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MONTEBELLO >> While the world watches the threatening maneuvers North Korea is making — and President Donald Trump ’s tweets about that country’s nuclear capabilities — business is perking up for a local businessman who sells a rare product in these post- Cold War times : bomb shelters. Ron Hubbard, no relation to Scientology’s founder who started Atlas Survivor Shelters in 2010 after years in the steel manufacturing business , said interest in his product has risen the past few days from potential customers wanting to know how and when they can purchase a shelter — not to mention all the calls he’s been fielding from national and international media outlets . • Photos: Go inside bomb shelters built in Montebello On Friday, he handily navigated in-person interview after interview inside his cramped office at 7407 Telegraph Road. “I’ve had calls from people who think they need a shelter like yesterday,” Hubbard said. Yesterday isn’t going to happen. Neither is tomorrow. Order...

The Safdie Brothers Are Classic New York Hustlers And their movies might make them legends. Before deciding he wanted to make a Safdie Brothers movie , the erstwhile heartthrob Robert Pattinson hadn ’t actually seen a Safdie Brothers movie . It was one still image — of the lead actress from their 2014 addiction drama Heaven Knows What — that led him to pick up the phone. “He said, ‘I wanna be on a movie set that had the energy that I imagine this had,’” Benny, 31, says. “Little did he know, there was no movie set,” Josh, 33, laughs. Adapted from the street life of its star, Arielle Holmes, Heaven Knows What is a breathless, booming piece of work — somehow both a plotless character study built on mumbly dialogue and stolen shots, and a punch to the face. “We were just this weird little crew making this movie in a very serious fashion.” For over a decade, that’s been the mission statement. The Safdies split a schizophrenic childhood on either side of the East River, with a dutifu...