City News (1984)
The film is about "Tom Domino", a riffing, self-styled, noir-like protagonist who runs an East Village alternative newspaper by day, but who struggles by night when he gets home and tries to create a cartoon strip. A verbal sparring match with a sexy woman in a Manhattan bar one evening enables him to snap his cartoonist's writer's block, leading him to dash home after the encounter, and set down in cartoon form everything that just happened between him and the girl (whose name is "Daphne"). The cartoon strip (later named "City News") becomes a local hit, boosting his newspaper's sales. Now, with the newspaper finally a success, Domino finds himself in a conundrum: does he love Daphne genuinely for who she is, or only because she is the muse who has enabled him to become a success?
- Date of release
- 1984-04-24
- TMDB
- 0.0 / 10 (1)
- Director
- David Fishelson, Zoe Zinman
Casting
- Elliot Crown — Tom Domino
- Nancy Cohen — Daphne
- Richard Schlesinger — Lou
- Thomas Trivier — Frenchy
- Valerie Felitto — DeeDee
- Tony Mangis — Tony
- Gail Gibney — Gail
- David Fishelson — Punch
- Zoe Zinman — Judy
Interesting facts
City News is an independent, American comedy film, written and directed by David Fishelson and Zoe Zinman in New York City in 1983, which was nationally broadcast on PBS in 1984, exhibited theatrically in the U.S. and Canada in 1983, and selected for 12 international film festivals in 1983-4.
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