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VOL. 16, ISSUE 36
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2014 DIX HILLS
Bestselling Author Filming Here Dix Hills’ Carl Weber using local backdrops for movie By Arielle Dollinger adollinger@longislandergroup.com
Longtime Billy Joel band drummer Liberty DeVitto and pop star Debbie Gibson are among the Long Island Music Hall of Fame’s inductees next Thursday.
LI Music Hall Class To Be Enshrined By Danny Schrafel dschrafel@longislandergroup.com
With Oct. 23’s Long Island Music Hall of Fame induction ceremony at The Paramount just one week away, a pair of performers with deep ties to Paumanok are reflecting this week on their looming enshrinement. Longtime Billy Joel band drummer Liberty DeVitto, a Brooklyn native, will (Continued on page A22)
Behind a set of deep brown doors, distinctive against the chestnut-brown wood that composes the rest of the Dix Hills house, are a light-gray cat with darker-gray tiger-like stripes, an elaborate rug of salmon and sage green, and a New York Times bestselling author whose name holds claim to 23 novels, a publishing company and a production company. Dix Hills resident Carl Weber and business partner Walter Nixon are currently filming “No More Mr. Nice Guy” – a film that tells the back story of Niles Monroe, a character in one of Weber’s novels, “To Paris With Love” – in Dix Hills, Wyandanch and Wheatley Heights. Soon, they will take to Los Angeles to film the second half of the project. The story is based in the areas in which it is filmed. Each of Weber’s
Business partners Carl Weber and Walter Nixon, not pictured, have filmed the first half of “No More Mr. Nice Guy” in Dix Hills, Wyandanch and Wheatley Heights, and will film the second half in Los Angeles. 23 novels has been based on Long Island or in Queens. “It’s familiarity,” he said. “And the idea of filming close to home… You should’ve seen the kids in Wyandanch and Wheatley Heights.” As “all their favorite AfricanAmerican stars” – Christian Keyes, Miguel A. Nunez, Jr., Valarie Petti-
ford, Roger Guenveur Smith and Lamman Rucker, among others – exited their trailers, Weber said, the children watching reacted. “The whole neighborhood was losing their minds,” he said. “It’s almost like giving back to an extent (Continued on page A22)
DIX HILLS
Dad, Son Face Felony Pot Charges By Danny Schrafel dschrafel@longislandergroup.com
A Dix Hills man and his son were handcuffed Friday after Suffolk County police said they discovered over 10 pounds of marijuana in their Carll’s Straight Path home. Steven Polizzi, 53, was charged with first-degree criminal possession of marijuana, a C felony, Oct. 10.
The weighty pot cache was discovered during the execution of a search warrant of the home, police said. Police also charged him with two misdemeanor counts of criminal possession of a controlled substance. Also arrested was his son, Wesley Snider, 24, of Dix Hills, who was charged with two counts of third-degree criminal sale of marijuana in excess of 25
grams, an E felony. Their attorney, Ray Perini, said both men pleaded not guilty. Perini said he could not comment further until he reviewed the charges against the men. Polizzi was held on $1 million bond and $300,000 cash bail, while Snider was held on $100,000 cash bail and $350,000 bond, both sums which Perini said seemed “exceedingly high.”
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