{"id":963,"date":"2016-01-02T11:06:36","date_gmt":"2016-01-02T15:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nymysteries.com\/?p=963"},"modified":"2016-01-02T11:10:26","modified_gmt":"2016-01-02T15:10:26","slug":"963","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nymysteries.com\/?p=963","title":{"rendered":"New York City Blog Dec. 27 – January 3"},"content":{"rendered":"
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My New Year\u2019s Gift to You: Stream Black Books<\/em> on Netflix. It\u2019s screamingly funny. I never appreciated the so called humor of the Hollywood screwball comedies, but the Brits have created a goofy, very politically incorrect sitcom. It reminds me of Faulty Towers<\/em> and I hope you enjoy it.<\/p>\n

The Film Forum on Houston brings back memories of my Uncle Bill\u2019s Indiana movie house, the Ritz. Like the Film Forum it seated about 500 people and had wooden seats. Unlike the Film Forum, on Tuesdays the Indiana Bachelors sang harmony before the Ritz\u2019s main feature. Did you see The Last Picture Show<\/em>? The Ritz could have been in that Italian movie, but so could the Film Forum. \u00a0Recently, I saw Ball of Fire<\/em> at the Film Forum. Barbara Stanwyck, Gary Cooper and Dana Andrews star. It\u2019s not The Lady Eve<\/em>, unfortunately. She\u2019s great of course. Cooper is game about playing a virginal scientist and Dana Andrews tries to shed his middle class aura and talk tough guy. It’s amazing what contract players were forced to do.<\/p>\n

Frank Stella: A Retrospective is on the Whitney\u2019s fifth floor. It\u2019s a big, bright powerhouse of an exhibit, the kind of show NYC museums do well. Steve Kulchek’s current girlfriend had to drag him out of the exhibit, he was enjoying it so much and threatening to make a sculpture out of one of his old cars. \u00a0Afterwards, they got into the enormous and beautiful elevator, shades of the old Whitney, and glided to the Whitney Collection on 6.<\/p>\n

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