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As a REAL ESTATE BROKER with over 13 years full-time experience, I have had great success and enjoyment working with an experienced professional partner. Susan DeRosa and I manage RESIDENTIAL sales as The Gill Home Team. Our primary market includes towns in Essex and Bergen counties that serve the NYC commuter base, and we are Luxury Certified. Our network includes real estate attorneys, lenders, architects, inspectors, contractors, designers and other relevant professionals.
Susan DeRosa is a highly experienced sales agent with 25+ years in residential real estate, and a home stager whose work has been featured in the HGTV series "Bought and Sold", New York Times, Star Ledger and ABC Nightly News. She has a wonderful and calming demeanor. Her experience, attention to detail, dependability, and strong negotiating skills bring together the essential elements needed to guide home sellers and homebuyers through a successful, though sometimes emotional, real estate experience. We've worked with: homeowners buying up, downsizers, first-time homebuyers, pro-athletes and people in the music business, and families dealing with transition - divorce, estates, guardianships, foreclosures, short sales and relocations. Be sure to check out The Gill Home Team website at www.TheGillHomeTeam.com.
We are fluent in Social Media and Internet marketing as well as traditional marketing. We do our research, are straight-shooters, follow through and follow up, and know how to negotiate. Guided by core values of Integrity, Success, Excellence, Dependability and Energy, we are empowered to provide the highest level of customer service.
Turkey Ride for The Human Needs Food Bank, organized by Montclair Bikery
HomeCorp Montclair - Real Estate Advisory Committee
Habitat for Humanity
Red Cross & Salvation Army - Hurricane Sandy Relief
Montclair Center Business Improvement District www.montclaircenter.com (past)
Parent Association of Montclair Kimberley Academy (MKA) (past)
Jersey Cares Volunteer Organization
Volunteer Committee - Montclair Art Museum
Safety Marshal for the Face of America ride to support wounded veterans
Vacamas Camp - organizing committee for annual fundraising bike event (past)
Major Taylor Cycling Club of New Jersey - founding member
Public Transportation Advisory Committee - Montclair
Member New Jersey Association of Realtors (NJAR)
Member Garden State Multiple Listing Service (GSMLS)
Member New Jersey MLS (NJMLS)
West Essex Board of Realtors (WEBOR)
North Essex Chamber of Commerce
Montclair Economic Development Corp (MEDC - past)
Montclair YMCA (past)
New York Sports Club (past)
I've lived in Montclair since 1990 where I raised 3 awesome kids. My son Tanner is attending Colgate University, Class of 2018, and is a graduate of Montclair Kimberley Academy (Class of 2014) where he attended since 6th grade, previously at Edgemont School. Both of my daughters graduated from MKA. Bonnie (MKA '03) graduated from Boston University in 2006, got her masters from the American University in Paris, and is currently attending the University of Virginia in a doctorate program. Hannah (MKA '07) graduated from James Madison University in Virginia in'07, spent a few successful years as a licensed NYC real estate agent, and has now moved to Austin Texas.
Cycling, jazz, good food, sports, art .... these are my passions.
In 2013 I rode my bikes over 2200 miles - road, mountain bike and touring: Nova Scotia, riding with the wounded vets as a safety marshal, Lancaster County PA, New Jersey Winery tour, and many 'local' rides. My cycling goal for 2014 is 2000 miles including a multi-day tour of Cape Cod. I attend numerous Jazz events including the Newport Jazz Fest, NYC jazz clubs and local events; I enjoy good food whether home-cooked or out, or at events such as the Montclair Food Fest and Amanti Vino's Cru vs Brew; I'll rework my schedule to catch a Giants, Yankees, Knicks (oh, never mind!) game and of course, Tour de France; Storm King Sculpture Park and Dia: Beacon are two of my favorite places, and you'll catch me at the Montclair Art Museum, any of the NYC museums, and local art events. With my colleague Lynne Oliver, we co-direct The Gallery at Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices New Jersey Properties, Montclair office.
I'm an alumna of Wellesley College and Drew University.
For any closed referred transactions from the Wellesley College or Drew University network I will make a donation to that institution.
I've passed your name along to several people, including R..... , and when I connect with people who are looking to buy or sell in Montclair you are my top recommendation. You did an amazing job of finalizing my house sale deal that seemed kinda wobbly for a few months. Thank you! - Stefanie, residential seller
I wanted to thank you for all you have done to help our family with our move! We appreciate everything.
- Alicia, relocation buyer
Real estate sales and administration is a long process involving relationship management, technical sales skills, knowledge of the real estate marketing and finance. Sharon did a great job in all of these areas for us, especially considering the terrible market in which we found ourselves.
- Joe & Lisa, residential seller and buyer
Sharon Gill saw an opportunity for my partner and me to sell our multi-family residential property. She approached us about it, convinced us she had a good idea and successfully brought the transaction to a happy conclusion. Her timing was impeccable and the results were very satisfactory. I am very happy to have worked with her.
- Richard P. , commercial seller, multifamily portfolio
My colleague spoke so highly of your professionalism and creativity.
- Alan B, residential seller
Just a note to tell you that J and I both feel we're in great hands with you. Thank you for your professional opinions and guidance.
- Karen F, residential seller
Thanks Sharon. You're good!
- Ken, residential buyer referred by another agent
I'd like to introduce Sharon Gill, who visited our office last year as part of a networking event with her Montclair office. She's been a valuable referral resource and a reliable Prudential partner in NJ.
- Alex F, NYC agent
I've been watching the local real estate market and giving much thought as to what to do about the sale of our home. I appreciate your patience and quiet persistence and good cheer throughout this long period, My plan is to list with you on February 1.
- Greg W, residential seller
Scott K (commercial landlord) raves about the fact that he had office space languishing for a year and that you found a tenant in just two months.
- Lisanne, colleague of landlord
We wait for you. In Sharon We Trust.
- Kenny M., residential buyer
I think you are the best realtor out there. You are no bull#*%t and I love that.
- Chris B., residential seller
I really enjoyed your knowledge and style ...
- Dana S, residential buyers' agent
I want to thank you for all of your diligent work from beginning to end. You were the first person I thought of when I decided to sell short.
-Charles R., residential seller
These are extraordinary times requiring extraordinary efforts. You strike me as someone up for the task.
- Brian J, banker
I really appreciated your very honest and no nonsense approach. You have been very generous with recommendations and quick communication. I know that my experience with you would be what I wanted in a realtor. In fact, meeting you made me realize that I wanted a realtor like you.
- Randi G., residential seller
Thank you for helping us find our home. You were so patient and kind throughout the process ... we can't thank you enough.
- Shona D., residential buyer
We just wanted to thank you for your time and help during our search in Nutley, Belleville and Parsippany areas. It was a pleasure working with you. We were really impressed by your professionalism during our house search and the promptness with which you answered all our questions. As first time buyers, we learnt a lot while working with you and would like to thank you for that.
- Senthil & Jay, residential buyers
You are really amazing ... Rob and I are thrilled that this came together in an instant.
- Rick B., residential buyer
Thank you for helping us sell the property in West Orange. We're always glad to have someone of your professionalism participate in the sale of one of our listings. There's nothing like cooperative teamwork between professionals to keep a transaction on track. Quite frankly, you're the kind of customer-focused agent our office would be proud to have.
- Ron D., broker/manager
Wow, that was fast! Okay, girl, you are good.
- Muriel, residential landlord
Thank you so much for all of your help. I will let all of my clients know how wonderful you are if they should have any real estate needs.
- Tracy, commercial buyer
I worked with Sharon on a project in Montclair, NJ. She is extremely professional and knowledgeable about the market. She knows all of the property owners, retailers and key government officials. Her involvement in the local business community gives her an added edge. I highly recommend Sharon for anyone looking to expand in Montclair, or with space to rent in this market.
- David P. commercial broker, NYC
Sharon is a pleasure to do business with - prompt, personable and professional. I've learned a lot from my association with her, and it's always a relief to know she's representing the other side. I am very pleased to recommend Sharon Gill as a commercial real estate expert.
