This is the story about two superstars who had unforgettable connections to two Fall River businessmen, who were their intermediaries during their rise to stardom. One was a guiding light for Whitney Houston and the other businessman was a leading light for Marvin Hagler.
When I heard that boxing legend Marvelous Marvin Hagler died unexpectedly Saturday, I could almost hear the rasping voice of Low Price Lenny Kaplan reminding us he was the one who tagged Hagler with the household name of Marvelous. Although the wannabes are crawling out of their encasements claiming they were responsible for labeling Hagler with the moniker, now part of his legal name, their claims fall on deaf ears because it was, indeed, Kaplan who named him Marvelous when Kaplan was the boxing public address announcer at Lincoln Park.
FDU going against the norm by adding sports, not axing them
By TOM CANAVANFebruary 18, 2021 GMT
TEANECK, N.J. (AP) Brad Hurlbut took over as athletic director at Fairleigh Dickinson in 2019, planning to increase the number of sports played at the small Division I school a short ride from New York City.
In a little over two years, Hurlbut has taken his first step, announcing last month that men’s volleyball will be added in 2021-22 and women’s lacrosse would follow the next year. The additions will give private school in northeast New Jersey 21 sports.
While that wasn’t unexpected, the timing was.
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FALL RIVER He’s not a member of the paparazzi, but Mayor Paul Coogan did manage to get a somewhat distant eyeful of three bona fide movie stars Friday night.
Coogan says he spent about an hour aboard the stern deck of the Battleship Massachusetts as Meryl Streep, Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence acted in a scene for a movie to be called “Don’t Look Up.”
The scene was shot on a stage that had been built to accommodate cameras, crew and cast, he said.
The production company for the Netflix movie which has been described as a satirical, political disaster movie about a killer asteroid hurtling toward Earth had reserved the entire Battleship Cove parking lot for a dozen large actors’ trailers.
DiCaprio, Streep and Lawrence shoot movie aboard Fall River battleship Charles Winokoor, The Herald News
FALL RIVER He’s not a member of the paparazzi, but Mayor Paul Coogan did manage to get a somewhat distant eyeful of three bona fide movie stars Friday night.
Coogan says he spent about an hour aboard the stern deck of the Battleship Massachusetts as Meryl Streep, Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence acted in a scene for a movie to be called “Don’t Look Up.”
The scene was shot on a stage that had been built to accommodate cameras, crew and cast, he said.