Recently was the Telluride Film Festival, to which practically nobody came. The thing had to come to you. Makeshift drive-in for “Nomadland,” a modern road picture thing with Frances McDormand. McDormand, under a mask, inside a golf cart, fires burning in the distance, yelled: “Get your Kleenex out. Have hamburgers and milkshakes at our sanitized …
Howard Safir. Law enforcement veteran of 35 years. NYPD commissioner 1996 to 2000 under Mayor Giuliani. February 1999. The Amadou Diallo hysteria was on his watch. Street peddler, 22. Unarmed. No criminal record. Killed, 41 shots by four police officers. Gripping the city for months, it became a video, TV special, documentary, newspaper headline, Netflix …