- Drew K., commercial realtor
Thank you for your prompt and attentive service.
- Matt. S., residential buyer
Thanks for a great job well done.
- Curtis K. residential seller
You are the best!
- David G., commercial seller
I have been impressed with the marketing you have done [in] the commercial sector.
-Rich S. commercial and residential agent
I have to say, it's been a pleasure working with you in this transaction.
- Darlene, commercial agent


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Kathleen Turner – Eileen Cleary
Screen icon Kathleen Turner has garnered critical acclaim for her performances in various movies including Body Heat, for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe; Romancing The Stone and Prizzi's Honor, which earned her a Golden Globe Award for each; Peggy Sue Got Married, which brought Turner both an Academy Award nomination and a Golden Globe nomination; and War of the Roses, and yet another Golden Globe nomination.
Turner's extensive film credits also include The Man with Two Brains, with Steve Martin; Jewel of the Nile, with Michael Douglas; The Accidental Tourist; V.I. Warshawski; John Waters' Serial Mom; Naked in New York; Moonlight and Valentino; The Real Blonde; and Sofia Coppola's The Virgin Suicides. Ms. Turner has also starred on Broadway in Cat On a Hot Tin Roof, for which she received a Tony nomination; Indiscretions; The Graduate; and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, for which she received a second Tony nomination. Ms. Turner had a major recurring role last season playing the role of Sue Collini on Showtime's hit series, Californication.
In the spring of 2010 Ms. Turner starred as Molly Ivins in the world premiere of Red Hot Patriot: The Kick Ass Wit of Molly Ivins at Philadelphia Theater Center and immediately following that shot the starring role in an independent film called The Perfect Family. Ms. Turner most recently starred on Broadway in the world premiere of a play by Matthew Lombardo called HIGH. She can currently be seen in her one woman show, Red Hot Patriot: The Kick Ass Wit of Molly Ivins at The Geffen Theater in Los Angeles and immediately following that she will be going on the road through June performing HIGH in various cities all over the country.
In addition to her film and stage credits, Turner wrote of her many accomplishments and life experiences in her 2008 autobiography titled Send Yourself Roses: Thoughts on my Life, Love, and Leading Roles, which secured a position on the New York Times Best-Seller List.
Emily Deschanel – Shannon Cleary
An actress with talent and poise, Emily Deschanel has built an impressive list of credits throughout her career, challenging herself with each new role.
Deschanel stars on FOX's hit sci-fi procedural drama, Bones, opposite David Boreanaz which is currenlty in its 7th season. Executive produced by Barry Josephson (Hide and Seek, Ladykillers) and Hart Hanson (Joan of Arcadia, Judging Amy), the darkly amusing drama features Deschanel as 'Dr. Temperance Brennan,' a forensic anthropologist who writes novels as a sideline and has an uncanny ability to read clues left behind in a victim's bones. Consequently, law enforcement calls her in to assist with murder investigations when the remains are not able to be identified with standard methods.
Deschanel was recently seen in Anne Renton's independent comedy, THE PERFECT FAMILY, where she starred opposite Kathleen Turner and Jason Ritter. The film revolves around Eileen, a devout Catholic wife and mother (Turner), who has been nominated for one of the church's top awards and is continually proving to everyone that she has the "perfect" family, in turn refusing to accept them for who they really are. As Eileen's daughter, Deschanel's character is a successful lawyer who struggles with telling her religious mother she is pregnant and in a loving committed relationship with another woman, knowing that her revelation will shatter her mother's carefully crafted image of their perfect Catholic family.
Deschanel starred in Nick Cassavetes' My Sister's Keeper. She can also be seen in Jerry Bruckheimer's Glory Road opposite Josh Lucas, Derek Luke and Jon Voight. Directed by James Gartner, Glory Road tells the story of the 1966 Texas Western University basketball team who make history as the first college basketball team to have an all black starting line-up and win the NCAA National Championship.
Additionally, Deschanel has amassed a number of credits including Anthony Minghella's Cold Mountain, John Lee Hancock's The Alamo, Sam Raimi's Spiderman 2, Stephen Kay's Boogeyman, and Jane Weinstock's Easy.
Deschanel's television credits include guest star appearances on Crossing Jordan, Providence, and Law and Order: SVU. In addition, she appeared in Stephen King's mini-series, Rose Red.
A member of the Interact Theatre Company, Deschanel's recent theatre credits include the roles of 'Emily' in Our Town and 'Natasha' in Three Sisters.
An animal rights activist, Deschanel is passionately involved with the Farm Sanctuary, working to end cruelty to farm animals and promoting compassionate living through rescue, education and advocacy. Deschanel is also involved with the Humane Society and Women for Women International.
Deschanel was born in Los Angeles and received her BFA in Theater from Boston University.
Jason Ritter – Frank, Jr.
Jason Ritter can currently be seen as Lauren Graham's love interest in a multi episode arc on NBC's critically acclaimed "Parenthood." "Parenthood" airs on Tuesday nights at 10:00PM. Concurrently, NBC has made a development deal for Ritter to partner with Jason Katims on a television pilot.
Jason Ritter starred on NBC's conspiracy thriller "The Event" opposite Blair Underwood and Laura Innes. On the show, he played Sean Walker, an unlikely hero who gets entangled in an immense government conspiracy when his would-be fiancée Leila (Sarah Roemer) mysteriously disappears during their Caribbean cruise.
At last year's South by Southwest Film Festival, Ritter debuted his most recent film "A Bag of Hammers" starring opposite Rebecca Hall. To be released in 2012, Ritter also stars in "The Perfect Family" opposite Emily Deschanel; which premiered at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival. He also appears in "The End of Love" opposite Amanda Seyfried and Michael Cera which opened at Sundance Film Festival in January 2012.
Ritter recently starred in the independent film "The Dry Land," opposite America Ferrera, Ryan O'Nan, and Melissa Leo. The film premiered at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival and won the prize for international premiere at the 2010 Edinburgh Film Festival. He also starred in "Peter and Vandy" opposite Jess Weixler, which premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize. Ritter starred in and co-produced "Good Dick," written and directed by Marianna Palka, which was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance in 2008.
His other film credits include: "The Education of Charlie Banks," "Our Very Own," "Happy Endings," "Mumford," and "Raise Your Voice." Other television credits include series regular roles on "The Class" and "Joan of Arcadia."
Ritter starred as the title character in the Lincoln Center production of Wendy Wasserstein's "Third," opposite Dianne Wiest, Charles Durning, Amy Aquino, and Gaby Hoffmann, directed by Daniel Sullivan. His additional theater credits include the Off-Broadway production of Tom Donaghy's "The Beginning of August" and the role of 'Tim' in the world premiere of Neil LaBute's play "The Distance from Here" at London's Almeida Theatre, directed by David Leveaux.
Ritter is a graduate of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, where he studied at the Atlantic Theatre Company. He also studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London.
Michael McGrady – Frank, Sr.
Michael McGrady is a familiar face from his numerous roles on television and in film. Michael currently stars as Detective Daniel "Sal" Salinger on the critically acclaimed Warner Bros. Produced, "Southland," and can also be seen as one of the main characters in Rockstar's soon to be released video game, Film Noir as Detective Galloway. He starred opposite Taye Diggs in the ABC series "Day Break," and has had recurring roles on "24," "The Riches," "CSI Miami," "CSI Las Vegas," and has enjoyed countless guest-star appearances on several popular television shows, including – "Prison Break," "Leverage," "The Mentalist," "Criminal Minds," "Without a Trace," "Big Love," "Grey's Anatomy," "Bones," and "Lie to Me," to name a few. Additionally, Michael has several film credits to his name, such as: THE BABE, starring as Lou Gehrig opposite John Goodman, as John Shanssey in Wyatt Earp, as Frank Mangrum in DIGGSTOWN opposite Lou Gossett Jr. and James Woods, and as Detective Jimmy Dougherty in DEEP END OF THE OCEAN with Michelle Pfeiffer, to name a few. Michael is a co-founder along with his wife Ilka of the Balanced Life Company, an international organization dedicated to helping people develop and maintain a more balanced and sustainable lifestyle. Michael is also an accomplished fine artist; his work is currently represented in several galleries across the country. He and his wife Ilka own and operate McGrady Fine Art. When not filming, he can most often be found outdoors sailing, playing sports, riding his Harley or soaring his Hang Glider above the mountains of beautiful Santa Barbara. It's all about lifestyle, health and balance for this self-described "Pescatarian" and cancer survivor.
