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VOLUME SIXTEEN, ISSUE 18
THURSDAY, JUNE 12, 2014
24 PAGES
DIX HILLS
The Paramount Spotlight
Hollywood Films In Dix Hills Long Islander News photo/Arielle Dollinger
By Arielle Dollinger adollinger@longislandergroup.com
Blues guitar great Kenny Wayne Shepherd returns to The Paramount June 19.
Kenny Wayne Shepherd Digs To Blues’ Roots By Peter Sloggatt psloggatt@longislandernews.com
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There aren’t many manatee mailboxes in Dix Hills, jests a crew member on the set of “The Nest,” but this one was brought in specifically for the movie, starring Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, which is filming at this Astro Place house this month.
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DIX HILLS
Forest Park Alumni Say Farewell By Arielle Dollinger
Long Islander News photo/Arielle Dollinger
What’s it take to be called a guitar god? Well, when blues great Stevie Ray Vaughan recognizes you as a prodigy at age 7… when you’ve shared the stage with New Orleans legend Bryan Lee at 13… when you’ve played alongside the likes of B.B. King, Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown, Hubert Sumlin, the surviving members of Howlin’ Wolf’s and Muddy Waters’ bands… when Guitar World magazine puts you right behind B.B. King and Eric Clapton on their best blues guitarists lists… That’s when you can be called a guitar god. One man fits that bill: Kenny Wayne Shepherd. After electrifying a packed house last year at The Paramount with
In the 14 years that Caasi Harris has been living on Astro Place – a quiet Dix Hills street not far from the library and the high school – she and her family have lived relatively undisturbed by the likes of Hollywood hotshots. And then she read a letter in her mailbox, which explained that Nest Film Productions LLC was looking to film a movie with Tina Fey and Amy Poehler along with male lead Ike Barinholtz, called “The Nest” in a house like hers. “They came in and looked at my house and took pictures,” Harris said. “And then they came back another day and they were looking at the backyard and the pool, and they came with the director and a few other important people from the movie.” She has not heard from them since; the “important people” have decided to film at an empty house around the corner, she said. But still, Harris said it was exciting.
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Tom Dana remembers playing a Beethoven Sonata on the piano at his sixth grade graduation in 1973, in the spot on the gym floor underneath the basketball hoop. Jackie Lippolis-Snyder and Susan Meyers-Kaplan remember singing “Memories” at their graduations in 1976 and 1980, respectively. Before the camera’s shutter blinks, Corrie Young brushes her fingers against the lower lids of her light blue eyes to wipe away tears. Dana, Snyder, Meyers-Kaplan andYoung were four of the dozens who visited Half Hollow Hills’ Forest Park Elementary School for what will likely be the last time on June 5, during a planned gathering of alumni. The school, along with Chestnut Hill Elementary, will be closed at the end of the school year. “This place is just a very special place for learning, and it’s like a family,” said Young, (Continued on page A15)
Corrie Young and Vicki Genovese – each Forest Park alumna whose children attended the school, as well – came back to say “goodbye” last week, with the school set to close at the end of the school year.
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