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Biden was arriving in Las Vegas on Sunday for appearances through Monday. In Tuesday's primary, Biden faces only token opposition from author Marianne Williamson and a handful of relatively unknown challengers. He won Nevada in November 2020 by fewer than 3 percentage points. The Democratic National Committee last week announced a six-figure ad buy in Nevada and South Carolina, where Biden won the leadoff primary Saturday. As early voting began last weekend in Nevada, Trump asserted without evidence during a campaign rally in Las Vegas that he was the victim of the Biden administration's weaponizing law enforcement against him.

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☆ I moved to San Francisco despite the negative things I'd heard. The cost of living is high but it's worth it.
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-01 | by ( Jen Glantz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Read previewThis as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Julia Stevens, a 25-year-old who recently moved to San Francisco. In August 2022, a few of my college friends who'd moved to San Francisco invited me to visit them. I'd traveled in Europe during college; even still, San Francisco was the most beautiful and striking place I'd ever seen. San Francisco was perfect for the career path I wanted to takeI majored in English and minored in environmental science. The cost of living is the biggest downsideI wasn't fully prepared for the high cost of living in SF .

Persons: —, Julia Stevens, who'd, San Francisco, I'd, didn't, I've, I'm, outdoorsy, El Salvadorian, it'll Organizations: Service, Business, San, Facebook, Craigslist, Raleigh Locations: San Francisco, Raleigh, America, Europe, San, North Carolina, Santa Cruz, East

☆ Jonathan Majors wants judge to keep DA's 'unproven' allegations about his private life permanently sealed
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-31 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Now, he wants a judge to permanently seal secret pre-trial proceedings concerning his private life. NEW LOOK Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementRead Majors' arguments for permanently sealing the domestic violence pre-trial record concerning his private life. It's unknown if the judge will decide the matter from the bench at sentencing or in a written decision.

Persons: —, Jonathan Majors, Majors, Rolling Stone, Grace Jabbari, Priya Chaudhry, Michael J, Gaffney, Kang, Chaudhry, they'd, acceding, Michael Perez, Coretta Scott King, Michelle Obama, Perez, comport Organizations: Service, Media, Business, Majors, Manhattan, Marvel, Manhattan District Locations: Jabbari, Manhattan's Chinatown, Manhattan

☆ On the Lower East Side, a Secret Space, a Mini-Biennial
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-18 | by ( Roberta Smith | More About Roberta Smith | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A few years ago, the phrase “Dimes Square” began to flit around the art world. It had a youthful irreverence and seemed to be among those “if you know, you know” spots that only a few could point to on a map. But just before Christmas, I learned of a pop-up group show in a building known as 1 Ludlow on Dimes Square. A small starter gallery, it consists in its entirety of Tony Cox, an artist/dealer (and former pro skateboarder), and his small Canal Street loft nearby that since 2018 has served not only as his home-studio but also as his exhibition space. Cox was given the use of 1 Ludlow, a small building at the intersection of Dime Square’s main vectors — Ludlow Street, Canal Street and Division Street — in the loosely defined boundary of the Lower East Side and Chinatown.

Persons: ”, Ludlow, Tony Cox, Cox Locations: Lower, Side, Chinatown

☆ Marvel's Jonathan Majors told the ex he's accused of abusing she needed to act like Michelle Obama and sacrifice for him, prosecutor says
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-04 | by ( Janon Fisher | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Prosecutors painted Majors as a controlling partner, who once threatened suicide to manipulate. Defense said Jabbari threatened suicide, and the allegations were the result of being scorned. "He even threatened suicide to control her." In June of 2022, she went to a music festival in the UK with a friend where cellphone service was spotty, Perez told the jury. "He told her that she needed to comport herself in the way he needed her to be."

Persons: Jonathan Majors, Prosecutors, Jabbari, —, Coretta Scott King, Michelle Obama, Michael Perez, Grace Jabbari, Kang, Conqueror, Cleopatra, D'Angelo, Jabarri, Majors, Alan Chin, Perez, comport, Priya Chaudhry, Chaudhry, That’s Jabbari, ould Organizations: Defense, Service, Marvel, Manhattan, Majors, Yale, Chelsea, NYPD, Manhattan Criminal, Fine, David Geffen School of Drama, Sundance, Searchlight Pictures, Jabbari Locations: Chinatown, Fort Greene , Brooklyn, Manhattan, California, Texas