Elizabeth Peña – Christina Reye
Elizabeth Peña is one of the most versatile actors working in Hollywood today. Switching from film to television with ease, Peña has always kept herself busy with one project after another, as she continues to receive critical acclaim in each role.
Peña's big screen debut performances include the role of Carmen in Paul Mazursky's DOWN AND OUT IN BEVERLY HILLS and the jilted "Rosie" in LA BAMBA. She then went on to star in BATTERIES NOT INCLUDED, and Adrian Lyne's JACOB'S LADDER opposite Academy Award winner Tim Robbins. She also co-starred in RUSH HOUR with Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker, THE WATERDANCE with Academy- Award winner Helen Hunt. Pena had award winning turns in John Sayle's drama LONE STAR, for which she received an Independent Spirit Award and a Bravo Award for Best Actress in a Film and she received an ALMA Award for "Outstanding Supporting Actress" for her role in TORTILLA SOUP. Stepping out of her traditional tough exterior, Elizabeth received rave reviews as an innocent schoolteacher in this American remake of Ang Lee's EAT DRINK MAN WOMAN.
Peña garnered rave reviews for her role in the critically acclaimed independent feature TRANSAMERICA. She also appeared in Andy Garcia's directorial debut THE LOST CITY.
More recently, Peña recently received recognition for her work in the feature
HOW THE GARCIA GIRLS SPENT THEIR SUMMER co-starring America Ferrera. She also starred opposite Alfred Molina and John Leguizamo in the feature NOTHING LIKE THE HOLIDAYS and the feature MOTHER AND CHILD, starring Annette Bening. In addition to THE PERFECT FAMILY, her most recent films include BECOMING EDUARDO.
On television, Elizabeth most recently appeared in a recurring role on Shonda Rhimes' ABC series OFF THE MAP. Peña starred in the Lifetime made for TV movie RACING FOR TIME, directed by Charles Dutton. She also garnered rave reviews for the CBS telefilm SUBURBAN MADNESS. For three seasons, Elizabeth starred in Showtime's award winning drama RESURRECTION BOULEVARD. She received the ALMA Award in 2001 for "Best Actress in a New Series" for her role as 'Bibi.'
Peña has a successful voiceover career as well. She can be heard in the cartoon THE MISADVENTURES OF MAYA AND MIGUEL on PBS. She also lent her voice as the seductive hero/villain 'Mirage' in Pixar's blockbuster hit THE INCREDIBLES.
Peña has demonstrated her ability to perform behind the camera when she directed an episode of RESURRECTION BOULEVARD. She followed with another directing stint on Nickelodeon's THE BROTHERS GARCIA. Peña joined the Director's Guild of America, becoming only the fourth Latina member of the union at that time.
Richard Chamberlain - Monsignor Murphy
Richard Chamberlain became an overnight heartthrob with the 1961 title role in the medical series "Dr. Kildare," winning him is first Golden Globe Award for Best TV Star in 1963. In 1969 he became the first American actor to portray the role of Hamlet in a British production of the Shakespeare classic at Birmingham Repertory Company. The following year, he reprised the role for an unabridged televised production on Hallmark Hall of Fame. Most of his noteworthy and popular performances later followed with the television mini-series "Centennial" (1978: Golden Globe nominee for the role of "Alexander McKeag"); "Shogun" (1980: Golden Globe winner for the role of "John Blackthorne"); the legendary 1982 mini-series "The Thorn Birds" as the tormented Father Ralph de Bricassart (Golden Globe and Emmy nominee); and one of Chamberlain's most treasured roles, "John C. Fremont" in the 1986 CBS mini-series "Dream West" based on the life of the California maverick. On stage, he starred in the New York premiere of Joseph Papp's production
of Fathers & Sons playing Wild Bill Hickok, which he then recreated in Los Angeles to much acclaim. In 1993-1994 he starred as Henry Higgins in the smash hit Broadway revival of My Fair Lady which also toured throughout the U.S. and a second production which toured extensively throughout Europe. In 1997, Chamberlain starred in the Broadway revival of The Sound of Music, which also was followed by a U.S. tour. Other recent television credits include the BBC series "Hustle" as well as guest roles on "Will & Grace," Desperate Housewives," "Brothers & Sisters," "Nip/Tuck," "Chuck" and "Leverage." He also appeared in the Adam Sandler 2007 comedy I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry.
Angelique Cabral – Angela Reyes
Angelique Cabral was born in Honolulu and raised in Carmel Valley, CA. She attended Indiana University, Bloomington on the full academic scholarship, majoring in Musical Theater and French. Since graduating, Angelique worked extensively in television, film, theater, commercials and voiceovers in both in LA and NYC. Recent credits include feature film Friends with Benefits (starring Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis) and guest starring roles on ABC's Happy Endings, CBS's Two and a Half Men, and NBC's Free Agents. Angelique just booked a series regular role on Marc Cherry's new primetime pilot Devious Maids, for ABC
Sharon Lawrence - Agnes Dunn
You may know her from her multiple EMMY nominated and SAG Award winning portrayal of ADA Sylvia Costas Sipowitz in the ground breaking NYPD Blue or as a stay-at-home prostitute in DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES, a murderous realtor on MONK or a sociopathic serial killer on LAW AND ORDER: SVU or beating Larry David up on CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM. She has headlined her own comedy series FIRED UP produced by Kelsey Grammar for NBC and starred Alfred Molina, Betty White and Dixie Carter in CBS's sit com LADIES MAN.
Sharon received her fourth Emmy nomination for her work on GREY'S ANATOMY as Katherine Heigl's tender but ditzy mom. Other guest appearances include ONE TREE HILL and COMMUNITY, THE MENTALIST, GHOST WHISPERER, BOSTON LEGAL, DIRT and PRIVILEGED. She'll be returning for a fourth season of DROP DEAD DIVA and starring in RIZZOLI and ISLES this summer.
An accomplished stage actress, Sharon created the role of Maureen in the premier of Theresa Rebeck's Poor Behavior at the Mark Taper Forum and was recently nominated for an Ovation Award and won the LA Drama Critics Circle Award as Vivian Leigh in Pasadena Playhouse's Off Broadway hit Orson's Shadow. Her latest NY theatre credits include as Velma Kelly in Chicago on B'way and in Love, Loss And What I Wore
Film work includes 2012 Sundance Award wining MIDDLE OF NOWHERE by filmmaker Ava DuVernay (BEST DIRECTOR), THE PERFECT FAMILY, LIES AND ALIBIES, LITTLE BLACK BOOK, GOSSIP and THE ONLY THRILL with Diane Keaton, Sam Sheppard, and Diane Lane. Sharon has starred in many films for television and produced for NBC, FIVE DESPERATE HOURS co-starring Giancarlo Esposito. She earned her BA in Journalism from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and has been honored with UNC-CH's Outstanding Young Alumni Award, the Prism, Method Fest, and Drama Logue Awards
Sharon recently chaired the Women In Film Foundation, and supports both Global Green and the National Breast Cancer Coalition. She lives in Los Angeles and is married to physician Dr. Thomas Apostle and is a contributor to LIVE AND LET LOVE, notes from Extraordinary Women On the Layers, Laughter and Litter of Love.
