{"id":1141,"date":"2016-06-04T09:40:15","date_gmt":"2016-06-04T13:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nymysteries.com\/?p=1141"},"modified":"2016-06-04T09:40:15","modified_gmt":"2016-06-04T13:40:15","slug":"new-york-city-blog-may-30-june-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nymysteries.com\/?p=1141","title":{"rendered":"New York City Blog – May 30 – June 3"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Have you seen The Fallen Idol<\/em>? Film Forum is having a Carol Reed moment. Reed, the director and Graham Greene, the writer, worked on three films together: The Fallen Idol, The Third Man<\/em> and Our Man in Havana.<\/em> Not bad, eh? The 1948 movie is charming. It\u2019s a literate thriller that takes place in an impossibly vast and posh mansion in post-war London. The superb cast includes Ralph Richardson, Michelle Morgan and the amazing child, Bobby Henrey. Mr. Henrey presented his elderly self at the Film Forum\u2019s first screening of The Fallen Idol<\/em>. The small movie houses are bucking up. Film Forum and IFC have Q & A\u2019s with actors from long ago productions. Earlier in the week, Film Forum presented The Odd Man Out<\/em>, an earlier Reed film. It stars the young, handsome James Mason as an Irish revolutionary who spends most of the long film bleeding to death. Afterwards, dinner at the Jane Restaurant on Houston. Lovely oysters and shrimp for me and a burger, medium please, for my pal from Michigan.<\/p>\n

Friday night we went to the NY Philharmonic in what used to be called the Avery Fisher Hall. Frank Huang, the lead violinist, had a stellar solo debut gliding us through a Grieg quickie followed, after intermission, by Vivaldi\u2019s The Four Seasons<\/em>. I\u2019m embarrassed to say that after all the time I\u2019ve spent at Lincoln Center I had never been to the Shun Lee Cafe. What a treat. It\u2019s tucked into west 65th Street, and a perfect pretheatre restaurant. Forget the dim sum. It\u2019s so 1970\u2019s. Instead, head straight for the entr\u00e9es and delicious white wine. Wine? In a Chinese restaurant? That\u2019s right. It’s 2016, folks.<\/p>\n

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