Rich Monetti
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The Best of Captain Kirk Putting the Moves On
Who doesn’t love it when Captain Kirk puts the movies on the ladies? But what we may not realize is his confidence actually comes from the love of one woman. She’s known as the USS Enterprise, and here’s the best of the duo working in tandem.
By Rich Monetti6 years ago in Futurism
New Yorkers Against Gun Violence Holds Rally in Front of Republican Headquarters
17 people needlessly shot dead at the Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland Florida. It certainly feels the same. So does the immediate, angry response that implores change. But determined high school students standing and demanding a 360 seems different. “Shame on You,” sounds like a rallying cry that has legs and certainly felt that way when Erin Fuller took the mic in front of Republican Headquarters in White Plains. In front of about 250 people, she let it be known that letting the NRA walk all over her (or anyone else) is not an option anymore.
By Rich Monetti6 years ago in The Swamp
Endearing Children’s Video Aims for Inclusion for LGBTQ Children
Lexie Bean came to New York three years ago from Michigan with the hopes of making her mark as an actress. However, she envisioned her journey on a more ambiguous plane. “I wanted to come here to tell stories,” said the Ohio born native. On the other hand, the tumult most encounter in the ultimate unfolding of their story took a turn in the right direction before even getting here. It began with a question.
By Rich Monetti6 years ago in Geeks
Larry Manetti Has No Reason to Say Aloha to Magnum After All These Years
Larry Manetti studied acting with the Ted List Players and landed his first role on Emergency in 1972. Sitting in the NBC commissary one day – basically trying to meet girls – Jack Webb entered in a rage. He had just fired the entire cast of a show called Chase. “You’re an actor right?” he grabbed Manetti, and a contract was his the next day. While lasting only six weeks, it left Manetti under contract at Universal Studios. There, Robert Conrad took a liking to him. Soon enough, he was on Baa Baa Black Sheep, and that paved the way for his signature role as “Rick” on Magnum PI. But the biggest name that can be dropped in association with Larry Manetti came when he was only seven and officially put a spark to his acting bug.
By Rich Monetti6 years ago in Geeks
Trying Something New – Sapori in White Plains Makes It Easy
Whenever I went to classy Italian Restaurants as a kid, I thought myself cosmopolitan in typically ordering veal parmesan and spaghetti. Eventually I learned that my standard was pretty stunted, and taking a risk on something unfamiliar was where the world was at. Even so, anxiety still can’t help but escalate in the interim. This was definitely the case as I selected Pollo Scarpariello at the newly opened Sapori Italian Restaurant in White Plains.
By Rich Monetti6 years ago in Feast
Brian Carney Puts His Dad’s Oscar and Honeymooner's Emmy on Display at Bobo’s Cafe
In the three years that Bobo’s has been open, a coffee in transit is always an option. On the other hand, the locale continues to standout as a sit down destination for Heritage Hills seniors, Somers students, and everything in between. Bobo’s doesn’t just keep it contained to good food, coffee and friends, though. Seniors know from Saturday oldies night in the summer. But on Sunday afternoon, Bobo’s gave their elders something to bring them back and probably will long rerun in their minds like a real life Honeymooner’s marathon.
By Rich Monetti6 years ago in Geeks
30 Minutes or Less with Jesse Eisenberg Sends Adult Adolescence Genre Over the Top
We love movies about men who cannot slip the bounds of adolescence and join the ranks of adulthood. But Steve Rose of The Guardian has had enough. “This perpetual state of immaturity has spread like a fungus across the movie landscape,” he wrote in 2012. He definitely has a point, but the glut still didn’t deter me from liking Ruben Fleischer’s 30 Thirty Minutes or Less.
By Rich Monetti6 years ago in Geeks
At Northern Westchester Hospital, the Future Is Now for the Gamma Knife
Imagine if there was a better way to address an inoperable brain tumor than dousing the entire organ with multiple radiation treatments. What if doctors could concentrate an array of radiation beams to a precise focal point and eradicate the metastasis at the tip of a high tech burn. As it turns out, the future is actually the past, according to Dr. Alain C.J. de Lotbinière.
By Rich Monetti6 years ago in Futurism
Somers High School Teacher Answers the Call with New Book
Giving sounds good. We all do it to a degree. But going beyond lip service requires reaching a breaking point that allows one to reap life's true rewards, according Somers High School health teacher, Kathy Kelton. In her self-published a novel called A Silent Cry From the Wilderness, she describes the event that changed the course of her life.
By Rich Monetti6 years ago in Petlife
My Italian Immigration Story Hails from a Shithole Too
Over a century ago when my family started to immigrate from Southern Italy, I don’t doubt that established Americans thought the area was a shithole too. I’m sure they extended the sentiment to the people also. Now long acceptable as an immigration source, you’d think people like Donald Trump would know God himself didn’t welcome all those Italians—and that’s whether they came with papers or not. Of course, the President isn’t the only idiot we have, and my family story cuts across many of the same immigration issues America has wrestled with in the past.
By Rich Monetti6 years ago in The Swamp
The Wolf Conservation Center Cries out for Understanding and the Wolf's Importance to the Environment
The Grey with Liam Neeson is a very entertaining film in which a group of plane crash survivors find themselves stranded in the territorial hunting grounds of a large, ferocious wolf pack. Ruthlessly and mindfully stalked, only Liam Neeson remains as the human alpha to face a canine counterpart that puts species supremacy above its own survival. Leaving the viewer looking into the determined eyes of the two combatants, the lack of an onscreen outcome still amounts to pure movie magic. But the reality of the entire scenario is as likely as a great white shark jumping on a boat to eat its aggressors. More troubling, this type of broad misconception leaves Maggie Howell of the Wolf Conservation Center in South Salem with her work cut out with her.
By Rich Monetti6 years ago in Petlife
Woody Guthrie Didn’t Read the Headlines. He Found the Battle Lines
Last week at the Jacob Burns Film Center, audience members found residence in Peter Frumkin’s Woody Guthrie documentary Ain’t go no Home. Opening the evening, which included a discussion from Frumkin and Guthrie’s daughter, Jacob Burn’s program director described the initiative of this forefather of American popular song.
By Rich Monetti6 years ago in Beat