![]() ![]() In the film, Randolph, played (to the hilt) by Alec Baldwin, is the head of the Borough Authority, a fictional variation on the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority (T.B.T.A.), Robert Moses’s real postwar seat of power. ![]() A new film adaptation, written and directed by Edward Norton and set four decades earlier, scraps the unlikely Japonica and has Essrog, played (with some restraint) by Norton, digging into the villainous schemes of a powerful city official named Moses Randolph, who is based on the New York master builder and political titan Robert Moses, with elements of Darth Vader and Strom Thurmond as well. In Jonathan Lethem’s detective novel “ Motherless Brooklyn,” from 1999, Lionel Essrog, a private investigator with Tourette’s syndrome, shadows some bad guys from a Zen Buddhist retreat in Manhattan to a Japanese sea-urchin-harvesting operation in Maine. Edward Norton Illustration by João Fazenda ![]()
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