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Growing up in Vestal, Jeremy Greenberg was always encouraged to take risks. The actor took a risk in 2007 when he put his acting career on hold to direct the independent film "Tickling Leo," which he wrote about three generations of Jewish men struggling with a secret emotional scar left by the Holocaust.

The dramatic film "Tickling Leo," written and directed by Vestal native Jeremy Davidson and produced by his wife, Mary Stuart Masterson, will be shown at 3 and 7 p.m. Sunday at the EPAC Theater, 102 Washington Ave., Endicott.

Country singer George Jones. Breaking from its traditional format, the Academy Awards will have co-hosts in veteran funny men Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin.

Actress Mary Stuart Masterson attends the 2009 Rainforest Alliance gala at the American Museum of Natural History on May 6, 2009 in New York City.

Time is running out for the oldest remaining Holocaust survivors to confide, confess and reconcile with their children, and for their children to do likewise with theirs.

"Bad Girls" is the theme for the October Cowboy Action Shooting match of the Lincoln County Regulators and ladies will shoot for free.

John Hughes stopped making high school movies 22 years ago. We forget this. Lost in the elegiac gush following his death in August was that he moved on after 1987, after he wrote and produced the gaunt "Some Kind of Wonderful," Mary Stuart Masterson's disaffected teen normality lacking the gape-mouthed vulnerability of Molly Ringwald's more ...

THE drama "Tickling Leo" is obviously a labor of love for its director-writer, Jeremy Davidson; its cast, which includes 93-year-old Eli Wallach; and its producers, Mary Stuart Masterson among them.

For some actors, playing the mentally disordered is like a meaty, hanging softball, so ripe for the big swing it can be missed entirely.

Mary Stuart Masterson is a mom-to-be and producer of her husband's film, 'Tickling Leo.' It's been a long time since she played the tomboy teen who had it bad for Eric Stoltz in "Some Kind of Wonderful." Twenty-two years to be exact.

Converging at a dilapidated lake house in a remote area of the Catskills, the other characters include Warren Yitzchak Pikler, a mentally ill poet who's also the protagonist's father; the younger man's uncle, Ronald; and Madeleine Pikler, a well-meaning in-law who is well-accustomed to the family's volatility and idiosyncrasies.

Inspired by a true World War II event, "Tickling Leo," about a cross-generational New York Jewish family dealing with its Holocaust past, was a family effort offscreen: Writer/debuting director Jeremy Davidson is married to actress Mary Stuart Masterson, who produced the film with her Barn Door Pictures partners Peter C.B. Masterson, her brother ...

Seems only fitting to pay tribute to the look of John Hughes heroines a ' given the dear director's departure last week a ' but, of course, that doesn't mean you'll have to pay a lot to pull it off.

There's nothing like curling up and watching old movies and TV shows, especially when there's so much inspiration to be found in the hair and makeup looks of the leading ladies.

In Hollywood, it's not what you know but who you know. And in Stony Brook, things work the same way.

What it's about: Ellen Gleason, a newspaper features writer, is also a single mom.

St. Basil's Catholic Parochial School for Boys, Brooklyn, 1965. The photography is so aggressively unattractive, with that fluorescent abrasiveness in which Miroslav Ondricek specializes, that you might almost think the movie took itself seriously.

Ah, Watts. Is there any John Hughes character so cool, yet so overlooked? Details from Mary Stuart Masterson's turn as a tomboy drummer in Some Kind of Wonderful are showing up on fashion icons such as Kate Lanphear and Alexander Wang .

The cast of NBC's long running 'Law & Order': They announced today that the series is being renewed for a record-tying 20th season.

The Cake Eaters - DVD Review John Stanley, San Francisco Chronicle, 05/10/09 It might bring on a burst of angst, but this directorial debut by actress Mary Stuart Masterson eventually leads viewers into the mind-set of its dysfunctional, rural Upstate New York characters in a mildly rewarding way.