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	Last Exit to Brooklyn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Last Exit to Brooklyn is a 1964 novel by American author Hubert Selby Jr.
		Last Exit to Brooklyn was written in an unusual style that ignores most conventions of grammar.
		Last Exit to Brooklyn started as The Queen is Dead, one of several short stories Selby wrote about people he had met around Brooklyn while working as a copywriter and general laborer.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Last_Exit_to_Brooklyn (1021 words)

	Last Exit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Last Exit was a free jazz supergroup composed of bass guitarist Bill Laswell, electric guitarist Sonny Sharrock, drummer Ronald Shannon Jackson, and saxophonist Peter Brotzmann.
		Last Exit was remarkable for their musical ferocity, matched by confrontational attitudes, toured with a Black Flag-like tenacity.
		Their music was largely impovised; John Dugan writes "Granted, one person's free improvisation is another's tuneless chaos, but Last Exit, due primarily to the skill of its individuals, only infrequently fell off the precipice into the netherworld of arty wanking...
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Last_Exit (360 words)

	Last Exit on Brooklyn - SeattleWiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The much-photographed front of the Last Exit; pictures of the interior are few and far between.
		The Last Exit on Brooklyn was a University District coffeehouse, founded 1967 by Irv Cisky, who operated it until his death in the early 1990s.
		The original place on Brooklyn was enormous (it seated about 80 at tables, and could cram in another 40 or so for music performances, plus 15 more on the patio out back), high-ceilinged, and, by mid-evening, as smoky as a circle of hell.
	seattlewiki.org /wiki/Last_Exit_on_Brooklyn (1397 words)

	‘Last Exit to Brooklyn’ (R)
		"Last Exit to Brooklyn," Uli Edel's lurid, grandiose adaptation of Hubert Selby Jr.'s controversial 1964 novel, takes place in a perpetual state of ashen gray malaise.
		Its setting is the early '50s in the waterfront area near Red Hook, Brooklyn, a world of closed-down storefronts and squalid dives, of striking factory workers, vamping transvestites, teen prostitutes and brutal punks.
		This is Brooklyn with an overlay of Wagner and Brecht, where sex, poverty, violence and drugs all mingle into a kind of feverish, teeming evil.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/lastexittobrooklynrhinson_a0a96e.htm (756 words)

	deseretnews.com - Movie review: Last Exit to Brooklyn \| Deseret Morning News Web edition
		"Last Exit to Brooklyn," despite some very good reviews from a few national critics, was a most repulsive experience for me, reveling as it does in the social disorders of Brooklyn's Red Hook area during the 1950s, played as broad melodrama laced with R-rated excesses.
		Based on the book by Hubert Selby Jr., "Last Exit to Brooklyn" ties together some of his short stories and invents a new one, examining low-life misfits who are affected by the ongoing strike at the local metals factory.
		"Last Exit to Brooklyn" is rated R for violence, sex, nudity, profanity and drug abuse.
	deseretnews.com /movies/view/1,1257,998,00.html (365 words)

	‘Last Exit to Brooklyn’ (R)
		But "Last Exit to Brooklyn," a gothic, broody saga about waterfront hookers, drunken soldiers and striking workers, holds up a pre-reduced, ridiculously dire message like a striker's placard.
		Jennifer Jason Leigh, as the whore, happens to give the best performance in "Last Exit," but her efforts are nullified.
		It doesn't take reading the book to see through "Last Exit," to realize the movie isn't completely convinced of the dark vision it pretends to possess, or to nod ironically when one of its characters retorts to another, "This is getting rather sordid.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/lastexittobrooklynrhowe_a0b270.htm (478 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Film \| Features \| Adaptation of the week: Uli Edel's Last Exit to Brooklyn (1989)
		His first novel, Last Exit to Brooklyn, was published in 1964, and was an immediate critical and commercial success.
		Story: Last Exit to Brooklyn originated as a series of monologues and character studies that Selby, a self-taught writer, worked on over a period of six years.
		However, Last Exit had been a cherished project of Edel's since film school in the early 1970s - one of his graduation projects was a script of the Tralala section.
	film.guardian.co.uk /adaptation/story/0,12830,1311999,00.html (584 words)

	Telegraph \| Arts \| Culture quake: Last Exit to Brooklyn
		The author Hubert Selby Jr Last Exit to Brooklyn is a series of interweaving tales about prostitutes, transvestites and violent small-time crooks, barely surviving in 1950s Brooklyn.
		Born in 1928 to a former Kentucky miner, he was bullied by the local Brooklyn hoods and avoided school before becoming a marine and almost dying from TB.
		Last Exit to Brooklyn, which Allen Ginsberg believed would "still be eagerly read in 100 years", was his masterpiece.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2004/10/16/boquake16.xml&sSheet=/arts/2004/10/17/bomain.html (387 words)

	Commentary Magazine - Last Exit to Brooklyn, by Hubert Selby, Jr. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Last Exit to Brooklyn, by Hubert Selby, Jr.
		...Last Exit to Brooklyn fails, I think, because Selby performs his function as hell-guide badly...
		...The worst of a Brooklyn slum as a part of hella potent conception, and the book to execute it would be a dark masterpiece...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V39I1P86-1.htm (1794 words)

