Showing posts with label New Jersey. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New Jersey. Show all posts
"Jersey Shore" Gone Wilde
What if the characters of Broadway's The Importance of Being Earnest (2011) traveled through a time warp and woke up on the beach with Snooki and the gang of MTV's Jersey Shore?
The cast puts 'Jersey' in the mouths of Oscar Wilde's famed Britons. Think of it as a comedy of bad manners.
Part 1 in a multi-part series is this video, "Jersey Shore" Gone Wilde presented by cast in this video series created for Playbill by 'Earnest' stars Santino Fontana and David Furr.
The Last Great American Blue-Collar Carnival Town
Looking at some highlights from the 1994 documentary on Wildwood, NJ by Carol Cassidy and Ruth Leitman, I am reminded of some of the stereotypes of Jersey folks. But as a lifelong Jersey person, I also know these stereotypes are here. It's just not all of us.
"Wildwood N.J." is an interesting look at that Jersey shore town that has a culture that differs from some of the other shore towns. It has been called "the last great American blue-collar carnival town."
Even the top website in a search wildwoodsnj.com has a carny feel to it - all colors and overly busy and noisy. (The official site is more the usual municipal boring.)
Former Chatham doctor says he grew marijuana, smoked it 30 times a day | NJ.com
Former Chatham doctor says he grew marijuana, smoked it 30 times a day | NJ.com
A former doctor told a judge in New Jersey that he's 'guilty as sin' of growing marijuana and smoking 30 joints a day.
Edwin Struve told a judge in Morris County he had 58 marijuana plants in his Chatham home that he's been cultivating since he came home from the Army in 1968...
Sea Isle City asks Tennessee man to pay parking ticket he got 20 years ago | NJ.com
Sea Isle City asks Tennessee man to pay parking ticket he got 20 years ago | NJ.com
The tale of Robert Cochran who recently got a letter from Sea Isle City Municipal Court at his home near Knoxville. The postmark puzzled him, because he had not been to Sea Isle in more than 17 years.
The summons was from an unpaid traffic ticket that was written Aug. 23, 1991, the summer he shared a home in Sea Isle City with some friends from New York. Cochran tried to recall how he got the ticket, but the details have faded over the decades...
The tale of Robert Cochran who recently got a letter from Sea Isle City Municipal Court at his home near Knoxville. The postmark puzzled him, because he had not been to Sea Isle in more than 17 years.
Please be aware that a warrant has been issued for your arrest for an unanswered summons. To avoid embarrassment or your impending arrest, please report to the Police Department immediately to post a bond. You'll be notified of your court date.
The summons was from an unpaid traffic ticket that was written Aug. 23, 1991, the summer he shared a home in Sea Isle City with some friends from New York. Cochran tried to recall how he got the ticket, but the details have faded over the decades...
A Gull Walks Into A Store in Jersey
A gull walks into a store - but it's not the start of a joke. It's a Jersey gull and the store is in Point Pleasant Beach, NJ. My cousin - a Shore lover - emailed it to me.This one is into stealing Doritos from a convenience store. Walks in, checks on the manager, grabs the snack-size bag of chips and leaves.
I'm told that he (OK, it might be she, but I'm thinking it's a guy gull) rips it open and does share with his buddies.
He's become a regular. Same chips. The manager supposedly thinks it's okay because people are coming to watch and that draws customers.
'This is New Jersey, and if that seagull starts to grab a 6-pack of 'Bud' to go along with the Doritos, I may have to put a stop to it,' says the manager.
Classic Jersey shore.
Except that it actually happened in Scotland.
Yeah, I had to do a fact check (it's just in me) and Snopes says that it's another commonly passed-around urban legend. They even have some video of the real gull on their site.
I want it to be Jersey true. Can't we train some gull to do it?
Hello, Dudley Moore
Cemeteries are strange places for all the reasons that you would expect, but also because of the people you discover buried there when you visited for another reason.
I have over the course of my life occasionally sought out the grave of a famous writer. The first was Stephen Crane in Hillside, New Jersey, a bike ride away from my childhood home.
I don't know what I expected to find other than the stone. I suspect that early on I may have thought some inspiration might be there. I was a big fan of Crane's poems and stories in my teen years.
So, imagine my surprise to turn around in the Hillside Cemetery in Scotch Plains, New Jersey and find Dudley Moore.
Oxford-trained classical pianist, comedian from the early 60's in "Beyond the Fringe," and best remembered for his starring roles in 10 and as the drunken, rich man "Arthur" in the I & II films of the same name.
My own favorites of his 40 or so films includes the 1960's Bedazzled. (Don't mention the remake in the same breath or a terrible fate will befall you.) It's a black comedy where Stanley (Moore) decides to end it all when he is stopped by George (Moore's old partner in comedy, Peter Cook) who is actually the Devil. ("You realize that suicide's a criminal offense. In less enlightened times they'd have hung you for it. ") Stanley sells his soul for seven wishes and gets to meet the 7 Deadly Sins.
I also love Dudley in his supporting role (as another Stanley) in one of my guilty pleasures, the comedy Foul Play.
