of lamb. Res. sug. L Mon.-Fri noon-3. D
PALM-837 Second Ave., at 45th St. (687-2953). Cas-
tails daily 1-3 a.m.
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
4:30-11 daily. Pianist nightly. Private parties for 75.
ual. American. Spcls: steak, lobster. Open Mon.-Fri.
ZARELLA'S-953 Second Ave., at 50th St. (644-6740).
(M)
AE, CB DC, MC, V.
noon-10:45, Sat. 5-11. Closed Sun. (E)
Casual. Mexican. Spcls: salpicon de pescado, chili
FORTUNE GARDEN PAVILION-209 E. 49th St. (753-
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
quiles, tuna with mole. Res. sug. L Mon.-Fri.
0101). Dress opt. Chinese/Szechuan/Cantonese.
PARADIS BARCELONA-145 E. 50th St. (754-
noon-3. Br Sun. noon-3:30. D Mon.-Thu. 5-11:30,
Spcls: crabmeat imperial, Peking duck, cho cho
3333/1152). Jacket required. Spanish-Catalan Medi-
Fri.-Sat. 5-midnight, Sun. 5-10. Ent. Tue. and Sat.
chicken. Res. sug. Open Mon.-Fri. noon-midnight,
terranean. Spcls: marinated salmon with white beans,
Private L parties for 70. (M)
AE, DC.
Sat.-Sun. 5-midnight. Jazz nightly. (M)
wild mushrooms and chives; sweet pepper stuffed
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
with cod; roasted baby goat; angulas. Res. sug. L
43rd-56th Streets, West Side
FOUR SEASONS-99 E. 52nd St. (754-9494). Formal. In-
Mon.-Fri. noon-3. Br Sun. 11 a.m.-3:30. D Mon.-
ternational. Pool Room: L Mon.-Fri. noon-2:30. D
Sat. 6-11, Sun. 3:30-8. Tapas bar from 4:30. Private
ADRIENNE-700 Fifth Ave., at 55th St. in the Penin-
Mon.-Sat. 5-11:30. Complete pre-theater D 5-
parties for 12. (E)
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
sula. (247-2200). Formal. Classical French. Spcls:
6:15; after-theater D 10-11:15. Res. nec. Closed Sun.
PISCES-60 E. 54th St., in the Hotel Elysee (753-
pan-fried leek-and-ginger ravioli in vegetable cream
(E) Grill Room: Formal. International. Spcls for D:
4441). Jacket required. Greek/seafood. Spcls: pompa-
sauce, braised salmon and romaine in a champagne
shrimp and corn cakes with ginger and cilantro,
no with hot vinaigrette, sea bass Mikanos, lemon sole
watercress butter, lamb mignonettes with eggplant
baked quails stuffed with oysters and sausage, rijstta-
Patmos. Res. sug. L and D Mon.-Fri. noon-10, Sat.
ragout in oregano cream. Res. sug. B Mon.-Fri.
fel. L Mon.-Sat. noon-2. D Mon.-Sat. 5:30-11:30,
5-10. Closed Sun. (M) AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
7-10, Sat.-Sun. 7:30-11. L Mon.-Fri. noon-2:30, Sat.
desserts and cheese tray 10:30-midnight. Res. nec.
to 3. Br Sun. noon-3:30. D Mon.-Sat. 6-10:30. (E).
Reduced-rate parking from 6. Private parties. Closed
REINS-511 Lexington Ave., at 48th St. (980-7100).
Le Bistro 'Adrienne: Casual. French. Spcls: game
Sun. (E)
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
Dress opt. Anglo/French. Spcls: prime ribs of beef
terrine with red beet salad, grilled swordfish with ra-
GIAMBELLI 50TH RISTORANTE-46 E. 50th St. (688-
with Yorkshire pudding and onion gravy, wild Scot-
tatouille, leek-and-potato stew with pork sausage. L
2760). Dress opt. Northern Italian. Spcl: imported
tish salmon, veal chop with wild mushrooms. Res.
Mon.-Fri. noon-3. Snacks 3-6. D daily 6-11. (M)
scampi, veal silvano, pasta. Res. sug. L Mon.-Fri.
sug. D Tue.-Thu. 8-1 a.m., Fri.-Sat. 8-3 a.m. Danc-
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
noon-3. D Mon.-Fri. 3-midnight, Sat. noon-mid-
ing. Closed Sun.-Mon. (E). Mallets Oyster Bar at
night. Private party rooms. Closed Sun. (M-E)
Reins: Casual. Open Mon.-Fri. 11:30 a.m.-8. (M)
ALGONQUIN-59 W. 44th St. (840-6800). Jacket re-
AE, DC, MC, V.
quired. Two dining rooms. Continental. Res. sug. L
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
noon-3. D Mon.-Sat. 5:30-9:30, Sun. 6-11. Br Sun.
HATSUHANA PARK AVENUE-237 Park Avenue, nr.
R.J. COLORS-237 Park Ave., at 46th St. (661-2000).
noon-2:15. Late S buffet 9:30-12:30 a.m. Free D
46th St. (661-3400). Casual. Japanese. Spcls: sushi,
Casual. Northern Italian. Spcls: rigatoni tresabore,
parking 5:30-1 a.m. (M) AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
sashimi, salmon teriyaki. Res. sug. L Mon.-Fri.
grigliata di mare, milanese Colors. Res. sug. L and D
11:45-4. D Mon.-Fri. 4-10. Closed Sat.-Sun. (M)
Mon.-Fri. 11:30 a.m.-10. Private parties for 10-200.
AMERICAN FESTIVAL CAFE-Rockefeller Plaza, 20 W.
AE, MC, V.
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
50th St. (246-6699). Casual. American. Spcls: prime
Closed Sat.-Sun. (M)
rib, crab cakes, fettuccine with mussels, shrimp and
IL MENESTRELL0-14 E. 52nd St. (421-7588). Formal.
SCARLATTI-34 E. 52nd St. (753-2444). Jacket required.
scallops in pesto sauce. Res. sug. B Mon.-
Northern Italian. Res. nec. L Mon.-Sat. noon-3. D
Italian. Spcls: antipasta caldo, pappardelle con car-
Fri. 7:30-10:30. Br Sat.-Sun. 10:30 a.m.-3:30. L
Mon.-Thu. 5-11, Fri.-Sat. to midnight. Closed Sun.
ciofi, pollo contadina, saltimbocca Napolitana. Res.
Mon.-Fri. 11 a.m.4. D daily 4-midnight. (M)
(M)
AE, DC, V.
nec. L Mon.-Fri. noon-3. D Mon.-Thu. 5:30-10:30,
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
LA COTE BASQUE-5 E. 55th St. (688-6525). Formal.
Fri.-Sat. to midnight. Closed Sun. (M-E)
AQUAVIT-13 W. 54th St. (307-7311). Atrium: Formal.
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
French. Spcls: côte de veau à la creme d'herbes
Scandinavian. Spcls: smorgasbord plate, gravlax,
fraîches, le cassoulet du Chef Toulousain. Res. nec. L
SCOOP-210 E. 43rd St. (682-0483). Dress opt. North-
poached salmon with dill sauce, Arctic venison,
Mon.-Sat. noon-2:30. D Mon.-Fri. 6-10:30, Sat. to
ern Italian/American. Spcls: shrimp Romano, OSSO
brambleberry sorbet. Res. nec. L Mon.-Fri.
11. Private parties. Closed Sun. and 9/1-15. (E)
buco, lobster fettuccine, fresh seafood. Res. sug. L
noon-2:30. D Mon.-Sat. 5:30-10:30. (E) Cafe: Infor-
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
Mon.-Fri. 11:30 a.m.-3. D Mon.-Fri. 3-10:30, Sat.
mal. Spcls: smorrebrod, Scandinavian 'home cook-
LAFAYETTE-65 E. 56th St. (832-1565). Formal. French.
5-11. Private parties for 30-150. Prix fixe D. Free D
ing.' L Mon.-Fri. noon-3. D Mon.-Sat. 5:30-10:30.
Spcls: foie gras poached in a black bean broth, rare-
parking. Closed Sun. (M) AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
Closed Sun. (M)
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
roasted breast of squab with confit of gizzards and
SHELTON GRILL-525 Lexington Ave., bet. 48th-49th
THE ASSEMBLY STEAK & FISH HOUSE-16 W. 51st St.
caramelized shallot vinaigrette, lightly cured salmon
Sts., in the Halloran House Hotel (755-4000). Ca-
(581-3580). Dress opt. Steakhouse. Spcls: guaranteed
with red lentils in zucchini juice. Res. nec. D Tue.-
sual. Continental. Spcls: broiled salmon steak with
prime beef, fresh fish, lobster. Res. sug. L Mon.-Fri.
Fri. 7-10:30, Sat.6-10:30. Pre-theatre D Tue.-Sat.
champagne and caviar sauce, medallions of veal with
11:30 a.m.-3. D Mon.-Fri. 3-10. Pre-theater D
6-6:30. Closed Sun.-Mon. (E)
peregourdine, grilled lamb chop with demi-glace
4:30-6:30. Closed Sat.-Sun. Discount D parking.
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
sauce. Res. sug. B daily 7 a.m.-11:30 a.m. Br Sun.
(M)
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
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BARBETTA-321 W. 46th St. (246-9171). Formal.
noon-3. D daily 5-midnight. Pre-theater D 5-8.
TOP OF THE SIXES-666 Fifth Ave., at 53rd St., 39th
Northern Italian. Spcls: field salad Piemontese, agno-
Post-theater D 10-1 a.m. Private parties for 10-200.
floor (757-6662). Dress opt. American/Continental.
lotti, baby lamb. Res. nec. L Mon.-Sat. noon-2. D
Free parking from 5-1 a.m. (M)
Spcls: steak Diane flambé, fresh seafood. Res. nec. L
Mon.-Sat. 5-midnight. Complete pre-theater D
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
Mon.-Sat. 11:30 a.m.-3. D Mon.-Sat. 5-11. Ent.
5:30-7. Private rooms. Closed Sun. (E)
LE BERNARDIN-155 W. 51st St. (489-1515). Formal.
Tue.-Sat. Closed Sun. (M-E)
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
French/seafood. Spcls: carpaccio tuna, baked sea ur-
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
BOMBAY PALACE-30 W. 52nd St. (541-7777). Casual.
chins, roast monkfish with savoy cabbage, lobster à la
TRATTORIA DELL'ARTE-900 Seventh Ave., bet 56th
Indian. Spcls: barbecued steak on sizzling platter,
nage. Res. nec. L Mon.-Sat. noon-2:15. D
and 57th Sts. (245-9800). Casual. Italian. Spcls: sea-
lamb or beef Pasanda. Res. sug. L daily noon-3. D
Mon.-Thu. 6-10:30, Fri.-Sat. 5:30-10:30. Private
food antipasto; hand-rolled pinci pasta with roasted
Mon.-Sat. 5:30-11:30, Sun. to 10. Complete L and
parties for 15. Closed Sun. and 9/1-4. (E)
garlic, broccoli and zucchini; clay-pot-roasted baby
D. Discount D parking. (I-M)
AE, DC, MC, V.
chicken with fresh rosemary and thyme. Res. nec. L
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
MARRIOTT MARQUIS-1535 Broadway, at 45th St.
Mon.-Fri. 11:30 a.m.-3. Br Sat.-Sun. 11 a.m.4. D
BROADWAY JOE STEAK HOUSE-315 W. 46th St. (246-
(704-8900). J.W.'s: Formal. Continental. Res. sug. D
daily 5-midnight. Private parties for 10-250. Anti-
6513). Casual. American. Spcls: sirloin steak, veal
Tue.-Thu. 7-10, Fri.-Sat. to 11:30. Prix fixe D Tue.-
pasto Bar and Cafe: Open daily till 1 a.m. (M)
chop, broiled swordfish steak, Caesar salad. Res. sug.
Sat. 8-10. (M) The View: Formal. International.
AE, MC, V.
L daily 11:30 a.m.-3. D daily 3-midnight. Free D
Res. sug. Buffet L Wed. and Sat. 11 a.m.-2. Br Sun.
'21' CLUB-21 W. 52nd St. (582-7200). Formal. Ameri-
parking. Private parties for 125. (M)
10:30 a.m.-2:30, Wed. from 11:30 a.m. D Sun.-Thu.
can. Spcls: Maryland crab cakes, Maine-lobster salad,
AE, CB, DC MC, V.
5:30-11, Fri. and Sat. 5-midnight. (E)
"21" hamburger. Res. nec. L Mon.-Sat. noon-3. D
CAFFE FONTANA-811 Seventh Ave., at 52nd St., in
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
Mon.-Sat. 6-midnight. Private parties for 10-500.
the Sheraton Centre (581-1000). Casual. Continen-
NEW YORK HILTON-Sixth Ave. and 53rd St. (586-
Closed Sun. (E)
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
tal. B Mon.-Sat. 7 a.m.-10:30. Br Sun. 10 a.m.-3. L
7000). (M) Pursuits: Nightclub with dancing and
Mon.-Sat. 11:30 a.m.-2:30. Piano bar ent. nightly
cocktails Mon.-Fri. Sat. 9-2 a.m. Mirage
57th-60th Streets
5-1. (I-M)
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
Lounge: Cocktails 11:30 a.m.-2 a.m., Sun. from
CHARLEY 0'S-33 W. 48th St. (582-7141). Casual. Irish-
noon. Pianist daily 5-midnight. International
pub style. Spcls: Irish stew, hot roast beef. Res. sug. L
Promenade: Cocktails 4-midnight. (M)
AMALFI WEST AT ELEONORA'S-117 W. 58th St. (765-
Mon.-Fri. 11:30 a.m.-3. D Mon.-Fri. 5-10. Sand-
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
1427). Casual. Italian. Spcls: linguini with fresh arti-
wich counter Sat. 11:30 a.m.-7. Closed Sun. (M)
THE NILE-327 W. 44th St. (262-1111). Jacket required.
choke sauce, loin of veal orreganata, scampi Amalfi.
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
Middle Eastern-continental. Spcls: mixed kebab, sea-
Res. sug. Open for L and D Mon.-Fri. noon-11, Sat.
COLUMBUS ON BROADWAY-224 W. 49 St. (977-9000).
food kebab, moussaka. Res. nec. D daily 4:30-3 a.m.
5-midnight. Pianist nightly. Closed Sun. (M)
Casual. American bistro. Spcls: grilled lamb chops
Ent. Private parties for 30-250. (E)
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
with rosemary potatoes, blackened red snapper,
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
ARIZONA 206-206 E. 60th St. (838-0440). Casual.
grilled salmon with horseradish-mustard sauce. Res.
PIERRE AU TUNNEL-250 W. 47th St. (575-1220). Cas-
Southwestern American. Spcls: red chili crepe with
sug. L Tue.-Sat. 11:30-4:30. D Tue.-Sat. 5-mid-
ual. French. Spcls: noisette de veau, tripes à la mode
rock shrimp and tomatillo fresca, grilled thyme veal
night, Sun. noon-8. Private parties for 100. Closed
de Caen. Res. sug. L Mon.-Sat. noon-3. D Mon.-
chop with chipotle sweet potato gratin, southwestern
Mon. (M)
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
Sat. 5:30-11:30. Complete D. Closed Sun. (M)
paella with seafood and meat. L Mon.-Fri. noon-3. D
DORSET-30 W. 54th St. (247-7300). Dorset Room:
AE, MC, V.
Mon.-Sat. 6-midnight, Sun. 5-10. (M-E)
Dress opt. French/American. Spcls: rack of lamb,
RAINBOW ROOM-RCA Building, 30 Rockefeller Pl.
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
poached salmon with hollandaise sauce, Dover sole
(632-5000). Formal. Continental. Spcls: lobster ther-
CAFE DE LA PAIX-50 Central Park South, in the St.
meuniere. Res. sug. B Mon.-Fri. 7 a.m.-10a.m. L
midor, tournedos Rossini, medallions of venison with
Moritz (755-5800). Dress opt. Continental. Res. sug.
Mon.-Fri. noon-3. D Mon.-Fri. 6-11. Br Sun.
pecan wild rice and sauce poivrade. Res. nec. Br Sun.
Br Sun. 11:30 a.m.-3:30. Cocktails 4-1 a.m. D daily
11:30-3. (M) Bar Cafe: Casual. French/American. L
noon-2. D Tue.-Thu. 5:30-1 a.m., Fri.-Sat. to 2
5:30-11. Pianist nightly. (M)
and D daily noon-11. (M) AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
a.m., Sun. 5:30-10:30. Pre-theater D 5:30-6:15.
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
FRENCH SHACK-65 W. 55th St. (246-5126). Casual.
Dancing. Private parties. Closed Mon. (E) The
CAFE MARCO POLO-555 W. 57th St. (956-1668). Casu-
French. Spcls: contre filet, duck Normande, côte de
Rainbow Promenade: Jacket required. Continental.
al. Continental. Spcls: soup a la Marco Polo, sauteed
veau aux chanterelles. Res. sug. L daily noon-3. D
Spcls: trio of American caviars with brioche, steak
shrimp in olive oil, crispy duck with plum sauce, veal
Mon.-Fri. 5-11, Sat. to 11:30, Sun. from 4:30. Com-
tartare, tortelloni of spinach and goat cheese. Open
medallions with artichokes. Res. sug. L Mon.-Fri. 11
plete L and D. (M)
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
Mon.-Thu. 3-1 a.m., Fri. 3-2 a.m., Sat. noon-1
a.m.-5. Br Sat. 11 a.m.4. D Mon.-Thu. 5-11, Fri.-
GRILL 53-111 W. 53rd St. (265-1600). Dress opt.
a.m., Sun. noon-11. (I-M)
AE.
Sat. to midnight. Private parties for 25-100. Ent.
American. Spcls: prime steak, chops, fresh seafood.
SAM'S-152 W. 52nd St. (582-8700). Casual. American.
Mon.-Sat. Closed Sun. (M)
AE, MC, V.
Res. sug. B Mon.-Fri. 7:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m. L
Spcls: smoked turkey club salad, Caesar salad, roast
Mon.-Fri. 11:30 a.m.-2:30. D daily 5-11:30. Private
snapper with melted leek vinaigrette, angel hair pasta
CONTRAPUNTO-200 E. 60th St. (751-8616). Casual.
parties for 100. (M)
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
with baby shrimp and pancetta in a red wine roast-
Italian. Spcls: malfatti aragosta, brodetto, fusilli with
HURLEY'S-1240 Sixth Ave., at 49th St. (765-8981).
garlic cream. Res. sug. L Mon.-Fri. noon-2:45. D
ciccoria piccante, tagliarini congadoro with yellow,
Mon.-Sat. 5:30-11:30. Private parties for 25-100.
red and green pepper. No res. L Mon.-Sat. noon-
Dress opt. American. Spcls: steak, fresh seafood. Res.
sug. Open daily noon-midnight. (M)
Closed Sun. (M)
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
4:30. D Mon.-Sat. 4:30-11:30, Sun. 4-10. (M)
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
THE SEA GRILL-Rockefeller Plaza, 19 W. 49th St.
(246-9201). Jacket required. American/seafood. Spcls:
FELIDIA-243 E. 58th St. (758-1479). Jacket required.
LA BONNE SOUPE-48 W. 55th St. (586-7650). Casual.
French bistro. Spcls: French hamburger, omeletes,
grilled center-cut swordfish with orange and cilantro,
Northern Italian. Spcls: pasutice Istriana, quail with
Maryland crab cakes with lobster and herb sauce,
polenta, risotto amiraglia. Res. sug. L Mon.-Fri.
fresh fish, chocolate fondue. Open daily 11:30 a.m.-
midnight. (I)
AE.
steamed paillard of Great Lakes sturgeon with tomato
noon-3. D Mon.-Sat. 5-midnight. Private parties for
chives and lime. Res. nec. L Mon.-Fri. 11:45 a.m.-3.
15-50. Closed Sun. (M-E)
AE, DC, MC, V.
LA CITE-120 W. 51st St. (956-7100/7262). Casual.
Br Sat.-Sun. noon-3. D daily 5-11. Pre-theater D
FRANKIE AND JOHNNIE'S-232 E. 58th St. (754-1033).
French. Spcls: cassoulet, choucroute, steak frites. Res.
5-6:30 with free parking. (E)
Casual. American. Spcls: sirloin steak, lamb chops,
sug. L Mon.-Fri. noon-4. D Mon.-Fri. 4-midnight,
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
broiled salmon. Res. nec. L Mon.-Fri. noon-3. D
Sat.-Sun. from 5. Private parties for 30-40. (E)
SEA PALACE-608 Ninth Ave., bet. 43rd-44th Sts.
Mon.-Sat. 4:30-11:30. Free D. parking. Closed Sun.
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
(307-6340). Casual. Seafood/Continental/Thai. Spcls:
(M-E)
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
LA PRIMAVERA-234 W. 48th St. (586-2797). Casual.
shrimp Bangkok, Sea Palace combination, Maine
JEAN LAFITTE-68 W. 58th St. (751-2323). Casual.
Northern Italian. Spcls: fettuccine salmonati, vitello
lobster. Res. sug. L Mon.-Fri. 11:30 a.m.-3:30. D
French. Spcls: sea scallops in basil sauce, médaillons of
caldo freddo, scaloppine con porcini. Res. sug. L
daily 4:30-midnight. Bar till 1 a.m. Private parties for
veal with mushroom sauce, leg of lamb with kidney
Mon.-Sat. noon-3. D Mon.-Sat. 5-11. Pre-theater D
40. (I)
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
beans. Res. sug. L Mon.-Sat. noon-3. D daily
5-8. Private parties for 50. Closed Sun. (M)
STAGE DELICATESSEN-834 Seventh Ave., bet. 53rd-
6-12:30 a.m. (M)
AE, MC, V.
AE, MC, V.
54th Sts. (245-7850). Casual. Spcls: pastrami, corned
THE JOCKEY CLUB-112 Central Park South, in The
LA RESERVE-4 W. 49th St. (247-2993; -2995). Formal.
beef, homemade blintzes, stuffed cabbage, matzo-ball
Ritz-Carlton (757-1900). Formal. Continental-
French. Spcls: fricassée of snails with wild mush-
soup. Open daily 6 a.m.-2 a.m. B to 11 a.m. (I)
American. Spcls: roasted loin of tuna with herb potato
rooms, salmon and sole mousse, médaillons of veal
AE, MC, V.
cakes and rhubarb marmalade; marinated baby pheas-
with leek sauce, lobster in a pastry shell. Res. nec. L
SYMPHONY CAFE-950 Eighth Ave., at 56th St. (397-
ant grilled over cherrywood with braised cabbage,
Mon.-Sat. noon-2:30. D Mon.-Sat. 5:30-11. Com-
9595). Casual. American. Spcls: roast duckling with
pancetta and foie gras butter; tian of veal with bok
plete L and D. Private parties for 100. Closed Sun. (E)
brandied apples, pan-seared salmon in basil butter
choy, shiitake mushrooms and plum-wine jus. Res.
AE, DC.
sauce, homemade pasta. Res. sug. L Mon.-Sat.
nec. B daily 6:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m. L Mon.-Fri.
LA RIVISTA-313 W. 46th St. (245-1707). Casual. Ital-
noon-3. Br Sun. 11:30-3. D Mon.-Sat. 5-midnight,
noon-2:30. Br Sat.-Sun. 11:30 a.m.-2:30. D daily
ian. Spcls: garganelli alla romagnola, costolette alla
Sun. 3-9. Private parties for 150. (M)
6-10:30. Prix fixe L and D. Bar till a.m. (E)
bolognese, brodetto di pesce alla abruzzese. Res. sug.
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
L Mon.-Sat. noon-3. D Mon.-Sat. 5-midnight. Free
THEATER PLACE BISTRO-765 Eighth Ave., bet.
LE CHANTILLY-106 E. 57th St. (751-2931). Formal.
D parking. Closed Sun. (M) AE, DC, MC, V.
46th-47th St. (956-5100). Casual. Continental. Spcls:
Classical French. Spcls: cervelas de volaille aux
LA VERANDA-163 W. 47th St. (391-0905). Jacket re-
steak burger, mustard breast of chicken, poached
truffes, blanquette de coquille St. Jacques, ris de veau
quired. Nouvelle Italian. Spcls: stuffed breast of ca-
salmon. Res. sug. L daily noon-3. D Tue.-Sat.
en gateau. Res. nec. L Mon.-Sat. noon-3:30. D
pon, scampi Veranda, 30 different kinds of pasta. Res.
5-midnight, Sun. to 8, Mon. to 9. Ent. nightly. (M)
Mon.-Sat. 6-11. Private parties for 22. Closed Sun.
sug. L Mon.-Fri. noon-3. Italian Br Sat.-Sun.
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
(E)
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
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LE PATIO-118 W. 57th St., in the Parker Meridien
bles and garlic, roast suckling pig, tripe cooked with
LANDSLIP SPRAIN
(245-5000). Casual. French country. Spcls: broiled
fresh vegetables, spaghetti alle vongole veraci. Res.
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salmon, brochette with mustard sauce. Res. sug.
sug. D Mon.-Sat. 5:30-11, Sun. 5-10. (M)
Buffet B Mon.-Sat. 7 a.m.-11 a.m., Sun. from 7:30
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
ORACLE SARDONIC
a.m. Buffet L Mon.-Sat. noon-2:30. Cocktails daily
SERENDIPITY 3-225 East 60th St.(838-3531). Casual.
W N o M R S I I
3-1 a.m. Jazz Br. Sun. noon-3. (M)
American. Spcls: spiced chicken flambe, foot-long
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
hot dogs with Texas chili, frozen hot chocolate. Res.
ASHANTI KNOT
LE TRAIN BLEU-1000 Third Ave., at 59th St., in
sug. L and D Mon.-Thu. 11:30 a.m.-12:30 a.m., Fri.
L
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Bloomingdale's (705-2100). Re-creation of French
till 1 a.m., Sat. till a.m., Sun. till midnight. Private
ACRE PALAVER
railway dining car. Casual. Nouvelle. Res. sug. L
parties for 20-75. (I)
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
Mon.-Sat. 11 a.m.-3. D Thu. 5:30-7:30. High tea
TRE SCALINI-230 E. 58th St. (688-6888). Jacket re-
R
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L
A
F
F
Mon.-Fri. 3-5. Closed Sun. (M) AE, DC, MC, V.
quired. Northern Italian. Spcls: pasta al mistero,
GAINSAID PRAISE
LE VEAU D'OR-129 E. 60th St. (838-8133). Dress opt.
chicken à la Sophia Loren, spiedino alla romana. Res.
E T T A B S B T
French. Spcl: rognons de veau sauté moutarde, cas-
nec. L daily noon-3. D daily 5-midnight. Pre-theater
soulet toulousain. Res. sug. L Mon.-Sat. noon-3. D
D daily 5-7. Post-theater D daily 10-midnight. (M-
SPINAL BANKRUPT
Mon.-Sat. 5:30-10:15. Complete L and D. Closed
E)
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
S
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L
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Sun. (M)
AE, MC, V.
Above 60th Street, East Side
EYELET SKINCARE
THE MANHATTAN OCEAN CLUB-57 W. 58th St. (371-
7777). Dress opt. Seafood. Spcls: fish, lobster. Open
Mon.-Fri. noon-midnight, Sat.-Sun. 5-midnight.
ADAM'S APPLE-1117 First Ave., at 61st St. (371-
PIER INLAW RSTU HARD
Private parties for 125. (E) AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
8650). Dress opt. Spcls: chicken steak, seafood. Res.
OGRE COUGH UTAH SADIE
sug. Open daily 11:30 a.m.-4 a.m. Br Sun. 11:30
MONDAYSCHILDISFAIROFC
THE NEW YORK DELICATESSEN-104 W. 57th St. (541-
a.m.4. Parties to 500. (M) AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
PREOS RATIONS LEASTS
8320). Casual. Jewish-American deli. Spcls: corned
ALEXANDRA'S-1155 Third Avenue., bet. 67th-68th
DIANE MELT DONS
beef/pastrami sandwiches, blintzes, stuffed cabbage,
chicken-in-the-pot, matzo-ball soup. Open 24 hr.
Sts.(879-1199). Casual. American. Spcls: shrimp Al-
HID ARE GAUP ROASTS
daily. Private parties. (I-M)
AE, DC.
exandra's, grilled salmon, seafood and pasta. Res.
ICEL FLYINTHEOF EATA
sug. L Mon.-Fri. noon-3. D Mon-Sat. 5:30-10:30,
SAVE® LEG SOUP RTES
PARK R00M-36 Central Park South, in the Park
Sun. 4:30-9:30. (M)
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
©LIFTS AGRA NPS ASTRA
Lane (371-4000). Jacket required. Continental. Spcls:
TIEA LIMA THIS ONI
Dover sole, rack of lamb, filet mignon rossini. Res.
BISTRO FRASCATI-347 E. 61st St. (644-8190). Casual.
THEOONTHEBARROOMFLOOR
sug. B daily 7 a.m.-11:45 a.m. L Mon.-Sat. noon-4.
French. Spcls: cassoulet; choucroute; shrimp with
HEM USTA SHEA TALE
Br Sun. noon-4. D daily 5:30-10:30. S 10:30-12:30
pernod, basil and garlic; Roumanian broilings. Res.
a.m. Ent. Tue.-Sat. (M) AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
sug. L Tue.-Fri. noon-2:30. D Tue.-Thu. and Sun.
ELIAS AGO SAID MADEAO
4:30-10, Fri.-Sat. 4:30-11. Ent. Fri.-Sat. Private par-
MELD CUBA SEA TOLET
PETROSSIAN-182 W. 58th St. (245-2214). Jacket re-
ties for 60. Closed Mon. (M)
AE.
ENID THESMILINGO NERO
quired. French. Spcls: ravioles of smoked salmon
SARTRE ARAN OIL MYO
with champagne sauce, Russian pressed caviar and
BORDER CAFE USA-244 E. 79th St. (535-4347). Casual.
EWES ETON AGNES
Dover-sole fillets in a puff pastry, Petrossian 'teasers.'
Southwestern American. Spcls: blue corn enchiladas
PRISON BLENDED ACOAT
Res. nec. L Mon.-Sat. 11:30 a.m.-3:30. Br Sat.-Sun.
stuffed with salsa, fajitas, stampede platter including
LETSOTHEMUSICANDDANCE
11:30 a.m.-3:30. D daily 5:30-midnight. Pre-theater
nachos, spicy chicken wings, chili, 'mom' chicken
EASED ALAR NONCE RIME
D 5:30-7:30. Post-theater D 10:30-1 a.m. (E)
fried steak or chicken. D daily 5-midnight. Br Sat.-
ALAS
TANS
GLOOM
TED
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
Sun. 11:30 a.m.-4:30. (M) AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
CAFE CROCODILE-354 E. 74th St. (249-6619). Casual.
PLAZA HOTEL-Fifth Ave. and 59th St. (759-3000).
Edwardian Room: Formal. Continental. Res. nec.
Mediterranean bistro. Spcls: rillettes of sole and
smoked salmon, carré d'agneau Méditerranée, fish
B Mon.-Sat. a.m.-10:30 a.m., Sun. a.m.-10 a.m.
L Mon.-Fri. noon-2:30. Br Sat.-Sun. noon-3. D
couscous, crisp roast duck with green peppercorns.
HAVELI
Tue.-Thu. 5:30-10, Fri.-Sat. to 10:30. Pianist Tue.-
Res. nec. D only Mon.-Sat. 5:30-11. Private parties
for 16-24. Closed Sun. (M)
AE.
THE VERY ESSENCE OF
Sat. (M-E) Oak Room: Dress opt. L Mon.-Fri.
noon-3. D Mon. 6-10, Tue.-Sat. 6-midnight, Sun.
CAFE PIERRE-The Pierre, 2 E. 61st St. (940-8185).