Under an elevated subway track in Queens, Victor José Hernández was whipping up the pepitos that he had perfected at a street cart in Caracas, Venezuela. Just steps away, an Ecuadorean restaurant now displays a big Venezuelan flag and offers karaoke with Venezuelan love songs. And the line for arepas and cachapas (sweet corn cakes) spills out the door of a Venezuelan cafe. Though New York City was built on immigrant neighborhoods — Chinatown, Curry Hill, Little Italy and Little Haiti, among many others — it has never had a Venezuelan neighborhood. Historically, the city’s Venezuelan population was tiny and overshadowed by much larger Hispanic groups, including Puerto Ricans and Dominicans, immigration experts said.

Persons: Victor José Hernández Organizations: New, Puerto Ricans Locations: Queens, Caracas, Venezuela, Roosevelt, Jackson Heights, Elmhurst, Corona, Venezuelan, Little Venezuela, New York City, Curry Hill, Little Italy, Little Haiti

☆ Marvel actor Jonathan Majors wins fight to keep potentially reputation-damaging information hidden from the public ahead of his domestic violence trial
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-29 | by ( Janon Fisher | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Jonathan Majors wins fight to keep potentially reputation-damaging information from the public. AdvertisementA Manhattan judge ruled Wednesday that potentially reputation-damaging information about Marvel actor Jonathan Majors will remain under seal on the eve of his domestic violence trial. According to Jabbari, Majors pried back and broke her finger in an attempt to regain control of his phone. AdvertisementJonathan Majors and Meagan Good inside Manhattan Criminal Court on Nov. 29, 2023 to attend his domestic violence trial. Wednesday afternoon, the judge is expected to hear arguments on the potentially reputation-damaging information and decide on its admissibility.

Persons: Jonathan Majors, —, Priya Chaudhry, Majors, Lovecraft, Michael Gaffney, Rolling Stone, Grace Jabbari, Alan Chin, Jabbari, pried, Chaudhry, Meagan, Kelli Galloway, Galloway Organizations: Service, Marvel, London Metropolitan Police, NYPD, Majors, Manhattan District, Attorney, Associated Press Locations: Chinatown, British, Jabbari

☆ An afternoon at the popular Chinese coffee chain that should be making Starbucks very, very nervous
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-24 | by ( Kai Xiang Teo | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

A Chinese coffee chain called Luckin Coffee recently overtook Starbucks in China, beating the international coffee chain in sales in the second quarter of 2023, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday. Founded in Beijing in 2017, Luckin Coffee has staged a dramatic turn-around. AdvertisementCurious to see whether Luckin could live up to its Starbucks-killer hype, I headed over to a Luckin Coffee in Singapore's central Chinatown neighborhood on Thursday afternoon. Luckin Coffee and Starbucks did not respond to my requests for comment for this story. Ordering my coffee was machine-like: technical, efficient and impersonalA typical ordering experience on the Luckin Coffee app means you'll never have to interact with a human.

Persons: —, Luckin, Kai Xiang Teo, he'd, weren't, Amanda, didn't dally, Esther, I've, Jeremy Organizations: Service, Starbucks, Wall Street, Google, Singapore Locations: China, Beijing, China . Singapore, Singapore's, Chinatown, Luckin, Singapore, Hong Kong

☆ This is what the largest-ever seizure of counterfeit shoes, bags, and other luxury items looks like
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-16 | by ( Kylie Kirschner | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Authorities in New York recently announced the largest-ever seizure of counterfeit goods in the US. The 219,000 counterfeit items seized included 219,000 bags, clothes, shoes, and other luxury products. AdvertisementFederal authorities in New York City just made the largest-ever seizure of counterfeit goods — worth an estimated $1.03 billion. Boxes full of counterfeit goods were seized from the storage facility. AdvertisementPhotos released by authorities show boxes upon boxes full of counterfeit goods, as well as units with floor to ceiling shelves absolutely overflowing with counterfeit luxury handbags, shoes, wallets, clothing, sunglasses, and more.

