Arnie Geller

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In love and war Damien Nguyen, Nick Nolte and Bai Ling star in Norwegian director Hans Petter Moland's The Beautiful Country, a film about the child of a Vietnam War romance between an American G.I. and a Vietnamese woman.
James Hamilton
In love and war Damien Nguyen, Nick Nolte and Bai Ling star in Norwegian director Hans Petter Moland's The Beautiful Country, a film about the child of a Vietnam War romance between an American G.I. and a Vietnamese woman.

New York World

Float It!What could float our city's sunken Olympic hopes for 2012? How about the Titanic?  read more »

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Michael Calderone contemplates the Summer of Bill--that's Bill Hemmer--in this week's installment of Manhattan Transfers; the underemployed anchor has moored at a $1.75 million McMansion in the Hamptons. And, as always, more little nuggets of real-estate gossip.

Matthew Schuerman surprises the architect who developed a low-slung but incredibly modern housing development for Olympians on the Queens waterfront when he tells him that other developers are bidding to build there.  read more »

Jessica Bruder profiles Arnie Geller. He wants to finish a famous journey that, er, bumped into a bit of trouble, and bring the 17-ton hull of the wrecked Titanic to lower Manhattan.

Nicole Laporte takes us to sunny Venice Beach--the Brooklyn of Los Angeles? Or is that still Hollywood-Los Feliz-Silverlake-Et Cetera?--where Hollywood machers are rapidly gentrifying things.