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Breaking all taboos, director Steve McQueen’s film Shame offers a harrowing and powerful glimpse into the life of a sex addict. Brandon, played by a brilliant Michael Fassbender, leads an outwardly successful and stable life in New York City, while inwardly his isolated, numb existence is perpetuated by a cyclical ritual of porn and prostitutes. Only the advent of his sister Sissy (Carey Mulligan) disrupts the cocoon Brandon has carefully constructed around himself and forces a self-reflection that takes him to his emotional and physical brink.
It is harrowing to watch a world in which Brandon has substituted intimacy with nudity and severed all real emotional ties, both to others and to himself, reflected in his minimalist, cold apartment that contains nothing but technology facilitating his addiction. As his life gradually spirals out of control, Brandon wrestles with a self-loathing that has long remained dormant under the surface. The viewer feels both painfully close and yet always at a distance as he watches Fassbender’s increasing display of raw despair and anger in long, slow-paced scenes.

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If you were counting on a casino gambling mecca opening on Staten Island, after the recent push for one in Queens and in Brooklyn, you’d probably have a better chance of winning Mega Millions at your corner candy store.
That’s because only three of the borough’s elected officials outright favor the state — but not necessarily the borough — getting a piece of the casino pie being floated by the Cuomo administration.
And the lukewarm reception on the part of other Island electeds could have any casino developer fleeing faster than you can say NASCAR — the last big-dollar development proposal that went nowhere fast in the face of pitchfork opposition largely over transportation concerns.
Island officials who are opposed to casinos or who are on-the-fence about it cited the social ills often connected with it, including gambling addiction, substance abuse, prostitution and crime. They also said they weren’t convinced the economic benefit would outweigh the possible negatives.

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On Sunday, January 15 at 1 p.m., the Garibaldi-Meucci Museum’s Terza Domenica Heritage Series will continue with the screening of “Marriage Italian Style.” This 1964 Vittoria DeSica film, starring Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and garnered Loren her second nomination for Best Actress in a Leading Role.
The film tells the story of a successful yet cynical businessman who meets a naïve country girl one night in a brothel during World War II. Their on-again, off-again relationship continues for decades. To prevent him from marrying a younger woman, she feigns illness and asks him to marry her “on her deathbed.” She survives, and reveals to him the reason for her charade—one of her three sons is his, but she won’t tell him which one.

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… We really believe in Nyack,” says Schloss “and the power of the small town and small business to spur economic and environmental change.” That’s why, he says, Gypsy Donut will work with groups like the Nyack Center and local food pantries and other organizations. Leftover coffee grounds, for example, will be given to the community garden and the shop will be host to programs on baking and small business development.
“We’re building out the space using environmentally friendly materials and recovered and recycled items,” says BJ Allen, one of the partners. “We just stripped the paint off the walls using a completely non-toxic stripper—it doesn’t produce any volatile organic chemicals. Our counter will be built using reclaimed steel and poured concrete and our bar rails was reclaimed from historic building demolition in Nyack.”

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This cold, objective film, co-scripted by the playwright Abi Morgan, who collaborated on The Iron Lady, is at once intimate and remote. Both revealing and concealing, Shame centres on the handsome Brandon (Fassbender), a successful senior employee of a smart company in a gleaming office, the precise activity of which is never specified. He lives a comfortable life in a clean, cold, anonymous flat in a high-rise apartment block overlooking the river from midtown Manhattan. We first encounter him in an extended sequence with scarcely any dialogue as he travels by subway to the office, making eye contact with a pretty girl sitting opposite him. (In an early McQueen installation called Bear, two naked men, one of them the artist himself, exchange ambiguous silent glances.) As the journey progresses there are flashbacks to the previous night when Brandon entertained a call girl at his flat, and the sequence ends with him following the strange girl off the train and either losing her or being given the slip. Was he truly attracted to her? Was it a compulsion or a ritual? Is this the everyday eroticism of New York?

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