{"id":1999,"date":"2018-06-30T09:13:32","date_gmt":"2018-06-30T13:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nymysteries.com\/?p=1999"},"modified":"2018-06-30T09:13:32","modified_gmt":"2018-06-30T13:13:32","slug":"nymysteries-june-24-june-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nymysteries.com\/?p=1999","title":{"rendered":"NYMysteries June 24 -June 30"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pride Sunday. In the late seventies, when it was called the Gay Day Parade, my boyfriend and I would arrive at a gay friend\u2019s apartment on Hudson, drink champagne at ten a.m. and smoke perfectly rolled cigarettes. I was titillated by the largely homosexual crowd expressing surprise that I was gay. Then we strolled up Fifth Avenue, slightly stoned. It was a leisurely walk, hardly a march.<\/p>\n

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For this Pride Sunday, The Judson Memorial Church’s staff created \u00a0evocative and heart breaking posters of the past LGBT community.<\/p>\n

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Saint James Baldwin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Saint Christine Jorgensen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Saint Alan Turing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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St. Harry Hay<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A friend and I go to the movies in hopes we\u2019ll break the spell of choosing long, boring movies. The three most recent stinkers: The King, Phantom Thread, Gone Girl.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

The King,<\/em> at IFC, ropes you in because it\u2019s supposedly about Elvis Presley. Actually it\u2019s a self serving vehicle about the director, Eugene Jarecki, who informs us that he\u2019s anti-Trump and supports Black Lives Matter. What does this have to do with E. P.? Jarecki criticizes Presley for not participating in civil rights marches. Presley was a musical genius. That\u2019s it. He might have been a dope but who cares? Speaking of vehicles, Jarecki has the usual tired celebrities such as Alec Baldwin ride around in Presley\u2019s Rolls Royce.\u00a0 <\/span>Avoid.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Paul Taylor Anderson\u2019s Phantom Thread<\/em> is so boring. Daniel Day-Lewis walks on water for some. In this long affected movie he treads on cloth. If you suffer from insomnia, this is the flick for you.<\/p>\n

We saw David Fincher\u2019s Gone Girl<\/em> in a glorious Amsterdam art nouveau movie theater, Path\u00e9 Tuschinski. I\u2019m a fan of Gillian Flynn\u2019s flinty, non-flinching descriptions of everyday life and of her sense of humor. None of which is present in the film adaptation. And to put the nail in the coffin Ben Affleck wanders through the plot in his usual sleepwalker\u2019s stance.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I had to meet a friend for drinks at Bemelmans Bar after seeing Always at the Carlyle<\/em>. Sitting in the twilight of Bemelman\u2019s wall paintings, listening to someone slinging Cole Porter and sipping champagne is certainly the way to spend the cocktail hour.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Graphic Lessons: <\/i>NYPD Detective Steve Kulchek is assigned a murder case at the\u00a0 <\/span>prestigious Windsor School. What\u2019s bugging him? His partner being stabbed while Kulchek was buying cigarettes? Escaping an attempted car bombing?\u00a0 <\/span>His hated boss, Captain Dick Holbrook, being a trustee of the Windsor School?\u00a0 <\/span>Losing his girlfriend to Holbrook?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Graphic Lessons:<\/em> Recent thirty-five-year-old widow Millie Fitzgerald applies for a private school teaching job, faints on a stabbed and dying man in the school kitchen, deals with the only witness to the stabbing – a troubled nine-year-old, develops a crush on a NYPD detective and her dog dies.<\/p>\n

Graphic Lessons<\/em>: Nine-year-old Dana is the only witness who overhears a person fighting with George Lopez, the soon to be stabbed Windsor School kitchen worker. Who can she tell? Her mother who never listens or accuses her of lying? Her father who\u2019s started a new family in Singapore? She tells Millie.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Mary Jo Robertiello<\/p>\n

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