Persons: —, it's Organizations: Service, Southern, of, Attorney's, Southern District of New York Authorities, Southern District of, US Department of Homeland Security, Chamber of Commerce, Frontier Locations: New York, Manhattan, New York City, of New York, Southern District, NYC's Chinatown, Southern District of New York

☆ Canada Police Disperse Palestinian Protest at Restaurant Where Trudeau Dined
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-15 | by ( Nov. | At P.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +1 min

(Reuters) - Nearly 100 police were summoned to deal with 250 pro-Palestinian protesters who surrounded a Vancouver restaurant where Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was dining on Tuesday night, police said on Wednesday. Trudeau is under pressure from Palestinian supporters to push for a ceasefire in the war between Israel and Hamas. "Vancouver police deployed nearly 100 officers Tuesday night to disperse a protest outside a Chinatown restaurant where the Prime Minister was dining," the force said in a statement. "Police assisted in controlling and dispersing the crowd, while the Prime Minister was escorted out of the restaurant." "Yesterday evening the Prime Minister was approached by demonstrators in Vancouver," spokesman Mohammad Hussain said by email but declined to comment further.

Persons: Justin Trudeau, Trudeau, Mohammad Hussain, Benjamin Netanyahu, David Ljunggren, Bill Berkrot Organizations: Reuters, Canadian, Vancouver, Police, Hamas Locations: Vancouver, Israel, Chinatown, Gaza

☆ Canada police disperse Palestinian protest at restaurant where Trudeau dined
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-15 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

[1/2] Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada October 3, 2023. Trudeau is under pressure from Palestinian supporters to push for a ceasefire in the war between Israel and Hamas. "Vancouver police deployed nearly 100 officers Tuesday night to disperse a protest outside a Chinatown restaurant where the Prime Minister was dining," the force said in a statement. "Police assisted in controlling and dispersing the crowd, while the Prime Minister was escorted out of the restaurant." "Yesterday evening the Prime Minister was approached by demonstrators in Vancouver," spokesman Mohammad Hussain said by email but declined to comment further.

Persons: Justin Trudeau, Blair Gable, Trudeau, Mohammad Hussain, Benjamin Netanyahu, David Ljunggren, Bill Berkrot Organizations: Canada's, REUTERS, Canadian, Vancouver, Police, Hamas, Thomson Locations: Ottawa , Ontario, Canada, Vancouver, Israel, Chinatown, Gaza

☆ A Czech Reporter Saw San Francisco’s Highlights. Then He Was Robbed.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-14 | by ( Heather Knight | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Bohumil Vostal, a correspondent for a Czech public television station, spent Sunday reporting on the best parts of San Francisco. He toured an art gallery, visited Chinatown and even hired a guide with a vintage Volkswagen bus to drive him to the Golden Gate Bridge. But that’s when San Francisco’s dark side came into full view. Suddenly, Mr. Vostal found himself victimized in the exact high-profile way that city leaders had hoped to avoid during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation conference this week that is drawing President Biden, other world leaders and legions of international journalists. Image Bohumil Vostal, right, talked with a guide he hired to tour the city in a Volkswagen van.

Persons: Bohumil, Vostal, Biden, Bohumil Vostal, Milan Nosek Organizations: Volkswagen, Economic Cooperation Locations: Czech, San Francisco, Chinatown, Asia

NEW YORK (AP) — English-language editions of a Vietnamese novel set everywhere from Saigon to Paris and of the latest publication of poetry by Egypt's Iman Mersal are this year's winners of National Translation Awards. The awards were announced Sunday by the American Literary Translators Association. Thuân's novel “Chinatown,” translated from the Vietnamese by Nguyễn An Lý, won in the category for prose. The poetry prize was given to Mersal's “The Threshold,” translated from the Arabic by Robyn Creswell. “ALTA is incredibly proud to recognize Nguyễn An Lý and Robyn Creswell for their masterful translations from Vietnamese and Arabic respectively, in this the 25th year of the National Translation Award,” Elisabeth Jaquette, executive director of the translators association, said in a statement.

Persons: Egypt's Iman Mersal, Robyn Creswell, ” Elisabeth Jaquette, Peter Constantine's, Anton Chekhov, Martin, Karl Ove Knausgaard's “, ” Locations: Saigon, Paris, Norwegian

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — World leaders, CEOs, protesters and thousands of others will soon descend on San Francisco for a global trade summit that could give the battered city a chance to reverse its image of an economic powerhouse now in decline. As host, San Francisco and the city's partners are polishing sidewalks, scrubbing away graffiti and moving homeless people to accommodations indoors. “It shows that San Francisco isn’t dead,” he said, adding he believes “there's an appetite for things to change” despite negative media narratives. This month, Air China resumed direct flights between San Francisco and Beijing after suspending flights just before the pandemic. —-Associated Press journalists Haven Daley in San Francisco and Huizhong Wu in Bangkok contributed to this report.