He was awarded a CBE (Commander of the British Empire) title by the Queen of England in 2001.
So what is he doing buried in NJ?
He actually attended that CBE ceremony in a wheelchair. Moore moved to Plainfield, New Jersey at the end of his life to be closer to he Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation in West Orange for his physical therapy. Dudley Moore had Progressive Supranuclear Palsy which affects speech and muscular functions from mobility to the ability to swallow.
Ironically, when his symptoms first appeared, the slurred speech and other symptoms made people suspect that he too had a drinking problem like the characters he had played in Arthur and 10.
Dudley Moore was born April 19, 1935 and died March 27, 2002 from pneumonia (a side effect of PSP) at the age of 66.
Put a pebble on his gravestone.
Watch one of his films. Listen to his music.
Laugh. I think that would make him feel happy.
I have over the course of my life occasionally sought out the grave of a famous writer. The first was Stephen Crane in Hillside, New Jersey, a bike ride away from my childhood home.
I don't know what I expected to find other than the stone. I suspect that early on I may have thought some inspiration might be there. I was a big fan of Crane's poems and stories in my teen years.
So, imagine my surprise to turn around in the Hillside Cemetery in Scotch Plains, New Jersey and find Dudley Moore.
Oxford-trained classical pianist, comedian from the early 60's in "Beyond the Fringe," and best remembered for his starring roles in 10 and as the drunken, rich man "Arthur" in the I & II films of the same name.My own favorites of his 40 or so films includes the 1960's Bedazzled. (Don't mention the remake in the same breath or a terrible fate will befall you.) It's a black comedy where Stanley (Moore) decides to end it all when he is stopped by George (Moore's old partner in comedy, Peter Cook) who is actually the Devil. ("You realize that suicide's a criminal offense. In less enlightened times they'd have hung you for it. ") Stanley sells his soul for seven wishes and gets to meet the 7 Deadly Sins.
I also love Dudley in his supporting role (as another Stanley) in one of my guilty pleasures, the comedy Foul Play.
He was awarded a CBE (Commander of the British Empire) title by the Queen of England in 2001.
So what is he doing buried in NJ?
He actually attended that CBE ceremony in a wheelchair. Moore moved to Plainfield, New Jersey at the end of his life to be closer to he Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation in West Orange for his physical therapy. Dudley Moore had Progressive Supranuclear Palsy which affects speech and muscular functions from mobility to the ability to swallow.
Ironically, when his symptoms first appeared, the slurred speech and other symptoms made people suspect that he too had a drinking problem like the characters he had played in Arthur and 10.
Dudley Moore was born April 19, 1935 and died March 27, 2002 from pneumonia (a side effect of PSP) at the age of 66.Put a pebble on his gravestone.
Watch one of his films. Listen to his music.
Laugh. I think that would make him feel happy.
Great Falls in Paterson Now A National Historic Park
Great Falls of the Passaic River
by Ronkowitz
On January 15, 2009, the Senate approved legislation authored by Senators Frank R. Lautenberg (D-NJ), Robert Menendez (D-NJ) and Rep. Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ-08) to designate the Great Falls in Paterson, New Jersey a National Historic Park.
“The Great Falls in Paterson is a landmark that deserves recognition as a national historic park. Giving the Great Falls this designation would go a long way toward recognizing the beauty and history of the site and helping preserve it for future generations,” Sen. Lautenberg said.
Sen. Menendez said, “The Great Falls Park is a Garden State jewel -- it has one of the most impressive and picturesque falls in the country and also represents Alexander Hamilton’s unique vision of America come true. No other site in the nation more richly represents the remarkable transformation of our rural agrarian society based in slavery into a modern global economy based in freedom. We want to make sure these natural and historic resources are preserved for generations to come.”
“As a lifelong Paterson resident, I am proud that the Senate approved a national park at the Great Falls among its first acts in this new legislative session. The creation of a national park in Paterson would signal an important return of resources to the urban areas that have been shortchanged for the past eight years. I applaud my Senate colleagues and am eager to move this legislation through the House of Representatives as early as possible,” stated Pascrell.
The Senate approved the bill overwhelmingly, by a vote of 73 to 21. The companion bill, sponsored by Rep. Pascrell, is awaiting action in the House of Representatives.
The measure would designate the Great Falls in Paterson as a National Historic Park, which would enable the park to receive federal funding. The Great Falls is the second-highest waterfall in the eastern United States.
Located only fifteen miles west of New York City, the Great Falls was the second largest waterfall in colonial America. At the Great Falls, Alexander Hamilton conceived and implemented a plan to harness the force of water to power the new industries that would secure our economic independence. Hamilton told Congress and the American people that at the Great Falls he would begin implementation of his ambitious strategy to transform a rural agrarian society dependent upon slavery into a modern economy based on freedom. True to Hamilton's vision, Paterson became a great manufacturing city, producing the Colt revolver, the first submarine, the aircraft engine for the first trans-Atlantic flight, more locomotives than any city in the nation, and more silk than any city in the world.
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