The nominees for the 2016 Academy Awards for Best Director, Best Actress in a Leading Role, and Best Actor in a Leading Role were announced on Thursday. Will this be the year that Leonardo DiCaprio finally gets his long-awaited Oscar?
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At an early morning press conference on Wednesday September 21st, at Bar Majestic in Downtown Jersey City, Bill Sorvino, Festival Director of the Golden Door Film Festival and organizers along with Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah Healy in attendance announced to the public the three day event and all  films nominated at the first film festival to be held in Jersey City from October 13 to October 16th, 2011
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PLAYWRIGHT’S WORKSHOP III
will present workshop performances of short works by Polaris North member playwrights, directed by PN members, and performed by PN member actors and special guest.
Polaris North is located at 245 W. 29th Street, 4th Floor, between 7th and 8th Avenues, NYC. Â
This evening of One-Acts runs one weekend only: Â March 11, 12, at 8:00pm and March 13 at 7:00pm.Â
There will be a reception after each show. This is a free event but donations will be happily received at the door.
 The program will be:Â
      The Sole Connection by Walter ThinnesÂ
 Directed by Pamela Wilson
                 Featuring Carla Torgrimson and Bruce Barton
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Darcey and Duke
by Gabriella Fox
Directed by Phillip Filiato
Featuring
                                Donna Bostany and Thomas Moran                              Â
Frisky
By Walter Thinnes
Directed by Pamela Wilson
Featuring
Kaitlin Monte  Greg Cohan  Lena Gilbert
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The Garden Club
by Philip Filiato
Directed by Pamela Wilson
Featuring
Nina Rochelle  Greg Cohan  Thomas Moran
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 All about Evelyn
by Laurel Lockhart
Directed by Leslie Lynn Meeker
Featuring
Diane Tyler and Eve Sorel
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For reservations please call 646.938.4538 Â Bring a friend!!!!
www.polarisnorth.org
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Marilyn Monroe Memorabilia to Help Fund Library Capital Improvements
 by Sally Deering
Hollywood legend Marilyn Monroe lit up the silver screen with her simmering sexuality, bootyliscious bod and a killer smile that warmed film-lovers hearts.  Playing the bubble-headed blonde roles producers cast her in, Monroe delivered sex-appeal by the D-cupful with an added twist of vulnerability, like her character Sugar Kane in “Some Like it Hot.” When Sugar tells “girl musicians” Josephine and Daphne, (played Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon,) “I’m tired of getting the fuzzy end of the lollipop,” the chord strikes like an arrow threw the heart and although the line belongs to writer/director Billy Wilder and his co-writer I.A.L. Diamond, the delivery is all Marilyn.
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Clint Eastwood Collection Hits Bullseye
By Alice O’Neill
Fans have waited a long time to buy a boxed set of Clint Eastwood’s early spaghetti westerns by Sergio Leone. featuring Clint as the iconic loner with no name. The wait is over. The boxed set, officially titled Clint, available June 1, 2010, Eastwood in The Man With No Name Trilogy hits a bullseye. Continue reading CLINT EASTWOOD -Hollywood Behind-The-Scenes
” Just Too Marvelous For Words” was how two talented youngsters from Bayonne where feeling after being two of the one hundred performers from sixteen states to join Camp Broadway in A Johnny Mercer Centennial Concert on Friday Nov 20 at Carnegie Hall.Â
 Taylor Purzycki, Horace Mann and Marc Wright, School 14 students have had the chance to personally experience and perform Johnny Mercer’s music this week at Carnegie Hall. The Mercer concert is the latest event celebrating the late, great lyricist and composer. Continue reading Carnegie Hall “Just Too Marvelous For Words” For Two Talented Youngsters From Bayonne, New Jersey
