Tale of Two Cities, A

It was not so long ago when Mayor Bill de Blasio spoke eloquently about New York being a “tale of two cities,” a place where the privileged had all the advantages, and the working class and poor had none.

Acree has taken to calling Chicago “a tale of two cities,” a shorthand description that has become so prevalent when people talk about the city’s trajectory that the mayor pointedly dismissed the characterization this summer.

In 1984, the late Mario Cuomo electrified the Democratic National Convention when he told the "Tale of Two Cities," a counter-argument to then-President Ronald Reagan's description of America as a "shining city on a hill."

At this year’s Cannes, the customary lavish showreel party hosted by the company did not occur, but Harvey Weinstein was in town announcing plans to make a small-screen version of Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities, a flagship production marking TWC’s further inroads into TV.

The grand narrative was his “Tale of Two Cities,” a New York where elites grow rich while millions of others are left struggling for basics.