Topic: Jimmy Breslin

AP News | 2009-04-26 10:31:19
Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Jimmy Breslin's daughter dies after collapsing at NYC restaurant

The daughter of writer Jimmy Breslin has died after collapsing at a New York City restaurant four days earlier. Bellevue Hospital Center spokesman Stephen Bohlen says Kelly Breslin died at the hospital Tuesday night. The cause was not immediately known. The 44-year-old woman had no pulse ...

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AP News | 2009-03-06 23:22:45
Jim Bellows, editor who spiced up struggling papers and 'Entertainment Tonight,' dies at 86

Jim Bellows, a famed editor who transformed struggling newspapers in Los Angeles, Washington and New York, nurtured the careers of Tom Wolfe and Jimmy Breslin and helped make "Entertainment Tonight" a TV hit, has died. He was 86. Bellows had Alzheimer's disease and died Friday ...

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The New York Observer | 2009-02-19 16:01:57

5:30 p.m. Robert Kahn will sign copies of his new book, Movies: The Ultimate Insider's Guide at Rizzoli Bookstore, 31 West 57th Street. 6 p.m. The Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis at The New School will host a discussion with Professor Robert Shiller to discuss his upcoming book, Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the ...

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The New York Observer | 2008-11-05 23:58:27

New York Stories: Landmark Writing from Four Decades of New York MagazineEdited by Steve Fishman, John Homans, and Adam MossRandom House, 573 pages, $17 In the late 1960s and early ’70s, cultural and economic vitality were oozing, often gushing, away from American cities into suburbia. A 1967 Time cover story, “Our Embattled Cities,” featured Daniel Patrick Moynihan, calling him an ...

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Clearing the air on abuse

Boston Globe | 2010-01-12 01:37:15

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