Shannon Cochran – Mary Donovan
Shannon Cochran is an actress and director based in Chicago and Los Angeles. She recently completed the first national tour of August: Osage County, for which she received a Chicago Theatre Award and Helen Hayes nomination. She is an Obie and Theatre World award winner and Drama Desk nominee for her creation of the lead role in Bug, which she originated at London's Gate Theatre. Her film credits include The Ring, Star Trek: Nemesis, The Babe, Flowers and Weeds, and The Substance of Things Hoped For. She currently plays Attorney General SusanThorne on the upcoming ABC series, "Scandal". Her many television appearances include recurring roles on "NYPD Blue", "Star Trek (The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine)", recent guest stars on "Grey's Anatomy", "Fringe", "The Office", "Desperate Housewives", "Law and Order: SVU", "Numbers", and "Fringe", and dozens of commercials and voice-overs. She is a Chicago theatre veteran, and has enjoyed a 20 year association with Steppenwolf Theatre Company. She has worked at regional theatres across the country, as well as Canada and Great Britain. She recently directed the first national tour of Los Angeles TheatreWorks' The Rivalry, a stage/radio theatre hybrid, and also can be heard on many audiobooks, including Fallen, for which she received a Golden Earphone Award, and the recently released The Unremarkable Heart and Other Stories. She is currently in Chicago appearing at Writers' Theatre in A Little Night Music and Hamlet.
Scott Michael Campbell – Father Joe
Scott Michael Campbell began his film career early on when he was handpicked by George Lucas to star in RADIOLAND MURDERS. Shortly after he went to work on Warren Beatty's BULWORTH with Halle Berry, and then onto the World War II feature, HART'S WAR with Bruce Willis and Colin Farrell, and Rick Ravanello. He continued his growing film career working opposite Dennis Quaid and Hugh Laurie in Twentieth Century Fox's FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX. He continues to work in a multitude ofhighprofile and award winning independent features such as 'Brokeback Mountain', and 'Push', along with numerous others. Scott has consistently worked in television on practically every high profile series over the last two decades. Some of which include: 'E.R.', 'The West Wing', 'Crossing Jordan', 'Frasier', '24', 'Boston Legal', 'House', 'Grey's Anatomy', 'CSI', 'NCIS', 'Brothers and Sisters', 'The Shield', 'Bones', 'Cold Case', 'Burn Notice', and most recently, recurring on NBC's new hit series, 'The Event'.
Laura Cerón – Carmelita
Mexico City-born Laura Cerón was 10 yrs. old when her family moved to this Country. She grew up in Elgin, Illinois a City outside Chicago, there she learned how to speak English and saw snow for the first time.
In 1985 Laura joined the newly founded Latino Chicago Theatre Co. There she was able to start in many productions including 'Dona Sol and her trained Dog', 'Each day Dies with Sleep', 'Pedro Paramo' and many more. While performing on stage, Laura also had the opportunity do TV work and film, as much as the city of Chicago could provide.
For 13 formative years LCTC and the City of Chicago gave Laura the experience she felt she needed to move to Los Angeles to be part of the bigger picture and expand her experience.
In 1994, 3 months after moving to Hollywood, Laura landed the role of Nurse Marquez on the acclaimed TV series ER, and she was able to be part of their incredible 15 year run. During those years she also managed to work on several TV shows and Film. Her latest work includes the film 'The Perfect Family' which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and 'California Winters' which will be released soon.
Hansford Rowe – Bishop Donnelly
HANSFORD ROWE has been lucky all his life. He was born one of five children to a wonderful mother and a veterinarian father in Richmond, VA. He left high school to join the Navy during WWII and was lucky to have the G. I. Bill put him thru six years of college studying drama. After a few fortunate years starring in roles in community theatre he tried his luck in New York. Good fortune brought him roles off-off Broadway, off Broadway and then twelve roles on Broadway including Nuts (Drama Desk nomination) and Porgy and Bess for the Houston Grand Opera and later for The Metropolitan Opera. His luck has held out through twenty movies including THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR, BABY BOOM and parts for directors Sam Peckinpah, Costa Gavras, Brian De Palma and Roger Donaldson. Luck has brought him to an age somewhere between eighty and death as Angela Lansbury said when they were in a production of AUNTIE MAME together. And how about luck on TV in such shows as "Six Feet Under," "Touched by an Angel," "The Drew Carey Show," "Perry Mason," "Coach," "The Bob Newhart Show," and as Larry David's biological father in "Curb Your Enthusiasm." But mostly he's been lucky to finally find the right woman, Mira, to share his travels across country in their RV. His luck has even found him ordained as a Minister to perform a marriage ceremony for his wife's nephew in New Orleans. And, would you believe, his unions SAG, EQUITY and AFTRA now support him in his later years. Is that lucky, or what?
June Squibb – Mrs. Punch
Miss Squibb began her career at The Cleveland Playhouse in the 1950's and just finished a production of Horton Foote's Dividing the Estate as Stella, the matriarch, at The Dallas Theater Center. She has appeared on Broadway in the original (Ethel Merman) production of Gypsy as the stripper Electra. Other Broadway performances were in Happy Time, Gorey Stories and Sacrilege. She played Dulcie in the American cast production of The Boyfriend, which ran off-Broadway in New York and in Los Angeles at The Ivar Theatre. Miss Squibb's regional theatre appearances include The Cleveland Playhouse, Center Stage in Baltimore, the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., The Wilma in Philadelphia, Buffalo's Studio Arena and The O'Neill Playwright's Conference. On television, Miss Squibb had recurring roles on "The Ghost Whisperer" as Melinda's grandmother, in "Judging Amy" as Amy's court assistant, on the "Bill Engvall Show" as Bill Engvall's mother and on "The Young and Restless" as Pearl. Guest star appearances include "The Middle," "Cold Case," "Two and a Half Men," "Curb Your Enthusiasm," "House," "Just Shoot Me," "ER," "Law and Order," "The Bernie Mac Show," "7th Heaven," as well as two Hallmark movies. On film, she appeared as Helen Schmidt opposite Jack Nicholson in ABOUT SCHMIDT and as Ray Ramono's sidekick Irma in WELCOME TO MOOSEPORT. She was Mrs. Hunsacker in SCENT OF A WOMAN and Cousin Gretchen in IN AND OUT. Other films include ALICE, MEET JOE BLACK, AGE OF INNOCENCE, FAR FROM HEAVEN, and ONE PART SUGAR. Miss Squibb has two films in post-production, THE BIG YEAR with Steve Martin and ATLAS SHRUGGED.
Bess Meisler – Greta Russert
Bess Meisler began her theatrical career at the age of eight at the Federation Settlement House in her native New York City. She has appeared on and offBroadway, in National Companies, films and television. She toured the country as Golde in Fiddler On The Roof, appeared in Nine Armenians and James Joyce's TheDead at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, and with Martyn Green in Mr. Gilbert, Mr. Sullivan and Mr. Green. On film Bess was Yia Yia, the grandmother in MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING, the Gypsy in DADDY CARE, Mildred in XANADU, and Rachel in the Spanish language film, EL REGALO DE PAQUITO. On television sherecurred on the original "Beverly Hills 90210". "Becker", "Malcolm in the Middle", "Flying Blind," "Eagleheart" and the MOW, "Kiss At Midnight" are among herother television appearances.
Mandy June Turpin – Susan O'Connor
Mandy June Turpin has worked exclusively in the entertainment industry for the past 15 years, holding positions in casting, producing, acting and production.
Her film credits include Powder Blue starring Forrest Whitaker, Atlas Shrugged Part 1 and The Perfect Family starring Kathleen Turner. Her TV credits include the HBO series Luck, NCIS, Grey's Anatomy, The Closer, Burn Notice, Bones, House M.D, Lost, 24, Justified, Prime Suspect, Without A Trace, Castle, Hot In Cleveland, Lie to Me, In Plain Sight and Criminal Minds to name a few. Mandy holds a degree from UCLA in Theatre, Film & Television.
Rebecca Wackler - Sister Joan
Rebecca Wackler has performed at the Kennedy Center, the Philadelphia Drama Guild, the Actor's Theatre of Louisville, The Dublin Theatre Festival, The Spoleto Festival, Off-Broadway at the Astor Place Theatre in New York, Theatre Banshee in Los Angeles, Southern Theater Conspiracy in Atlanta (which she co-founded) and many more. Some of her film and television credits include Primary Colors, directed by Mike Nichols, The Long Walk Home, Roswell, Step by Step, ER, I'll Fly Away and The Perfect Family.
