The funny thing about Collins's career is that most of her films have been like bad TV, while her TV creation, Alexis, could have stepped straight out of a first-rate 1930s movie, probably starring Joan Crawford.
Upcoming speakers include Merrill Ashley, former principal dancer (July 17); Shaun O'Brien, one of ballet's great character dancers and a first-rate raconteur (July 22 and 24); and Christopher Wheeldon, City Ballet's resident choreographer (July 23).
At one of them, my son's kindergarten class not only received a first-rate education this year, but also visited many museums and concert halls.
Explaining his demands for reform, the governor said, "At the turn of the last century, New York's schools provided immigrant children and native New Yorkers alike with a first-rate education," whereas today "some students are forced to settle for less".
At Last a First-Rate Coffee Town" (March 10): As an Upper East Sider I am not eager to go to Brooklyn, the Village or even West 85th Street for my morning cup of coffee.
Robert Z. Leonard's PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (1940) is a first-rate adaptation.
The Post staff did a first-rate job, and to read it today is as startling and disturbing as it was then.
"Black Hawk Down," one of his films from 2001, was a first-rate war movie, and this loose-jointed entertainment has many lovably eccentric moments.
Of the Fed's 16 policymakers, only one believes it will be appropriate to raise rates this year; 13 expect a first rate hike next year, and two others see the first rate hike coming in 2016, according to fresh forecasts published on Wednesday.
In June, China cut benchmark interest rates for the first time since 2008, and made a second rate cut last month.
Speaking at a press conference afterwards, ECB president Jean-Claude Trichet surprised markets by refusing to signal a second rate rise next month with the phrase "strong vigilance".
