Filming in New Jersey, The King of Con Docuseries
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Filming in New Jersey, The King of Con Docuseries
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Northern NJ Film People meet again!
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Montclair Nj, for all interested in film making in our area, this is a social/networking opportunity where all are welcome – producers, actors, crew, and beginners still looking for their niche.
Reading is On the Rise
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Ridgewood NJ, Bloomsbury, the book publisher behind the Harry Potter series, just raised its revenue expectations for its latest financial year to £260m, up from the previously expected £243m. That’s some 40% higher than the company managed just 2 years ago.
New Jersey Film and Television Industry Shattered Records in 2021
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Westwood NJ, Film and television production in New Jersey shattered all previous records in 2021, with the industry spending more than a half of a billion dollars in the state and creating more than 5,500 jobs.
The annual report released by the state’s Film and Television Commission this month shows the industry bested its previous spending record by nearly $80 million. In total, New Jersey was home to 725 productions in 2021, including 68 feature films and 132 television series.
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Netflix Announces Plans to Build State-of-the-Art East Coast Production Facility at Fort Monmouth
1,500+ Permanent Jobs and Nearly $1 Billion of Planned Capital Investment in Monmouth County
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Trenton NJ, Netflix announced that the entertainment company will develop a state-of-the-art East Coast production facility on the former Fort Monmouth campus in Monmouth County, transforming a property that has been largely vacant for more than a decade into an economic engine that is estimated to create more than 1,500 permanent production jobs and more than 3,500 construction-related jobs in New Jersey. Netflix plans to commit $848 million in capital investments to develop the more than 292-acre parcel, adjacent to Route 35 in Eatontown and Oceanport, into 12 state-of-the-art soundstages totaling nearly 500,000 square feet of new development, with the remainder of the property slated for redevelopment with supporting film uses and several community amenities.
Today is National Read a Book Day
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Ridgewood NJ, National Read a Book Day on September 6 calls all book lovers to indulge in their favorite hobby, guilt-free. Bringing new worlds to life, books enlighten us and transport us on exciting adventures. They can challenge our perspectives on the human experience in ways unmatched by other media. In a world deluged by technology, National Read a Book Day encourages us to silence the noise and turn the pages for a while.
Ridgewood and “Real” Housewives Mix at Melissa Gorga aptly named shop , “Envy”
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Ridgewood NJ, Back in March, the Ridgewood blog reported that Melissa Gorga of RHONJ opened up a second location for her aptly named shop , “Envy” in the Village of Ridgewood . Ridgewood is being billed by marketers as “a quaint Bergen County town, where many future housewives could possibly hail from“.
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HE HAD WAYS OF MAKING YOU PAY
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Saddle River Nj, It was the early 80’s and local NJ con man Thomas Giacomaro was pulling in $300,000 a week selling cocaine.
If a customer was late paying a drug debt, Giacomaro and his crew had creative ways of making him pay.
THE LITTLE THIEF
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Saddle River NJ, If you want to be the “king” of all con men, you have to start young.
So instructs local author Thomas Giacomaro, who penned his lauded memoir, The King of Con: How a Smooth-Talking Jersey Boy Made and Lost Billions, Baffled the FBI, Eluded the Mob, and Lived to Tell the Crooked Tale, in 2018.
C-NOTES FROM HEAVEN
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Saddle River NJ, Well, it was twenty years ago today…when a bunch of FBI guys got hit in the head with a million bucks, falling from the New Jersey sky.
Until that moment, April 2002 had been going okay for NJ con master, Thomas Giacomaro, author of the 2018 memoir The King of Con: How a Smooth-Talking Jersey Boy Made and Lost Billions, Baffled the FBI, Eluded the Mob, and Lived to Tell the Crooked Tale.
True, he was doing 18 months for embezzlement at Fort Dix prison, just south of Trenton. But it was easy time in a low-security prison. And he was such a clean, neat inmate…he was a shoo-in to get out by Christmas.
THE MAN WHO SAID NO TO “STREAKY” GATTO
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Saddle River NJ, Notorious NJ con artist and mob-associate, Thomas Giacomaro, refused to become a mafioso “made man” in the early Eighties. Why, you ask?
He didn’t want to kiss the ring.
THE DEVIL MADE THEM DO IT
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Saddle River NJ, Was Will Smith having a mental breakdown when he assaulted Chris Rock at the Oscars on Sunday night? Was he on drugs?
I’ve heard both theories—and more. But Denzel Washington has the one Smith likes best because it takes the blame off him.
AND THE OSCAR FOR BEST PSYCHO PERFORMANCE GOES TO…
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Saddle River NJ, in honor of last night’s Academy Awards—and actor Will Smith’s unhinged outburst—local bad-boy-turned good, Thomas Giacomaro, tells us his nickname was once “the Italian Hannibal Lecter.”
The Anthony Hopkins drama, The Silence of the Lambs, swept the Oscars exactly 30 years ago winning five main categories—Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director, and Best Screenplay.
A decade later, Giacomaro—who penned his 2018 memoir The King of Con: How a Smooth-Talking Jersey Boy Made and Lost Billions, Baffled the FBI, Eluded the Mob, and Lived to Tell the Crooked Tale, earned the moniker—in prison.
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BUT DOES IT HAVE A JAPANESE KOI POND?
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Saddle River NJ, If you try to Google-map it, the house is shrouded in shrubbery and leafy Northern Red Oak.
But it’s still there, the 8,000 square-foot mansion on Fox Hedge Road in Saddle River, NJ—a potential upcoming shooting location this fall for the upcoming docuseries, The King of Con, and former home of local legend, Thomas Giacomaro.
