Jimmy Breslin

Birth : 1930-10-17, Jamaica, Queens, New York City, New York, USA

Death : 2017-03-19

History

James Earle Breslin was an American journalist and author. Until the time of his death, he wrote a column for the New York Daily News Sunday edition. He wrote numerous novels, and columns of his appeared regularly in various newspapers in his hometown of New York City.

Movies

Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists

Self

Directors Jonathan Alter, John Block and Steve McCarthy bring New York columnists Jimmy Breslin and Pete Hamill’s courageous writing to life, celebrating the acclaimed journalists and the city they loved.

Porn King: The Trials Of Al Goldstein

Al Goldstein, the controversial adult magazine publisher, is up against the odds as he takes on the D.A., the press and an even larger nightmare: irrelevancy all in a little courthouse in Brooklyn.

Ring of Fire: The Emile Griffith Story

Self

A story of violence, love, sex, politics and media centered around the life of Griffith, a six-time world welterweight champion.

Summer of Sam

Jimmy Breslin

Spike Lee's take on the "Son of Sam" murders in New York City during the summer of 1977 centering on the residents of an Italian-American South Bronx neighborhood who live in fear and distrust of one another.

The Battle Over Citizen Kane

Self

Documentary about the battle between Orson Welles and William Randolph Hearst over Welles' Citizen Kane (1941). Features interviews with Welles' and Hearst's co-workers also as a relative complete bio of Hearst.

Superman's 50th Anniversary: A Celebration of the Man of Steel

Self

A humourous telling of the history of the comic book superhero.

The Neighborhood

Story

A neighborhood in Brooklyn reacts to the first black families moving into the community.

If Ever I See You Again

Mario

Bob Morrison, a successful composer of TV commercial jingles, is unhappy with his lack of creative freedom in developing the definitive dog-food song. Frustrated, he heads out to Hollywood to score a movie. While in California he establishes contact with an old girlfriend.

The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight

Novel

A Brooklyn mobster and his gang try to rub out their rivals.