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On the Waterfront: Criterion’s New DVD Boxed Set Release Party at the Museum

February 24, 2013 • 4pm

Location: Hoboken Historical Museum, 1301 Hudson St., (201) 656-2240

Fans of the movie On the Waterfront, which was filmed almost entirely on location in Hoboken 60 years ago, won’t want to miss a special event at the Museum: All are invited to a launch party for a new DVD/Blu-Ray boxed set with special features. The Criterion Collection is releasing a newly restored version of the movie, packaged with new extras, such as interviews with Hollywood legends, film critics and scholars, and people involved in the filming, including local boy Tom Hanley. The event is free, and copies of the boxed set will be available for sale. Tom Hanley, who grew up to become a longshoreman, and Dr. James Fisher, Fordham professor and author of the book On the Irish Waterfront, will join us at this special DVD launch party. Hanley portrayed the young kid, Tommy, who idolizes Marlon Brando’s boxer-turned-longshoreman Terry Malloy, at least until Malloy testifies against the longshoreman’s union for the waterfront corruption commission. Early in the film, Malloy teaches the boy how to tend homing pigeons, but when he learns of his hero’s betrayal of the long-standing code against squealing, his line, “a pigeon for a pigeon,” stings Malloy. Hanley himself grew up to become a longshoreman in real life, rising in the union ranks to the position of shop steward. The movie, directed by Elia Kazan and written by Budd Schulberg, swept eight Oscars in 1954, including best picture, director, actor, supporting actress, cinematography and screenplay. The story was inspired by journalistic accounts of the waterfront commission investigating corruption in the unions that controlled the entire New York port system.

His name pops up on the radar now and then, mostly surrounding the Hoboken Board of Education other times pertaining to the ever shifting political alliances among the Old Guard.  He’s been quiet since his backing for the BoE Move Forward slate went down in flames but the hunger for the mayor’s chair is there.

Assemblyman Ruben Ramos, who officially wants to unseat Mayor Dawn Zimmer, is feeling his pressure, even as he’s not said what his November plans may be.   Pupie power is in play.

Frank Raia (r) a perennial force in Hoboken politics at the 2011 City Council forum at OLG.

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It’s official, Assemblyman Ruben Ramos has declared his candidacy for mayor.

No surprise to readers here but MSV can now add an Old Guard effort to stave off a Ruben Ramos candidacy for mayor has failed.  (More on that later in MSV Premium.)

Assemblyman Ruben Ramos (c) in his favored Arsenal red  jersey made it official today.  He’s running for mayor!

MSV called this back in January in its rumor column and took some heat from the raw nerves it hit.
As called on the nose, the council slate will be Eduardo Gonzalez, Joe Mindak and the woman is Laura Miani.

Talking Ed Note: Good luck to Assemblyman Ramos and his family and hopefully they run a fine race. Read More...

After Hoboken resident Phil Cohen spoke the fuse was lit and the bomb of the ugly litigation against the people of Hoboken courtesy of =&0=& came out in a full eleven minute battle.

Here is the round by round.  In blue are the reform members and in red MORTe (the red ink to the City).

Michael Russo took off his coat waiting for public portion to end after Cohen spoke.  He felt the sting and shots delivered masterfully by the consistent and mesmerizing blows.  He took the punches and groggily tried to return fire.  Russo could only muster a non-sequitir personal attack.  Can’t recall Russo ever being so weak, even his usual grandstanding would have been better. Read More...

Public remarks leads to all out brawl with personal attacks on Carol Marsh, Cohen with Beth Mason finally answering to hiding out on critical council vacancy vote blocking Jim Doyle’s legal appointment

Phil Cohen’s remarks:

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It’s that time again. Are you ready for more of MORTe’s we sue and sabotage you follies. In Episode VIII, Jim Doyle, a legally appointed councilman-in-waiting stands by and watches as Beth Mason’s family checkbook appeals the judge’s decision.

In the meantime, the bill costing Hoboken is in the five figures and counting.

If Judge Bariso had a chance to speak to Beth Mason, Michael Russo, Terry Castellano and Tim Occhipinti about their crybaby staged lawsuit last October what do you think he’d say? Read More...

With no small irony, the Hoboken Housing Authority is the site where a Brink’s Truck backed up loading away the loot if concerns raised here and at the resident Queen of Satire’s website, Grafix Avenger are accurate.

Questions on the replacement costs of HHA elevator floors for the fine low price of $385,000 haven’t been answered, they are…. =&0=& Grafix Avenger owned the story going back last summer raising questions on padding in the invoicing asking if prior payments for wiring and other accouterments are being lumped together to cover up the ludicrous per capita expenditure. GA notes if you buy all the smoke Executive Director Carmelo Garcia is exhaling, the cost is over $38,000 per elevator. Ouch.  Not even a Masonista Matterina Dancer can make the questions go away. Nothing in comparison of course to the so-called 20/20 redevelopment plan being railroaded down Hoboken’s throat with a 25% expansion raring to go. Councilman Dave Mello who also serves as an HHA commissioner has asked for community feedback inviting comment via: =&1=&

The HHA rabble rousing isn’t so much astroturfing, it’s a new variety altogether attacking Jake Stuiver.   All that noise over an invalidated, conflicted attorney appointment.  Sorry Carmelo, ask Joe for a t-shirt.

Yesterday, HHA Chairman Jake Stuiver announced the City attorney, Corporation Counsel Melissa Longo responded to his official request last week to review the appointment with a legal opinion Charles Daglian’s appointment is invalid.    It’s creating much agita here, there and at the Hudson Reporter where a rare comment war has broken out over a Masonista letter gone haywire.  Its placement on Mason’s favorite website Hoboken411 where iron-fisted fascist censorship is the norm only makes it appear more ridiculous. As the HHA issues heat up, there’s also a City Council meeting tonight.  With an appeal outstanding keeping Jim Doyle’s legal appointment from completion, the Old Guard can take heart one Mason lawsuit is bearing obstructionist fruit if nothing else. Where are all =&2=& in a pure cynical power grab after Hurricane Sandy inflicted so much damage? Adding to the hurricane tally is a Hoboken legal bill in the tens of thousands. And counting. =&3=&

HHA Chairman Jake Stuiver announces:

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With the scent of corruption and political attacks swimming prominently within the Hoboken Housing Authority in recent weeks, an article in the Jersey Journal appeared yesterday announcing the first phase of expanding it with new construction in Hoboken.

There’s only one problem.  Nothing has been approved by any legislative body.

The article without journalistic attribution features mysterious unnamed HHA officials discussing the initiation of an RFP process, describing the groundbreaking of 44 HHA units on Harrison Street as a done deal that is neither done nor approved going to to construction later this year. Read More...