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Category Archives: Television
New York Today: New York Today: Neil Simon’s New York
... fighting, and his father in and out of the picture - would later inspire his autobiographical comedy "Lost in Yonkers," which won a Tony Award for best play and the Pulitzer Prize.) Mr. Simon graduated from DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx ...
An appreciation: Neil Simon was a funnyman who pleased himself by going deeper
... anymore, I write plays," Simon once said to me, not long after he had won his Pulitzer Prize, in 1991, for "Lost in Yonkers," the drama of a troubled family presided over by a domineering matriarch. This megasuccessful playwright - a genius of the ...
Renowned Jewish playwright Neil Simon passes away at 91
... as he combined humor, drama and introspection in works such as The Odd Couple , The Goodbye Girl and Lost in Yonkers , died on Sunday at the age of 91, T he New York Times reported, citing his publicist. Simon drew on his tumultuous New York Jewish ...
UPDATE 1-Tony award-winning U.S. playwright Neil Simon dies at 91 -NYT
U.S. playwright Neil Simon, who became one of Broadway's most prolific and popular playwrights as he combined humor, drama and introspection in works such as "The Odd Couple," "The Goodbye Girl" and "Lost in Yonkers," died on Sunday at the age of 91, the New York Times reported, citing his publicist. A new Simon play almost every theatrical season was a Broadway staple from 1960 through the mid-1990s, placing him in the ranks of America's top playwrights.
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... Neil Simon has penned some of Broadway's most memorable productions, including 'The Odd Couple' and 'Lost in Yonkers.' Born on July 4, 1927, in New York City, Neil Simon began writing comedy for some of radio and television's top talents in the ...
Yonkers City Hall Takes Center Stage For ‘Impractical Jokers’ Prank
Joe Gatto, James "Murr" Murray, Brian "Q" Quinn and Sal Vulcano - who are the stars of the TruTV show "Impractical Jokers" took their talents to Yonkers to prank the Mayor's Advisory Board - and each other. On Thursday, they debuted an episode with a prank filmed in Yonkers.
Brief 7/17: Watch The HELLO, DOLLY! Cast Perform at Broadway Barks, and More
... York stage in They're Playing Our Song (Theatre World, LA Drama Critics and Outer Critics Circle Awards), Lost in Yonkers, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and Grace and Glorie; in the London premiere of The Witches Of Eastwick; in the Coconut Grove ...
Westchester Chef/Owner Will Be Finalist On Food Network Star Show
Restaurateur Christian Petroni of Rye Brook is featured as a contestant on the new season of Food Network Star hosted by Giada De Laurentiis and Bobby Flay, and premiering on Sunday, June 10. Petroni is the co-owner of the Fortina restaurants in Armonk, Yonkers, Rye Brook, Brooklyn and Stamford. He won Season 4 of "Chopped" and has been a judge on the Food Network show.
Westchester Restauranteur Will Be Chef Finalist On Food Network Star Show
Christian Petroni of Rye Brook is featured as a contestant on the new season of Food Network Star hosted by Giada De Laurentiis and Bobby Flay, and premiering on June 10. Petroni is the co-owner of the Fortina restaurants in Armonk, Yonkers, Rye Brook, Brooklyn and Stamford. He won Season 4 of "Chopped" and has been a judge on the Food Network show.
District Attorney, Yonkers Police Charge 9 for violent crimes. 3 others still sought
... "Fighting for Truth, Justice and the American Way. EXTRA! EXTRA! READ ALL ABOUT IT! Wednesday, Mayor Mike Spano of Yonkers, Police Commissioner Charles Gardner, and Westchester County District Attorney Anthony A. Scarpino Jr. announced a series of ...
Cynthia Nixon: Democrats need to let black women lead party
... - wasn't included in weeks of closed-door talks that led to last Sunday's passage of the budget. Stewart-Cousins, of Yonkers, leads the Senate's mainstream Democrats. She wasn't included in the so-called "four men in a room" negotiations in which ...
