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New Haven
Lifestyle
Frank Pepe Pizza Will Serve Pie Named After New Haven's Own Paul Giamatti: Here's When Frank Pepe Pizza Will Serve Pie Named After New Haven's Own Paul Giamatti: Here's When
Frank Pepe Pizza Will Serve Pie Named After New Haven's Own Paul Giamatti: Here's When Academy Award nominee Paul Giamatti, known for his role in "The Holdovers," is being honored at a famous Connecticut pizza shop for raving about its pies on "Jimmy Kimmel Live." Earlier report: Popular Actors Paul Giamatti, Dan Lauria Stop By For Frank Pepe's Pizzeria's Signature Pies During the show, 56-year-old Giamatti, a New Haven native, raved about Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana White Clam with Bacon pie as being the best there is. To show its love back at Giamatti, Frank Pepe is renaming the pizza the "Paul Giamatti Pie" on Oscar night, Sunday, March 10. The deal: Diners can…

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by Kathy Reakes
Middlesex MA
Lifestyle
Cambridge A-Listers Team Up Again To Direct, Star In New Netflix Thriller Cambridge A-Listers Team Up Again To Direct, Star In New Netflix Thriller
Cambridge A-Listers Team Up Again To Direct, Star In New Netflix Thriller Two of Cambridge’s own are back together for a new project on Netflix. Hot off the heels of their movie “Air,” Ben Affleck is set to direct, and Matt Damon will lead the cast of an upcoming thriller for the streaming service titled “Animals.” The plot is “under wraps,” according to the film’s IMDb page. Related: Cambridge's Ben Affleck Runs — Stumbles — On Dunkin' But Variety reports that the story of “Animals” will be about kidnapping. This isn’t the first time the two have collaborated together. Damon and Affleck co-starred in and co-wrote “Good Will Hunting” in 1997, which went …

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by Khier Casino
Paramus
Lifestyle
Two Garden Staters Net Oscar Nominations Two Garden Staters Net Oscar Nominations
Two Garden Staters Net Oscar Nominations New Jersey will be well represented at the 96th Annual Academy Awards. Thelma Schoonmaker, a graduate of Ridgewood High School, was nominated for Best Film Editing for "Killers of the Flowers Moon." Schoonmaker is a longtime collaborator of director Martin Scorsese and has been nominated for nine Oscars, winning for "Raging Bull," "The Aviator" and "The Departed." "Killers of the Flowers Moon" is a 206-minute epic Western about the murder of the Osage people in 1920s Oklahoma after oil is discovered on their tribal land. The movie received 10 nominations, including Best Picture.  Edwa…

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by Sam Barron
Ridgewood
Lifestyle
Matthew McConaughey Making Appearance In Ridgewood Matthew McConaughey Making Appearance In Ridgewood
Matthew McConaughey Making Appearance In Ridgewood Matthew McConaughey is hoping his Sunday Funday in Bergen County is alright, alright, alright. As part of the tour for his new book "Just Because," McConaughey will be appearing at Bookends in Ridgewood on Sunday, Sept. 10 at 10 a.m. "Just Because" is the Oscar winning actor's first picture book and features life lessons designed to empower readers both young and old to celebrate everyone's potential, according to a synopsis. This is McConaughey's second book. He previously wrote "Greenlights," a memoir. For more information on McConaughey's appearance, visit book-ends.com. 

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by Sam Barron
Middlesex MA
Schools
Tom Hanks Named Harvard University's Class Of 2023 Commencement Speaker Tom Hanks Named Harvard University's Class Of 2023 Commencement Speaker
Tom Hanks Named Harvard University's Class Of 2023 Commencement Speaker Known for countless on-screen appearances, Tom Hanks will soon take the stage to address Harvard University's graduating class of 2023, the school announced on Tuesday, March 21.  The Oscar-winning actor will be the principal speaker at Harvard’s 372nd Commencement on Thursday, May 25, the Harvard Gazette reports.  “A true master of his craft, Tom Hanks has given life to some of the most compelling, beloved, and iconic characters on the screen,” said Harvard President Larry Bacow. "He has contributed to our national culture and expanded our ability to appreciate stories and histories that …

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by David Cifarelli
New Haven
Lifestyle
This First-Time Oscars Winner Graduated From Boarding School In Wallingford This First-Time Oscars Winner Graduated From Boarding School In Wallingford
This First-Time Oscars Winner Graduated From Boarding School In Wallingford It turns out that celebrated actress Jaime Lee Curtis, who won her first Oscar during the 95th Academy Awards, spent a part of her youth at a school in the Nutmeg State.  Curtis, age 64, who won the award for best supporting actress for her role as IRS agent and antagonist Deirdre Beaubeirdre in the lauded film "Everything Everywhere All at Once," spent several years at New Haven County's Choate Rosemary Hall, a prestigious boarding school in Wallingford.  Curtis attended the school and graduated in 1976 before returning home to California and eventually starting her nearly five-decade-lon…