INDIA
to 11. Pianist. Oak Bar: Casual. Sandwich menu
Formal. French. Spcls: lasagne of lobster with spinach
PATTERNED AFTER AN
Mon.-Sat. 11 a.m.-2a.m., Sun. noon-1 a.m. Oyster
and basil, rack of lamb with turnip gratin, roast filet of
INDIAN HAVELI
Bar: Casual. Seafood. Res. nec. Open Mon.-Sat.
turbot with endive merlot, warm apple charlotte with
11:30 a.m.-1 a.m., Sun. from noon. (M-E) Palm
calvados. Res. sug. B daily 7 a.m.-11 a.m. L Mon.-
TRADITIONAL FOODS &
Court: Dress opt. Continental. Res. nec. B Mon.-
Sat. noon-2:30. Br Sun. noon-3:30. D daily 6-10:30.
FLAVORS OF NORTHERN
Fri. 7 a.m.-10:45 a.m., Sat. from 8 a.m. L Mon.-Sat.
S from 10:30. Pre-theater D Mon.-Sat. 6-7. Pianist
& SOUTHERN INDIA AS
noon-2:45. Br Sun. 10 a.m.-2:15. Tea Mon.-Sat.
daily 8-1 a.m. The Rotunda: English afternoon tea
SEEN THRU OUR
3:45-6, Sun. from 4. D Mon.-Sat. 6-midnight, Sun.
daily 3-6:30. (M-E)
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
HANGING HAVELI SCREENS
to 11. (E)
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
CAFE SAN MARTIN-1458 First Ave., at 76th St. (288-
LIVE MUSIC NIGHTLY 7 DAYS NOON 'til MIDNIGHT
REGINE'S-502 Park Ave., bet. 59th-60th Sts. (826-
0470). Casual. Continental/Spanish. Spcls: angulas de
aguinnaga, fidegua, tapas, paella a la Valenciana. Res.
100 2nd Ave. (Bet. 6th & 5th St.)
0990). Jacket and tie required. French. Spcls: les mé-
daillons de veau au beurre acidulé, l'escalope de sau-
sug. D daily 5:30-midnight. Br Sun. noon-4. Com-
(212) 982-0533
mon aux deux caviars, le pavé au chocolat au coulis de
plete D. Pianist nightly. (M)
AE, MC, V.
menthe. Res. nec. D Mon.-Sat. 7:30-midnight. Dis-
CAMELBACK & CENTRAL-1403 Second Ave., at 73rd
CO dancing from 11. Closed through 9/10. (E)
St. (249-8380). Casual. Continental/American. Spcls:
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
poached Norwegian salmon, roast duck with port
rocky lee
ROSA MEXICANO-1063 First Ave., at 58th St. (753-
and black currant sauce, paillard of chicken, grilled
7407). Casual. Classic Regional Mexican. Spcls: open
veal chop. L Mon.-Fri. 11:30 a.m.-3. D Mon.-Fri.
grill, antojitos. Res. nec. Prix fixe L Mon.-Sat.
5-midnight, Sat.-Sun. 6-midnight. Br Sat. 11:30
Originator of crispy thin crust pizza. Full menu of
noon-3:30. Prix fixe buffet Br Sun. noon-3. D daily
a.m.-3:30, Sun. to 4. (I-M) AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
Southern Italian specialties. Delivery Service.
Lunch and Dinner Seven nites. Private Room and
5-midnight. (M)
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
CARLYLE HOTEL-76th St. and Madison Ave. (744-
Bar. Parties 25 to 150. Est. 1954.
RUMPELMAYER'S-50 Central Park South (755-5800).
1600). Café Carlyle: Dress opt. Buffet L Mon.-Sat.
987 2nd Ave. cor. 52nd St. NYC Tel. 753-4858
Casual. Spcls: old-fashioned soda fountain with sun-
noon-3. Buffet Br Sun. noon-3. Carlyle Restau-
daes, sandwiches, and salads. Open daily 7
rant: Formal. French. B Mon.-Sat. 7 a.m.-10:30
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
a.m., Sun. 8 a.m.-10:30 a.m. L Mon.-Sat.
a.m.-12:30 a.m. (M)
noon-2:30. Br Sun. noon-3. D daily 6-11. (M-E).
THE RUSSIAN TEA ROOM-150 W. 57th St. (265-0947).
Bemelmans Bar: Cocktails daily noon-1 a.m. Gal-
HO
HO
131 W. 50th ST.
(bet. 6th & 7th Aves.)
Jacket required for D only. Russian. Spcls: blini,
lery: Tea daily 3:30-5:30. AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
RES: 246-3256
shashlik, chicken Kiev. Res. sug. L daily 11:30
DA NOI-1394 York Ave., at 74th St. (628-7733). Jack-
a.m.-4:30. D daily 4:30-11:30. S after 9:30. Complete
et required. Southern Italian. Spcls: stuffed rigatoni,
A Great Restaurant Serving The
D. Private parties. (M) AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
Finest Chinese Cuisine For Over
venison with cherry sauce, rabbit country style. Res.
A Quarter Of A Century!
SAN DOMENICO-240 Central Park South. (265-5959)
sug. L Mon.-Fri. noon-3. D daily 5-midnight. Pre-
Formal. Italian. Spcls: shrimp and beans with Tuscan
theatre Mon.-Sat. 5-6:30. Private parties for 40. Pia-
OPEN 7 DAYS-PRIVATE PARTY ROOM
olive oil, uovo in raviolo, muscovy duck with black
nist nightly 8-2a.m. Valet parking. (E)
Discount Parking 5 P.M. to 12 Midnite
olives, saddle of venison with juniper berries and
AE, MC, V.
grilled polenta. Res. nec. L Mon.-Sat. 11:45
HUBERT'S-575 Park Ave., at 63rd St. (826-5911).
a.m.-2:30. D Mon.-Sun. 5:45-11. Pre-theater D
Formal. American. Spcls: country captain chicken,
5:30-7. Private parties for 40. (E)
La Vieille Auberge
roast duck with vegetable strudel, grilled lobster with
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
"The best way to enjoy a
leek, tomato and poblano sauce. Res. nec. L Mon.-
SANDRO'S-420 E. 59th St. (355-5150). Casual. Italian.
Fri. noon-2. D Mon.-Sat. 6-10, Sun. 4-10. Closed
leisurely dinner is after 8pm"
Spcls: milk fed baby lamb roasted with fresh vegeta-
through 9/7. (E)
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
PRIX-FIXE, PRE-THEATRE DINNER $2150
347 West 46th Street (212) 247-4284
RESTAURANTS
IL MONELLO-1460 Second Ave., at 76th St. (535-
11:30 a.m.-4, Sun. from 11 a.m. Ent. Private parties.
Sun.-Thu. 5:30-11, Fri.-Sat. to midnight. Private
9310). Jacket required. Northern Italian. Spcls: lasa-
(M)
AE, DC, MC, V.
parties for 25-30. (M)
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
gna verde Fiorentino, pollo alla Toscana. Res. sug. L
SARABETH'S KITCHEN-1295 Madison Ave., bet.
POIRET-474 Columbus Ave., bet. 82nd-83rd Sts.
Mon.-Sat. noon-3. D Mon.-Thu. 5-11, Fri.-Sat. to
92nd-93rd Sts. (410-7335). Casual. American. Spcls:
midnight. Closed Sun. (M-E)
(724-6880). Casual. French bistro. Spcls: poulet roti
braised fillet of striped bass in an aromatic stew;
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
with French fries, grilled lamb chop with garlic and
grilled breast of chicken with wild mushrooms, frisee;
herbs, carbonnade. Res. sug. Br Sun. 11:30-4. D
IL VALLETTO-133 E. 61st St.(838-3939). Formal. Ita-
seared loin of lamb with fried pesto ravioli. Res. sug.
Sun.-Thu. 6-11:30, Fri.-Sat. to midnight. (M)
lian/Abruzzese. Spcls: capellini primavera, seasonal
Open for B and L daily 9 a.m.-4. Tea 3-4:30. D daily
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
game, baby lamb in Abruzzese style. Res. nec. L
6-10:30. Private parties for 25. (M)
ROXY'S-2120 Broadway, at 74th St. (799-1160). Ca-
Mon.-Fri. noon-2:30. D Mon.-Sat. 5:30-11:30.
AE, DC, MC, V.
sual. American-continental. Spcls: penne with scal-
Closed Sun. (E)
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
SEL & POIVRE-853 Lexington Ave., Bet. 64th-65th
lops, grilled salmon with roasted pepper sauce, steak
JOHN CLANCY'S EAST-206 E. 63rd St. (752-6666).
Sts. (517-5780). Casual. French-American. Spcls:
au poivre. Res. sug. L Mon.-Sat. 11:30 a.m.4. Br
Dress opt. American/seafood. Spcls: lobster Ameri-
grilled tuna with three pepper sauces, warm salad of
Sun. 11:30 a.m.4. D daily 4-midnight. (M)
can, swordfish grilled over mesquite. Res. nec. D
goat cheese and avocado, magret of duck with bran-
AE, DC, MC, V.
Mon.-Sat. 6-11:30, Sun. 5-10. Private parties for
died berries. Res. sug. L and D daily noon-11. (M)
SARABETH'S KITCHEN-423 Amsterdam Ave., bet.
35-40. (M-E)
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
AE, MC, V.
80th-81st Sts. (496-6280). Casual. American. Spcls:
LA PETITE FERME-973 Lexington Ave., at 70th St.
SIGN OF THE DOVE-1110 Third Ave., at 65th St. (861-
braised fillet of striped bass in an aromatic stew,
(249-3272). Dress opt. French. Spcls: moules vinai-
8080). Formal. American/French. Spcls: beet ravioli
grilled breast of chicken with wild mushrooms, frisee;
grette, poached salmon with sauce chezillot. Res. nec.
with wild mushrooms, sauteed bass with roesti pota-
roasted veal rack chop with spaetzle. Res. sug. Open
L Mon.-Fri. noon-2:30. D Mon.-Sat. 6-10:30.
toes, beef fillet with foie gras. Res. sug. L Tue.-Sat.
Tue.-Fri. for B, L, tea, and D from 8 a.m.-11:30, Sat.
Closed Sun. (M)
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
noon-3. Br Sun. 11:30 a.m.-3. D Sun.-Fri. 6-11:30,
9 a.m.-11:30, Sun. 9 a.m.-5:30, Mon. 6-11:30. Also
LE BOEUF A LA MODE-539 E. 81st St. (650-9664, 249-
Sat. 5:30-11:30. Pianist. Private parties for 120. (E)
1295 Madison Ave., bet. 92nd-93rd Sts. (410-
1473). Dress opt. French. Spcls: rack of lamb, veal
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
7335). (M)
AE, DC, MC, V.
calvados, duck a l'orange. Res. sug. D only daily
VIA-1489 First Ave., bet. 77th-78th Sts. (517-4892).
SFUZZI-58 W. 65th St. (873-3700). Casual. Italian.
5:30-11. Complete D. Private parties for 30. (M)
Casual. Italian. Spcls: ravioli stuffed with truffles in a
Spcls: grilled salmon with lobster broth, asparagus,
AE, DC, MC.
porcini-mushroom sauce, Norwegian salmon with
and black pepper aioli; fettuccine pomodoro with sau-
LE CIRQUE-58 E. 65th St. (794-9292). Formal. French.
champagne and basil, veal chop barolo. Res. sug. D
teed shrimp and basil, pizza Roma with tomato, moz-
Spcls: pasta primavera, blanquette de St. Jacques jul-
only Mon.-Thu. 5:30-11, Fri.-Sat. to midnight, Sun.
zarella and basil. Res. sug. L Mon.-Fri. 11:30
ienne, caneton roti aux pommes sauce citron. Res.
to 10. (M-E)
AE, MC. V.
Br Sat.-Sun. 11:30 a.m.-3:30. D Sun. 5-11:30,
nec. L Mon.-Sat. noon-3. D Mon.-Sat. 6-10:30.
VIA VIA-1294 Third Ave., at 74th St.(439 0130). Ca-
Mon.- Sat. 5:30-11:30. Pre-theater daily 5:30-7:30.
Complete L. Closed Sun. (E)
AE, CB, DC.
sual. N. Italian. Spcls: linguine neri con gemberi, fin-
Private parties for 14-40. (M)
LE REGENCE-37 E. 64th St., in the Plaza Athenée
occhio con funghi, costoletta milanese. Res. sug. L
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
(734-9100). Jacket and tie required. French/seafood.
Mon.-Fri. 11:30-4:30. D 4:30-12.30 a.m. daily. Br
SHELLS-212 79th St. (721-0800). Casual. American
Spcls: bar rayé en croûte crème aux fines herbes, red
Sat.-Sun. noon-4. (M) AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
seafood. Spcls: shrimp pasta, shrimp scampi, crabs,
snapper pôelé crème au safran, saumon grillé sur flan
WILKINSON'S SEAFOOD CAFE-1573 York Ave., bet.
grilled fish, oysters. No. res. D Mon.-Thu. 5-11,
de champignons. Res. nec. B daily 7 a.m.-10 a.m. L
83rd-84th Sts. (535-5454). Dress opt. American-sea-
Fri.-Sat. to 1 a.m., Sun. 2-10. (I)
AE, MC, V.
daily noon-2:30. D daily 6-10:30. (E)
food. Spcls: snapper with sake and black bean sauce,
SYLVIA'S-328 Lenox Ave., bet. 126th-127th Sts.
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
grilled marinated swordfish, roast lobster with sauce
(996-0660). Casual. Soul Food. Spcls: barbecue spare-
MARK'S-25 E. 77th St., in the Mark Hotel (879-
American. Res. sug. D only Mon.-Sat. 6-10:30, Sun.
ribs; southern fried chicken with collard greens, peas
1864). Casual. French/Californian. Spcls: barbecued
5-9. (M-E)
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
and rice; beef short ribs. Res. sug. B Mon.-Fri. 7:30
striped bass with wild-mushroom packets, risotto
a.m.-1. L Mon.-Sat. 11 a.m.-3. Br Sun. 1-7. D
cakes with lobster remoulade, roast rack of lamb with
Above 60th Street, West Side
Mon.-Sat. 3-10:30. (I)
No credit cards.
potato and wild-mushroom Napoleon. Res. sug. B
TAVERN ON THE GREEN-Central Park at 67th St. (873-
daily 6:30 a.m.-11 a.m. L Mon.-Sat. 11:30 a.m.-2:30.
CAFE DES ARTISTES-1 W. 67th St. (877-3500). Jacket
3200). Casual. American. Spcls: grilled Norwegian
Br Sun. 11:30 a.m.-2:30. Afternoon tea daily
req. after 5. French. Res. nec. L Mon.-Fri. noon-3.
salmon with succotash, veal medallions with mush-
2:30-5:30. D daily 6:30 - 10:30. Banquets for 25-175.
Br Sat. noon-3, Sun 10-3. D Mon.-Sat. 5:30-12:30
room ravioli, smoked duck breast salad. Res. sug. L
(E)
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
a.m., Sun. 5-11. (M-E) AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
Mon.-Fri. noon-3:45. D Sun.-Thu. 5:30-11:30,
MAXIM'S-680 Madison Ave., at 61st St. (751-5111).
CAMEOS-169 Columbus Ave., bet. 67th-68th Sts.
Fri.-Sat. 5-midnight. Br Sat.-Sun. 10 a.m.-3:45. Pri-
Formal Tue.-Fri., black tie Sat. French. Spcls: darne
(874-2280). Casual. Seasonal American. Spcls: scal-
vate parties for 15-1500. (E) AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
de saumon poelee, endives et fevettes meuniere, cote
lion and duck pancakes, crab cakes, grilled mahi-mahi
BROOKLYN
de veau aux juices parfait a la citronelle au coulis de
with leek compote, rack of lamb with apple-mint
fruits rouges. Res. sug. D Tue.-Sat. 6-2 a.m. Danc-
chutney. Res. nec. L Mon.-Fri. noon-3. Br Sat.
ing Tue.-Sat. Private parties for 10-400. Closed Sun.
11:30-3, Sun. to 4. D Mon-Sat. 5:30-midnight, Sun.
MARCO POL0-345 Court St. (718-852-5015). Casual.
and Mon. (E)
AE, DC.
4-10. Jazz pianist nightly and Br Sun. (M-E)
Italian. Spcls: paglia fieno alla Marco Polo, shrimp
PICCOLO MONDO-1269 First Ave., bet. 68th-69th Sts.
AE, DC MC, V.
continental, striped bass al cartoccio. Res. sug. Open
for L and D Mon.-Fri. 11:30 a.m.-11, Sat. 3-mid-
(249-3141). Formal. Northern Italian. Spcl: scampi
CHARMANT-625 Columbus Ave., bet. 90th-91st Sts.
night, Sun. 1-11. Private parties for 150. Pianist
alla Veneziana. Res. sug. L Mon.-Fri. noon-3. D
(724-9144). Casual. Continental. Spcls: chicken dore
nightly. Free valet P. (M) AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
Mon.-Fri. 5-midnight, Sat. from noon. Parking.
sauteed with garlic, white wine and lemon; seafood
Closed Sun. (M)
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
stew in a tomato-and-fennel sauce, farfalle primavera
MONTE'S VENETIAN ROOM-451 Carroll St., bet.
THE POLO-840 Madison Ave., at 69th St. (535-9141).
with olive oil and pine nuts. Res. sug. L Mon.-Fri.
Third Ave. and Nevins St. (718-624-8984). Dress
Formal. American. Spcls: seared sashimi tuna with
noon-4. Br Sat.-Sun. 11-4. D daily 5-midnight. Pia-
opt. Italian. Spcls: baked jumbo shrimp alla Monte,
coriander seeds, house-smoked quail with yellowfin
nist Mon.-Sat. and guitarist Br. Sun. Private parties.
chicken scarpariello, frutti di mare fresca, homemade
potato salad, Pacific salmon in horseradish crust. Res.
(I-M)
AE, MC, V.
Italian cheesecake. Res. sug. Open Sun.-Thu. 11
a.m.-11, Fri.-Sat. to midnight. Free valet parking on
sug. B daily 7 a.m.-10 a.m. Br Sat.-Sun. noon-3. L
COLUMBUS-201 Columbus Ave., at 69th St.(799-
premises. (M)
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
daily noon-2:30. D daily 6-10. (E)
8090) Casual. American. Spcls: blackened swordfish,
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
hamburgers, chicken Joanne, salmon with brandy
THE RIVER CAFE-1 Water St. (718-522-5200). Jacket
THE POST HOUSE-28 E. 63rd St. (935-2888). Casual.
sauce. Res. sug. L Mon.-Fri. 11:30-5. Br Sat.-Sun.
required. American. Spcls: sauteed foie gras with
11:30-4. D daily 5-2 a.m. (M)
pumpkin seeds and pear, rack of lamb in a chestnut
American. Spcls: venison chili, medallions of veal
with wild mushrooms, steak. Res. sug. L Mon.-Fri.
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
meal crust, salmon seared with ginger and cracked
pepper, Valrhona Brooklyn Bridge with assorted ice
noon-4:30. D daily 5-midnight. (E)
CONSERVATORY-15 Central Park West, bet. 61st-
creams and sorbets. Res. nec. L Mon.-Fri.
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
62nd Sts., in the Mayflower Hotel (581-0896).
noon-2:30. Br Sat. noon-2:30, Sun. 11:30-2:30. D
RICK NEWMAN'S NEW YORK-1236 Third Ave., bet.
Casual. Continental. Spcls: steamed and grilled fresh
nightly 6-11:30. Pianist nightly. (E)
71st-72nd Sts. (734-1771). Casual. American. Spcls:
fish, veal Verona, linguini fruitta de mare. B daily 7
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
sauteed snapper stuffed with walnuts and sun-dried
a.m.-11:30 a.m. L daily 11:30 a.m.4. Prix fixe Br
tomato sauce, grilled free-range chicken with roasted
Sun. noon-4:30. D daily 4-midnight. Pre-theater D
QUEENS
potatoes and mustard sauce, old-fashioned meat loaf
5-7. Private parties for 100. Ent. (M)
with mashed potatoes and onion crisps. Res. sug. L
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
RALPH'S ITALIAN RESTAURANT-75-61 31st Ave.,
Mon.-Fri. 11:30 a.m.4. Br Sat.-Sun. 11-4. D daily
COPELAND'S-547 W. 145th St. (234-2357). Jacket re-
Jackson Heights (718-899-2555). Casual. Italian.
5-midnight. Private parties for 50. (M) AE, MC, V.
quired. Continental/soul. Spcls: barbecued jumbo
Spcls: veal rollatini, spaghetti carbonara, chicken Val-
RUPPERT'S-1662 Third Ave., at 93rd St. (831-1900).
shrimp, Louisiana gumbo. Res. sug. L Mon.-Fri.
dostana. Res. sug. Open Mon.-Thu. noon-10:30,
Casual. Regional American. Spcls: warm grilled
11:30 a.m.4:30. D Mon.-Thu. 4:30-midnight, Fri.-
Fri. to 11, Sat. 4-11. Complete D. Closed Sun.
breast of chicken on Caesar salad, fusilli with scallops,
Sat. to a.m., Sun. 1-midnight. (M)
(I).
AE, DC, V.
snow peas and sun-dried tomatoes; grilled fresh salm-
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
VILLA SECONDO-184-22 Horace Harding Expy.,
on; sliced roast loin of pork with rosemary-scented
INDIAN OVEN-285 Columbus Ave., at 72nd St. (362-
Fresh Meadows (718-762-7355). Casual. Northern
sauce. Res. sug. L Mon.-Fri. 11:30 a.m.4. D
7567). Casual. Indian. Spcls: whole steamed fish in
Italian. Res. sug. L and D Tue.-Fri. noon-11, Sat.
Sun.-Thu. 5-12.30 a.m. Fri.-Sat. to 1 a.m. Cocktails
chutney, tikka makhni, tandoori vegetables, handi
4-midnight, Sun. 2-11. Complete L. Closed Mon.
4-7 incl. free hors d'oeuvres. Bar till 2 a.m. Br Sat.
biryani. Res. nec. Br Sat.-Sun. noon-3:30. D
(I-M)
AE, DC, MC, V.
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EVENTS
COMPILED BY EDNA LAROCHE
BENEFIT-On 8/27, Chris Evert, Martina Navratilova,
ter (914-687-7485) is holding a Festival of Treasures
Battery. Take along a spare inner tube, and plan to
and Steffi Graf will host the Women's Tennis Associa-
to benefit the Center. On 8/25 from 11-5, visitors can
have a sunrise breakfast picnic (take your own). $1
tion Tennis Ball with proceeds going to the Greater
go swimming or boating in the Hudson, hiking in
contribution (473-6283).
New York March of Dimes Birth Defects Founda-
nearby Minnewaska, listen to all kinds of music; or
ADVENTURE ON A SHOESTRING-8/26 at noon, a walk in
tion. A reception and dinner are planned at the Plaza
parents can make a day of it by taking their children
Chinatown
Hotel, Fifth Ave. at 59th St., where the "Player of the
for pony rides or face painting. Out in Bridge-
8/26 at 3, Turtle Bay and the East
Year" award will be presented by Mayor David N.
hampton, 8/23, 24, 11 a.m.-8; 8/25 11 a.m.-6, the
40s. Each, $5. Call for meeting place and to reserve
Dinkins. Tickets are $500 and can be reserved by call-
(265-2663).
place to be is the Hamptons' 24th Summer An-
ing 353-8353.
tiques Festival and Sale at the Community House
THE MIDDLE EAST IN SOUTH FERRY-A walk with Mary
LOST SONGFEST-So you don't sound like Ethel Mer-
on Montauk Highway. Dealers from many New
Ann DiNapoli through Syrian and Lebanese neigh-
man or Michael Crawford or even Tyne Daly; join
England states will show fine art, early American and
borhoods in Brooklyn Heights and Cobble Hill. 8/25,
host Ed Linderman and cast members from Broadway
English furniture, clocks, early quilts, even antiques
9/22 at 10 a.m.; must reserve (718-522-1916). $10.
Jukebox to sing forgotten songs from Broadway mu-
from 12th century China. To mark the opening of the
TOURS WITH THE 92ND STREET Y-Phone or send for
sicals. The fun begins at 7:30 on 8/20 at the John
festival, a gala special preview is being held on 8/22
brochure on out-of-town and special-interest events.
Houseman Theatre, 450 W. 42nd St.; no reservations
from 6-8 that will benefit the East End Hope for Hos-
In town: 8/26, 11 a.m.-3, Slice of the Apple, 72nd
needed, because it's free.
pice, on Eastern Long Island. Tickets for this are $20;
St. west to east, with Joyce Mendelssohn, including a
and for the festival, $4 for adults; $1 for children under
trek through Central Park; take a picnic lunch;
TASTINGS-Violinist/violist Jaime Laredo is the guest on
12. For more information, call 516-537-0333 or 537-
$12 8/26 at 1, a literary tour, a visit to the Al-
8/23 at 5:30 for the Mostly Mozart Meet-the-Artist
2112. Don't forget the New York Renaissance
gonquin Hotel with Marvin Gelfand; $20. Further
dinner just prior to the evening's pre-concert recital.
Festival that is going on through 9/16 (weekends
information: 415-5627; to reserve: 996-1100.
Participants will engage in informal conversation with
only, plus Labor Day, 9/3) at Sterling Forest in Tux-
the artist as they dine on a meal with a South Ameri-
SIDEWALKS OF NEW YORK-517-0201 for information.
edo, N.Y. Costumed performers stage medieval
can theme. Tastings/Concert packages are available
8/25 at 6: Ye Olde Tavern Tour; meet under Wash-
jousting tournaments and feasts, Shakespeare and
for $45, but if you are only interested in dining, that's
ington Square Arch for visits to some historic bars
commedia dell'arte, music and comedy; also mer-
$25. To reserve a seat for the final "tasting" of the
and taverns; tips and drinks not included
8/25 at
chandise and food vendors, strolling storybook char-
season at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall, call 877-
acters like Robin Hood and his band, and more. Ad-
6: Ghosts at Twilight; haunted Greenwich Village;
1800, ext. 547.
meet at Washington Square Arch
8/26 at 2: Stars
missions: adults, $12.50, 6-12, $5; under 6, free;
Along the Park; meet in front of the Guggenheim
STEINWAY EXHIBIT-To celebrate the 65th anniversary
seniors $10.50 (914-351-5171).
Museum, Fifth Ave. and 89th St., to see where some
of Steinway Hall and the creation of the 500,000th pi-
AT&T INFOQUEST CENTER EXHIBIT-"Terra Firma in Fo-
of the city's "rich and famous" reside
8/26 at 2:
ano manufactured by Steinway and Sons, a collection
cus: The Art and Science of Digital Satellite Imag-
All in the Family; meet on corner of Prince and
of rare pianos is on display at the W. 57th St. head-
ery." Through an innovation in satellite photogra-
Mott Sts., by Old St. Patrick's, for a new look at Lit-
quarters. In crossing the half-million mark, Steinway
phy, pictures of the earth can be seen not only nine
tle Italy. Each tour, $10.
commissioned furniure designer Wendell Castle to
times greater in detail, but also in three-dimensional
create a uniquely designed concert grand made from
CENTRAL PARK-8/23 at 6, meet the staff of the Conser-
imagery and nearly 17 million colors. The Center is
East Indian ebony, dyed Swiss pear, and trimmed in
vatory Garden at Fifth Ave. and 105th St., for a tour
open Tues. from 10 a.m.-9 and Wed.-Sun. from 10
South American bubinga wood. In addition to the ex-
of the garden. Walks and Talks series: 8/26 at 2,
a.m.-6. Stop by 550 Madison Ave. (at 56th St.) and
hibit, lectures and performances are scheduled
"Butterflies and Dragonflies"; meet at Belvedere Cas-
get a close-up view of our planet; it's free.
through 10/17 and the public can not only view this
tle, 79th St. south of the Great Lawen. Free.
piano (among others), but is invited to play it also.
DINNER AND A MOVIE-The American Museum of Nat-
JEWISH NEW YORK CITY-A two-hour Lower East Side
Steinway is located at 109 W. 57th St. (246-1100), and
ural History has a summer-weekend idea that includes
walk with writer-historian Oscar Israelowitz (718-
you must reserve to play.
a meal in the greenhouse restaurant and a double fea-
951-7072), every Sun. at 11 a.m. Visit the Jewish Dai-
ture in the Naturemax Theater. On Fri. and Sat.
AUTUMN CRAFTS FESTIVAL-An Apache woman pre-
ly Forward Building, the only remaining neighbor-
nights, $21 includes admission to the museum and
senting Native American creations, live sheep being
hood yeshiva, Guss's Pickles, more. $12.50; reserve.
theater, dinner (entree, appetizer or dessert, and cof-
shorn, square dancing, and much more are all part of
BROOKLYN CENTER FOR THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT
fee/tea-tip, tax, and cocktails extra). The current
this festival at Lincoln Center's Fordham University
films are Niagara: Miracles, Myths, and Magic and To
TOURS-8/24, 6:15-8:15, an evening walk with John
Plaza, 62nd St. between Columbus and Amsterdam
the Limit; the latter is all about how we adapt to activi-
Yrizarry in search of the night creatures of Prospect
Aves. For two consecutive weekends, 8/25, 26; 9/1,
ty like Olympic running, ballet dancing, et al. Tickets
Park; meet at the Picnic House, P.P.W. and 3rd St.,
2, 3 from 11 a.m.-7, artisans from all over the United
are on sale Fri. and Sat. at 3 (769-5548).
and take binoculars and a flashlight 8/26, 1-3:30,
States will display and present original designs in clay,
The Battle of Brooklyn 1776, with historians Herb
leather, precious jewelry, stained glass, silks, and furs
FREEBIES-Free entertainment at Tavern on the
Yellin and John Gallagher; an annual celebration that
for all to see.
Green, the gardeny fantasy restaurant at Central Park
follows the line of march to the final battle site. Each,
West and 67th St. One can watch and listen whether
LINCOLN CENTER OUT-OF-DOORS-This is your last
$6; seniors and children under 12, $3 (718-788-8549.)
or not one is dining or imbibing. There are stilt walk-
chance to enjoy the activities offered at this 20th annu-
WORLD'S FAIR GROUNDS-Flushing Meadows-Corona
al festival. At Fountain Plaza on 8/24 at 4, take part in
ers and jugglers, double-dutch rope jumpers and yo-
Park. 8/26 at 3:30, a walk with Pierre Montiel as
yo demonstrations, caricature artists and a trampoline
a symposium billed as street theater; special guests are
guide, focusing on aspects of world expositions, in-
expected and audience participation encouraged. Mu-
team, and surprises, too, afternoons and evenings,
cluding the 1992 Seville fair. Follows a related lecture
sical entertainment is also planned, so take a look at
Tue.-Sun. evenings. On Fri. evenings, a band for
at the Queens Museum. Free with museum admis-
Music and Dance for the jazz, gospel, or classical
dancing, and recorded music the other nights
sion, $2; seniors, students, children $1.
The Summer Colombian Coffee Terrace is
group that interests you.
open once again, dispensing free icy or steaming
SHEEPSHEAD BAY-8/26 at 1, a tour with Justin Ferate
OUT-OF-TOWN FAIRS AND FESTIVALS-The 145th Dut-
"100% Colombian coffee," at 140 E. 57th St.,
and the Brooklyn Historical Society; includes a visit
chess County Fair lasts from 8/21-8/26 this year,
through 8/31, Mon. -Fri. 11 a.m.-3. As you sip, you
to the observation deck inside the Grand Army Plaza
with the main attraction of course being the farm ani-
can ask questions and pick up free information about
arch. $8; must reserve (718-624-0890).
mals. Goats, sheep, hogs, cows, and other such crit-
the country.
