Publication

1998 - W.W. Norton & Co., New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

24,000 words, Guess

Page Count

96 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
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  • LibraryThing2623124

Classifications

  • DDC813/.54
  • LCCPS3565.B6689 T56 1998

Description

The Times Square Story evokes the one-time glitter, the glamour, and the grunge of this fabled piece of real estate before it became Disneyfied - its grind houses and strip joints and freak shows and novelty stores and night clubs and peep shows and fleabag hotels. It also celebrates the world of below-the-line film-making as the kid, the producer, the broken-down actor, and Miss Columbus 1952 struggle to bring Fury of Macumba to the big screen - their artistic impulses crippled by financial reality and human frailty. With more than fifty evocative photographs from the golden era of this mythic patch of asphalt, The Times Square Story is a roller-coaster ride through gaudy, seedy, glorious cultural territory.

Subjects

Topics

FictionHistoryPictorial worksNew york (n.y.), description and travelTimes Square (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction.Times Square (New York, N.Y.) -- Pictorial works.

Places

N.Y.) Times Square (New YorkTimes Square (New York, N.Y.)

Genres

  • Pictorial works.
  • Fiction.

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