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by Ben Crnic
Harrison
Lifestyle
'Everything Everywhere All At Once': Purchase College Grad Mitski Gets Oscar Nod 'Everything Everywhere All At Once': Purchase College Grad Mitski Gets Oscar Nod
'Everything Everywhere All At Once': Purchase College Grad Mitski Gets Oscar Nod Popular singer-songwriter Mitski, who graduated from a college in Westchester County, has received an Oscar nomination for an original song she helped work on.  The Oscar nod was awarded for the song "This Is A Life," which was featured in the movie "Everything Everywhere All At Once" and was collaborated on by Mitski, Talking Heads singer David Byrne, and the band Son Lux.  The tune was nominated for Best Original Song.  Mitski, who graduated from Purchase College in 2013 after studying studio composition and recorded her first two albums as projects for the school, wa…

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by Ben Crnic
Montgomery MD
Events
Maryland’s Jared Bush Takes Home An Oscar For ‘Encanto’ Maryland’s Jared Bush Takes Home An Oscar For ‘Encanto’
Maryland’s Jared Bush Takes Home An Oscar For ‘Encanto’ A Maryland native was part of the creative team who scored an Oscar for Best Animated Feature at the 94th Academy Awards on Sunday, March 27. Jared Bush, of Gaithersburg, directed the 2021 Disney animated film, “Encanto" along with co-director Byron Howard. Bush and Howard accepted the award along with storywriters Charise Castro Smith and Jason Hand award Sunday night. “This is a movie about family, and we would not be here without our family,” Bush added before thanking his own wife and kids. So much to be thankful for tonight, but the best was celebrating with La Familia Madrigal.…

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by David Cifarelli
Suffolk NY
Police & Fire
Police Asking For Help Identifying Man Found Dead In Suffolk Police Asking For Help Identifying Man Found Dead In Suffolk
Police Asking For Help Identifying Man Found Dead In Suffolk Police are asking the public for help after a man was found dead at a tent encampment on Long Island. The Hispanic man, known only as "Oscar," was found around 10:50 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 3 in a wooded area located south of Riverhead Building Supply, at 1093 Pulaski Street, and south of the nearby Long Island Railroad tracks.  According to Detective Richard Freeborn, of the Riverhead Police, when officers arrived they found the man dead dressed in multiple layers of clothing and jackets along with blue jeans and black boots. The department's Detective Div…

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by Kathy Reakes
North Salem
Obituaries
Sidney Poitier, First Black Actor To Win Oscar, Longtime Westchester Resident, Dies Sidney Poitier, First Black Actor To Win Oscar, Longtime Westchester Resident, Dies
Sidney Poitier, First Black Actor To Win Oscar, Longtime Westchester Resident, Dies Trailblazing, Sidney Poitier, the first Black actor to win an Oscar, a longtime New York resident has died. Bahamian Prime Minister Phillip Davis made the announcement that Poitier died on Thursday, Jan. 8 at the age of 94. A native of Cat Island in the Bahamas, Davis said: "The whole Bahamas grieves the celebrated life of a great Bahamian."  Poitier, who grew up on a tomato farm and taught himself to read and write, became a resident of Westchester County, moving to Mount Vernon in 1956. He won the Oscar for "Lilies of the Field," in 1963, in which he played a migrant worker wh…

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by Kathy Reakes
Essex NJ
Lifestyle
Fountains Of Wayne Co-Founder, Montclair Native Adam Schlesinger Dies Of Coronavirus, 52 Fountains Of Wayne Co-Founder, Montclair Native Adam Schlesinger Dies Of Coronavirus, 52
Fountains Of Wayne Co-Founder, Montclair Native Adam Schlesinger Dies Of Coronavirus, 52 Montclair native and Fountains of Wayne bassist Adam Schlesinger died Wednesday while battling coronavirus, multiple news reports say. The 52-year-old had been in an upstate New York hospital for more than a week, his lawyer Josh Grier said. The Emmy-winning songwriter, possibly most well-known for his band's smash hit "Stacey's Mom," had been on a ventilator for the bug. Schlesinger won two Emmys and was nominated for Grammys, Tonys and Oscars. He was nominated a total of 10 times for Emmy awards, five of them for his work as the executive music producer for "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend." The o…

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by Cecilia Levine