Among her many writing credits, Wackler co-authored Tent Meeting (published by Dramatists Play Service), Nicholas DeBeaubien's Hunchback of Notre Dame, Isle of Dogs, (published by Samuel French, Inc.,) with Levi Lee and Larry Larson, and The Gospel of Mary, with Ron Short of Roadside Theatre.
Some of her directing credits include Tent Meeting at Theatre Banshee in Los Angeles, in Chicago, Some Things You Need to Know Before the World Ends (A Final Evening with the Illuminate), in Hiawasee, Georgia The Reach of Song, in Anniston, Alabama Steel Magnolias and El Grande Coca Cola, in Atlanta Hamlet the Musical, Phantom of the Opry, and We Won't Pay, We Won't Pay and for the Roadside Theatre in Whitesburg, Kentucky Apples in the Fall.
Rebecca was a recipient of the Theatre Critics Atlanta Award for Excellence and Achievement in Atlanta's
Theatre Community and a National Endowment for the Arts Individual Artist Grant. Her play Tent Meeting was selected to be part of two anthologies, New Plays USA 4, and By Southern Playwrights.
Kristen Dalton – Theresa Hennessy
Kristen Dalton is an actress and producer who currently resides in Beverly Hills. Her studies include H.B. Studio in New York, Comedy Theatre Improv & Shakespeare, and many years studying with Larry Moss in Los Angeles. Kristen starred opposite Jack Nicholson in Martin Scorcese's academy award winning movie THE DEPARTED, and recently finished filming THE PERFECT FAMILY where she plays Jason Ritter's love interest. Also just completed, in the role of Agent Lani Morgan, is the movie FINDING HOPE, and currently Kristen is in post production on A DANGEROUS PLACE and LAST DAY ON EARTH, while in the midst of producing and starring in her newest project set to start filming mid-June 2011.
Gregory Zaragoza – Lou Reyes
Gregory Zaragoza was the lead "Gil Lujan" in the newly released film Jordan and was the "Croupier" in the final season of The Sopranos, the "Abenaki Chief" in The Last of the Mohicans, "Tanaghrisson" in The War That Made America, "John Coin" in Fishes Outta Water, "Scar" in the mini-series North & South, Heaven & Hell, "Vincent Conrad" in The Jury as well as many other Television roles. On Broadway, he originated the role of "Chief Sitting Bull" in the revival of Annie Get Your Gun with Bernadette Peters and Tom Wopat and was the "Apparition" in Macbeth with Christopher Plummer and Glenda Jackson. Off- Broadway, he performed the one man show, Sacred Journey, by Matt Witten, portraying "Indian John" in addition to a multitude of supporting characters. He has performed in many other Off-Broadway productions as well as Regional Theaters throughout the United States.
He is an attorney licensed in New York and California, the proud father of 3 incredibly talented performing arts children and devoted husband to his wife of 24 years, Shiuga, a Business Professor with the City University of New York.
Joe Holt – Nurse
Joe Holt recently relocated to Los Angeles from New York after fulfilling his obligation of working the "Law and Order" circuit, and has enjoyed Guest-Star spots on such shows as "Supernatural," "Brothers and Sisters," "Grey's Anatomy," "Prison Break," "Monk," and "Close to Home," as well as a lead role in "Lake Placid II." He can be seen playing an attorney opposite Idris Elba in the psychological thriller LEGACY, and also had significant roles in the upcoming films FROM THE HEAD, SON OF MOURNING and BLOOD SHOT. He recently completed THE BULLET CATCHER, where he starred as an Iraqi vet dealing with symptoms of ptsd, and troubled by the horrors of war.


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Madison drugmaker Wyeth has elected a new chief executive.
Bernard Poussot, a veteran Wyeth executive who was appointed chief operating officer this year, will replace Robert Essner on Jan. 1. Some analysts were surprised at the quick timetable for the transition, although Wyeth's stock has dropped sharply in recent months.
Essner will remain on as chairman of the board for an unspecified time.
"Bernard is exceptionally well-qualified for this role, and we have built a world-class management team to support him and the company," Essner said in a statement.
Poussot joined Wyeth's operations in France in 1986 after working for Searle. He lives in Villanova, Pa.
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By: yelvington on January 17, 2011 - 11:30am - Add new comment
Nearly six years ago, I advocated that BlufftonToday.com pursue an online strategy built around community conversation:
By: yelvington on June 13, 2010 - 1:27pm - Add new comment
Tim Anderson asked me to think about what we would do to fight the recent invasions by spammers.
As a test, I've created a "direct flag" role on BlufftonToday.com that gives certain people the ability to immediately remove, not just report, abuse. Staffers already had this ability.
All you have to do is use the "Report Abuse" link for blogs or the "Flag as Offensive" link for comments. (Don't ask me why they're not labeled the same. They do the same thing.)
Fill out the form as usual, and submit.
By: yelvington on August 18, 2009 - 6:55am - Add new comment
Because of abuse by some Romanian casino spammers, we've had to turn off the ability to embed movies in blog posts. This covers all use of the embed and object tags.
We have a better tool for embedding video in the new software that's coming to BlufftonToday.com in a few weeks. It will make it easier to embed video from legitimate sources and impossible to embed video from spammers.
By: yelvington on July 23, 2009 - 6:06pm - Add new comment
I just banned a user who registered with a false identity and posted full text of something found elsewhere on the Internet. It's worth reiterating:
Don't cut/paste full content from other sites unless you know you have the right to do so. You are personally responsible for what you post, and if you're violating someone else's copyright, you could face legal trouble. News publishers are getting twitchy about content piracy these days. You don't want to get caught up in that.
The proper way to do it is to cite and link.
By: yelvington on March 10, 2009 - 11:16am - Add new comment
Sometime in the next few months we plan to rebuild BlufftonToday.com.
BT was among the first cases of a newspaper anywhere using a software package called Drupal.
By: yelvington on October 13, 2008 - 3:39pm - Add new comment
OK, true believers. This is one of the best links I've seen in a long time - the top 10 craziest concept cars. The pictured car is my favorite, hands down. Mainly because it has a nuclear reactor for an engine. Who knew people in the 1950s took so many drugs?
Nuclear car
By: yelvington on July 14, 2008 - 2:00pm - Add new comment
Click the map for the big (and more legible) version.
From Dan Conover's Xark blog.
By: yelvington on November 3, 2007 - 10:43am - Add new comment
Since there are so many dog nuts here, I wanted to share this flow chart explaining how a dog's mind works. This is from Khoi Vinh, chief web designer at the New York Times, and it's distributed under a Creative Commons license. Dog brain flowchart
By: yelvington on January 24, 2007 - 4:57pm - Add new comment
Several months ago I asked many of you to discuss the use of pseudonyms in community blogging, and you responded wonderfully, as usual.
The paper I was working on has been published in the winter edition of Nieman Reports, the journal of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University. The entire edition is devoted to an examination of how the Internet is changing journalism.
By: yelvington on December 7, 2006 - 7:30pm - Add new comment
I mentioned this to Lisa yesterday and she didn't know about it, so perhaps it's worth explaining: You can now "subscribe" to the Bluffton community calendar in iCalendar if you have a Macintosh.
It may also be possible on a PC, but honestly I don't know how.
Subscribing to Bluffton Today calendar: In iCalendar, select the calendar, then set "auto-refresh" in the properties window. At the lower left corner of this page is a cluster of event listings, and a tiny little calendar icon. Mouse over it and you'll see it links to:
This is a "feed" of event listings in iCal format, an Internet standard. Your Web browser (Firefox, Safari) should let you open that link in iCalendar on the Mac.
By default you'll get this month's listings. To automatically update, you'll need to tell iCalendar to refresh the listings periodically.


