This video was originally posted by Kenkinna. It is extremely well made, integrating candid clips of the actors with great music and real footage of Micky ward in the ring. This is excellent. Here is the video description by the poster… B-Roll Films, Boston: Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale and David…
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Steve O’Connor contemplates the furry gray creatures who provide us with constant companionship – at a safe distance. Anyone who has ever lived in Lowell must at some point have stopped to observe and to consider that wily and well-adapted creature which could well be the city’s mascot: the gray…
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Tony Sampas captures Kearney Square by night
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I found myself in front of the TV at 6:30 pm and decided to watch the city council meeting. Here’s what I witnessed: Councilor Caulfield moved to suspend the rules to discuss the city’s response to Sunday’s ice storm. It was a civil discussion with a lot of detail about…
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Tony Sampas photographs the Immaculate Conception Church in Lowell by night
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Actresses Amy Adams and Melissa Leo attend the Cinema Society & Men’s Health screening of “The Fighter” To Benefit The Cinema School at SVA Theater. Made-in Lowell movie “The Fighter” garnered six Golden Globe nominations as announced this morning. The awards to be presented on January 17 are often the…
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Marl Walhberg and Christian Bale on Sports Illustrated Cover From People Magazine about “actors as fighters” from Lowell-made movie “The Fighter” on the cover of Sports Illustrated : Mark Wahlberg not only received glowing reviews for his undertstated performance as the real-life junior welterweight Mickey Ward in The Fighter, but he…
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Come January, 2011 with a reorganization of the Massachusetts Film Office – Executive Director Nick Paleologos will be out of a job. In the new year, the state’s film office will be administered through the state Office of Travel and Tourism. As noted in the Globe earlier this month – the office of Housing…
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The entry below is being cross posted from Jack Neary’s own blog, Shards. Check it out too. Songs of the Season I will listen to until they’re over, regardless of whether I am parked in front of my house and it’s freezing: White Christmas – Bing Crosby Jingle Bell Rock…
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Lowell Gallery owner and all around good guy Guy Lefebvre sent me this nugget from an old Lowell newspaper. Some of the party platform planks have flopped and flipped through the years, but the rhetoric remains modern. This is from 1834, when Lowell was still a town, two years before…
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