NATURE WALKS-At the New York Botanical Gar-
ters will compete for ribbons as well as cash awards.
den, Bronx (220-8747): 8/22 at 6:30, a sunset walk
For those with other entertainment needs, headliners
TOURS
along the Bronx River, "Reflections in the Stream";
include Sawyer Brown and Holly Dunn on 8/21; the
meet in Watson Building lobby; $5 At Alley
Smothers Brothers on 8/22; country star Crystal
MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK-8/26 at 1, rain or
Pond, Douglaston, Queens (718-229-4000): Sat.
Gayle on 8/23, and the Sammy Kaye Orchestra with
shine, a 3-hour tour of Greenwich Village, with writ-
through Aug., Woodland walk, 10 a.m.-noon meet
the Pied Pipers on 8/24. There's even a Children's En-
er Terry Miller: "The East Village, Where Greenwich
at Alley Pond Woodland Nature Center, near upper
tertainment area that features ballet performances,
Village Re-invented Itself." Must reserve; $15 (534-
parking field, Alley Pond Park Sun. through
choral-group concerts, and a talent contest. Much
1672, ext. 206).
Aug., Oakland Lake walks, 1-3; meet at Oakland
more is planned, so if you happen to be in Rhinebeck,
N.Y., or want to go for the festival, call 914-876-4001
INSOMNIACS ON WHEELS-Bike tour with Friends of the
Lake, south of Northern Blvd., 223rd St., Bayside.
Free
Parks, 8/26 at 2:30 a.m. Meet Tom Kiel and Ar-
Wave Hill, W. 259th Street and Indepen-
for more information. Admission is $5 for adults and
dence Ave., Bronx (549-3200): Each Sat. and Sun. at
kids under 12 get in free
90 miles north of the city
mando Roman at the American Museum of Natural
History, C.P.W. and 79th St., and ride down to the
1:15, orientation walks; every Sun. at 2:15, green-
in Kingston, N.Y., the Ulster Performing Arts Cen-
house-and-garden walks. All free with admission to
AUGUST 27, 1990/NEW YORK
87
EVENTS
COLUMBUS
69th St. and Columbus Avenue
Open 7 days Lunch/Dinner
Blue Angel
the grounds; $2 Brooklyn Botanic Garden,
Saturday and Sunday Brunch
Washington Ave. (718-857-2430). Free tours of the
near Lincoln Center
grounds will take you through the 52 acres, visiting
many "gardens within the garden." Sat. and Sun. at 1;
799-8090
meet at the Education Building.
presents...
URBAN PARK RANGERS-Tours by bus of Central Park,
The
World't
COLUMBUS ON BROADWAY
through 9/27: Tue. at 1, the south end, including the
224 West 49th Street
Dairy and the Lake. Thur. at 1, the northern part, in-
"The Entertainment Industry's
cluding Belvedere Castle and North Meadow. Meet
Newest Eatery"
on N.W. corner of Fifth Ave. and 60th St. (427-4040).
Lunch/Dinner After Theatre
Free. No reservations
Also.
walks
and
work-
Entertainment Tue.-Sat.
shops, all free unless noted. Phone for details: Bronx:
Private Parties and Groups
Spectacular French
212-548-7070 or 589-0096; Brooklyn: 718-287-3400;
Closed Monday
/Las Vegas Revue
Manhattan: 397-3080; Queens: 718-699-4204; Stat-
Shows 9 & 11:30pm
en Island: 718-667-6042.
977-9000
Dancing until 4 am
OPEN
Continental Cuisine
GRAND TOUR OF MIDTOWN-A weekly walk hosted by
7
served until 3am
the Grand Central Partnership and led by "urban de-
Pre-Theatre Dinner
tective and historian" Justin Ferate. Every Fri. at 1,
NIGHTS
Jackets Required
the 90-minute walk begins at the Philip Morris Build-
AloAlo
Reduced Parking Rate
ing, south side of 42nd St. at Park Ave. "The truth
about Midtown Manhattan"-facts about interiors,
Light Italian Food
NO COVER WITH DINNER
underground activity, air space, and art collections
Noon to 2 A.M.
323 W. 44th St. (8/9 Ave) NYC
that most people don't know about. Free.
61st St. & 3rd Ave. N.Y.C.
(212) 262-3333
NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY-Between the Lions," a
Res: (212) 838-4343
one-hour tour of the Central Research Library,
"GRAND CAFE"
7 Days a Week
Fifth Ave. and 42nd St., that includes anecdotes about
art, history, literature, and architecture. Daily except
PRESENTING
SEVILLA
Sun. and holidays at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m., from the
Visitor Information desk. Free (869-8089) Lin-
CREDIT
CLORIA
JAZZ FESTIVAL
CARDS
coln Center Library, Amsterdam Ave. at 65th St.
(870-1670). Tours of the dance, theater, music, and
AT
LUNCHEON
PARTIES
recorded-sound collections; each Tue. at 11 a.m. Free
Fat Tuesday's
August 22
FINE
Mid-Manhattan Library, Fifth Ave. at 40th
Indigo Blues
August 23
SPANISH CUISINE
Birdland
St.(340-0934). Tours of the largest circulating and ref-
August 24
J's
August 25
LUNCH
erence library in the branch system; Mon., Wed., Fri.
at 2:30. Free.
CALIFORNIA'S SPARKLING WINE
COCKTAILS
OUTDOORS CLUB-Write for schedule of out-of-town
DINNER
hikes: P.O. Box 227, Lenox Hill Station, New York
NEW YORK'S BRITISH PLACE
10021. Also phone about bike trips: 228-3698. 8/21, a
famed Paella a la Valenciana
walk in Lower Manhattan, across the Brooklyn
929-3189, 243-9513
Bridge, and in Brooklyn Heights. Meet at 6 p.m. out-
side City Hall, near the B.B. subway station. $1 (473-
62 CHARLES ST. (W. 4th ST.)
5159, nights before 10).
URBAN TRAIL CONFERENCE-For information on out-
33 East
N.Y., N.Y. 10274 (718-274-0407). 8/25, walk around
60th Street
Oliver's
(212)
of-town hikes: Bowling Green Station, Box 264,
935-8722
the pond at the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, includ-
La Veranda
ing two miles along a busy highway. In Manhattan,
Theater Goers Haven
meet at noon, at the change booth, Eighth Ave. and
Lunch/Dinner/Cocktails
14th St. subway stop; no lunch stop. $1 (924-7486).
Special Pre Theater Dinner
LOOK FOR WILD FOODS-Wildman" Steve Brill's walks
FRENCH
Elegance at Moderate Prices
in search of edible plants in our environment; learn to
PROVINCIAL
FREE PARKING 5 P.M. to A. M.
identify and use black walnuts, mustards, honey-
CUISINE
mushrooms, and more. Free (718-291-6825.) 8/25,
163 W 47 St NYC 212-391-0905
Prospect Park, Brooklyn. 8/26, Pelham Bay Park,
Bronx.
52 W 55/NY 265-8141
COMPILED BY FLORENCE FLETCHER
J. SUNG
SPORTS
EL CHARRO ESPANOL
DYNASTY
FEP
BASEBALL-Mets, Shea Stadium, 126th St. and Roose-
CLASSIC CUISINE OF SPAIN
Featuring Hunan & Manchurian Dishes
velt Ave. (718-507-6387), Queens. $6-$12. 8/28, 29 at
"Simply the Best For Over 50 Years"
Open 7 Days Credit Cards Res: (212) 355-1200
7:35: vs. San Diego. Yankees, Yankee Stadium,
Paella & Sangria
IN THE HOTEL LEXINGTON
161st St. and River Ave. (293-6000), Bronx.
Served in the Classic Spanish Tradition
511 LEXINGTON AVE. (at 48th St.)
$4.50-$12. 8/20, 21, 22 at 7:30: vs. Toronto; 8/23, 24
4 Charles St. in Greenwich Village
at 7:30: vs. Milwaukee; 8/25, 26 at 1:30: vs.
242-9547 243-5413 2 Hours Free Parking
Milwaukee.
STEPS-Back to Work Run, 8/26 at 10 a.m. Runners
of all ages and paces are invited to participate in this 4-
RES: (212)888-8858
ITALIAN ITALIAN THE ONLY & BRUNCHNCH
mile run, which begins and ends at 90th St. and Fifth
AVENUE HALL
Ave., in Central Park. NYRRC, 860-4455. $11-$15.
TENNIS-U.S. Open, 8/27-9/9. 8/22-25 at 10 a.m:
a.m.; 9/9 at 1, $18-$35; Evening Sessions except 9/3:
hymes
Fine Dining
Qualifying Rounds; free. Day Sessions: 8/27-9/8 at 11
Cocktails
Open Every Day
Pianist Nightly
8/29-9/6 at 7:30, $12-$26. Flushing Meadow, Corona
LUNCH, BRUNCH & DINNER
CORNER 58th & 1st
Park (718-271-5100), Queens
Tournament of
THE NEW GEM OF SUTTON PLACE!
Champions, 8/21-26. 8/21, 22 at 3; 8/23, 24 at 1;
8/25 at noon; 8/26 at 11 a.m. Westside Tennis Club in
Forest Hills (718-268-2300). $12-$28 Hamlet
René Pujol
Challenge Cup. 8/20-24 at 11 a.m. and 7; 8/25, 26 at
SUPERB
1. $10-$28. Hamlet Golf and Country Club (516-333-
ITALIAN CUISINE
7333), Commack Rd., Commack, L.I.
*
Restaurant Franchis
-The Practical Gourmet
"Magnificent Food served in a
HORSE RACING-Saratoga Meeting, through 8/27
French-country-inn atmosphere"
(718-641-4700). Daily except Tue.; post time at 1. $2,
"The joy of dining."
-Tony Pecora
Lunch
Cocktails
Dinner
After Theatre
Grandstand; $5, Clubhouse. Featured: 8/22, West
Private Party Room
Closed Sun.
Point Stakes Hdcp. (NYB); 8/23, Seneca Hdcp.; 8/24,
Private Party Dining Room Available
Yaddo (NYB); 8/25, Saratoga Budweiser Breeders
1352 First Avenue,
321 W 51 St., NYC Res: 246-3023 or 246-3049
LETIZIA
bet 72nd & 73rd Sts
(212) 517-2244
Cup; 8/26, Forego Hdcp.; 8/27, Spinaway.
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NEW YORK/AUGUST 27, 1990
CHILDREN
COMPILED BY EDNA LAROCHE
RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL-Snow in August? There will
ALADDIN AND HIS WONDERFUL LAMP-Magic carpets,
The "trip" begins at Coney Island and ends in the
be at the Rockette & Reindeer Parade that marks
vanishing castles, bejeweled marionettes, and a genie
Bronx. Through 9/29. 81 Willoughby St. Brooklyn
the first day of ticket sales for the "Christmas Spectac-
make up this production. Sat. at noon; Sun. at 1 and 3;
(718-330-3060). Hours: Mon.-Fri., 10 a.m.4; Sat.,
ular." Children with the Christmas spirit are invited
through 9/16. The Puppetworks, 338 Sixth Ave. at
11 a.m.4; 55c; adults $1.55.
to meet under Radio City's marquee and prance down
4th St. (718-965-3391), Brooklyn. $4; adults $5.
Sixth Ave. with the fabulous Rockettes. Each "rein-
INFOQUEST CENTER-A hands-on environment with
NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY FREE PROGRAMS-8/23 at
deer" will receive a free gift. Special events will in-
holograms and satellites, fiber-optics, and robotics to
1:30: My Side of the Mountain. 8/30 at 1:30: Man
clude a horse-drawn sleigh and a visit from Santa.
help the curious of all ages discover how these devices
From Nowhere. Donnell Library Center, 20 W.
8/29 starting at 8 a.m. Radio City Music Hall, 1260
and others aid us in retrieving, storing, and managing
53rd St. 8/24 at 10:30: An American Tail. Lincoln
Avenue of the Americas, Rockefeller Center. (247-
data. SummerMagic '90: Wander through the ar-
4777). Pre-register.
Center Children's Room, New York Public Library
cade among stilt-walkers, jugglers, giant puppets;
at Lincoln Center, 111 Amsterdam Ave. 8/30 at 11:
make your own buttons at the Button Making Booth;
CAROLINE'S AT THE SEAPORT-Camp Caroline's.
Muppets Take Manhattan. 115th Street Branch,
watch two stages with on-going entertainment rang-
Camp goes crazy at Caroline's when the counselors
203 W. 115th St.
ing from magic shows and theatre to music, mime
are comedians and the kids are from the audience.
CENTRAL PARK PROGRAMS-Belvedere Castle:Central
and storytelling. And don't miss the special mario-
Live every Saturday at 3. Marc Weiner's Kids
Park Learning Center, 79th St. south of the Great
nette stage. Also meet Gor-don, the talking robot,
Show. Comedian Marc Weiner from Saturday Night
Lawn. 8/25 at 1, for 5-11-year-olds and their families:
program a rock video, find out if you can recognize
Live invites you to join the fun in Weinerville, a zany
Cool Shades and Fan. Cool off while making your
your own voice. AT&T, at 56th St. and Madison
town straight from his imagination. Audience partici-
own fans and shade-makers with the chic Sheik of
Ave. (605-5555; for groups, 605-5140); open 10
pation. Live every Sunday at 3. Caroline's at the Sea-
Central Park. 8/26 at 2: Butterflies and Dragons.
a.m.-6 daily except Mon. and holidays; Tue. to 9.
port, 89 South Street, Pier 17. (233-4900). $10 cover
Explore the colorful habitat of the Park's most delicate
Free.
and $5 food/beverage minimum.
creatures. Free; reserve. The Dairy: 64th St.,
BROOKLYN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM-8/24 at 6:30: Pinoc-
RECREATIONAL MOBILES will be making two stops at
mid-park (397-3165): 8/25 at 2 and 3: Tales of Won-
chio. A spectacular marionette puppet version of an
Union Square on 8/22, 1-3, where kids can enjoy arts
der. Story teller Cheryl Byron will enchant young lis-
old classic. Exhibits: The Oldest Kid on the Block-
and crafts, and on 8/23, 10 a.m.-noon, when free
teners with her magical tales, accompanied by drums,
Each area of the exhibit reflects on a historic period in
pairs of skates will be given to kids of all ages and
and other musical instruments, for ages 5-11. Free;
the development of the museum, which is celebrating
sizes. Look for them at 17th St. and Broadway, in
reserve.
its 90th year. The Mystery of Things-Youngsters
Union Square Park.
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN STATUE-Enjoy a story ev-
are invited to use their five senses to unlock the mys-
ery Sat. at 11 a.m. 8/18: King Thrushbeak; Old
tery of objects. Early Learners Area-Children 5
KIDS WHO CAN-A new project put together by the
Union Square Community Coalition to help un-
Rinkrank. 72nd St. off Fifth Ave., in Central Park
and under can use building blocks, an adventure plat-
trained, artistic Manhattan kids from low-income and
(397-3165). Free.
form, and participate in different activities. 145
ethnically diverse backgrounds get a better start in
SOUTH STREET SEAPORT MUSEUM-8/26 at 2: Toy
Brooklyn Ave. (718-735-4400). Hours: Daily except
Boats. Make your own unsinkable ship
Tue. 2-5; weekends and holidays 10 a.m.-5. $2.
life. Evaluators from various professional companies
Ship
will be on hand to select certain youngsters for schol-
Shapes. Join a drawing workshop aboard the Peking.
STATEN ISLAND CHILDREN'S MUSEUM-Activities are
arships. 8/22 at noon: Teen Parents perform song and
Explore the boat finding shapes and ideas for your
planned for all ages during the month of Aug. Every
dance. 8/25 at noon: the Ballet de Puerto Rico. The
own drawings. Every Thur. at 3 in Aug., for ages
Wed. and Fri.: Story Picnics for pre-schoolers, must
Pavilion at the north end of Union Square Park, 17th
4-8. Exhibit: New York Trades: How Things
take your own lunch; every Thurs.: Summer Bug
St. and Broadway. For information: 533-2838.
Were Made is designed to help children ages 6-12 un-
Club; every Fri.: Take a ride on the Magic Carpet,
derstand the aspects of hand-production; the history
which introduces kids to the cultures of other coun-
LINCOLN CENTER OUT-OF-DOORS FESTIVAL-Bread
and craftsmanship, the tools and skills required to
tries. Call for times, prices, and other workshops.
and Puppet Theatre, America's oldest street-theater
hand-make a product. Children can even meet the
Snug Harbor, 1000 Richmond Terr. (718-273-2060).
group: 8/23, 8/24 at 5:30. Fountain Plaza, 65th St. and
"workers" and participate in some of the activities.
Tues.-Sun. 11 a.m.-5. $2.
Amsterdam Ave. Free.
Daily, 10-5; through Aug. 215 Water St.; tickets at
NEW YORK HALL OF SCIENCE-Exhibits: aMAZEing. A
RIVERSIDE TALES STORYTELLING FESTIVAL-Rain or
Visitors' Center, 14 Fulton St. (669-9400). $3; adults
giant walk-through maze is part of this exhibit exam-
shine, children are invited to hear stories every Sun.
$6; students $4.
ining patterns and puzzles in nature and architecture;
through 9/2 at noon. Riverside Boat Basin Rotunda,
CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MANHATTAN-August is Mu-
through 8/26. Seeing the Light, a journey into the
near 79th St. and the park entrance. Free.
sic Month at the Museum. 8/25 at 1: Hear original
world of color and light. Feedback, a look at the
music composed by children in the museum's "Cre-
principles and effects of self-sensing machines. Realm
TENNIS LESSONS-Youths ages 8-18 will be given free
lessons in August. Tues. and Thurs., 1-4. Racquets
ative Music Series," for ages 5 and up. 8/26 at 1 and
of the Atom, an explanation of the public quantum
and balls provided. Central Park Tennis Courts, 93rd
2:15: Karen and Tommy in Concert. Discover
theory. Structures, a look at how natural forces sup-
St. and Central Park West (718-699-4224). Register at
contemporary music from "doo-wop" to rap with
port structures. Biology, the invisible world up close.
the Park.
Nickelodeon's Karen and Tommy. Exhibits: Braina-
Science Access Center, a multimedia library for all
tarium-Featuring a multimedia show on how the
ages. Radio Station WB2JSM, a real ham radio sta-
HAPPENING-Art exhibit by children in Jewish schools
brain works; Magical Patterns-Fantasy-oriented
tion broadcasting every weekend from the Hall of
on the theme "My Family." Sun.-Thurs, 11 a.m.4;
interactive exhibits of patterns of nature, art, and sci-
Science. 47-01 111th St., Flushing Meadow Corona
through October. Board of Jewish Education of
ence.; Early Childhood Center and Pattern Maker
Park (718-699-0005). Wed.-Sun., 10 a.m.-5.
Greater New York, 426 W. 58th St. (245-8200). Free.
Workshop for toddlers and pre-schoolers; hands-on
PAPAGENO PUPPET THEATRE-Puff the Magic Drag-
Media Center and television studio where children
BOOKS
on, Sat. and Sun. at noon and 2 Jewel Box Pup-
produce their own newscasts, videos, and film; art
pet Theatre presents Cinderella, a musical with mar-
and nature workshops. The Tisch Building, 212 W.
THE ADVENTURES OF TAXI DOG, by Debra and Sal Bar-
ionette and rod puppets. Sat. and Sun. at 1; both
83rd St. between Broadway and Amsterdam Ave.
racca; illustrated by Mark Buehner. Pre-school-Grade
through the end of Aug. 173 W. 81st St. (874-3297).
(721-1234). Sat., Sun., 10 a.m.-5; Tues.-Fri., 1-5;
1. Dial, $12.95.
closed Mon. $4.
$5 per show; reserve.
CRACKLE CREEK, by Mary Elise Monsell; illustrated by
MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK-Exhibit: Family
SATURDAY SCREENINGS: STORYBOOK PLAYHOUSE-
Kathleen Garry McCord. Grades 1-3. Atheneum,
Treasures: Toys and Their Tales. Toys from the
$12.95.
8/25 at 12:30 for ages 3-10: Danger Bay: "Harry's
Museum's permanent collection are shown against a
Ark"; Fraggle Rock: "Beginnings." Museum of
backdrop of the Toy Gallery; through 10/90. Fifth
THE GREAT ZOO HUNT, by Pippa Unwin. Kindergarten-
Broadcasting, 1 E. 53rd St. (752-7684). Museum
Ave. at 103rd St. (534-1034). Hours: Tues.-Sat., 10
Grade 4. Doubleday, $12.95.
admission.
a.m.-5; Sun. and holidays, 1-5. $1; adults $3.
THE WRONG WAY HOME, by Liza Fosburgh. Grades 6-8.
NEW YORK AQUARIUM PROGRAMS-8/25 at 11:30 a.m.:
Bantam, $14.95.
TRANSIT MUSEUM-Test your subway skills while
Robaire will entertain with magic, clowning, bal-
learning about the world's most complex mass trans-
COMPILED BY CELIA MCGEE
loons, stories and more. 8/26 at 11:30 a.m.: Stories
portation system in the actual 1930's subway station
with Abike Jo'tayo. Tales for all ages, many linking
that houses the museum. Featuring eighty years of
VIDEOS
the African and American experiences with love and
transit artifacts, vintage subway cars, trolley cars and
humor. West 8th St.and Surf Ave. (718-265-3474) in
buses. Exhibit: The D-Train Project. A multi-me-
ALL DOGS GO TO HEAVEN-Release date 8/29. MGM;
Coney Island, Brooklyn. $2; adults $4.75.
dia journey through the imagination on the D-Train.
$19.95.
AUGUST 27, 1990/NEW YORK
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NIGHTLIFE
DIRECTORY
COMPILED BY GILLIAN DUFFY
KEY TO ABBREVIATIONS
HORS D'OEUVRERIE-1 World Trade Center (938-
"Sweetwater's Goes Latin" with dancing to different
1111). Jazz, dancing, international hors d'oeuvres, and
Latin orchestras from 8.
AE, DC, MC, V.
AE
American Express
the world's greatest view. The Judd Woldin Trio,
TRAMPS-45 W. 21st St. (727-7788). 8/24, 25: Nathan
CB
Carte Blanche
Tue.-Sat. from 7:30-12:30 a.m., in addition, from
& The Zydeco Cha Chas. 8/27: "Blue Mondays"
DC
Diners Club
4-9, Jay D'Amico plays the piano, and after 9:30,
with The Mark Pender Band.
AE, MC, V.
Chuck Folds alternates with the Trio. The Cabot/
MC
MasterCard
VILLAGE GATE-Bleecker and Thompson Sts. (475-
Scott Trio takes over Sun. from 4-9, and Mon.
5120). Further Mo,' the New Orleans musical by Ver-
V
Visa
7:30-12:30 a.m.
AE, DC, MC, V.
nel Bagneris, starring Vernel Bagneris, Topsy Chap-
Please check hours and talent in advance. Many places
J'S-2581 Broadway, bet. 97th-98th Sts., 2nd floor
man, Sandra Reaves-Phillips, James "Red" Wilcher,
are forced to make changes at short notice.
(666-3600). 8/22: Virg Dzurinko Quartet. 8/23: Mike
Frozine Thomas and The New Orleans Blue Seren-
Renzi Quartet featuring Annette Sanders. 8/24: Thos
caders. Shows Tue.-Fri. at 8, Sat. at 6 and 9, Sun. at 3
POP/JAZZ
Shipley Quartet. 8/25: Judy Barnett Quartet. Closed
and 7. 8/27: 15th New York Salsa Festival featuring El
8/26-9/5.
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
Gran Combo, Ray Barretto and his orchestra with
ANGRY SQUIRE-216 Seventh Ave., bet. 22nd-23rd
KNICKERBOCKER BAR & GRILL-33 University Pl.
guest soloist Chico Freeman. Terrace: Every Mon.,
Sts. (242-9066). 8/22: Contrapunedis. 8/23: Mark
(228-8490). Atmospheric room with jazz from 10.
Raphael D'Lugoff piano duo. Thru 9/2 (except
Patterson Group. 8/24: Ross Patterson. 8/25: Lenore
8/22-25, 28-9/1: Pianist Vladimir Shafranov with
Mon.): Junior Mance and Marty Rivera.
AE, MC, V.
Von Stein with Gregg Brandy, and Mark Dresser.
Gene Bertoncini on guitar. 8/26, 27: Pianist Nat
8/26: First Take. 8/27: Jam session. 8/28: Monky Ko-
Jones.
AE, MC, V.
VILLAGE VANGUARD-178 Seventh Ave. So. (255-
bayashie and J.J.M.
AE, CB, DC.
4037). Through 8/26: Pharoah Sanders Quartet. 8/27:
KNITTING FACTORY-47 E. Houston St. (219-3055).
BIRDLAND-2745 Broadway, at 105th St. (749-2228).
The Mel Lewis 17-piece Jazz Orchestra. 8/28-9/2:
8/22: Big John Patton Sextet. 8/23: Faith & The Deed.
Buster Williams Quintet.
No credit cards.
Restaurant with jazz. 8/22: Rodney Jones with Vic Ju-
8/24: Bosho & Tiny Lights. 8/25: Arto Lindsay, Mel-
ris and Jack Wilkins. 8/23: Mark Morganelli and The
vin Gibbs, Dougie Bowne. 8/26: Crankow Youth
VISIONES-125 Macdougal St. (673-5576). 8/22: Laura
Jazz Forum All-Stars. 8/24, 25: Lew Tabackin Quar-
Ensemble; 3rd Person with Tom Cora, Samm Ben-
Dreyer Quintet. 8/23: Chris Pasin Quintet with Jed
tet. 8/26: Andrew Beals Quintet. 8/27: David Heck-
nett & Don Byron. 8/27: Fresh Mondays: Bill Pop &
Levy. 8/27: Greg Bandy and the Unsung Heroes.
endorn Quintet. 8/28: Ted Rosenthal Quartet. Sets
The Tapes.
No credit cards.
Shows at 9 and 11, with late shows Fri. and Sat. at 1
Sun.-Thu. at 9 and 11, Fri.-Sat. at 9, 10:30 and mid-
a.m.
AE, MC.
night.
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
MANNY'S CAR WASH-1558 Third Ave., bet.
WONDERLAND-519 Second Ave., at 29th St. (213-
87th-88th Sts. (369-2583). Chicago style blues bar.
BLUE NOTE-131 W. 3rd St. (475-8592). Through 8/26:
8/22, 23: Mark The Harper; Eddie "The Chief"
5098). 8/22: Andy Bey and Ken Mastelli. 8/23-25:
George Shearing Duo featuring Neil Swainson with
Dakota Staton. 8/26: Tex Allen Weekly jam session.
Clearwater. 8/24, 25: Sonny Hudson and the Noctur-
guest Grady Tate plus Joe Pass. 8/27: Marty Ehrlich.
8/28, 29: Andrew Cheshire. Sets Wed.-Thu. at 9 and
nals. 8/26: Stan's Blues Jam featuring Stan Bronstein.
8/28-9/2: Dizzy Gillespie. Shows Tue.-Sun. at 9 and
8/27: Bill Sims and the Cold Blooded Blues Band.
11, Fri.-Sat. at 9, 11 and 1 a.m.
AE, MC, V.
11:30, Mon. at 9, 11, and 1.
AE.
8/28: The Holmes Brothers. Shows from 9:15. AE.
ZINNO-126 W. 13th St. (924-5182). Italian restaurant
BONDINI-62 W. Ninth St. (777-0670). Italian restau-
with music nightly from 8. 8/22, 23: Pianist Jane Jar-
rant with jazz singer-pianist Dennis Yerry every
MICHAEL'S PUB-211 E. 55th St. (758-2272). Through
vis with Milt Hinton on bass. 8/24, 25: Jane Jarvis
Wed.-Sat. from 7-11.
AE, DC, MC, V.
8/24, 8/28-9/8: Barbara Lea Remembers Lee Wiley's
with Lynn Seaton on bass. 8/27-9/1: Pianist James
Manhattan, Tue.-Sat. at 9:15 and 11:15. Woody Allen
BRADLEY'S-70 University Pl., at 11th St. (228-6440).
Williams with Bob Cranshaw on bass. AE, MC, V.
holds forth every Mon. Closed Sun.
Through 8/26: Pianist Kirk Lightsey and Don Pate on
AE, DC, MC, V.
COUNTRY/WESTERN
bass. 8/27-9/1: Pianist Kenny Barron with Ben Riley
on drums, bassist Rufus Reid joins them Mon.-Thu.
M.K.-204 Fifth Ave., at 25th St. (779-1340). 8/25: Jer-
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
ry Gonzalez and the Fort Apache Band.
LONE STAR ROADHOUSE-240 W. 52nd St. (245-2950).
AE, DC, MC, V.
8/22: The Last Picture Show; Eddie Cleefield and the
CLUB PARADISE-15 Waverly Place, bet. Greene and
Mercer Sts. (533-3048). Tropical club featuring Bra-
RED BLAZER T00-349 W. 46th St. (262-3112). Wed.:
Red Sharks. 8/23: Evan Johns and the H Bombers;
The Incredible Casuals. 8/25: Roomful of Blues. 8/27:
zilian, Caribbean and African music. 8/24: Spirit En-
Bill & George Simon Swing Group followed by Stan
Vince Gill.
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
semble. 8/25: Persians in Paradise. Shows at 10:30 and
Rubin Big Band. Thu.: Sonny Daniels and his Big
midnight, late show at 1:30 a.m. on Sat.
Band. Fri.: Lew Anderson Big Band followed by
COMEDY/MAGIC
AE, DC, MC, V.
Rick Hardeman's Basin Street Six featuring Cathy
Chamberlian. Sat.: The Bob Cantwell Band. Sun.:
CONDON'S-117 E. 15th St. (254-0960). Cozy restau-
Samulano Trio with Corky D. Mon. and Tue.: Vince
CAROLINE'S AT THE SEAPORT-89 South St., Pier 17
rant with outdoor garden. Through 8/26: Lou Don-
Giordano and the Nighthawks Big Band.
(233-4900). 8/22-26: Comedian Franklin Ajaye. 8/27:
aldson Quartet. 8/28-9/2: Clifford Jordan Quintet.
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
The Higgins Boys and Gruber. Shows Sun.-Thu. at
Shows at 10 and midnight, extra shows Mon. at 8,
8, Fri. at 8 and 10:30, Sat. at 9 and 11:30. Every Sat. at
Fri. and Sat. at 2 a.m.
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
THE ROCK 'N ROLL CAFE-149 Bleecker St., bet.
7: All Star Comedy Showcase.
AE, MC, V.
DELTA 88-332 Eighth Ave., bet. 25th-26th Sts. (924-
Thompson and LaGuardia. (677-7630). 8/22: The
Lorraine LaRocca Band. 8/23: The Memphis Pil-
CATCH A RISING STAR-1487 First Ave. (794-1906).
3499). 8/22: Joan Osborne. 8/23: Loup Garou. 8/24:
Jerry Jemmott. 8/25: Mamou. 8/27: Lavender Light.
grims. 8/24: The Prowlers; Elevator Men. 8/25: Ma-
Continuous entertainment by comics and singers,
AE, MC, V.
zarin. 8/26: Comedy with Jimi Celeste; Johnny Rev
seven nights a week. Every Mon., The Mr. Elk and
8/28: Skip Brevis and the Stingers.
and the Jones. 8/27: George Worthmore and the Di-
Mr. Seal variety show. Shows Sun.-Thu. at 9, Fri. at
FAT TUESDAY'S-190 Third Ave. (533-7902). Through
8:30 and 11, Sat. at 7:30, 10 and 12:30 a.m.
AE.
vebombers. 8/28: Benny and the Bashers.
8/26: Horace Silver Quintet. 8/27: Les Paul Trio.
AE, MC, V.
COMIC STRIP-1568 Second Ave., bet. 81st-82nd St.
8/28-9/2: The Ron Carter Nonet. Tue.- at 8 and
(861-9386). Showcase for stand-up comics.
10, with an extra showFri. and Sat. at midnight.