Persons: Joe Biden, Xi Jinping, London Breed, Breed, —, ”, Gavin Newsom, Newsom, Janet Yellen, Karl Kramer, LaunchSquad, Gilbert Manirakiza, Chotto Matte, Kurt Zdesar, San Francisco isn’t, “, Azalina Eusope, ” Eusope, Jennifer Friedenbach, San Francisco, Emily Cohen, Malcolm Yeung, Haven Daley, Huizhong Wu Organizations: FRANCISCO, Economic Cooperation, Francisco's, United Nations, London, Associated Press . California Gov, San Francisco, Fox, Treasury, San, APEC, San Francisco Living Wage Coalition, San Francisco Giants, dreamers, Coalition, Homelessness, city's Department of Homelessness, Air China, Chinatown Community Development Center, Associated Press Locations: San Francisco, Asia, United, Francisco, San, U.S, Israel, Kenya, Chinatown, Malaysian, Tenderloin District, Beijing, Tourism, China, Bangkok

☆ Republicans demand Biden challenge China's Xi on fentanyl, prisoners
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-09 | by ( Michael Martina | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

The flags of the United States and China fly from a lamppost in the Chinatown neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, U.S., November 1, 2021. Republicans and Democrats in Congress have offered sometimes different approaches for countering China's growing economic and military might despite bipartisan consensus on the need to do so. But they asked Biden to present Xi with a list of 10 demands to improve relations, much like Beijing did to U.S. officials in 2021. "It is clear that competitive actions have been sacrificed to advance aimless, zombie-like engagement," they said. Reporting by Michael Martina and Patricia Zengerle; editing by Grant McCoolOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Brian Snyder, Joe Biden, Xi Jinping, Mike Gallagher, Biden, Mark Swidan, American Kai Li, David Lin, Michael Martina, Patricia Zengerle, Grant McCool Organizations: REUTERS, Rights, U.S, Beijing, Biden, Economic Cooperation, Republicans, Democrats, Treasury, Industrial, Thomson Locations: United States, China, Chinatown, Boston , Massachusetts, U.S, San Francisco, Asia, Beijing, Philippines, South China, South, Taiwan, China's Xinjiang, Texas, American

NEW YORK (AP) — There are rituals to an Alexander Payne movie. “The Holdovers” is Payne's attempt to make not just a ‘70-set film but an actual ’70s film, styled after some of the movies he grew up with. “I like talking about other people’s movies more than my own,” Payne shrugged. But there was always that distant dream of not being a filmmaker but just going to film school. Most of us trained in film school like those ’70s guys.

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☆ Mount Sinai Seeks to Close One of Lower Manhattan’s Last Hospitals
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-03 | by ( Joseph Goldstein | More About Joseph Goldstein | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

If it goes through, the hospital’s disappearance would leave the residents of Lower Manhattan with few major medical institutions. The largest hospital that would remain to serve that area would be NewYork-Presbyterian/Lower Manhattan hospital, a small institution that has fewer than 200 beds. Most of the large hospitals serving neighborhoods that include Greenwich Village, the Lower East Side, Little Italy and Chinatown have been shuttered. That was especially the case in Queens, where years of hospital closures left the few remaining hospitals, including Elmhurst, overwhelmed. During the first deadly phase of the pandemic, Beth Israel cared for more than 1,700 Covid patients — 165 of whom died, according to state statistics.

Persons: Beth Israel, ”, Lois Uttley Organizations: Little, Cabrini Hospital, Vincent’s Locations: Lower Manhattan, Greenwich, Little Italy, Chinatown, Gramercy, St, Queens, Elmhurst

NEW YORK (AP) — Federal agents on Thursday raided the home of a top fundraiser and longtime confidante to New York City Mayor Eric Adams, who abruptly ditched a planned White House meeting and flew home from Washington. The official declined to say whether Suggs was the target of an investigation. Vito Pitta, an attorney for the Adams campaign, said the mayor was not contacted as part of the inquiry. A spokesperson for City Hall declined to comment on the cancellations, deferring comment on the raid to the Adams campaign. In July, six people were charged in a straw donor conspiracy scheme to divert tens of thousands of dollars to Adams’ campaign.

