BY HARRY WAITZMAN I discover groves of sunlight in my white clapboard hamlet. The pale Victorian homes look as if they were peeled from picture postcards and pasted on tidy lawns. Garage doors open and Irish cops and fireman fly to the Bronx to put down flames and mayhem. I’m conned by rust railroad tracks […]
BY VINCENT ABBATECOLA Four years ago, J.J. Abrams sat in the captain’s chair as he rebooted the “Star Trek” film series, providing an action- and character-driven space epic to audiences both familiar and unfamiliar with Gene Roddenberry’s mythology. Having directed two films based on the franchise and being chosen to direct the next “Star Wars” […]
BY GEORGE J. DACRE The classic story of the young Hollywood megastar who wants to be taken seriously (remember Marylyn Monroe) and takes acting lessons at an acting Studio in New York City is presented in this season’s opening production by Penguin Rep and its director Joe Brancato. It has a twist that makes it […]
June 13 – August 11, 2013 One of the world’s best loved musicals, based on the memoir of Maria Von Trapp; The Story of the Trapp Family Singers. Maria is a young, aspiring but quirky, nun whose love of freedom makes it obvious to her superiors that she is not suited for religious life. […]
BY ALAN McGEORGE Cablevision has divested itself of its Clearview chain of cinemas, 41 theatres in all, including one in New City. The last “little” multiplex in Rockland will now be run by Connecticut-based Bow Tie Cinemas, which has been in business for over 100 years. Bow Tie told the media it wants to upgrade […]
The Hudson Cove Group, Inc. has begun production on a new film entitled “The Great All-American Food Fight” and is asking the community to get behind them. Joe Allen is writer, producer and director of the film which will focus on People to People, the largest food pantry in Rockland. The county has a median […]