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SERVING GREENWICH VILLAGE SINCE 1933 | Volume 74, Number 12 | July 21 - 27 , 2004
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News Gerson offers new management plan for feud-filled arts building By Elizabeth O’Brien Councilmember Alan Gerson has stepped between the feuding actors and artists of the Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center on the Lower East Side with a plan to resolve the long-standing dispute over the center’s management. Free Shakespeare in the Park? By Jerry Tallmer Theater lovers were informed by a recent story in the Sunday drama section of The New York Times that 100 lawyers from the art-loving firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom had attended a July 1 performance of the Joseph Papp Public Theater’s production of “Much Ado About Nothing” in Central Park. Rakowitz attorneys call final witness to stand in sanity trial By Tien-Shun Lee Jurors walked in smiling and joking on the second day of testimony by a clinical psychologist who was the last witness called to the witness stand by attorneys for Daniel Rakowitz, the so-called “Butcher of Tompkins Sq.,” whose trial has dragged on for over one month. New study spurs debate about the East Side’s future By David H. Ellis As several foursomes of teenagers tried to finish their handball matches before sunset on the courts at Seward Park on a recent evening, Herbert Rothstein relaxed on a nearby park bench outside his Seward Park co-op building on Grand St.  Don’t sack public with stadium bill, opponents sayBy Albert Amateau Opponents of the proposed West Side stadium charged last week that the tax-paying public would really be subsidizing the $800 million that the New York Jets intend to invest in the project. Committee has beef with new Market liquor licenses By Lincoln Anderson Responding to residents’ complaints that the Meat Market bar scene has grown too large, Community Board 2’s Business Committee last week voted to deny applications for new liquor licenses for Buddha Bar and for additional liquor licenses for the Hotel Gansevoort. Lots of litigation, little action at Essex St. building By Erica Stein When Henry Rainge Megill constructed his business plan for 130-140 Essex St. — Building B of the Essex St. Market — in 1998, he planned for his “International House of Good Eats” to be open for business by Aug. 13, 1999, and to have a net profit of $82,625 for July of 2004.
Top cop tells R.N.C. protesters: My way is the highway
By David H. Ellis With a “final offer” of the West Side Highway or nothing presented last Wednesday by the city’s police, parks and transportation commissioners, the group United for Peace & Justice responded the best way they knew — by staging a protest near City Hall, demanding a meeting with Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
Frank talk on sexuality and politics
By Jerry Tallmer The Barney Frank you see in “Let’s Get Frank” — the witty, nervy, peacock-proud 12-term Massachusetts congressman exchanging rapier thrusts with Henry Hyde and the massed anti-Clintonian forces of darkness during the asshole 1999 impeachment hearings in the House Judiciary Committee — is very far from the scared, lonely Bayonne, New Jersey, 12-year-old of 47 years earlier, trying to figure out why he gets no charge from the pictures of sexy women the other guys are passing around.  High Line forum packed tighter than a subway carBy Albert Amateau If the overflow crowd at the Center for Architecture’s forum on the High Line last week is any indication, future visitors to the elevated park between the Gansevoort Market and the Javits Convention Center will barely fit on the 30-ft. width of the old rail viaduct. Gumshoe’s ‘Gatsby’ hunt gets old By Lincoln Anderson The South Carolina sleuth who was hunting in Greenwich Village for clues about the real-life inspiration of the titular character of “The Great Gatsby” said last week his investigation is on hold for the foreseeable future. Arts
‘Diary of a Chambermaid’ in Tribeca
By Jerry Tallmer Octave Mirbeau and Natacha Rambova would, I am sure, have got along fine together. Koch On Film By Ed Koch Before Sunset (+) This movie has been widely praised as a blockbuster. It is not. It is well done, with tour-de-force acting on the part of its two principals, interesting dialogue and a modest tour of Paris. It is not a sensational, must-see movie, rather one that won’t disappoint if you set the standard of entertainment at a reasonable level. “Spider-Man 2” (-) It was Sunday of the Fourth of July weekend and a movie was in order. The reviewers gave this film terrific reviews. Joe Morgenstern wrote in the Wall Street Journal, “…the whole movie is a demonstration of controlled fusion, one that goes right from start to finish. Hospital marathon returns to Axis By Davida Singer Come mid-July, there’s nothing like an icy, dark serial drama to cut through the heat, and the 6th annual “Hospital” series, presented by Axis Company, fits the bill precisely. Romance in the night By Christopher Byrne To be really great, a romantic comedy needs those moments when, no matter how many times you’ve seen it or how well you know the story, you fear in your heart that the happy ending may not come after all. This is true of such classics as “Pride and Prejudice” or relatively recent hits like “You’ve Got Mail,” and it’s true of Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing.” The Villager is published by |
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