Persons: Eric Adams, Brianna Suggs, Suggs, Vito Pitta, Adams, ” Suggs, Christopher Burwell, FBI windbreakers, Nicholas Biase, –, Eric Ulrich, Ulrich, ___ Balsamo Organizations: —, New York City, Agents, Associated Press, Washington D.C, White House, City Hall, Brooklyn Borough, FBI Locations: New York, Washington, Brooklyn, New York City, Denver, Chicago, Chinatown, Sugg’s, Manhattan

☆ China agrees to nuclear arms-control talks with US -WSJ
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-01 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

The flags of the United States and China fly from a lamppost in the Chinatown neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, U.S., November 1, 2021. REUTERS/Brian Snyder/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsNov 1 (Reuters) - China and the United States will discuss nuclear arms control next week, the first such talks since the Obama administration, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday. Those arms talks would be led on Monday by Mallory Stewart, a senior State Department official, and Sun Xiaobo, the head of the arms-control department at China's Foreign Ministry, the Wall Street Journal report said. Since then, U.S. officials had expressed frustration that China showed little interest in discussing steps to reduce nuclear weapons risks. Daryl Kimball, executive director of the Washington-based Arms Control Association, said the overdue arms talks would likely focus on promoting greater transparency of each countries' nuclear doctrines and more effective crisis-communication channels.

Persons: Brian Snyder, Obama, Wang Yi, Mallory Stewart, Sun Xiaobo, Jake Sullivan, Joe Biden, Xi Jinping, Daryl Kimball, Kimball, Jasper Ward, Dan Whitcomb, Michael Martina, David Brunnstrom, Sandra Maler, Grant McCool Organizations: REUTERS, Wall Street, China's, State Department, China's Foreign Ministry, Wall, U.S . State Department, Reuters, U.S . National, Pentagon, Biden, Control, Thomson Locations: United States, China, Chinatown, Boston , Massachusetts, U.S, Washington, Russia, Beijing, San Francisco

☆ China's defence ministry blasts Pentagon's annual report
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-25 | by ( Bernard Orr | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

The flags of the United States and China fly from a lamppost in the Chinatown neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, U.S., November 1, 2021. REUTERS/Brian Snyder Acquire Licensing RightsBEIJING, Oct 25 (Reuters) - China's defence ministry on Wednesday denounced the U.S. Defense Department's annual report on China, saying it distorts the country's security policy and military strategy. "The so-called report on China's military power released by the United States is full of all kinds of wrong content, including the statement on the Taiwan issue," a spokesperson for China's Taiwan Affairs Office said at a media briefing on Wednesday. But he added the difficulties and obstacles facing relations between the two militaries are created by the United States. The United States accepted China's invitation after China turned down a meeting a few months ago between the two countries' defence chiefs.

Persons: Brian Snyder, Wu Qian, Wu, Defence Ministry's Wu, Bernard Orr, Gerry Doyle Organizations: REUTERS, Rights, U.S . Defense, Pentagon, Congress, Defence Ministry, Taiwan Affairs, Defence, United, Thomson Locations: United States, China, Chinatown, Boston , Massachusetts, U.S, Rights BEIJING, People's Republic of China, South, Taiwan, United, Beijing

☆ Burt Young, ‘Rocky’ actor, has died at 83
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-19 | by ( Lisa Respers France | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Burt Young, a former boxer who found fame playing tough guys in Hollywood, died earlier this month, his daughter Anne Morea Steingieser told the New York Times. Young was best known for his role as Rocky Balboa’s brother-in-law Paulie in the “Rocky” movie franchise. Sylvester Stallone, who starred as Rocky, paid tribute to Young on Wednesday. “I was on the MGM lot when Sly Stallone came over and introduced himself to me, told me he wrote ‘Rocky’ and said ‘you gotta do it,’” Young recalled. He has a real eyeball for what’s going on in the world.”It helped establish Young as an actor who could play the heavy, but also be complex.

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Burt Young, the Oscar-nominated actor who played Paulie, the rough-hewn, mumbling-and-grumbling best friend, corner-man and brother-in-law to Sylvester Stallone in the “Rocky” franchise, has died. Young had roles in acclaimed films and television shows including “Chinatown,” “Once Upon a Time in America" and “The Sopranos.”But he was always best known for playing Paulie Pennino in six “Rocky” movies. The short, paunchy, balding Young was the sort of actor who always seemed to play middle-aged no matter his age. It won three, including best picture. In 1985's “Rocky IV” he reprograms a robot Rocky gives him into a sexy-voiced servant who dotes on him.