SINGALONG-17 W. 19th St. (206-8660). Join in the fun
Sun.-Thu. the fun starts at 9, Fri.-Sat. at 9 and 11.
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
and sing along at this Japanese karaoke style club, ev-
AE, MC, V.
ery Tue.-Wed. from 5-1 a.m., Thu. to 2 a.m., Fri. to
FORTUNE GARDEN PAVILION-209 E. 49th St. (753-
4 a.m. and Sat. from 7-4 a.m. AE, DC, MC, V.
DANGERFIELD'S-1118 First Ave. (593-1650). Through
0101). Chinese restaurant with jazz. 8/22, 23: Pianist
8/26: Comedians Harry Friedman, Ron Gallop, Al
Dave McKenna. 8/24-27: Pianist Ted Rosenthal with
SWEET BASIL-88 Seventh Ave. So. (242-1785).
Romero, Nancy Redman, Sam Greenfield, Eddie
Steve LaSpina on bass. 8/28-9/2: Guitar duo with
Through 8/26: Abdullah Ibrahim Dollar Brand with
Feldman, Scott Bruce, and Danny 8/27-9/2:
Mundell Lowe and Bucky Pizzarelli. Sets Mon.-Sat.
Ekaya. 8/27: The music of Gil Evans played by the
Rich Francese, Scott Bruce, Dany Curtis, Nancy
at 8, 9:45 and 11, Sun. at 7, 8:45 and 10. Downstairs:
Monday Night Orchestra. 8/28-9/2: Nat Adderly
Redman, Al Romero, and Barry Weinbraub.
Every Tue.-Wed.: Singer-pianist Buddy Barnes.
Sextet featuring Sonny Fortune, Vince Herring, Rob
Sun.-Thu. at 8:45, Fri. at 9 and 11:30, Sat. at 8, 10:30,
Thu.: Cynthia Sayer Trio. 8/24, 25: Singer-pianist
Bargad, Walter Booker, and Jimmy Cobb.
and 12:30 a.m.
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
Tommy Furtado.
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
AE, MC, V.
IMPROVISATION-358 W. 44th St. (765-8268). Comics
GREENE STREET CAFE-101 Greene St. (925-2415).
SWEETWATER'S-170 Amsterdam Ave., at 68th St.
and singers seven nights a week, with regulars Mark
Multi-level floors for entertainment. 8/22, 27: Pete
(873-4100). A next-to-Lincoln-Center eatery with ex-
Cohen, Joe Mulligan, Mike King and Jerry Diner,
Malinverni. 8/23-25: Lynne Arriale Duo. 8/28: Lynne
cellent entertainment. 8/24, 25: Roy Ayers. Shows
Sun.-Thu. from 9, Fri. at 9 and midnight, Sat. at 8,
Arriale.
AE, MC, V.
Fri.-Sat. at 9 and 11. Every Sun. and Wed.
10:30, and 12:40 a.m.
AE.
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CASTAWAY?
MONKEY BAR-60 E. 54th St., in the Elysee Hotel
THE RAINBOW R00M-65th Floor, RCA Building, 30
(753-1066). Mon.-Sat.from 5:30-7:30: Pianist Johnny
Rockefeller Plaza. (632-5000). Dine and dance to
JEAN
Andrews. Every Fri. and Sat., two shows, first show
the Rainbow Room Dance Band, the Radio City Mu-
at 9:30, featuring Mel Martin and Ellen Kaye. Closed
sic Hall Rockettes join them every Tue.-Sat. at 9:15
Sun.
Call
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
and 11:15. Mauricio Smith and Friends alternate with
MOSTLY MAGIC-55 Carmine St. (924-1472). Night-
the Band. Rainbow & Stars: Elegant cabaret room
club-theater-restaurant featuring magic and comedy.
with a spectacular view. Through 9/1: Singer-actress
8/22: Comedy magician Imam and singer Pamela
Barbara McNair. Shows Tue.-Sat. at 9 and 11:15.
Smith. 8/23: Magician Torkova and musical enter-
AE.
tainer Guy Davis. 8/24, 25: Comedy magician Prof.
STEVE McGRAW'S-158 W. 72nd St. (595-7400) A new
Baxter and stand-up comic Keith Thomas. Shows
NEW YORK
cabaret theatre supper club. "The Living Experi-
Tue.-Thu. at 9, Fri.-Sat. at 9 and 11. AE, MC, V.
ment," starring Tommy Koenig, every Mon. at 8.
Forever Plaid, Tue.-Fri. at 8, Sat. at 7:30 and 10:30 and
DANCING
Sun. at 3 and 7:30.
AE, DC, MC, V.
WEST END GATE-2911 Broadway (662-8830). 8/22-25
for
RAPHY
CAFE SOCIETY-915 Broadway at 21st St. (529-8282)
at 8: Two one-act plays Sex Lives of Superheroes, by
Dine and dance every Mon. and Tue. to Stan Bron-
Stephen Gregg directed by Laura Fitzpatrick featuring
stein and his Swing Fever Orchestra, Wed. is Jazz
Matthew Arkin, Margie Hanssens and Anne Hem-
INFORMATION
Night, and D.J. takes over on Thu.-Sat. from 9.
mett. Wintershock by Melissa Gibson featuring Milton
AE, DC, MC, V.
Elliott and Nanette Werness.
AE, MC, V.
CHEVY'S-27 W. 20th St. (924-0205). Manhattan's hot-
test fifties and sixties rock-and-roll dance club and
HOTEL ROOMS
For the latest on restaurant
diner. Open Tue.-Wed. 5-1 a.m., Thu. to 3 a.m., Fri.
5-4 a.m., Sat. 9-4 a.m.
AE, MC, V.
ALGONQUIN-59 W. 44th St. (840-6800). Rose Room:
HIDEAWAY-32 W. 37th St. (947-8940). Dining and
Singer-pianist Buck Buchholz plays every Tue.-Sat.
cheek-to-cheek dancing, Mon.-Thu. 7-midnight,
from 5-8.
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
trends, nightspots,
Fri.-Sat. from 8.
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
BEEKMAN TOWER-3 Mitchell Place, at 49th St. and
REGINE'S-502 Park Ave., at 59th St. (826-0990).
First Ave. (355-7300). Top of the Tower: Piano
Lively French disco every Tue.-Sat. from 10-4 a.m.
lounge with spectacular panoramic views of Manhat-
Broadway and Off
Restaurant closed through 9/10.
tan. Singer-pianist Bill Zeffiro plays every Tue.-Sat.
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
from 9:30.
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
CARLYLE-Madison Ave. and 76th St. (744-1600).
Broadway shows, concerts,
ROMA DI NOTTE-137 E. 55th St. (832-1128). Italian res-
taurant with romantic dining caves featuring the
Cafe Carlyle: Closed for summer. Bemelmans
Quartetto Romano with singer Rolando, Mon.-Thu.
Bar: Singer-pianist-songwriter Kurt Wieting, Mon.-
from 7:30-1 a.m., Fri.-Sat. from 8-1 a.m.
Fri. from 9:30-1 a.m.
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
sporting events, and more,
AE, CB, DC.
HILTON-111 West 53rd St. (265-1600). Grill 53:
ROSELAND-239 W. 52nd St. (247-0200). The world-
8/22-9/2: Curtis Boyd Trio with Don Gladstone on
turn to New York's
famous ballroom features a 700-seat restaurant-bar,
bass and Vinnie Ruggieri on piano. Shows Wed.-
and is open for dancing Thu.-Sun. from 2:30. 8/25:
Sun. at 7:30, 9 and 10:30.
"Yvonne" and "2 In A Room."
AE, V.
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
Information Services
THE SAVOY GRILL-131 E. 54th St. (593-8800). Dine,
PARKER MERIDIEN-118 W. 57th St. (245-5000). Le
dance or just listen to jazz at this new supper club.
Bar Montparnasse: Jazz-pianist Buddy Montgom-
Through 8/31: Bobby Cole Trio, Tue.-Thu. 9-1:30
ery, Tue.- Sat. 5-9, followed by Larry Vuckovich
Department.
a.m., Fri.-Sat. to 2:30 a.m. AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
from 9-1 a.m.
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
S.O.B.'S-204 Varick St. (243-4940). A club-restau-
PLAZA-Fifth Ave. at 59th St. (759-3000). Oak
rant-bar featuring the live music of Brazil, Africa, and
Room: Michael Roberts Tue.-Sat. Edwardian
the Caribbean. 8/22, 23: Blaze. 8/24: Tabou Combo
Room: Pianist-composer Earl Rose performs from
Super Stars. 8/25: Pe De Boi. 8/28: Bobby Sanabria.
Bach to Berlin to Blues, Tue.-Thu. 7-11. Palm
To get information about
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
Court: Dinner dancing to the music of the Eddie
Tone Dance Band, every Wed.-Sat. from 7:30-mid-
CABARET
night.
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
any articles or reviews
THE BALLROOM-253 W. 28th St. (244-3005). Through
PIANO ROOMS
9/9: Illusionist Jeff McBride, Tue.-Thu. at 9, Fri.-Sat.
that have appeared in
at 9 and 11, Sun. at 3.
AE, MC, V.
THE CLUBROOM AT SANDOMENICO-240 Central Park
BLUE ANGEL-323 W. 44th St. (262-3333). New York's
South (265-5959). Romantic piano room with jazz
newest nightclub in the theatre district featuring Skin
singer/pianist Ronny Whyte, through 9/1. Open
New York, just call
Tight, a steamy spectacular choreographed and direct-
Tue.- Sat. from 9-1 a.m. AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
ed by Tony Stevens. Shows Tue.-Sun. at 9 and 11:30,
COLUMBUS ON BROADWAY-224 W. 49th St. (977-
followed by dancing till 4 a.m.
9000). American bistro with composer-conductor-
212-880-0755.
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
singer-pianist Joel Silberman at the piano every Tue.-
DUPLEX-61 Christopher St. (255-5438). Cabaret pi-
Sat. at 9:15 and 11:15.
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
ano bar. 8/22: The Diary of Adam & Eve from the
DON'T TELL MAMA-343 W. 46th St. (757-0788). 8/22:
Broadway musical The Apple Tree; Phoebe Legere.
Josselyne Herman. 8/23: Camie. 8/24: Regina Welsh;
8/23: Jan Findlay; Lori Jean. 8/24: Lisa Hall; The Stu-
Linda Hill. 8/25: Don't Cry Out Loud, revue of Peter
Rediscover the world's
pid Show. 8/25: Naomi Johnson; Lisa Hall. 8/26: Bill
Allen songs. 8/26: Joshua; A Night Out With The
Mazza; Lisa Hall. 8/27: Some Assembly Required.
Girls, musical revue. 8/27: A Night Out With The
8/28: Speakeasy; Paint the White House Pink featuring
Girls; Starting Her, Starting Off, musical revue.
greatest city by calling
Marge-n-Marj.
No credit cards.
8/28: Greg Purnhagen; Deborah Karpel. Shows at 8
EIGHTY EIGHT'S-228 W. 10th St. (924-0088). 8/22:
and 10.
No credit cards.
Claiborne Cary; Asque. 8/23: Cindy Benson; Gary
ELEONORA'S-117 W. 58th St. (765-1427). Elegant Ital-
the Information Services
Wright. 8/24: Peggy Herman; Lina Koutrakos. 8/25:
ian restaurant. Singer/pianist The Lady Effie Mon.-
Connie Pachl; Beverly Hills. 8/26: Anita Hollander;
Fri. from 7. A medley of pianists play every Sat. from
David & Maryanne. 8/27: Amy Dondy; Charles Pis-
6.
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
Department, Monday-
tone. 8/28: Eric Ashley; Matthew Ryan.
MRS. J'S SACRED COW-228 W. 72nd St. (873-4067).
No credit cards.
Restaurant-piano bar with John Boswell alternating
JAN WALLMAN'S-49 W. 44th St. (764-8930). Restau-
with Mark Nadler, Mon.-Sat. from 8.
Friday, 10:30 A.M. to
rant-cabaret. 8/22: Gregg Caldrone with pianist
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
Christain Daisey. 8/23: Helene Blue with pianist
SIGN OF THE DOVE-1110 Third Ave., at 65th St. (861-
Christopher Denny. 8/24: Stephen Nelson with The
8080). "Light Jazz" featuring pianist Ernest McCarty
4:30 P.M.
OPI
Gregory Toroian Duo.
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
with Alex Gressel on bass every Tue.-Sat. from 9-1
THE NILE-327 W. 44th St. (262-1111). Ancient Egyp-
a.m. A medley of pianists play Tue.-Sat. 5-9, Sun.-
tian style nightclub featuring exotic Middle Eastern
Mon. from 5-1 a.m.
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
belly dancers, a whirling dervish, singers and the Nile
STELLA DEL MARE-346 Lexington Ave. bet.
Band. Shows nightly at 9:15 followed by continuous
39th-40th Sts. (687-4425). Singer-pianist Bob She-
entertainment from 10:30-4 a.m.
phard performs, Thu.-Fri. from 6-11.
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
AE, CB, DC, MC, V.
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Nocturnal Procession.
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Featuring the Chester
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Tchaikovsky: Piano Cto.
No. 2.
Beethoven: Sym. No. 7
String Quartet. Weigl:
Percussion.
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Qt. No. 5 in G; Arensky:
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Jr.: Radetzky March, Op.
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Beethoven: String Qt.
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Rhapsody for Piano and
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228; Donizetti: La
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Symphony. Herbert
Favorita.
Tue., Aug. 28
Chopin: Sonata No. 3,
5:00/WNCN-Bach:
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Brahms: Gesang der
Polonaise in A, Op. 40,
the South," Ov., Op. 50.
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20th Century Russian
Beethoven: Sym. No. 1
6:00/WNCN-Berlioz:
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7:00/WNCN-Bach:
Composers."
in C, Op. 21; Cimarosa:
WQXR-AM/FM-
Damnation of Faust, Op.
Rachmaninoff:
Donizetti: Cto. for
Cto. for Violin in E.
Qt. No. in G.
24.
English Horn and Orch.
Sat., Aug. 25
Symphonic Dances, Op.
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Sonata for Violin and
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El Salón México.
10:00 a.m./WNCN-
Piano in E-flat;
Passacaglia from Peter
Piano in D, Op. 25, No.
Gottschalk: Grand
Devienne: Cto. for Flute
Abduction from the Seraglio.
Grimes.
6.
7:00/WNCN-Dvorak:
Fantasia Triumfal:
No. 7 in e.
3:00/WNCN-R.
WNYC-Harrison: Suite
Qt. in F, Op. 96,
Variations on the Brazilian
8:04/WQXR-AM/FM-
8:04/WQXR-AM/FM-
Strauss: Don Juan, Op.
for Clarinet, Piano, and
"American."
National Anthem.
"Sunday Night Opera
The Cleveland Orchestra.
20.
Small Orch.; Ward: Sym.
House.' Donizetti: Lucia
8:00/WNCN-
No. 4.
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WQXR-AM/FM-
Christoph von Dohnanyi,
di Lammermoor (Callas, de
3:04/WQXR-AM/FM-
WQXR-AM/FM-
C.
Respighi: The Pines of
conductor. Dvorak:
Stefano, Gobbi), Orch. of
Prokofiev: Lieutenant
Rome; Smetana: From My
"Slavonic Dances," Op.
the Maggio Musicale of
Kije Suite; Naudot: Flute
Smetana: From
9:00/WNCN-"The
Homeland; Telemann:
46; Tchaikovsky: Sym.
"Bohemia's Meadows and
Florence/Serafin.
Cto. in G, Op. 17.
Juilliard Concerts."
Cto. in D for Two Flutes,
No. 4 in f.
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Forests From My
Country"; Bach: Sinfonia
WNYC-"Opera Box."
Lute, Strings and Basso
9:00/WNCN-Paganini:
Piano Qnt. in A, Op. 114.
Four Seasons: "Autumn,"
Continuo.
in D, Op. 18.
Cto. for Violin No. 1 in
Op. 8, No. 3.
5:00/WNCN-Chopin:
Fri., Aug. 24
11:00 a.m./WNCN-
D, Op. 6.
Mon., Aug. 27
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Scherzo No. 2 in b-flat,
Mozart: Cto. for Flute
Tchaikovsky:
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"Variations on a Theme";
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WQXR-AM/FM-
Schnabel on CD 4:
Mendelssohn: String
Schroter: Piano Cto. No.
6; Grieg: Cello Sonata,
Schumann: Ov., Scherzo
10:00 a.m./WNCN-
Mozart: Piano Cto. No.
Sym. No. 10 in b.
3 in C; Tchaikovsky:
Op. 36.
and Finale, Op. 52;
"Classic Guitar."
3; Beethoven: Sonata in
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Capriccio Italien.
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Turina: Danzas
Giuliani: Grand Sonata
a.
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Piano Sonata, Op. 1;
Fantasticas; Corelli: Trio
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"Uranus."
Cto. for Three Violins and
Barber: Violin Cto.;
Sonati in A, Op. 1, No. 3.
Op. 85.
Piano No. 2 in A.
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Strings in F.
Brahms: Qt. in c, Op.
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Copland: El Salón
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51, No. 1.
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Qnt. in E-flat.
México; Purcell: The Old
Cto. Grosso in A, Op. 6,
3:04/WQXR-AM/FM-
Harpsichords in d.
da Rimini, Op. 32;
Bachelor, Suite.
No. 11.
Bruch: Violin Cto. No. 1
Beethoven: Piano Sonata
3:04/WQXR-AM/FM-
WQXR-AM/FM-
Bach: Brandenburg Cto.
6:00/WNCN-A.
7:04/WQXR-AM/FM-
in g; C. Stamitz: Partita
Wagner: "Dance of the
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Scarlatti: Cto. for
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Boccherini: Qnt. No. 6
Apprentices" and
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Introduction and Allegro.
Recorder in a.
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Qt., Op. 76, No. 2;
Meistersingers" from Die
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Strings; Mendelssohn:
Adagio for Strings.
Beethoven: Romance for
Serenade and Allegro
Beethoven: "King
Meistersinger, Hovhaness:
WQXR-AM/FM-
Violin No. 2 in F, Op. 50.
WNYC-Strauss: Horn
Giojoso in b.
Stephen" Ov., Op. 117.
The Mysterious Mountain;
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Cto. No. 1; Beethoven:
7:04/WQXR-AM/FM-
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Music; Piston: The
for Oboe d'amore, Viola
Incredible Flutist, Suite.
Sym. No. 6.
Korngold: "Schauspiel"
Caramoor Festival
Nobles et Sentimentales;
Ov.; Beethoven: Qt.
Concerts."
Mahler: Sym. No. 7.
and Continuo; Haydn:
12:00/WNCN-Bruch:
WQXR-AM/FM-
No. 11 in f, Op. 95.
9:00/WNCN-
WQXR-AM/FM-
Sym. No. 36 in E-flat,
Cto. for Violin No. 1 in g,
Neruda: Trumpet Cto. in
Suppe: Fantinitza, Ov.
Op. 26.
E-flat; Mozart: Sym. No.
8:00/WNCN-Brahms:
Tchaikovsky: Cto. for
Mozart: Sym. No. 27 in
24 in B-flat.
Sonata for Violin and
Piano No. 1 in b-flat, Op.
G; Debussy: Prelude to the
1:00/WNCN-Walton:
12:04/WQXR-
Piano No. 3 in d, Op.
23.
Afternoon of a Faun.
Henry V Suite.
AM/FM-Liszt: Les
5:00/WQXR-AM/FM-
108.
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5:00/WNCN-
1:30/WQXR-AM/FM-
Preludes; Bach: Passacaglia
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Music Society of Lincoln
Mussorgsky: Night on
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and Fugue in C.
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Orch.; Bonporti: Cto.
Beethoven: Cto. for
Center." Haydn: String
Bald Mountain.
1:00/WNCN-Chicago
No. 6 in F.
Piano No. 5 in E-flat, Op.
Qt. in G, Op. 4, No. 1;
WQXR-AM/FM-
Lohengrin (Domingo,
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73, "Emperor."
Brahms: Violin Sonata in
Gretry: Le Magnifique,
Norman, Randova,
WNCN-Gould:
Erich Leinsdorf,
Nimsgern, Sotin, Fischer-
conductor. Debussy:
American Salute.
WNYC-"Nakamichi
G, Op. 78; Schumann:
Ov.; Enesco: Roumanian
International Music
String Qt. in A, Op. 41,
Rhapsody No. 2 in D.
Dieskau), Vienna
Martyre de Saint Sebastien:
6:00/WNCN-Rimsky-
Series." Berlin
No. 3.
Philharmonic/Solti.
6:00/WNCN-Chopin:
Suite. Mozart: Sym. No.
Korsakov: Flight of the
Philharmonic. Daniel
Variations on a Theme by
2:00/WNCN-Herbert:
36 in C.
Bumblebee.
Barenboim, conductor.
Thur., Aug. 23
Rossini.
Cto. for Cello No. 2.
WQXR-AM/FM-
7:00/WNCN-Purcell:
Bach: Singet dem Herrn ein
7:00/WNCN-Copland:
3:00/WNCN-Bizet:
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Sonata for Trumpet with
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L'Arlésienne: Suite
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Strings and Continuo No.
Symphony of Psalms;
Birthday, Leonard
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No. 1; Ravel: Jeux d'eau.
No. 26 in E-flat, Op. 81a.
2 in D.
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ESPN
Inside the PGA
Movie: The Dirty
SHO
Discovery Series: To
The Midnight Hour
Baseball: N.Y.
Cutting Cards
the Moon Alice
Yankees vs. Milwaukee
Dozen
1:00 a.m.
NICK
Alfred Hitchcock
Tour
South Africa Now
TNT
Movie: The
Brewers
A-E
Decades 70's
5
Sandpiper
After Hours
Presents
21
This Old House
BRV
Movie: Car Trouble
TNT
Fraggle Rock
Movie: Coach
TBS
Sanford and Son
TBS
Movie: Valdez is
TDC
The Centenary of the
3:45 a.m.
TDC
Profiles of Nature:
9
Motor Car
Joe Franklin
SHO
Coming
Movie: Bull
SC
1990 Slow Pitch
Grizzly Bears
News
SC
Baseball: N.Y. Mets
Durham
Softball Championship
10:45
Heritage
MAX
Movie: National
6:30
vs. San Diego Padres
News
NICK
Dobie Gillis
Capitol Steps II
The Other Side of the
4:00 a.m.
Lampoon's European
2
News
Family
Vacation
5
Family Ties
TMC
Movie: Bill and
11:00
MAX
Movie: Women on
Trapper John, M.D.
9
Taxi
Ted's Excellent Adventure
NICK Looney Tunes
2
News
the Verge of a Nervous
TV Classics
ESPN
Happy Days
A-E Biography: Winston
PBA Bowling
5
Newsline
Breakdown
HBO
Movie: The
A-E
13
Nightly Business Report
World of Survival
Churchill:
9
Taxi
NICK
Make Room for
Supernaturals
TDC
World Monitor
AUGUST 27, 1990/NEW YORK
93
TELEVISION
CNN
Crossfire
Burgundies fo Belgium
2:21 a.m.
5
A Current Affair
Elephant
SHO
Movie: The French
Nightwatch
Entertainment Tonight
TDC Discovery Showcase:
Woman
8:00
11:00
9
Kate and Allie
Wilderness Journal
48 Hours
News
2:30 a.m.
Baseball: N.Y.
1:30 a.m.
Cosby Show
Newsline
3rd Degree
Yankees vs. Milwaukee
10:20
Friday Night Videos
Simpsons
9
Taxi
Teens and Sex: Mixed
TBS
Brewers
Wrestling
Kiner's Korner
Father Dowling
Odd Couple
Messages
This Old House
Today's Japan
Donna Reed
10:30
Mysteries
'Allo 'Allo!
NICK
ICK
Dobie Gillis
TBS
Baseball: Atlanta
Baseball: N.Y. Mets
Movie: Ike: The War
Korean Programming
TMC
Movie: Fair Trade
ESPN
Sportscenter
Braves vs. Chicago Cubs
BRV
Movie: The Lonely
vs.
L.A. Dodgers
TDC
Years
MAX
Movie: Crusoe
Hollywood
2:45 a.m.
News
Mystery: The Return of
Passion of Judith Hearne
Chronicles: Women with
MAX
Movie: Summer Job
NICK
Looney Tunes
The American
Sherlock Holmes: The
MAX
Movie: Skin Deep
TNT
Movie: Marianne
TMC
Movie: Pulse
Clout
Hound of the Baskervilles
NICK
Alfred Hitchcock
Experience
SPN
Major League
Are You Being Served?
1:42 a.m.
New Yankee Workshop
Presents
3:00 a.m.
Baseball
P.O.V.
ESPN
Baseball Tonight
Foxy Lady
Movie: The Couple
Family Feud
A-E
World of Survival
BRV
BRV
Hogwood on Haydn
A-E
Isabel Sanford At the
The Jolly Corner
Takes A Wife
5
Movie: Alfie
SHO
Movie: Mannequin
NICK
America 2-Night
TBS
Movie: Deadly
Improv
News
TDC
World Monitor
SPN
TDC Explore: Last Empire
Major League
1:50 a.m.
Intentions
Home Shopping Spree
CNN
Crossfire
BS
Baseball
Movie: The Bingo
HBO
Not Necessarily the
of Sailing Ships/Festival of
Mystery! The Return of
MSG Tennis: Pathmark
Long Travelling All-Stars
News: The Reunion Show
Tears
Sherlock Holmes: The
8:00
NICK
Dobie Gillis
CNN
Moneyline
Hound of the Baskervilles
2
Tennis Classic
and Motor Kings
Primetime Pets
TMC
Movie: Shadow of a
Movie: Hell Town
NFL Pre-Season
10:45
2:00 a.m.
11:30
Doubt
NICK
America 2-Night
Football: L.A. Raiders
HBO
Movie: Band of the
Movie: A Wedding on
A-E
The Gallant Breed
21 Jump Street
vs.
Chicago Bears
Hand
Walton's Mountain
Tonight Show
3:20 a.m.
TNT
Movie: Johnny
5
Movie: The Stratton
MacNeil/Lehrer
5
M*A*S*H
HBO
Dream On
Belinda
Story
11:00
MAX
Movie: Joy of Flying
Nightline
Full House
2
News
NICK
Bewitched
TDC Secrets of Nature:
9
Arsenio Hall
3:30 a.m.
Enchanted Forest Under
9
Movie: Ike The War
Newsline
TNT
Movie: Green
The Honeymooners
Win, Lose or Draw
Water
Movie: Title Shot
Years
Odd Couple
Mansions
Nightly Business Report
CNN Primenews
Washington Week in
Thompson
USA
Movie: Combat
NICK
Patty Duke
3:50 a.m.
Review
World TV
Academy
8:30
ESPN
SportsCenter
TBS
Three Stooges
Comedy Tonight
MAX
Movie: Glitch!
TDC
Women of the World
Ferris Bueller
CNN
Sports Tonight
HBO
Movie: Alamo Bay
This Old House
NICK
Alfred Hitchcock
5
Married With Children
11:45
SHO
Movie: Into the Fire
BRV
Movie: Track 29
TMC
Movie: The Delta
2:10 a.m.
SHO
Movie: F/X
HBO
Force
HBO
Movie: Cookie
This Old House
Tales From the Crypt
NICK
Bewitched
4:00 a.m.
LIFE
A-E
Family
Movie: Penalty
A-E
Sara Gilbert at the
2:20 a.m.
MIDNIGHT
4
Eagle and the Bear
Phase
Improv
5
Trapper John, M.D.
Movie: Secret Agent
Kojak
NICK
Dobie Gillis
SHO
Laugh!s
9:00
Into the Night
TV Classics
A-E
Arts & Entertainment
TDC
Just for the Record
2:30 a.m.
2
Eddie Capra Mysteries
Hill Street Blues
BS
Leave It To Beaver
Movie: Dr. Heckyl
Revue
CNN
Moneyline
America's Top Ten
4
Cheers
Masterpiece Theatre
TMC
TNT
Movie: Go For
ICK Donna Reed
5
Glory Days
MacNeil/Lehrer
and Mr. Hype
11:20
TMC
Movie: Captain Kidd
Broke
Movie: Underground
The Young Riders
TBS
Movie: Carrie
A-E
TBS
Movie: The Birds
USA
Murder She Wrote
Terror: An Urban
Camera Magic: Images
NICK
My Three Sons
Bill Burrud's Animal
11:30
Nightmare
of
Nature
A-E
The Gallant Breed
FRI., AUG. 24
TDC
Odyssey
Pat O'Brien
TDC Looking East:
BRV
Movie: French Can-
TDC
An American Album:
6:00
CNN
Primenews
Tonight Show
Taiwan--Food Lover's
Can
Attack! The Battle for New
2
CNN
News
M*A*S*H
Paradise
HBO
Movie: The Further
Britain
5
Three's Company
8:30
Nightline
Adventures of Tennesse Buck
CNN
Newsnight
9
2
Candid Camera
3:00 a.m.
Who's the Boss?
Honeymooners
LIFE
Movie: Into Thin
Family Matters
News
Happy Days
Great Journeys
Air
12:10 a.m.
Movie: McCloud: Park
13
New Jersey News
13
Wall Street Week
5
HBO Women and Men:
Nightly Business Report
MAX
Movie: National
MacNeil/Lehrer
Butterflies
BRV
Lampoon's Vacation
Stories of Seduction
Movie: Angele
Avenue Pirates
Italian Programming
Adam Smith's
NICK
Patty Duke
News
NICK Green Acres
ΓMC
Movie: Topaz
TBS
Moneyworld
9
Beverly Hillbillies
SHO
Movie: Married to
Home Shopping Spree
ESPN
Top Rank Boxing
12:30 a.m.
HBO
Movie: Quicksilver
HBO
Dream On
the
Mob
Washington Week in
A-E
Breakfast With Les and
David Letterman
NICK You Can't Do That
NICK
Bewitched
CNN
Sports Tonight
Review
Bess
NICK
9
New Twilight Zone
on
Television
America 2-Night
SHO Movie: A
9:00
MIDNIGHT
SHO
Movie: The Kiss
NICK Mr. Ed
Decades: 70's
2
Newhart
Nightmare on Elm Street 5:
A-E
Eagle and the Bear
TNT
Fraggle Rock
Kojak
The Dream Child
Perfect Strangers
TDC
Into the Night
3:23 a.m.
TNT
Movie: Lucy
Profiles of Nature:
13
Movie: Nomads
Evening At Pops:
Hill Street Blues
Movie: The Failing of
USA
Gallant
The Berlets
TDC
Beyond 2000
Broadway Originals: The
MacNeil/Lehrer
Raymond
CNN
12:45 a.m.
6:30
NICK
Larry King Live
Music of Kern, Gershwin,
My Three Sons
3:30 a.m.
2
The Midnight Hour
News
Porter, and Rogers
A-E
Arts & Entertainment
3rd Degree
9:30
MAX
Movie: Alien
5
Family Ties
Mother and Son
Revue
Movie: Not As A
Grand
9
Taxi
Stories of New York
TNT
Movie: Mara of the
31
Different Drummer
1:00 a.m.
Happy Days
HBO
Movie: Kickboxer
Stranger
Wilderness
13 Wall Street Week
NICK
Donna Reed
After Hours
13
Nightly Business Report
MAX
Movie: The Lost
USA
Movie: Fraternity
MAX
Movie: Hellraiser
Movie: Flying High
BS
Andy Griffith
Boys
Vacation
NICK
10:00
Joe Franklin
Alfred Hitchcock
9
NICK
Make the Grade
NICK
Green Acres
TDC
Beyond 2000
Northern Exposure
News
Presents
A-E
Chronicle
TMC
Movie: Hero and the
CNN
Newsnight
L.A. Law
The Other Side of the
TNT
Bugs Bunny
Terror
3:45 a.m.
5
11)
CNN
News
News
DC
Wildlife Chronicles:
A-E
Movie: The Court
12:30 a.m.
