Reasons to Love New York

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Is there any film in which everyone talks faster thanHis Girl Friday?

Speed, really, is the defining quality of the great New York news movies.

In the latter two movies, the showdown comes in the pressroom itself.

And theres nothing it’s possible for you to do about it.Nothing!

But the righteousness comes at a price.

The pay is bad, and what we now refer to as work-life balance is nonexistent.

She has, she says, fallen arches, unfixed teeth, and you want to know something?

I never saw Paris.

But I wouldnt change those years.

Not for anything in this world.

Everyones wedded to the chase, and nobody outside the business gets it.

They always choose the newspaper.

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