They love the excitement, the challenge, the sassy bisexual waiters, the one-night stands. House prices and rents are among the highest in the world. New York deaths from chemical misadventure are about 2000 a year. In London, a bigger city, the total was under 20. Lots of people are shot dead in New York. Mohamed Atta aimed a plane at a New York tower, and died at 32. If you can stuff up there, it seems, you can stuff up anywhere.
Charlie Chaplin had his passport revoked there and lived out his last bitter quarter-century in Switzerland.
Woody Allen was accused of incestuous pederasty there, and in due course moved his films to England. Judy Garland frequently attempted suicide there, and died at 47. Marilyn Monroe learned the Method there, and such unwieldy pretension and such drug use she died at 36. Tennessee Williams inhaled a bottle-cap, choked and died there Truman Capote gave up writing there, and died soused at 59. Elia Kazan was arrested for having communist tendencies there and, grassing, lost most of his friends. It failed so badly they sat in the box office for two days giving customers their money back. Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier put on their Romeo and Juliet there. John Lennon was shot dead there Russell Crowe, booked and shamed for throwing a phone at a clerk, all but lost his stardom there. Heath Ledger at 28, Dylan Thomas at 39, died of drugs mis-prescribed by New York doctors John Hargreaves at 50, Peter Allen at 48 of AIDS caught in New York's bath-houses Peter Finch at 60 of heart-strain making a New York film.
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