DECLINE IS A CHOICE: “Broadway star Patti LuPone gave an interview to the DC gay mag Metro Weekly, in which she unloaded several strange bursts of liberal celebrity-speak. The most notable one was resenting Rudy Giuliani for cleaning up Times Square into an ‘arcade’ and wishing Times Square was ‘tawdry and dangerous again.'”

She’s far from the only New York celebrity who longs for the urban hell of the Taxi Driver/Death Wish era.