	Last Exit to Brooklyn - Hubert Selby Jr - Printed Books Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
		Last Exit to Brooklyn - Hubert Selby Jr Sketch of life in downtown Brooklyn, this novel was the subject of a major censorship case on its...
		Last Exit to Brooklyn - Hubert Selby Jr -...
		Last exit to Brooklyn is gritty and mean.
	www.dooyoo.co.uk /printed-books/last-exit-to-brooklyn-hubert-selby-jr (194 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: Last Exit to Brooklyn (xhtml)
		"Last Exit to Brooklyn" makes a point of taking place in the early 1950s, when all of the escape routes had been cut off for its major characters.
		The movie takes place in a Brooklyn neighborhood torn by a bitter strike; most of the men work at the factory, and are unemployed by the dispute, but for Harry Black (Stephen Lang), a worker who has been hired to run the strike office, these are good times.
		Last Exit to Brooklyn was banned as a book and resulted in several obscenity cases in both the United States and England.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19900511/REVIEWS/5110301/1023 (979 words)

	Hubert Selby Jr. -- wrote 'Last Exit to Brooklyn'
		And when "Last Exit," which consists of six loosely connected stories, was published in England in 1966, a jury found it to be obscene and fined its publisher.
		Hubert Selby was born on July 27, 1928, in Brooklyn, the son of Adalin and Hubert Selby Sr., a coal miner from Kentucky who served in the merchant marine for several years until his son was born.
		In 1989, "Last Exit" was made into a film by the German director Uli Edel.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/04/27/BAGIL6BL0H1.DTL (464 words)

	Last Exit to Brooklyn
		Selby specifically focused on the problems of Brooklyn longshoremen struggling for a decent life amid the heroin addicts, street gangs, and prostitutes that defined their squalid neighborhoods.
		Of course, many of the union guys used to be in the gangs themselves, and they were generally hard men who often had abusive upbringings, and very often dropped out of school.
		His situation was heartbreaking, but the point is that he was the only low-life I had ever known, and he was basically a decent guy who turned out pathetic, not a dangerous guy.
	www.scoopy.com /lastexit.htm (1750 words)

	Talk:Last Exit on Brooklyn - SeattleWiki
		The Last Exit was an important part of my life, as I am sure it was for many of us.
		I enjoyed the Last Exit while I was stationed at Ft Lewis, I would run up there on the weekends and play go, eat, Chess and was introduced to Shogi.
		I was a regular in the early 80s and remember how the waitress (my favorite was named Andrea) would sometimes come over to the regulars (who would hang out there for hours on a mug of coffee) and whisper that Irv had arrived in a bad mood and everyone should order something...
	seattlewiki.org /wiki/Talk:Last_Exit_on_Brooklyn (214 words)

	Mental Yoga » Last Exit to Brooklyn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Last Exit in this way, isn’t just about a small patch of land known as Brooklyn, New York, but about humanity as it was then and is now.
		Last Exit is many things, but for me it is a nightmare, a horror story of the worst kind: those that bring your most hidden fears to the surface.
		Reading Last Exit is a frightening thing, disturbing not for graphic sex scenes it was reputed to have (it doesn’t) but because it says something not just about those at the poverty level, but as a whole society.
	journal.beautifulliar.net /index.php?p=18 (1021 words)

	National Review: Last Exit to Brooklyn. - movie reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		AQUARTER CENTURY ago, Hubert Selby Jr.'s novel Last Exit to Brooklyn was published to the roars of a succes de scandale.
		It concerned some desperately drifting lowlife characters in a 1952 Brooklyn where no tree was growing, only bleakness, violence, perversion, and, at best, a kind of crude horseplay, blue-collar bumptiousness classifiable as Rabelais redux.
		But making things easier here is the sameness of locale: a Brooklyn consisting of a diner, a bar, an overcrowded apartment, the gate to a steelworks closed because of a strike, and the union office across the way where strike policy is plotted.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1282/is_n13_v42/ai_9169503 (418 words)

	OpinionJournal - Taste
		Only two years ago the talk was of using tax dollars for a new sports arena that would keep the Nets basketball team on the New Jersey side of the Hudson.
		His plans for a 19,000-seat Brooklyn arena--to be designed by Frank Gehry--is but one part of a $2.5 billion commercial and residential development project on the borough's Atlantic Avenue.
		What we're not for is what looks likely to happen in Brooklyn: Land will be forcibly taken from some property owners and sold to those who, at least according to New York's city and state governments, will bring in more revenue.
	www.opinionjournal.com /taste?id=110005591 (518 words)

	USATODAY.com - 'Last Exit to Brooklyn' author Selby Dies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hubert Selby Jr., the acclaimed and anguished author of Last Exit to Brooklyn and Requiem for a Dream, died Monday of a lung disease, his wife said.
		Born in New York City, Selby's experience among Brooklyn's gritty longshoremen, homeless and the down-and-out formed the basis for his lauded 1964 novel Last Exit to Brooklyn, which was made into a film in 1989.
		Suzanne Selby said her late husband was kind and generous but in recent years suffered from depression and occasionally would launch into rages.
	www.usatoday.com /life/people/2004-04-27-selby-obit_x.htm (497 words)

