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Emmy-Winner Tammy Blanchard shows her Funny Side with Daniel Radcliffe in Hit Broadway Musical “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying”

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Tammy Blanchard as Heddy La Rue in How to Succeed
Tammy Blanchard as Heddy La Rue in How to Succeed

Playing a Comedic Bombshell with a Grown Up Harry Potter

 By Sally Deering

 Harry Potter’s all grown up and nobody knows that better than Emmy-winning actress Tammy Blanchard of Bayonne who shows off her comic side as a ditsy bombshell trying to seduce Daniel Radcliffe eight shows a week in the Broadway revival of “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.”  Known to audiences for playing dramatic roles in “Rabbit Hole” with Nicole Kidman and “Sybil” with Jessica Lange (among others) Blanchard turns to her comedic instincts and pulls out all the stops as a Broadway comedienne.

March 26, 2011 - Photo by Joe Corrigan/Getty Images North America)
March 26, 2011 - Photo by Joe Corrigan/Getty Images North America)

Blanchard’s repertoire of serious Broadway, TV and film roles includes  an Emmy Award winning performance as young Judy Garland in “Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows,” and a Tony nomination for her Broadway debut as Louise in “Gypsy” opposite Bernadette Peters. She played an unstable young woman trying to find herself in “Bella” and her portrayal of the title role in the remake of “Sybil” with Jessica Lange is so emotionally searing, she rips the heart right out of your chest. Continue reading Emmy-Winner Tammy Blanchard shows her Funny Side with Daniel Radcliffe in Hit Broadway Musical “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying” →

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River View Observer Cover Story-Share your Holiday Spirit with our Soldiers Overseas!

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Knights before Christmas!

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 By Sally Deering

The classic Christmas movie, “It’s a Wonderful Life!” is a holiday tradition that seems to make us all remember the true spirit of Christmas isn’t how much money you spend, but the friends and family who stick by you when the chips are down.

uso As we all get ready to spend the holidays with family and friends, let’s not forget the more than 1.5 million U.S. Servicemen-and-women deployed overseas and on active duty here in the states who won’t be home this holiday to eat dinner with the family or steal a Christmas kiss under the mistletoe. Continue reading River View Observer Cover Story-Share your Holiday Spirit with our Soldiers Overseas! →

Dining

Dining Out -Hendrickson’s Restaurant- Hearty Fare at an Old World Inn

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Hendrickson’s Restaurant features Old World Charm in the 21st Century

by Sally Deering  

  hendricksons-front-of-bldg-2A step inside Hendrickson’s in Bayonne is like a step back in time with its dark-wood, low-lighting and in the back dining room wooden booths upholstered in dark green leather and photographs of Bayonne history on the walls. It has the feeling of a Bavarian ale house from back in the day, hearty portions of steak and chops, but Henrickson’s has kept in step with times by offering Italian, Mexican and All-American family fare. They even have a children’s menu!

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Live On Stage, Our Community

Bayonne High School Presents “A Christmas Carol”

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River View Observer Best Pick for Local High School Theatrical Production for the Christmas Season!bay-drama-society-scroogebay-drama-2-scrooge               PERFORMANCE     DATES: 

Dec. 3 & 4 -7pm

Dec. 5 -2pm

 

All performances held in the Alexander X. O’Connor Auditorium at Bayonne High School
http://www.seatyourself.biz/bhsdramasociety
$12 Adult
$10 Student/Senior

For tickets to “A Christmas Carol” please visit our website at www.bhsdramasociety.com or call the box office at (201) 858-0071.
“WIN SCROOGE’S MONEY”
BHS DRAMA SOCIETY PARENTS ASSOCIATION SELLING 50/50s
The BHS Drama Society  Parents Association are sellling 50/50s, “Win Scrooge’s Money.” The cost of each 50/50 is $100.00.
Only 200 tickets are being sold. If all tickts are sold, the winner will take home $10,000,00.
If anyone would like to purchase one, please call 201-858-0071 or email
[email protected] and leave your name and number and the
BHS Drama Society  Parents Association will get back to you.
Tickets will be drawn on Sunday December 5th, 2010 by Scrooge himself after the final performance of “A Christmas Carol.” 

Our Community

JERSEY CITY-MORE THAN YOU COULD IMAGINE

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Jersey City in Hudson County, New Jersey’s Second largest city which has become the jewel on Gold Coast.
Watch this wonderful video about our great city.
We are getting better every day.

