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ENDICOTT -- Growing up in Vestal, Jeremy Greenberg was always encouraged to take risks.

It will be another homecoming of sorts this Sunday when Vestal native, actor and now writer/director Jeremy Greenberg screens his film at the Endicott Performing Arts Center.

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.

Stage makeover planned for 1988 Tom Cruise vehicle about a bartender who dreams of shaking things up with his own cocktail bar The mania for turning movies into musicals continues apace with the news that boozy Tom Cruise classic Cocktail is to get a stage makeover.

I caught Don McKay at this year's Tribeca Film Festival, where it got a lot of discussion amongst critics and audiences, even though I found it a little too tonally uneven and long to be totally successful.

Congrats, T.R. Knight . The former Grey's Anatomy star received a well-deserved standing ovation on Sunday night at the opening of Parade , a musical in which he stars as the real-life Leo Frank, a Jewish factory manager who was wrongly accused and convicted of killing a teenage girl in 1913.

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.

The troubled voice that dominates a oeTickling Leoa belongs to Warren Pikler , an aged Hungarian Jewish poet who lives alone on wooded property in the Catskills.

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

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.

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 ...

Daily Horoscope: August 12 Feeling sorry about past behaviour, Virgo? Thinking about making some reparations? Definitely do that, but don't be too hard on yourself.

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

OK Leo. I think I can do something like that. Leo Southworth, fellow blogger and avid reader, recently commented on my blog regarding the remaking of "The Karate Kid." The movie, made in 1984, starred Ralph Macchio and was nominated for an Oscar .

1 at the Staller Center for the Arts on the campus of Stony Brook University , Mr.

As the surly but kind young doctor on "Grey's Anatomy" , Justin Chambers seem so in his element that it's hard to believe that he struggled for ten years before becoming a star.

CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: Joseph Fiennes, 39; Todd Bridges, 44; Adam Carolla, 45; Louis Gossett Jr., 73 Happy Birthday: Be smart with your money, donations and friendships.