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The daughter of legendary former Newsday columnist Jimmy Breslin died Tuesday night, four days after passing out at a Manhattan restaurant.
Kelly Breslin, 44, was pronounced dead at 8:25 p.m. Tuesday, a spokeswoman for Bellevue Hospital Center in
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New York Newsday
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Kelly Breslin, the daughter of the New York City newspaper columnist and author Jimmy Breslin, died Tuesday night, four days after collapsing at a Manhattan restaurant, her family said Wednesday. The medical examiner was conducting an autopsy on Ms.
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NEW YORK, April 22 (UPI) -- Kelly Breslin, the daughter of journalist and author Jimmy Breslin, has died at the age of 44, a spokeswoman for New York's Bellevue Hospital Center said.
The New York Post said Breslin died Tuesday night after collapsing
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United Press International
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...she didn't appear to be choking. Oren said the woman collapsed about 15 minutes after her group's plates were taken away. Jimmy Breslin is a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and author best known for his work in the newspaper Newsday, as well as New York magazine. The...
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The Money Times
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NEW YORK, April 22 (UPI) -- Kelly Breslin, the daughter of journalist and author Jimmy Breslin, has died at the age of 44, a spokeswoman for New York's Bellevue Hospital Center said.
The New York Post said Breslin died Tuesday night after collapsing
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United Press International
http://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/2009/04/22/Jimmy-Breslins-daughter-Kelly-dead-at-44/UPI-23891240417708/
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Simon Oren, the owner of L'Express, said the woman shared a meal of "very light food" with three other women. About 10 minutes after the servers cleared their table, the woman passed out.
"She just collapsed," Oren said. "She didn't show any signs of
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New York Newsday
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50, what does a "draft day deal" mean this early in the week?
A middle finger today? I'm perplexed.
Braylon is unhappy now. Telling him that the wanted to unload him and failed is a motivational technique I do not understand.
I didn't play football
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FanNation
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The daughter of writer Jimmy Breslin is in
critical condition at a New York City hospital.
The owner of L'Express restaurant says that 44-year-old Kelly
Breslin had no pulse and wasn't breathing after collapsing about 4
a.m. last Friday. Owner Simon
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New York Newsday
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The daughter of Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Jimmy Breslin is clinging to life after choking at a Gramercy restaurant, her family said last night. Kelly Breslin, 44, was on life support at Bellevue Hospital. Medics answered a call for a choking woman
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New York Post
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Hyperion editor-in-chief Will Balliett has acquired a new book by Jimmy Breslin, to be an account of the Rod Blagojevich scandal; David Black sold North American rights. In the satirical spirit of Breslin’s 1969 The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight
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Publishers Weekly
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Every time a sports writer runs into a fan, we invariably are told what a great job we have.
And we do. We get to be spectators at any number of sensational events, we spend our lives around games and recreation, and (as Jimmy Breslin once noted) there'
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Philly.com
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Legendary newspaperman and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jimmy Breslin talked about his career Tuesday night before an overflow Westport Public Library audience. Among his observations: “I hate legitimate people. They all proclaim immaculate honesty,
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Westport Now
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...newspaperman and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jimmy Breslin talked about his career Tuesday night before an overflow Westport Public Library audience. Among his observations: “I hate legitimate people. They all proclaim immaculate honesty, but each day they...
