New York, New York (film)

New York, New York is a 1977 American musical drama ner. Francine is tempted, heads toward the stage door film directed by . It is a musical tribute, exit, but at the last moment changes her mind. Jimmy, featuring new songs by John Kander and Fred Ebb as well waiting on the sidewalk, realizes he has been stood up as standards, to Scorsese’s home town of , and heads off down the street, accompanied by the song and stars and as a pair of he has written—the “Theme from New York, New York". musicians and lovers. The film marked the final screen An alternate ending sees the pair reunite and walk off to appearance of actor Jack Haley. dinner, sharing conversation about their son.

1 Plot 2 Cast

• Liza Minnelli as Francine Evans The story opens on V-J Day in 1945. A massive celebration in a New York City nightclub is under- • Robert De Niro as Jimmy Doyle way, music provided by the Tommy Dorsey Orches- tra. While there, selfish and smooth-talking saxophone • Lionel Stander as Tony Harwell player Jimmy Doyle, meets small-time singer Francine • Barry Primus as Paul Wilson Evans, who, although lonely, still wants nothing to do with Jimmy, who keeps pestering her for her phone number. • Mary Kay Place as Bernice Bennett The next morning, they end up sharing a cab, and, against • Frank Sivero as Eddie DiMuzio her will, Francine accompanies Jimmy to an audition. There he gets into an argument with the club owner. • Georgie Auld as Frankie Harte Francine, to get the audition back on track, begins to sing the old standard, "You Brought a New Kind of Love to • George Memmoli as Nicky Me"; Jimmy joins in on his sax. The club owner is im- • Harry Northup as Alabama pressed and, to Francine’s astonishment, they are both offered a job—a boy-girl act. From that moment on, • Dick Miller as Palm Club Owner Jimmy and Francine’s relationship deepens into love. But there are problems—mainly, Jimmy’s tendency to fight • Clarence Clemons as Cecil Powell with everyone, and his increasingly violent arguments • Casey Kasem as DJ aka Midnight Bird with Francine, who becomes pregnant with his child. An especially bad shouting match between them results in • Adam Winkler as Jimmy Doyle, Jr. Francine going into labor. Jimmy rushes her to the hospi- tal, but he is not ready to be a father, or a good husband, • Jack Haley (uncredited cameo) as Master of Cere- and he abandons his wife. monies Several years later, in a recording studio, Francine records “But the World Goes Round”, a powerful anthem which makes the charts and turns her into a popular en- 3 Music tertainment figure. In the following years, Jimmy and Francine both find success in the music industry; he be- 1. “Main Title” (Theme / You Are My Lucky Star / Just comes a renowned jazz musician and club owner, while You, Just Me / The Man I Love - Medley) - Ralph she becomes a successful singer and film actress. Burns (1:53) Jimmy records a song of his on his saxophone which 2. "You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me" - Liza tops the charts, and Francine cements her stardom af- Minnelli (1:47) ter singing Jimmy’s song, "New York, New York". Her performance, received by a wildly appreciative audience, 3. “Flip the Dip” - orchestra (2:13) takes place in the same nightclub where, years earlier, 4. “V.J. Stomp” - orchestra (1:08) she and Jimmy had met. After the show, Jimmy tele- phones his ex-wife, suggesting they get together for din- 5. "Opus Number One" - orchestra (8:49)

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6. "Once in a While" - Liza Minnelli (2:17) In his introduction to the film’s DVD, released in 2005, Scorsese explains that he intended the film as a break 7. "You Are My Lucky Star" - Liza Minnelli (1:18) from the gritty realism for which he had become famous, 8. “Game Over” - orchestra (2:25) and sees it as an homage to the musical films of Classical Hollywood. For this reason, he designed the film’s sets 9. “It’s a Wonderful World” - orchestra (2:08) and storyline to be deliberately artificial-looking. He ac- knowledges that it is an experiment that did not please 10. "The Man I Love" - Liza Minnelli (3:20) everyone. 11. “Hazoy” - orchestra (2:38) The film currently holds a 67% 'Fresh' rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 30 reviews.[4] 12. "Just You, Just Me" - Liza Minnelli (2:29) 13. "There Goes the Ball Game" - Liza Minnelli (1:27) 14. "Blue Moon" - Robert De Niro / Mary Kay Place 5 Re-releases (3:28) When the film was originally released, it had a running 15. “Don't Be That Way” - orchestra (0:44) time of 155 minutes. The box-office failure of the film prompted to cut the film down to 136 min- 16. "Happy Endings" - Liza Minnelli / Larry Kert utes. It was then re-released in 1981 with the deleted (11:39) scenes restored, including the lengthy musical number 17. "But the World Goes 'Round" - Liza Minnelli (3:58) “Happy Endings”, only a small portion of which had ap- peared in the original release. The total running time of 18. "Theme from New York, New York" - orchestra the DVD edition is 163 minutes. (2:49) 19. "Honeysuckle Rose" - Diahnne Abbott (2:16) 6 References 20. “Once Again Right Away” - orchestra (2:04) 21. “Bobby’s Dream” - orchestra (3:58) [1] "NEW YORK, NEW YORK (A)`". United Artists. British Board of Film Classification. July 21, 1977. Retrieved 22. "Theme from New York, New York" - Liza Minnelli June 26, 2014. (3:16) [2] Behind the screen: Minnelli on New York New York 23. “Theme from New York, New York (Reprise)" - or- [3] Nashawaty, Chris (2002-02-19). “EW: The Right Hook: chestra (1:13) How Rocky Nabbed Best Picture”. Entertainment Weekly.

The theme song of the film, "Theme from New York, [4] New York, New York at Rotten Tomatoes New York", found its own success when recorded a cover version of it in 1980. The song be- came a hit, and both Sinatra’s and Minnelli’s versions have 7 External links become closely associated with Manhattan in New York City. Minnelli continues to perform the number at nearly • New York, New York at the Internet Movie Database all of her concerts. • New York, New York at the TCM Movie Database • New York, New York at Box Office Mojo 4 Style and responses • New York, New York at Rotten Tomatoes Made after Scorsese’s successful Taxi Driver, the film was a box-office failure. Its budget was $14 million, a large figure at the time, but it grossed only $13.8 million at the box-office and the disappointing reception drove Scors- ese into depression and drugs.[2] However, it is reported in Peter Biskind's book Easy Riders, Raging Bulls that Scors- ese’s addiction to cocaine and complete lack of control over the improvisation of dialogues in the set were major factors that contributed to the failure of the film. United Artists ultimately recouped its loss on the film as a result of an agreement wherein they would share the profits with Rocky, which the executives had expected to be a flop.[3] 3

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