After Janney's character spurned the doorman, I was fully expecting him to notify the university that the husband no longer lived in the apartment, creating yet another problem for her, i.e., the loss of her great apartment. Granted, that would have been a lot of extra story unrelated to the main plot to work in, but I just figured that was going to happen. They don't fool around with faculty housing in NYC, and, well, doormen...
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about the faculty housing thing.
Never been in NYC; I'm a Left Coast person
I knew someone from MIT who did a sabbatical at NYU a few years ago and was provided faculty housing, an apartment on Washington Mews, which is right there by Washington Square Park (where the movie was filmed, the exteriors anyway). By NYC standards,* it was a great apartment, and on moving day, other faculty members walking by, seeing the truck being loaded, were really curious about who had been living there and noting that their own apartments were nothing like it. *(I say by NYC standards. Most any place else in the country, it'd just be a regular one-bedroom apartment. The Mews is very charming, though.)
There's a photo of it here. On one hand, it doesn't do it justice; on the other, it kind of does (if that makes sense), in that it's nothing that'd be spectacular anywhere else, but in NYC (and at NYU), it's enviable.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Mews
Still, it did not begin to compare with that enormous apartment Margo lived in. I suspect that her aparment was a bit of movie-making exaggeration.
A doorman in NYC can either ease your life or make it very difficult if he is so inclined. A lot of "looking the other way goes on," i.e., what Margo's doorman was doing re: the husband not living there (money changes hands for the "favor," although of course we don't know if that was going on in her case; it didn't seem like it was...yet). In what we can only speculate on: That doorman probably notified NYU that the husband wasn't living there anymore, either out of retaliation for Margo leading him on and then rejecting his advances, or under the auspices of his job requiring him to do so.
As I say, New York apartments (especially that coveted faculty housing) and spurned doormen: an inauspicious combination. Actually, the more I think about, everyone at NYU knew the husband had left his wife for a man; there's really no way in a small universe like NYU that the university wouldn't know that he wasn't living there anymore. Margo better be apartment hunting.
PS: I've sort of run on, and off-topic at that; I apologize.
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Thanks. I have a much better appreciation of the situation when I see the movie this week.
shareI didn't feel like she led him on. He moved too fast for her, wanting to jump immediately into the sack, and she freaked out.
shareThat would have been poor writing if that happened considering he liked her and he would be more likely to be a little embarassed than angry
Never hug a man with a million bucks worth of hardware up his crack.