Movie: Spitfire
Primetime Live
NICK
Make Room For
Wild
Creatures
Marshall of George
David Letterman
HBO
Movie: Link
Baby Panda
Daddy
Armstrong Custer
Sneak Previews Goes
31
EastEnders
TDC
World Monitor
7:00
Video
4:00 a.m.
SHO
Movie: My
NICK
Saturday Night Live
CNN
Showbiz Today
Hard Copy
Stepmother is an Alien
MAX
Movie: I Was a
Family Feud
TMC
Movie: North by
News
Teenage Sex Mutant
Evening at Pops
1:30 a.m.
TDC
War Stories: Battle for
Northwest
Jeopardy
Later With Bob Costas
the Bulge
NICK
Mr. Ed
Trapper John, M.D.
TDC
Cosby
TMC
Hunters of the Skies:
9
Movie: The
NICK
CNN
The Goshawks
Dobie Gillis
Charles in Charge
Larry King Live
12:35 a.m.
Understudy: Graveyard Shift
SHO
Movie: Chinatown
MacNeil/Lehrer
9:30
The Midnight Hour
II
10:15
TDC
Survival: Flight 823
21 Edition
Wish You Were Here
HBO
Movie: Twice Dead
A-E
Movie: Hammett
13
Movie: The Uninvited
1:40 a.m.
BS
The Jeffersons
New Attitude
USA
Movie: Duel of the
TNT
Movie: Voices
HBO Movie: Delta Force
SC
Sports Nightly
BRV
Style Monsters
1:00 a.m.
Ultimate
NICK
Commando
Inspector Gadget
NICK
Donna Reed
5
Secret World
10:30
SPN
SportsCenter
Movie: The Lost World
MON., AUG. 27
News
1:50 a.m.
MSG
Tennis: The
10:00
News
Don't Wait Up
News
Hamlet Challenge Cup
Room For Romance
Capitol Steps II
6:00
HBO
Movie: Just One of
New Wilderness
5
CNN
News
Movie: Suddenly
2
CNN
News
A-E
the Guys
2:00 a.m.
SHO
Conquering Space
20/20
NICK
Make Room For
Three's Company
SC
Baseball: N.Y. Mets
News
USA
Miami Vice
Moyers: A World of
Daddy
Who's the Boss?
vs. Los Angeles Dodgers
Movie: Vampire
Rendezvous
Ideas
TDC
World Monitor
Happy Days
TDC
NICK
America 2-Night
MacNeil/Lehrer
CNN
Moneyline
Foxy Lady
CNN
Showbiz Today
New Jersey Nightly
SHO
Suzanne Somers
TBS
Movie: The Girl in
EastEnders
News
Presents: Showtime's Triple
the Empty Grave
7:30
BRV
Johnny Clegg
1:10 a.m.
MacNeil/Lehrer
Crown of Comedy
NICK Bewitched
Wheel of Fortune
NICK
Saturday Night Live
TMC
Movie: C.H.U.D.
Italian Programming
TDC
The Beer Hunter:
TDC
Wings: Vertical
Inside Edition
TNT
Movie: The Last
II
(concludes at 8)
94
NEW YORK/AUGUST 27, 1990
TELEVISION
TBS
Beverly Hillbillies
Bookmark
CNN
News
5
Three's Company
Rain Must Fall
5
Kojak
NICK
You Can't Do That
Who's the Boss?
TDC
9:00
12:15 a.m.
Women of the World
Into the Night
on Television
Happy Days
CNN
Primenews
Hill Street Blues
A-E
Decades: 70's
Murphy Brown
HBO Movie: Bright
13
New Jersey News
13
You Gotta Have Art
SHO Movie: The
Movie: I Know My
Lights, Big City
MacNeil/Lehrer
8:30
MacNeil/Lehrer
Goodbye Girl
First Name Is Steven
TNT
Alien Nation
12:30 a.m.
31
Italian Programming
Family Matters
BRV Movie: The Lower
Fraggle Rock
American Masters
David Letterman
TBS
Beverly Hillbillies
Alive From Off Center
Depths
TDC
Profiles of Nature:
Defending Wildlife
New Twilight
MAX
Movie: Vibes
TDC
9
Looking East:
A-E
Biography: Babe Ruth
The Cougar
31
The Beiderbecke Affair
Zone
NICK
You Can't Do That
Japanese Festivals
SHO
Movie: Eddie and
TBS Cousteau: Re-
on
Television
6:30
HBO
Movie: Her Alibi
9:00
the Cruisers II: Eddie Lives
discovery of the World
A-E
Decades: 70's
News
LIFE
Movie: Rollover
4
4
SHO
In the Heat of the Night
TDC
Secrets of Nature
2
Movie: Critters 2:
MAX
5
Family Ties
Movie: Major
TNT
Movie: The Life of
Roseanne
CNN
Newsnight
League
Emile
Zola
The Main Course
This Old House
9
Taxi
TNT
A-E
Miss Marple: The
Fraggle Rock
12:20 a.m.
TDC
Happy Days
Outdoor Life: Wahoo
Nova
TDC
Profiles of Nature:
TBS Movie: Evil Under
13
Moving Finger
The 90's
Nightly Business Report
12:45 a.m.
Sea Otter
the Sun
TBS
TDC
Safari: The Benhal
IFE
Andy Griffith
Movie: Nobody's
MAX
Movie: Hello Mary
Make the Grade
Tiger
6:30
Child
12:30 a.m.
NICK
A-E
Chronicle
CNN
Lou: Prom Night II
Larry King Live
News
Movie: The
David Letterman
TNT
Bugs Bunny
1:00 a.m.
5
9:30
Family Ties
Loneliness of the Long
9
New Twlight Zone
TDC
Wildlife Chronicles:
The Midnight Hour
9
Taxi
Distance Runner
13
Austin City Limits
Cuckoo in the Nest
Designing Women
McCreary Report
Happy Days
TDC
Beyond 2000
HBO Movie: The
BRV
Madama Butterfly
Movie: Death Car on
SHO
Nightly Business Report
CNN
Larry King Live
Expendables
7:00
Discovery Series:
the
Freeway
TBS
Andy Griffith
TNT
Movie: Mrs. Soffel
U.S. Open '90
Conquering Space
9:30
9
Joe Franklin
HBO
Movie: Teen Witch
News
Coach
1:00 a.m.
5
10:00
News
NICK
Make the Grade
Face to Face, with
Paul Badura-Skoda
TMC
Movie: Double
Adam Smith's Money
2
7
Jeopardy
The Midnight Hour
9
Cosby Show
World
5
After Hours
11
Charles in Charge
Connie Chung
Plays Chopin
Trouble
5
9 CNN News
Survival of A Small
A-E
Chronicle
Movie: Skyward
10:00
13
MacNeil/Lehrer
News
13
Jessica Mitford: Portrait
City
TNT
Bugs Bunny
Valvoline National
21 Edition
Politics: The New Black
of a Muckraker
TDC
World Monitor
TDC
Wildlife Chronicles:
Driving Test
TBS
The Jeffersons
Power
EastEnders
The Big Bass
5
CNN
News
SC
Sports Nightly
1:30 a.m.
MAX
Movie: Hellbound:
LIFE
Movie: Golden
TMC
Movie: Picasso
Later With Bob Costas
7:00
thirtysomething
Hellraiser II
Gate
Trigger
News
Today's Japan
Hard Copy
TDC
World Monitor
A-E
Who's Minding the
P.O.V.
NICK
Inspector Gadget
TBS
National Geographic
News
1:30 a.m.
ESPN
SportsCenter
Kids?: The Truth About
Explorer
Jeopardy
Camera Magic: Images
MSG
SportsDesk
Teachers
of
Nature
Later With Bob Costas
TMC
Movie: Plaza Suite
Cosby
Who's Minding the
SHO Movie: Bull
EastEnders
A-E
SHO
Jeff Cesario: Back to
11
Charles in Charge
Today's Japan
BRV
Durham
MacNeil/Lehrer
Movie: Elena
BRV
Movie: The Crime
Kids?: Survival Stories:
Reality
13
HBO
Growing Up
TNT Movie: The Human
21 Edition
Dream On
of Monsieur Lang
TDC
Wildlife Chronicles
MAX
The Jeffersons
Movie: I'm Gonna
TMC Movie:
USA
Tennis: U.S. Open
Comedy
TBS
TDC
Rendezvous
TDC America Coast to
2:00 a.m.
SC
Sports Nightly
Git You Sucka
Puppetmaster
CNN
Moneyline
Coast: Rand McNally--
Nightwatch
IFE
TMC
Movie: Spenser for
Movie: The Trouble
TDC
Collector's Journal
Central Florida
News
Hire (pilot)
With Girls
2:00 a.m.
7:30
Movie: My Friend
NICK
SHO
Inspector Gadget
Laugh!s
2
Wheel of Fortune
10:30
Flicka
ESPN
TNT
SportsCenter
Movie: Winter
Nightwatch
News
Inside Edition
My Pine Barrens Land
MacNeil/Lehrer
MSG
SportsDesk
Meeting
Movie: Thou Shalt Not
5
A Current Affair
Return of Shelley
American Masters
A-E
Who's Minding the
TDC
Profiles of Nature:
Kill
Entertainment Tonight
TBS
Movie: Sunshine
HBO
Movie: The Further
Kids?: New and Improved
Wonder of Migration
MacNeil/Lehrer
9
Kate & Allie
Christmas
Adventures of Tennesse Buck
Kids
10:20
SHO
Jimmie Walker and
Baseball: N.Y.
SHO
10:45
Movie: Patty Hearst
USA
Tennis: U.S. Open
TBS
Yankees vs. Baltimore
TDC
A Planet for the
Movie: Rampage
Friends III
HBO
Women and Men:
TDC
Rendezvous
TDC
Phenomenal World:
Orioles
Taking: Who Needs Nature?
CNN
Moneyline
10:30
This Old House
Stories of Seduction
The Great Balancing
31
Black Adder I.
TBS
Sanford and Son
2:21 a.m.
7:30
11:00
HBO
MAX
Movie: A Man for
Tales From the Crypt
Act/Out Vanishing
HBO
Babar
2
2
Wheel of Fortune
Marshlands
News
ESPN
Major League
SC
Halls of Fame: Roy
Sale
4
Inside Edition
5
Newsline
Baseball
2:15 a.m.
Campanella
5
Taxi
2:30 a.m.
A Current Affair
SHO
Movie: A
HBO
Movie: Twice Dead
MAX
Movie: Body Slam
7
Odd Couple
3rd Degree
Entertainment Tonight
Nightmare on Elm Street 5:
NICK
9
Looney Tunes
Kate and Allie
TBS
The Dream Child
2:30 a.m.
The Eleventh Hour
Movie: Magic Town
TDC
World Monitor
Baseball: N.Y.
'Allo 'Allo!
TDC
Wildlife Chronicles:
3rd Degree
CNN
Crossfire
3:00 a.m.
Yankees vs. Baltimore
Korean Programming
Bay of Fundy
AIDS and the Family
MAX
Movie: Pet Sematary
Family Feud
Orioles
SHO
Movie: Talk Radio
8:00
ESPN
Baseball Tonight
5
Movie: Suspicion
This Old House
11:00
2
Major Dad
A-E
Joanna Kerns at the
Baseball: Atlanta
2:40 a.m.
News
BS
News
Cosby
MAX
9
Improv
Home Shopping Spree
Braves vs. Pittsburgh
5
Newsline
Movie: Power Play
5
21 Jump Street
TNT
Nature
Pirates
9
Taxi
Movie: Cynara
Pre-Season Football:
TDC
The Last Cause: The
Final Battle
Movie: The Hairy Ape
NICK
Looney Tunes
11
Odd Couple
2:50 a.m.
Philadelphia Eagles vs.
TNT
Indianapolis Colts
CNN
Moneyline
Movie: Star Sangled
SPN
Major League
'Allo 'Allo
TBS
Movie: The
Girl
Baseball
Korean Programming
Midnight Man
9
National Geographic
11:30
SHO
Super Dave
HBO
Movie: The Assassin
Nature: Land of the
3:30 a.m.
U.S. Open Tennis
TDC
World Monitor
SC
Halls of Fame: Joe
3:00 a.m.
Kiwi
Highlights
Win, Lose or Draw
CNN
Movie: The Land That
Crossfire
Morgan
Family Feud
Frugal Gourmet
A-E
Steve Allen at the
5
Tonight Show
Movie: If It's Tuesday
A World of Ideas With
Time Forgot
8:00
M*A*S*H
Improv
This Must Be Belgium
Bill Moyers
Presents
Nightline
Movie: Police Academy
TDC
War Stories: Great
News
BRV
Notebook From China
TMC
Movie: Empire State
4:
Citizens on Patrol
Battles of WW II
9
Arsenio Hall
Home Shopping Spree
TBS
Movie: Sunshine
Matlock
Honeymooners
3:40 a.m.
CNN
Moneyline
Nova
HBO
The Record Breakers
Movie: On Golden
Great Performances
HBO
Movie: The Blob
Movie: The Time of
of Sport
Pond
11:30
Nightly Business Report
Your Life
NICK
All Request Week
CNN
4:00 a.m.
Who's the Boss?
Sports Tonight
U.S. Open Tennis
TMC Movie: Lili
TMC
Movie: The Endless
Family
Hunter
Highlights
Game
11:45
Trapper John
Nova
Tonight Show
3:30 a.m.
ESPN
Women's Pro Beach
TMC
Movie: Screwball
13
American Masters
The Living Planet: A
5
M*A*S*H
4
Win, Lose, or Draw
Portrait of Earth
Nightline
Movie: The Terrorist
Volleyball
Hotel
MAX
Eros International:
Life On Earth
Sexual Surroundings
Autograph
9
Arsenio Hall
3:40 a.m.
SHO
Movie: Stand By
MIDNIGHT
Movie: The Goodbye
BRV
Movie: French Can-
Honeymooners
HBO
Movie: Friday the
Me
Stingray
People
Can
Intercom
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SHO
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8:30
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TUE., AUG. 28
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Doctor, Doctor
A-E
Life On Earth
A-E
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Vegas
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World
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2
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9
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Nature
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Just For the Record
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8:00 a.m.
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Joy of Painting
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A-E
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Crumb?
Dink, the Little
NICK Think Fast
31
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TNT
Football: Denver
NICK Alfred Hitchcock
Dinosaur
HBO Movie: Who's Harry
5:15
A-E
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Broncos vs. Miami
A-E
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MAX
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TNT
Movie: Battleground
4
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TNT
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Crumb?
Dolphins
5
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NICK
Special Delivery
5:30
USA
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Sports Tonight
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Odyssey
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Explore
11:45
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Matter of Taste
CNN
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Doo
11:30 a.m.
TBS
ESPN Tennis: WCT
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Benson
Doctor Who
Rude Dog and the
8:30
Wear Black
Wall Street Week
Tournament of
31
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Dweebs
13 East
Sailing With Confidence
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31
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NICK Bewitched
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Newsmaker Saturday
Pre-Season Football:
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9:00
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N.Y. Giants vs. N.Y. Jets
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Golden Girls
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America Coast to
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Her
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NICK
Finders Keepers
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Heathcliff
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NOON
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8:20 a.m.
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A-E
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12:30 a.m.
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Superman
The 24th Victor Awards
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9
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1:00 a.m.
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5
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the Pooh
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Good Times
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Pump It Up
Fire
Hello Austria/Hello
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NICK
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MAX
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SK8 TV
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Murder
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National Series
Empty Nest
A-E
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A-E
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Zero
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Tracey Ullman Show
USA
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TNT
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Pinnacle
NICK
Donna Reed
USA
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High
Muppet Babies
Phenomenal World
CNN
This Week in Japan
Hot Summer
TDC
TDC America Coast to
7:00
Captain N
TDC
Nature of Things
3:30
News
9:50
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McCreary Report
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Newsday
Unlimited Power
Mama's Family
TBS
U.S. Olympic Gold
1:10 a.m.
11
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12:30
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10:00
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Executive Stress
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HBO
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News Magazine
Woodwright's Shop
Paradise
Movie: The Dirty
Alf
TMC
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It's a Living
NICK
Inspector Gadget
Carol and Co.
Dozen
Weekend Special
CNN
Your Money
Star Trek: The Next
A-E
Living Dangerously
CNN News
Generation
1:20 a.m.
TNT
Hondo
South Africa Now
3:45
Twin Peaks
Adventure
'Allo 'Allo!
TDC
Profiles of Nature
Cuisine Rapide
5
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BRV Lenny Henry
CNN
Evans & Novak
TBS
Baseball: Atlanta
World At War
9:20 a.m.
Morningstar
1:30 a.m.
Braves vs. Chicago Cubs
NICK
Saturday Night Live
MAX
12:45
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Movie: Vibes
4:00
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MSG
Tennis: The
and
Famous
TBS
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The National's Ten
Execution of Raymond
Pathmark Tennis Classic
9:30 a.m.
SHO
Seven
Movie: Stripes
Greatest Moments in Sports
Graham
TDC
Karate Kid
Attack! the Battle for
Real Ghostbusters
Wide World of Sports
MAX
1:00
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New Britain
1:40 a.m.
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Motorweek
Century
News
New Yankee Workshop
Woodwright's Shop
NICK
Inspector Gadget
10:30
World Series of Golf
Movie: Illegally
Sounds Brazilian
ESPN
HBO
SportsCenter
Anna
2:00 a.m.
Daily Mixer
NICK
You Can't Do That
A-E
New Wilderness
5
Witness to Survival
Siskel and Ebert and the
Yours
American Gladiators
TDC
Wildlife Chronicles
Entertainment This
on
Television
SHO
Movie: Eddie and
9
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Movies
CNN
Moneyweek
Week
A-E
Biography
the Cruisers II: Eddie Lives
Monsters
Michelob
TDC
TNT
NFL Pre-Season
NICK
Airwolf
Beyond 2000
America 2-Night
Presents Night Music
Special
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10:00 a.m.
Movie: Sky Heist
4:30
10:50
Pee-Wee's Playhouse
American Masters
DC
A Planet For the
Kettle Go To Town
Hometime
Movie: The Dirty
Smurfs
Frugal Gourmet
Taking
Entertainment This
This Old House
Dozen
Soul Train
Pakistani Television
CNN
Capital Gang
Week
Firing Line
South Africa Now
TBS
Night Tracks
21
The 90's
HBO
Convicts on the Street:
NICK
Hometime
Out of Control
7:30
11:00
TNT
Movie: Plymouth
One Year on Parole
CNN
Movie: The
Future Watch
A Schtick and A Dream
TBS
News
Adventure
NICK
Lassie
Superboy
MSG
Yankee Scorecard
5:00
Comic Strip Live
TDC
Magnificent Seven
Hunters of the Skies
5
M*A*S*H
NICK Count Duckula
For Peace Sake: Youth
9
A-E
Survivors
New Twilight Zone
Sidewalk Motel
TMC
Movie: Wish You
TNT
The Odd Couple
2:30 a.m.
Movie: Joe Butterfly
Speaks Out
9
Kate and Allie
World TV
Movie: Death Follows
Were Here
TDC
Collector's Journal
A-Team
Italian Programming
Shake Hands Forever
BRV
CNN
Newsday
Movie: Forced
Big World: Natalie
A Psycho
BRV
Champlin on Film:
SHO
Movie: Fade-In
Cole
MAX
Movie: I, Madam
How the West Was
1:15
Vengeance
Alan J. Pakula
HBO
Tales From the Crypt
TMC
Movie: The Edge of
TNT
Victory Garden
HBO Movie: License to
Movie: Hollywood
Sanity
Won
MAX
Movie: I Walk the
MAX
Degrassi High
Drive
TDC
Chainsaw Hookers
TDC
The Beer Hunter
Secrets of Nature
Line
Washington Week in
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Looney Tunes
NICK On the Television
1:30
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ESPN
NASCAR Winston
2:45 a.m.
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TMC
BRV
Movie: A Face in the
Movie: Cop
Garfield and Friends
College Madhouse
Cup
HBO
Louie Anderson:
2
SHO
Pink Floyd: The
Julia Child
Crowd
Beetlejuice
A-E
Challenge of the Seas
SG
Hogan's Heroes
Delicate Sound of Thunder
Comedy on Canvas
Baseball: N.Y.
TBS
American Interests
USA
Movie: Combat
Yankees vs. Milwaukee
HBO
Movie: The Kid
8:00
3:00 a.m.
This Old House
Brewers
Who Wouldn't Quit
2
Farm-Aid Concert IV
Academy
America's Top Ten
State of the Arts
TDC
SHO Movie: No Holds
LIFE
Movie: Gladiator
Amen
Challenge
Movie: Alexander the
CNN
11:00 a.m.
Barred
NICK
Mr. Wizard's World
5
Totally Hidden Video
Capital Gang
Great
4
Alvin and the
CNN
Newsmaker Saturday
TMC
Movie: Under Cover
Kids Special
11:15
Trapper John, M.D.
Chipmunks
ESPN
Golf: U.S.
Super Jeopardy!
The Compleat Beatles
Nature of Things
2:00
Amateur Championship
9
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SPN
Tennis: WCT
Bugs Bunny
9
Silver Spoons
College Football
MSG
Tennis: The
International Star Search
11:30
Tournament of
Incredible Hulk
Preview
Hamlet Challenge Cup
Special
S.R.O.
Champions
Tony Brown's Journal
5
Movie: The Bull
A-E
Diamond Showcase
Great Journeys
Saturday Night Live
USA
Movie: Daughters of
From a Country Garden
Fighter and the Lady
SHO
Movie: Brainstorm
Jacques Cousteau
Movie: Purvis G-Man
Satan
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Movie: The African
TDC
Challenge
Champions
Tigers
HBO
Not Necessarily the
SHO
Movie: No Holds
Queen
CNN
Newsday
The Lawrence Welk
A-E
Survivors
News: The Reunion Show
Barred
HBO
Not Necessarily the
Show
TNT
Movie: Ice Station
NICK
1:30
Alfred Hitchcock
News: The Reunion Show
3:30 a.m.
Baseball: N.Y.
Leon Charney Report
Zebra
CNN
Sports Tonight
CNN
Newsmaker Sunday
BRV
The Displaced Person
USA
Movie: Blind
Weekend With Crook &
Yankees vs. Milwaukee
TBS
Tom and Jerry's Back
11:45
Chase
11:00 a.m.
Brewers
Vengeance
5
Movie: Francis In The
Sunday Edition With Jim
TBS
Beverly Hillbillies
to School Special
TDC
Discovery Sunday
Sports Update
NICK
Mr. Wizard's World
CNN
Primenews
George Michael's Sports
Navy
Jensen and Ed Koch
HBO
Movie: Time
TMC
Movie: The 'Burbs
Machine
McLaughlin Group
Trackers
3:40 a.m.
A-E
Cousteau: Forests
Biography
8:30
MAX
Movie: Zorba the
13
TDC
5
Survival: Flight 823
Cops
MIDNIGHT
Movie: One Hour with
Without Land
Greek
2
CNN
Newswatch
Tim Conway's Funny
Quincy, M.E.
You
Business World
NICK
Lassie
America
Kojak
HBO Movie: The
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5:30
BRV
SHO
NICK
Bewitched
Champlin on Film:
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Football: N.Y. Jets
People
Movie: Brazil
Alan J. Pakula
4:00 a.m.
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CNN
Moneyweek
A Walk Through the
9:00
A-E
Survivors
Twentieth Century with Bill
2
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Movie: The Web
Degrassi Junior High
Discovery Sunday
Wall Street Week
1:45
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First Name is Steven
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4
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Children
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Famous
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The Centenary of the
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David Brinkley
TBS
TBS
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Funtastic World
9
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HBO
NICK
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That Men Do
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Washington Week in
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USA
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1:00 a.m.
Sesame Street
Polish Sunday
Sanction
Awakening
P.O.V.
Italian Programming
HBO
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BRV
Ten Great Writers:
NICK
Green Acres
NICK
TDC
Beyond 2000
TBS
Beauty Breakthrough
TBS
Flintstones
SK8 TV
T.S.
Eliot
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HBO
ESPN
Gameday
CNN
Week in Review
A-E
All Creatures Great
Babar
TBS Main Event
Fugitives
and Small
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NOON
2:30
NICK
Hey Dude
A-E
All Creatures Great
Einstein
Siskel and Ebert & the
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A-E
Our Century
and
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1:15 a.m.
NICK Heathcliff
31
Ask Congress
TNT
Portrait of America-
SHO
Parenthood
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Movies
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Journey to Adventure
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Shortstories
Delaware
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Week in Review
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Soloflex
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Popeye
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5
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9:30
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Out of This World
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5
In Living Color
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Raising Kids
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6:30
ICK
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1:30 a.m.
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Inside Albany
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News
NICK
Visiones
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10:00
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Ideas
5
Booker
War of the Worlds
5
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ESPN
Ramona
Horseshow Jumping:
NICK
Wild and Crazy
11
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News
Nuremburg
1:45 a.m.
HBO
Wonderful Wizard of
Cadillac Grandprix of New
Texaco Havoline Grand
Kids
The Nat "King" Cole
Crime Stoppers 800
Hampshire
Inside Business
Show
TNT
Oz
Prix of Denver
CNN
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A-E
World of Survival
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Australian Rules
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Gulda Plays Mozart
Venice
Cats and Dogs
Football
7:00
TBS
Cousteau: Re-
Washington Week in
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A-E
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60 Minutes
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Discovery of the World
2:00 a.m.
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SHO
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Magical World of Disney
NICK
Saturday Night Live
Nightwatch
HBO
Movie: Nightwing
5
Sunday Today
From
The Outsiders
A-E
Rich Little on Location
A-E
Rich Little on Location
Shanghai
TMC
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Movie: Here Come the
TNT
Movie: The Wild
Life Goes On
TDC
Discovery Sunday
TDC
Discovery Sunday
Met Sally
9
igers
and
the
Innocent
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A-E
Breakfast with Les and
Remagen
10:30
2:15 a.m.
9
Silver Spoons
TDC
The Sporting Life
Bess
CNN
National Geographic
9
Golf Show
Missing/Reward
Sesame Street
Newsday
TDC
Safari
Make Yourself At Home
Tales of the Darkside
Movie: Killer Force
Movie: Dick Tracy's
12:30
3:30
Hellenic Television
31
Best Friends
HBO
Movie: The Drifter
Dilema
2
TBS
Brady Bunch
9
This Week in Baseball
Network-USA
NICK
Future Stars in Sport
America 2-Night
2:30 a.m.
4
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Movie: Bloodstone
Blue Blocker
A Gathering of Men
BRV
Hogwood on Haydn
11:00
Twilight Zone
Eyewitness News
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NICK
Looney Tunes
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Julia Child and
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9
Arsenio Hall
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9
Solomon's Mines
New Lassie
Company
Parador
The Odd Couple
Einstein
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Inside Albany
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A-E
Sneak Previews Goes
Movie: The
13
Independent Focus: The
Wild America
Miami
ideo
Invisible Kid
2:40 a.m.
Epic of Gilgamesh
NICK
SHO Gulliver's Travels
Dennis the Menace
ESPN Golf: U.S.
NICK
TMC
Inspector Gadget
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Outdoor Life: Striper
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TNT
Bugs Bunny & Pals
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Amateur Championship
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TBS
Network Earth
2:50 a.m.
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Women of the World
Science & Technology
SHO Movie: New York
Change
HBO
Dream On
Smash Hits
CNN
Daywatch
Week
ESPN
Stories
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MAX
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A-E
Road to War
12:50
Lagoon
3:00 a.m.
9:30 a.m.
Carol Burnett
4:00
SHO
Movie: Dirty Rotten
9
NICK
BS
On the Television
Home Shopping Spree
TBS
Andy Griffith
9
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Scoundrels
TMC
Movie: Midnight
Carson Comedy Classics
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Movie: Crusoe
1:00
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TNT
Cousteau--Sea Turtles
A-E
Run
Caroline's Comedy
NICK
Total Panic
Pre-Season Football:
Madeleine Cooks
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The Nature of Things
ESPN SportsCenter
Hour
TDC
Deaf Mosaic
Houston Oilers VS.
Polish Television
CNN
Newswatch
A-E
Caroline's Comedy
CNN
3:15 a.m.
Your Money
Minnesota Vikings
Network
Hour
MAX
Movie: Cannibal
7:30
Positively Black
Greatest Sports Moments
SHO
Movie: New York
10:00 a.m.
Movie: The
Women in the Avocado
This Old House
Stories
9
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NICK
Jungle of Death
Looney Tunes
3:30 a.m.
Hindenburg
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Laverne and Shirley
CNN
You Can't Do That
Sports Sunday
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Hee Haw
Like It Is
NICK
CNN
Wonderworks
Inside Business
SHO
Movie: Twelfth
TV Classics
Movie: Devil at Four
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8:00
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11:10
Night
Good News
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TNT
TBS
Murder, She Wrote
BRV
Movie: Parenthood
Elephant
Karen Kain: Prima
SHO
Smithsonian World
Baywatch
3:40 a.m.
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Nature
TDC
War Stories
Ballerina
Movie: Tammy and
5
America's Most Wanted
Father Knows Best
TNT
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Andy Griffith
Movie: Battle
the Bachelor
America's Funniest
HBO
17 Going on Nowhere
4:30
Beneath the Earth
3:50 a.m.
TDC American Medical
Home Videos
Lassie
Star Trek
HBO
Television
NICK
Star Search
Movie: Dead-Bang
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Movie: The
Frugal Gourmet
11:30
13
Echoes of the Big Bands
News
4:00 a.m.
10:30 a.m.
Deceivers
4:45
with Merv Griffin
Sports Extra
Today's FBI
Face the Nation
SPN Tennis: WCT
HBO Movie: Indiana
National Geographic
Movie: Having It All
5
Naked City
Meet the Press
Tournament of
Jones and the Last Crusade
Special
Star Trek: The Next
MAX
Movie: No Small
Charles in Charge
Champions
BRV
Evita Peron
Generation
Affair
Adam Smith's Money
MSG
Tennis: Hamlet
5:00
ESPN
Baseball: Oakland
The Casebook of
A-E
Movie: Moon Over
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International Race of
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procedures. All ads accepted at the discretion of the publisher. Write Town And Country Properties Department, New York Magazine, 755 Second Avenue, New
York, NY 10017-5906 or call 212-643-6500.
APARTMENT
HOUSE
Southold Waterfront-128 ft, dock foun-
COUNTRY PROPERTY
Connecticut
Bronx
dation, 1/2 treed acre, 3-BR country cot-
For Sale/Rent
tage, cathedral LR. $265K. 516-765-2197
Furnished Studio Apt-w/Private en-
PELHAM MANOR VIC
CIRCA 1900 FARMHOUSE
trance, in Westport home. Walk to station.
FLOOR THEM
SPECIAL!
Beautiful 7 1/2 acres w/orchards & stone
$650/mo. incl. util. 203-454-3596
Once in a lifetime! Estate area of Pel Man.
Wall them in...Put a roof over their heads.
walls surround 1900 farmhouse. Offers 4
Prestigious loc, custom-built contempor-
Sell them the house of their dreams.
BR's, country kitchen, DR, LR, lge work-
APARTMENT
ary ranch, over 1/2 acre adj golf course, 3
Place an ad in our "Town and Country
shop area. Oversized barn completes the
New Jersey
bdrms, low taxes $675,000
Properties" section and get results fast.
picture. An unmatched value at $165,000.
ANN DE SANTIS, Realtor
Call Joanne DeCandia
McKEAN REAL ESTATE 914-557-8338
Belleville-Newly renovated 5-room apt
4550 Boston Post Rd. 914-738-1360
212-643-6500.
OCEANFRONT - NOVA SCOTIA
in 2-family house w/private entrance. Lots
of windows, back yard. Walk to NYC
Quality oceanfront properties. Phone for
HOUSE
HOUSE
trans! $725./mo. 201-256-4037 owner.
free, complete list. Owner financing avail.
