New York City

Article About Dr. Thomas Romo, III and his New York City-based Non-Profit: The Little Baby Face Foundation

Little Baby Face Foundation provides free surgery to indigent children born with facial deformities. They treat cleft lip cleft palate, microtia, hemifacial microsomia, facial palsy, hairy nevi, craniofacial deformities, Bell palsy. They provide otoplasty, hearing reconstruction, and dental services for free also. Their website is littlebabyface.org

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Jane & Bob

Featured Hero: Service Dog Denali

The service dog, Denali, is a Spinone Italiano, an Italian dog breed. This dog breed was originally bred as a versatile gun dog. The Spinone is a loyal, friendly and alert dog with a close lying, wiry coat. It is an ancient breed that can be traced back to approximately 500 BC.

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Michael Shannon

Michael Shannon is terrifying as murderer Richard Kuklinski in ‘The Iceman’

“The Iceman” opens this week. It’s an intense, crime thriller. It is fascinating, disturbing and darkly exciting. Inspired by actual events, the story is about Richard Kuklinski. Stars Michael Shannon, Winona Ryder, Ray Liotta, Chris Evans

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Michael Shannon

Part II: Q&A with Michael Shannon about his challenging role in ‘The Iceman’

“The Iceman” opens this week. It’s an intense, crime thriller. It is fascinating, disturbing and darkly exciting. Inspired by actual events, the story is about Richard Kuklinski, an independent contractor, a hitman, who killed 100 men during the 70s and 80s. Academy Award nominee Michael Shannon stars as Kuklinski.

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A list of 5 movies opening this week in New York City

Movies opening this week: Disconnect, Oblivion, In the House, Love Sick Love and Rob Zombie’s The Lords of Salem. In Disconnect Jason Bateman plays a serious role and does it well. Kristin Scott Thomas is in the French film In the House. Even Morgan Freeman can’t save Oblivion.

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Matthew McConaughey

‘Mud’ is a Powerful Indie staring Matthew McConaughey, Tye Sheridan and Jacob Lofland

Matthew McConaughey stars in Mud opening April 26 in NYC. McConaughey’s movies include, “Killer Joe,” “The Lincoln Lawyer,” “Tropic Thunder,” “Fool’s Gold,” “We Are Marshall,” “Amistad,” “Contact,” and “A Time to Kill.”

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Susan Sarandon

Five Special Movies to See in New York City During April 2013

“The Company You Keep” stars Robert Redford (director) as Jim Grant, a former Weather Underground activist who is on the lam. Shia LaBeouf plays journalist Ben Shepard who uncovers Grant’s identity. It’s a political thriller with a slew of top actors including Susan Sarandon, Richard Jenkins, Chris Cooper, Nick Nolte, Sam Elliott, Stanley Tucci and Julie Christie. “The Company You Keep” is playing now in New York City

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Holocaust Survivors

Interview: Four holocaust survivors star in the documentary, ‘No Place on Earth’

‘No Place on Earth’ is the previously untold story of 38 Ukrainian Jews who survived Hitler by hiding in caves for 511 days. The four survivors who star in the film are Saul Stermer, 92, Sam Stermer (the “baby” brother), 86, and their nieces Sonia Dodyk, 79, and Sima Dodyk, 74, whose mother is Henia Stermer, Saul and Sam’s older sister.

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Part II: Q&A with Jewish holocaust survivors who hid in caves for 18 months

Interview: Four holocaust survivors star in the documentary, ‘No Place on Earth’ about the Stermer family that hid in caves in the Ukraine for 551 days. Opened this weekend. Chris Nicola, Janet Tobias.

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Part III: The story of Jewish Survivors who escaped the Nazis by hiding in cave

4 Holocaust survivors tell their story. They hid in caves in the Ukraine for 18 months. “No Place on Earth” opens this week on Friday, April 5, 2013 at Film Society Lincoln Center, 144 West 65th Street. NYC. Rated PG-13. 83 minutes.

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