THE SETTING -- Sunday brunch at the Players Club, where at the end of a long, wood-paneled room with antler chandeliers, stood Dominic Chianese, also known as Uncle Junior in ''The Sopranos.
When MCC Theater needed an actor to cover two performances for a cast member in its production of "Still Life," it did not have to look far to find one.
Conte's Market, a butcher shop and grocery, remains an outpost of old-world charm, frequented by customers from the Upper East Side neighborhood.
Harvey Wang has explored New York people and places in photographs and on film for years, but his latest love letter to his home town, "The Last New Yorker," which opened at the Quad Cinema on Friday, vividly epitomizes one character's lament about gentrification.
By the time Harvey Wang's film "The Last New Yorker" was released last week, several of the long-running stores it celebrates had gone out of business.
The best thing about "The Last New Yorker" is its evocation of the relentless speed with which the city tears down and rebuilds itself.
Filled with moody shots of Zabar's and lonely city streets, "Adrift in Manhattan" looks dreamy and feels even less substantial.
O.K., Rudolph W. Giuliani has the endorsement of Robert Duvall, who played the consigliere in what just might be Mr. Giuliani's favorite movie of all time, "The Godfather."