Nassau-Suffolk
Orange County
Bradley H. Wiseman.
718-945-2355
APARTMENT/HOUSE
WINDHAM, NY
2 1/2 hrs NYC
Sea Cliff - Fabulous Water Views & stun-
TO SHARE
WARWICK, NY-Enjoy great views of
SKIING/GOLF/HUNTING/FISHING
ning sunsets from the front porch & fire-
the valley from the rocking chair porch of
The ideal spot to escape to
side of 4-BR, 2-bath charmer. Steps from
this 4-BR, 2.5 bath colonial on 6.2 acres.
42nd St. - West Side-Elegant apartment.
every weekend of the year
the beach. $319K. Lillian 516-484-6767
$259,000. Call Rosalie Gorton at Schlott
Spacious, drmn bldg, hi ceil. 212-563-6270
SHERIDAN REALTY
The Prudential L.I. Realty
Realtors 914-986-8300
212-245-8606
518-734-4570
COOPERATIVE/CONDO
NEW YORK Magazine Looks To The Future
Armonk/Whippoorwill-Curved drive
Manhattan
thru luxuriously landscaped 2 1/2 acres.
By Owner - No Brokers-Sutton Place.
FALL PREVIEW
New 6,500 sq ft. center hall Colonial 6
BR, 6 1/2 marble bths. WBF in spacious
1-BR, 1/2 bth co-op. $285,000. Must Sell!
master suite, study & family room. 2-story
Day 212-644-1099; Evening 212-759-2382
entry, broad deck to htd pool, all custom
A BOUNTIFUL ISSUE-NEW YORK Magazine's Fall Preview issue
features. 1,750,000 by owner/builder.
35th St. E.-1 BR, lux prewar bldg, 9th fl,
914-273-1750
drmn, garden, EIK, fplc. Maint $604/mo.
is the all-inclusive guide to the city's most eagerly anticipated season.
$128,000 negotiable. 212-686-6443
Build On Beautiful Martha's Vineyard
A PLENTIFUL AUDIENCE-Fall Preview is also the not-to-be
3-4 BR, 2bth, winterized, house & lot
COOPERATIVE/CONDO
missed advertising opportunity of the year for marketers who need to
$135,000-$175,000. Dr. M.P. Saunders
New Jersey
reach 1.5 million* go-anywhere, see-everything readers. For predictably
(212)-662-5224
or
(508)-693-9083
excellent results, call:
WEST NY
212.643.6500
New York's Town & Country Properties
6600 BLVD EAST
Reach 1.5 Million readers a week.
Spectacular NYC view. Large, luxury
1-BR, 19' terrace. Mt incl all utils, drmn,
ISSUE DATE: 9/10
ON SALE: 9/3
AD CLOSE: 8/27
Advertise your special property here -
call 212-643-6500 for more information.
pool, 78% TD. 15 min NYC. Immaculate.
*1989 SMRB
Closing Dates are Tuesday's at 5pm
Reduced to $85K. Owner 201-854-0221
for following Monday's issue.
TRAVEL
New York Travel is a weekly feature. Special rates effective with January 8, 1990 issue: $31.20 per line, one-time ad; $28.60 per line, four-time ad; $27.82 per line, seven-
time ad. 36 characters equal 1 line (count each letter, space and punctuation mark as a character). The first line is available in bold print followed by a dash. Minimum
ad two lines. Add $20.00 for NYM Box Numbers. Display classified ads are available at $437 per inch, one-time insertion. Complete rate card available. Certified
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Joanne DeCandia for billing procedures and advertising information. All ads accepted at the discretion of the publisher.
TOUR AND TRIP
SAVE $$$ UP TO 27%
SEASONAL RENTAL
WANT
On International Airline Tickets
ATTENTION?
Major airlines/flights of your choice.
Greece Greek Isles, Mykonos
Hilton Head Is.-Palmetto Dunes villa.
Airline-quoted fares discounted directly.
2 BR, 2 bth. Golf, tennis. 718-729-1845
Place your ad
9/30-10/15 $2,679. Call 212-884-4464
Save to Europe, Asia, Africa & Far East.
in the TRAVEL
Call 212-868-8770
(M-F 9-5)
Ideal Country Home For Rent-Stone
Section. Try it...
AIRLINE
Prime Connection Travel Services Div.
house in Columbia County. Furn. w/
You'll get noticed!
spectac views, 100 mins from GW Bridge.
CRUISE
60 acres & swimming pond, w/view from
Call Joanne DeCandia at
LOW FARES, ASIA & EUROPE Tokyo
Berkshires to Catskills. 4 BR, 2 bth, LR
212-643-6500
$850. London $540. All round-trip & other
w/fplc & cathedral ceiling. Cent a/c. Deck
cities. Air Fair International. 17 Battery Pl.
DISCOUNT CRUISES
& stone patios. Short or long-term rental
NYC 10004. 1-800-969-6668 / 212-809-3818.
Miss Joy 212-242-2277
at reasonable price 212-678-1148
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27, 1990
TRAVEL
Continued from previous page.
MANHATTAN SEAPORT SUITES
Where Did NEW YORK'S
When you visit NYC - on business or for
BED & BREAKFAST
pleasure - stay at the Seaport Suites for
Massachusetts
Well-Traveled Readers Go Last Year?
less than the price of a hotel. Its furnished
studio apts or 1-BR apts are clean, have
Europe
28.3%
Florida
45.5%
24-hour security & maid services. Min
CAPE COD VINEYARD
NANTUCKET ACCOMMODATIONS
New Jersey Shore
30.4%
The Caribbean
19.2%
2-day stay, from $90/day. For reservations,
New York State
37.6%
California
37.4%
call 212-742-0003 or fax 212-742-0124
Inns, B&B's, houses still available.
800-448-5769
New England
32.5%
Washington, D.C.
26.1%
To Reach Our Well-Traveled Readers,
BED & BREAKFAST
Call Joanne DeCandia in The Travel Section.
New York
Borough
212-643-6500
Source: MMR 1989
A Manhattan Hotel Alternative-Private
Your Way
apts from $90 per day. 212-206-9237
BED & BREAKFAST
Jeronimo's-Superb cuisine, tennis, htd
Florida
pools, jacuzzi, sauna. 32 rms w/bidets,
Out.
Gorgeous 1-BR Apt, Hosted-Incl. bkfst,
terrs. $85 ppd. 75 miles NYC. 914-733-5652
$85/night. Call 212-570-0102
KEY WEST - Curry Mansion Inn
Stouffer
Fabulous new wing 15 luxury rooms,
RESORT
Gracie Inn-Apt. hotel. E. 81st & York.
Westchester Hotel
Bkfst incl. $79-$150/night. 212-628-1700
pool, breakfast, cocktails, Pier House
New York
Beach Club privileges. Romantic. Walk to
I-95 North to Exit 55
Lux 3-Rm Apt-Drmn bldg, TV, cable,
everything. Off-season rates. 305-294-5349.
9146945400
VCR, stereo, A/C. $100/day 212-534-1597
Singles/Couples-Su Casa, Woodstock.
Sports/exercise/dance. Affordable Club
INNS AND LODGES
Med atmosphere. Broch. 914-331-5226
INN NEW YORK CITY 212-580-1900
New York
VILLA/CONDO/APTS
Jacuzzis, Saunas, Fireplaces.
Hamptons Colonial Shores Cottages
As Featured In Mirabella Mag., Aug. '90.
& Marina. Rms & Apts. Pool, Free Row-
Europe
Auberge Des 4 Saisons-Cozy French inn
boats, Docking & Ramp. 516-728-0011
BED & BREAKFAST
on mountains. Pool, tennis. Award win-
Hamptons--Drake Motor Inn-Nr ocean.
Greece - Santorini-House with views.
New Jersey
ning country French cuisine. 914-688-2223
Pool, A/C, free docking. 516-728-1592
Sleeps 4 - $600-$700/wk. 718-624-3256
Roslyn Village Motel, LI-A charming
Shelter Island Resort-AAA. Waterfront,
MADRID - GUEST HOUSE-Double
motel in the historic section of old Roslyn.
sundecks, panoramic views. Superb
room, private phone. Maid. Use of whole
Serene, Lux-Bucolic woodland country
Convenient to city. Dly/wkly. 516-621-9657
cuisine. Swim, bikes, free golf. TV color/
house. Located on the best street. Luxur-
retreat, 15 min. GWB. 201-784-9653
cable. Tennis. Midweek 3 nites - $154 pp.
ious, 3,767 sq ft apt. $1,500 (U.S.) monthly.
A Seductive Retreat.. On Golden Pond
Shelter Island, NY 11965. 800-287-5454
Preferably long-term. 212-308-9574
Spend A Few Relaxing Days With A
A romantic interlude, dedicated to just 4
Charming Victorian. At Cape May's most
Fire Island - Ocean Beach: Jerry's Rooms
couples. Jacuzzis for two, a/c, fplcs, decks
& Effcy Apts - Reserve Now For Labor
Fall Is The Best Time For Europe!
elegant B&B. Open All Year Spectacu-
& sumptuous breakfasts. A private lake
lar Ocean Views Beach Equipment &
Day. Rated #1 Frommers Guide to NY
Many Vacation Villas & Apartments still
for swimming, boating, fishing & savoring
State. Daily & wkly rentals. 516-583-8870.
available: INTERHOME 201-882-6864
Tags * Bikes Private Baths Gourmet
sunsets. A secluded 22-acre estate, 1 1/2
Breakfast PM Tea Victorian Splendor.
hrs NYC. Lakehouse Inn - 914-266-4239
Angel Of The Sea Bed & Breakfast
HEALTH RESORT
French Riviera - Central Nice-Close to
5 Trenton Av, Cape May, NJ 800-848-3369
Montauk "The Country Inn By The Sea"
New Jersey
all. Large, furnished studio. Sleeps 3.
$425/wk. Reserve early. 619-726-4385
Heated pool, tennis. Golf, fishing, horses
BED & BREAKFAST
nearby. Free ocean/beach parking. A/C,
Vacation With A Purpose-Lose bodyfat,
TV all rooms. Bed & Bkfst as low as
Pennsylvania
relax by the sea. Free book. 201-775-7575
VILLA/CONDO/APTS
$39.50 dly pp/dbl. Wknd & vacation pkgs.
Mexico
Shepherds Neck Inn - Montauk, 11954. In
RESORT
Sevenoaks Farm
215-822-2164
NY: 800-345-3511 / (516) 668-2105
The Islands
Casual elegance on ten secluded acres in
Puerto Vallarta-Lux 2-BR condo on
the heart of Bucks County. Relax & enjoy
The Luxurious SOUTHAMPTON INN
ocean, fab views, pool, maid. 914-779-6200
our gracious hospitality, full breakfasts &
Located In Village of Southampton.
Tortola, BVI. Villa Rentals & Health Spa
redwood hot tub. Brochure available.
Weight rm, tennis, pool. Home of East
(Weight Loss)
800-367-8455
VILLA/CONDO/APTS
End Comedy & Suitors Supper Club.
The Islands
Cliff Park Inn
800-225-6535
1-800-832-6500 or 516-283-6500
HOTEL
Historic Country Inn surrounded by long-
established golf course - w/cliffs overlook-
New York
Troutbeck - An English Country Estate
St. Maarten-Elegant, affordable 1-4 BRs,
ing Delaware River. Chef member
Chaine des Rotisseurs. MAP or B & B plan
& conference center, on 442 acres, 34 rms,
pools, maid - have it all! 804-353-5970.
available. Conferences. Rated 3 stars by
pools, tennis, fireplaces. Four-star cuisine
Chelsea Inn 46 W. 17th St.
Mobil Guide. 90 min NYC. Cliff Park Rd.,
& a magical European quality. New York
Summer Rates. Charming rms w/Kitchen.
St. Maarten-New villa - on edge of coral
Milford, PA 18337.
Mag said: "It's just marvelous, really is."
From $70/day; $199/4 days; $349/wk.
rock extending onto sea. 2 BR/bth, full kit,
2 1/4 hrs from NYC. 914-373-9681
In NY - 212-645-8989
1-800-777-8215
pvt pool, maid, A/C. 914-778-2581
CLASSIFIED INDEX
Town and Country
100
Summer Entertaining
103
Travel
100
Interiors
105
Health and Fitness
102
Services and Sales
106
Boat and Yacht
102 Personals
108
New York Kids
103 Assortments
111
AUGUST 27, 1990/NEW YORK
101
HEALTH AND FITNESS
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Contact Mark Bristow for billing procedures and advertising information. All ads accepted at the discretion of the publisher.
COUNSELING
Gentle Bodywork-A relaxing treatment.
PHYSICAL FITNESS
Weight Management & Medifast
New East 80's locale. 212-734-4419.
Medically Supervised Weight Loss
FINDING A THERAPIST TO TRUST
Personalized Eating/Exercise Plans
Revitalization Therapy-Relax & un-
Shape Up At Home Or Office-Certified,
CAN BE HARD...
Behavior Reshaping
wind your stress away. 212-996-0957.
one-on-one fitness inst. 212-628-8189.
WE'LL MAKE IT EASY
Long-Term Maintenance
Manhattan Referral Service sm selects a
Sex Problems?-Unique holistic ap-
Possible Insurance Reimbursement
Beach Bodies-Private in-home trainer.
licensed therapist, specially trained to
RENAISSANCE MEDICAL GROUP
proach. Lasting results. M/F. 212-580-5335
Best workout in town. 212-247-6934
34th & 2nd
212-686-3131
help with your problems. 212-439-0322
Ancient Egyptian Body Calming-
PSYCHOTHERAPY FOR CHANGE
Private Sanctuary App't. $250-$350.
WEIGHT CONTROL
LOSE UP TO 10 LBS OR MORE
Effective treatment for depression,
Oasis from pressures. 212-686-3272.
IN ONE WEEK!
anxiety, work and relationship problems.
At the GARDEN SPA INN (formerly
Exp'd & skilled. State-licensed. Reason-
HYPNOSIS
Certified Hypnotherapist-Weight Loss.
Grand Lake Spa, CT.) Our Great Program
able fee & Free consultation. 212-645-4524
Only 1 Session. 212-265-2772
Continues With Free Massage Daily 3 Gour-
met Diet Meals a Day Year-Round Pool.
Sex Problems?-Male counselors. Pri-
Quit Smoking-Only one session. Certi-
(800) 232-2772
(201) 303-0717
vate, patient & confidential. 212-832-6659.
fied hypnotherapist. 212-265-2772
THE SPA AT GRAND LAKE, CT.
Less Than 1 Hour From NYC
Under New Management remodeled
GARDEN SPA INN, NJ
Therapeutic Hypnosis-Weight, Smok-
rooms. Lose up to 10 lbs. per week
Crisis Normalization-A short-term ther-
ing. Phobias. Sessions by PhD. 420-9017.
while being pampered.
apy with long-term results. This new ther-
3 Gourmet Diet Meals Free Massage Daily
LOSE 1 LB A DAY!
apy has helped hundreds out of crisis and
Certified Hypnotherapist-10 years' ex-
Fitness Classes Yoga, Spa, Indoor Pool.
Call us for the most relaxing
Diet specialist, MD. Men, Women, Teens.
back to life. Individual, family and group.
perience. Susan Walker. 212-316-3096.
vacation of your life!
Insurance forms OK. No contracts.
East Side Center For Short-Term
Outside CT: 1-800-THE SPA-1
MANHATTAN DIET CLINIC
Psychotherapy 212-941-8844
MEDICAL
In CT: 203-642-4306.
212-245-5940 119 W 57th, 5th fl. Rm. 520
Westchester Diet Clinic. 914-969-8200.
DENTAL
Stop Dieting! Change Habits. Free con-
WHITE TEETH
HEMORRHOIDS
sultation, one-on-one, your office or ours.
LOSE WEIGHT SENSIBLY
The Caryl Ehrlich Program 212-752-8377
Lose 3-5 lbs per week
No caps, bleaching or bonding.
Treated with Lasers
working one-on-one
Cosmetic dental care. $499.00
Call for FREE Consultation
OPTIFAST
with a specially-trained MD
Dr. King 212-972-9299
Painless, safe treatment
715 Park Ave. (70th St) 212-288-5473.
FIFTH AVENUE MEDICAL INSTITUTE
Insurance plans accepted
Official Medifast® Center
HEALTH & BEAUTY
LASER MEDICAL ASSOC.
Most Insurance Accepted
Call Free 1-800-MD-TUSCH
LOSE WEIGHT FAST
860 5th Ave. (68th St.)
212-628-3113
Electrolysis by Mala Feit, RN-Free con-
UP TO 8-10 LBS. IN ONE WEEK
CHOICE OF
sultation. E.57th. 212-753-1200
Impotent? New medical method over
Men! Women! LOSE 20-30 LBS-In 1
90% effective. Non-surgical, safe & confi-
Supervised Fasting
REVERSE AGING
Low-Calorie Vegetarian Regimen
Month. Under Weekly Medical And
dential. MD office. E. 84th. 212-840-2121.
Rates start at $70 a night
Psychological Supervision.
Let Hattie Wiener, Anti-Aging
Write Or Call PAWLING HEALTH MANOR
Diane Britton, Ph.D.
Consultant/Psychotherapist, teach you to
CLEAN UP YOUR ACT!
Box 2001, Hyde Park, NY 12538
Weight Resources, Inc. 212-807-8080
transform your body & attitude. 489-3758
End constipation forever. Control weight
(914) 889-4141
with a unique combination of herbs. All
HOLISTIC HEALTH
natural. Nature's Cleanser. 212-888-0839.
LOSE WEIGHT
MEDIFAST
Rapid, Safe, Multi-modal, MD-directed.
Rejuvenation-Soft-Tissue Balancing
Experienced Acupuncturist/Internist-
Weight Loss & Control Program
Inquire re insurance. Free consultation.
therapy. Stress relief. 212-222-4868.
Ling Sun Chu, MD. 107 E. 73rd 472-3000.
212-249-6829 201-567-9394
J. Lavigne, MD.
212-879-4260
BOAT AND YACHT
New York Boat And Yacht is a weekly feature. Rates effective with the January 8, 1990 issue: $43.68 per line, one-time ad; $38.22 per line, four consecutive ads; $33.28
per line, seven consecutive ads. Approximately 36 characters equal 1 line (count each letter, space and punctuation mark as a character). The first line is available
in bold print followed by a dash. No abbreviations. Minimum ad two lines. Add $20.00 for NYM Box Numbers. Display classified ads are accepted. Complete rate
card available. Certified check or money order must accompany copy and be received by Tuesday for issue on sale the next Monday. Phone orders accepted only
with American Express, MasterCard or Visa. Boat And Yacht Section, Classified Department, New York Magazine, 755 Second Ave., NY, NY 10017-5906,
212-643-6500. Contact Christina Post for billing procedures and advertising information. All ads accepted at the discretion of the publisher.
Cruise New York Aboard Mystique
Finisterre Yacht Charters
Elegant Entertaining Afloat
LOTS OF YACHTS
NY's finest selection of motor and sailing
Corporate & Private Yacht Parties.
Corporate Events Weddings Parties
THE 112' LUXURY YACHT "SALISA"
Weddings, Bar Mitzvahs, Luncheons
yachts available for corporate parties,
WORLDWIDE VACATIONS
Fully-catered cruises. Up to 100 guests.
Dinner Cruises from $32.95.
special events, weddings and graduations.
(516) 725-3200
Pier 62 W. 23 St., NYC 212-989-7952
Parties from 2-2,000. Call 212-505-2214.
Luncheon Cruises from $24.50.
Celebrate In Style 718-351-9395
GLORIA II-Motor Yacht Cruises.
Book Your Christmas Party Now!
Majestic NY's New 110-ft Charter Yacht
Exquisite Parties Afloat. Up to 120 Guests
Featured in New York Mag's "Fast Track"
CENTRAL BOAT BOOKING CO.
Private Sail With Someone Special
for Weddings and Priv./Corp. Events.
August 13.
212-724-6110
Chartering Agents for the Best US
45' Yacht, Skyline, Dom Perignon, Roses,
Hors d'Oeuvres - $595. (212) 873-7558
CALL MAJESTIC CHARTERS:
Private Luxury Yacht Cruises-Newest
Coast Guard-Approved, Insured Party
201-319-9624 914-738-7407
Vessels in NY/NJ Harbor, Since 1972.
yachts in harbor. For 2-600. Est over 14 yrs
World Yacht Charter Brokers
Or Request Us From Your Yacht Broker.
212-307-0985 Bonded! 201-333-0067
Caliber Yacht Charters 212-248-3800
For groups from 2 to 2,000
YACHTS FOR ALL SEASONS
choose from over 200 superb motor
DOVE YACHT CHARTERS
Manhattan Yacht Charters n. 1. the best
Parties planned with your needs in mind.
and sailing yachts. All are US Coast
M/Y Jabiru
M/Y Jacana
parties; highest standards of professional-
No event too large or too small.
Guard-certified. On-site inspection,
Personalized, Luxurious Yacht Charters.
ism, quality and attention to detail. 2. in-
expert catering and ample parking.
Intimate dinners for two to your
dividualized service, unforgettable affairs,
Corporate & private. 212-534-6380
Gideon Rosen, Stan Biesky or Pam Wiley
largest corporate events.
wide variety of choice. 3. elegance. 4. per-
Free Copy-Call for "The Harbor News",
handle every detail. Call 212-627-2775.
NYC 212-645-9348
NJ 201-482-1991
fection. 5. Mary, Jordan 212-772-9430
rating all charter boats. 212-307-0985
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27, 1990
NEW YORK
KIDS
DAY CARE
A Touch Of Class DJ's-Music Videos,
NANNIES
PURPLE PICKLE
Clowns, Characters, Fun! 718-966-0255.
University Early Childhood Learning
Center 8:00 AM 6:00 PM, 52 Weeks,
PARTY PEOPLE
PLAZA PAMPERS PARENTS Since
Mr. Lucky's Performing Dogs-Parties
for children of all ages. 800-564-8873
1955. Responsible, caring Baby Nurses
Ages 2-6, Part-Time Available. Innovative,
300 ACTS FOR KIDS
and Nannies. Short or long-term. No res-
Academic Focus. 212-228-KIDS (5437)
BRING YOUR CHILD'S FAVORITE
Chuckles Clown, Minny Mouse-Face
ervations necessary. Plaza Nurses Agency
ENTERTAINMENT
CARTOON TO LIFE WITH A COS-
painting, magic & puppets. 718-965-8663
(212) 466-1662
(516) 887-1200
TUME CHARACTER THEME PARTY.
Madeleine, Award-Winning Magician!-
TUTORING
NYC's NEW INFORMATION LINE
We Also Have Clowns, Magicians, Ven-
Call 540-KIDS for Daily Update
triloquists, Puppet Shows, Old
And Clown/Bunny Act too! For ages 1-99!
McDonald's Live Animal Farm, Kids'
Will travel anywhere! Call 212-601-8207
Certified Teachers In All Fields-From
on What's New, Free, Fun for Kids 2-15.
212, 516, 718, 914 Home Touchtones
Olympics, DJ Trivia, DJ Discos, Rock
anthropology to zoology, including Bar
Party, Kid-Size Carnivals & Theater Party.
Starmite Puppets-Ninjas, Turtles, Mer-
Mitzvah lessons. On-location education.
Charlie The Chimp-And his baby sister
Complete Party Planning for Birthdays &
maids, Superheroes! Ages 2-10. 473-3409
212-724-1823
Casey. Adult/Kid Shows. 914-357-3318
Bar/Bat Mitzvahs. Mom, Dad, Corporate:
THE PLACE TO BE-NEW YORK
Hawaiian Luau, Las Vegas Night, 50's
Gandalf "Knows precisely how to appeal
Magazine's new advertising section, NEW
Call 212-643-6500-To Place Your Ad In
Party, or a Western Party!
Est. 1978.
to kids" NY Mag. Magic, Unicycling,
YORK KIDS. For more information, call
New York's ENTERTAINING Section.
Free Brochure
(212) 227-1217
Puppetry. 516-295-5108, 201-567-5044.
Michelle Miller-Hamm at 212-643-6454.
SUMMER ENTERTAINING
New York Summer Entertaining is a weekly feature. Rates effective with the January 8, 1990 issue: $43.68 per line, one-time ad; $38.22 per line, four consecutive ads;
$33.28 per line, seven consecutive ads. 36 characters equal 1 line (count each letter, space and punctuation mark as a character). The first line is available in bold print
followed by a dash. No abbreviations. Minimum ad two lines. Add $20.00 for NYM Box Numbers. Display Classified ads are available at $464 per inch, one-time
insertion. Complete rate card available. Certified check or money order must accompany copy and be received by Tuesday for issue on sale the next Monday. Phone
orders accepted only with American Express, MasterCard or Visa. Entertaining Section, Classified Department, New York Magazine, 755 Second Avenue, New York,
NY 10017-5906 or call 212-643-6500. Contact Denise Sisto or Christina Post for billing procedures and advertising information. All ads accepted at the discretion
of the publisher.
CARICATURES
Phantom Of The Opera
Be A Singing Star-Portable Recording
BALLOONS-TO-YOU
All Theater Aspects of Love...
Booth. Video Singalong. 718-268-4411
NATIONWIDE! 28" long chocolate
Leading Caricaturist-Enliven your busi-
Paul McCartney, David Bowie, New Kids.
DIAL-N-ACT 212-861-2438
brownies, long-stemmed cookies, walking
ness or private party. 212-873-1695.
Call Union Tickets 1-800-666-2695
balloons, custom chocolates. Local &
Overnight Delivery.
VI/MC/AmEx
Hot Strippers, M/F, Belly, DJ's, Tarot,
nationwide events. 7 days. Same-day ser-
Caricatures By Giordano-Free samples.
Palms. Bartenders & Waiters Available.
vice. (212) 466-9274 / (516) 868-2325
Fast. Reasonable prices. 201-778-6379
Theater-To-Go-NY's #1 Roasts, Magic,
Murder Mysteries. 212-496-1000
FEMALE STRIPPER for OFFICES
Celebrity Look-Alikes-Over 100 top im-
Caricaturist/Comedian-Fast, Funny,
Business professional who'll fool anyone.
personators from Groucho to Madonna.
Friendly. 212-254-8927/914-834-4079.
Why Do Adults/Kids Love-Michael the
Birthdays, Promotions, Retirements,
Wunderman Productions 516-868-1795
Magician/Mindreader? Call 212-677-1536.
Parties Too! No Agency Commissions.
Philip James Herman-"Caricaturist Par
AMEX. NY/NJ. Call Amber 201-795-4892
Excellence." 914-357-3318, 800-660-8899.
Strippers, Gorillas, Belly Dancers,
"Bravo!" Entertainment-NY's Top Talent
Magician Mentalist-Jon Steinfeld.
Balloons and Singing Telegrams.
The Good, The Bad & The Beautiful!-
at Fair $$. Murder Mysteries, N. Turtles,
Balloon-A-Grams Of NY - 212-989-9338
Grand Illusions. 212-228-2967.
Realistic Caricatures. 212-662-8097
Look-alikes, Clowns, Magic. 212-744-9000
"ThislsYourLifeRoastNToast"
MURDER MYSTERY, INC
Gorillas Galore, Balloons-Chicken,
ENTERTAINMENT
"KILL 'EM" At Your Next Affair.
bellygrams, strippers. Anywhere, at any
Personalized Hilarious Costumed
Corporate Private Parties Fund Raisers
time. Life O' The Party. 201-342-2121.
Look-Alike. 212-713-5330, 201-679-0874
GIANT CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIE
"So Much Fun It's Almost Criminal."
Balloon In A Box Pinata In A Box
FUN NEW PARTY IDEAS
516-673-4979
$25 Bouquet Of Balloons-NY/LI. 7 days
till 10 pm. 718-868-1009, 516-569-3366.
Shipped Nationwide.
Instant Superimposed Photos Of Guests
Movie Madness®-Zany director leads
Fabulous Balloon Bouquets Sent Daily.
Movie, magazine, sport themes, etc.
guests in a hilarious, custom-written skit.
Palm Reader-Elegant and evocative. En-
Unique Novelty Store. Balloon Saloon
Also: diving for dollars, recording studios.
Adult, Bar Mitzvah, 16's. 212-362-3708.
tertains all ages. 212-741-3195.
133 W. B'way. 800-540-0749 212-227-3838
Laser Star. 1-800-223-6060, lit avail.
S-T-R-I-P-P-E-R-S
Psychic-Internationally respected.
HOTBODIES
J. Pizzi Entertainment, Inc.
George Koury 212-642-5027, 914-657-8308
Dial a Hot Strip, Bellys, Balloons, Tarot
The Best For Less!
516-424-4016 212-912-1705 718-343-3535
Comedy/Magic/Ventriloquism/Clowns.
Free Gift.
718-338-2438.
Free Brochure.
718-761-4248
UNIQUE THEME PARTY
CLASSACT
MAGIC AGENCY, INC.
Specialists Complete Entertainment-
Hypnosis, ESP Show-Amazing, hilan-
Representing the Best in Magic. Complete
Casinos, Hawaiian, Carnivals, Look-alikes
New York's Best Singing Telegrams
ous. Call: Zordini. 516-759-3434.
Entertainment Packages. 212-288-9133.
Murder Mystery, La Troupe Dancers, DJ's
With Roses, Champagne Or Chocolates!
Renaissance, Mimes. Corp./Priv.
BALLOON DECORATING
Palmistry, The Tarot, Numerology-By
Ventriloquist Comedy-Direct From
Barry Dean 516-536-6606 / 212-809-6666
STRIPPERS AND BELLY DANCERS
registered psychic. 212-410-1299.
Nat'l TV To Your Function. 718-252-1876
All Boroughs and LI
718-482-7464
Sexy Strippers-Hot Show, M/F, Great
Balloons And Things-Bouquets & Care
STRIPTEEZAGRAM
Unique Entertainment/Theme Parties-
Looks. Pick From Photos. 212-744-9000
Packages. 914-638-6470, 201-307-9343
Birthday Bachelor Bridal Shower
From DJ's, lighting, video, robots, lasers,
212-391-2480 718-352-9423 516-579-5435
entertainers and sets to custom packages.
Superstrippers-Sexy, young M/F.
Master Magician-Exciting fun for all
Wunderman Productions 516-868-1795.
Choose from photos. 212-496-1000.
events. Participation. 212-885-3038.
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SUMMER ENTERTAINING
Continued from previous page.
Mike Turitto-Professional disc jockey.
Howard's Gourmet-Weddings, Affairs.
Weddings/Parties/Clubs. 212-679-9073
Private/Corp. Party Spaces. 212-724-0912
PARTIES
ENTERTAINMENT/KID
One Man Band Ltd.-Cory Morgenstern.
PARTY CONSULTANT
HAVE YOURS
212-601-4269. Music for all occasions.
At The
Patchiddy Players-Star in a musical tale.
Mermaid & Ninjas. Anne 212-740-6201
CREATIVE CONSULTING
Pianist/Singer-Elegant, Swinging Cock-
tail Jazz. Jonathan L. Segal 212-222-3169
- The Art Of Party Planning
ENTERTAINMENT/MUSIC
Jill Schlesinger
212-472-3640
NOBODY CATERS
Sophisticated Pianist-Yale-trained.
LIKE THE COPA !
Gershwin, Porter, B'way... 212-799-2369
PARTY SERVICE
Excellent Banquet Facilities
LIVE MUSIC!
10 East 60th St. (5th Ave.)
ENTERTAINMENT/SINGLES
Specialists In Music Entertainment-
MORAN'S TOWNHOUSE Inspiring
Call (212) 755-6010
Rock Classical Jazz Swing Country...
Victorian Elegance Imagine Your Own
Musicians With Unmatched Credentials.