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Westport Now
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and like Rijo, you gotta go. "Politicians and mobsters," said Jimmy Breslin, "will never find anything too small that's not worth stealing." Add General managers to that. The case will linger on and have details, but does it matter. A well paid
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Sports Blogs
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This must be said with an important qualification—that on any given, happy day Pete Hamill, Jimmy Breslin, Alice McDermott and other lovely writers of Irish descent can still deliver to your local Barnes & Noble a book of exceptional grace and poetry
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U.S. News & World Report
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AMERICAN WIFE,
by Curtis Sittenfeld. (Random House, $15.) Sittenfeld’s heroine — a Wisconsin-born former librarian married to the prodigal son of a wealthy political family who unexpectedly becomes president — bears a close resemblance to Laura Bush,
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The New York Times
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journalism necessarily as to fame, celebrities and beautiful people. For each big-name journalist whose name is linked to Bellows, you could also find the Hollywood famous. Jim ate it up, which was one of the reasons his Herald Examiner indulged in a
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L.A. Daily News
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Jim Bellows, 86, a famed editor who transformed struggling newspapers in Los Angeles, Washington, and New York; nurtured the careers of Tom Wolfe, Jimmy Breslin, and Maureen Dowd; and helped make Entertainment Tonight a TV hit, has died.
He had
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Philly.com
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Jim Bellows, 86, a famed editor who transformed struggling newspapers in Los Angeles, Washington, and New York; nurtured the careers of Tom Wolfe, Jimmy Breslin, and Maureen Dowd; and helped make Entertainment Tonight a TV hit, has died.
He had
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In his 2002 memoir, editor Jim Bellows wrote, "I am never happier
than when someone hands me a newspaper that is either not very good
or in deep financial trouble." And those who worked with him over
three decades spent in the newsroom understood just
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MediaWeek
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Its day 49 covering the Obama administration and week six for us. What
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James Bellows, whose insistence on stylish writing and bold, clean graphics promoted the New Journalism movement while he was the editor of three major newspapers, including The New York Herald Tribune, died Friday. He was 86 and lived in
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International Herald Tribune
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NEW YORK In his 2002 memoir, editor Jim Bellows wrote, "I am never happier than when someone hands me a newspaper that is either not very good or in deep financial trouble." And those who worked with him over three decades spent in the newsroom
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Editor & Publisher
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Jimmy Breslin just told a woman who offered him a lap dance to "jump out the window -- I want to see her guts flattened."
And he meant it. He wasn't happy that he'd been interrupted during a long recitation from his next book, a work-in-progress
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Village Voice
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Once a month, former Voicer and current New York scribe Mark "American Gangster" Jacobson puts on a racuous "radio" show at the KGB Bar on East 4th Street.
We put "radio" in quotes for several reasons: not only does the program not go out over
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show March 1, 2009 show in Hoboken featuring comedians JL Cauvin, Pat Breslin, Jim Dodge, Mark Normand, Jess Burkle, Helen Hong. Check www
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and like Rijo, you gotta go. "Politicians and mobsters," said Jimmy Breslin, "will never find anything too small that's not worth stealing." Add General managers to that. The case will linger on and have details, but does it matter. A well paid
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Sports Blogs
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Son Of Sam Documentary for the NY Daily News
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Jimmy Breslin was late.
A staffer for R.J. Julia Booksellers in Madison told a crowd of about 100 people waiting to see the renowned columnist and author Tuesday night that Breslin was enduring the quintessential Connecticut experience; he was stuck in
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New Haven Register
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-Rapture Graphic Novel words by Jim Munroe Art and Video by Salgood Sam Music "Dogs" by Sadoceanspacebear (featuring Michelle Breslin, Kenn Bannerman, Gerald Smith
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“I am not a hustler. I am a practitioner who enlightens the American populace and brings joy to the world.” Joey Goldstein.
I met him briefly last fall at memorial for W.C. Heinz at Elaine’s of all places. I introduced myself and shook his hand hand.
