Slaves of New York
Slaves of New York
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Eleanor's boyfriend Stash is an artist waiting for his big break in the New York City art world. In the meantime he treats Eleanor (Bernadette Peters) poorly and cheats on her. When she finally leaves him, she finds success as a hat designer. Based on the best-selling book of stories by Tama Janowitz, who also appears in the filmed version. Noted also: this marks the acting debut of a young Stanley Tucci and includes a killer soundtrack, including Neneh Cherry's big hit "Buffalo Stance", which was first introduced in this film.

James Ivory--- USA--- 1989--- 124 mins.

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Based on the hit Tama Janowitz book, this movie details the lives of the artsy denizens of New York's East Village, their friends, and lovers. And enemies. Elinore (Bernadette Peters, always effervescent) is a hat designer living with caustic yet sexy artist Stash (sexy and caustic Adam Coleman Howard), but he's cheating on her with Daria (Madeleine Potter), who in turn is cheating on Sherman (Charles McCaughan), who's friends with an even sexier artist Marley (Nick Corri, a precursor to the sexy, long-haired guys that would infect NYC in the 90s). Elinore struggles until she gets her big break by giving some of her hats to edgy designer Wilfredo (Steve Buscemi, in one of his first roles!) and things start to look up. Shot almost like a series of vignettes stocked with recurring characters, this movie is kind of a ... well, mess. Directed by James Ivory (yes, that James Ivory), the movie comes across as a patchwork of scenes and happenings that tend to get jumbled in one's memory because, honestly, all these lower east side white people started to look alike to me and that includes Mercedes Ruehl and Stanley Tucci in a few scenes. And characters rotate in and out of scenes similar to the way people rotate in and out of one's life but in NYC, you don't run into people THAT much over and over, i.e., at the same clubs, stores, galleries, etc. Honestly, it was all a bit messy -- again, like life in NYC can be -- and very "inside baseball" in terms of how the downtown art scene works, which is not something that I personally find very interesting (had it been off-broadway theater or magazine publishing, I would've been a LOT more engaged, of course).

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