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Boxers & Saints Archives - Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources
Jim Woodring's 'Fran' wins Lynd Ward Graphic Novel Prize
Jim Woodring's Fran has been awarded the 2014 Lynd Ward Graphic Novel Prize, presented annually to the best graphic novel, fiction or non-fiction, published in the previous year by a living American or Canadian citizen or resident.
It's sponsored by Penn State University Libraries and administered by the Pennsylvania Center for the Book, an affiliate of the Center for the Book at the Library of Congress. The honor comes with a $2,500 prize and a two-volume set of Ward's six novels.
Published by Fantagraphics, Fran was described by the judges as "hypnotic and subliminal while entertaining and compelling"L "Woodring's work poses a refreshing change from the trend towards wordy graphic memoir, entreating the reader to reckon with a world whose language we cannot capture in our own."
The judges also recognized Gene Luen Yang for Boxers & Saints (First Second) and Zander Cannon for Heck (Top Shelf Productions).
Comics A.M. | Examining implications of Amazon-comiXology deal
Digital comics | Jeff Gomez examines the implications of Amazon's planned acquisition of comiXology, opining that it will give comics a wider reach but also force publishers of superhero fare to broaden their appeal beyond the core demographic: "The books will now be exposed to millions of newcomers, so it will behoove major publishers to make their stories more female-friendly, streamlined, and accessible. With comiXology's new aim to make 'every person on the planet a comics fan,' publishers will need to consider new genres, greater variety, and more varied age groups." [Business Insider]
Digital comics | ComiXology will continue to offer its Digital Storefronts for retailers, and it will not allow Amazon to target users of its Pull List service with its own offers, according to spokesman Chip Mosher. Also, no changes are planned to comiXology's other retailer tools. [ICv2]
Ulli Lust, Gene Luen Yang win LA Times Book Prizes
The winners of the LA Times Book Prizes were announced Friday night, and not one but two graphic novels took top honors.
Ulli Lust won the Graphic Novels/Comics prize for Today Is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life, which also picked up an Ignatz Award and won an award at Angouleme in 2011 for the original edition. The other finalists were David B.'s Incidents in the Night: Vol. 1, Ben Katchor's Hand-Drying in America: And Other Stories, Anders Nilsen's The End, and Joe Sacco's The Great War: July 1, 1916: The First Day of the Battle of the Somme, so it was a tough field.
In the Young Adult category, Boxers & Saints was up against four prose books: Elizabeth Knox's Mortal Fire, Rainbow Rowell's Fangirl, Joyce Sidman's What the Heart Knows: Chants, Charms and Blessings, and Jonathan Stroud's Lockwood & Co: The Screaming Staircase. Yang's earlier book, American Born Chinese, was nominated for a National Book Award and won a Printz Award; both honors usually go to prose books.
Comics A.M. | 'Brave and the Bold' #28 sells for record $120,000
Comics | A CGC-certified 9.2 copy of The Brave and the Bold #28, featuring the first appearance of the Justice League, was sold by Pedigree Comics for $120,000, a record price for the issue (cover-dated February-March 1960). ""The sale for $120,000 is a record price for any copy of Brave and the Bold #28, almost doubling the only recorded 9.4 sale (from April, 2004) of $60,375," said Pedigree Comics CEO Doug Schmell. "The other 9.2 copy (with off-white pages) fetched $35,850 in May, 2008. This book is beginning to rise dramatically in demand, popularity and value, evidenced by the recent sales of two 8.5 examples (in September, 2013 for $45,504 and for $40,500 in June, 2013)." [Scoop, via ICv2]
Passings | "He took me seriously": Shaenon Garrity writes the definitive obituary of webcomics pioneer Joey Manley, who died Nov. 7 at the age of 48. She talks to a number of the creators who worked with him over the years and puts his accomplishments into perspective. [The Comics Journal]
Comics A.M. | WonderCon confirms return to Anaheim in 2014
Conventions | WonderCon organizers have announced that next year's show, set for April 18-20, will again be held in Anaheim, California. This will be the third year for the event at that location, after having been uprooted from its longtime home at San Francisco's Moscone Center first because of remodeling and now because of scheduling conflicts. [Los Angeles Times]
Publishing | Nick Barrucci, CEO and publisher of Dynamite Entertainment, looks back on 10 years in the business, and discusses some upcoming comics, including J. Michael Straczynski's Twilight Zone and the new kids' line Li'l Dynamites. [Previews World]
Comics A.M. | 'One Piece' has sold 130M copies in Japan since 2009
Manga | Eiichiro Oda's hit pirate adventure One Piece has sold 130.15 million copies in Japan since 2009, the year that market research firm Oricon began reporting book sales. The series, which debuted in 1997, has 72 volumes — a total of 300 million copies — in print. [Anime News Network]
Tributes | The statue of Family Circus creator Bil Keane was finally unveiled in Scottsdale, Arizona. [KPHO]
Events | We relay a lot of stories in this space about cartoonists being suppressed abroad, so it's heartening to see a country where conditions have improved: Next week, there will be an exhibit of cartoons in Myanmar, as part of the Tazaungdaing festival. The Tazaungdaing comics show is a longtime tradition that was shut down in 1997 under pressure from the government but was resurrected in 2011 when censorship laws loosened. The exhibit takes place on a street named for U Ba Gyan, who was a prominent cartoonist in the 1930s; he used to exhibit his cartoons by putting them on lanterns around his house, to escape official censors. [Myanmar Times]
Comics A.M. | New 'Asterix' lands in middle of political debate
Graphic novels | France 24 examines the Thursday release of Asterix and the Picts — the first album by new creative team Jean Yves-Ferri and Didier Conrad — from a political perspective, noting that the story, in which Asterix and Obelix journey from ancient Gaul to Iron Age Scotland, has already become part of the current debate about Scottish independence. [France 24]
Creators | Chinese cartoonist Wang Liming, who spent a night in police custody last week on charges of "suspicion of causing a disturbance," spoke to the press this week. Liming, who has more than 300,000 followers on his microblog account, first ran into trouble two years ago for one of his cartoons, but police told him that China has freedom of speech and he could continue drawing. Nonetheless, another of his cartoons, depicting Winnie the Pooh (a frequent cartoon stand-in for Chinese President Xi Jinping) kicking a football was deleted and suppressed by censors. "For them, drawing leaders in cartoon form is a big taboo," the cartoonist said. "I think the controls on the Internet are too harsh. They have no sense of humor. They can't accept any ridicule." [Reuters]
'Boxers & Saints' makes National Book Award shortlist
Boxers & Saints, Gene Luen Yang's bestselling graphic novel set against the backdrop of China's Boxer Rebellion, has made the shortlist for the 2013 National Book Award for Young People's Literature, announced this morning on MSNBC's Morning Joe. Yang's 2006 work American Born Chinese was the first graphic novel to be nominated for a National Book Award.
The other finalists in the category are: Kathi Appelt, The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp; Cynthia Kadohata, The Thing About Luck; Tom McNeal, Far Far Away; and Meg Rosoff, Picture Me Gone. The winner will be announced Nov. 29.
Published by First Second Books, the two-volume Boxers & Saints tells two parallel stories set against the backdrop of the Boxer Rebellion: the first is of Little Bao, a peasant boy who joins in the violent uprising against Westerners following the destruction of his village; and the second is of a girl taken in by Christian missionaries when her village has no place for her. Boxers & Saints was released just last week.
Comics A.M. | Viz Media expanding into India; the Avengers at 50
Publishing | Viz Media, the largest U.S. publisher of English-language manga, is poised to jump in to a new market: India. Kevin Hamric, the company's director of publishing and marketing, was there this week, and he says the demand is there. "With India's growing book and reading sector we have identified it as key to our growth," Hamric says. "We receive many, many requests each and every month from fans in India to bring our product here." [The Hindu Business Line]
Comics | As the Avengers turn 50, Noel Murray recounts their history and explains why they work so well as a super-team. [Hero Complex]
Conventions | The founder of this month's incredibly successful Salt Lake Comic Con — it drew about 70,000 attendees in its first year — is planning a spinoff event for Jan. 9-11, the weekend before the Sundance Film Festival. [Salt Lake Tribune]
'Boxers & Saints' named National Book Award finalist
Gene Luen Yang's two-volume Boxers & Saints is among the finalists for the 2013 National Book Award for Young People's Literature. His 2006 work American Born Chinese was the first graphic novel to be nominated for a National Book Award.