Persons: — Burt Young, Oscar, Paulie, Sylvester Stallone, Young, Anne Morea Steingieser, Paulie Pennino, Rocky, balding Young, ”, packer, Adrian, Talia Shire, Rocky Balboa, Stallone, Rocky ”, Burgess Meredith, Jason Robards, IV, dotes, ” Young, “, Lee Strasberg, Jack Nicholson's, Jake Gittes, Sergio Leone's, Robert De Niro, Rodney Dangerfield, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Bobby Baccalieri, Gloria, Robert Organizations: ANGELES, New York Times, Instagram, Marine Corps, Actors, Miami Locations: Los Angeles, America, Philadelphia, “, Queens , New York, Brooklyn

☆ Oscar-nominated 'Rocky' actor Burt Young dead at 83
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-19 | by ( Steve Gorman | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/2] Cast member Burt Young waves at the world premiere of 'Rocky Balboa' at the Chinese theater in Hollywood, California December 13, 2006. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsLOS ANGELES, Oct 18 (Reuters) - Veteran character actor Burt Young, best known and Oscar nominated for his role as the brother-in-law and meat-cutting friend to Sylvester Stallone's prize-fighting protagonist in the "Rocky" films has died at age 83, his manager said on Wednesday. The role of Paulie, who was also the brother of Rocky's painfully shy love interest and soon-to-be wife, Adrian (she marries Balboa in "Rocky II"), earned Young an Academy Award nomination for best supporting actor. Young reprised the Paulie role in all six of the original "Rocky" sequels. In later years, Young made a name as painter, whose works were displayed in galleries around the world.

Persons: Burt Young, Rocky Balboa, Mario Anzuoni, Oscar, Sylvester Stallone's, Anne Morea Steingieser, Lynda Bensky, Gerald Tommaso DeLouise, Lee, Paulie Pennino, Paulie, Rocky's, Adrian, Balboa, Young, Pope, Steve Gorman Organizations: REUTERS, New York Times, Reuters, U.S . Marine Corps, Lee Strasberg's, Young, Greenwich, Rockford, Los Angeles Our, Thomson Locations: Hollywood , California, Los Angeles, New York City's Queens, Philadelphia, America

☆ Burt Young, ‘Rocky’ Actor Who Played Complex Tough Guys, Dies at 83
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-18 | by ( Alex Williams | More About Alex Williams | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Burt Young, a burly Queens-bred actor who leveraged a weary gravitas and bare-knuckled demeanor to build a prolific career as a Hollywood tough guy in films like “Chinatown,” “Once Upon a Time in America” and, most notably, “Rocky,” for which he was nominated for an Academy Award, died on Oct. 8 in Los Angeles. With his bulldog build and his doleful countenance, Mr. Young amassed more than 160 film and television credits. He often played a mob boss, a street-smart detective or a bedraggled working man. But even when he played a villain, he was no mere heavy. Despite his background as a Marine and a professional boxer, Mr. Young brought layers of complexity to his work.

Persons: Burt Young, “, Anne Morea Steingieser, Young, . Young, Lee Strasberg, Sam Peckinpah, James Caan, Kris Kristofferson, Ali MacGraw Organizations: “ Convoy Locations: Queens, Hollywood, America, Los Angeles

But Curtis Chin's parents urged their six kids to ask customers at their Chinese restaurant about their background. Recent hate crimes have evoked comparisons to Vincent Chin's beating death at the hands of two white autoworkers outside his bachelor party. Curtis Chin's uncle was Vincent Chin's best man. Asian American and Pacific Islander groups are behind several upcoming events. “I just can’t impress upon it enough how much I feel like my whole community is rallying behind me for this book,” Chin said.

Persons: Curtis Chin's, —, Chin, “, ”, “ Vincent Who, Vincent Chin, Curtis Chin, it's, ” Chin, Chung's, ” Roland Hwang, Vincent Chin's, Hwang, there’s, George Floyd's, I’ve, Lily Chen, Curtis, Chen, we've, it’s, ___ Tang Organizations: Detroit, Asian American Writers ’, The Washington Post, The, American Citizens, Justice, Detroit Historical Museum, ”, Pacific, Associated Press Locations: Los Angeles, The, Detroit, Chinatown, Detroit's, Cass, The Cass, That's, ”, Asian American, Phoenix, @ttangAP

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