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What Lies Beneath

A documentary about the largest disinterment in U.S. history raises questions about death and dignity

By Adam Grybowski

AS a young girl riding the train to New York City, Debra Higgins would pass the remains of the now nearly forgotten Snake Hill in northern Jersey’s Hudson County. “It had an ominous reputation as a place you went in and never came out again,” she says.

Two Bloomfield Actors at 'Wit's End'

Two Bloomfielders, Carey Reilly and "Survivor" contestant Mitchell Olson, are involved in a sitcom pilot called "Wit's End," about a motley group of comics who are bequeathed a New York City comedy club...

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Documentary Celebrates Women's Friendships...

By Eleanor O'Sullivan

On a recent Thursday evening, filmmaker Sandra Longo introduced her new documentary, The BlueBelles to a full house of enthusiastic moviegoers at the Red Bank Arts Cinema. "I hope you will find the film entertaining and illuminating," Longo said, and the movie began.

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'BlueBelles' make news with red carpet premiere

On October 2, 2008, The BlueBelles doc premiered to two near-sold out crowds at the Red Bank Clearview Art Cinema and received the following news coverage.

"In The Arts" -- The Independent & The Hub

"Meet the BlueBelles" --   Hoboken Reporter &  The Jersey City Reporter

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BlueBelles' bond so inspirational, they made a film about it

By Shannon Mullen

They've got a million stories. Like the one Eileen Berger, 73, of Shrewsbury tells about lying in a medically induced coma and hearing her friend Dottie LaVergne at her bedside, ordering the nurses to stop attaching the pulsometer to the same finger.

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'Snake Hill' Featured in Weird New Jersey Magazine

NJ's Piece of the Rock: Snake Hill

Standing out amongst the marshes and reeds of the Meadowlands is Snake Hill, a 150 foot tall rock in Secaucus. Buried behind a prison and a newly erected train station, Snake Hill butts up against the Turnpike as that road crosses over the Hackensack River.

The Meadowlands were formerly a glacial lake and as it crept away...FULL STORY: Page 1 ; Page 2

Middletown Mayor Makes Debut in RB Film Festival Documentary

...Middletown Township Mayor Gerard...Scharfenberger is featured in Snake Hill, a documentary of one man's 22 year search for his grandfather's remains. Full Story

Film Honors Lives of Those Left Anonymous in Death

Work features search for grave of Stafford official's grandfather

It took Paul Cassadonte's family 85 years to find out where he was buried. But now his life and the lives of thousands of others who were buried in the crude graves of Potter's Field in Secaucus are being remembered on the big screen. Full Story

Jersey Shore Film Festival Opens in Asbury Park (with LME's Debra Higgins as Director)

Fans of suspense film master Alfred Hitchcock are in for a treat when the curtain goes up on the second annual Jersey Shore Film Festival beginning this week.

The festival, which runs from now through Sept. 1 will feature an "Alfred Hitchcock Retrospective," showing a dozen Hitchcock suspense thriller at the Baronet Theatre...Full Story

Dirty Little Secret Unearthed on Film

Clearview Cinemas was packed Wednesday night for the Freedom Film Society's one time screening of 'Snake Hill,' a riveting documentary about a long-ignored sanitarium cemetery next to the Turnpike in Hudson County...continued here