FAMILY

Forging Ahead

Linda Marx

It is mid-afternoon and Alvin Malnik is in the middle of a half dozen projects that range from business interests and philanthropic commitments to overseeing the renovation of a house...

Brett Ratner

Filmmaker

Brett Ratner, the Miami Beach Cubani- to who directs huge box-office hits and hosts such notoriously star-studded parties at his Beverly Hills mansion that he played himself at one of these...

Lasting Legacy

Kamal Hotchandi & Benjamin Minkus

It is a success story that could have been written for Hollywood-imagine the movie trailer now. Alvin Malnik, the son of Russian Jewish immigrants, is born in the roughshod neighborhoods...