THE LEFT LANE
Shower-curtain call
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Artists Maira Kalman and Rick Meyerowitz replaced actual Manhattan neighborhoods with Botoxia, Pashmina, Liberaci and Unmitigated Gauls. Da Bronx boasted Ptooey, Feh and Upper Kvetchnya. Brooklyn and Queens got Khandibar, Fattushis, Hiphopabad, Turban Sprawl, Irant and Irate. Poor Staten Island got only a camel named ... Stan.
So many readers ordered pricey lithographs of the hilarious map that the magazine's savvy marketers have produced an affordable New Yorkistan shower curtain.
It's $35 plus $10 shipping and handling, from www.cartoonbank.com.
The only drawback? It may take forever to get giggling guests out of the loo.
Bustin' product plugs
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The channel will pay special attention to the appearance of products that the artist has a financial interest in.
For example, when Cam'ron's posse is hoisting bottles of Armadale vodka, which his record company, Roc-a-Fella Records, owns an interest in, they may take notice, just as they did when Roc-a-Fella rapper Jay-Z proclaimed his hankering for "Armadale in the club" in his song "All I Need."
Watch it, Busta.
Korean connections
Hawaii Public Television (KHET-11, Oceanic channel 10) is broadcasting two programs in conjunction with the Korean Centennial.
On "Island Insights" at 7:30 tonight, host Dan Boylan speaks with Hong Koo Lee, chairman of the Seoul Forum on International Affairs (also former prime minister of South Korea and former ambassador to the United States), and professor Victor Cha from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Affairs.
"Arirang: The Korean American Journey" airs at 8 p.m. Monday. In less than three years during the early 1900s, more than 7,000 Koreans left their strife-torn country for the sugar plantations of Hawai'i. "Arirang," a Tom Coffman production, tells how Korea was kept alive and even restored by the determination and sacrifices of her people overseas.