Townhouse for That Special Event. Parties
"Yachting For Singles"-Cocktail Party
Rocky Lee-A private entrance to our
Corp./Priv. BEST SWING 212-765-8714
in Private Settings. Brian 212-732-2070
at Lancers (230 44th St.) NYC 5:30pm,
upstairs party room. Complete kitchen,
!!! SAMBA & CALYPSO !!!
August 23. Info. on sailing: (718) 357-6570
bar and seating up to 200. Our low budget
La Colombe d'Or
will make the difference. Anne: 212-
Hot Brazilian Music/Dancers. Caribbean
753-4858. 987 2nd Ave. - corner 52nd St.
Themes. Lambada, Limbo, Jazz & DJs.
GIFT BASKET
New York Times
SAMBA NOVO (718) 965-1765
Forbes
Gift Baskets For All Occasions-
Our private parties are
S.O.B.'s-Priv/corp events. 20-400. Super
KIMBALL MUSICAL SERVICES
Island Cuisine & Music. 212-727-0949
Bands & DJ's. Rock, Jazz, Classical,
Including Risqué. Same-Day Service.
legendary. 15 to 30 for
lunch. dinner & cocktails.
Caribbean & International. 212-996-3288
Balloon 212-227-3838 800-540-0749
Moran's Fabulous Foods-Unforgettable
Call 689-0666
Parties Charming Fireplaces and Patio
LISA GOODMAN ENSEMBLES
BASKETFULL, Inc.
Gardens. Personalized Service and Plan-
Fine Classical Music, Quality Jazz, Swing,
Send a Basketfull of Get Well, New Baby,
On Occasion-Meal prep, serving,
ning for 40-300. Colleen - 212-989-5689.
Motown, Contemporary. 212-489-1641
Thank You or Anything... 212-255-6800
cleanup, in your own home. 212-682-6281
PARTY AMIDST NOSTALGIA
Mind-Sweeper DJ's-Great party music,
Waiters Waitresses Bartenders
In Terrific 1940's Big Band Ambiance.
30's-90's, lights, prof. refs. 718-875-9824.
A TISKET A TASKET®
Available throughout tri-state area.
5 & 10 No Exaggeration
For every possible occasion. The first gift
Gold Coast Servers, Inc.
77 Greene St.
212-925-7414
Park Swing Orchestras-Masterful
basket co. in NY still the finest! Delivered
718-451-0546
516-484-6167
Perfect for Anniversary/Bridal Functions
musicians playing all styles. 212-737-8849
& shipped in USA same day. 212-308-4066
MARK SONDER MUSIC, INC.
The Right Music For Any Gathering!
Baskets With Style-A gift no one ever
Ristorante
S.P.Q.R.
Party Professionals-Our Chelsea loft
with view & other unusual NYC locations.
212-876-3500.
returns. Purple Door® 212-627-4076
SENATUS POPULUSQUE ROMANUS
Personalized catering & coordinating for
(The Senate & People of Rome)
Whether you are planning a small party for friends
any size event.
212-807-8278.
MARTY STEVENS ORCHESTRA
The Baby Boom Has Ended...
or a 7-course dinner to cement a corporate merger
Cole Porter, Jazz, Motown,
The BASKET BOOM
whether your guests number 3 or 300
Serving Classic Italian Dishes
PARTY SPACE
Contemporary, Classical. 212-517-3008.
Has Begun... Creative Gift Baskets
133 Mulberry St. 212-925-3120
For All or Any Occasion! Call
(Betw Hester & Grand in Little Italy)
The Black Tie Orchestra-NY's romantic
Fredda Grey or Melissa Elias 212-714-1411
Your Wedding or Special Event in our
dinner/dance music! A world-class violin
MAY WE HELP YOU?-Cooks, waiters
beautiful, Upper East Side setting. Event
duo to Big Band! 25th year. 718-478-2982
Baby Wishes-Ultimate Gift Baskets for
& bartenders for parties & dinners;
planning. 202east. Jan 212-861-4330
the new arrival! We Deliver! 212-744-3043
Mobile Music DJ's-Best of the 30's-90's.
organizers for disorderly homes & offices.
Joe Shane 212-254-1549 / 914-769-9056
Serving NYC/NJ/Rockland. 212-662-3076
Birthdays! Bar/Bat Mitzvahs! Sweet 16's!
GOURMET
NY's largest disco complex w/the only In-
LEND-A-HAND
door Drive-In Theater in America. Classic
The Feetwarmers-Outstanding swing,
Party Help Cleaning Service
Cars Museum, Sing-Along, Pop-A-Shot.
hot jazz. Rhythm and blues. 201-854-7483
Perfect Touch Caterers-Full service, lo-
Since 1971
212-362-8200
Decor & music from pure 50's nostalgia
cations, weddings & corp. *Cocktail par-
Affordable Party Music-DJ's from $300.
to 90's. 50-1,000P. With or w/out catering.
ties at Andy Warhol's old factory. CIA-
PLANNING A PARTY? Call ARTIE'S
Special off-peak rates. 212-662-4921.
Call Nancy Levy at 212-645-7384
trained chefs. 212-CATERER. Voted #1
Warehouse Restaurant. 539 West 21st St.
A Touch Of Class DJ's-Music Videos,
Market Week Lunches-Accessories Mag
Private Parties 10-300. 212-989-9500
THE COLUMNS
Videotaping, Balloons 718-966-0255
Elegant Grand Ballroom and
Best Swing Band Lowest Price-
Skylight Room with Rooftop Terrace.
Unmatched Credentials. 212-245-3059
NEW YORK Magazine
Weddings Corporate or Private Parties.
BOK Music
FALL
Looks To The Future
50-1,000 Guests. Creative Party Planning
and In-House Catering Now Available!!
All Styles No Schtick
584 Broadway near Houston 212-941-9464
Call 24 Hours: 914-723-0739, 212-794-2788
PREVIEW
CHEVY'S NY's Hottest 50's Club
CHARLOTTE RUSSE MUSIC
Located at 27 West 20th St, NYC. Now
Jazz Rock Classical - Motown Klezmer
available for holiday, corp & private par-
212-582-5694
516-374-5422
ties. Accom 100-800 p. With or without
DYNASTY ORCHESTRAS & DJ'S
catering.
Call Nancy 212-645-7384
Jazz Motown Rock Classical Top 40
A BOUNTIFUL ISSUE
Call 1-800-238-BAND
Your Bar Mitzvah, Sweet 16 In Our
NEW YORK Magazine's Fall Preview issue is the all-
Beautiful Upper East Side, Private Setting.
Ensembles By Dorrance-Affordable
inclusive guide to the city's most eagerly antici-
Event planning.
Jan (212) 861-4330.
Classical & Jazz Music. 212-586-5461
pated season, with scene-stealing peeks at what's
20/20 ELEGANT ART DECO CLUB
Hudson Woodwind Trio-Juilliard grads
ahead in film, theater, art, nightlife, fashion, and
20th St. off 5th Ave. CORP/PRIV PAR-
Elegant classical music. 201-440-7614.
much, much, more.
TIES from 100-800P. Top Sound System/
DJ/Video. Fine cuisine or outside caterers
Jazz/Classical-Duos, trios & up. Parties,
A PLENTIFUL AUDIENCE
welcome. Call Nancy: 212-645-7384
openings, etc. 212-727-0219, 201-762-5893.
Fall Preview is also the not-to-be missed advertising
Ken Gross Orchestras
opportunity of the year for marketers who need to
THE TOWER 212.620.0505
Ballroom, Pop, Klezmer, Rock
reach 1.5 million* go-anywhere, see-everything
Dramatic Space Greenhouse Entry
Music to Match the Moment 718-229-5522
readers. For predictably excellent results, call:
30' Cathedral Ceiling Skylights Balcony
Kit McClure Band-Elegant ladies play
Successful Affairs-Discovers & uncovers
great dance music. 40's-90's. 212-864-6759
212
643
6500
the finest in party facilities. Our services
are at no cost to you. 212-683-7574
Manhattan Swing Orchestras-Fine jazz,
1989 SMRB
Continued on next page.
rock and classical music. 212-765-8850.
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NEW YORK/AUGUST 27, 1990
SUMMER ENTERTAINING
Continued from previous page.
THE BASKET BOOM
Magnificent Manhattan Disco-For your
Wedding & Party Favors such as Breakfast
PARTY SPACE
next party of 300-2,000. Emerald City (for-
NEW YORK Magazine's
Baskets & more. Kosher/non-kosher.
merly Red Parrot). Info: 212-755-0496-97
SUMMER
Contact Fredda or Melissa: 212-714-1411
M.K. Spectacular Fifth Ave. Townhouse
ELEGANT PARISIAN BALLROOM
ENTERTAINING
Mansion-With Full Park Views, Grand
French Windows, Antique Bar, Stained
Marble Staircase. Ideal for Weddings and
For The Best Priv/Corp Parties In Town!
Glass, 60' Balcony. 212-677-3173.
Has The Latest Word On
Corporate Parties.
212-779-1340
DEZERLAND-NY's unique extrava-
Where To Find Tempting
ganza. 100,000 sq. ft. of fun! 4 clubs in one.
West Side Party Space-Weddings, meet-
Treats And Spirited Drinks.
Hot Rod, Surfside Club, VIP Room, In-
ings, etc. Seats 140. 212-877-6115
MUSEUM HALL - Newly Renovated.
Advertise Your Service
Ideal setting for weddings & all occasions.
door Drive-In Theater, Sing-Along &
Classic Car Museum. Decor & music from
WEDDINGS
This Summer!
Complete catering available. 212-473-2910
50's thru 90's. Accom 100-2,000p. With or
Call Denise Sisto or
w/out catering. Call Nancy Levy at
Delmonico's-Weddings in Victorian
Elegant Chelsea Loft-Weddings & pri-
Christina Post at
212-645-7384
Splendor. Surprisingly Reasonable!
vate parties. Catering avail. 212-242-2633
212-643-6500
(212) 422-4747
INTERIORS
New York Interiors is a weekly feature. Rates effective with the January 8, 1990 issue: $43.68 per line, one-time ad; $38.22 per line, four consecutive ads; $33.28 per
line, seven consecutive ads. 36 characters equal 1 line. The first line is available in bold print followed by a dash. No abbreviations. Minimum ad two lines. Display
Classified ads are available. Certified check or money order must accompany copy and be received by Tuesday for issue on sale the next Monday. Phone orders
accepted only with American Express, MasterCard or Visa. Interiors Section, Classified Department, New York Magazine, 755 Second Avenue, New York, NY
10017-5906. Call Steve Priesel at 212-643-6500 for billing procedures and advertising information. All ads accepted at the discretion of the publisher.
ANTIQUES
FURNITURE
USE-WHAT-YOU-HAVE INTERIORS
DECORATIVE PAINTING
Expert redecoration without new
investment as featured by NY Magazine,
Love Antiques?-We do the leg work. Ex-
Hayman-Chaffee-144" white wall unit
NY Times and CBS-TV. Only $195/room.
Trompe L'Oeil & Faux-Superb work
pert advice. Below retail. Cert. appraisers.
$8,500. Bedroom w/2 armoires beige.
Serving the tri-state area. 212-288-8888.
and classes. Tromploy Inc. 212-420-1639.
Also to the trade. Matthew Elliot Antiques
Light bridge $4,500. Dining table plus 6
718-377-8555 or 718-253-7179
chairs, occasional tables and crystal
Rent-A-Decorator®-Budget-oriented
English Painter-Faux finishes, graining,
chandeliers.
212-744-5995.
pro designs "your" space at "your" pace.
marbling, all glaze effects. 14 Years
ANTIQUES FAIR-Sept 2 & 3.
$55 hourly. Featured in NY Times &
European Experience. 212-319-1837.
Sunday & Monday Halfmoon Flea Market
MATTRESSES & BOXSPRINGS
Glamour. Call for reprints. 212-869-9727.
Grounds Rt. 146, Halfmoon, NY
Famous name brands SEALY,
WINDOW TREATMENT
Northway (87), Exit 9 East 5 miles to
STEARNS & FOSTER, SIMMONS,
The Mendenhall Group-Has expanded
open air market. General market
SERTA, KING KOIL, others all sizes,
from Wash., D.C. Now in NY, we offer our
open every Sunday, 6:30 AM.
platforms, futons. Immediate delivery.
exclusive "Package Deal". A unique,
LEVOLOR® VERTICALS
Major credit cards. Closed Sundays.
Halfmoon Flea Market, P.O. Box 370
affordable interior design service for
CARPET / FLOORING
Fredrick The Mattress King
home or office.
212-687-2580
Halfmoon, NY 12065. (518) 383-4117
107 E. 31st St.
212-683-8322
Absolutely Free
If We Don't Beat All Other Prices.
Sixth Avenue Arts And Antiques-
LIGHTING
"Best Bet In Metro Area"
Outdoors every SAT. & SUN., 9am-5pm.
Joan Hamburg 8/24/89
The Annex, 25th St. and 6th Ave. Dealer
GENERAL CONTRACTORS
Track By Jack, Inc.-Track lighting spe-
HAGGAR IND., INC. Est. 1932.
Info - 718-965-1076.
Ample Parking.
cialists. Designs. Installations. Discounts.
212-538-6567
718-748-8600
Tri-State Contractors-Design & reno-
Everything stocked. 212-340-9111.
Nationwide 800-432-8282
Coury's Antiques of Nyack, NY-4,000
vation from conception to completion.
Kitchens/baths, custom cabinets, painting,
ADVERTISERS-Reach 1.5 million
sq. ft. of American & European mahog-
any, oak & pine furniture. Delivery.
offices, lobbies, showrooms. Free est.
readers, intent on making their places
Insured. 800-666-7770.
more than livable. Call 212-643-6500.
Creative And Unique Solutions-For
102 Main St. 800-229-5305.
your window treatment needs. We will
match or create the perfect treatment for
BATHROOMS
Nesor Construction-Specializing in
PAINTING AND
Baths and Kitchens. 718-786-8580
your windows. By appointment only.
WALLPAPERING
Chaki Designs
212-371-7290.
HOME/BUSINESS
Bathrooms Restored-Cleaning,
Regrouting and Tile Work. 212-533-8413.
IMPROVEMENT
Up Against The Wall-Meticulous
Adam, The First Man To Call-For all
Paperhanger/painter. Free estimates.
custom window treatments. 212-986-1510.
Comm'l/Residential. Gary: 212-679-5024.
CARPET
Custom Wiring-Your apt, for cable TV,
Factory Clearance Sale-To 80% off. Call
telephone & VCR setups. 718-459-5088
Wall-Covering, Installation and Removal
for Free Catalog. 800-924-6333.
Ornamental plastering, custom painting.
CARPET BROADLOOM
Make-A-Room®-Ora Bi-Folding Closet.
Demetrious Gardelis
718-783-4868
LEVOLOR ® RIVIERAS
Commercial/Residential. All Major
Fine Walls, Doors & More! 212-966-0436.
Painting, Papering-Thorough prepara-
RATED "BEST" FOR
Brands, Professionally Installed. Huge
tion. Insured. Steve Molnar. 212-869-3050.
PRICE, QUALITY & SERVICE BY
Discounts. Free Shop-At-Home/Office.
NY Craftsmen-Carpentry, electric, etc.
HAGGAR INDUSTRIES INC, EST. 1932
Contracting. All size jobs. 212-477-4477
THE UNDERGROUND SHOPPER,
BARGAIN FINDER AND
1-800-C-A-R-P-E-T-S
Fine Painting-Wall and ceiling renewal,
JOAN HAMBURG OF WOR & CH. 2
City Walls-Carpentry to contracting.
color planning, glazing. Ins. 212-874-4384.
Small to large jobs. Insured. 212-477-3823
Kingsboro Home Products
CLOSETS
212-243-0722
718-238-5353
Fine Painting & Papering-Marbling,
Custom Woodwork-Cabinetry, furni-
Sponging, Glazing. Rob 212-889-6874. Ins.
ture. Design/installation. 212-463-7789.
CLOSETS/STORAGE SYSTEMS
Does Your Home
Carpentry, Painting, Renovation Work
Exceptional Painting-Quality, careful,
As seen in New York Magazine.
clean work, free estimates. Full insurance
Need a New Look?
Custom-Designed
Professionally Installed
You Deserve Factory the Best!
Artists and Craftsmen Cooperative.
and excellent references. 718-204-9137.
Rely on New York
212-865-4459
212-249-8885
Fine Painting & Papering-Expert, neat
Magazine's
For free in-home
INTERIOR DESIGNERS
& reliable. Dennis Cleary: 212-633-1164
consultation, call
INTERIORS
1 (800) 251-0155
Painting, Papering, Plastering-Excellent
No Time? Too Busy?-Decor Time-
refs. Call Michael O'Dwyer: 718-446-0671.
Advertisers For All
Saving Service for NY sophisticates. Per-
Home Improvement &
To Place Your Ad In This Section,
Call 212-643-6500.
sonal home and office shopping service.
Innovative Interiors-Paint & wallpaper-
Decorating Needs
212-675-5233
ing specialist. References. 718-956-3813
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SERVICES AND SALES
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Minimum ad two lines. Add $20.00 for NYM Box Numbers. Display Classified ads are available at $464 per inch, one-time insertion. Complete rate card available.
Certified check or money order must accompany copy and be received by Tuesday for issue on sale the next Monday. Phone orders accepted only with AMEX,
Mastercard or Visa. Services And Sales Section, Classified Department, New York Magazine, 755 Second Avenue, New York, NY 10017-5906 or call 212-643-6500.
Contact Mark Bristow or Steve Priesel for billing procedures and advertising information. All ads accepted at the discretion of the publisher.
APPLIANCE
Maid At Home, Inc.-Perfection is what
RAINBOW MOVERS INC. Since 1977
MASSAGE/THERAPEUTIC
our maid service is all about. 212-769-9477
Home, office & art. Packing. Storage.
Visit our Tribeca store/call for free deliv.
SHOP VIA YOUR TELEPHONE
Leisure Cleaning Services-For all your
19 Leonard St. DOT 1747 212-431-8551 Ax
M.T. Health Club-Shiatsu, Steam,
For TV, VCR, refrigerator, ranges,
home & corp. apt. needs. Daily, weekly,
Sauna. Men & Women. 212-685-6978.
washers, dryers, microwave ovens, air
spring cleanings. Est. 1979. 212-628-6130
1-800-4-MIRACLE "MOVERS"
cond. Call Mon-Fri, 9-5 pm, with
Home/office/no job too small or too large.
Mano Matthews-Also dancers/sports
make/model number, for low price.
COMPUTER INSTRUCTION
DOT 11776 All supplies 201 East 87th St
massage. W.73. 212-724-0717, 787-1883.
PRICEWATCHERS . 718-470-1620.
NICE JEWISH BOY With Mini-Storage
Expert Swedish-Shiatsu. Deep tissue.
Television, Appliance Bargains-New,
Macintosh Developer-Specializing in all
24-hr service. Big & small jobs.
Injuries. Jeanie 212-750-8947. 7 days
warranteed. Call for quotes. Home Sales
types of sales & marketing programs will
Local & long distance. 1000 S. Fort St.,
Relieve Tension, Aches & Pains-
Enterprises. 718-241-3272, 212-513-1513.
custom design a program to fit your
Harrison, NJ PM 00401. 212-925-1043.
exclusive needs. Reasonable rates.
Swedish/Shiatsu Call Joyce 212-696-0043
ART
Contact: Sean 212-348-7374.
WEST SIDE MOVERS
LOTUS SHIATSU
PC EASY!-Learn to use PC's, Lotus,
Fine art, antiques, packing, boxes, pads,
Shiatsu Swedish
ANIMATION ART-Gallery with orig-
WordPerfect, Paradox, etc. with pro-
dollies, bubble wrap. 644 Amsterdam Ave.
Hotel & Residential
inal cels from Warner, Disney, Ward, etc.
fessional & patient instructor. 996-0377.
NYC. Free deliv. 212-874-3866. DOT 670
NY PENTA Hotel
(212) 502-8732
ANIMATION PLUS
(201) 694-6280
EDUCATION
SABRA'S MOVING & STORAGE
Open 7 Days. Men & Women.
Professional Service Last Minute.
Continental Enterprise-Fine Art.
All Size Moves. 527 W. 47th.
Swedish, Shiatsu And Whirlpool-Call
Introducing a family of Russian artists at
CHADWICK UNIVERSITY-Offers BS
Free estimates. 212-956-8080
for an appointment. 212-832-3920.
Gallery Art 54
(54 Greene St.)
and MBA programs in Business Adminis-
212-226-1605 11am-7pm July 20-Aug. 20.
tration. For catalog, write:
GALIL MOVING, INC.
KOBE 56 JAPANESE SPA
Chadwick University 1704-NY 11th
Fully lic'd & ins. 24 hrs. Res./Comm.
Shiatsu, Steam, Sauna. Men & Women
ASTROLOGY
Avenue South, Birmingham, AL 35205.
Free est./Box del. DOT 11903. 428 W.
(212) 586-0555/333-2588 7 days
47th. Local/long dist.
212-247-MOVE
FASHION
European RN, Therapeutic Bodywork.
SUPERMEN MOVERS 212-724-0003
Telepsychic-Morris Fonte, now avail-
Professional Service at Guaranteed Low $.
Swedish/Deep Muscle, Gentle Medical.
able for business and personal readings.
CHANEL SUITS-Wholesale prices di-
590 West End Ave. DOT 10488. Insured.
Bayside By App't. 718-279-0303
VI/MC/AX. 212-685-0477 1-800-448-9460
rect from manufacturer. 212-431-8507.
REDUCE STRESS/FATIGUE
MOVING DESIGNS (212) 874-1740
Dr. Carnegie Astrology-As seen on TV.
Swedish massage no sex calls.
Personalized moving company providing
I can help you. By phone. 212-427-7009
JEWELRY
37th St. & Broadway. 212-869-4346.
experience, care & courtesy. DOT T12170
Looking For Love?-Brilliant psychic.
Massage Techniques-Hauppauge. Relief
Gives reading that changes your life.
The World's Finest Watches
MOISHE'S
is just a phone call away. 516-348-7082
Live or phone. PREMA 212-874-7692.
New & Pre-Owned/Affordable Prices
MOVING
Rolex, Cartier, Piaget, Patek, Omega,
MASSAGE
Reader & Adviser On All Problems
AND MINI-STORAGE
Tiffany, Breitling, Movado, Heuer
1 Free Question. No Problem Too Big or
249 Main Street
LOCAL LONG DISTANCE OVERSEAS
Palisade Jewelers
Small. By mail or phone. (718) 274-8552
A-1 Sunshine Services-Midtown lo-
Fort Lee, New Jersey
201-461-4666
She Succeeds Where Others Have Failed.
439-9191
1627 SECOND AVE.
cation. Swedish massage. 212-247-6734
PRE-OWNED ROLEX WATCHES
DOT 10674
ICC MC176990
3 FREE TAROT CARDS BY PHONE
A Blissful Massage-Gentle, Soothing,
Save Up To 50% on Rolex, Patek Philippe,
(212) 233-3472. Tells about love, marriage
Private. Midtown location. 212-355-3247
Cartier, Vacheron and Others. Vintage &
and business. Does readings by mail, by
Current Styles All Meticulously Recon-
JERUSALEM MOVERS
phone and at office. 372 Broadway, #405
Complete Relaxation-European thera-
ditioned and Guaranteed By Tourneau
212-996-2300 Fully lic'd & insured. 24 hrs.
pist. Private, East 50's. Sara 212-688-9874
Master Watchmakers. Trade-ins accepted.
Last-Minute Moves, Big or Small. Free est.
AUTO/RENTAL
DOT 10735 Local/long-dist. 404 E. 88th
Call J. Griffin M-F 10-5
Excellence, Security & Convenience
Studio or residential massage.
(212) 758-3265
LIMOUSINE SERVICE
Late calls okay. E. 70's. 212-744-5633
MERCEDES RENTALS
Day Weekend Week
LICENSED MOVER
California/Hawaiian Style-Manhattan/
SL's & Sedans
Lewis David Limousines 800-545-4662
residential only. 212-935-3711. 7 days.
914-968-8200
COHEN MOVING LOW $$$
10% Off When Mentioning NY Magazine.
Executive Stress Relief-Private. By ap-
Exceptional moving & storage systems.
CRESTWOOD LIMO-Using large fleet
pointment. 212-666-2816. $175.
DOT T11294. 635 W. 27th. 212-662-6436.
CLEANING SERVICE
of Lincolns/Cadillacs. Airport specialist.
"Retailer Of The Month" Retailing Mag.
A Loving Touch-Sensitive, Caring,
ARK
T-10860
To LAG $29. JFK $39. NWK $44. $29/hr.
Quality Massage. 212-682-3632
Maids Unlimited-Maids & Housemen &
212-629-8700. 800-34-CREST. MC/VI/AX
A Delightful Massage-Relaxing. Private.
Party Help. Equipment available. Bonded
& Insured. Since 1959. 212-838-6282.
DANNY BOY CLEANING SERVICE
NOAH'S SUPERIOR SERVICE
(O.INC.
Stretches available 24 hrs.
Midtown location. 212-754-1470.
LOWEST
$*
Timely Wheels Car & Limo 24-Hr-
Body Harmony/Brand New-Hotel avail.
Competitive Rates 212-645-9888 Amex
Sensational Massage. 212-541-7691.
45 years of quality professional service.
ART. ANTIQUES, PIANOS
Commercial & Residential. 212-582-3030
Allstate Car & Limo-Luxury cars at less
SENSATIONAL MASSAGE!
874-1313
2087 BWY (72nd
than taxi prices. $16 La Guardia, $25 JFK,
An experience in excellence.
NEW YORK Magazine's
$26 Newark from NYC. Hourly $18, lim-
W. Village (Wall St. access). 212-645-4995.
SERVICES AND SALES SECTION
MOVING & STORAGE
ousines $40 per hour, 2-hour minimum.
Is The Place To Advertise Your Service.
Local/long distance ⑉ 7 days.
Tolls and gratuities not included.
Relaxing Swedish Bodywork-With a
Call 212-643-6500 for more information.
I.C.C. #223143
DOT 11685
24 hours. Corp. welcome. 212-741-7440
delicate touch. Private. 718-575-3603
UVALS 225 CPW. 212-662-6600.
1-800-453-4099. AE/DC/CB.
Extraordinary Massage-Unforgettable!
Our Professionals LOVE TO CLEAN!
Also available: Party Help, Bartenders,
MORE THAN MOVING
1989 Lincoln Stretches-6-12 passengers.
East 20's... 212-685-5614.
Painters, Movers and Typists. Lendahand
On Time! On Budget! On Target!
TV/VCR, bar. From $30/hr. AX/MC/VI.
212-362-8200
212-518-9510, 718-318-1169, 914-426-3254
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DOT T12111 212-348-2800. 402 E. 90th.
106
NEW YORK/AUGUST
27, 1990
SERVICES AND SALES
Continued from previous page.
NEW SALON 26
European Aromatics-East side location.
Psychodrama Specialist-With unique
Total relaxation for the body and mind.
Open 11 am - 212-599-2995.
A New Magic Touch-Extravagant Mass-
therapy techniques. 212 594-8354
By appointment only.
212-725-7253
age. Hotel avail. 212-541-9336
MUSIC INSTRUCTION
A GENTLEMAN'S THERAPY:
CLASSY FRENCH MASSEUSE
Beautiful Experience-7 days, 10am-10
To Relax & Unwind With Vivian.
pm. Qns Blvd. 718-672-2226 Free Parking.
Private Session 212-838-5340
Relax your tension with a great massage.
Modern Piano-Jazz Improv. Chord
Studio/Residential. 212-472-1138.
Get A Real-Massage - With No Rush, At
Cycles. Former ABC-TV. 212-879-1153
Modern 1990 Role-Play. Relaxation.
A Reasonable Price. 212-696-9211.
Private sessions for discerning persons.
MIRAMAR SALON E.61st (Park/Madsn)
PERSONAL SERVICES
Michelle. 212-982-4292. 10am-10pm.
Studio - selective privacy, superb massage.
Unique Relaxation-Exit 21 L.I.E. By
Credit Cards Welcome. 212-826-8814
app't. Parking available. 718-997-6801
Behavior Modification-In best British
From $10.00 A Month-24-hr. answering
traditions. Miss J. Styles. 212-734-2337
EUROPEAN TOUCH
For The Special People!-Be a V.I.P.
and mail services. Action 212-279-3870
Of a mature lady. Warm, considerate.
Bath and Massage. 212-582-3161.
Creative Role-Play-Nobody under-
Private. E 50. 10-8pm. 212-980-8172
Phone Answered In Your Name-From
stands you better. 212-475-8453 Private.
Reduce Stress-Relaxation therapy. With
$8. Mail-800-Beeper-Call: 212-868-1121
John's Unique Universe For Men-$150.
a touch of distinction. 212-595-1754.
Escapist COMPULSIONS Explored.
Private, Safe, Relaxing. 212-213-1207
East 64th Street-Excellent, professional
PETS
Role-playing, 150 unusual dramas.
PhD. 7 days. 11am-10pm. 212-475-3377.
NEW MIDTOWN RELAXATION
Swedish massage. 212-838-8380
A fabulous and caring massage.
Cat-Care-Cat-sitting in your home.
Try Our Relaxation Techniques-Be
Private, by app't only. (212) 765-9628.
International Technique-Special Sum-
Bonded. West: 947-6190; East: 838-2996.
scrubbed, buffed, smoothed and soothed.
mer Rates. Sauna, Steam, Exercise. Credit
Call Eva mature, caring. (212) 489-0190.
A Gentle Massage-A relaxing treatment.
Cards Accepted. 516-739-3131 or 484-3131
Cat Sitters Service Of NY, Inc.-Cat care
New East Side location. 212-213-5167.
in your home - Bonded. 212-362-2175.
Luvsaver Hotline-Unique Role-Playing.
LES DEUX MAINS
No Subject Taboo. Fee. 212-246-0331.
BRAND NEW LOCATION!!!
Private studio. Massage by appointment.
While You're Away-Cat care/dogs in
Relax & unwind in the hands of our
10am-10pm.
212-213-5224
Mature European Psychodramatist-
your home. Bonded. Ref 212-581-2188.
(212) 753-0117
many therapists. Credit cds. 516-921-0332
Sophisticated European Lady.
PHOTOGRAPHY
JUNE SALON-Shiatsu & Swedish
Luxurious surroundings.
Nurse Psychodrama-Relaxation Ther-
massage. License #23131.
Residential/7 days.
apy. New East 80's locale. 212-734-4419.
212-262-4537.
Men & Women. 10AM-10PM.
V S P-Professional videotaping & pho-
Psychodrama Via Phone - Role-Playing
After A Busy Day-Phone for a delightful
212-964-4483. (Downtown)
tography. Excellent quality. 212-567-5807.
No taboos. No time limit. 24 hrs.
massage. 212-759-5392 / 718-575-3054.
Corey 212-582-8181 Credit Cards
Akasaka-Shiatsu/Swedish massage.
Delight The Man In Your Life
Enchante
Professional staff, educated in Japan.
With The Nude You By Marie-Claire.
PAMPER YOURSELF
Midtown Area - Hotels & Residential.
Many new expert masseuses.
Women only. Call 212-473-1566
With the Ultimate in
972-2266. Credit Cards.
212-580-9029.
Total Body Relaxation Therapy.
Gentle, Lo-Key Photos-Professional.
Relaxing Swedish Massage-E. 86th St.
Call Michelle (212)-518-3211.
Studio 50
Weddings/Corp. Brochure 212-921-9255
212-472-7640.
Enjoyable, relaxing massage.
Paradise Lost-Psychodrama specialists.
Professional Oriental staff.
Candid Wedding Photography-Award-
Elegant Touch-Upper E. Side. Very pri-
Skilled in every aspect of behavior and
winner. Classic Studio - 212-466-0707.
By appointment only. 212-832-3920.
vate. By appointment. Eva - 212-879-3770
role-playing. 212-947-2959. Credit Cards.
