The ultimate guide to movie New York.- From Tiffany & Co where Ms. Golightly so dearly wanted a little breakfast and the locales of the High School for Performing Arts that graduated everyone from Al Pacino to Liza Minnelli to the YMCA where James Dean stayed as a struggling actor, and Elaine's where you can find Woody Allen both on (Manhattan) and off screen at his table (but don't approach him).
The classic guide to who-did-what-where in New York, on- and off-screen, including-
Classic film and TV locations- Marilyn Monroe's infamous Seven Year Itch subway grating . . . the deli where Meg Ryan famously faked an orgasm in When Harry Met Sally . . . the diner where Courteney Cox (in Friends) and Kirsten Dunst (in Spider-Man) waitressed . . . Men in Black's Manhattan headquarters . . . The Godfather
mansion on Staten Island...the Greenwich Village apartment where Jack Nicholson terrorized Greg Kinnear in As Good as It Gets . . . Ghostbusters' Tribeca firehouse . . . Michael Douglas and Gwyneth Paltrow's A Perfect Murder palazzo . . . the landmark West Side building that housed Tom Cruise in Vanilla Sky and Mia Farrow in Rosemary's Baby . . . the Greenwich Village apartment of Friends . . . Will & Grace's Upper West Side building . . . The All in the Family block in Queens . . . The Sopranos' New Jersey mansion (and the real Bada Bing club) . . . Seinfeld's favorite diner . . .
Sex and the City's sexiest haunts . . . and many more . . .
Stars' childhood homes- Lena Horne's Bedford-Stuyvesant townhouse . . . Frank Sinatra's Hoboken row house . . . Barbra Streisand's Flatbush housing project . . . J.
Lo's Bronx block . . . Humphrey Bogart's Upper West Side tenement . . . the Marx Brothers' Upper East Side brownstone . . .
Apartments and townhouses of the silver screen's greatest legends- Joan Crawford . . . Marlene Dietrich . . . James Dean . . . Katharine Hepburn . . . Montgomery Clift . . . Rita Hayworth . . . Rock Hudson . . . and . . .
Plus- Superstar cemeteries . . . major film and TV studios . . . historic movie palaces and Broadway theaters . . . star-studded restaurants and legendary hotels . . .
For movie-loving New Yorkers, travelers and armchair film buffs, New York- The Movie Lover's Guide is the ultimate insider's guide to the Big Apple's reel attractions.
By:
Richard Alleman Imprint: Broadway Books Country of Publication: United States Dimensions:
Height: 202mm,
Width: 125mm,
Spine: 27mm
Weight: 544g ISBN:9780767916349 ISBN 10: 0767916344 Pages: 528 Publication Date:15 February 2005 Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active
