BEg2 chapter 10 contrast / prewar seven

[Mark Kohut]

Both operatic at base. Both full of thugs, violence, a ruined world. Like
NYC.

On Tue, Dec 21, 2021 at 4:55 AM Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Well, there is a heck of a contrast betw Guys & Dolls & Tosca.
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> I think most people would rather live in the headspace of the former rather
> than the latter.
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> But due diligence requires familiarity with both.
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> Prewar seven:
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> These guys renovated a prewar seven (probably fucked it all up (-; )
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> https://design-milk.com/a-classic-7-pre-war-apartment-in-nyc-is-renovated-by-studiolab/
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> There are others (floor plan layout shown)
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> https://www.cityrealty.com/nyc/market-insight/features/get-to-know/classic-five-six-seven-apartments-available-nyc/21181
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> Placido Domingo and Hildegard Behrens Tosca
> Love duet
> https://youtu.be/dLjnHFhmufU
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> Sam Jaffe in The Day the Earth Stood Still
> (Remade in 2008 with Keanu Reeves as Klamath, so
> presumably in the Aboriginal People’s Television Network library)
> - Ernie’s explanation of Sam Jaffe’s appearance in this movie draws a
> distant recognition from Windust as a piece of liberal propaganda of which
> he’s only heard. The Philistine!
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