Dining, Our Community

Laico’s Restaurant Neighborhood Favorite for Over 30 Years

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River View Observer reviews Laico’s Restaurant one of Hudson County’s favorite and Best Italian Restaurants
by Sally Deering

color-photo-of-laicos-restThirty-eight years ago, Louis and Felice Laico opened a neighborhood restaurant on Terhune Ave in Jersey City, where families shared a huge pizza pie, soda came in a pitcher and beer flowed from the tap. A humble family eatery serving delicious Italian cuisine to neighborhood regulars, professors at the local colleges and old-timers who shared colorful stories of Jersey City back in the day.

 Although Louis and Felice have since passed on, their son Louis Laico, Jr, who worked side-by-side with his mom and dad, took over the restaurant, keeping that warm, ‘welcome-to-the-family’ ambience that invites you in as soon as you enter the door. Laico family members wait tables and bartend – Louis’s brother-in-law Jimmy Wolowitz is bar manager and Louis’ wife Gloria sometimes fills in when they need a hostess.

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Our Community, Television

Finalist Enzo Palumbo of Big Brother Season 12 Gets Home Coming Party at Bayonne’s Ten East Restaurant

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Ten East Restaurant, Bayonne NJ  location “Welcome Home Party” for Big Brother season 12 finalist Enzo Palumbo

Happy to be home and out of the house Big Brother finalist from season 12 -Enzo Palumbo and his family and friends enjoyed a night of partying at Bayonne, New Jersey’s Ten East Restaurant on Friday October, 1st.

The River View Observer was there.

All photo’s by Steveamack.com

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Enzo Palumbo and wife Joella (r) party with family and friends at Ten East RestaurantÂ

 

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Ten East owners Anthony (L) and Patrick Franconeri(R) pose with Enzo Palumbo


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Events -Hoboken Art and Music Festival October 3rd, 2010

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hob-fair-8-bandThe River View Observer photographer Steveamack.com was at the Hoboken Art and Music Festival see our images here.

Sun. Oct. 3rd 11am to 6pm Washington St. -Observer Highway to 7th St.

hob-fair-7-hob-libraryhob-fair-11-hob-motorcylce-clubhob-fair-6-matadorhob-fair-4-bernie-look-alikehob-fair-hcia-9There was over 300 Artists, Crafters, Photographers, Local Businesses, Restaurants, Food Vendors & more
With 3 Stages of live music Special features include Fine artists are located between 2nd & 3rd St., so if you are an art collector, this is the place to be. Oil paintings, watercolors, acrylics, sculpture, mixed media, etc. 

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Big Brother’s Enzo Palumbo -Bayonne to Hollywood with the Meow-Meow!

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enzo-p-photo-3Bayonne’s Enzo Palumbo Loses “Big Brother” Cash but Keeps an Eye on the Hollywood Prize- River View Observer Exclusive Interview

By Sally Deering

Photo sent  by Enzo Palumbo

      First, an explanation of the “meow meow.” It’s like “etcetera, etcetera,” mixed with “yada yada” with a hint of “Oh yeah? What’s it to ya?” It’s also the nickname of Enzo Palumbo, a handsome, funny, “tell it like it is” insurance adjustor from Bayonne who spent 75 days as a contestant on CBS’s “Big Brother” this summer.  Let’s let Palumbo describe the “meow-meow.”

enzo-p-photo-5“Meow-meow” it stems from back in the day,” Palumbo says. “Years ago, I was with my friend and we were with two girls. One sits in the front seat with me and before I put my radio on, she farts in my car and tries to blame me. I ask her, what are you doing?  She says, ‘whatever, meow, meow. That was the end of it. Meow meow.  I’m a straight up cool cat.”

 
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Nicole Kidman Movie “Rabbit Hole” Cast at Press Conference at the 2010 Toronto Film Festival

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River View Observer- “Rabbit Hole”

Hudson County Actress Tammy Blanchard Co-Stars Along side Nicole Kidman, Aaron Eckhart and Diane Wiest in Nicole Kidman’s “Rabbit Hole.”

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Emmy award wining actress Tammy Blanchard (2nd from left) pictured here at the 2010 Toronto Film Festival press confrence  at the Hyatt Regency on September 14, 2010 in Toronto, Canada. Ms. Blanchard a Hudson County resident   co-stars in the movie  “Rabbit Hole.” Standing to the right of Ms. Blanchard is writer David Lindsay-Abaire, also to her left is  actor Miles Teller, actor Aaron Eckhart, actress Nicole Kidman and director John Cameron Mitchell 

September 13, 2010 – Photo by Jason Merritt/Getty Images North America)

Source: Zimbio