Published by First Second Books, Boxers & Saints tells two parallel stories set against the backdrop of the Boxer Rebellion: the first is of Little Bao, a peasant boy who joins in the violent uprising against Westerners following the destruction of his village; and the second is of a girl taken in by Christian missionaries when her village has no place for her. Boxers & Saints was released just last week.
Cheat Sheet | From 'Boxers & Saints' to Milligan & McCarthy
Welcome to "Cheat Sheet," ROBOT 6′s guide to the week ahead. Contributors Brigid Alverson, Corey Blake and Mark Kardwell can't wait til Wednesday to get there hands on three works (or, technically, four): Cyborg 009, Boxers & Saints, and The Best of Milligan & McCarthy. To see what they have to say about the releases, just keep reading …


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Atlantic City, NJ – Don't miss out on your final chance to see AHL hockey in Atlantic City this season! On Sunday, February 24, the AHL's Albany Devils will return to the Art Dorrington Ice Rink once more to take on the Hershey Bears. This game will conclude the last of a four-game series for the Albany Devils at Boardwalk Hall. Doors open at 3 p.m. with a game time start of 4 p.m.
Great tickets for this event are still available and can be purchased for as little as $11. Bring the whole family and take advantage of this fun and affordable indoor event. Besides a hard-hitting game of ice hockey, ticket holders will also have the opportunity to participate in exciting contests and activities!
With less than 30 games remaining in the 2012-13 regular season, the Albany Devils are in a playoff hunt in the Eastern Conference. Since Dec. 1, the Devils are 16-11-1-4, improving their record to 20-19-1-9 overall.
Ms. Judah Dorrington will be kicking off the game with the national anthem. A resident of Atlantic City, she is also the daughter of Art Dorrington for whom Boardwalk Hall's ice rink is named. This will be a celebratory day for Dorrington as she will be honored for her lifetime musical achievements by the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority later that night after her anthem performance.
Throughout the game, there will be a plentiful amount of "Sweet Deals Drawings", giving lucky fans the chance to walk away with a selection of prizes. These prizes include overnight stays at Caesars Atlantic City, gift certificates for Carmines, Girasole, Shop Rite Supermarkets, and Atlantic City Restaurant week, as well as tickets to upcoming Boardwalk Hall events such as the 2013 ECAC Men's Hockey Championship on March 22 and 23 and WWE's Road to Wrestlemania on March 30. All attendees have the chance to win!
There are also intermission activities scheduled to keep fans entertained after the end of the first and second period. At the first intermission, children from the Art Dorrington Ice Hockey Foundation will participate in a youth scrimmage on the ice. At the end of the second period, the Covenant House of Atlantic City will host a Chuck-A-Puck contest. During the game, fans will be able to stop by the Covenant House booth to purchase foam pucks which they will be able to "chuck" onto the ice for a chance to win a cash prize. A portion of the proceeds from this contest will benefit the Covenant House, an organization developed to provide services to homeless and at-risk adolescents under the age 22 in the areas of food, shelter, clothing, crisis care, healthcare, educational and vocational services, counseling, drug abuse treatment and prevention, legal services, mother/child programs, transitional living programs, street outreach, and aftercare.
Additionally, Devil Dawg will be in the building to mingle with fans and host one of his famous t-shirt tosses!
Tickets are available at the Boardwalk Hall Box Office and through Ticketmaster (www.ticketmaster.com or 800/736-1420) for those interested in catching the Albany Devils at Boardwalk Hall for the last time this season. Prices are as follows: $26 for the first two rows on the glass, $21 for the lower bowl, and $16 for the upper bowl. Special rates are available for kids 2-12, seniors 65+, military, students, and groups of 10 or more. These discounted rates are priced at $16 for the lower bowl and $11 for the upper bowl. Four packs can also be purchased for $65 and include four tickets in the upper bowl, four hot dogs, and four soft drinks (note: four packs must be purchased in advance). All tickets that are purchased on game day will be $1 higher in price.
Fan Experience Packages are also available which allows hockey fans, groups, and youth
organizations to become part of the action on the ice on game day. Hockey clubs who purchase
100 or more tickets for any game at any price will receive 90 minutes of free ice time at
Boardwalk Hall. For additional information on these packages, call (609) 348-7023.
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Bell Media's Space has ordered new scripted series Orphan Black from Toronto-based indie Temple Street Productions, announced at the Banff World Media Festival Tuesday.
The drama series is anchored to a female character, a streetwise orphan who witnesses the suicide of a woman – who, incidentally, looks just like her. The character then takes on the woman's identity, propelling her into a mind-bending mystery in which she uncovers the truth about her resemblance to the dead woman, and why she – and others like her – are in danger.
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Orphan Black is executive produced by Temple Street's Ivan Schneeberg and David Fortier (Being Erica), Graeme Manson (Cube, Flashpoint) and John Fawcett (Spartacus).
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by Paul Bass | Apr 4, 2014 4:30 pm
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Zonah means "prostitute" in Hebrew. It accrued a second meaning in New Haven poverty real-estate scamming: "Name of fictional tenant on a fake lease created to fool the bank."
A federal jury learned both meanings of the word Thursday in U.S. District Judge Janet Hall's courtroom on Church Street. (More about that at the end of this story.)
A one-time high-flying young megalandlord named Joseph Menachem "Yossi" Levitin taught the jurors the two definitions. From the witness stand.
He taught them a lot Thursday, about how everyone from real-estate brokers to attorneys to "straw buyers" to out-of-state investors broke laws to steal millions of dollars by conducting sham transactions on crumbling homes in struggling New Haven neighborhoods like Newhallville, Fair Haven, and the Hill. They grabbed the money and let the properties rot—until the FBI grabbed them.
Levitin was the big fish out of the cast of characters arrested in the federal crackdown on two sprawling mortgage-fraud rings. On Thursday, four years after his arrest, the fish started singing.
Levitin, who is 28 years old, faces up to 30 years in prison and $20 million in fines for helping arrange to bilk lenders out of $10 million while leaving a trail of rundown New Haven properties. Rather than risk serving all that time, he pleaded guilty and started cooperating with the federal prosecutors. At the time of his 2010 arrest, the government moved to take control of 51 of his properties that he had bought with illicit proceeds from the sale of 40 other properties; since then he has been free to manage and buy or arrange the sale of dozens of new properties as he awaits sentencing.
Just the threat of his testifying in court may have helped the feds obtain guilty pleas from an assortment of big, medium and bit players in the conspiracy. But two mid-level alleged players—a late-night infomercial-watching Westchester corrections officer named Jacques Kelly (pictured above outside court Thursday) who dreamed of getting rich quick in real estate; and an aggressive mortgage officer named Andrew Constantinou (at left)—have pleaded not guilty. Their trial began this week in Judge Hall's New Haven courtroom.
Most of the day Thursday, Levitin detailed in a soft-spoken monotone the nitty-gritty details of how he pocketed up to a half-million dollars in broker's fees on more than 40 illicit property sales and his accomplices allegedly stole millions more through sham deals.
A government lawyer who would have prosecuted Levitin, Assistant U.S. Attorney David T. Huang, instead coached him and walked him through the confession of his crimes as a partner in prosecution. Technically, Levitin was there to help the government obtain a guilty verdict against Kelly and Constantinou in return for lesser jail time. And he did provide testimony, all morning and afternoon, alleging that the pair actively and knowingly took part in sham deals. In practice, Levitin testified against Levitin, documenting step by step how at an age when other people are trying to figure out what to do with their lives he became one of the New Haven's biggest slumlords, and real-estate crooks.
He ran down what Huang repeatedly referred to as "The Scheme."