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In 1993, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, Jimmy Breslin, wrote a front page story for New York Newsday about Melanie Cane, a young, troubled psychiatrist, who "let love take her too far" by poisoning her former boyfriend, also a psychiatrist. Now, 16
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San Francisco Chronicle
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Michael Imperioli,Arthur J. Nascarella,John Savage,Spike Lee,Jimmy Breslin,John Turturro ... "Spike Lee" "John Leguizamo" "
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In 1993, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, Jimmy Breslin, wrote a front page story for New York Newsday about Melanie Cane, a young, troubled psychiatrist, who "let love take her too far" by poisoning her former boyfriend, also a psychiatrist. Now, 16
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Emediawire.com
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-based singersongwriters Barry and Holly Tashian. The duo's five albums, produced by Jim Rooney, have included "Straw Into Gold," which received a NAIRD
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WSJ.com tracks the housing market with news, tips and analysis
Here is this weeks roundup of real estate news:
Timber magnate Tim Blixseth has offered to trade his private five-acre Turks & Caicos island for another valuable hard asset, such as a
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Wall Street Journal
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From The Real Deal: "Legendary New York journalist Jimmy Breslin and his wife, former City Council member Ronnie Eldridge, paid $1.65 million for an apartment in the troubled Kent Swig condominium conversion Sheffield57, south of Columbus Circle. The
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New York Observer
http://www.observer.com/2008/real-estate/slow-news-day-jimmy-breslin-buys-condo
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Authors from every genre joined together over the weekend, celebrating the life Studs Terkel. Speakers included Jimmy Breslin, Katrina vanden Heuvel, Victor Navasky, Walter Mosley, and Howard Zinn.
The NY Times covered the event, describing how Terkel
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Studs Terkel, who died on Oct. 31 at 96, was remembered on Sunday as the father of oral history, the voice of the American worker, a pre-eminent listener, the sage of Chicago and a champion of the underdog.
A dozen friends and admirers including the
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The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/08/books/08terkel.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Andrews Sisters, Jimmy Buffett, Ella Fitzgerald, Leon Redbone, even Sixpence None the Richer did a version of this song. ... Jason Breslin Kristin Chenoweth
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Pete Dexter is a hard guy. Dark. He writes hard–succinct, almost scary-clean prose–and he sure lived hard when he was a columnist in Philadelphia from the mid-Seventies through the mid-Eighties. Later, he became a novelist and wrote screenplays.  His
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Sports Blogs
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his wife Jane (Patricia Breslin) and two children Andy Jr. (played by Rooney's real-life son Teddy) and Jimmy (Johnny Weissmuller Jr.
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Just like the steam billowing from a manhole on Broadway, Breslin's prose
reeks of New York. His staccato style is well suited to this mug's gallery
of Mafia nogoodniks, such as Anthony "Gaspipe" Casso (so called
because he used one "to break heads")
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The Independent
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/the-good-rat-by-jimmy-breslin-1037765.html
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Crime writer Jimmy Breslin once penned a book about a bumbling mob family called, The Gang That Couldnt Shoot Straight. If Breslin ever decided to put together a story about the Flyers shootout performance, he could probably use the same title.
Lets
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PhillyBurbs.com
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Figures, of course, are notorious liars, which is why accountants have more fun than people think. Therefore, you just do not use a record book to say the Mets are the worst team of all time. You have to investigate the matter thoroughly. Then you can
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BrothersJudd Blog
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Jimmy Breslin is an iconic New York journalist. The Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist has covered everything from sports to civil rights. Breslin, now 78, worked for several newspapers, including Newsday and the New York Daily News.
amNewYork discussed
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amNewYork
http://weblogs.amny.com/entertainment/urbanite/blog/2008/11/breslin_qa_everybodys_going_br.html
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"It is a function of government and politicians to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own conenience." - Murray KemptonÂ
A couple of weeks ago New York City’s term limits law was extended legislatively by the New York City Council and
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Room Eight
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Review by MARK WEINGARTEN
WHEN THE GREAT NEW YORK journalist Jimmy Breslin retired four years ago, it was ostensibly to devote more time to books. But there might have been another reason. Like a novelist, a great reporter needs h
is cast of characters
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The Scotsman
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/books/Book-review-The-Good-Rat.4692193.jp
Teaser Trailer by Jimmy Breslin ... scumpterooblah
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When the real-estate mogul Seymour Durst died, in 1995, he left behind some nine thousand books about the city in which he had made his fortune, New York. The collection was donated to City University of New York, and it is housed at the university’s
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