With election looming, Democrats poised to reunite in NY Senate
... IDC would disband and the Democrats would unite behind current Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins (D-Yonkers). Further, mainline Democrats wouldn't support an array of candidates who have said they want to challenge IDC members in ...
PTC presents World Premiere of /i/ by Jeff Talbott
... PTC productions, including last season's Oliver!, as well as Much Ado About Nothing, Our Town, The Heiress, Lost in Yonkers and You Can't Take It With You. Other Salt Lake credits include work with The Sting & Honey Company, Caine Lyric Repertory ...
A Timeline of Mary J Blige’s Acting Career
... no one gets two Oscar nominations without some story of a come-up behind it. Blige blossomed out of the projects in Yonkers, New York to earn nine Grammy awards as an absolute R&B legend. But little has been said of her acting career in its early ...
It’s been a lifetime’
... Peter and the film crew met with an archivist at the Joint Distribution Center in Manhattan; a genealogist in Yonkers, N.Y.; and the research staff at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. There they found a Gestapo ...
Trump once again shows racist, white supremacist views
... the Birthday of Sister Mary J. Blige and she is 47 years old. She was born in the Bronx, NYC and she was raised in Yonkers, NY. When you think about the anthems of the experiences of black women, Mary J. Blige has shown that and more. She is ...
Suburban N.Y. chefs react to Mario Batali sexual harassment allegations
... about the charges. "I'm appalled but not entirely surprised," said Peter X. Kelly of X2O Xaviars on the Hudson in Yonkers and Restaurant X & Bully Boy Bar in Congers, who noted that the Batali allegations were the latest in a series of similar ...
N.Y. chefs react to Mario Batali allegations
... about the charges. "I'm appalled but not entirely surprised," said Peter X. Kelly of X2O Xaviars on the Hudson in Yonkers and Restaurant X & Bully Boy Bar in Congers, who noted that the Batali allegations were the latest in a series of similar ...
Comic mecca to shutter, signaling end of era
... they're "all over the world, and I'm in this neighborhood." Sometimes, he'll sell on eBay to people in the Bronx and Yonkers, and urges them to swing by the shop. But the response he often gets is, "Nah, I don't have time. It's easier if you just ...
How Lila Kima s most memorable manicure ended up in the Museum of Modern Art
... always added things to nails, like they added things to clothes," says Thompson, 48, who is black and grew up in Yonkers, N.Y. A manicure "is not super expensive. It's less than an HermA s bag. And you wear it every day." It's a form of pampering, ...
A Grandmother’s Holocaust Story Leads To A Book: Writer To Speak In Norwalk
... descendants live. Her tearful reunion with the family - many had no idea about the Erikousa story - was proof to the Yonkers author that evil doesn't always win. But just days after she made the connection, her cousin's child was gunned down in a ...
Porn Again: How ‘The Deuce’ Nails Seventies Skin-Flick Sleaze
... novelist George Pelecano. As with that landmark TV show in Baltimore, Treme in New Orleans or Show Me A Hero in Yonkers, Simon goes into the interconnected stories and struggles and betrayals that make up an urban hothouse. But it has a much wider ...
A 70-Year-Old Story Comes To Life In New Book By Westchester Author
You know how you hear your grandparent's stories over and over but then one day you finally listen and realize there's something incredible there? In a way that's what happened to Yvette Manessis Corporon . When the Yonkers resident first wrote "When the Cypress Whispers" in 2014, a novel about the deep bond between an American woman and her Greek grandmother, she wove in the story her "ya ya" had always told her: about how the people of Erikousa, a small Greek island, hid a Jewish family during World War II.
Yonkers Author Unravels Tale Of Little Known Holocaust Story
... EXTRA who tells other people's stories for a living. But when it came time to tell her own, it took a while. The Yonkers resident, who lives on the Bronxville border, grew up listening to her grandmother's stories about how the people of Erikousa, a ...