	DVD.net : Last Exit To Brooklyn - DVD Review
		While it’s all too common to see the word “controversial” attached to the advertising for a film, book or recording, Hubert Selby Jr’s 1964 novel Last Exit To Brooklyn was, at the time of its release and for years afterwards exactly that.
		One of those books that was always considered “unfilmable”, Last Exit To Brooklyn nevertheless made it to the screen in 1989 with German director Uli Edel at the helm.
		Granted, Last Exit is not the product of a major studio and as a result hasn’t been given the hi-def treatment, nor is it likely to in the near future.
	www.dvd.net.au /review.cgi?review_id=672 (1131 words)

	I4U Price Watch : VHS : Last Exit to Brooklyn / Movie
		Anywho, I read LETB in about a week, which is super fast for me, and was intrigued enough to go out and watch the film.
		Manufacturing jobs were on a rapid decline, as companies moved out of town or out of state (which was why those companies remaining in Brooklyn were able to mess with their employees: take it or leave it, was their attitude).
		Last Exit to Brooklyn tells a story the way it needs to be told...realistically.
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	Last Exit To Brooklyn (1989)
		The film is set in Brooklyn during the year 1952, at the height of a brutal labour strike that is taking its toll on both sides.
		Last Exit To Brooklyn is a painful movie to sit through, one that made me want to drink myself into a stupor so I wouldn't have to sit and watch people that I had no sympathy for abuse one another.
		If films in which people get hit by cars, people use each other like paper cups, or men treat their women like a piece of junk they found at a garage sale are your cup of tea, then this film will suit you.
	www.michaeldvd.com.au /Reviews/Reviews.asp?ReviewID=132 (1642 words)

	The New York Times > Arts > Hubert Selby Jr., Who Wrote `Last Exit to Brooklyn,' Dies at 75
		And when "Last Exit," which consists of "Tralala" and five other loosely connected stories, was published in England in 1966, a jury found it to be obscene and fined its publisher.
		The novel describes the seedy underbelly of the Red Hook waterfront neighborhood in the Brooklyn of the 1950's, which is depicted as a wasteland prowled by gangs, whores and transvestites.
		was born on July 27, 1928, in Brooklyn, the son of Adalin and Hubert Selby Sr., a coal miner from Kentucky who served in the merchant marine for several years until his son was born.
	www.nytimes.com /2004/04/27/arts/27SELB.html?ex=1398484800&en=552dff83fed9f101&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND (800 words)

	New York - History and Background \| Footprint Guides
		Brooklyn provides the backdrop to this detective story about a loss of innocence and betrayal.
		Selby Jr, Hubert, Last Exit to Brooklyn, (1966), Paladin/Grove Weidenfeld.
		Interwoven stories of Brooklyn, scripted by Paul Auster and starring Harvey Keitel as the owner of a cigar store.
	www.footprintguides.com /New-York/History-and-Background.php (790 words)

	VH1.com : Movies : Movie : Last Exit to Brooklyn : Main
		Hubert Selby's controversial 1964 cult novel Last Exit To Brooklyn is adapted to the big s...
		Hubert Selby's controversial 1964 cult novel Last Exit To Brooklyn is adapted to the big screen by director Ulrich Edel in this drama.
		The story is set in the early 1950s in Red Hook, Brooklyn, a blighted waterfront town of boarded-up storefronts and striking factory workers.
	www.vh1.com /movies/movie/19926/moviemain.jhtml (168 words)

	Broadway Grosses: Last Exit for Brooklyn?, Broadway.com Buzz
		When the Tony nominations were announced on May 10, one of the shows that came up empty-handed was Brooklyn.
		Tthe tuner really could have used a Tony boost; it has been struggling for a while at the Schoenfeld Theatre (previously named the Plymouth) and last week it fell $18,085 from the previous week.
		Brooklyn grossed $169,541 in eight performances, a paltry sum for a musical.
	www.broadway.com /gen/Buzz_Story.aspx?ci=512343 (295 words)

	Last Exit to Brooklyn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The mean and desolate streets of Brooklyn are home to a host of unhappy, hopeless characters stuck in dead-end lives.
		David Zucker (Airplane) is onboard to direct Scary Movie 4, the fourth in a series that skewers pop culture and doesn't care who is offended in the process.
		Certain Last Exit to Brooklyn article data provided by the Movie Review Query Engine.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/last_exit_to_brooklyn (423 words)

	On Last Exit to Brooklyn, the Movie...
		The story chronicles young Brooklyn hustlers before the beat generation: coulda' easily been the OV we grew up in.
		Last Exit was banned in Britain in 1964, bringing Selby, ex-marine, turned addict a good deal of notoriety: in those days it wasn't considered good marketing.
		Cowboy was justifiably downgraded to an 'R', on initial release.
	www.rkpuma.com /brooklyn.htm (460 words)

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