SLAVES OF NEW YORK
Directed by James Ivory
Screenplay by Tama Janowitz
They should have filmed Tama Janowitz's publicity campaign. It was a lot more entertaining, and possibly more sociologically edifying, than Slaves of New York, the collection of short stories about the downtown art scene that book flacks so heedlessly hyped to bestsellerdom. Alas, the movie people got stuck with the book and with its author as screenwriter. And now the public is stuck with a movie that compares rather unfavorably to periodontal work in amusement value.
Sustained, coherent narrative is not, shall we say, Janowitz's great strength, and neither...
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