Posted 8:49 AM by Gene

We understand why the continuing saga of "Bonnie and Clyde" exerts such endless fascination. They are, after all, the sexy types EDDIE!!!!! has been trying to lure to our city for years, to help create all those waiter and janitor and dishwasher jobs for the 21st-century economy. Despite their -- slight dishonesty they personify all the young upscale Center City clones with their look-alike hipness and their sound-alike lives, who seem to spend so much of their time socializing and restauranting you begin to wonder if they ever work. More to the point, they signal the rot in their culture, these false fronts of a city that's forever screaming it's coming back, whose idea of back is to plop down more cubic-zirconia condos and boutiques when the town's eighty-percent ghetto, and likely to stay that way.