Swedish/Shiatsu-Reduce stress and ten-
Michael's Massage/Private Studio-Also
RESUME SERVICE
Psychodrama-To make yourself avail-
sion. Joseph 212-475-3528.
able. 212-255-0664
Resident/Office. 212-249-2129.
Eye-Opening Resumes-Creative job
Psychodrama Phases-With all your
Massage-Flushing Choice Therapists.
Expert Masseur-Complete bodywork.
Relaxing, Private. Bobb 212-675-1090
strategy. Career Planning Inst. 599-0032.
needs fulfilled. 212-496-1794
Prof Bldg. 718-886-0153.
Resumes by Thomas Drew. Exclusive
Eve, The First Woman-To help uncover
HAKONE-Shiatsu, Swedish.
Shiatsu And Swedish-Appointment
only. 718-896-8250.
formats: Career Focusing. M-F, 8-8; Sat. &
your inner thoughts & feelings. 431-0444.
Masseuses from Japan. Professional staff.
Sun., 10-5. NYC/LI/NJ/CT. 800-523-3739
Educated in Japan. 212-486-6444
Psychotherapist-Explore all subjects.
Superb Swedish Massage - Reflexology-
Effective, Professional Resumes-Plus
Role-playing - 24 hrs. 516-422-2404.
Okinawa Spa-Shiatsu, sauna, showers.
By appointment only. 212-489-5322.
career/marketing counseling 2744-1186
Therapeutic massage. 914-833-1555
Queens Relaxation Therapy-Relax in
Closer To Everything-Including perfec-
privacy. Role-playing. 12-9. 718-896-3649
tion. Loving Hands Massage 212-689-1776
LICENSED THERAPY
A Soothing Massage-Delightful! Private.
REFINED NORDIC SPECIALIST
Excellent Quality. Village. 212-727-9142
Summer Sun-Oriental Technique.
Premature Ejaculation/Impotence Cured
Creative Psychodrama - Credit Cards.
Special Summer Price.
(212) 725-3923
Skilled Expert-In All Aspects Of Relax-
Credit Cards Accepted. 516-931-8148
forever in a 3 hr session. 16 years research.
ation Therapy. Lic #1375, 212-541-7509.
Honorary doctorate. Scientific/sincere.
Rejuvenating Therapy-
Judy's Elegant Massage-Private. Studio/
High success. 11am-1pm. 212-689-9717.
Relax and unwind your stress away.
ELIZABETH SUPERB MASSAGE
residential service. 212-223-4693.
Psychodrama at its best. 212-644-0507.
Kind, Sensitive Surrogate Therapist-
Private. Midtown studio.
Residential available. 212-682-2942
European Massage-By appointment. Pri-
MSW. Well-trained. 212-865-7214
Relax And Unwind-Your stress and ten-
vate. 718-279-8987.
sions away. Private/safe. 516-338-2644.
Surrogate Therapy-Shyness, fear
PARISIENNE SALON
Fit For Royalty-Massage. International
of failure, premature ejaculation,
Relax With Stress Relief Therapy
Enjoy a relaxing massage with a touch of
staff. Open 10am-10pm 212-751-4786.
impotency. Supervised surrogate pro-
Private sessions. Convenient midtown lo-
distinction. Residential services available.
gram. Call for private, free evaluation.
cation. Lea or Ann 212-319-0759
By appointment - (212) 957-8401.
COSTA DEL SOL
Mon-Fri. 10-8; Sat. 8:30-3:30.
Elena and friends. A world of relaxation.
212-EX1-1637.
Converse & Role Play with Suzanne
Diana's East-59th & Third. By appoint-
Swedish & shiatsu. 212-697-5297
Cummings. Free yourself of stress. Use
ment only. 212-308-7066
Achieve Sexual Goals-Trained, caring
sensitive reinforcement. 215-546-5008.
Bellissima-A wonderful massage for
surrogate. 212-953-6925; 718-641-8655
Russian Massage-Totally complete.
selective men. 212-972-1718
Sexuality Therapy-54th & Park Ave.
West 94th. By Joseph. 212-222-4868.
Sexual Problems? Cure Premature!
Hypnosis/Role-Play. Didi 212-826-6519
Licensed Masseur For Men-East 50's
Impotence & All Problems! PhD.
studio/your hotel. Richard. 212-759-6210.
970-7071 (no area code). $20. Free Intro.
Step Off The Stress Mill-Complete
THERAPEUTIC BODYWORKS
Relaxation by Lelani. 212-779-4079.
Stress Relief - Relaxation
SALON DE YVETTE
Outcall Service 212-249-7811
ROLE PLAY
Relaxing & Quality Massage. East 44th.
STRESSED? RELAXATION PLUS
212-986-3889
Learn the art of relaxation.
Massage Queens-Swedish/Shiatsu.
AVA TAUREL
By app't. Lynn 212-545-8404
718-575-3054.
New - For Men & Women.
Holistic relaxation. Stress relief.
SCANDINAVIAN PSYCHODRAMA.
GREAT NECK
Call for appointment.
7 Days. Credit Cards. 212-757-8629
Unveil Your Soul-With total relaxation.
516-876-8528
By appointment. 212-472-6160
Relaxing treatment by appointment.
Baby Your Body-To release grownup
Stop Hiding Your Desires-Explore im-
Credit Cards. 516-829-8830. Open 7 days.
Tension Relaxation-Private Therapy
tensions. East 80's. Private. 212-472-0110
pulses. Private/safe. 212-477-4435.
sessions. Tony 212-677-7656
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terested in tall men between the
gift of life. NJ preferred. Note/phone/
shoulders, 30ish, tall. Seeks unforgettable,
ages of 27 and 35 who are open to a
recent photo. NYM C656
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This Is A Quiz-Do you want a very
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Out Of This World-Green-eyed blond,
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travel and sports. Seeks youthful, fun-
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tive and cultured man, 38-55, who is
sion portion. Exceptionally good-looking,
from you. Note/phone/photo. NYM Z220
Dial 540-MAIL anytime from area
interested in a sincere friendship and last-
early 40's, with great body, 5'10", trim, ath-
codes: 212/718/516/914.
letic, very well-dressed, emotionally and
Great Girlfriend Wanted-Jewish male,
ing relationship. Note/phone/photo.
NYM J566
financially secure, Jewish, divorced seeks
32, handsome, with own business, hopes
very special lady, 27-37, thin, very attract-
to meet a down-to-earth, unpretentious
212°ROMANCE
Queen of Hearts, Loves The Arts-
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vegetarian food and making you laugh.
$1.65 first minute/$.85 each additional minute.
NYM Z226
final but photo ads ten bonus points.
Note/photo please. NYM Z219
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27, 1990
STRICTLY PERSONALS
Very Handsome Attorney-A truly ex-
Not-So-Old Blue Eyes-Handsome
Bachelor Number Three-Is an attorney,
THE SINGLE LIFE
ceptional guy who is sensitive and suc-
Jewish lawyer, 45, 6'. Love romantic din-
Jewish, 29, 6'1", Manhattanite who loves
cessful, Jewish, 30's seeks very pretty,
ners any time of day. You are tall, trim and
music (rock and jazz), theater, inter-
bright, caring female. Photo. NYM J563
very attractive. Photo/note. NYM J579
national foods and worldwide travel.
Time
Seeking Attractive Female-Under 35,
Seeks sharp, outgoing, spontaneous
Attractive Singer, 34-Green eyes/great
willing to relocate to small Caribbean
Jewish bachelorette. Note/photo/phone.
smile, seeks professional Jewish male,
island. She must be slim, white, educated,
NYM J550
for a
30-38, kind, affectionate. Pix. NYM Z231
down-to-earth, affectionate, with no ad-
Pretty, Slim Doc-30, seeks Jewish male
dictions. I am an attractive, successful
Culturally Literate Male-Successful pro-
counterpart, 30's to share life. NYM Z239
white male, 45, developer of beachfront
resort seeking the right woman for a
fessional handsome, high achiever, finds
change!
time for serious fun. Seeks career-directed
Looking For Romance-Tall, very
serious relationship. Bio/photo/note and
female, 20's-30's, 5'5" or under, with
shapely, passionate woman with long dark
phone, please. NYM Z210
brains and beauty. You appreciate great
hair is looking for a tall Italian man from
Out Of My Dreams-And into my mail-
books and ideas, stimulating conversation
Westchester or Rockland - at least 6'2",
box. This engaging, warm, funny man, a
and rational, secular values. Recent photo
nonsmoker, 42-47, and who weighs
a plus. NYM Z230
around 190. If you like romantic dinners
journalist/writer, 29, Jewish, tall, hand-
and just staying home and cuddling,
some, Ivy-educated and athletic in body
and mind likes very bright, thoughtful,
Handsome, Successful Jewish Man-
where have you been? I'm waitng for you!
fun, arts-fortified women. Wouldn't mind
Seeking a best friend, 39-46 good dining,
Must be established in business and
conversation, the arts. Good times. Reach
interested in marriage. Please send photo/
falling in love with one. NYM J557
out. Manhattan preferred but I'll reach
phone with a short note. NYM J584
Country Roots - City Girl-Who loves life
out too. Photo/note. NYM J519
and knows how to enjoy it, is seeking suc-
Korean Businessman-Let's experience
Susan Wallace, President
cessful, sensitive, sexy man who knows
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and exchange Eastern and Western
what he wants. I am unusually beautiful
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worlds. Seeks white or Oriental female,
Meet the person you want to
and tired of waiting. Write NYM J556
and emotionally secure, slim, athletic
20-35. Note/photo. NYM C621
meet. Not just anybody but some-
seeks slim, pretty, Jewish professional
one you want to share your
Professional, Successful Male-
mom for love and marriage. Note/phone/
Handsome And Herpes-28, white male,
evening with-or perhaps the
Handsome, 44, 6'1" and trim, with a love
photo a must. NYM J573
educated and fit. Seeks honest female for
rest of your life.
for golf, music and travel. I'm looking for a
relationship of significance. NYM J559
IT'S TIME!
very attractive, slim, intelligent female,
Pretty, Petite, Creative Professional-39,
30-45, who's also happy and secure. Note/
aerobically fit, values family, old friends,
NJ Jewish Professional, 40-Warm, sensi-
You're tired of the single scene.
phone and photo a must. NYM Z212
kids/fun. Seeks like-minded, nonsmoking,
tive, athletic enjoys skiing, tennis, gour-
Blind dates, boring social events,
warm male, 30-50, with time to share out-
met cooking. Seeks female counterpart,
empty conversations, the endless
Great Neck Gal-Pretty, petite blond pro-
doors, arts/maybe the heart. NYM Z236
29-39, for lasting relationship. Phone/
chase. why not walk
fessional, 35, Jewish seeks classy man for
photo/note. NYM Z241
away from it all?
serious relationship. Photo. NYM J554
Do You Hate The Singles Dances?-Well
European-US Resident-28, 5'11", blond,
IT'S TIME!
look no further! I'm a tall, attractive, suc-
Successful, Special, Strikingly-Good-
cessful Jewish male. I like theater, sports,
blue-eyed, fit, professional. Seeks nice, at-
Get to know the thousands of
looking woman who has an extraordinary
music and just havin' a good time. I seek
tractive female. Photo/note. NYM J551
remarkable single professionals
appreciation for life and knows how to
an attractive, nonsmoking, fun-loving
who have joined People Resources,
make a man happy, is seeking an ac-
Jewish female, 23-29. Note/photo/phone.
Beautiful Artist Enchantress-Seeks
the largest private club of its
complished, 45 plus, attractive man who
NYM Y020
handsome, generous patron with wit, taste
kind in the Tri-state area with
knows what he wants. Photo/note/phone.
and wisdom. Photo please. NYM J588
ten years of uninterrupted
NYM Z211
26-Year-Old Businessman-Very attract-
success behind it. Meet the kind
ive, well-educated, 6', 200 lbs seeks an
Very Attractive-Outgoing blond female
Attractive, Kind Female-MD, Jewish,
of men and women you always
attractive female, 19-29, with a great fig-
seeks a fun-loving Jewish professional
wanted to meet!
European background, mid 50's. Seeking
ure, willing to take chances in life. Photo/
male, 26-35 to enjoy rock 'n' roll, the
an intelligent, educated gentleman, up to
phone. NYM J562
beach, skiing, wining and dining or just
IT'S TIME!
65, with sense of humor, for companion-
spontaneous fun. Note/photo. NYM J583
ship, friendship and possible relationship.
Look through our 'bio books' in
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NYM J494
the People Library and view our
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Is There Anybody Out There-For this
optional videotapes. And if you
of 44, 5'11", with a plethora of likes and
sincere, professional, 28-year-old Jewish
Energetic And Elegant-Creative pro-
fessional bright, slender, attractive
few dislikes. It would be a plus if you're
male? If there were, she would be easygo-
wish, ask your profile to be
seeks male counterpart, 30-40. Photo/
under 40 and over 5'3", not skinny or
ing and spontaneous; she would enjoy
included, too-so you can make
note. NYM C647
smoking but bright, pretty, zany, roman-
gourmet dining, carriage rides through
friends with others like yourself,
tic and slightly unconventional. Note and
Central Park, rock concerts and vacations
even while being somewhere
Playful, Pretty, Down-To-Earth-
photo will mean at least a pleasant conver-
around the world; she would be truly
else. When there is mutual inter-
sation. NYM J552
Psychotherapist, 5'7", slim, slightly irrever-
happy with her life while looking for
est, there is no limit to the
someone to share it with; she would re-
ent, likes good conversation, restaurants,
number of people you can date.
jazz, reading, etc. Wishes to meet a man
Successful CFO-Blond, blue-eyed
main undemanding of a guy who could
European, 44, seeks sophisticated lady
offer her everything; she would gladly
IT'S TIME!
(49-60), with a sense of integrity, humor,
under 44, for marriage and to share
send her photo along with her reply. NYM
satisfied with himself/work, only mildly
Talk to us about your values,
perfectionistic and interested in attempt-
hikes, gardening, classical music, adven-
R864
interests, aspirations. Our con-
ing a relationship. NYM J565
ture, travel, gourmet cooking and an-
sultants make excellent listeners.
tiques. Sense of humor and honesty essen-
Vermont-Good-looking, 46-year-old
Call or drop by. TODAY.
Handsome, Slim, Athletic-And success-
tial. Christian/nonsmokers only. Note/
professional woman seeks athletic, well-
educated, financially secure mate with
YOU'VE WAITED
ful, 35, 6' gentleman seeks pretty, intelli-
photo. NYM C597
sense of humor who's an excellent skier,
LONG ENOUGH!
gent and communicative woman, with a
Very Successful-Real estate developer.
enjoys reading, music, nature, laughter,
diversity of interests for romance leading
to commitment. Note/phone please.
Caring, sensitive, handsome seeks
dining and living in Vermont. NYM Z243
Meet the
Photo appreciated. NYM Z222
interesting, educated, nurturing, fit mate
(under 34). Photo/phone/note. NYM C450
Irish/English Descent-Creative, solid
values, psychologically aware, pretty, 30,
people of
Part-Time Horse Breeder-Jewish, at-
Professional Male-60, attends classical
sparkling eyes, marriage-minded. Seeks
tractive, sensitive, eclectic, athletic pro-
fessional, 48, 6', 155 lbs seeks stable, slim,
concerts seeks female. NYM C566
very special counterpart under 40. Per-
PEOPLE
sonal note about who you are! NYM R863
pretty, sensitive professional woman,
35-45, who loves animals. Photo/note/
Fall In Love With Me-Very attractive,
slender Jewish woman, 39, long hair,
Seeking-Jewish professional male, 28-35,
RESOURCES
phone. NYM Z229
pretty smile seeks man of her dreams.
sports fanatic, for fun-loving, outgoing,
119 W. 57th Street (212) 765-7770
Photo appreciated. NYM Z208
bubbly brunette. NYM J582
Open 7 days
a
week:
Can Lightning Strike Twice?-Elegant
MON-FRI 9-9
SAT 10-5
SUN 12-5
blond, pretty Jewish widow, interested in
Tall, Handsome, Intelligent-Successful
Honesty, Friendship, Sex, Laughter-
(718) 204-6266
(516) 794-2740
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the arts. Seeks tall, healthy, sophisticated
single male, 30, interested in meeting an
Tall, slim female, 50 seeks available,
(201) 585-0006
(203) 852-9567
gentleman, youthful 60's, for lasting, car-
intelligent, gorgeous, successful woman.
upbeat Westchester/NYC male possessing
Member New York Chamber of Commerce and Industry
ing relationship. Photo/phone. NYM J555
Photo/phone. NYM J558
these qualities. NYM J590
IT ONLY TAKES ONE
AUGUST 27, 1990/NEW YORK
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STRICTLY PERSONALS
Pretty, LI Jewish Divorcee-Seeks fun-
FL Gentlewoman Farmer-47, Gemini,
Single Jewish Male-36, nonsmoker,
Attractive, Single Jewish Female-54,
loving man, 40's, for romance. NYM C629
enlightened, independent, avid angler,
Gemini, 5'11", artist, funny. Loves pizza,
5'8", professional seeks established, single,
pilot, artist and world traveler. Willing to
movies, walking, WQCD, NYC. Seeks
tall, Jewish professional male, 50-59, with
Gay White Male-55, seeks healthy male,
make some concessions for the right
Jewish female. NYM J593
sincere and serious intentions for friend-
25-45, to share city apartment, country
gentleman. Nonsmoker only. NYM B103
ship and romance with this ex-New
home, life, theater, music, dinners, etc.
Handsome Executive, 34, 5'9", Trim-
Yorker living in Florida. Photo/note/
Note/phone appreciated. NYM Z214
Tall, Thin, Attractive-Soft-spoken man,
Seeks pretty "forever female". NYM G756
phone please. NYM Z245
Attractive Thirtysomething Female-
39, Jewish, writer, seeks lady who thinks
she can handle flowers, white wine,
Professional, Financially Independent-
Beautiful, Successful Artist-Savvy, slim,
Professional seeks intelligent and witty
Mature, warm and lively woman seeks
fit, 41, loves pictures, words, ideas, life.
man to save her from the NYC middleage
William Powell movies and being ac-
heterosexual wasteland. Must be literate,
cepted. Kids and/or pets a plus. NYM
similarly inclined man, vital, literate, 59
Seeks sound, visual or literary star, 36-46.
C637
plus, for caring relationship and shared
Photo! NYM Z247
passionate and sophisticated. Note. Photo.
interest in arts, culture, travel. NYM J594
Phone. NYM C650
Handsome Entrepreneur-35, seeks a
I Just Need One-Special, beautiful lady
young lady with model quality looks and
Charming Young Asian-24, 5'6", slim,
for good-looking Jewish male, 40, so we
NJ Career Woman-With MA, divorced
old-fashioned values. Note/photo/phone.
pretty, sexy, writer seeks tall, attractive
both may enjoy the theater, dining, travel,
with one young child, seeks professional
NYM C638
man, 25-50. Photo/phone. NYM J581
sports, laughs, good conversation and
white male, 45-55, for friendship and com-
many enjoyable surprises. Photo a must.
panionship. NYM C624
Asian Beauty Sought-I am a handsome,
Handsome Jewish Attorney-30, slim,
NYM Z246
highly successful, bright, witty, athletic,
sensitive, great sense of humor. Seeks
Fun-Loving, Romantic Attorney-
divorced white male with traditional
Slightly Eccentric, Responsible Male-
Looking for sensual, sexy beauty with
pretty, thin, Jewish professional woman
great legs, penchant for jazz, ocean, danc-
values who is monogamous, emotionally
under 5'7", for lasting relationship. Photo/
30's, seeking woman with sense and sensi-
ing. I'm attractive, well-built athlete
secure and easygoing. I seek a nonsmok-
phone. NYM J592
bility for romance. NYM Z242
Italian, in mid 40's, love to cook for you
ing Asian female, under 40, who is very
and play house. You are 32-43, great fig-
pretty, intelligent, caring, affectionate,
Woman With Ideas On LI-Very pretty,
Happy-Brunette pretty, 31, hazel eyes,
chic, possesses a terrific figure and has
sensuous, 5'6", 130 lbs, seeks funny, bright
curvaceous. Seeking a special, regular
ure, with good sense of humor, intelligent
man, 45-60. NYM J578
guy. I am/you are kind, gentle, honest,
and passionate about life. Recent photo/
traditional values to share friendship,
fun, independent with eclectic interests.
phone/note a must. Nonsmoker please.
music, theater, sports, travel and each
other. Bonus points for a warm smile and
Professional-Attractive, warm, intelli-
Note/photo/phone. NYM J586
NYM J575
great legs. Photo and handwritten note
gent, easygoing, down-to-earth mom of af-
necessary for a reply. NYM C641
fectionate 8-year-old, early 40's (appears
Hoping For Companionship-With a
Warm, Easygoing, Honest-Indo-
30's), 5'4", 135 lbs. Seeks a sensitive, vul-
genuine man, interested in fitness, nature,
European ancestry. Asian, successful
chemical analysts (management) living in
Herpes-If you're an understanding lady,
nerable, sincere, bright professional male
arts, dancing. North NJ professional
interested in meeting a successful man,
for a loving, committed relationship.
woman, 55. NYM J577
NJ, 5'2", very young-looking, well-traveled
43, 6', who enjoys fun and fine things,
NYM J560
44 year old male. Would love to meet a
Nice Jewish Boy-30 aspires to mensch
communicating, sports and who hates
pretty, petite, nonsmoking, funny, intelli-
Class Act-Attractive, accomplished,
tall, thin, successful, MBA, hippie-
first dates, as you do, let's meet. I'd like
gent woman, 30-38, with good values, en-
petite Jewish woman, 28 loves NYC, the
turned-capitalist. Seeks smart, petite ro-
joys politics and a warm smile for relation-
you to be stylish, slim, 30-40, secure, with
inner qualities. Photo/phone/note please.
arts, sailing, biking. Seeks similar in
mantic. Photo/note/etc. NYM J571
ship. Note/photo/phone please. NYM
NYM C586
marriage-minded man, 27-38. Note/
C655
Wanted:-Pretty Jersey girl, 27-34. Re-
photo/phone. NYM C642
ward: Handsome professional male, 38,
New At This!-Reentering dating world.
Jewish, athletic, 5'11", nonsmoker, loyal
Devil's Advocate-Let's make a bargain.
Single male, 51, 6', 185 lbs graduate
Successful Moviemaker, NJ-I'm 41,
and caring. Photo, please. NYM J596
For your eternal soul, I'll deliver as soon
school professor/full-time private practice.
widowed, no children and retired. That's
as possible, a smart, funny, low-key, sexy,
Loves to work hard and play easy likes
right, retired. I'm 5'8", 167 lbs, with long,
Wanted: 100 Percent Woman-35-45,
accomplished man (30's), guaranteed to
travel, theater, movies, eating out. Any
dark brown hair and bearded. I still love to
brillant, creative, intimate, funny. I am 6',
please by sun and candlelight if you're
age/race. Photo/phone/note. NYM J597
travel, play tennis, swim and sit in my hot
trim, sensitive, gentle, loving. Goal: affec-
bright, warm, alluring and under 34.
tub. I seek a woman who is intelligent,
tionate, sexy life together. Photo a must.
Photo appreciated. NYM 1574
Criminal Lawyer-39, 5'7", good-looking,
good-looking and would enjoy this life
NYM Z253
off-beat, seeks woman with no record-of
style. Age is not important. Nonsmoker.
Handsome MD-32, 5'11", seeks attract-
mediocrity. You are radically intelligent
Photo and phone a must. Reply POB 579
Beautiful Hispanic Model-38 seeks pro-
ive professional female, 25-32. NYM C627
and unreasonably pretty. Photo/note.
Montclair, NJ 07042.
fessional male - dining/arts. NYM Z250
NYM J595
Attractive, Trim NYC Guy-34, literate,
considerate and secure, seeks sincere gal,
Hot Rocks-Geologist, 39, 6', 170 lbs.
27-40, who enjoys ballet, theater, film and
Friends say I'm sincere, caring and not
slim, single white female, 25-40 for NYC
Dual Heritage Professional Male-33,
fun. I enjoy romantic dinners, foreign
FALL
NEW YORK Magazine
Europe. NYM C628
bad on the eyes. Love to meet a pretty,
Looks To The Future
mother white and father - black. Con-
films, picnics in Central Park, listening to
sidered very honest, bright, handsome and
jazz and meeting interesting people. Let's
successful. But I am alone, unmarried and
exchange photos/phone. NYM Z251
without children. Don't reject me without
PREVIE\
first pausing to consider me. Photo: will
Romantic Realist-If you can appreciate
an established businessman who is 30,
reciprocate. NYM J587
Jewish, 5'10", good-looking, well-built,
giving, sensitive and has a dry sense of
A BOUNTIFUL ISSUE
Asian Woman Sought-Architect, 38,
humor, you could be the woman for me. I
6'2", Ivy-educated, seeks Asian woman for
NEW YORK Magazine's Fall Preview issue is the all-
love to travel in the winter and have casual
fine dining, fun, adventure and more!
inclusive guide to the city's most eagerly antici-
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ive, slim, well-adjusted and fun-loving,
pated season, with scene-stealing peeks at what's
sensitive woman, 25-35. Photo/note. NYM
ahead in film, theater, art, nightlife, fashion, and
I Am Tired-Of being part of the singles
Z248
much, much, more.
scene. Downtown woman, elegant and
offbeat, creative professional, Northern
Sailing, Skiing And Dancing-Are a few
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of the pastimes that this highly successful
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travel, cooking, arts, sports, cats and kids.
caring, romantic, affectionate and
readers. For predictably excellent results, call:
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marriage-minded. I am bilingual, mid
40's, 5'10" and trim. Please send note and
212.643.6500
Very Attractive, Ivy-Educated-
photo. NYM Z249
Psychologically-minded Jewish woman
34, 5'2", slim, fit seeks very bright,
Stunning Female Lawyer-Always fun
ISSUE
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physically fit, emotionally ready man in
but sometimes bratty (50ish grandma).
DATE: 9/10
SALE: 9/3
CLOSE: 8/27
his 30's, who lives in NYC but craves
Seeks successful, confident, kind man
beaches off-season, mountain air and
with wit (48-60). For serious relationship.
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starry nights. NYM J572
Phone/note/photo. NYM Z252
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AUGUST 27, 1990/NEW YORK
111
'SUNDAY TIMES' OF LONDON CROSSWORD
ACROSS
DOWN
1 Mercy returned by footballer. (7-4)
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2 On a billet after a company has
9 Clean up the city. (4)
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left. (4)
10 Fruit which makes man get a rope
3 Bank which takes part in a more
twisted. (11)
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effective way of saving money. (4)
11 Light which brings animals back. (4)
4 Wager one has turned into an
14 Weapon I bring up if the senior
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insect. (6)
officer is missing. (4-3)
5 Maximum publicity for one who
16 Pet opposite of friend to religion? (6)
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refuses capital to the railways. (6, 9)
17 An official took it easy before the
strike. (6)
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6 Provides food and puts a note into
vehicles. (6)
18 Ineffective member of the team
7 If the great work were unfinished
prepares for matches, for they
it might make me practise. (11)
keep people on the rails. (9, 6)
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8 A ploughman's in the City? (5-6)
19 Immoral women just about ring
12 They follow vehicles when
for their cards. (6)
mistakes are made before starting
21 Potter after the soldiers for what
the engine in cars. (11)
is necessary in time of danger. (6)
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13 They indicate letters are missing,
22 Played for time when unable to eat
upsetting hopers after a delivery. (11)
any more. (7)
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14 Shady places in which diplomats
23 Observe you include a footnote in
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take their ease. (7)
return. (4)
15 Having tried a wife, I am among
26 The people who claim to know are
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the spoilt. (7)
wrongly cooing about the aroma.
20 Tried hard for the floating voters. (6)
(11)
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21 Included in a table this cause
27 Bearing of one surrounded by
would appear disloyal. (6)
human beings. (4)
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24 Food which makes one complain. (4)
28 Just as Cupid was love. (11)
25 Painful feature of last year's
epidemic. (4)
'DUAL CITIZENSHIP'
'CUE' CROSSWORD
BY MAURA B. JACOBSON
ACROSS
104 Mafia godfather
130 Pumpernickel's kin
7 Really toiled
33 Yankee's land
1 Bench in a parc
105 Lackluster
131 1776 diplomat Silas,
8 Muscle resiliency
34 Brothers, to Uncle
5 Relative of bingo
107 Panhandle
and family
9 Killer whale
Remus
10 Square peg in a round
108 Make inquiry
132 What to hitch your
10 Franciscans, e.g.
35 Wild guess
hole
111 Audacious
wagon to
11 Teheran citizen
36 Younger Guthrie
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-fi
114 Channel swimmer
133 TV-reception woe
12 Factions
40 Altar constellation
19 Ben Adhem's title
Gertrude
13 Frustrating
42 Yes
?
20 Wrong move
116 Jillian and Landers
DOWN
14 Faulkner's "As
44 Gentleman's
21 Baltimore bird
117 Loch of song
1 "Arabian Nights"
Dying"
gentleman
22 Histrionic actor
118 Anthropoid
surname
15 Half a score
45 "Exodus" hero
23 West-Indian Acadian
119 Talmadge of the silents
2 As blind as
16 Displayed
46 Viking
26 Room in a harem
122 Aunt: Sp.
3 Scandinavian
17 Port of Spain
47 Portuguese African
27 Engaged in hostilities
123 Austrian Tartar
Melanesian
18 Adult insect
48 Broadcast
28 First mate
126 Rearward, at sea
4 Havana citizen
24 Medieval strongbox
49 Pram pushers
29 In a rational way
127 Flynn namesakes
5 Conducted
25 Plus factor
51 After-dinner item
30 Small branch
128 Riveter of WWII
6 Familiarized with
30 Bach opus
56 Splice film
31 California live oak
129 Be a loafer
procedures
32 Somewhat: suffix
59 Sundance Kid's girl
33 Neighbor of Perugia
62 Adjoin
34 Reagan co-star
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64 Addition word
35 Slump
66 Days of old
37 Spumante city
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68 Adjust to a new
38 Were introduced
medium
39 Drug cop
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69 Indira's father
41 The Kingston group
71 Frome of fiction
43 Swiss Athenian
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72 Oversold-airline
50 Smoke detector
practice
52 Treasured
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73 Rods' partners
53 -Magnon
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74 Captain of the
54 Saudi's land
"Nautilus"
55 Scarlett's daughter
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77 Berber's capital
57 551, to old Romans
81 Schmo
58 Successful stud
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83 Full of vigor
60 Strict
85 Jungfrau, for one
61 Hollywood family name
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86 Prepared state
63 Marshall Plan agcy.
88 Direction marker
65 Hog's habitat
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90 Hawk's opposite
67 "These few of my
91 Stumbling block
favorite things"
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93 "Old MacDonald"
68 After an aitch
finale
70 Himalayan Gaul
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96 Fragrant flower
75 GI dog tags
99 Basque's land
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100 Andalusian city
78 Exhumed Egyptian
101 Scot's negative
79 Up for payment
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106 Czech city
80 Theater-in-the-round
108 Bedouin's land
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82 Not worth
of
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109 Integrate
beans
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110 Growing out
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84 she blows!"
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for
the
87 Eldest Alcott girl
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Misbegotten"
89 Improves a text
113 Actress Esther
92 Bohemian's capital
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115 Uses a recliner
94 Oktoberfest drink
117 Orpheus's instrument
95 Stopper
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118 Bible book after Joel
97 Acrylic fiber
120 Author de la Roche
98 Carthaginian
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121 From scratch
Frenchman
123 One of the Turners
102 Prima donna
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124 New Deal abbr.
103 Britisher's prep school
125 Berliner's land: abbr.
112
NEW YORK/AUGUST
27, 1990
Solutions to last week's puzzles appear on page 85.
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