Yes, it is now official. The Avatar tsunami is over. The waters are receding and we can finally observe the debris field. Though Anderson Cooper has yet to cover this disaster, he might as well start interviewing the survivors. Heck, George Clooney could turn it into a telethon.
In many respects, the mighty blue wave is pretty […]
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Writers, publishers, structurers and structured analysts, NY FinTech members, family and friends of R&R, are all welcome to join us at Williams Club on 2/22 from 6-8 PM. Cash bar and DJ-ing by R&R’s own, very talented head of risk management, David Abitbol, aka, Japanster!
There have been a lot of changes in our society over the past fifty years. Hey, about fifty years ago it was almost impossible for an African-American filmmaker to exist; now it’s merely almost impossible for him (or her) to get a distributor.
Well, that’s pretty much the way it works. Nobody will put it that way, […]
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Somebody asked me recently how the cost of movie tickets is determined. I told them “Good question.” Then I realized that they were serious and actually waiting for an answer. After staring blankly for a few minutes, I excused myself to go to the bathroom and never came back.
Truth be told, there is no logic to […]
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The sight of New Yorkers sunning themselves on lawn chairs in the middle of Broadway almost made me swallow my cigar. I could not believe that hundreds of pedestrians, swarming among each other like killer bees, were lounging in the middle of a street famous not for recreation but for survival among the cars, buses […]
It rained in Manhattan on our 60th wedding anniversary. Lightning, thunder, a relentless downpour, the whole flashing, roaring, drenching package of a storm that pounded over West 44th Street like the drums of eternity. I took it as God’s recognition of Cinelli’s endurance.
In the vast stretch of cosmic time, six decades is not very long. When […]
It’s hard to believe that almost 40 years after the humiliating end of the Vietnam War Jane Fonda is still held responsible. Not for our defeat but for committing what a small group of veterans regard as a treasonous act in her visit to Hanoi during the height of the losing battle.
Despite the passage of years […]
I was a nice guy until I became a landlord. I smiled a lot and said “Good morning” and “How you doing?” and patted the dog occasionally and my wife more frequently. Then I became responsible for the lives of tenants and it all changed. Overnight I became a monster.
It began with our purchase of a […]
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May 8, 2009
Bloomberg commentator David Reilly quotes R&R’s Ann Rutledge on the next target for regulators in mending the financial crisis: the “shadow banking system” of non-bank lending markets.
Rutledge calls for “an exchange-like setting to provide the sort of standardization and rules that help trading of stocks and options,” and operational revamps to produce more accurate and dynamic […]
When I grow up I want to be a political commentator like Rush Limbaugh or Keith Olbermann and shout in everyone’s face.
I will holler at the masses from television and radio stations and from street corners. I will yell at passing buses and taxis and go down into the subway tunnels and bellow at […]