The Kips Bay AMC Fight Has a Nicole Kidman Impression

Manhattan Borough President Brad Hoylman-Sigal stood with more than 100 New Yorkers outside AMC Kips Bay 15 on a rainy Sunday, where Variety reports he delivered Nicole Kidman's iconic AMC ad in his best Australian accent as a tribute to the neighborhood institution. The theater's site was privately bought by NYU Langone, and locals are fighting to save it.

Optimist: "We came to this place for magic" — and magic is worth showing up for in the rain. Skeptic: A borough president doing a Kidman impression is charming, but charm doesn't pay for a lease. Optimist: True. But it does make the fight harder to ignore.