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Inspired by the question, Rapp wrote “Red Light Winter” at his usual feverish pace, completing a draft within weeks of what would become his most commercially successful play to date. Like his breakthrough dramas “Blackbird” and “Nocturne,” which both ran off-Broadway, “Red Light Winter” mines the shadows of human connectedness. Two college buddies in their 20s on a trip to Amsterdam share encounters with the same prostitute, creating a bizarre, emotionally charged love triangle.
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A: It was a departure. I always avoided the big emotional themes because I figured our greatest writers had already covered them so well and I wanted to be new and original. But once I decided to give it a try, it quickly wrote itself. I started thinking about this experience I’d had in Amsterdam with a friend. He had recently gone through a breakup and I was trying to encourage him to reconnect with the world, and I had this i …

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Community Board Six’s Landmarks and Land Use Committee voted against Summit’s special permit application, which Jackson said was necessary to legally allow the landlord of 255 Butler Street to “do business” with the school. The site is now zoned as a manufacturing district.
In rejecting the application, the committee expressed concern about students’ commute to the Butler Street building.
“The committee’s focus was the traffic issues. They felt the applicant hadn’t sufficiently addressed how the students would be transported to and from the school safely,” explained Community Board 6 District Manager Craig Hammerman.
Such investigation is necessary “given the mixed use nature of the area — it has industrial issues and fairly high-density public housing all within the same general area.”
There have also been reports of prostitution and drug dealing in the neighborhood.

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The Times Square inn, voted the nation’s sixth-filthiest hotel and the Big Apple’s worst last week by travellers on Tripadvisor.com, was a throwback to the dirty old days of the 1970s when hotels like this one rented rooms by the hour, not the week.
The beat-up facade on Eighth Avenue, near the corner of West 47th Street, sported a faded blue and white sign. Inside, guests were greeted by a smiling clerk who waved them up a rickety staircase.
In Room 307, the Post found orange mold in the shower, a chipped toilet seat, ill-fitting ceiling tiles stained with water and piles of dust behind the headboard.
“Like drugs, rats and prostitution? Stay here,” wrote “Singo” – an English guest who entered his room to find a hotel cleaner sitting on the bed, smoking and watching TV – on Tripadvisor’s website.

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Despite the deep embarrassment of his resignation over a prostitution scandal, former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer appeared on Stephen Colbert’s television show last night to provide his understanding of where we stand in recovering from the financial meltdown. Since he also previously served as New York’s Attorney General and was responsible for several significant investigations of financial crimes, his view on the situation is particularly noteworthy. Spitzer summarizes the situation from the start of the interview: “You should be furious because what’s happening is that we are rebuilding the system exactly as it was before.” The entire interview is a clear warning that further problems await if we don’t enact new safeguards for the system:

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Former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer was a guest on “The Colbert Report” Tuesday for the first time since February of 2008, just weeks before his infamous prostitution scandal broke. Right off the …
Former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer was a guest on “The Colbert Report” Tuesday for the first time since February of 2008, just weeks before his infamous prostitution scandal broke. Right off the …

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Spitzer Talks Wall Street, Dodges Re-election Questions on Colbert Report
Love Gov meanders through Colbert Nation
Updated 12:10 PM EST, Wed, Feb 3, 2010
Eliot Spitzer took the host seat on The Colbert Report Tuesday night, deflecting questions about ever running for office again while discussing the current problems with Wall Street.
Steven Colbert began the interview by chiding the former New York governor for the 2008 call girl scandal that forced him to resign. Alluding to the scandal throughout the interview though never referring to it by name, Colbert went on to say that, in spite of everything, he still liked Spitzer.
“You’ve got no public image to uphold,” he quipped, adding, “It’s better that you don’t uphold your public image at this point.”
Spitzer laughed and agreed, saying “there is a certain virtue to being able to tell the absolute truth and stick it to people without worrying about repercussions.”

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… From Paris with Love’
by Bill Goodykoontz – Feb. 3, 2010 08:07 AMThe Arizona Republic
“From Paris with Love” – the title alone invokes thoughts of James Bond dangling from the Eiffel Tower in a tuxedo, winking at a blonde as he dispatches an evil genius.
If only. Talk about your bait and switch – instead, we get a bald John Travolta shooting up the City of Lights as he fights terrorism, a guy whose idea of romance is a quickie in the bathroom with a prostitute.
Charlie Wax, you see, doesn’t play by the rules. Or maybe he plays outside the lines. Or the rules don’t apply to him. Whatever. You know the type – he’s a spy that the government doesn’t want to rein in because, no matter how unorthodox (and dangerous) his methods, he always gets the job done. The bad guys can shoot at him with submachine guns all the livelong day and he’ll never suffer so much as a scratch. Because, you know, he’s Charlie Wax.

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Here’s former Gov. Eliot Spitzer making his first appearance on “The Colbert Report” since Feb. 12, 2008 – about one month before he was forced from office by a prostitution scandal.
Colbert joked: “I wonder what he’s been up to….”
All in all, it was a pretty friendly interview. Colbert joked gently with Spitzer, who seemed pretty relaxed about the whole thing. Here’s the opening exchange:
SC: “I’ll tell you one thing I like about you. I condemn you. I condemn you. I condemn you. You are condemned. Fully condemned by me. All right. I’ll be clear about that. But I like you. I tell you why, is because when I see you on TV now I know that guys’ got to be an honest broker because you’ve got nothing to lose, right? Yeah. I mean, you’ve got no public image to uphold.”

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Gillibrand and Ford
The poll found that U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand leads potential challenger Harold Ford, a former U.S. representative from Tennessee, 36 percent to 18 percent among Democrats, with 40 percent undecided.
Voters approve of Gillibrand’s job performance, 42 percent to 28 percent, her highest score in a Quinnipiac poll since Paterson appointed her a year ago to fill the seat vacated when Hillary Clinton became U.S. secretary of state.
Paterson’s appointment of Gillibrand came after weeks in which several Democrats sought the Senate appointment, including Caroline Kennedy, the daughter of President John F. Kennedy, and it coincided with a slide in the governor’s approval ratings that began in February, 2009.
Paterson, 55, moved up from lieutenant governor in March 2008 when Eliot Spitzer resigned following a prostitution scandal.

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Lying is not new to Eliot Milhous Spitzer. He lied about the illegal loans from his father that financed his election as Attorney General until the NY Daily News exposed his lies. He lied about his involvement in efforts to have the New York State Police spy on his political opponents as e-mails released after his resignation prove. I believe he ‘rolled on” Manhattan Madam Kristin Davis to avoid charges in the hooker scandal that brought him down.
I first reported it to the FBI on November 19, 2007. Madam Kristin Davis confirmed that many of her girls commented on it on a SIRIUS radio interview only five days after Spitzer resigned, and the New York Post reported confirmation the FBI got of Spitzer’s Black Sock fetish from yet another call girl.

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