"We would take a property and make a contract for an inflated amount on top of what someone was really going to pay," Levitin testified. "So the bank would loan more money."
The son of a New Haven rabbi, Levitin described in the stand growing up one of 10 siblings, obtaining his GED at age 17, taking some courses at a rabbinical college and at Gateway Community College. But rather than seek a diploma, he made New Haven real estate his classroom. He earned a real-estate license and formed both an agency, Prestige Realty, and a property management company, Levitin Management LLC, the latter before he was legally old enough to buy liquor.
A year into that business, in 2006, one of his agents introduced him to Jacques Kelly, the corrections guard investing in real estate on the side. He arranged at least 16 sales in 2006 and 2007 for Kelly and for a fellow corrections officer named Ronald Hutchison.
At first, Levitin said, they performed a simple version of the scam. They signed an official contract for one price for the properties. They used that price to obtain a mortgage. Then they signed an "addendum," separate documents that had a smaller price to which both sides had agreed. That way, the buyer wouldn't have to pay any money for a downpayment or closing costs. Mortgage companies grant mortgages covering 85 or 90 percent of a sales price, say, assuming that the buyer will pay the rest in the form of a downpayment. In these cases, the buyer got 100 percent of the money in the form of a mortgage and used that to cover closing costs and the downpayment, according to the government and several people who have pleaded guilty.
So in buying, say, 517 Winchester Ave., a three-family house in Newhallville , the official contract showed a $310,00 purchase price. The addendum showed an actual price of $279,000. In land records and as far as the mortgage company knew, 289 Division St. and 21-23 Sheffield Ave. sold for $270,000 apiece. The true price was $243,000, according to the "addenda" signed by both parties, and displayed on computer screens in Hall's courtroom Thursday. (As with so many of these properties, the alleged scam buyers never put any of the mortgage money into the properties. Instead they defaulted on the mortgages.)
Huang asked if the seller minded going along with two sets of transactions, one of them fake.
"The seller really wanted to sell the property. He didn't really care how the buyer got his financing, as long as he got the price he wanted," Levitin replied.
Similar transactions took place at 14016 Bassett St. and 261 West Ivy in Newhallville, 270 Davenport Ave. and 125 Spring St. in the Hill, 436-8 Poplar and 147 Lloyd St. (read a story about that property here) in Fair Haven, to cite just some examples that Huang and Levitin spent hours methodically detailing through in court. Levitin stared straight at Huang as he spoke, not at the two accused parties sitting in leather armchairs at the juncture of two defense tables to his right in the opposite corner of the room. He turned his gaze at times to the left, to the 12 jurors and four alternates, when Huang instructed, "Can you tell the jury about that."
The scammers built a 10 percent inflated price into those deals. Then, when another alleged co-conspirator who called himself Kwame Nkrumah (after the late Ghanian liberation leader) entered the operation, they started building in far higher amounts, Levitin testified. Soon they were not only covering closing costs and downpayments, but pocketing as much as $100,000 extra. Meanwhile, they left their properties to atrophy.
He recalled seeing that happen for the first time at a closing for numerous sales in the office of Milford attorney Genevieve Salvatore, who has pleaded guilty in this case.
"She was cool. She was cutting checks," Levitin said of Salvatore.
"Cool?" asked Huang.
"She was relaxed. ... I'd never seen a buyer [obtain] money" at a closing before, he said. "I knew this wasn't legal. She was cutting checks and handing them to Mr. Kelly. ...
"It was all done very openly. That's why it stood out in my mind. To see an attorney openly involved in something like this—even if they knew about it—seemed" odd.
He told stories as well about how he allegedly worked with Constantinou and his hand-picked appraisers to provide false appraisals to the banks in order to obtain the loans. Appraisals rely on comparable sales of properties to determined that a sales price justifies a mortgage. True appraisals obviously wouldn't work for these deals, since they wouldn't justify the inflated prices. So they successfully pushed one appraiser, and simply informed a more pliant second appraiser, to come up with phony comparisons, Levitin testified.
Levitin also described how he and Constantinou also allegedly took photos of furnished occupied apartments and pretended they were photos of empty apartments, to include in the loan applications. They "avoid[ed] taking pictures of leaks."
The banks still balked sometimes. One reason: They needed proof that apartments were being rented, to show that an income stream would enable borrowers to repay mortgages.
So, Levitin said, they invented fake leases. With fake names.
Levitin, meanwhile, pocketed 6 percent fees for his role brokering each transaction, more than 40 of which took place over just two years. He also helped draw up the fake documents to make them happen, he testified.
"I would make a lease to match what was needed," he said. He said the he or the property owner would sign the names of the fake tenants.
Huang (pictured outside court Thursday) projected six of those fake leases on the screens.
Three of them were leases with fictional names of tenants in three actually empty apartments at 537 East St.
The name of the alleged first floor tenant appeared as Zonah Abernante.
"Is Zonah Abernante a real person?" Huang asked.
"No," Levitin responded.
"How do you know?"
"The name Zonah means 'prostitute' in Hebrew. I believe one of my employees put it in to be funny."
With many of the leases, Huang demonstrated that the beginning dates were listed as occurring before the owners actually bought the property. So that means, he rhetorically asked Levin, that a simple glance at the document shows that it can't possibly be genuine, right?
Right, Levitin repeatedly replied.
Huang did not ask this question: If these leases were such obvious shams, why didn't the lenders notice? Or if the did, why did they still approve the loans?
When they get their chance, perhaps the defense lawyers—one of whom is seeking to put the banks on trial in absentia in this case—will ask that question.
Previous articles about this case and a related New Have mortgage-fraud case:
• Scammer, Awaiting Sentence, Rebuilds
• Patsies? Or Schemers?
• Fraud Defense: Banks Were The Real Crooks
• Kwame & Straw Buyer Leave Trail Of Blight
• 1 Mortgage Fraud Ring Down, Feds Turn To 2nd
• "Big Liberal" Gets 5 Years For Ripping Off Poor
• White-Collar Criminals Sent To Slammer
• Judge Baffled By Two Morris Olmers
• Feds Will Retry Avigdor
• 4 Convicted In Fraud Scam; Mistrial For Rabbi
• Jury Can't Agree In Scam Trial
• Avigdor's Final Plea: Follow The Money
• Claire: The Rabbi Is Kosher
• Wednesday The Rabbi Took The Stand
• Straw Buyer Lured Into A Wild Ride
• After Big Fish Plead, Smaller Fry Point Fingers
• Slum-Photo Doctor Makes A Call
• What Happened At Goodfellas Didn't Stay At Goodfellas
• Fraud Trial Opens With Oz-Like Yarn
• "Partying" MySpacer Lined Up Scam Homebuyers
• "Straw Buyer" Pleads Guilty
• Neighbors, Taxpayers Left With The Tab
• FBI Arrests Police Commissioner, Slumlord, Rabbi
• One Last Gambit Falls Short
• Was He In "Custody"?
• Is Slum Landlord Helping The FBI?
• Feds Snag Poverty Landlord
• Police Commissioner Pleads
• Mortgage Fraud Mastermind Gets 10 Years
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posted by: EPDP on April 4, 2014 5:01pm
This young man is quite smart for a guy with a GED and some rabbinical and Gateway classes. Smart enough to know that testifying for the Feds will score major points at sentencing. Maybe even a walk and a bottle of champagne courtesy of Uncle Sam. Almost as good as wearing a wire and going undercover. Was this GED man smart enough to fool the Ivy League Yale grad executives who were running the big investment banks on Wall Street at the time? The very people who created these toxic subprime loans? Or was he just being used by these Yale grads who looked the other way when millions of bogus loan applications landed on their desks?
posted by: NewHavenTaxTooHigh on April 7, 2014 11:30am
This individual ought to be barred from the New Haven real estate market. I understand that he doesn't require a license for the type of work he performs. Nevertheless, the US Attorney and the Judge in this case can require as part of any plea deal that he be barred from working (in any capacity) in the New Haven real estate market. To do otherwise would show total disregard for NH residents and taxpayers.


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