Cooper my attention loving Weimaraner (far left) loving the camera! IT’S a dog-eat-dog city, and New York’s newest breed of dog walkers — the recently unemployed — are discovering the business can get downright catty. As the economy continues to crater, scores of laid-off workers have taken up dog walking…

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IF you’re looking for ghosts, head to the Chelsea Hotel. “It’s definitely haunted. If there’s one place that’s haunted in Manhattan, it’s there,” Abel Ferrara, director of the new documentary “Chelsea on the Rocks,” told Page Six. “We were five months making this movie, and we could feel spirits all the…

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I’ve often been curious to hear the responses given by individuals of substantial success when asked about their methods or secrets. The secrets of the wealthy, the winners, the business elite. Over the years, I’ve heard some remarkable responses, and some quite simple doctrines as well. I once at a…

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New York, July 13, 2009: “Meskada,” an original feature penned by writer/director Josh Sternfeld (“Winter Solstice”) has wrapped production on location in the Catskill Mountains of upstate New York. The film marks the second collaboration for Aliquot Films, the recently formed New York City production and finance company, and Deerjen…

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One would think the Chelsea Hotel would seize the opportunity to host the party for Abel Ferrara’s eagerly awaited documentary about the hotel steeped in history and controversy. Such is not the case as Executive Producer Jay Kubassek of Aliquot Films learned in a meeting at DeerJen Films, the initiator…

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